Dead Star Announced Early as a PlayStation Plus Game for April
We're only a little way into March, but we now know multiplayer shooter, Dead Star will be one of April's free PlayStation Plus games.
Twitter user @BLAMdrew caught a notification after pre-ordering Dead Star on PlayStation 4. It says the game will be free for Plus members in April, so his pre-order has been refunded.
Dead Star for PS+ in April: CONFIRMED! #PS4share pic.twitter.com/GdDUR8hBE4
— BLAMdrew (@BLAMdrew) March 8, 2016
Amazon Japan Now Ships Games Internationally
Importing Japanese just got a bit cheaper, and more convenient for some.
USGamer reports Amazon Japan is now shipping games internationally. That means being able to skip middlemen like Play-Asia.
Some import sites typically tack on an additional charge for the import service - which can go at least as high as an extra $10 - even before considering the cost of shipping. Since these games ship directly from Amazon the only additional cost appears to be for the long-distance shipping.
There are a couple of catches, however. Amazon Japan requires its own separate account. Which, besides being a momentary inconvenience, means English Prime subscriptions don't carry over.
Prepare for DS 3 with a Free Copy of Dark Souls PC
The Golden Joysticks store is giving away free copies of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die edition on PC to anyone in the UK or EU that registers on the site. All you have to do is provide either your email address or Steam ID, and you should receive your copy within a week. What better way to prepare for Dark Souls 3 than to get one of the greatest games of all time for nothing?
This isn't the first free offer publisher Bandai Namco has been pushing to drum up interest in its new game - improbable dark fantasy Flappy Bird homage, Slashy Souls popped up recently, too.
Sarah Paulson Wants People v. O.J. Simpson to “Do Right” By Marcia Clark
When Sarah Paulson met Marcia Clark for the first time, she recalls it was like "meeting God."
She had done as much research as she could to learn the ins and outs of the real-life woman she is playing on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, even going as far as to find out the perfume Clark wore. So when it came time to meet the prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson murder trial in person, she felt like she was meeting someone she idolized since she was a small child.
"It was a very geeky, geeky, geeky fangirl moment that I had," Paulson told me with a smile while sitting down at a People v. O.J. Simpson press event.
Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Fringe’s Anna Torv to Star in Fincher’s Mindhunter
Fringe star Anna Torv has been cast as the female lead in Mindhunter, the upcoming Netflix series from David Fincher and Charlize Theron.
While character details are being kept under wraps, TVLine reports Torv will play a psychologist. She joins Jonathon Groff (Looking, Frozen) in the drama series, who is the only other announced cast member at this time.
Torv as FBI agent Olivia Dunham in Fringe
New Daredevil: Season 2 Promo Focuses on Costumes
The latest teaser for the second series of Marvel's Daredevil has arrived.
The 'Suiting Up' teaser gets up close and personal with the costumes of the show's central trio Daredevil, Punisher and Elektra. Check it out below.
In case you missed it, the teaser was proceeded by promotional image that gives us our first look at The Punisher's final costume.
Invincible Parodies Marvel’s Civil War 2 Teasers
In the midst of building hype for Marvel's upcoming comic event, Robert Kirkman and co-creator Cory Walker released a teaser image for Invincible parodying Civil War II.
Reading "Embrace the Future. Celebrate the Future." the poster features Walker's art, who will be returning to the series while previous artist Ryan Ottley takes a hiatus. The image is for Issue #127, which will release on April 20.
Chewbacca Will Be in the Han Solo Standalone Film
Everyone's favorite Wookiee will appear in Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Han Solo standalone film.
The confirmation came via Disney chief Bob Iger talking Star Wars at (of all places) the Deutsche Bank 2016 Media, Internet & Telecom Conference. Firstly, Igor touched on the upcoming Rogue One, Gareth Edwards' movie set before A New Hope.
“‘Rogue One’ … is about a band of rebels plotting to steal the plans to the Death Star,” Igor said, via The Wrap. “It takes place right before what was George Lucas‘s first film, which came out in 1977 and is now called A New Hope."
Force Awakens: J.J. Reveals His Big Mistake With Leia
Director J.J. Abrams has opened up about what he thinks is "one of the mistakes" he made in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and it involves General Leia Organa and Chewbacca.
Obviously, SPOILERS ahead if you're one of the fraction of people online who have not yet seen Force Awakens.
Still here? OK, here goes.
When asked about why Leia didn't hug Chewbacca after Han Solo's death -- opting to embrace Rey, a complete stranger, instead -- Abrams said he understood why some fans felt like the princess-turned-Resistance leader had dissed Han's Wookie partner at one of his saddest moments.
"That was probably one of the mistakes I made in that," Abrams told /Film. "My thinking at the time was that Chewbacca, despite the pain he was feeling, was focused on trying to save Finn and getting him taken care of. So I tried to have Chewbacca go off with him and focus on Rey, and then have Rey find Leia and Leia find Rey. The idea being that both of them being strong with the Force and never having met, would know about each other — that Leia would have been told about her beyond what we saw onscreen and Rey of course would have learned about Leia. And that reunion would be a meeting and a reunion all in one, and a sort of commiseration of their mutual loss."
CBS Indicates Supergirl Will Be Renewed
Recent comments made by CBS CEO Les Moonves indicate the network will be renewing Supergirl for Season 2.
"We have about five new shows on this year," Moonves told the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference. "Of those five, I believe all five of them will be renewed, and we own four of them."
Deadline first reported on Moonves' statement, but notes his quote is a bit tricky, since of the five new shows the network has already debuted this TV season -- including Limitless, Code Black, Life in Pieces, Supergirl, and Angel from Hell -- two are in fact not owned by CBS (Life in Pieces from 20th Century Fox and Supergirl from Warner Bros.), while another of the five, Angel From Hell, has already been cancelled.