New to Netflix in February
Coming this February on Netflix are movies like Sausage Party, Finding Dory, Babe, David Brent: Life on the Road, Magic Mike, Twilight, Milk, and more.
Plus, as always, there are plenty of Netflix Originals to choose from, with Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant's Santa Clarita Diet at the top of the buzz bin. In it, they play a married couple who find new excitement in their life with the help of - um - an unusual dietary regimen (pssst, it's people!).
Also on tap are TV shows like Girl Meets World, The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, Frequency, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Check it out!
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Read a New Black Sails Comic Book Story
As Black Sails’ final season debuts this coming weekend, fans also have the chance to see a new story that takes place much earlier in the show’s timeline via the comic book one-shot Rackham’s Razor.
Black Sails cast member Toby Schmitz, who plays Jack Rackham -- teamed with artist Matthew Southworth (Stumptown, Spider-Man: The Grim Hunt] -- wrote the story himself, which depicts exactly how Jack and Anne Bonny (Clara Paget) first met and forged their strong bond. IGN has the exclusive debut of the entire comic, which you can view by clicking on the slideshow below. Then come back to this page for info from Schmitz on how Rackham’s Razor came to be.
Oh, and here’s your NSFW language warning for the comic, since the characters speak as you’d expect them to, given this is the world of Black Sails….
7 Times Archie Comics Went Dark Before Riverdale
This week, The CW will debut Riverdale, a dark re-imagining of the Archie franchise that shares as much in common with shows like Twin Peaks and Gossip Girl as it does the classic Archie Comics stories. Some Archie fans have cried foul over this treatment, but the truth is that Riverdale is just the latest in a surprisingly long line of projects that offered a dark, subversive take on Archie and the gang. The show is really just keeping the tradition alive.
If you don't believe us, check out these seven other times the Archie franchise went dark.
This infamous 1994 crossover offered an early taste of what's possible when the Riverdale crew cross paths with the less savory denizens of the comic book industry. This one-shot special saw Frank Castle strike a deal with the US government to hunt down a ruthless drug dealer named Red. Unfortunately for Archie, Red was practically his doppelganger, and he just so happened to choose Riverdale as his hideout. In grand crossover tradition, Archie is first forced to flee from the bloodthirsty Punisher and then team up with his foe to rescue Veronica from Red. The comic even cleverly balances the two universes by having Marvel artist John Buscema draw the Punisher characters and Archie mainstay Stan Goldberg handling the Archie cast.
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Collector’s Edition Revealed
Square Enix has unveiled a collector's edition for Final Fantasy XIV Online: Stormblood.
The collector's edition for the MMO's second expansion comes with a Zenos aye Galvus figure, art book, cloth map of Eorzea and more. There are in-game items too, like a Syldra mount and chicken knife.
Square Enix has pulled back the curtain on the Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Collector's Edition.
The Leftovers: Season 3 Teaser Trailer and Poster Debut
HBO has released the first teaser trailer and poster for the upcoming third and final season of The Leftovers.
The footage gives a quick look at some of the returning characters, like Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), along with a peak at the show's new setting, Australia.
This third season sees the Garvey family make there way to Australia "as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to help better explain that which defies explanation." Something big and sinister is about to happen that'll act as a "bookend to the Sudden Departure" that wrecked everyone's live a few years earlier.
The new poster for The Leftovers season 3
Everything Leaving Netflix in February
Since the Netflix hub doesn't list everything in the company's streaming catalogue, sometimes the best way to know what's there is to find out what's leaving. Of course, then it becomes a race against time itself to try and check out the expiring movies and shows, but it is what it is.
Signing off from Netflix in February are movies like Clueless, Black Hawk Down, Mission Impossible III, Clerks, Friday, Star Trek: Nemesis, Trainspotting (which you should definitely catch before the long-awaited sequel arrives!), and more.
By the way, Clueless currently has a three and a half star rating on Netflix while Kevin James' True Memoirs of an International Assassin and Adam Sandler's The Do-Over currently both are at four stars. Make of that what you will!
Mario Sports Superstars Will Support New Line of Amiibo Cards
All-new Amiibo cards will be available for the upcoming Mario Sports Superstars on the Nintendo 3DS.
These cards--which have previously been used in games like Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer--give unique in-game bonuses when activated manually. They are a way to provide some of the benefits of Nintendo's collectible Amiibo figurines without
One free pack will be included with the game, after which subsequent blind packs will have to be purchased separately for $4.99. This is the first time collectible Amiibo cards have been released for a Mario game.
Mario Sports Superstars releases on March 24 and will feature a number of sports games featuring characters from the Mario universe, including soccer, tennis, golf, baseball, and horse racing.
Project Scorpio Info Leak Re-Confirms 6 Teraflop GPU
A look at official information from Microsoft about the upcoming Project Scorpio has been analyzed and gives more clues as to the power of the iterative update to the Xbox One.
Digital Foundry, who made a video sourcing information from a public-facing Microsoft report, says the whitepaper confirms Scorpio is getting a different RAM architecture than Xbox One, four times the L2 cache, and gives more evidence of a six teraflop GPU.
That means the GPU in Scorpio has around 4.5 times the compute power of the current Xbox One.
Digital Foundry's analysis also casts doubt the CPU will have AMD's new Zen architecture, and will instead use chips based on the Jaguar family, as is the current case with Xbox One, PS4, and PS4 Pro.
Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass DLC Revealed
Battlefield 1's first expansion pack, titled They Shall Not Pass, will include four new multiplayer maps, the French army as a new faction, a new game mode, new artillery, and more, EA has announced today.
Verdun Heights, the first of the four maps, will have players fighting through massive forest fires created by the Battle of Verdun. The map is "an uphill battle towards the massive fortresses of Verdun. A constant grinding struggle where the artillery never stops," according to a post on the game's website. Next up is Fort Vaux where players will fight "in the maze of dark galleries and wet stone corridors" inside a fort.
Overwatch ‘Year of the Rooster’ Event Now Live
Overwatch's latest seasonal event themed around the lunar New Year is now live on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Dubbed the 'Year of the Rooster' event, the update contains over 100 themed cosmetic items and will run until February 13.
During the three-week event, loot boxes will be replaced by Lunar Loot, which can be earned or purchased, guaranteed to contain at least one Year of the Rooster item including new skins like "Palanquin D.Va" and "Wukong Winston", which re-imagines the space gorilla as the Monkey King himself.
Other items include themed profile icons, sprays, victory poses, emotes, highlight intros, and of course, more skins for Roadhog, Reinhardt, Mei, Zenyatta, Junkrat, and more.