Furious 7 Unleashes a 2nd Trailer
"This time it ain't just about being fast." So it's about being … furious?
Universal Pictures has rolled out the second full trailer for Furious 7, the long-awaited next installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise. The new trailer (seen below) is an extended version of the Super Bowl spot aired last weekend:
Furious 7 zooms into theaters stateside April 3.
Android 5.1 Lollipop Appears on Android One Devices
Android 5.1 Lollipop will roll out to select devices by the end of February 2015, sources tell Android Pit, with it appearing out of the box this week on select Android One devices.
The first builds of the update are installed on Android One devices reportedly shipping out Indonesia this week. According to Android Pit, the official Android.com Indonesia page displayed the three devices - Evercoos One X, Mito Impact and Nexian Journey - with Android 5.1 Lollipop specified as the OS. At the time of writing, the devices descriptions now states “Android™ Lollipop (and gets the new version soon after it’s released).”
Riot Launches First League of Legends Oceanic eSports League
Riot Games is launching the first ever Oceanic Pro League for League of Legends tonight, a weekly league that involves eight teams competing over the course of a 7-week split for $64,000.
Each split offers the opportunity to win $32,000 and players will receive an additional $100 'match fee' for each game played. The top five finishers will keep their spots for the next split, while the bottom three will have to defend their OPL membership in the Challenger Series.
“We have some amazing talent in this region and they are only going to get better in a professional league,” said Daniel Ringland, eSports manager, Riot Games Oceania in prepared statement.
Details on Melbourne’s Square Sounds Festival
When it comes to different genres of music, there aren’t many out there as retro-minded as chiptune. You might be thinking to yourself, “What exactly is chiptune music?” Well, to quote a hypothetical listener with quintessential old person mentality, it’s “Nintendo music.” And apart from writing the genre off as a bunch of computer-sounding noises that couldn’t possibly hold a candle to the likes of a Chubby Checker, to a certain extent, they’re right. A good chunk of chiptune music available today is made using the sound capabilities of old gaming hardware like the Nintendo Game Boy, Commodore 64 and Atari 2600. And the end results range from melody-driven synth-drenched soundscapes to beat-driven bass workouts, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the chiptune scene is both vibrant and flourishing.
12 Xbox Predictions for 2015
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Four editors. Three predictions each. That means we've got 12 Xbox predictions for 2015 that you can hold us to come Christmas-time. Plus, we can bet on them! Which of us is Nostradamus (probably none of us), and which of us is Nostra-dumb-us (probably all of us)? Plus: A few Sony games look like they're on their way to Xbox, Condemned 3 might happen, Grand Theft Auto V's sales numbers continue to astound us, Dying Light isn't being ignored (yay!), and more.
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Ryan Reynolds on Why Deadpool Won’t be Another Green Lantern
Ryan Reynolds has assured us that his upcoming Deadpool project will take a very different path to the one trodden by his unspectacular 2011 flick, Green Lantern.
Speaking to Yahoo, Reynold's admitted that a major part of Green Lantern's problem was the lack of a screenplay from day one.
"When we shot Green Lantern, nobody auditioning for the role of Green Lantern was given the opportunity to read the script, because the script didn’t exist", said Reynolds. "I’m not complaining about it — it was an opportunity of a lifetime, and if I were to go back and retrace my steps, I would probably do everything the exact same way."
Man Has Face Altered to Look Like Red Skull
A Venezuelan man who claims to be a Captain America fan has had his face surgically altered to resemble Marvel supervillain Red Skull.
As The Daily Mail reports, "Henry Damon, 37, had already had several subdermal implants on his forehead before having part of his nose removed in order to achieve the right Marvel madman look. Despite the drastic surgery, Mr Damon, from Caracas, Venezuela, is getting ready to take it even further to fulfill his dream. The married father, who now calls himself Red Skull, also tattooed his eyeballs black before adding red and black face tattoos to look like the comic book villain."
South Park: The Stick of Truth DLC is Unlikely, But Not Impossible
Although highly unlikely, there's still a fighting chance South Park: The Stick of Truth could one day get additional downloadable content.
Speaking with Polygon, Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart explained that the tumultuous development cycle for The Stick of Truth may put a damper on the possibility. However, the development team has reached out to publisher Ubisoft to explore their options.
"As far as we know
are done," he said, adding that they aren't sure what The Stick of Truth's future could be.
Originally set to be published by the now-defunct THQ, South Park was in trouble for a brief time when it was in between publishers after THQ's shutdown.
300 Team Takes on Live-Action Robotech Movie
Good news for fans of the '80s anime series Robotech: it looks like it might finally be getting a live-action adaptation courtesy of the team that brought us 300 and its sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire.
Deadline reports that Warner Bros-based producers The Hollywood Gang - run by Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton - are going to develop the film, and will employ 300 scribe Michael Gordon to write the screenplay. While there's no official word on a director, Deadline's been told via sources that the pair are eyeing Mama director Andy Muschietti for the role.
An adaptation of Robotech was first announced back in 2007, with Tobey Maguire nabbing the rights. Back then, it was described as as a "sprawling sci-fi epic" which would take place when Earth had developed giant robots from alien technology, used to fend off three distinct waves of alien invasions.
The Strange History of the Ghostbusters Reboot
For decades now, Hollywood has been full of rumors and conjecture and teases about the possibility of a third Ghostbusters film. And given the popularity of this horror/comedy franchise, why wouldn't there be another sequel? But Ghostbusters 3 never did crawl out of development hell. Instead of the long-awaited sequel, fans can now look forward to a complete reboot from director Pail Feig. The all-female Ghostbusters crew will reportedly feature Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon.
Hopefully this reboot will actually come to fruition and offer fans the new Ghostbusters film they've been waiting decades for. While we wait for the film's July 2016 release, we figured it would be fun to look back at the long, complicated history of this project. We're tracing many of the announcements and false starts and hopeful teases that have surrounded the failed Ghostbusters 3 and the current reboot.