Luke Cage Actor Is Up for Joining The Avengers
Mike Colter, the star of Marvel's Luke Cage, has expressed an interest in becoming a fully-fledged member of The Avengers.
"Sure, if scheduling permitted," Colter told IGN. "They’ve got me working pretty hard over at Marvel Television. I think Jeph Loeb
said it best: there isn’t a master plan – or maybe there is and they just won’t tell us what it is, and that’s fine – but I think ultimately, we have a schedule and things are planned so far in advance, so how do you make sure this is actually going to happen."
"I’m all for it if it happens, but I’m very comfortable where I am as well."
In recent years, Cage has become a recurring and influential figure in the comic book incarnation of The Avengers. Back in 2005, when writer Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch launched The New Avengers, Cage was a founding member of the re-formed team. He has remained associated with The Avengers in various roles ever since.
The Best Car Chases in Movies
It's time to celebrate the best car chases in movie history! In order to make the cut, these chases had to involve a lot more than just tire-screeches around sharp turns.
From Bullitt to Bad Boys II, from the Fast and Furious films to The French Connection, we left no action movie unturned in our search for chase scene royalty. Here are the 17 very best.
(And we're sure you have some favorites absent from this list, so feel free to rattle them off in the comments section below!)
The Italian Job
Names and Details of Battlefield 1’s Five War Stories Released
EA and developer DICE have further detailed Battlefield 1's anthology of 'War Stories' that make up its single player campaign.
The five mini-campaigns will take place across the globe, featuring fights in the Middle East deserts, France, the Alps, and more.
"Friends in High Places" puts you in the cockpit of a British fighter plane against German aces on the Western front. "Intense dogfights, unexpected encounters, and a story of friendship await you," according to the campaign's description.
Adventure Time to End After Season 9
Oh my glob. Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time is set to end in 2018, following the finale of its ninth season.
Deadline reports that the consistently weird, occasionally heartbreaking travels of Finn and Jake will come to a close in approximately two years - although we have a fair few new episodes, miniseries and a movie to come before then.
“Adventure Time was a passion project for the people on the crew who poured their heart into the art and stories," said Pendleton Ward in a statement. "We tried to put into every episode something genuine and telling from our lives, and make a show that was personal to us, and that had jokes too! I’m really happy that it connected with an audience for so long. It’s a special thing, I think.”
Comic Book Reviews for September 28, 2016
The comic book industry capped off the month of September with plenty more DC Rebirth and Civil War II. DC delivered a double dose of great Wonder Woman comics, welcomed Batman Beyond into the Rebirth era and launched the newest Vertigo series, Frostbite. Marvel wrapped up the current volume of Nova on a very high note and had several strong Civil War II tie-ins thanks to Captain America: Sam Wilson #13 and Ms. Marvel #11. Elsewhere, Dark Horse debuted the surprisingly excellent Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes and and Image published another memorable issue of Saga.
Scroll down to read 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.
Microsoft’s Original Goal Was to Sell 200 Million Xbox Ones
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says the company originally planned to sell through 200 million units.
In an interview with Stevivor, Spencer explained the original plan, and how that plan has altered since its inception.
“The goal that the team had was to figure out how could we sell 200 million game consoles,” says Spencer. “We’ve never seen a console sell that many units. The biggest individual console, the PS2, did 120 million or something like that.”
Spencer goes on to explain how the original idea of an all-in-one media system has been scaled back in some respects to refocus on being a gaming console first.
Deep Silver to Co-Publish Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Warhorse Studios has announced a partnership with Koch Media's publishing label Deep Silver to release its historically authentic medieval role-playing game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Deep Silver will co-publish the title alongside the Czech-based indie game studio, with plans to launch the game sometime in 2017.
Warhorse Studios will handle the global distribution of the PC's digital release, while Koch Media will publish the digital and physical releases of the PS4 and Xbox One versions, as well as the physical release of the PC version under the Deep Silver label.
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Is Coming West
Square Enix has announced the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game is coming to Europe and the United States on October 28.
The FFTCG has had a six year run in Japan, and the game now spans over 2,000 different cards. It's designed by former pro card game player Taro Kageyama and Shota Yasooka.
FFTCG Starter Sets
The western edition will be fully localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, however the Italian release date is still yet to be announced.
Black Panther Has Seemingly Cast Another Supervillain
Winston Duke has reportedly been cast in the role of M'Baku in Marvel's Black Panther movie.
This news comes via Variety, however Marvel has declined to comment at this time.
M'Baku, also known as Man-Ape, will be one of the villains facing off against Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther when the film debuts on February 16, 2018. We first saw Boseman in the role earlier this year in Captain America: Civil War.
Winston Duke has had roles on Major Crimes and The Messengers, and is known for his recurring role as Dominic in Person of Interest.
Michael B. Jordan has also been announced as the villainous Erik Killmonger in the film, and the cast also includes Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira.
UK Xbox Sales Up 1000 Percent Following Xbox One S Launch
Xbox One sales have increased by almost 1000 percent in the UK since Microsoft released the new 500GB and 1TB Xbox One S models.
According to MCV, Microsoft's share of the hardware market for the week ending September 24 has jumped to 71 percent - a year-on-year increase of 76 percent, and a week-on-week rise of a significant 989 percent.
While Sony's new PlayStation 4 Slim is also now available, sales were down 66 percent year-on-year, with the PlayStation 4 taking just 19 percent of hardware sales last week - despite a week-on-week lift of 22 percent.
According to the report, a comparison of both the Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 Slim launch weeks puts Microsoft's sales ahead by 361 percent.