CBS Orders Training Day and MacGyver Series
New TV versions of Training Day and MacGyver are among the six new series ordered by CBS for the 2016-2017 TV season.
The news comes via The Hollywood Reporter. Training Day is described as a reimagining of the 2001 film. It takes place 15 years after the original and follows a young police officer (Justin Cornwell) as he's promoted to an elite squad in the LAPD where he's partnered with a practiced detective, portrayed by Bill Paxton.
Katrina Law, Drew Van Acker, Lex Scott Davis, and Julie Benz will all co-star in the series, which is being written by former LAPD detective Will Beall (Castle) and executive produced by the feature film's director, Antoine Fuqua, among others.
An Interview With Star Wars’ Boba Fett
I recently had a chance to chat with the real Boba Fett himself, screen and stage actor Jeremy Bulloch. Mr. Bulloch is featured in the recently-released Elstree 1976, a documentary about the actors behind the masks in the original Star Wars films (check out IGN's review here). Over the course of over half a century, he's inhabited roles in story franchises like James Bond, Doctor Who, and Robin Hood. But most memorably, Bulloch played the iconic, fan favorite bounty hunter who outfoxed Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back and met his end in Return of the Jedi.
Bulloch's candor and humor during the pre-interview pleasantries are striking. He's warm, friendly, and radiates a natural humility. As the tape starts rolling, I ask him about what its like getting into and out of the Boba Fett costume. "Well, you have someone to help you because it is impossible just on your own unless you're a genius," he says. "It's just.. it crosses around your neck, you pull that down, then you've got the knee pads or the knee rolls, what we call them. And that cuts in the back of your knee and you're sweating before you even start the day. It's just terribly uncomfortable. But, I would have done that and gone through that pain to play Boba Fett. That was such fun."
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Ranking the Final Fantasy Games
Few video game franchises have remained as consistently incredible as Final Fantasy. For nearly 30 years, each new Final Fantasy game from Square (and later Square-Enix) has been a major cultural event. But which games in this beloved franchise are the best, and which were a little too experimental for their own good?
IGN's resident FF addicts decided to put our heads together to decide on definitive our personal rankings for the the best Final Fantasy games. Although Final Fantasy XI and XIV are fantastic MMOs, we chose to focus on only on the single-player, mainline entries in the franchise.
IGN UK Podcast #331 – Game of Thrones: A Thief’s Rear End
We're bang into Uncharted 4, not least because it makes our consoles sound like terrifying spaceships by putting them under way too much performance strain. Plus: Green Room might be Gav's film of the year, Overwatch might be Joe's game of the year and Game of Thrones doesn't make Alex quite as sad anymore. Positivity abounds!
And if that wasn't enough, this week sees the return of the greatest feature of all time, Keyword Countdown. And we're not just saying that because Joe's writing this story.
How Firaxis Will Redefine Civilization’s Art Style in Civ 6
A new Civilization game demands a new art style. Civilization 6’s Art Director Brian Busatti, a Firaxis veteran who worked on both Civ 4 and Civ 5, told IGN how he settled on a new visual direction for this October’s huge turn-based strategy game.
“When we went into this, we looked into how people play the game,” says Busatti. He and his team combed through as many community screenshots of Civilization 4 and 5 as they could find, and the results taught them some important lessons. “Typically in a Civ game you want to see the world as a whole, so you’re pulling out a lot. That doesn’t mean people don’t zoom in, but for the most part. Some people even zoom all the way out and play in tactical mode.”
Jessica Jones Season 2 Will Explore Supporting Characters
Season 2 of Marvel's Jessica Jones won't rely entirely on Krysten Ritter's character, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg revealed.
Rosenberg and her crew spent a lot of time in the first season fleshing out the secondary characters—like Trish Walker and Will Simpson—so they'd be able to carry their own stories in Season 2.
Marvel's Jessica Jones had to "earn" its secondary character stories, Rosenberg told Nerdist. "That's the trick of a show called Jessica Jones," especially in the first season, she said. "If she's not in the scene, it's not a guarantee that scene will end up in the final picture."
Overwatch to Permanently Ban Cheaters On First Offence
Blizzard will permanently ban any player found cheating in Overwatch - on their first offence.
Announced in a post about cheating on the Overwatch forums, the policy will be to slap a ban on any player "found to be cheating—or using hacks, bots, or third-party software that provides any sort of unfair advantage".
The post goes onto inform players how they can report cheating, and guidelines for doing so.
Blizzard has previous here - in 2012, it permanently banned cheaters in Diablo, and temporarily banned thousands of Hearthstone players found to be "botting" in Hearthstone in 2014.
ESL Launches Major New Esports Association
The World Esports Association (WESA) was announced today, a joint esports association partnership between several top tier European teams and ESL, the biggest provider of esports content worldwide. WESA is responsible for standardizing esports schedules and rules, offering profit sharing to teams involved, and creating a Player's Council to voice concerns on behalf of esports competitors.
Teams involved are Fnatic, G2, Faze, Virtus Pro, Natus Vincere, EnVyUs, Mous, and Ninjas in Pyjamas. WESA has announced that they’re looking for further teams to become part of this organization and have begun talking to several organizations in North America to expand outside of Europe.
