When the Next Star Wars Movies Are Coming Out
Last Updated: December 19, 2016
It's a new age for Lucasfilm and Disney, as the huge success of 's Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the impressive opening weekend for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story have set up enormous expectations for the future of the famed franchise. Aside from ongoing television series and comic books, we have annual film releases to look forward to -- and not all of them are centered on the Skywalker family, either.
Watch The Raid Director’s Samurai Short Film
What do you do with your holidays? Sleep and play videogames? Well, if you're friends with The Raid: Redemption director Gareth Evans you just might get suckered into making an awesome samurai short film. Check out Evans' tweet below:
Here's a little something we made... #samuraisilat https://t.co/1IUzsVEZcZ @YayanRuhian @HannahAlrashid @Cecep_Ar pic.twitter.com/irihDMyn8C
The Flash: Get a Preview of Reverse-Flash’s Return
The title of tonight’s new episode of The Flash, “The Reverse-Flash Returns,” gives you a hint at what to expect… And yet perhaps not. Because yes, the yellow-suited villain is back, but he doesn’t look like Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) this time, but rather his original, briefly-seen true form, as Eobard Thawne (returning guest star Matt Letscher).
IGN has an exclusive clip for you from the episode, as Earth 2’s “Harry” (Cavanagh) uses an interesting tactic to get Cisco (Carlos Valdes) to use his Vibe powers – leading to Cisco getting an ominous look at their enemy.
Check out the clip!
On a recent visit to the set of The Flash, I spoke to Cavanagh about what it’s like playing Earth 2 Wells this season and how The Flash never holds back on story.
Becoming the Beast Master in Far Cry Primal
Ever since Peter Molyneux’s exciting looking B.C. for original Xbox was canceled back in 2004, I’ve been looking for a game to fill the prehistoric void. Michel Ancel’s Wild looks like it might do the trick, but so too does Far Cry Primal -- and it’s out in just a few short weeks. I played the first three hours of the game and had an excellent time.
To get the bad news out of the way first: yes, Far Cry Primal is set in the stone age, but no, it doesn’t feature dinosaurs. It does, however, feature plenty of other long-extinct animals. In fact, the game opens with you and your hungry tribemates hunting wooly mammoths – before being chased off of your kill by an even hungrier sabertooth tiger and brained by a tree trunk while falling down a hill.
Star Wars Battlefront Season Pass Details Released
EA has given out details of the Star Wars Battlefront season pass DLC, as well as outlining free content update for the game for the next several months.
The first of 4 DLC packs for Star Wars Battlefront arrives in March. Called Outer Rim, the DLC will allow you to "fight among the factories of Sullust" as well as inside Jabba's palace on Tatooine.
The next pack is scheduled for the second quarter of 2016 and will take place in the Cloud City of Bespin. The third-quarter 2016 DLC release will take place on the Death Star, and the final DLC pack has only a release window of "early 2017."
EA said it will have more info on the final of the four packs "in the coming months."
Blade and Soul Passes 1 Million Players
The Korean fantasy MMO Blade & Soul has reached more than one million players.
The news comes from developer NCSosft just one week after the game was released in Europe and North America. Though the game originally launched in Korea and China way back in 2012, which was the same year the game was announced for release in the West.
Senior Vice President of Publishing of NCSOFT West John Burns says "The sheer enthusiasm – not to mention volume – of North American and European players that have jumped into Blade & Soul since launch has been tremendous."
The free-to-play online game has also found some notice in Japan. An anime series based on Blade & Soul aired there in early 2014.
Former Burnout Devs Announce New Game
Three Fields Entertainment has revealed its new game, Dangerous Golf. The former Burnout developers promise the new game will is as "serious a golf game as Burnout was a serious" racing simulation.
In other words, it's a golf game with explosions.
"Players aren’t striving for Par or aiming for Birdie," Three Fields explained on its site. Instead, players aim for "dollar damage as their high score."
Xbox One Exclusive Quantum Break Rated for PC
Quantum Break may be headed to more than just Xbox One, as Remedy's upcoming title has been rated for PC in Brazil.
As of yesterday, January 25, the Brazil Advisory Rating Board (via Gematsu) lists the title for both Xbox One and PC.
Quantum Break is currently only confirmed for Xbox One, as Microsoft has yet to announce plans to bring Remedy's story-driven action game to PC. However, the company said previously it isn't ruling out the possibility of a Windows version sometime in the future.
Samsung to Open Virtual Reality Movie Studio
Samsung has announced that it will be opening a VR movie studio in New York.
According to Digital Trends, this news comes from the Sundance Film Festival, where Samsung also announced that it is entering a year-long partnership with Sundance.
There aren't many details available yet, but we do know that the studio will be in an existing Samsung office, where it will share space with a marketing team.
It looks as though Samsung is trying to get ahead of the game in the VR entertainment business. Samsung's VR headset is already out, and costs $100. IGN's review of Gear VR says that it "offers a great, albeit basic, VR experience for some Samsung phones."
Unity Infographic Shows the Rise of the Tablet
A new infographic released by Unity shows smaller, cheaper tablets dominated the mobile space, at least over the 2015 Christmas holiday.
By studying the numbers, Unity was able to track things like game installs and device types, and the numbers show fully 60% of mobile devices used on Christmas day were tablet.
Bigger, flashier tablets like the iPad Pro and hybrid devices like the Microsoft Surface may capture more consumer mind-share, but when it comes to playing games, it's smaller, cheaper tablets that seem to be preferred. Out of all devices tracked, 18% were what Unity refers to as "sub-$100 tablets."