Crossy Road Dev Will Now Publish Games, Too
Australian developer Hipster Whale has announced its expansion into publishing, and appointment of former Film Victoria investment manager Clara Reeves as President.
The developer of the hugely successful mobile title Crossy Road, has announced its establishment of a mobile game publishing arm. The company hopes to partner with other mobile developers to produce projects that “put a twist on the conventional approaches to the market,” a sentiment that aligns with the non-exploitative approach it took with Crossy Road’s free-to-play model.
Divergent Reportedly Ending With TV Movie, Spinoff Show
Instead of concluding its Divergent film series on the big screen, Lionsgate is reportedly looking to wrap up its young adult series as a television movie before launching a spinoff TV show that takes place in the same post-apocalyptic setting.
According to Variety, The Divergent Series: Ascendent will be skipping theaters, as an unnamed source told the outlet the studio is in the "early stages" of negotiations to bring the film to television.
The plan is to conclude the stories involving the current cast and work in a brand-new crew that will then lead into a spinoff series. Lionsgate's television group is set to spearhead production, though, there's no word on where it will air, as the studio has reportedly not yet pitched the project to any networks.
Detective Pikachu Movie Announced
Legendary Pictures has announced that it has acquired the film rights to Pokemon and will begin production on a Detective Pikachu film next year.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, plot details and character details haven't been revealed quite yet, but Legendary hopes to start production in 2017 Universal Pictures will distribute the film internationally except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Pictures. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix was also interested in the rights.
News first began circulating that Legendary was chasing Pokemon film rights back in April, and we heard last week that Legendary was close to a Pokemon movie deal, fueled by the massive success of Pokemon Go and renewed public interest in the franchise.
Black Sails Ending With Season 4
Black Sails: Season 4 will mark the end of the pirate-focused television series, Starz has announced.
The fourth and final season of the Treasure Island prequel will span 10 episodes and center around the pirates' fight in the West Indies. Alongside this announcement, Starz released a new photo from Season 4.
Black Sails: Season 4 photo, via Starz
"While it was a difficult decision for us to make this season our last, we simply couldn't imagine anything beyond it that would make for a better ending to the story nor a more natural handoff to Treasure Island," series co-creator and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg said in a statement.
New LEGO Batman Movie Images Reveal Joker, Robin
The Joker in The LEGO Batman Movie, via South Park: The Fractured But Whole Gets An Absolutely Crazy Special Edition
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is getting a special edition, and it includes a remote-controlled big wheel bike.
The $190 South Park: The Fractured But Whole remote-control Coon Mobile bundle was discovered on Amazon by Twitter user Wario64. Along with the remote-controlled Coon Mobile—which features Cartman's alter-ego The Coon on a big wheel bike—the bundle will include the South Park: The Fractured But Whole gold edition game with a steelbook and season pass subscription.
South Park's Coon Mobile
Fans Uncover More Clues About Overwatch Hero Sombra
Blizzard is still subtly dropping clues about the mysterious Overwatch character Sombra.
Kotaku reports that a late night of digging on the Overwatch subreddit revealed more hints. It started when a user, Colonelcactus, discovered that a developer update video for the new character Ana ends with the screen going black and static. This was unusual for dev videos, so fans kept digging.
After combing through the last few frames, cutting out the vertical barcodes, running them through a barcode reader, then converting a hex code into binary, it could be converted into a QR code. Once read, the QR code gave a Spanish line that translates to: "Was that easy? Now that I have your attention, let's make things more difficult."
Wrestling Wrap Up: Let’s Talk About the WWE Draft
Yes, it's the first ever Wednesday Wrestling Wrap Up -- the QuaDubya, if you weee-yill -- all courtesy of the SmackDown's big shift to Tuesday and the hot and fresh straight outta the oven WWE Draft. So, until further notice, the Wrap is officially a mid-week thing, to be written post-SmackDown, but before NXT and Lucha Underground (which wraps up its season this week anyhow).
Even without the WWE Draft it was a busy, bustling week. Battleground is this Sunday, so there was a ton of prep and hype for that. Sin Cara and Simon Gotch reportedly got into some backstage scuffle in catering, Matt Hardy named his precious dilapidated boat Skarsgard as Moose debuted in TNA, and WWE aired the first episode of its Cruiserweight Classic. Oh, and Sexy Star became Lucha Underground's first ever female singles champion after she won the Gift of the Gods belt at Ultima Lucha Dos night... dos.
4 Game of Thrones Spinoffs We Would Definitely Watch
UPDATE: News of a Game of Thrones prequel from creator George R. R. Martin and writer Jane Goldman (Stardust, Kingsman, X-Men: First Class) just broke, with the show expected to takes place thousands of years before the events of the current series during the Age of Heroes. But there are reportedly still other ideas floating around at HBO as well for the land of Westeros, so we figured it was a good time to look once again at some of the spinoffs we'd like to see based on Martin's world.
The possibilities really are endless within the world of Game of Thrones. We're only looking through a small window into the worlds of Westeros and Essos, but there are plenty of interesting plotlines that have only been touched upon. With that in mind, we broke down the stories we'd love to see explored more and the characters who would deserve to ground their own series. It was hard to pick only four!
DuckTales Return: First Image and Creative Team Revealed
In anticipation of San Diego Comic-Con, Disney has revealed new artwork for its upcoming DuckTales series and announced the creative team spearheading the production.
The new teaser art will appear on the back of a new comic called "DuckTales Cinestory Volume 1" and recount the events of the first five episodes of the original TV series. The comic will be available starting today, July 20, at the convention and go on sale in stores across the country on September 27.
DuckTales teaser art, created by art team led by Matt Youngberg and Sean Jimenez