New Day’s Booty-Os is Now a Real Cereal
At Comic-Con today, during the joint WWE/Mattel panel, WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day -- Xavier Woods, Big E. and Kofi Kingston -- officially announced that their fan favorite-though-ficticuous cereal was now a real thing. Yes, you can now order up a box of Booty-Os and eat it to your heart's content. You can start your morning off right with a heaping helping of positivity!
"Booty-Os is now an actual cereal for sale," Kofi said.
"Boxes are available at FYE.com," Big E. added, "and the pre-sale launches today. It's a very real thing. The cereal actually tastes phenomenal. It really does. We just tried it a couple days ago. It's real."
NPD Numbers Now Include Digital Sales, June Figures Released
Overwatch was the best selling game of June 2016, according to figures released by the NPD Group.
The group, which tracks sales numbers of gaming hardware and software, has previously only included physical sales in its figures. This month marks the first in which both physical and digital sales are factored into the group's sales list.
The inclusion of digital numbers seems to have helped Grand Theft Auto V in its ranking. While the game is a mainstay of the NPD top 10 sellers, it ranks as June's second-best selling game. It's perhaps unsurprising given the fact Grand Theft Auto V has shipped 65 million copies since its release.
Overwatch’s New Hero Now on PS4
Overwatch's newest hero and the first to be added to the game post-launch is now available on PlayStation 4, just a few days after arriving on PC.
Ana was officially unveiled last week as a support class sniper, who uses her Biotic rifle to heal allies and damage enemies over time.
A sleep dart ability temporarily tranquilizes enemies, while her Biotic grenade heals teammates in range while hurting opponents and temporarily preventing enemy healing. Her ultimate Nano Boost ability supercharges one teammate for a short period of time.
Pokemon Go ‘New Level of Invasion,’ Says Snowden Director
During a Comic-Con 2016 panel for his upcoming film Snowden, director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Natural Born Killers) accused the Pokemon Go app of threatening to turn us into a "robot society" that will bring about totalitarianism.
According to Variety, Stone called Pokemon Go "a new level of invasion," stating: "They are data mining every person in this room. It’s what they call surveillance capitalism."
Pokemon Go's app permissions came under fire early on when it was discovered the game granted Niantic Labs full access to your Google account upon installation, which Niantic later claimed was an error.
Suicide Squad: Get an Extended Look at Jared Leto’s Joker
A new trailer for Suicide Squad has been released, offering an extended look at Jared Leto's Joker.
Check out the clip, courtesy of Fandango's Movieclips Trailers, to see Leto, as well as Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and Will Smith's Deadshot stir up all sorts of trouble in Warner Bros.' upcoming villain-focused film.
Suicide Squad opens on August 5 and is projected to have the biggest August debut ever, beating Guardians of the Galaxy's record opening with an expected first weekend haul of around $125 million.
Prey, Dishonored 2 Headline QuakeCon 2016 Lineup
Bethesda Softworks and id Software have announced the schedule of events for QuakeCon 2016.
QuakeCon 2016 will begin on August 4 at 10 am CT and run through August 7 at 12 pm CT. The event's annual welcome presentation will start at 3pm CT, and feature a "special look" at developer id Software's upcoming Quake Champions, along with an exclusive look at publisher Bethesda Softworks' Prey and Dishonored 2 gameplay.
Arkane Studios will return on August 5 at 2pm with an encore presentation featuring Prey and Dishonored 2.
Additionally, QuakeCon attendees will be able to try out DOOM multiplayer, Fallout Shelter for PC, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and Bethesda VR on the show floor. A full lineup of exhibitors and sponsors — as well as an exhaustive schedule of panels— is available on the QuakeCon 2016 website.
NES Visual Compendium Returns to Kickstarter
After disappearing from Kickstarter abruptly, Bitmap Books' visual love-letter to the games of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom has returned to the crowd-funding site.
The company, known for compendiums of classic systems like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64, suffered a setback on the NES/Famicom version of its tried and true formula when Nintendo issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down.
The DMCA notice against the NES visual compendium boiled down to Nintendo having concerns with a third-party using, and profiting from, its intellectual property.
Luke Cage EP Compares The Defenders to Wu-Tang Clan
Though there's still some road left to pave on the way to Netflix/Marvel's The Defenders, viewers can already get some sense of how the four disparate Netflix heroes will come together — and it's thanks to the Wu-Tang Clan.
During IGN's San Diego Comic-Con livestream, Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker compared Marvel's Netflix plans of bringing its various series together to the Wu-Tang Clan — fans can appreciate every individual member for their solo work, but The Defenders is its own unique take on all of these characters.
"Each individual series has its own vibe, but then you come together with The Defenders, it's the supergroup," Coker said. "So if Daredevil is The Genius, and Jessica Jones is Raekwon and we're Ghostface Killah, we're all going to come together with The Defenders as Wu-Tang."
Juri Joins Street Fighter 5 Later This Month
This week at San Diego Comic-Con, Capcom announced that Juri will be added to Street Fighter V's growing roster of playable fighters next week on July 26.
According to an announcement post on Capcom's official blog, Juri's Story and Premium Battle Costume will also be available to download alongside the character this coming Tuesday.
Juri's V-Trigger is called Feng Shui Engine Type Alpha, which allows her to cancel any of her standard attacks and more easily chain together combos. In addition, the character's V-Skill Kasatsushu gives her the ability to rush at the opposing player and kick them from behind. Juri also has a Critical Art called Sakkai Fuhazan that allows her to hit the opponent multiple times with a slicing blast.
The Best Batteries for Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go is an absolute blast, but it can drain your phone's battery like a rampaging Electabuzz. If you want to go out on an all-day Poke-venture, you're going to need to keep charged, so we've rounded a bevy of portable smartphone batteries that'll have your phone humming like handful of happy Voltorbs.
Before we dish out the recommendations, here's what you should know about buying a smartphone battery: First, battery capacity is measured in milliampere-hours, or mAh. The iPhone 6s has a 1715 mAh battery, the 6 Plus has 2750, and the Samsung's Galaxy S7 has a 3000 mAh battery. The next stat to worry about is output, which determines how quickly a battery can charge your phone. This is measured in amps; while some batteries are only 1 amp, every battery in this round up is at least 2.1, so they can charge your phone at a reasonable rate, and won't take all day to charge larger devices like tablets.