Rick and Morty Renewed for Season 3
Get ready for even more zany, intergalactic mayhem! Adult Swim has announced they've picked up a third season of Rick of Morty.
The series' Season 2 premiere on July 26 ranked #1 in its time slot among all key adults and men and charted triple-digit delivery gains over its prior season premiere.
"It's an honor to see Rick and Morty join the exclusive club of shows with over 19 episodes," said co-creator and executive producer Dan Harmon. "It's time to demand that the network allow us to draw the characters going to Hawaii."
"I am blown away by the seemingly instant success of Rick and Morty," added co-creator and executive producer Justin Roiland. "I look forward to continuing their adventures!"
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Photos
A fresh batch of new Star Wars: The Force Awakens images have been revealed, providing a closer look at the films' broad cast of characters, including Kylo Ren, Rey, and General Hux.
In addition, we get a new look R2-D2 and C-3PO, as well as Captain Phasma, Finn, and even a black X-Wing. Check out all twelve photos released by EW below.
You’re Never Alone in Halo 5’s Solo Campaign
While Halo 5: Guardians developer 343 Industries has been making noise about Halo 5’s multiplayer for several months, it used Gamescom to showcase a brief glimpse of the game’s single-player campaign.
Halo 5’s campaign, which 343 reports should clock in at twice the length of Halo 4 and features levels up to four times the size, is apparently entirely built with co-op in mind. Even when you’re not playing with flesh-and-bone friends you’ll be accompanied by an AI-powered squad of three other Spartans at all times.
Halo 5 divides the action between Master Chief’s Blue Team (which has made several appearances in the expanded Halo fiction outside the games) and newly-introduced Spartan Jameson Locke (from the Halo: Nightfall TV series) and his own crew, Fireteam Osiris. Master Chief and Blue Team have been declared AWOL by the UNMC and Locke and his team have been tasked with hunting them down. Much like Halo 2, Halo 5’s solo campaign will unfold across the perspectives of two main characters.
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True Blood Actress to Play Livewire in Supergirl
CBS's Supergirl has cast True Blood alum Brit Morgan to play Leslie Willis, better known as DC Comics supervillain Livewire.
Supergirl Producers Address Pre-Debut Criticisms
According to Variety, this version of the character is "a confident, abrasive and funny shock jock who works for CatCo Media, the conglomerate owned by Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart). When an accident makes her as dangerous and shocking as her words, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) must stop her." Livewire made her comics debut in 1997 in Superman Adventures #5.
Star Wars: New Kylo Ren Details Revealed
Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams has revealed numerous details about the upcoming film’s mysterious villain Kylo Ren.
Speaking with EW, Abrams confirms the origin of Kylo Ren’s mask, as well as why his lightsaber looks the way it does.
“The movie explains the origins of the mask and where it’s from, but the design was meant to be a nod to the Vader mask,” Abrams said. “
is well aware of what’s come before, and that’s very much a part of the story of the film.”
Tales from the Borderlands Episode 4 Hits Next Week
Telltale Games has announced release dates for the penultimate episode of Tales from the Borderlands.
Titled Escape Plan Bravo, the fourth episode in Telltale's Borderlands series will be available August 18 on PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners will only have to wait an extra day, while mobile players will have to wait until August 20.
Check out the gallery below for a handful of new screens from Episode 4, including Scooter in space and the return of Butt Stallion.
Telltale also revealed what we can expect from Escape Plan Bravo, following the events of Episode 3:
"In this penultimate episode of the season, captured by Vallory and her goons, Rhys and Fiona are forced to continue the search for the Vault beacon - at gunpoint. The beacon is on the Hyperion moon base - Helios - while our heroes are on Pandora... so there's the pesky cold void of death known as 'space' to overcome. Even with assistance from a familiar face, and with a worryingly helpful Handsome Jack hitching a ride in Rhys' head, getting on board the ominous 'H' is going to take every drop of guile, and quite possibly all the spunk you've got. Sacrifices will be made - can you make the tough choices needed to succeed?"
13 Comics to Restore Your Faith in the Fantastic Four
Usually the release of a big-budget superhero movie is good news for fans of the franchise. Unfortunately, Fox's new Fantastic Four reboot just opened to scathing reviews and underwhelming box office returns. Apparently even the fourth time isn't the charm for the FF's Hollywood prospects.
The good news is that Marvel's First Family still have decades of great comics to fall back on. More than any other franchise, the Fantastic Four helped shape the Marvel Universe into what it is today. As a reminder of that fact, we've compiled a list of must-read FF comics. These are the comics any FF lover should have on their bookshelf, including both single issues and longer storylines and spanning from the classic Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run to modern stories. And if you've only seen the movies and have been wondering what's so special about the Fantastic Four in the first place, then picking up any of these comics will show you why they're so amazing. Also, reading a few of these classic tales might just help you forget the new movie.
36 More Forza Motorsport 6 Cars Revealed
Turn 10 has unveiled another 36 new cars that will be available in Forza Motorsport 6 when it's released next month.
The seventh week of car reveals brings with it the completely mental and yet completely street legal 2014 BAC Mono, Marcos Ambrose’s 2015 #17 Xbox Racing Ford Falcon FG X V8 Supercar, the Lotus F1 Team’s 2015 E23, and a snarling pile of American muscle, amongst others.
The rest of this week’s confirmed cars are below, as revealed via the Forza website:
- 1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1
- 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator
- 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona HEMI
DC Offers Big Discounts on Batman & Injustice Comics
DC has announced a new series of digital comics bundles aimed at making it a little more affordable to get caught up on the publisher's big franchises. These "evergreen bundles" are geared towards specific characters or series and offer discounts as high as 27% on digital graphic novels.
Right now, DC is offering ten of these "evergreen bundles," with the promise that more will follow in the future. Among the bundles is the Essential Batman Vol. 1 collection that includes the graphic novels The Killing Joke, Hush, The Court of Owls, Batman Eternal Vol. 1 and Batman: Earth One Vol. 1 for $75.99 (a 14% overall discount). Each of the first three years of the Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic is available in a bundle ($28.99 for Year One and $22.99 each for Year 2 and Year 3). And to celebrate the recent conclusion of the long-running Vertigo series Fables, DC has a "Complete Fables" bundle that includes all 22 volumes of the main series for $237.99 (a 15% overall discount).