Young Dumbledore Cast in Fantastic Beasts Sequel
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law will portray a young Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel.
Spoilers for the original Fantastic Beasts follow.
Law has been officially announced to play the iconic wizard decades before he was the Headmaster at Hogwarts and was still serving as the wizarding school’s Transfiguration professor. Dumbledore was a contemporary of Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the dark wizard who made a surprise appearance in the first Fantastic Beasts film.
Microsoft Taking a ‘More Open and Inclusive Approach to VR’
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has come forward to shed light on Microsoft's plans for virtual reality, saying the company is opting for a "more open and inclusive approach."
"I'm going to try and be as open as we can, definitely across the platforms that we support," Spencer said in a Q&A with Gamasutra. "I think that right now if you're a developer, you're just looking for oxygen to go sell your game."
Spencer explained why Microsoft has currently held off from tying its gaming platform to a specific piece of VR hardware, noting that virtual reality is still very new. "I think we're on like a decade-long journey with VR, and we're still right at the beginning," he said.
Prey Demo Coming April 27
A free Prey demo will be available to download on April 27 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, a week ahead of the game's May 5 release.
The demo features the game's opening hour in which players first board Prey's main setting, the Talos I space station, where protagonist Morgan Yu is working on a scientific breakthrough that'll change humanity forever.
The story follows Morgan as he tries to survive and battle against aliens who have overrun the station and are determined to him down. You can watch the new trailer for the demo below:
Along with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Prey will also be released on PC on May 5. Check out IGN's hands-on impressions of the game, the opening 11 minutes, as well as our complete guide to Prey's preorder bonuses.
Microsoft Shows Off Xbox’s Project Scorpio Dev Kit
Microsoft has taken suggestions from developers and rolled them into its new dev kit for its upcoming Project Scorpio console iteration.
The Scorpio dev kits have more power than the consumer version of the console. According to Gamasutra, "the kits have 44 CUs on the GPU instead of 40," and twice as much DDR5 RAM as the Scorpio's 12GB. The idea is for developer's to build games at huge specs and then "tune them down" for the consoles, the report says.
Also among the features are a toggle switch allowing devs to move from Xbox One, to S, to Scorpio, to make sure games are running correctly on all three of Microsoft's console versions.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo Switch Bundle Outed
Update: A representative from Nintendo has confirmed that the previously outed Mario Kart 8 Deluxe console bundle is indeed coming, but will only be available to those in Russia.
"The bundle is exclusive to Russia and there are no plans to bring it to other countries at this time," the rep told GameSpot.
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If a reported listing by Nintendo's official Russian online store is any indication, a Switch bundle that includes a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is on the horizon.
The listing includes gray or neon Joy-Con options. While the page is unavailable to be viewed in some territories, reddit user Lord_Daenar posted an image of the bundle:
How Fate of the Furious Pulled Off ‘Zombie Cars’
Arguably, the most talked about action set-piece in The Fate of the Furious is the section featuring what the filmmakers have dubbed "zombie cars."
In this insanely entertaining sequence, the film's villain, Cipher (Charlize Theron), has her hackers commandeer waves of cars in Manhattan with auto-drive chips to become her unwitting drone army. What follows is nothing short of an auto-pilot assault unlike anything filmed before.
We have two videos on this for you to enjoy today. The first is a clip from the sequence itself, while the second is a featurette detailing how the filmmakers pulled off these "zombie cars" raining over New York City:
The Fate of the Furious -- which we raved in our review offers "plenty of the high-octane escapism and ridiculously elaborate vehicular mayhem fans of the series expect" -- races into theaters Friday.
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Spider-Man Star Has Never Seen Original Star Wars Trilogy
Spider-Man star Tom Holland revealed in an interview promoting his new film The Lost City of Z that he's not really much of a Star Wars fan and hasn't seen the original 1977 trilogy.
Holland has a memorable quote in Captain America: Civil War, where the web-slinger asks his fellow heroes whether they've seen “that really old movie The Empire Strikes Back." When Yahoo asked the actor about this reference, he conceded, “I haven’t seen The Empire Strikes Back, I’m not gonna lie,” and admitted to not having seen any of the original films.
Gorillaz To Get A 10-Episode TV Show
With Gorillaz's new album Humanz releasing on April 28, the band is now getting a 10-episode TV show.
In an interview with Q Magazine (via Pitchfork), Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett shared that he's currently working on an animated TV show about all four of the band's cartoon members – 2D, Murdoc, Noodle, and Russel – and their alter egos. However, Hewlett didn't reveal much else about the series.