New BMW 7 Series Sports Gesture Control and Remote Parking
BMW’s upcoming BMW 7 Series will sport a remote control parking feature so it can maneuver itself in and out of tight parking spaces.
Drivers can instruct the car to park itself via a new Display Key, a remote control and LCD control screen rolled into one. "Forget everything you know about keys," BMW says, the Display Key offers other functions and supplies drivers with useful information about the vehicle. Although BMW wasn’t yet ready to reveal the design of the BMW 7 series, its new features were teased in a recently released video.
“This is just one example of many for the new way of interaction between driver and car,” BMW spokesman Chris Brow said in the video. “And BMW will be first in class to offer gesture command as well as a navigation with a touch screen for improved operating. Also an all-new level of voice command.”
Driveclub Update 1.14 Adds Free Car, New Tour
The latest update for Driveclub is available, developer Evolution has confirmed via the Driveclub Facebook page. Update 1.14 adds the Ferrari LaFerrari, a new Tour, multiplayer replays and several other changes. The update is free and will download automatically.
In order to access the LaFerrari you’ll need to complete rank 5 of the “Ferrari Owners Club” Driver Accolade. Doing so will unlock it for use in all areas of the game.
The new Tour features 11 events and 45 objectives. The “Startline Tour” will serve mainly as “a varied and well balanced introduction to Driveclub.” All new players will jump into this tour when they first play the game.
Bloodshot and Harbinger Comics Films Incoming
Sony Pictures has signed a five-film deal with independent comic publisher Valiant Entertainment to bring Bloodshot and Harbinger to the silver screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, both comic properties will receive two films each before an Avengers-style fifth movie called Harbinger Wars will unite the casts from the previous four films.
Metal Gear Online Supports 16 Players on PS4, PC, and Xbox One
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s multiplayer component Metal Gear Online will support up to 16 players on PS4, PC, and Xbox One, and up to 12 players on PS3 and Xbox 360.
The details were revealed via Konami’s official Japanese website, reports Videogamer.
Metal Gear Online was first showcased back in December last year during The Game Awards. The initial gameplay footage teases a tactical multiplayer experience with a significant smattering of MGS’s endearingly absurd flavour.
Daredevil: Here’s Why Kingpin Is the Best MCU Villain
Spoiler warning for all three seasons of Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix...
Back when Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk burst onto the MCU scene in Daredevil: Season 1, as the towering-yet-reclusive crime lord bent on leveling Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and rebuilding it as the neighborhood's secret savior, fans were blown away.
D'Onofrio's scarily tender performance, as a socially awkward mastermind with a preference for killing people with his bare hands, gave viewers a villain with depth and layers that the Marvel movies simply didn't have time to explore. Fisk was lauded at the time for being the best bad guy ever produced by the MCU.
And now, two seasons later, he still is.
Daredevil Renewed for Season 2 But with New Showrunners
The Man Without Fear is coming back for a second season. Netflix and Marvel have announced that Marvel's Daredevil has been renewed for Season 2, which will debut in 2016.
However, in a notable change up, the series will have new showrunners. Steven S. DeKnight, who was showrunner for the first season, will not be returning, with Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez now running Daredevil together. Both wrote for the first season of Daredevil, with Ramirez previously writing for Sons of Anarchy and Petrie another alum of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, along with DeKnight and Daredevil executive producer Drew Goddard.
New Halo: The Master Chief Collection Patch Includes ODST Details
343 has released a new patch for Halo: The Master Chief Collection which includes fixes for matchmaking, stability, and more.
It also says the remade Halo 3: ODST campaign and the Relic MP map remake are both "on track" to release in next month's content update.
If you don't remember, as a thank you for dealing with MCC's launch issues, 343 is giving away the ODST campaign for free to anyone who purchased the game on or before December 19, 2014.
Below is the full list of changes included in today's Halo: The Master Chief Collection update, including four new screenshots of ODST and the remastered Relic map.
- Made a variety of improvements to ranking consistency and penalties.
BvS: Here’s a Closer Look at the Batsuit
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has released a closer look at the Dark Knight's new getup for the highly anticipated DC Comics film.
In a post on Twitter, Snyder thanked everyone who attended last night's special IMAX screenings for the new trailer and accompanied it with the following photo of Ben Affleck's flashy, and incredibly intimidating, new Batsuit:
Dungeons 2 Review
For all of its chummy quips and hordes of orcs battling My-Little-Pony-esque unicorns, Dungeons 2 comes off as slightly cynical. The first entry tried to revive Dungeon Keeper in 2011 (well ahead of EA's free-to-play debacle last year), and it valiantly attempted to make the franchise its own by giving you direct control of the Keeper and focusing the gameplay on luring heroes in and entertaining them before harvesting their souls. It didn't turn out too well, but developer Realmforge Studios has resolved to give us what it thinks we want. The core dungeon game is almost lifted straight from Dungeon Keeper, the narrator reflects on your actions in a bemused British accent, and dungeon maintenance is paired with an overworld real-time strategy element that closely resembles Warcraft III. Sales figures and reviews have proven that we like these things, yes, but too much gets lost in an ambitious attempt to mash them all together.
“You wanted Dungeon Keeper,” Realmforge seems to say, “so here you have it.” There's little to none of the original Dungeons' innovations here. Happily, this means that veterans of Peter Molyneux's 1997 game will find much that's familiar, whether it's the throne room and the hole from which you summon minions or the surrounding dungeon that's packed with gold veins and potential tunnels just waiting to be dug out. Should one of the "little snots" who do your bidding stop to break the fourth wall and wave at the camera, you can slap them around with the giant, disembodied hand you use to guide progress and set minions to new adventures and tasks. Dig out a square or rectangular space and slap down, say, a brewery to attract orcs to hack and slash for you. The production process is slow at times and the AI is responsible for making the little snots work, but this is Dungeon Keeper in all but name.
It's kept from being a straight clone by a new overworld RTS mode that sends you and your minions off to the world above to mess stuff up and occasionally nab MacGuffins from other, smaller dungeons. The world certainly looks good, and there's a pleasing visual element to the whole affair in that the landscape shifts from grassy and sunny to hellish and reddish as your hordes move through it. "Horde" is an appropriate word--the game itself calls them that, and it sends you off to fight the forces of the "Alliance," right down to the familiar blue-and-white fortifications from the Warcraft series.
Alas, Dungeons 2's RTS element is undercooked. Regardless of which stage of the campaign you're on, the basic strategy never deviates far from amassing a swarm of orcs, goblins, trolls, and snaky naga in the dungeon to attack the Alliance, and you accomplish this most effectively by selecting the whole pile and right-clicking on units to attack. There's some fun involved in watching the world change as you pillage and plunder (even if my GTX 780's performance dragged when too many enemies were on the screen), but the act of guiding your army is complicated by an awkward shift in control schemes from the underground. Deep in your dungeon, you can't control minions directly, which led to some frustration when I realized my little snots were just loitering around because I hadn't dug out a room large enough for my intended project. In the overworld, you can control your units, although singling out the few minions that have special powers involves trying to pinpoint them from the swarm with your mouse and selecting them independently.
The chief surprise I encountered while playing Dungeons 2 was that I enjoyed it despite these downsides. I suspect a lot of that has to do with the near-constant humorous narration, voiced by Kevan Brighting. It sounds like he's playing the exact same role that won him such acclaim in The Stanley Parable. Brighting's voice work never fails to hit the proper notes here, even if the script pours on the self-awareness too thick (at one point, your overworld minions encounter and slaughter a bear, and you're told that it was pointless because bear meat isn’t used for anything in the game). Sometimes, it feels as though Realmforge is trying too hard, although the narrator's always good when he's used as a tutorial of sorts to correct the Ultimate Evil--as the main character's called--when he goes in the wrong direction.
All of this might be much more fun when you take advantage of the LAN and online multiplayer content, which gives up to four players their own dungeons and lets them fight over a shared overworld. Unfortunately, this review arrives prior to the game's full release, so other players are as hard to find as original, sealed copies of Dungeon Keeper from 1997. Its directions are sometimes muddled, and the whole affair feels like it was oversimplified to cut down on micromanagement, but the beauty of Dungeons 2 is that it never fails to let us take some glee in sowing discord. It's not quite a keeper, but it's an improvement over the original.
First Look at Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed the first photo of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
The photo (seen below) shows Sparrow tied up by two other pirates. Along with unveiling the picture, Bruckheimer wrote on Twitter: "Captain Jack is back, and we're not letting him go."
Courtesy of Jerry Bruckheimer