11 Amazing Speedruns from Awesome Games Done Quick
The charity live streams organized by Games Done Quick have become a bi-annual showcase of the best speedruns skills on the Internet. It’s all for an amazing event cause, too. Participants fly in from all over the world to help marathon through a smorgasbord of classic and modern video games and raise money for the fight against cancer.
The first charity event for the 2016 calendar year, called Awesome Game Done Quick, raised a total of $1.2 million for the Prevent Cancer foundation. If you're looking for more videos, tricks, and tips of the finish-this-game-as-quickly-as-possible variety, head over to Speed Demos Archive or GDQ's homepage for more information.
I’m Dying Up Here Is Jim Carrey’s New Showtime Series
Showtime has picked up Jim Carrey's new one-hour comedy series I'm Dying Up Here.
The show, produced by Carrey, is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around the stand-up comedy scene, highlighting the early beginnings of various comedic icons.
I'm Dying Up Here boasts a large cast, including Ari Graynor, Clark Duke, Michael Angarano and Melissa Leo, as well as Andrew Santino, RJ Cyler, Erik Griffin and Stephen Guarino. The series is written and executive produced by Dave Flebotte (Desperate Housewives), with both Carrey and Michael Aguilar (The Departed) onboard as executive producers.
Showtime Renews Shameless
Following its biggest season premiere last Sunday, Shameless has been renewed for a seventh season, Showtime announced today.
"Shameless has clearly resonated with audiences as evidenced by their steady growth on Sunday nights over the past 6 years," said Showtime's president of programming, Gary Levine. "We are extremely pleased with the creative work being done by John Wells, Nancy Pimental and the entire cast, producers and writers – and we so appreciate Shameless’ clear and distinctive voice."
Production on the twelve-episode seventh season is expected to begin later this year.
The network also announced return dates for House of Lies and Penny Dreadful. Season 5 of the Don Cheadle-led comedy series will return April 10 at 9pm, while Penny Dreadful's third season kicks off May 1 at 10pm. Get your first look at Season 3 of Penny Dreadful in the video above.
Episode 9 Director Responds to Rey Origin Theory
Star Wars -- Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow said Rey is his favorite character from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
"I love her and I love what she represents in that universe and where we can take her. It's pretty incredible," the Jurassic World filmmaker told Entertainment Tonight at a BAFTA Awards event Saturday.
ET also asked Trevorrow if he was aware of the fan theory that Rey is the granddaughter of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Here's his carefully phrased reply, which is not exactly a denial:
The 7 Cutest Robots At CES 2016
Robots were unavoidable at CES this year, with drones buzzing around in cages, Bluetooth-controlled dinosaurs, dancing humanoid robots and some that could form and respond to coherent sentences.
Regardless of their functions, some of them were just plain cute. Here are our picks for the cutest robots at CES 2016.
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For more on CES, including $99 rubber ducks and consoles for dogs, check out our CES hub.
Alanah Pearce is IGN's Toys Editor. Feel free to tweet her pictures of dogs Twitter @Charalanahzard.
Stan is Now Available on Xbox One
The aussie on-demand service Stan is available on Xbox One from today.
"Stan provides consumers with another great reason to jump into the Xbox One’s growing entertainment offering", said Jeremy Hinton, Business Group Lead for Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft Australia. "Fully integrated into the Xbox One’s entertainment features to ensure consumers have the very best experience – Stan on the Xbox One offers users more flexibility in their viewing experience than any other platform, even allowing them to continue gaming, unlock achievements or even sharing content to Twitter whilst watching their favourite film and TV shows, all at the same time.”
The Stan app makes use of Xbox One's exclusive features like Snap, while full integration with Oneguide will be coming "not long after launch".
Marvel Teases a Superhero Resurrection
Marvel has released a rather cryptic new teaser image that hints towards a major comic book development in the months ahead. We don't know what characters or franchises are involved, but it appears that a major Marvel character (or more than one character) will be returning to life soon.
Check out the teaser below:
So what does this mean? The most obvious possibility is that Marvel will finally be resurrecting Jean Grey. Jean died 12 years ago in New X-Men #150, and not counting the presence of her younger self in All-New X-Men has stayed dead ever since. Given how prominent a role Jean is playing in this summer's X-Men: Apocalypse, now may be the right time to finally bring her back into play. But this would hardly be the first time that Marvel has teased Jean's return and then swerved in a different direction.
Maz Kanata, BB-8 Score Visual Effects Nominations
Star Wars: The Force Awakens lead the pack of feature film nominees announced today for the Visual Effects Society's 14th Annual VES Awards, with lovable droid BB-8 and Lupita Nyong'o's space pirate Maz Kanata in particular getting singled out.
The VES Awards recognize outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life.
The Force Awakens scored seven VES nominations in all:
- Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
- Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature -- Falcon Chase/Graveyard
PlayStation Essentials Sale Offers Deep Discounts on P4G, Mass Effect Trilogy, and More
The PlayStation Store's new "Essentials Sale" is offering some hefty discounts on some of last year's big games.
The sale page promises up to 75% off games, or 80% with a PlayStation Plus subscription. Some notable discounts include Persona 4 Golden for $12, the full Mass Effect Trilogy for $12, and Dragon Age Inquisition for $12 (PS3) or $18 (PS4). It also has several PSOne Classics, mostly RPGs, for a cool four bucks.
More than 100 games in all are on sale, so take a look around. Meanwhile if you are a PlayStation Plus subscription, you can currently grab another Dragon Age game, Dragon Age Origins, on PS3 for free, along with Grim Fandango Remastered, Hardware: Rivals, Nihilumbra, and Medal of Honor Warfighter.
Better Call Saul: New Season 2 Mariachi Promo
In the spirit of Breaking Bad's second season "Negro y Azul: The Ballad of Heisenberg" mariachi song opening comes a brand new spot for AMC's Better Call Saul: Season 2 - featuring Saul's very own mariachi song, "Yo Soy Saul!"
IGN's got your exclusive first look at the video - along with two new Season 2 gallery images of Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman.
The promo takes a loop around a dicey cantina while Mariachi Bandido performs "Yo Soy Saul," which was written by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould (the creators of Better Call Saul) and Arturo Salas.
And here are your new Saul images, featuring a pensive/contemplative Jimmy as he walks the shadowy path toward becoming "Saul Goodman."