Mark Millar Returns to Marvel With New Book “Empress”
Mark Millar is returning to Marvel. The Kick-Ass creator is teaming with artist Stuart Immonen to bring out Empress under Marvel's Icon imprint.
Millar will own the series, which he describes as a "big, fun, bombastic space opera." It's planned for a start in April, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and will have three arcs of six issues.
Empress will focus on the wife of a galactic dictator who flees her husband and travels with her three children back to her homeworld. Her homeworld is Earth, but Earth 65 million years ago.
Under his Millarworld banner, Millar will team up again with Sean Gordon Murphy for Chrononauts 2: Futureshock, scheduled for July 2016, and also is working on two other creator-owned projects, according to Newsarama. One project will be with Jae Lee, and the other will Greg Capullo.
We Paid a Guy to Play a Bunch of N-Gage Games
Nokia's ill-fated N-Gage was, and still is, a weird little gadget to behold. An awkward halfway house between mobile phone and handheld gaming system, the taco-shaped handset was undeniably a mobile gaming trailblazer – albeit one with horrible controls and bewildering design choices. Nokia’s early emphasis on mobile gaming was spot-on, but virtually every other decision the Finnish company made regarding the device was a comedy of errors.
I was a proud N-Gage owner back in the day, and I decided to dig it out to see how it stands up in 2015 – 10 years on from its official discontinuation. I managed to track down and playtest 28 of the N-Gage’s 58 released games, all for your entertainment. Pray for me.
Sherlock Special: New Trailer and Airdate Revealed
A new trailer for Sherlock's Victorian-era "Christmas-ish" special has arrived, complete with the U.S. premiere date of Friday, January 1st at 9/8c on Masterpiece on PBS - the same day it airs in the U.K.
Here you'll see Benedict Cumberbatch as a less rude Holmes and Martin Freeman as a more uptight Watson (said creator Steven Moffat) in a one-off, "through the looking glass"-style mystery adventure, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.
For more on Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, check out what executive producer Sue Vertue and cast member Rupert Graves ("Lestrade") told us:
The Player Order Reduced to 9 Episodes
The episode order for NBC's The Player has been cut from its initial 13 episodes down to just nine.
According to TheWrap's report, the Thursday night drama staring Wesley Snipes has struggled to gain traction, debuting to an underwhelming 1.2 rating and slipping even further to 0.7 for its latest episode, with a total viewer count of 4 million.
While NBC isn't completely pulling it from the schedule and seems set to air all nine produced episodes, this is essentially the network's way of canceling the show. New series hope to get a a back-nine order, bringing them to a full 22-episodes, but since The Player isn't even completing its initial 13, the writing is pretty much on the wall for the struggling show.
Why Jessica Jones Will (Probably) Be Better Than Daredevil
Marvel’s Daredevil show on Netflix enjoyed quite a bit of praise from fans and critics when it debuted in April of this year, giving ol’ Horn Head the same dark, violent, and smart story that made him so beloved in the comics. But for their follow-up, Marvel isn’t showcasing another costumed hero, they’re going with Jessica Jones, a character that might even make some comic fans go, “Who?” Rest easy, because if her upcoming Netflix show is as good as her comic, then it will be even better than Daredevil.
Not that Daredevil is low in quality by any stretch of the imagination. Jessica Jones will have to be pretty darn good to top it, but I have a feeling that it will because the source material -- Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos -- is one of the best comic books I’ve ever read.
Xbox Live Architect Leaves Microsoft
After 18 years at Microsoft and over 14 years working on Xbox, Eric Neustadter has announced he's leaving the company.
In a post on Twitter, the Xbox Live architect confirmed that today, October 23, will serve as his last day at the company.
After 14.5 years working at Xbox (18.5 at MS) today is my last day. It's been an amazing ride. So Long, and Thanks for All the Gamerscore!
— Eric Neustadter (e) (@thevowel) October 23, 2015
Nintendo Voice Chat: NX Rumors and the Power of Video Game Music
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Your favorite Nintendo podcast dukes it out in the Smash arena. Art by Pandamusk.
Last week, sources told the Wall Street Journal that NX devkits have gone out developers, so IGN's Nintendo crew is here to analyze what it means for the future. NX in 2016? Maybe. Two devices that work together, but sold separately? Looks that way. But what else? Join host Jose Otero, Brian Altano, and Peer Schneider as they analyze the news. Then, after the break, Super Soul Bros' Robbie Benson, Brian Shue, and Alex Popoff join the cast of NVC to tell the story behind their jazz-meets-funk band and share their favorite video game soundtracks.
Hannibal Creator Reviving ‘Amazing Stories’ for NBC
Amazing Stories, the 1980s Steven Spielberg-produced anthology television show, is getting a revival.
According to EW, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies) is developing the show with NBC, where the original series ran. Fuller will executive produce and write the show's pilot. Under the Dome and Extant's Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank will serve as co-executive producers. Steven Spielberg will not be involved in the new series, per EW.
Bryan Fuller.
Limitless Gets Full Season Order from CBS
Limitless will receive a full 22-episode season, CBS has announced.
According to the network, its TV-centric spinoff to the 2011 film starring Bradley Cooper is this season's second most-watched new show.
"We’re excited how Limitless continues to evolve creatively each week and stand out with its unique style of storytelling," CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller said. "It’s off to a strong start in a highly competitive environment."
Limitless stars Jake McDorman and Jennifer Carpenter, as well as Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Hill Harper. Having appeared in the pilot, executive producer Bradley Cooper will return in the show's upcoming sixth episode, which airs this coming Tuesday on CBS.
Oxenfree Release Window Revealed
Supernatural adventure game Oxenfree is coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 in January 2016, Night School Studio and Microsoft announced today.
The idea of Oxenfree is to "play a coming of age story where you determine how the protagonist comes of age. Then set it all against a ghost story," studio co-founder Sean Krankel said in an interview with Xbox Wire. "It's like Freaks & Geeks set against this super-f***ed-up phenomena,” Krankel told IGN earlier this year.
Oxenfree is the first game from Night School Studio, which is headed up by ex-Telltale and ex-Disney developers. The voice cast includes Erin Yvette (The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands) and Gavin Hammon (The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us).