The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone Expansion Release Date
CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be getting its first expansion on October 13.
Hearts of Stone will provide over 10 hours of new content, including new characters, monsters, romance and storylines, alongside a new Runewords system.
The story of the expansion sees Geralt hired to defeat a bandit captain called Olgierd von Everec - a man who possesses the power of immortality. You'll apparently be able to recruit a crew of break-in artists, party with a ghost and meet a host of new and bizarre creatures.
Alongside a digital release, Hearts of Stone is apparently getting a limited boxed edition costing $19.99 / €19.99, which comes with a digital code of the game and two actual physical decks of Gwent cards, along with a rulebook. Anyone who's already purchased the Expansion Pass will be able to purchase the cards separately at a special site.
Bringing Queersploitation to Comics
Steve Orlando's Virgil graphic novel with artist J.D. Faith has found a new home at Image Comics. After his success with his first Image comic Undertow and taking on DC's new Midnighter solo series, it's little surprise his star has continued to rise. Virgil was originally made via Kickstarter, but now it's getting a shiny new release from Image this Wednesday, September 9.
We talked to Orlando about his action-thriller comic that takes place in Jamaica and features a cop who gets outed as homosexual, and the violent aftermath that ensues.
Trainspotting Sequel is Finally Happening
A Trainspotting sequel may actually finally happen.
Director Danny Boyle has finished work on Steve Jobs and is now eyeing the long-gestating sequel to 1996's Trainspotting as his next project.
The Academy Award-winning director told Deadline that Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge has penned what's being called Trainspotting 2.
Trainspotting was based on an Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, which had a sequel called Porno set 10 years after the events of the original book.
"All the four main actors want to come back and do it," said Boyle. "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series."
Doctor Who Actor Joins Game of Thrones Season 6
There's more cryptic casting news for Game of Thrones season six.
Richard E. Grant (Doctor Who), whose screen credits rival the length of a George R.R. Martin novel, has starred most recently in Dig, Downtown Abbey and Girls.
Richard E. Grant as Dr Simeon in Doctor Who.
According to his agency CV, Grant will star in Game of Thrones, although no specific information is listed about his character.
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth DLC Release Date Announced
Afterbirth, the upcoming DLC for The Binding of Isaac, will be releasing on Steam on October 30. Console release dates will be announced at a later date.
The news comes via a post on The Binding of Isaac's official website, where some more information about what the DLC will contain was posted.
Afterbirth supposedly adds "100+ hours to the game", along with some new features. Greed Mode has a heavy focus on risk / reward, and has new endings and a final boss. The main game has been expanded to include a new final area, boss, and ending. There are also new daily runs where you compete for best time or score on leaderboards.
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Whisky Altered after Four Years in Space
Scottish whisky that spent four years aging on the International Space Station has returned to terra firma with a set smokey flavours not encountered in Earth samples.
US space research company NanoRacks and Ardbeg Distillery on Islay sent samples of unmatured whiskey to the ISS with charred oak wood shavings in 2011. Control samples of the same whisky were kept on Earth.
The key aims of the experiment were to find out how microgravity impacts maturation of the flavour of oak and the behaviour of terpene, compounds that contribute to the flavour of food, beer, wine and spirits.
After a range of analyses, Ardbeg's director of distilling Dr Bill Lumsden told Sky News that the space samples were noticeably different than the control sample left on Earth.
Meet the Galavans in New Gotham: Season 2 Clip
FOX has released a new clip from Gotham: Season 2's premiere episode, "Damned If You Do."
The snippet offers up an early glimpse at two newcomers to the series: Jessica Lucas as Tabitha Galavan (aka Tigress) and James Frain as her brother Theo. In it, Theo has a chat with the inmates of Arkham Asylum, paying special attention to Barbara Kean.
Just last week, FOX released a brand new trailer as well as a bunch of new cast photos featuring the likes of Lucius Fox, Selina Kyle, and many others. Another clip from Season 2 was also released, showcasing an interesting conversation between Barbara and Jerome.
Straight Outta Compton Finally Dethroned at Box Office
Straight Outta Compton has finally been beaten to the number one spot at the North American box office this weekend.
Pushing the N.W.A. biopic down to number two is War Room, Sony's low-budget Christian drama.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, War Room is expected to reach $12.3 million for the Labor Day weekend, taking it to roughly $28 million since its debut last weekend.
Straight Outta Compton is expected to have earned $150.2 million domestically through Monday's holiday.
The Transporter Refueled opened Friday, and although IGN's review said that it's "as good as its predecessors," it had a disappointing debut, coming in at number five with just $7.1 million for the three-day weekend despite showing at 3,434 theaters.
Late Show with Stephen Colbert is This Week’s TV Highlight
Fall TV is here! - kicking off with FXX premiering new seasons of The League and You're the Worst, Syfy debuting new runs of Z Nation and Continuum, and HBO landing with new seasons of Project Greenlight (back after a decade away) and Doll & Em. Plus, Netflix airs Season 4 of Longmire, which the streaming giant rescued after it was cancelled over on A&E.
But the big news this week is Stephen Colbert taking over as host of The Late Show on CBS. Ditching the extreme right wing parody character he embodied on the Emmy-winning Colbert Report, Colbert looks forward to engaging his guests in a more genuine manner.