Make Your House a Drone-Free No-Fly Zone
You can now register a no-fly zone over your home to deter drone operators from invading your privacy.
All you need to do is enter your address into NoFlyZone.org, provide and verify some additional information, and the site will store the GPS coordinates of your place of residence for drones worldwide to avoid.
NoFlyZone actually coordinates with drone manufacturers to make this happen, though the service does not guarantee all drones and their operators will follow the rules.
According to the website, only drones produced by one of NoFlyZone's participating manufacturers will be programmed to avoid designated property.
Spidey Likely in Captain America: Civil War
After the bombshell announcement yesterday that Spider-Man will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans very quickly began wondering what this means for Drew Goddard's planned Sinister Six movie. And now word has come that the film is still in the works, but will move to a later, unspecified date. Additionally, we now know that Spider-Man will make his MCU debut in Captain America: Civil War.
According to the Wall Street Journal (via Coming Soon), Spider-Man will be introduced to the Marvel movie-verse in time for the third Captain America film, which follows the events of the Marvel Comics event, Civil War. As per the paper, "The two companies said late Monday that Spider-Man will appear in an upcoming Disney-produced Marvel super-heroes movie; that movie is 2016’s 'Captain America: Civil War,' according to a person with knowledge of the matter."
Wrestling Wrap Up: Roman Reigns Spears Daniel Bryan
I was all set to do a rather humdrum Wrap Up this week. Nothing special. Typical "Road to the PPV before WrestleMania" stuff. Some more musings about where the WWE might go with Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns. It was looking like the best option, at this point, was Bryan leading Reigns through an awesome match at Fastlane and putting him over clean. Then shaking his hand afterward, raising his arm, and giving him the full endorsement. Not great, but good enough.
Zen Studios Announces Two New Tables for Zen Pinball
Zen Studios has unveiled two more original tablets in its Iron & Steel Pack coming later this month.
The pack consists of a table based on Zen’s action-strategy-RPG CastleStorm, as well as the Wild West-themed table Wild West Rampage. In CastleStorm, players team up with the knight Sir Gareth as he defends the Kingdom from the Viking hordes. The table features both single and multiball game modes in a Viking stronghold, including a dragon or two.
Wild West Rampage stars Cindy the bounty hunter in the western town of Rackton Point. The Western-inspired playfield comes complete with a rolling 3D steam engine, six-shooter ball locker and battles with the local officers of the town. The Iron & Steel Pack launches the week of February 24, and will be available on PS4, PS3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Steam, Mac, iOS, Android and Amazon platforms.
Atari’s Asteroids to be Re-Imagined in New PC Game
Atari announced today that it is planning to re-imagine the classic Asteroids arcade game in Asteroids: Outpost.
An open-world survival game, Asteroids: Outpost places players in the asteroid belt in which they will mine for materials, defend their bases from enemies, and forge alliances with other players.
Developed by Salty Games, Asteroids: Outpost will allegedly pay homage to the original arcade classic through the use of asteroid destruction animations.
Asteroids: Outpost will release first on PC. At this time, no official release date is known. Visit the official Asteroids: Outpost website to learn more.
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The Americans Creators on That Disturbing Suitcase Scene
The Americans returned two weeks ago for another incredibly compelling season, as Philip and Elizabeth Jennings continue to try to protect their own identities as KGB agents while debating whether they should do as their commanders wish and begin to recruit their own daughter, Paige.
I sat down with The Americans’ executive producers, Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, to discuss Season 3’s new developments, including the Paige situation and Nina imprisoned in Russia.
And, of course, we talked about last week’s gasp-worthy scene, as Elizabeth and Philip disposed of a body in a particularly graphic, bone-crunching manner…
IGN: The Paige question is looming large this season. How much will that escalate?
GOT’s Sophie Turner Says She was Cast in X-Men Thanks to Dark Sansa
Today, IGN was able to speak with Sophie Turner, aka Sansa Stark, in anticipation of Game of Thrones: Season 5, premiering this April on HBO. (More on that soon!) Of course, being the comic book nerds we are, we also had to ask Turner a few questions about X-Men: Apocalypse, in which she'll be playing the young Jean Grey. While production on the film is still a couple months out, Turner was able to give us a few details on her mutant role, including Jean's similarities to Sansa and what she'll be taking from Famke Janssen's Jean...
If you're not already familiar with Jean Grey in the comics, she's one of the founding members of the X-Men, known for her powerful telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Jean is also renowned for her central role in X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, which chronicles her corruption and eventual redemption as Phoenix.
Former Rare Devs Working on Banjo Kazooie Spiritual Successor
Former core members of Rare have announced they are working on a new game. The team's new studio, Playtonic Games, plans to reveal details of its upcoming game "Project Ukulele" later this week.
Playtonic is aiming to turn its new project into a "worthy spiritual successor" to games team members helped build in the past, games like Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie, and Viva Pinata.
The Playtonic team includes the programmer of Donkey Kong Country, the character designer behind both Banjo and Kazooie, and the artist "who made your console fit to burst with lavish environments" across several Rare games over the course of a decade.
Podcast: The Digigods discuss Black History throughout film
From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles.
Digigods Podcast, 02/10/15 (MP3) -- 30.8 MB
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Zombiecakes: The Pancakes of the Undead
Zombies are all the rage, but you know what's always been popular? Pancakes! Now you can have both in one.
"Batter artist" Nathan Shields of Saipancakes has crafted Zombiecakes, a truly delicious-looking pancake in the image of the undead. Check out the culinary triumph below:
Hat tip to io9 for bringing this earth-shattering story to our attention.