Stephen Hawking Endorses New Project to Find Alien Life
Russian investor Yuri Milner believes there's life elsewhere in the galaxy, and he's willing to put his own money on the line to find it.
$100 million of his own money, to be exact. Milner is investing heavily in Breakthrough Listen, a 10-year project that will use telescopes exclusively for the purpose of monitoring and tracking any messages in space that might point to alien life. Professor Stephen Hawking has personally endorsed the project, and did so publicly via a recent conference call with Milner.
Selma Director Talks Passing on Black Panther
Selma director Ava DuVernay has elaborated on why she ultimately decided to pass on directing Black Panther, highlighting the sheer commitment involved as a major factor.
"For me, it was a process of trying to figure out, are these people I want to go to bed with?" she said during the closing keynote at the 2015 BlogHer conference (via THR). "Because it’s really a marriage, and for this it would be three years. It’d be three years of not doing other things that are important to me. So it was a question of, is this important enough for me to do?
"At one point, the answer was yes because I thought there was value in putting that kind of imagery into the culture in a worldwide, huge way, in a certain way: excitement, action, fun, all those things, and yet still be focused on a black man as a hero — that would be pretty revolutionary," she added.
Out This Week: Tembo the Badass Elephant, Onechanbara Z2: Chaos
With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Why We’re Stoked Cyborg Is (Finally) Getting His Own Comic
We all want the best of the best, so let us point out the hottest comics. We spotlight our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent, new books that look cool, and any collectibles we can't wait to play with.
Check out our picks, then take to the comments to let us know what looks good to you!
By writer David Walker & artist Ivan Reis | DC Comics
Cyborg is finally getting his own ongoing series! Ever since becoming a member of the New 52 Justice League, we’ve been wondering when Cyborg would get a solo book like every other member -- and now the time has come.
7 ’90s Movies That Are Actually Based on Comics
If you can believe it, comic book adaptations were once a rare -- and ballsy -- thing in Hollywood. Before we got shared cinematic universes, there was just a handful of non-Marvel or DC comic book movies that, generally, audiences had no idea were based on comics in the first place.
Of all the indie publishers, Dark Horse Comics owned the ‘90s comic book movie landscape. Dark Horse’s relationship with Hollywood dates back to the ‘80s, when the small, Oregon-based publisher began getting licenses to make comics based on existing film franchises, like Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Godzilla, and Conan, among many other titles.
In 1992, Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson sought to reverse the process and bring the company’s original properties to film, thus creating the production arm Dark Horse Entertainment to make it happen. Richardson struck a deal with producer Lawrence Gordon and Largo Entertainment, resulting in an office at the Twentieth Century Fox studio lot, where after three years, a half-dozen films went into development -- including The Mask and Timecop, which debuted at #1 in their respective opening weekends.
Xbox One Game Streaming Moves Out of Preview
Microsoft is pushing the Xbox One game streaming feature out of the preview phase and out into the wild.
The feature was initially only available to those that were a part of the Xbox One preview program, as well as the Windows Insider Program, but the company is now opening it up to everyone that has the means to use it.
Over on Xbox Wire, the steps needed to initiate game streaming from an Xbox One to a Windows 10 device were detailed. It's a fairly straightforward process that requires some set up using both the Xbox One and the new Xbox app for Windows 10, such as enabling game streaming on the Xbox One before adding it through the app.
FIFA 16 Cover Features Female Athletes for the First Time
Alex Morgan of the World Cup-winning US Women's National Team and Christine Sinclair of the Canadian Women's National Team will appear alongside Lionel Messi on the cover of FIFA 16 in their respective countries, Electronic Arts announced today. This marks the first time female athletes have appeared on the cover of a FIFA game in North America.
Morgan calls the cover appearance an "incredible honor," adding, "I know people all over the world play this game and I’m really excited that FIFA 16 is putting such an important spotlight on women’s soccer."
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Xbox One Madden NFL 16 1TB Bundle With A Year Of EA Access
The latest Xbox One bundle is Madden themed, and includes a download of Madden 16, as well as a year of EA Access. EA Access will let you play Madden early, and give you access to EA's back catalog. Here's everything you get with EA Access.
Star Wars Battlefront Playable First on Xbox One
Star Wars Battlefront will be playable first to those on Xbox One.
Xbox Live users who have an active subscription to EA Access will be able to dive into DICE's upcoming multiplayer shooter before everyone else, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer confirmed on Twitter.
@MJC3809 @majornelson @EAAccess @XboxQwik @DMC_Ryan Yes you can play SW: Battlefront first on Xbox One, exclusively with @EAAccess
App Store Update: July 20
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Legions of Steel – ($9.99)
"Legions of Steel depicts a dark future where the majority of the races inhabiting the Milky Way are driven to unite against the deadliest menace of all: endless hordes of sentient machines devoted to the annihilation of all other species. These latter formed an Alliance trying to cripple the enemy by knocking out their underground facilities. This kind of mission is not suitable for large groups of units and the Alliance is forced to rely on smaller - but better trained and equipped - squads named Commando!"