Japanese Train Redesigned to Look Like Evangelion Mech
Japan is taking one of its Shinkansen bullet trains and giving it a redesign to resemble a mech from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Japanese train operator JR West is heading the project, with Evangelion director Hideaki Anno serving as a supervisor, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the popular anime as well as the 40th anniversary of the Sanyo Shinkansen train line.
The "500 Type EVA," as it's now called, will get a purple paint job to match the Evangelion Unit-01 seen in the show, in addition to a new matching interior that will be stocked with memorabilia for riders to buy. Additional events are in the planning stages, but they have yet to be revealed.
4 New Elder Scrolls Online DLC Announced at QuakeCon
The first part of upcoming batch of Elder Scrolls Online:Tamriel Unlimited DLC will be hitting August 31. The DLC will also be available beginning next week on the ESO public test server.
Announced at QuakeCon today, the Imperial City DLC will be the first of a series of quarterly DLC releases coming to ESO in the future. The next release will be Orsinium, followed by the Thieve's Guild and finally a Dark Brotherhood DLC.
The Imperial City should be a familiar locale to anyone who played Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The city, its architecture, and layout, are instantly familiar, but the events of Elder Scrolls Online take place 700 years before those of Oblivion.
Gambit to Reportedly Begin Filming in October
New casting call and production start date information on filming for 20th Century Fox's Gambit movie have reportedly surfaced.
Showbiz411 reports the movie starring Channing Tatum as the titular Gambit (aka Remy LeBeau) and directed by Rupert Wyatt will begin filming this October.
Additionally, the film's casting call reveals more about the traits of some of the film's characters. Among the many roles are requests for several male and female characters of different age ranges and ethnicities, with personalities ranging from soulful and sensitive to charming and dangerous. Some of the roles require the actor to speak fluent French.
Bethesda Won’t Make Another Mobile Game Unless It’s a ‘Good Fit’
Though Fallout Shelter was a success for Bethesda (earning over $5 million in two weeks), don't expect the game publisher to crank out more mobile games any time soon.
In an interview with IGN, Bethesda's VP of PR and Marketing, Pete Hines, said:
"We'd been thinking about
for a while. It was a case of 'We won't do it unless it's a good fit.'"
He continued, "This isn't the start of a formula where every time we make a game we need to do a mobile game... That's not why Fallout Shelter was great... People appreciate the game because it doesn't have our hand in your pocket. It did monetization in a way that people didn't have a problem with.
Star Trek Beyond: Fast 6 Actor Reportedly Joins Cast
Joe Taslim is reportedly joining the cast of Star Trek Beyond.
According to THR, the actor and martial artist, who played a police officer in The Raid and a bad guy in Fast & Furious 6, will have a "key part" in Beyond. In fact, sources have told the outlet that his role will be opposite Idris Elba, who has been cast to play the film's villain.
Joe Taslim in The Raid
Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Vehicles Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
Chrysler has decided to recall nearly 1.4 million vehicles, following the news that many installed with the Uconnect feature are subject to remote hacking. Anyone that could gain access to the vehicle would be able to disable the breaks, cut the transmission, or take control of the steering.
The initial hack was developed by a couple of security researchers, who also helped the carmaker develop a patch, but Chrysler is now taking larger steps to ensure more car owners get the fix as soon as possible.
Puzzler Infinifactory Headed to PS4
Developer Zachtronics has announced that Infinifactory is coming to PlayStation 4 soon.
Infinifactory, a puzzle game about building factories, previously released on Early Access on Steam earlier this year, and saw a full PC release on June 30.
It is an open ended puzzle game where the elegance of your solution is just as important as actually solving the puzzle.
Sony's PLAY Summer Event is running at the moment, so keep an eye out for more games coming to PS4 soon.
Fans Riled Up Over Apocalypse and Space Jam 2
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Japanese Rice Farmers Create Star Wars Mural in Paddy
Rice farmers in Japan recently found a unique way to express their love of Star Wars.
Located in Inkadate Village in Japan's Aomori prefecture, a design team used computer software to map out a mural featuring BB-8, C-3PO, and R2D2 made entirely out of rice plants.
Once they had finalized the field's design, specially-marked reeds mapping out individual lines were placed in the paddy. Mental Floss reports that later, planters began sowing different types of rice plants to get the varied color effect that comprises the design.
Game of Thrones: What We Know About Season 6
Spoilers for all of HBO's Game of Thrones as well as some slight spoilers/speculations about Season 6...
Usually by this point in the summer, we know a lot more about the upcoming Game of Thrones season than we do right now. Firstly, we've always had the books to go by for story beats and big deaths. That's no longer the case. Also, we've usually gotten some for casting news and all we have right now are character listings. Plus, we've occasionally had, by this point, confirmation from executive producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff about something regarding the new season. New locations, new characters, etc.
But Game of Thrones: Season 6 is truly proving to be uncharted territory. We even wrote up our first ever "What We Want from a Game of Thrones Season" feature for Season 6 because the story ahead is now a mystery to both book readers and non-book readers alike. The playing field has been leveled. We have no idea even if Game of Thrones will end with Season 7 (which Weiss and Benioff both seem to want) or with an extra Season 8 (as it seems HBO hopes). So there's really no telling when or how the story will begin wrapping up.