Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Purchasing Guide for UK
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Samsung are taking preorders on their newly-announced Samsung Note 8 which has a healthy price-tag of £869.00. The Samsung upgrade programme is also available from £32.58 per month. Order yours today from Samsung's UK site in time for its release on 16th September, 2017.
Our Picks to Play the Losers’ Club in IT: Chapter 2
With Stephen King's IT a monster box office hit, a sequel -- It: Chapter II -- is all but officially announced. With the story picking up 27 years after the events of the first film (albeit with some flashbacks), we considered a broad field of actors in their late 30s to early 40s for our picks to play the adult versions of the Losers' Club.
Many actors have been suggested on social media for the roles of the grownup Bill Denbrough, Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom, Richie Tozier, Stan Uris, Mike Hanlon, and Eddie Kaspbrak, but frankly many of them are too old to play the nearly middle-aged versions of characters who were adolescents or early teens in 1989.
Comic Book Reviews for September 13, 2017
It was another huge week for the comic book industry. DC celebrated Harley Quinn's 25th anniversary with a new anthology special and delivered the second chapter of the epic Dark Nights: Metal event. Marvel capped off Secret Empire with an epilogue issue and finally brought back the fan-favorite team the Runaways. Elsewhere, Valiant gave us a tease for their new reader-friendly Ninjak relaunch and Image released new issues of perennial favorites like Kill or Be Killed and Curse Words.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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Expendables Writer Joins Wonder Woman 2
The Expendables co-writer Dave Callaham has joined the Wonder Woman 2 writing team.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Callaham joins Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns, who've been "working on a treatment for several months." Callaham's other writing credits include work on 2014's Godzilla and the 2005 big screen adaptation of Doom.
Earlier this week, Warner Bros. announced Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is returning to direct, co-write, and produce the DC superhero sequel. Gal Gadot will also return to reprise her titular role.
‘Marvel-ize’ Star Trek? That’s What Bryan Fuller Proposed
I visited the set of CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery recently, where I sat down with executive producer and co-showrunner Aaron Harberts. (You can read excerpts from our chat about religion, war, and continuity in Star Trek: Discovery here.) And while I had him, I had to ask about reports that Discovery co-creator Bryan Fuller had originally pitched the network on the idea of the show as a seasonal anthology along the lines of American Horror Story.
AHS, for example, resets its premise and cast of characters each year. According to an August story in EW, Discovery would’ve started a “journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and then go beyond to a time in Trek that’s never been seen before.” Fuller eventually left the Discovery showrunner gig and Harberts and Gretchen Berg took over for him, but I wondered what remained of that original pitch for the show’s subsequent seasons.
IGN Partners with My Geek Box to Offer Monthly Mystery Box
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The first box theme is Adventure, so expect cool merch tied to much loved games and TV shows like Uncharted, Rick & Morty, and more.
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Designing Hearthstone’s Death Knights
One of the marquee features of the most recent Hearthstone expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, is the fact that each class gets a brand new hero card. These cards turn each hero into a Death Knight, and radically shift up the gameplay. I recently caught up with Team 5 senior designer Mike Donais and game designer Dean Ayala for a chat about the design process behind those cards. Not only that, but the guys dived into the vault to provide work in progress art for some of the early designs! You're going to love seeing some of this stuff.
(Oh, and this is part two of the interview, so be sure to check out Mike and Dean's thinking behind the recent Hearthstone card nerfs here.)
Destiny 2: First Fireteam Has Completed Leviathan Raid
Bungie has announced that Destiny 2's first Raid has already been completed.
"The first Fireteam has made their way through Leviathan," the developer said in a post on Twitter. "Shaxx isn't far behind," Bungie added, then confirming the Crucible map Emperor's Respite has now been unlocked for all Destiny 2 players.
Crucible map Emperor's Respite, via Bungie on Twitter
Here’s All the News From Today’s Nintendo Direct
Nintendo's latest Direct was filled with all sorts of news, from Pokemon to TKTK. As usual, there was news we saw coming along with some cool surprises. Here's a run down of every news story to come out of the September 13 Nintendo Direct.
A new Mario Odyssey Switch bundle was revealed, and includes the game, a pair of red Joycons, and a Mario Odyssey-themed Switch carrying case. Nintendo also revealed the wedding themed Mario Odyssey amiibo, as well as the bundle, will be available on the same day Mario Odyssey launches, October 27.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 finally has a release date. coming to Nintendo Switch in the west on December 1 of this year. We got a chance to check it out during PAX West and think it might just be the hardcore RPG Switch needs.