The Woods, Cell and 31 to Play FrightFest
The line-up for the 2016 edition of FrightFest has been announced, and it features a whopping 63 films and 19 world premieres.
The London genre festival opens with Sean Brosnan's revenge thriller My Father Die and closes with Sang-ho Yeon's Train to Buscan.
In between highlights include...
Cell - a Stephen King adaptation that reunites 1408 co-stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson and revolves around a mysterious pulse being transmitted through phones and turning the population into murderous predators (see brand-new trailer below).
31 - Rob Zombie's newest bloody opus, which pits carnival workers against deadly clowns.
The Woods - the filmmakers behind You're Next and The Guest craft a woodland horror about a group of college kids who discover they aren't alone on a camping trip.
Nintendo Takes Down NES Book Kickstarter
Nintendo has issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against a Kickstarter campaign by Bitmap Books.
The Kickstarter in question was for NES/Famicom: A Visual Compendium, a book which features written content and artwork from the NES-era of video games.
Pages showing what the book would have been.
Xbox One Background Music Release Date Announced
Background music will be coming to your Xbox One on August 2.
The addition will be part of the Windows 10 anniversary update alongside Language Region Independence, which means you'll be able to choose any language, regardless of where you are.
Microsoft announced this new functionality, as well the Cortana digital assistant, last month at E3. Background music has been a much requested feature since the console's launch in 2013.
IGN UK Podcast #338: Justice League? Wow. OK. Woof
Just what is going on with the first Justice League movie? No one making it seems quite sure of what it's going to be. Thankfully, we have Daniel Krupa, who applies real-life investigative journalism to... make us slightly more confused about it all.
Alongside that, we get our stand-up routines confused as we ask what the deal is with airplane movies, go through an exhaustive list of every movie sequel no one needed in 2016 and then cryptically rhapsodize about Playdead's new Inside which you must play but I won't say why.
Then a listener makes everyone feel a little bit sad about themselves.
Don't forget, we're all donning lycra to run 10k for an incredible charity called SpecialEffect - here's our JustGiving page if you have a few pennies spare!
Uniqlo Partners With Nintendo for T-Shirt Design Competition
Nintendo has partnered with clothing company Uniqlo to launch a T-shirt competition.
The competition sees users designing a Nintendo-themed T-shirt for Uniqlo. The grand prize is $10,000 plus an invitation to an awards ceremony where Shigeru Miyamoto will be in attendance. The main winner also receives “a new concept game console NX (DEVELOPMENT CODENAME) from Nintendo specially autographed by Shigeru Miyamoto,” and a "special commemorative prize" according to the Uniqlo FAQ.
The second place prize includes $3,000, a signed NX and an invitation to the ceremony, while runners up will net $500. Winning T-shirt designs will then be sold by Uniqlo from Spring 2017.
Serial’s Adnan Syed Granted a New Trial
Adnan Syed - subject of the first season of podcast phenomenon, Serial - has been granted a new trial.
The news was announced by Syed's lawyer, Justin Brown in an enthusiastic tweet yesterday:
WE WON A NEW TRIAL FOR ADNAN SYED!!! #FreeAdnan
— Justin Brown (@CJBrownLaw) June 30, 2016
Syed has so far spent 16 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee in 2000. He has maintained his innocence throughout that time. The new trial was granted after a Baltimore judge decided Syed's original lawyer should have cross-examined an expert witness about cell phone towers near the victim's burial site
PlayStation 3 Was a ‘Nightmare’ Says Gran Turismo Creator
Polyphony Digital CEO and Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has conceded the PlayStation 3-era was a “nightmare” for the Polyphony team. Yamauchi has also noted the conditions for Gran Turismo 6 – which was released after the arrival of the PS4 and sold considerably fewer copies than Gran Turismo 5 – were particularly tricky.
“We always have the pressure that we have to sell numbers,” Yamauchi told IGN when asked whether the dip in sales from GT5 to GT6 adds extra pressure or scrutiny to the upcoming Gran Turismo Sport.
“At the same time, the conditions for GT6 were really against us, mainly because the PlayStation 3 hardware was a very difficult piece of hardware to develop for, and it caused our development team a lot of stress.
Netflix’s Next Big Series Looks Seriously Strange
Netflix has released a new trailer for Stranger Things, the upcoming sci-fi series that is not only set in the 1980s, but evokes the sci-fi and horror films of that era.
As the trailer shows, the series tells the story of what happens when a little boy vanishes without a trace in a small town - just as a young girl with some notably superhuman abilities shows up. While the boy's friends and mother (Winona Ryder) desperately try and find him, some very unusual, dangerous and, yes, strange things begin to occur.
Netflix has also released a new poster for the series, which you can check out in our Stranger Things gallery below.
For more on Stranger Things, check out our video focused on "Eleven," the mysterious and very powerful girl you see unleashed in the trailer.
Pacific Rim 2: Legendary Sets 2018 Release Date
Legendary's sequel to Pacific Rim will open in theaters on February 23, 2018.
Universal Pictures announced the Pacific Rim 2 release date in a press release, reaffirming that Star Wars: The Force Awakens' John Boyega will star as Pacific Rim 2's leading man. Boyega will play the son of Idris Elba's character Stacker Pentecost from the first film.
Photos: New Walking Dead Theme Park Attraction Puts the Dead In Your Face
Officially opening July 4th at Universal Studios Hollywood, The Walking Dead is a new year-round theme park attraction - a walk-through experience where guests find themselves traveling into the Walker-infested world of the hit AMC series.
IGN got an early look at The Walking Dead attraction this week, and you can take a look at the photo gallery below to see what awaits you, including some notable Easter eggs and familiar undead rotting faces from the series.
Check out the video below to get our first impressions of the attraction.
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