GameStop One Step Closer to Owning Thinkgeek Parent Company
GameStop's offer to acquire the parent company of online retailer ThinkGeek has now expired, meaning GameStop is all but the new owner of Geeknet, Inc.
As it stands, just under 87% of Geeknet, Inc. shares "were validly tendered and not withdrawn," which is investor speak meaning GameStop's offer to acquire Geeknet is moving ahead.
After the transfer of the shares, the acquisition will be completed and GameStop will complete its merger with Geeknet, Inc. GameStop will pay $20 per share for the outstanding Geeknet stock, of which there are nearly 6 million shares.
First Fargo: Season 2 Trailer
FX has released the first trailer for Fargo: Season 2. While only thirty seconds in length, the trailer, titled Right from Wrong, gives us our first extended look at 1979 Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Check it out below!
Note: The trailer may not be available in all territories.
The trailer follows two teasers released by FX last week which gave us our first look at Ted Danson's Hank Larsson and Kirsten Dunst's Peggy Blomquist.
In addition to Danson and Dunst, the cast for Season 2 includes Bruce Campbell, Patrick Wilson, Jean Smart, Jesse Plemons, and Jeffery Donovan. Fargo: Season 2 premieres this September.
Fighting Game Sale on PS4, PS3, and Vita Celebrates EVO 2015
To celebrate the upcoming EVO 2015 fighting game tournament, Sony has launched a sale featuring fighting games discounted up to 60 percent across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita.
PlayStation 4 features a number of recent fighting game releases, including discounts on Mortal Kombat X, WWE 2K15, Towerfall Ascension, and Guilty Gear Xrd Sign. The bulk of the discounts can be found on PlayStation 3, including sales on Ultra Street Fighter IV, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle, Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma, and Darkstalkers Resurrection.
Sales on PlayStation Vita include several Street Fighter Alpha games, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter x Tekken, among others.
Singer: Younger X-Men Characters Will Be “Very Different”
The younger versions of well-established characters in the X-Men cinematic universe will surprise moviegoers when they see Apocalypse, according to director Bryan Singer.
Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops) and Alexandra Shipp Storm will offer very different takes on the characters we've seen in the prior films.
"These are very different characters than they were in the films X-Men 1, 2, and 3,” Singer told Yahoo! Movies.
That said, the character Singer expects to make the largest impact on audiences is Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac.
Looking at the TV Highlights from Comic-Con
Yeah, so this is a rough one. But a unique one! Matt Fowler and I recorded this bad boy (and it probably is bad) on the drive home from San Diego Comic-Con, meaning the audio quality is awful and includes various road noises - and we're super loopy after five very exhausting days. But regardless... here it is!
No time code here, because this is just a rambling episode where we talk about our overall Comic-Con experience, some of the highlights for us, TV shows that made an impression and more... I just can't promise any of it makes any sense.
Channel Surfing Podcast, Episode 246
Another Batch of Guitar Hero Live Songs Revealed
Activision and developer FreeStyleGames have revealed ten more songs that will be playable in Guitar Hero Live at launch. Disturbed, OneRepublic, Cypress Hill, and Paramore are all featured in this week's batch of reveals. Check out the full list of new songs below!
- OneRepublic - "Counting Stars"
- Paramore - "Now"
- The Mowgli’s - "San Francisco"
- Cypress Hill ft. Tom Morello - "Rise Up"
- Asking Alexandria - "The Final Episode"
- The Vines - "Metal Zone"
- Wolf Alice - "Moaning Lisa Smile"
- Disturbed - "Down With the Sickness"
- TV On The Radio - "Lazerray"
Splinter Cell: Blacklist Studio is Working on a New IP
A recent job posting suggests the lead studio on Splinter Cell: Blacklist is working on a brand new AAA IP.
A member of the studio tweeted out a job posting calling for a senior game designer with AAA experience to work on a "new IP."
New Sr. Game Designer with 3Cs expertise on a new IP here @UbisoftToronto - Must have AAA game exp. https://t.co/HeCP8XGE6n
— Heather Holmes (@hholmes79) July 14, 2015
A similar posting on Ubisoft's website lists the Toronto studio as being "on a collective mission to create what’s next in AAA games." Currently, no other details are known at this time.
New Details on All-New, All-Different Marvel
Marvel released their full solicitations for October 2015 today. October is a huge month for Marvel, as Secret Wars and its remaining tie-ins draw to a close and a new lineup of All-New, All-Different Marvel comics begins to take their place. While Marvel has already revealed the various new books (not all of which are launching in October), these solicits offer more insight into the company's post-Secret Wars status quo.
New Series:
- All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1
- Amazing Spider-Man #1-2
- Angela: Queen of Hel #1
- Astonishing Ant-Man #1
- Avengers #0
- Blade #1
Spec Ops: The Line Dev Removed From Dead Island 2
Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager has officially been removed from the creation of Dead Island 2.
Although no formal reason for their removal has been given, publisher Deep Silver told IGN the following statement:
"With Dead Island 2, Deep Silver has always been dedicated to delivering the sequel that Dead Island fans deserve. After careful consideration, today we announce the decision to part ways with development partner Yager. We will continue working towards bringing our vision of Dead Island 2 to life, and we will share further information at a later stage."
Dead Island 2 was initially announced during Sony's E3 2014 press conference, promising to deliver "over-the-top characters" and "crazy, never-before-seen handcrafted weapons" in a California setting.
New Horizons Pluto Mission Recreated in Kerbal Space Program
NASA's New Horizons probe has been delivering some stellar shots of Pluto, but if you want to appreciate the difficulty of getting a probe that far into space, try doing it yourself.
That's what YouTuber Scott Manley did, using the rocket sim Kerbal Space Program. Equipped with a series of mods to make the whole experience more realistic, he launched his own New Horizons mission. You can check out the video of him explaining it below (via PCGamer).