IKEA Unveils Wireless Charging Furniture
IKEA will start selling furniture which wirelessly charges devices this Spring.
Wireless pads with plus symbols on them will blend into your furniture. There will also be a wireless charger called JYSSEN which you can buy for $30 and insert into your own furniture.
There will be a wide range of wireless charging products available, such as the $60 SELJE nightstand, and the $70 VARV table lamp. If your phone doesn't already support wireless charging, the VITAHULT charging cover will be available for purchase also.
David Hasselhoff Drops Incredible ’80s Action Movie Music Video
David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff has adopted his power stance to release an aggressively '80s music video, and it is wonderful.
Titled 'True Survivor', the video was made to tie in with the Kickstarter-funded Kung Fury; an '80s-style action comedy movie centered on a super kung fu cop who goes back in time to kill Adolf Hitler. For more on the project, check out Kung Fury's Kickstarter page, which also features the film's hilarious trailer.
Lucy O'Brien is Entertainment Editor at IGN’s AU office. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.
The Apple Watch Won’t Be Available In-Store Until June
It is likely that the Apple Watch will not be available for purchase in Apple Stores until June due to high global interest compared to initial supply.
A staff memo obtained by The Telegraph from Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts says Apple is "only taking orders online right now" and this is expected to "continue through the month of May".
For those who have already pre-ordered, they should "start receiving deliveries from next Friday as planned".
If you're not sure whether to buy an Apple Watch, IGN has a guide to help you decide.
Introducing Mortal Kombat’s First Gay Character
Mortal Kombat’s first gay male character may be new playable Mortal Kombat X character Kung Jin, according to an interpretation of flashback scenes exploring the character’s past.
Kung Jin is a member of the Special Forces Unit and descendant of series regular Kung Lao. One particular flashback scene in Chapter 4 features Raiden urging Kung Jin to join the Shaolin Monks. “I can't... They won't accept,” Kung Jin says, with Raiden responding. “They care only of what is in your heart, not whom your heart desires.”
NetherRealm cinematic director Dominic Cianciolo confirmed the theories, tweeting “I see people are picking up on the subtle exposition contained in Kung Jin's flashback. Glad we have observant fans!”
Revolution TV Show Concludes in DC Comics Series
NBC post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama Revolution is getting a conclusion one year after its cancellation. DC Comics and Warner Bros. Television have announced a collaboration that will tidy up the show’s storylines left unresolved in the final episode.
The two-season show will continue in a four-issue digital comic book series written by the show’s writers David Reed and Ryan Parrott and drawn by Angel Hernandez. Revolution will release every two weeks, with the first issue debuting on ComicBook.com on May 4 first before hitting the Revolution Facebook page after a week.
Heartbreaking Images from Unfinished Clone Wars Episodes
The panel for Star Wars: The Clone Wars at Star Wars Celebration today gave the audience mixed emotions. On one hand, it was very cool to see a ton of art and early animation for many of the unfinished episodes that were in the works when the show got cancelled. On the other hand, it was a reminder of how much more Clone Wars we could have gotten, and regret over not being able to see these episodes in their completed form.
Joking that they hoped they didn't get in trouble for it, Dave Filoni and Pablo Hidalgo showed us a lot, including very early sketches and more formal character design sheets. Through these images, and with Filoni and Hidalgo explaining what we were seeing, we got an idea of what some of the aborted storylines for the show were.
Pre-order and Pre-download The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
CD Projekt’s third installment in its fantasy role-playing game series, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is available to pre-install ahead of its release next month.
Players can pre-order The Witcher 3 from the Xbox Store or through either their consoles at a discounted price. For instance, the game is discounted to US$53.99 in the U.S. and AU$98.28 in Australia. Users can also pre-download the 25 GB-sized title so they can get into the action as soon as the game officially launches.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt went gold earlier this week a month ahead of its expected release on May 19 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
You Can Fly on This R2-D2 Dreamliner Aircraft This Year
Japan’s All Nippon Airways and Walt Disney partnering up to transform one of the airline’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners into Star Wars’ R2-D2.
Revealed during the Star Wars Celebration event in California today, the R2-D2 aircraft will begin flying on international routes this northern hemisphere’s Autumn. ANA is yet to determine the flights and routes for the five-year “Star Wars Project,” so any of the 37 cities the airline caters to could hit the jackpot at this stage.
"We’re excited to be involved in this collaboration with ANA, one of the world's leading 5-star airlines,” Kayleen Walters, vice president of marketing for Lucasfilm Ltd, said in a statement. “We’re proud of the innovative R2-D2 design, and we look forward to witnessing the first-ever flight of a passenger aircraft featuring a Star Wars character. We’re confident that Star Wars fans around the world will absolutely love this design."
Spot All The Characters In Bethesda’s E3 Invite
The invitations to Bethesda's E3 conference went out today, and it's full of references that might hint at the content of the inaugural event. Maybe.
The invite features a bunch of Bethesda characters seated in the stalls of the Dolby theatre. From what we can ascertain so far, it features The Evil Within's Sebastian, Doom's Cyberdemon, Wolfenstein's B.J. Blazkowicz, a Tall Boy from Dishonored, a Panzerhund from Wolfenstein...and a bunch of characters from The Elder Scrolls Online. The image is low-res and we'll admit our eyesight isn't the greatest - can you help us fill in the gaps?
Somebody Just Finished Bloodborne With a Rock Band Guitar Controller
Bloodborne, like From Software’s Souls games before it, may be notorious for its difficulty but that hasn’t stopped one gamer from completing the entire thing with a Rock Band guitar peripheral.
Twitch streamer ‘bearzly’, who describes himself as “a huge fan of the Souls series” (and notes on his Twitch page he’s completed a number of challenge runs of Darks Souls in the past “using terrible controllers”), completed a full run of Bloodborne with the controls mapped to his Xbox 360 Rock Band 1 faux Fender Stratocaster.
How he never smashed it in frustration is admirable.