Mad Max: Fury Road Heads Up May’s Must See Movies
This month’s movie releases feature earthquakes, Mi5 agents, a President in mortal danger, and the return of one of the most iconic characters in movie history…
Release Date: UK & AU May 14, US May 15
Mad Max smashed into cinemas in 1979, the revenge flick making a star of Mel Gibson and taking vehicular carnage to the next level. Mad Max: Fury Road finds writer-director George Miller returning to that barren post-apocalyptic world, though it’s Tom Hardy who plays ‘The Road Warrior’ this time out. The story finds Max doing battle with Immortan Joe – who the eagle-eyed might remember as Toecutter from the original flick – in what several spectacular trailers suggest will be the ultimate road war.
Jon Snow Talks Game of Thrones Movie
Kit Harrington has weighed in on the possibility of a Game of Thrones movie, saying if such a thing happened it should be as the end to the series.
The actor, best known for playing Jon Snow is the hit HBO show, sat down with IGN to talk about his upcoming flick Spooks: The Greater Good, and we took the opportunity to ask him about the potential for seeing Game of Thrones on the big screen.
"I think it’s possible," he said. "I think it lends itself very well to the big screen, Thrones. They put it out on IMAX and apparently it worked surprisingly well. Whenever I’ve seen premieres it’s been on a big cinema screen and it’s felt like it belonged there.
"I can’t tell you whether they’ll ever do that; I can’t tell you whether they’ll ever want to do that. They wrote it as a TV show and David
Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC Gets PS4 Release Date
BioWare has announced Dragon Age: Inquisition's Jaws of Hakkon DLC will arrive on PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 26.
The company announced the news on the game's Twitter, which brings to an end the torturous wait for RPG fans that don't own a PC or an Xbox One.
Jaws of Hakkon was released as a timed-exclusive for Xbox One and PC back in March. Due to the exclusivity contract, Bioware was previously unable to comment on when it would be coming to platforms.
If you're not sure whether the DLC is worth picking up, be sure to check out our Jaws of Hakkon review.
Pluto May Have a Polar Ice Cap
Images captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal bright and dark features on Pluto’s surface, including a patch at one pole that scientists believe may be an ice cap.
The telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera onboard New Horizons took the images early to mid-April from 70 million miles (113 million kilometers) as the craft makes its approach to the dwarf planet.
“As we approach the Pluto system we are starting to see intriguing features such as a bright region near Pluto’s visible pole, starting the great scientific adventure to understand this enigmatic celestial object,” says John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “As we get closer, the excitement is building in our quest to unravel the mysteries of Pluto using data from New Horizons."
Tesla Unveils Powerwall Home Battery System
Tesla Energy unveiled a home battery system called the Powerwall during an event today hosted by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
Powerwall comes in a US$3,500 10 kWh weekly cycle model and a US$3,000 7 kWh daily cycle model. According to Tesla, the Powerwall automatically switches to battery power in the event of electricity outages, and allows users to switch over to battery use during the more costly peak evening hours.
“Powerwall is a home battery that charges using electricity generated from solar panels, or when utility rates are low, and powers your home in the evening. It also fortifies your home against power outages by providing a backup electricity supply. Automated, compact and simple to install, Powerwall offers independence from the utility grid and the security of an emergency backup.”
Augmented Reality Game Night Terrors Maps Your Home
If you’ve ever wanted to use your home as the setting of a survival horror game, then Night Terrors might be the game for you.
Night Terrors is a survival horror game that will use a system designed to map your house through your mobile device—utilizing its flashlight, camera, screen, and headphones—to place you in a haunted environment, with real-time generated photorealistic elements and enemies.
Geek reports that developer Novum Analytics’ is seeking funding through an Indiegogo campaign for what they hope is the “scariest” augmented reality mobile game ever made.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Unfinished Episodes Now Online
You can't keep a good trooper down! If you weren't able to catch the Star Wars Celebration panel debuting never-before-seen story reels of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, you're in luck -- StarWars.com has released all four unfinished "Bad Batch" episodes online!
As IGN's own Eric Goldman described the arc, we "meet the Bad Batch of the title, a foursome -- Hunter, Tech, Crosshair and Wrecker -- of Clones who came out somehow malformed (like the Clone '99' we met once before), but were then mutated further into a squad of super soldier types, sent on especially dangerous missions."
50 Shades Sequel: Watch the New Teaser Trailer
Who was that masked man? Why, it's none other than billionaire BDSM enthusiast Christian Grey.
The first teaser trailer for Fifty Shades Darker -- the first of two planned sequels to the blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey -- has made its way online.
This new video, pointed out to us by Latino-Review, shows Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) dressing for a black-tie event ... complete with a mask:
Universal Pictures boss Donna Langley tells THR that Fifty Shades Darker will be "more of a thriller."
Get Your Own Suicide Squad Deadshot Mask
A mask that looks extremely similar to Deadshot's mask from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie can be yours, right now, for less than $60 USD online.
Photos from the set of the upcoming Suicide Squad film showed up today online and among them were shots of Will Smith as Floyd Lawton, aka Deadshot. Among the photos was a single snap of Deadshot's costume for the movie. That cool mask can be bought online, except it has no official link to the movie whatsoever.
In fact, the mask is actually really, really similar to a full-face protective
. It's so similar as to actually look less like a strange coincidence and more like the actual paintball mask in the link.
Activision Support Says ‘Stay Tuned’ on Call of Duty for Wii U
When it was revealed that Black Ops III would be coming out later this year, the Wii U was conspicuously absent from the list of platforms.
One Twitter asked the official Activision support account why the ability to link Nintendo Network IDs was on the Call of Duty site if the game wouldn't be hitting Wii U. The response from support? "Stay tuned for more Wii U releases."
The Call of Duty website allows gamers to link their Nintendo Network ID, a move that fueled speculation at the beginning of April that the next Call of Duty would make an appearance on Nintendo's flagship console. The game is currently only slated to come to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC.