Hannibal: ‘Bride of Hannibal’ Season 3 Trailer
Feast your eyes on this brand new Hannibal: Season 3 trailer - focusing on what looks to be a new, romantic alignment between Mads Mikkelsen's Dr. Lecter and Gillian Anderson's Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier.
As you recall, Bedelia was last scene at the very end of the Season 2 finale, accompanying a fugitive Hannibal on a plane ride out of the country. What will this new union hold for us viewers? We'll have to find out on June 4th when Season 3 premieres!
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Why 1977 Is the Most Important Year for Pop Culture Ever
Welcome to IGN's History of Awesome - a year-long look back at all the coolest and most influential games, movies, TV shows, comic books, toys, and tech that have shaped pop culture, and shaped the lives of an entire generation. We're kicking off this crazy adventure with 1977 - the year that changed everything.
Star Wars hit theaters on May 25 and became an instant global phenomenon. It legitimized sci-fi filmmaking, paving the way for dozens of sci-fi classics over the next four decades. Along with Jaws, it set the prototype for the summer blockbuster, changing moviemaking forever. And of course, it introduced us to a galaxy far, far away, and its iconic and beloved cast of heroes and villains.
Rock Band 4 Rewards Singers for Awesome Improv
I am basically tone-deaf, and a night of karaoke with me is nightmare fuel. But I don’t care: I love singing in Rock Band, and I want to get better so I can take advantage of Rock Band 4’s new improvisational vocals.
Rock Band 4 embraces a much more “live” element from top to bottom. Its Gigs feature is a light way to engage with your bandmates in-game and between songs; authored fills keep drummers on their toes while giving the impression that this is their version of a given song. Vocal improv is a singer-centric feature that lets talented folks with impressive pipes to lend their voice to a song in a way an exhausted or excited live performer might.
Sony Will Not Hold a Gamescom Press Conference in 2015
Sony has confirmed it will not be holding a press conference at Gamescom 2015, and will instead announce new titles later in the year at Paris Games Week.
A Sony spokesperson has told IGN the decision was made due to the proximity of E3 and Gamescom, before emphasising a more meaningful event could be held during October's Paris Games Week.
"We're delighted to announce that we will be hosting an international media briefing at Paris Games Week on 27th October," they said. "With the changes this year of E3 taking place a week later and Gamescom taking place earlier, we feel that both PlayStation and the wider industry would benefit from a major news milestone later in the year, during the most important period for gaming.
Spend the Night in Tokyo with Godzilla Watching Over You
The Hotel Gracery in Tokyo's Shinjuku district has opened the doors to its Godzilla themed rooms.
There are two special types of room. The Godzilla Room costs £224 / 39,800 yen a night during weekdays and £281 / 49,800 yen at weekends, and gives guests the experience of the Godzilla world. One of the room's walls has hidden images which only show up under black light.
From the window of the Godzilla View Room, which costs £84 / 15,000 yen a night, guests can see the huge scale model of Godzilla's head on the terrace on the eighth floor.
R.L. Stine Didn’t Mean to Terrorize You as a Kid
R.L. Stine has quite a legacy, having scared at least a couple of generations of children half to death thanks to his many kid-lit horror books. Chief among the titles published by Mr. Stine is the undying Goosebumps series, which has sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Just how many freaked-out kids does that come out to exactly…?
With Mr. Stine gearing up for a Goosebumps panel at BookCon later this month, I had the chance to speak to the beloved author about a variety of topics, including: the upcoming Goosebumps movie, which stars Jack Black as Stine himself; how he shifted careers over 20 years ago to go from writing comedy to horror (while still finding the funny in the scary); just what it is about Slappy the ventriloquist’s dummy that makes him so iconic; and much, much more.
Destiny’s September Expansion Could be ‘The Taken King’
The big expansion planned to hit Destiny in September will supposedly be called "The Taken King".
NeoGAF user Kifimbo spotted the below trademark, which also includes a logo bearing a striking resemblance to that of The Hive. While details about who the eponymous king could be are thin on the ground, the smart money is on Oryx, the father of The Dark Below's Crota.
Adding credence to the idea this is the real deal is the fact the trademark was filed by Jim Charne, who's the attorney who did the same for both The Dark Below and House of Wolves.
Playtonic Games Explains the Origins of the Name Yooka-Laylee
Playtonic’s Steve Mayles discusses how the name Yooka-Laylee came about.
Speaking via the official site, Mayles explains that although the word – ‘Ukulele’ – splits perfectly into two separate names, there’s more to it than that.
“Actually,” Mayles begins, “someone on the team picked up a Hawaiian dictionary and apparently ‘’uku’ means ‘a small brained person’ and ‘lele’ means ‘to fly’ or, excitingly, ‘to get off of a vehicle’. That’s definitely not a coincidence either.”
Dubbed the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, the Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter currently sits on just under £1.5 million, a feat that made the project the fastest game in Kickstarter history to reach the £1 million mark.
The Marvel Universe Has Come to an End
Marvel Comics has made it no secret that the Marvel Universe would be ending, and true to their word in today's Secret Wars #1 by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic, it did indeed meet its end.
That's the what, but if you don't want to know how it happened, quit reading now to avoid spoilers.
The issue began as Doctor Doom, accompanied by Doctor Strange and the Molecule Man, confronted the Beyonders to stop them from destroying reality, but the outcome of their meeting is left up in the air.
Mortal Kombat X PC Patch Deletes Saves
Mortal Kombat X's PC troubles continue as the latest patch - designed to fix the bugs plaguing the title - instead wiped players' saves.
The game's Steam Page is full of complaints that the recent 15.8GB patch has removed players' progress, instead of fixing the crashes, netcode bugs and other issues that have kept the PC version behind the console editions.
At the time of writing, PC port developer High Voltage has pulled the patch offline saying, "We are temporarily removing the patch until we can pinpoint the cause of save data loss. We are actively working on this and will keep everyone posted as we work towards a fix. We sincerely apologise for this disruption."