Hot Toys’ Ant-Man Figure Has an Incredibly Detailed Suit
Hot Toys is rounding out Team Cap with its 1/6th scale Captain America: Civil War Ant-Man collectible figure.
Ant-Man comes dressed in a meticulously tailored suit, with a bunch of extra interchangeable hands. Standing just about 12 inches tall, the figure is sculpted to be movie-accurate, though the head looks a bit more like Ben Affleck than Paul Rudd.
For $235 USD, Hot Toys' Ant-Man figure ships with a Captain America: Civil War themed Team Captain America stand with the movie logo and character nameplate.
An additional, miniature Ant-Man—which stands just over one inch tall—is also included. It's expected to ship between September and November of this year.
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Embrace the Dark Side. The Black Series Kylo Ren Figure Is On Sale
Update: The Captain Phasma figure has fallen to its lowest price.
Amazon just got a new delivery from Starkiller Base: It has Kylo Ren figures, as well as some flame and stormtroopers, available at proper prices. These Black Series figures are meant to be affordable enough for the average collector, but posable and detailed enough that they'll look great on your shelf. However, Star Wars being Star Wars, they're frequently sold out or marked up into the stratosphere. Currently, Kylo Ren is $15, the lowest price I've ever seen for him (you're lucky to find him at $18). Browse all the Black Series figures here (anything under $20 is a good buy).
You Can Attend Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference
Bethesda is set to take the stage June 12 at 7pm PT, the Sunday night before E3, for its Bethesda E3 2016 Showcase, where they'll be dropping updates and gameplay clips for their line-up of upcoming games. And this year, you can attend.
After the showcase, BE3 Plus will kick off, a special event open to select fans who sign-up on the Bethesda website. The event will include food, drinks, exclusive hosted interviews, game demos, and even a secret musical performance at 9pm PT. Pre-registration for BE3 Plus opens today and closes Sunday, May 1.
Quantum Break Soundtrack Coming to Vinyl
The soundtrack to Quantum Break is getting a special vinyl release thanks to LA-based creative company iam8bit, which has partnered with both Microsoft Studios and developer Remedy for the limited run.
The 180-gram vinyl release of Finnish composer Petri Alanko’s score will be limited to 3,000 copies and will include a code for the full digital soundtrack. Preorders for the vinyl will open at iam8bit.com/store at 10AM PST, April 5.
The cover features die-cuts that reveal the orange sleeve underneath.
How The Force Awakens Costumes Evolved from Concept Art to Film
Creating iconic characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens meant that they also needed iconic looks. That job fell to costume designer Michael Kaplan.
"When you’re watching a movie, color, texture, details of silhouettes and all help you understand where you are and what’s going on. I knew it was important to give people the world they remembered, but people have become a lot more sophisticated as filmgoers, so it was a case of taking on the origins and adding 30 years and a bit of patina and sophistication," he said in a new interview of the process of designing the costumes.
Of adapting the classic Star Wars costumes to the present day story, Kaplan said, "Everybody who was coming back had some complaints about their previous costumes, so it was my job to correct those issues. There were shirts collars for Harrison that would drive him crazy, boots that were uncomfortable, and C-3PO’s costume was a nightmare to get in and out of and pinched as well. So, it was an honor to be able to go back and adjust those things."
Fallout 4’s Second DLC, Wasteland Workshop Gets a Release Date
Wasteland Workshop, the second of the three Fallout DLC packs announced so far, will be available to download on PS4, Xbox One and PC on April 12.
If you don't have a season pass, it'll set you back $4.99 / £3.99 / €4.99 / $7.95 AUD. Here's a trailer:
The new pack extends settlement customisation, plus lets you collect enemies as trophies, pets, or lion-in-Colosseum style threats. Oh, and you can send your hapless settlers into the arena to fight your captures.
We gave the base Fallout 4 game a 9.5 in our review, saying: "The world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game." The PC version also just received a beta Survival mode.
Gears of War 4 Will Have a Mature Language Filter
Studio head of The Coalition, Rod Fergusson has said Gears of War 4 will once again have a gore and explicit language filter.
In an interview with Game Informer (thanks Gamespot), Fergusson talked about how the developer goes about deciding how to censor its own content.
"Gore is important for obvious reasons, and swearing is too," said Fergusson. "...generally what we tend to do is take the hardest of the hard off because we didn't want to 'over-bleepify' our game... We tend to look at what's on radio and we tend to go a bit further than that."
We Spent a Week With Star Fox Zero
What’s it like to play Star Fox Zero for a week? The short answer is pretty fun. This February, we brought you up to speed on what's changed in Star Fox Zero since E3. For this preview, I decided to chart my voyage through the war torn Lylatt system and tell you as much as I can about using two screens to pilot an Arwing, the benefits of co-op play, the different vehicles controls, and more.
The most important skill necessary to succeed as a pilot in Nintendo’s new Star Fox game is, believe it or not, the ability to multi-task. The controls split your attention between a ship view on the TV and a cockpit view on the GamePad. It's a demanding setup, but it’s also an interesting concept. Once you gain the confidence to gracefully bounce from one screen to the other you can show off some slick skills, as you shoot down enemy aircraft. It took me (roughly) two-hours of flight time to really understand this two-screen piloting system, but I feel like a better pilot for it.
Nintendo Details Amiibo Use in Star Fox Zero
Nintendo has detailed how amiibo will work in Star Fox Zero.
Plonking down a Falco amiibo unlocks a Black Arwing, while Fox opens up a SNES-style Arwing for play. Super FX chip FTW!
The whole video’s worth a watch as it showcases how the different vehicle types work in Star Fox Zero, as well as explaining how Star Fox Guard plays, which, by the looks of it, is Tower Defence meets Five Nights at Freddy’s.
If you’re holding out for an Arwing amiibo, then we’ve got some bad news for you. In a recent interview, Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto told IGN it’s not gonna happen.
PlayStation 3.50 Update Out Tomorrow, Adds PC Remote Play
The next system software update for PlayStation 4, version 3.50, is out tomorrow, and it's bringing a bunch of new features.
The update will expand the Remote Play capabilities to include PC and Mac. It's compatible with Windows 8.1 and 10, and OS X 10.10 and 10.11, and you'll be able to choose 360p, 540p or 720p resolutions, and either 30 or 60fps.
New friends list options allow you to enable notifications when your friends come online. You can also now schedule user events, so you can organize play sessions with your friends. When you send out the event invite, other users can register, and they'll automatically be added to a Party once the event starts.