Yearly Archives: 2018
The Crown Season 3: First Look at Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II
Production on the third season of The Crown is underway, and Netflix has released the first official picture of Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II.
Olivia Colman is taking over the role of the show's monarch from Claire Foy, who played Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons. The first photo of Colman in the role was shared on The Crown's official Twitter account.
Nintendo Labo Creators Contest Winners Include a Solar Powered Accordion
Nintendo has announced the winners of its first Nintendo Labo Creators Contests, from the best-decorated ToyCon to the best Toy-Con mods and original inventions.
The winners of the first Nintendo Labo Creators Contests have been announced, and the winning creations include some real gems, including a solar powered accordion, a coin operated candy machine with a mini-game, and a Legend of Zelda customised Toy-Con piano.
Rainbow Six Siege Now Insta-Banning Players Using Hate Speech
Ubisoft has rolled out a new banning system in Rainbow Six Siege as part of its "toxicity management" plan, targeting players taht use hateful language in the game's text chat.
Back in April, Ubisoft outlined its plan to manage player behaviour in Rainbow Six Siege, and now users who breach the code of conduct by using "language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment" are finding themselves banned.
7 Video Game Projects We’d Love to See from the Marvel Universe
In the early 2000s, video game adaptations of comic book movies were everywhere. From the surprisingly brilliant Spider-Man 2 to forgettable titles like Captain America: Super Soldier and Thor: God of Thunder, reception to these games was mixed at best.
Movie adaptations have always been treated with suspicion, and with good reason. At worst, they’re cynical cash grabs, at best, the odds are stacked against them thanks to tight timelines to hit a film’s release, sometimes suffocating restrictions in terms of content and approvals, and high costs outside production. And yet, given the richness of some of the worlds we’re talking about, there exists bountiful potential that has yet to be fully explored.
Warcraft Director Duncan Jones Reveals Comic Book Movie Rogue Trooper
Warcraft and Moon director Duncan Jones has teased a Rogue Trooper movie on his Twitter account.
Jones posted a short video of himself wearing a hat, pondering what movie he should make next in front of a cluster of monitors. "One for them or one for me? Studio or wee indie?" he says in a voiceover. "Shall I make a comic book movie, a Marvel film, perhaps DC? Image, or Dark Horse maybe?"
"Yes, one from the Megaverse, now let me see, who, oh, who, should it be?" the voiceover concludes, as Jones takes off his hat to reveal he's sporting Rogue's blue mohawk. "If that's not enough of a clue...." reads the final screen.
Bruce Willis Dares to Say Die Hard Is Not a Christmas Movie
Bruce Willis has officially declared Die Hard is not a Christmas movie during his Comedy Central roast.
Per THR, The Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis was recently taped and is set to air on the network on July 29. Willis opted to close the roast with his controversial declaration saying, "Die Hard is not a Christmas movie!"
“It’s a god damn Bruce Willis movie!” he added.
When asked after the show how fans of the seminal action film would respond to his statement, Willis simply said, "We'll see."
Fans have gone back and forth over the years - mostly during December - on the burning pop culture issue. Though Die Hard's events take place during Christmas Eve, does the action flick tick enough boxes in the 'Christmas Movie' category to actually qualify? Last December, Die Hard's screenwriter Steven E. de Souza confirmed that it did, albeit jokingly.
Zombieland 2 Set for 2019 Release, Deadpool Writers, Venom Director on Board
Sony Pictures will be bringing Zombieland 2 to theaters in 2019 with the original's director, writers, and many of its stars, including Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin.
As reported by THR, the sequel will go into production in January of 2019 and will arrive later in the year in October, ten years after 2009's original Zombieland.
Zombieland director, Ruben Fleischer, returns for the sequel and has most recently been working as director for this fall's Venom. The two writers for the original film, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, have been writers for Deadpool & Deadpool 2 and teased this announcement a couple months ago.
Modder Fixes Aliens: Colonial Marines’ AI With One, Simple Coding Change
Jamesdickinson963 of ModDB, who has been working on overhauling and improving 2013's Aliens: Colonial Marines, has discovered a typo in one line of Colonial Marine's game config file, or .INI, that may be to blame, at least in part, for its lackluster AI.
The error, which was one extra letter, looks like this:
ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTeather.
As you can see in the bold text, the last word says Teather, when it should in actuality say Tether. This command should have controlled "tactical position adjustment, patrolling and target zoning." Due to this typo, it seemingly did nothing.
Yvette Nicole Brown Replaces Hardwick as Interim Talking Dead Host
Yvette Nicole Brown is set to become the host of AMC's Talking Dead and The Walking Dead: Season 9 Preview Special, at least for now.
AMC released a statement that read, "Yvette Nicole Brown will step in as an interim guest host of 'The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special' on August 5 and 'Talking Dead' when it returns following the premiere of 'Fear the Walking Dead' on August 12, as we work to complete our assessment related to Chris Hardwick."
This news follows AMC's announcement that Brown will also be replacing Hardwick as the panel moderator for The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead at San Diego Comic-Con, taking place next Friday, July 20.