New Star Trek Character Gets Beyond Poster
A new Star Trek Beyond poster featuring Sofia Boutella's alien warrior Jaylah has been revealed.
Check out Boutella's character, as well as several others, including Zachary Quinto's Spock, Chris Pine's Kirk and Karl Urban's Bones in our poster gallery below.
Star Trek Beyond opens in theaters on July 22, 2016, and is directed by Justin Lin. For more on the film, be sure to check out its second official trailer, as well as these 12 things we learned about Beyond from the director.
Nintendo Boss on NX: ‘For Us, It’s Not About Specs’
Nintendo is more focused on delivering great content rather than making its next console, codenamed NX, a technical powerhouse, according NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime.
When asked how Nintendo NX will stack up against Sony and Microsoft's forthcoming hardware revisions—namely PlayStation 4 NEO and Xbox One Scorpio—Fils-Aime told Bloomberg (via Nibel): "For us, it's not about specs, it's not about teraflops, it's not about the horsepower of a particular system. For us, it's about the content."
Original Skyrim Saves ‘Should Transfer’ to Skyrim SE on PC
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition will come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on October 28—and for PC players, saves from the original game "should transfer."
Pete Hines, vice president of public relations and marketing at Bethesda, confirmed with Bethesda game director Todd Howard saves from the original edition of Skyrim will be supported in the special edition. He also reported the remastered edition will run on a 64-bit engine on PC, and that there will be a "separate creation kit" for uploading mods.
Console save files will not be available, Hines said.
Michael Bay to Direct VR Project
Michael Bay is partnering with Los Angeles–based startup The Rogue Initiative to direct and produce a "gritty, danger-close action" virtual reality project.
Bay will also serve as a strategic adviser along with Interstellar producer Linda Obst. The Rogue Initiative is reportedly looking for additional investment and strategic partnerships, and is planning to distribute its projects through Sony PlayStation, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
"I'm excited about building new visual worlds for this innovative medium with them," Bay said in a statement, and as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
We Happy Few Looks Like BioShock, But Is a Different Beast
The intro to Compulsion Games' We Happy Few comes straight out of George Orwell's nightmares, with people taking pills of Joy to ignore the fact that their dystopian world is so terrible. It's an aesthetic that immediately drew comparisons to BioShock, a franchise with a similar style and tone, but the setting is where the similarities both begin and end.
Compulsion debuted the opening of We Happy Few at E3 2016 and introduced people to Arthur Hastings, an employee at City Hall's Department of Archives, Recycling and Printing in the not-so-happy town of Wellington Wells. He proves to be a Downer, a person who refuses to take the Joy drug that prevents them from seeing how dystopic the world has become, and his escape from Wellington Wells drives a big portion of the game.
WB Games President on Health of the Toys-to-Life Genre
As Lego Dimensions prepares for its second year of content, it enters a Toys-to-Life genre that features one less competitor with the recently announced end to production of Disney Infinity. But despite that loss, WB Games isn’t making the genre less of a priority.
“We still view
as a large and important category for us to participate in,” WB Games president David Haddad said in an interview with IGN.
Wild Dog Joins Arrow; Dr. Nate Joins Legends of Tomorrow
The fifth season of Arrow will introduce another character from the DC Comics' universe, as Rick Gonzalez (Rosewood, Mr. Robot) has been cast as Wild Dog.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Gonzalez's character will appear as "a new vigilante in Star City whose reckless and cocksure nature prompts Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) to take him under his wing." Gonzalez will make his debut as Wild Dog during the Season 5 premiere and will appear in "multiple episodes" of Arrow thereafter.
Rick Gonzalez as Isaac Vera in Mr. Robot
Ricky Gervais’ Office Spinoff Movie Coming to Netflix in the US
David Brent: Life on the Road will be coming to Netflix in the US in 2017.
It won't be on Netflix in the UK, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand, but the film will be getting a theatrical release in those territories this August.
Life on the Road is a spinoff documentary from The Office, which catches up with Ricky Gervais' character, David Brent, 12 years after the original show. Brent is now "a travelling salesman, chasing his dream of rock stardom by self-financing a UK tour with his band, ‘Foregone Conclusion’."
The cast also includes Ben Bailey Smith as Dom, and Tom Basden as road manager Dan. New office colleagues for Brent include Jo Hartley as Pauline, Tom Bennett as Nigel, Andrew Brooke as Jezza, and Nina Sosanya as his therapist. The drummer in Brent's band is Andy Burrows of Razorlight and We Are Scientists.
Henry Rollins Auditioned for Negan Role in The Walking Dead
The comic book version of The Walking Dead's Negan is reportedly based on musician and actor Henry Rollins.
Speaking to Forbes, Rollins said artist Charlie Adlard—"who worked on the comic book"—based the character on him, so he considered himself a "shoo-in" for the TV adaptation. "The internet was wild with speculation because in the upcoming season they were going to introduce the character," he said.
Henry Rollins
Skylanders Academy to Debut on Netflix This Fall
The Skylanders are heading to school later this year in Skylanders Academy, the first animated series from Activision's new film and television division.
Activision has announced that Skylanders Academy will debut on Netflix this fall and will have at least two seasons on the streaming service. Starring Justin Long as Spyro, Ashley Tisdale as Stealth Elf, Breaking bad's Jonathan Banks as Eruptor and Norm MacDonald as Glumshanks. The show will focus on the Skylanders as they train a new generation of cadets and protect the Skylands from evil.
Susan Sarandon, Parker Posey and James Hetfield are among the additional voice talent featured on the show.