CES 2016: The Coolest Cars at CES
CES has become a place for automakers to show off their latest technologies and their visions for the future of transportation. It seemed like every booth this year featured a car of some sort, either to demonstrate some new technology or just to get people to look at a random product.
Toyota had the most interesting concept cars like the FCV concept, which runs off hydrogen. Toyota claims the FCV "is capable of generating electricity directly from hydrogen stored outside the vehicle," which could be used to power both the car and your home.
Akiva Goldsman Explains Why Idris Elba Is Perfect for The Dark Tower
News broke in December that Idris Elba seemed to be the frontrunner for the role of Roland Deschain in the long-anticipated adaptation of Steven King's The Dark Tower. The potential casting would change the race of the gunslinger, a realization that received mixed reactions around the Internet.
Akiva Goldsman, who is writing and producing the project, spoke to IGN at the 2016 winter Television Critics Association press tour while promoting his new WGN America series Underground, which is an escape thriller centered around the Underground Railroad. Talk shifted to the reaction to Elba's potential casting, and Goldsman shared his thoughts on the situation.
Game Scoop!: The Big 2016 Gaming Preview
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. It's time to take a look ahead at the big games to come in the next 12 months. We'll also announce the winners of the second annual Daemie awards and, yes, play 20 Questions. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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Amplitude: Harmonix Addresses International Issues
Amplitude developer Harmonix has offered a few solutions to fix issues surrounding the redemption of game codes for Kickstarter backers.
In an update on the game's Kickstarter page, Harmonix answered a few frequently asked questions regarding missing and invalid codes. According to the developer, if you haven't received a code yet, be sure to check spam and junk folders in your email and look for a message from support@s.backerkit.com.
If that's not your issue and you're based in North America, Harmonix is asking that you contact them via Amplitude's Kickstarter page. The developer also acknowledged issues with Europe-based users and says that it has encountered problems with the console submission process. The team is working with Sony Europe about the code issues and hopes to have an update early next week.
Fear The Walking Dead: Season 2 Premiere Date
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, AMC announced the premiere date for Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, along with several other series.
Cliff Curtis as Travis and Ruben Blades as Daniel Salazar in Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2.
Fear The Walking Dead will return on Sunday, April 10th at 9:00pm ET/PT, as week after . As the show moves from its six-episode first season to a 15-episode Season 2, it will be split into two parts. The first seven episodes will air this spring, with the remaining eight airing later in 2016. Fear The Walking Dead will be followed each week now by new episodes of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Talking Dead (during The Walking Dead's first season, there were only Talking Dead installments a couple of times).
CES 2016: See This Tesla Competitor’s Insane Concept Car Up Close
Chinese-backed car company Faraday Future showed off its insane-looking FFZero1 concept car at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The car allegedly has over 1,000 horsepower, can accelerate from 0-60 in less than 3 seconds, and can do over 200 miles per hour.
The car may look crazy, but the chassis underneath is the biggest story. Faraday Future hopes to create a production car using the chassis under the FFZero1 concept. Think of the chassis as a modular platform for the car maker to put under any body style, similar to what Tesla did with the Model S sedan and Model X crossover, which share the same chassis. Faraday Future showed how the platform could add or subtract batteries from different areas of the car, changing the balance and power output of future models.
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Welcome back to Keepin' It Reel, the IGN show where Jim Vejvoda, Terri Schwartz and -- in his final episode -- Chris Carle bring you the latest genre movie news.
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We Suck At Drawing With the Pen of the Future
The AtmosFlare is a 3D-drawing pen. Think of a 3D printer, only you control the shapes with your hands rather than with the help of a much smarter, much steadier computer. We saw it on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show this week and had to try it out.
As you can see from the video above, we are not good at using the AtmosFlare. At all.
The pen uses a UV-cured photopolymer to make paint dry in three-dimensional designs. You move the pen through space and it leaves behind a trail of hardened, dried "paint" wherever it travels.
In the demonstration we saw, AtmosFlare's Adrian Amjadi was working on an incredible jellyfish design, complete with delicate tendrils that he drew with an artist's incredible sense of finesse.
This Year’s Hottest Console Is For Dogs
At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, we saw all kinds of incredible tech. We also saw what is arguably 2016's hottest console.
This year's hottest gaming console isn't for humans, though. In fact, the CleverPet Hub is designed for dogs, which are like very lovable, stupid humans we invite into our homes to bring us the joy of companionship. You can see it in action in the video above.
The creator of the CleverPet Hub, Daniel Knudsen, says "a lot of dogs stay home all day with nothing to do," a fact any working pet-owner can attest to. While many bad dogs will take out their boredom by, say, tearing apart a bag of garbage or chewing the corners of furniture, Knudsen's CleverPet Hub gives dogs a constructive release for their energy.
Blade Runner’s Future Is Today
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
Actually, Roy, you’re about to see things we wouldn’t believe. Because as it turns out, today is the day you are going to be born. Happy Incept Day!
I’m talking, of course, about Roy Batty, the Replicant played by Rutger Hauer in the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner. Constructed by the Tyrell Corporation, whose motto was “More human than human,” Batty certainly fit that description. Harrison Ford’s boss in the Replicant-hunting police unit of Blade Runners explained the android’s specs like this: “NEXUS 6. Roy Batty. Incept date 2016. Combat model. Optimum self-sufficiency… Probably the leader.” That last part was said with a bit of a nervous chuckle, with the clear implication being that you don’t want to mess with Roy…