Pokemon Go Now Available for Apple Watch
After its announcement earlier this year, Pokemon Go is now available for download on the Apple Watch starting today.
Niantic Labs revealed the app's availability today in a new blog post, again detailing what the smartwatch version of the game will allow Pokemon trainers to do. Players can use Pokemon Go on the Apple Watch to discover Pokemon around them and tap into PokeStops and collect items from them. Pokemon cannot be caught through the Apple Watch version of the game, however — if notified about nearby Pokemon via the smartwatch app, players must then catch them via the iPhone version.
Using Pokemon Go on Apple Watch will also count toward a player's cumulative distances for hatching Pokemon Eggs and for receiving Candy for your chosen Buddy Pokemon. The Apple Watch app will also notify users when Eggs are hatching and if they have received any medals.
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New Apes Film Includes a Big Connection to Original Series
War for the Planet of the Apes has a big connection with the first two original Apes movies.
Throughout the first trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes, a young child can be spotted with the gorilla Maurice. She's in the beginning of the trailer, hugging Maurice tightly and riding a horse while Caesar is staring at her. According to Entertainment Weekly, this young girl is Nova, the same mute character played by Linda Harrison in the original Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
While speaking to EW, director Matt Reeves revealed that Caesar finds Nova while trying to hunt down Woody Harrelson's character, Colonel. Reeves wanted to include Nova in the film to highlight that there's a battle "not just between the humans and the apes, but in Caesar’s soul."
Wonder Woman Photo Shows Diana Getting Ready to Fight
Wonder Woman prepares to take her fight to Europe in a new image from the upcoming Wonder Woman film.
Via Entertainment Weekly, the still shows Diana stealing the Amazonian mythical sword the "god killer" from the armory on Themyscira as she makes the decision to help the humans fighting in World War I in order to help "save humanity."
Gal Gadot stars in Wonder Woman
Director Patty Jenkins describes this scene to EW as Wonder Woman's "moment." "She’s heard all the terrible things about man’s land. But she’s also heard that mankind is in need and under duress," said Jenkins. "This is her great moment to make the decision to be the one to try and save them."
Oculus VR Exec: ‘I Don’t Think We’ve Had the Spark Yet’
While Oculus head of content Jason Rubin is confident in the viability of VR as the next great computing platform, he doesn't believe we've seen the technology's killer app just yet.
On the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered, Rubin said the inquiry as to what will be virtual reality's killer app is the "hardest" question he receives by the senior management at Facebook, and it "scares the living daylights" out of him.
Rubin pointed to software for prior platforms like Halo and Angry Birds, noting that those games, which have proven to be incredibly influential in cementing the viability of their respective platforms, were not created with the intention of being killer apps. He also mentioned Crash Bandicoot, which he created for PlayStation, noting that Naughty Dog didn't set out to make the system's killer app but instead "stumbled upon it" when crafting the series.
Comic Book Reviews for December 21, 2016
The comic book industry isn't exactly taking a break for the holidays. Among other new releases this week, DC kicked off the Justice League vs. Suicide Squad crossover while Marvel debuted new series for Star-Lord and Gamora.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Note - we'll have reviews for Cave Carson #3 and Klaus & The Witch of Winter up a bit later.
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If You Hate Puns, You May Need Medical Help
A new study conducted at the University of Windsor in Ontario has identified how the human brain processes puns, and why some people find them so terribly un-funny.
According to an article in Scientific American, the left and right hemispheres of the brain have to work in tandem to decipher puns.
"In puns—where words have multiple, ambiguous meanings—the sentence context primes us to interpret a word in a specific way, an operation that occurs in the left hemisphere," the article explains. "Humor emerges when the right hemisphere subsequently clues us in to the word's other, unanticipated meaning," it goes on to say. Essentially, if your right hemisphere isn't keeping up with your left, you'll understand the pun, but find it shockingly boring.
Fascinating Video Shows How SNL Pulls Off Live TV
Saturday Night Live is now in its 42nd season, but a new "Creating Saturday Night Live" video is likely to give many a bigger appreciation for what goes on behind-the-scenes of the comedy institution and the hard work of the crew who help make it all happen.
The video shows exactly what occurred between the end of the cold open for this past weekend's episode (which featured John Goodman as Rex Tillerson, Beck Bennett as Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump) and guest host Casey Affleck walking onstage two minutes later, as the opening credits concluded. As you'll see in the video, things on set are anything but sedate as the credits run, as the crew must disassemble the set from the opening sketch under such an incredibly tight, live-TV timeline.
See Every Shadowverse: Rise of Bahamut Card
One of my favourite games this year was Shadowverse, a CCG that took inspiration from the likes of Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone, but ultimately came to the table with a number of fresh - and strong - ideas and mechanics. The game has already seen one major expansion - Darkness Evolved, and the second will be in the wild on December 29. It's called Rise of Bahamut and contains 107 new cards, with some cool gameplay twists.
Vikings’ Alyssa Sutherland Discusses Aslaug’s Big Moment
Warning: The following interview contains huge spoilers for this week's Vikings episode, "In the Uncertain Hour Before the Morning."
This week on Vikings, Queen Aslaug fell to Lagertha's well placed, and somewhat dishonorable, arrow as the former wife of Ragnar took advantage of her son Bjorn's big expedition and launched an assault on her former home, Kattegat. Aslaug managed to die with her head held high though, placing one final insult at Lagertha's feet, bragging about the sons she was able to give Ragnar.
I spoke to star Alyssa Sutherland about her exit from the show, Aslaug's final moments, and the Queen's dysfunctional connection with both Ragnar and son Ivar.