Ratchet & Clank Creator: VR ‘Changing What Games Can Be’
Since his youth, Ted Price has held a personal interest in virtual reality. Over the years, he saw iterations come and go, but none ever managed to truly break through.
Years later, Price is now the president of the venerated development house Insomniac Games. The studio is taking an early risk several of its peers are also considering: creating a VR high-profile video game. After trying an Oculus dev kit at DICE, Price says he had to call up Jason Reuben from Oculus and discuss a collaboration. Insomiac’s Edge of Nowhere is the result.
“We had an idea at the time for a third-person game, which ended up being Edge of Nowhere,” Price told IGN. “And that jived with Oculus’ interest in solving what we both believed was a third-person VR challenge.”
Watch Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Audition
Daisy Ridley—who plays Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens—was a relative newcomer when she signed on to the film.
A recently released Facebook video revealed the actress blew director J.J. Abrams mind during her audition. Click on the image below to play the video.
"What we were looking for was someone new," Abrams said. "This character needed to be vulnerable and tough, sweet and terrified. And to find someone that no one knew who could do all these things took a lot of looking." But the crew's hard work paid off when Ridley showed up.
Alice Through the Looking Glass: New Trailer and Info
Six years after Tim Burton’s smash hit was released, Alice is returning to Wonderland in Alice Through the Looking Glass.
IGN took part in a recent press preview of a handful of scenes from the sequel, along with director James Bobin (The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted), producer Suzanne Todd and Alice herself, Mia Wasikowska.
New Alice Through the Looking Glass Trailer:
The first scene we saw was a notably dramatic and intense one, set early on, showing Alice (Mia Wasikowska) captaining the ship she left on at the end of the first movie, as it’s pursued through a storm. Alice keeps her cool in this scene, commanding with authority and doing all she can to protect the ship.
The Walking Dead: New Negan Teaser Image Revealed
In anticipation of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's long-awaited debut as Negan during the Season 6 finale of The Walking Dead, AMC has released a teaser image of the iconic villain.
Check out the photo below for a sneak peek at Morgan's foul-mouthed character, who's wielding his trusty barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat he affectionally refers to as "Lucille."
Photo credit: Gene Page/AMC
Thanks to Negan's strong language in the comics, series creator Robert Kirkman recently discussed the hurdles they needed to overcome when bringing the character to network TV, noting "there are certain words that try as I might, we are not allowed to say on AMC." Fortunately for fans that want the full, uncensored Negan, the "extras will be extra-special on Blu-ray."
5 Totally Mundane Things Wonder Woman Does in BvS
Wonder Woman made her live-action feature film debut in this past weekend's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. And while finally seeing her in costume and in battle on the silver screen was certainly one of the film's highlights (Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman was listed as one of the positives in my 6.8/10 review), there were far more scenes of her alter-ego Diana Prince doing ... really basic day-to-day things.
Here are five examples of totally mundane things the DC superheroine does in her movie debut. (We're just having some fun here so easy on the hate mail!) SOME SPOILERS ahead:
Nintendo Reveals Next New Character For Hyrule Warriors
Nintendo has confirmed Marin from Zelda: Link's Awakening will be available in the upcoming Link's Awakening Pack for Hyrule Warriors.
While the final character design has yet to be unveiled, a tweet from Nintendo of America showcases concept art of fan-favourite Marin.
Just announced! Marin from Link’s Awakening will be available in the 2nd #HyruleWarriorsLegends DLC for #3DS + #WiiU pic.twitter.com/agAoksoeFN
Google’s AI DeepMind Turns its Gaze to Hearthstone
Researchers at Oxford University are setting Google's artificial intelligence DeepMind loose on analyzing Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering playing cards.
According to Kotaku, the AI analyzes card data such as resource cost and damage, and turns it into code that a machine can read.
Here's the abstract from the paper titled 'Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation': "Many language generation tasks require the production of text conditioned on both structured and unstructured inputs. We present a novel neural network architecture which generates an output sequence conditioned on an arbitrary number of input functions. Crucially, our approach allows both the choice of conditioning context and the granularity of generation, for example characters or tokens, to be marginalised, thus permitting scalable and effective training.
Nintendo’s Miitomo Has a Release Date
Nintendo mii-centric iOS and Android game Miitomo will launch on March 31.
That’s the news according to the Nintendo UK Twitter account. Although the release date applies to both Europe and the US.
The Nintendo social app has been a big hit in Japan, with the game garnering over 1 million users to date.
What exactly is Miitomo? Well, it’s a kind of social conversation app. What does that look like? Here’s what we said after a recent hands-on:
Deadpool Now the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Film of All Time
Fox's Deadpool has broken more boundaries than just the fourth wall, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
According to Box Office Mojo (as reported by The Guardian), Deadpool has now taken $745m in box office earnings worldwide, surpassing previous long-time record holder, The Matrix Reloaded's $742m.
The film had already broken the record for the biggest R-rated opening weekend, and is now the eighth biggest comic book adaptation in US box office takings.
Valve Guilty of Breaching Australian Consumer Law
A legal case that began back in 2014 has just about come to an end, and Valve has been found guilty of breaching Australian Consumer Law.
In August 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced it was suing Valve, saying the company had made false or misleading representations under the Australian Consumer Law with its refunds policy.
At that time, Valve had not yet implemented its refund system, which was introduced in June 2015. The accusations in 2014 said Valve stating its consumers are not entitled refunds "unless required by local law" meant that it had "excluded, restricted or modified statutory guarantees and/or warranties that goods would be of acceptable quality."