Month: April 2018

Albert Penello, the senior director of Xbox console marketing at Microsoft, is leaving the company after 18 years.

“Well today is a crazy day,” Penello wrote on Twitter. “I’ve made the decision after 18 years to leave Microsoft. To say it’s been a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience is an understatement. The team at Xbox has meant so much to me and I’ll be cheering them on – there is so much great stuff still to come.”

In a follow-up tweet, Penello thanked Xbox fans for their years of support and feedback. “It’s been awesome meeting and talking with so many of you,” he wrote. “The FANS are the energy that keeps the team going so keep it up!!”

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It’s been 30 years since Venom debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #300. He may not be quite as old as classic villains like Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, but he’s become every bit as popular and iconic.

That’s not to say Venom hasn’t has his share of head-scratching moments over the years. From his penchant for human flesh to that time he dressed as Santa Claus, here are the 30 weirdest and most WTF-worthy moments in Venom’s 30-year career.

It’s shaping up to be a huge year for Venom and his human host, Eddie Brock. Marvel is set to relaunch the ongoing Venom comic as part of the Fresh Start initiative this summer. And this fall, Brock and his darker side will be returning to the big screen in the Venom movie, which stars Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed.

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Tacoma, the latest game from Gone Home developer Fullbright, is coming to PlayStation 4.

Per PlayStation Blog, the title will be released on Sony’s console on May 8. The PS4 version will come with a new Developer Commentary mode featuring two hours of commentary from the team. The mode will provide insight into how the project came to be, including the backstories behind some of the characters from the game.

Tacoma has players explore the titular abandoned space station to find out what went on there. You’ll be using an augmented reality device to view recorded conversations from different angles, as well as scrub through different times to solve puzzles.

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Though Netflix might be losing a bunch of Disney properties in May (check out the Last Call list for May here), its current deal with Disney, which gets Disney films on the site six months after their theatrical release, is still in place. At least for a little while longer. Which means we get to stream the Oscar-winning Pixar film Coco at the end of May!

The rest of the month is filled with films like Red Dragon, Hellboy II, Scream 2, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wanted, and the most recently completed seasons of CW shows Arrow, The Flash, Supernatural, and Riverdale.

And, as always, there’s an avalanche of Netflix Originals to sift through. From the fourth season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (which will only air the first half of the season, saving the rest for later in the year) to a pandemic thriller staring Martin Freeman called Cargo to a pandemic thriller starring…some Danish people, called The Rain, to a sci-fi adventure from Gattaca’s Andrew Niccol featuring Clive Owen as detective investigating a serial assassin.

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This May, Netflix will be ditching some classic films like Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas, Ocean’s Eleven, and Field of Dreams along with creep-fests Silent Hill and The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Most notably though, the purging of Disney products has begun. With Disney launching its own streaming service in 2019, Netflix is starting to lose Disney properties in large clumps, as you can see here with the loss of Jon Favreau’s live-action Jungle Book film and a bunch of TV catalogues – like Camp Rock, Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Phineas and Ferb, and more.

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Netflix has announced the premiere date for the Sense8 series finale special, which will wrap up the fan-favorite show after its two-season run.

The finale will debut on the streaming service on June 8. The wrap-up special, first announced last year, will be two hours long. Netflix canceled the sci-fi series in June of last year. Shortly after the news of its cancellation, however, fans campaigned to bring the show back.

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Amazon has renewed Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan before Season 1 premieres this summer.

The company announced the show will return for a second season, which sees the titular CIA analyst confronting the forces of power in a declining democratic regime in South America. Production begins this summer on the second season.

Meanwhile, the first eight-episode season will debut on Amazon Prime on August 31. The story follows Jack (John Krasinski) who, after his first field assignment, “uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.”

For more on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, find out why Krasinski’s version of the character will be funnier and check out IGN’s thoughts on the first footage shown during New York Comic Con last year.

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As 2001 celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, we explore what this sci-fi classic shares in common with Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster.

From Wolfenstein to BioShock, here are some of the wildest alternate realities in video games.

The sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will arrive late next year.

Per Deadline, Sony revealed during CinemaCon the film will hit theaters in December 2019, right around the time Star Wars: Episode IX comes out.

While not much is currently known about the Jumanji sequel, the core ensemble cast of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan are expected to return. Welcome the Jungle writers Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner were in talks to once again pen the script, with director Jake Kasdan most likely returning as well.

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