Steam Winter Sale Start Date Officially Announced
Valve's annual Steam Winter Sale will kick off on Thursday, December 22.
PayPal UK shared the news in a post on Twitter, confirming prior reports of the sale's start date, which surfaced earlier this month and claims the sale will conclude on January 2.
As noted by Polygon, this year's Winter Sale begins the same day that voting beings for the Steam Awards. From December 22 to December 29, fans will be able to vote on a new category each day, with the winners set to be unveiled on December 31.
Dark Souls to Be Featured in Orchestral Concert in Europe
Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced the music of Dark Souls will be featured in an upcoming concert series in Europe.
The event, dubbed Orchestral Memories, will feature the "most acclaimed pieces" of music from the popular game series in concert. Watch a teaser trailer for the event below.
Composer Motoi Sakuraba will appear as a special guest, as well as Bandai Namco Studios composer Go Shiina.
The event will take place at 8pm on Saturday, February 4 at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. In addition to Dark Souls, several several other Bandai Namco franchises will be featured, including the Tales of series, Soul Calibur, Tekken, God Eater and more.
Hasbro’s Guardians of the Galaxy Spring Lineup Revealed
The Guardians of the Galaxy are returning to theaters in May 2017, and Hasbro will be releasing a lineup of new toys based on the live-action film and Disney XD animated series focusing on Marvel's Kevin Bacon-loving heroes.
IGN can exclusively debut a look at Hasbro's spring Guardians of the Galaxy toys. Among the items that will go on sale are a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Star-Lord figure, an animated series-inspired Rocket Raccoon figure, a Groot version of Bop It!, and more. Check out the toys in the gallery below:
The lineup includes a set of Titan Hero figures, two toy blasters, as well as both Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord masks. A recently revealed set of Marvel Legends figures from Hasbro also showcased character and costume designs from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
A Cure for Wellness or a Cure for Franchise Filmmaking?
Gore Verbinski has directed a lot of successful movies, including the horror remake The Ring, the animated Rango, and the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films. He’s also had some films that haven’t quite worked out, including most recently The Lone Ranger, which received a critical and box-office drubbing when it was released in 2013. But now Verbinski is back with A Cure for Wellness, which stars Dane DeHaan as an up-and-coming business exec who is sent on a mission to the Swiss Alps. There he must retrieve his missing CEO, who has retreated to a mysterious spa… a “wellness” facility that DeHaan soon finds himself trapped in as well.
I recently had the chance to watch the first act of A Cure for Wellness and then spoke to Verbinski about the film, his frequent genre-hopping, being “not well,” and what it was like to have to bounce back from The Lone Ranger. Read on for our full chat below.
Street Fighter 5’s Second Season Starts Today
Street Fighter 5’s second season is available now.
Season Two brings with it the addition of Akuma, as well as premium battle and nostalgia costumes. There’s also a season pass available which nets you Akuma and five other characters throughout the year, premium costumes, and a PS4 theme.
Capcom also released a 92-page PDF detailing a massive number of new balance changes. Of note, invincible moves have changed due to characters without them performing worse than characters with, and normal throws have been altered to avoid loop throws.
One of the main reasons for the changes is due to characters who could attack more frequently had a larger reach, meaning they became stronger than others, and thus, unbalanced. Thanks, Eurogamer.
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Rogue One Director Discusses Film’s Ending
Following the theatrical debut of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last week, director Gareth Edwards has come forward to discuss the film's ending.
Warning: Major Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spoilers below. We're not kidding on this one!
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Edwards discussed the film's dramatic conclusion on the Empire Podcast (via Heroic Hollywood), shedding light on the bold decision to kill off every member of the Rogue One crew. "I think there was an early version - the very first version they didn’t
How Rogue One Included a Couple of Surprising Cameos
Warning: spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ahead.
Rogue One director Gareth Edwards went through a lot effort to include two particular cameos in the film.
In the new film, Garven Dreis/Red Leader (the late Drewe Henley) and Jon Vander/Gold Leader (Angus MacInnes) show up looking exactly like they did nearly 40 years ago in the original Star Wars. While speaking to RadioTimes, Edwards revealed that he was able to pull these scenes off by finding unused footage from Star Wars discovered in the archives at Skywalker Ranch.
Explained Edwards, "We’re walking around, and doing all the cool things and looking at the Millennium Falcon and trying on Han Solo’s jacket and things like that, in the back at the bottom was all these cans of film. And we said ‘what are they?’ and they said ‘Oh, it’s Star Wars.’"
Civil War Comics Writer Criticizes Captain America Movie
Mark Millar, the writer behind Marvel's Civil War comic book miniseries, has come forward to share his thoughts on the MCU film adaptation, highlighting a few issues he had with the Captain America-focused movie.
"Civil War had a good opening twenty mins, but then I honestly can't remember what the movie was about," Millar said in a post on his blog Millarworld (via TheWrap), citing a lack of levity as one of his chief complaints with the film.
"It's interesting the Russos have a background in comedy because it's really missing in these otherwise well-made pictures and very, very missed," he wrote. "I really hope this bleakness doesn't extend into their two Avengers pictures because what made that first Avengers work was the light as well as shade and I'll be sad if that's all lost like it was in this picture."