Funko Launches DC-Themed Subscription Box
Funko has just added a DC-themed service called Legion of Collectors to its line of subscription boxes.
The first box is Batman v Superman themed, and will be filled with DC Funko products, including an exclusive Armored Batman Pop! vinyl figure. It's available to pre-order now, but set to ship in March.
Legion of Collectors boxes will ship every two months for $25 in the US and Canada, but will have a total value of over $50 per box. There are also two member levels available for subscribers – a monthly plan (Sidekick), and an annual plan (Hero).
Daily Deals: Twilight Princess With Amiibo, 20% Off Pre-Orders, Fallout 4 Discount
20% Off Any Game Pre-order From Amazon
Amazon just announced that it's giving Prime members 20% off any video game pre-order. This is a new, permanent benefit for Prime members, so it's a better time than ever to sign up for an Amazon Prime free trial - you'll also get free two day shipping and lots of streaming video options.
Add the game to your cart and proceed to checkout to see the discount. This 20% off also applies to collector's editions.
- Uncharted 4
$60$48
Tune In to The Colony After Show on IGN
Are you excited for the premiere of USA's newest drama Colony? Then don't miss the exclusive Colony After Show on IGN!
The latest sci-fi series from the creative minds of Carlton Cuse and Ryan J. Condal, Colony is set in the near future in Los Angeles almost a year after an extraterrestrial invasion left the United States -- and likely the world -- under a military occupation that separates cities into "Blocs" divided by skyscraper-high walls.
Will (Josh Holloway) and his wife Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) were separated from their son when the takeover happened, and now find themselves doing whatever it takes to try to reunite their family with him, even if it means ending up on different sides of the fight against their Hosts.
You Can Scan the Shovel Knight Amiibo Through the Box
There's no need to free your Shovel Knight amiibo from its packaging to unlock its features. The amiibo can be scanned directly through the plastic, while remaining on its card.
This is different from Nintendo amiibo, where collector's need to decide whether to keep the figure in its pristine, factory-fresh condition, or use it to unlock features in compatible games. Some collectors will buy two of their favorites: one to use and one to collect, but this can get pretty expensive pretty quickly.
Nintendo amiibo come packaged with a small piece of foil that blocks the NFC reader from talking to the chip inside the figure. The Shovel Knight amiibo is the first amiibo licensed out by Nintendo to a third-party. The NFC disparity might have to do with the manufacturing companies behind the figures.
New Mini Mario Game Launched Through Amiibo in Japan
Nintendo has announced (via Nintendo World Report) that a brand new game, Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge, will be released through an amiibo promotion.
Starting Jan. 28, buying amiibo figurines from select Japanese outlets will also get you a free promotional code for Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge.
The new game appears to be in the style of the Mario and Donkey Kong series, with clockwork versions of famous Nintendo characters working their way through various puzzles and challenges.
Fantastic 4, Jupiter Ascending Earn Razzie Noms
Ahead of tomorrow's announcement of the Academy Award nominations, the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards announced their nominees citing the worst movies and performances of 2015, and genre flops Fantastic Four and Jupiter Ascending earned several spots on their list alongside blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey and two films from Adam Sandler.
Fantastic Four earned five nominations: Worst Picture, Worst Remake/Ripoff/Sequel, Worst Screen Combo, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.
But Fox's reboot of Marvel's First Family can take some solace in knowing that Jupiter Ascending, Pixels, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, and Fifty Shades of Grey all outdid it with six nominations apiece.
Modder Recreates Floating Bioshock Infinite City in Fallout 4
Bringing together two anachronistic, dystopian worlds in one, a modder has recreated Bioshock Infinite's city of Columbia in Fallout 4.
The modder in question, Girlplaysgame, used a mixture of Fallout 4's own settlement creation tools and her own Bioshock paintings mod to complete the effect. What's there is by no means a perfect recreation of Irrational's last game world, but it's eerily close in the ways that count.
Evidently, 99 percent of the settlement, first spotted by Eurogamer, is made from bog-standard Fallout 4 objects and tools. It's a testament not just to the tenacity of the modder, but the power of the game's creation tools when they're working properly.
Play as a Pigeon in Super Mario Maker Starting Today
Yamamura, the helpful pigeon from Super Mario Maker, gets his own costume in the game starting today.
Clear the latest Event Course in #SuperMarioMaker and unlock a Mystery Mushroom costume of Yamamura, aka the pigeon! pic.twitter.com/qkb3n4RvUp
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 13, 2016
Daredevil/The Martian’s Drew Goddard to Direct Good Place Pilot
Cabin in the Woods writer/director Drew Goddard (who also penned episodes for and is an executive producer on Marvel's Daredevil show, and wrote the film adaptation of The Martian) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode of NBC's Good Place.
As Deadline reports, this will mark Goddard's TV directorial debut.
Starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson and created by Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks & Recreation co-creator Michael Schur, Good Place follows Bell's character, Eleanor, on her journey to discover the true meaning of good and bad in an attempt to atone for her past behavior. Danson plays Michael, Eleanor's guide on her journey toward self-improvement.
How DC Heroes Will Play into NBC’s Powerless Comedy
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, I asked NBC executives Robert Greenblatt and Jennifer Salke a bit about Powerless, the DC Comics comedy pilot the network is working on, set in an insurance agency in a world where superheroes are a fact of life.
ABC and Marvel are simultaneously developing Damage Control as a potential series, which has a similar scenario (a comedy, set at a construction company inside the Marvel universe), but Salke would only say of the competition, “I can't worry about other networks' comedies, but ours is great.”
“Powerless is
Ben Queen, a writer we love who I'd worked with for many years,” Salke noted. “DC came in with a pitch and they're very committed to... This is a world where superheroes are not only just on green screen out the window of this insurance office, but they're also running into you on the street and wreaking havoc. The idea isn't that it's the creme de la creme of the superheroes. It's a world where there's a whole population of superheroes with all sorts of all challenges themselves. So you're seeing quite a range of characters in that realm in addition to our great, kind of grounded human ensemble.”