Nintendo Voice Chat: Our Final Thoughts on E3
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Nintendo Voice Chat returns! This week, host Jose Otero, Brian Altano, and Kallie Plagge round up their final thoughts on E3 before switching gears to discuss Rhythm Tengoku The Best Plus (aka the new Rhythm Heaven game on 3DS in Japan). Afterwards, we finish off the podcast with a brief news segment. We also answer one burning question about Smash Bros. DLC pricing on The Question Block.
Game of Thrones: 6 Things We Want from Season 6
Spoiler warning for all of HBO's Game of Thrones...
Hey, so... we've never done this before. Not a TV season wish list (we've done plenty of those), but a Game of Thrones TV season wish list. Because we've always had the books. Despite the tweaks and twists the story took getting to the screen -- additions, subtractions, extrapolations, etc -- George R. R. Martin's novels were always our guide. So we didn't need to speculate about upcoming seasons. We'd just excitedly anticipate all the things we knew and/or assumed were headed our way.
Secret Warriors Confirmed for Agents of SHIELD
Confirming speculation fans had since the Season 2 finale, Marvel and ABC have announced that the next season of Agents of SHIELD will focus on the Secret Warriors story from the comics.
In Season 3, Coulson will lead a worldwide search for more superpowered Inhumans, in order to put together a new team to deal with threats. But, he'll be racing against other forces looking for the Inhumans for their own ends. The third season will premiere on September 29 at 9 PM.
Gotham: Jessica Lucas Joins Season 2 as Tigress
Jessica Lucas (Gracepoint) has been cast as the bullwhip-wielding Tigress in Gotham's upcoming second season.
According to TV Line, FOX is describing Tigress, whose real name is Tabatha Galavan, as "sexy and violent" and "the opposite of her cold and calculating brother, deriving a sensual pleasure from the mayhem she’s tasked with making." The site also reports Gotham's version of Tigress will come equipped with a bullwhip.
Lucas in The CW's Cult.
Halt and Catch Fire: See the Creation of Chat Rooms
IGN has a new exclusive clip from Sunday's new episode of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, as Lev (August Emerson) and Donna (Kerry Bishé) serendipitously invent the chat room in the 1980s-set series about the rise of the computer industry.
On the new episode, titled "Infiltrator," Cameron and Joe cross paths again, putting Cameron in a tailspin. Meanwhile, Gordon searches for connection as he processes difficult news.
Check out the clip below!
Halt and Catch Fire: Season 2 continues on Sunday, June 28 at 10pm ET/PT.
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Destiny: Bungie’s PR Nightmare Week – IGN’s Fireteam Chat
Destin Legarie, Jose Otero and Fran Mirabella are back discussing the apology from Bungie, The Red Bull Fiasco and what they want to see in The Taken King.
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Vin Diesel Talks Fast & Furious: Supercharged
The Fast & Furious ride opened this week at Universal Studios Hollywood with a big event befitting a franchise that's become this huge.
On the Universal Studios backlot, in the same famous area used as Hill Valley for Back to the Future, several filmmakers and cast members from the film series gathered, along with Universal executives and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, to commemorate the new ride, which is functions as the concluding portion of the Universal Studio Tour. Alongside the speeches given was a big stunt moment, as a car sped up a ramp and actually busted through the huge sign for the ride, marking the opening of Fast & Furious: Supercharged.
Asked about being a part of a theme park ride, Vin Diesel remarked, with a laugh, “It's pretty surreal!”
Get Your Own Working Jet Pack Starting Next Year
Customers will be able to purchase their own commercially available jetpacks as soon as the second half of 2016.
According to a report by The Guardian, the jetpack will allow pilots to fly up to 30 minutes at speeds of 74 kph, or roughly 46 mph, at altitudes as high as 1 kilometer. There's even a built-in parachute for unplanned accelerations toward the ground.
All this airborne adventuring opportunity doesn't come cheap, however. The list price for the New Zealand-built Martin Jetpack is expected to be $150,000 USD. But manufacturer Martin Aircraft Company sees the machine as worth the price, especially for first-responders and other emergency personnel.
Tarantino and Hateful 8 Riding Into Comic-Con
Quentin Tarantino and his latest western, The Hateful Eight, are coming to this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
Tarantino and a handful of unspecified actors will take part in a panel on July 11 at 1:30pm located in Hall H. Hosted by Chris Hardwick (Talking Dead), the director and actors will discuss production of the film, its upcoming roadshow release, and the 70mm format it'll be released in. Exclusive footage of the film will also be shown during the panel.
The Hateful Eight follows the adventures of eight gunslingers trapped in a frontier way station during a snowstorm. The cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum, and Demian Bichir.
Jurassic Team Bringing Crichton’s Micro to the Screen
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to Micro, a novel by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, DreamWorks Studios CEO Michael Wright announced today.
Here's a quick outline of Micro, courtesy of today's press release:
"The high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them."
Frank Marshall (Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark) will produce the film adaptation, with Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau from ChrichtonSun LLC on as executive producers.