Doom Possible Release Date Leaked by Amazon France
Doom will be releasing on all platforms June 30, at least if the product listing on Amazon's French site is to be believed.
Spotted by Twitter user MasterGamer24680, all versions of the game show the same release date and price.
Of course, it's entirely possible that the date is merely a placeholder, or possibly a mistake, but Amazon France has spilled the beans on releases in the past, so it isn't outside the realm of plausibility. For instance, Amazon France listed Rise of the Tomb Raider for PC would release at the end of January, something that turned out to be 100% true. It also
Rogue One Actor Ben Mendelsohn May Be Up for Ready Player One
Ben Mendelsohn is reportedly up for the villain's role in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One. So say anonymous sources to The Hollyword Reporter, anyway.
If true, that would put Mendelsohn, who currently stars in the Netflix original series Bloodline, in the role of Nolan Sorrento. In Earnest Cline's novel of the same name Sorrento is an high-ranking ISP employee who intends to take over — and monetize — the unsupervised virtual world of OASIS.
New FOX Animated Series Project From Gravity Falls Creator
FOX has ordered a script and presentation pilot for a new animated series from Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch.
While details on the series are being kept under wraps, Hirsch offered Variety a small taste, saying, "I'm cooking up some brand-new weirdness." According to the report, Hirsch was pursued by various networks before ultimately reaching an agreement with FOX.
Eddie Redmayne Was ‘Desperate’ to Play a Weasley in HP Films
Eddie Redmayne would have made a good Weasley boy, wouldn't he have? In a recent interview with on ITV's Lorraine, the actor shared that he was "desperate" to get a role as one of the ginger kids in the Harry Potter series.
"For years I was always like, in the Harry Potter films, there was a whole ginger family, and I never got an audition. And I was like, come on, it's outrageous!" the Oscar winner said.
"Every actor in England was in the Harry Potter films, but I never got the call."
He won't get to play a Weasley, but Redmayne will star as Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. The new film is set several decades before the Harry Potter series begins, and it will follow Scamander through his journey in 1926 New York. Back then, North American wizarding folk were in hiding from the No-Maj—that's people without magic.
Is Emma Stone Our New Cruella de Vil?
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Emma Stone is in early negotiations to play the Iconic Disney villainess Cruella de Vil in the upcoming Disney film, Cruella.
Kelly Marcel is writing the script for this Walt Disney Studios film, Andrew Gunn is producing, and Kristin Burr and Jessica Virtue are overseeing this project. This production has yet to have a director attached to the project, but the studio's goal is to start shooting the film later this year.
The character Cruella de Vil originally originated from Dodie Smith’s 1965 book, “The Hundred and One Dalmatians.” Cruella also made her first appearance in film as the main villain in the 1961 animated classic and has been portrayed by Glenn Close in the live action movie 101 Dalmatians and its sequel 102 Dalmatians.
3 New Yu-Gi-Oh! Games Coming in 2016
To celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary, three new Yu-Gi-Oh! games will be released before the end of 2016, Konami announced today.
The first, titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, will be released on iOS and Android this spring. A new 3DS game will follow in the summer, with an online game for unspecified consoles and PC closing things out this winter.
Additionally, Konami announced major updates will hit both its latest Yu-Gi-Oh! console game, Legacy of the Duelist, and mobile game, Duel Generation, at some point this year.
For more, check out Episode 9 of IGN's Anime Club, in which IGN editors discuss whether Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, or Digimon is the best franchise.
Unlocked: Our Xbox Predictions for 2016
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Happy New Year! We kick things off with our longest episode ever! Gone Home creator Steve Gaynor (who you may also know as the creator of BioShock 2's highly acclaimed DLC Minerva's Den) sits in for the whole show to talk about next week's Xbox One release of Gone Home. We also ask him about his time on BioShock 2 as well as his next game, the Xbox One-exclusive Tacoma. Plus: we make our Xbox predictions for 2016 and review how we did with our 2015 predictions. And we discuss the Scalebound delay, the Assassin's Creed leak, and much more!
Watch XCOM 2’s New Gatekeeper Alien In Action
XCOM 2's alien menagerie has a new member: The Gatekeeper. This floating ball at first looks kind of adorable in a Pixar sort of way, and seems like it should be voiced by Peter Dinklage. That is, until it busts open and reveals a Krang-like pink pulpy mass with a glowing eye and tentacles and starts zombifying anything within reach. It shares the Sectoid's ability to reanimate corpses as psi zombies (or make corpses and then reanimate them), though it can raise several at once. Plus it has several other potent-looking psionic abilities, and, as one would expect, a death ray.
It initially resembles XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Cyberdisc, but as a veteran of the 1995 X-COM: Terror From The Deep, watching this footage is giving me flashbacks to the dreaded floating Tentaculat, which was basically a flying Chryssalid from hell.
Agent Carter: Season 2 Cast Photos
With Agent Carter: Season 2 almost here, ABC have released new cast photos from the series.
Get a look at Peggy (Hayley Atwell), Edwin Jarvis (James D'Arcy), Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray), Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj), Dottie Underwood (Bridget Regan) and Rose Roberts (Lesley Boone), along with new characters Jason Wilkes (Reggie Austin), Ana Jarvis (Lotte Verbeek), Calvin Chadwick (Currie Graham) and Whitney Frost (Wynn Everett) - the latter known to Marvel comics fans as Madame Masque.
Check out the images in the gallery below.
Agent Carter: Season 2 premieres January 19th on ABC.
181,000 Drones Have Registered With the FAA Since December 21
While there are sure to be many more unregistered drones enjoying the open sky, the Federal Aviation Administration announced today that over 181,000 have been registered so far.
This comes nearly two and a half weeks after the organization introduced a new registration program that went live on December 21, 2015. During the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas today, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the administration was "encouraged by the registration numbers we’re seeing so far." The challenge going forward is to make more people aware of the now-required process, as those that haven't register by February are subject to criminal penalties and imprisonment.