Scarlett Johansson is the top-earning actress of 2019.
According to Forbes, Johansson is the highest-paid actress of the year, earning a reported $56 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019. The lucrative pay day comes primarily from her role as Black Widow in the MCU, including backend points.
The rest of the list is as follows:
As much as House of X and Powers of X have done to reshape the X-Men and their place in the Marvel Universe, neither series has spent a great deal of time exploring the present-day status quo for mutantkind. In fact, you have to go all the way back to the beginning in House of X #1 to find an issue completely set in the present.
House of X #3 finally returns to that approach, showcasing a desperate mission to prevent the X-Men’s greatest enemy from being born. In many ways, this is the most traditional X-Men comic we’ve yet seen from writer Jonathan Hickman, but one loaded with huge stakes and human drama.
Control has a few perplexing puzzles, but one of its trickiest has to be the one found in the Luck & Probability Department. Heck, you might not even know it exists seeing as it doesn’t make itself abundantly clear upon first inspection. Locked behind a Level 5 security door, this optional puzzle demands keen observation skills to crack.
If you’re reading this, chances are your patience has run thin and you need answers. Below you can find a quick outline of how to solve this challenging puzzle. You can also watch the video version of this guide in the player above for further clarification. And if you haven’t already, be sure to read our Control review.
Upon investigating the Luck & Probability department, you’ll notice a roulette table in the yellow experiment room adjacent to the office area. When you interact with it, the sprinklers will go off, and a few fire hydrants might explode, but ultimately, nothing happens. You might think nothing of it, but the roulette is a crucial component to solving this puzzle.
Your goal is to get the roulette table to land on seven. However, accomplishing this is determined not by randomly spinning the roulette hoping it’ll eventually fall on seven. Instead, it’s done by manipulating specific lucky objects found in the department.
The identity of each lucky object is displayed on the whiteboard near the roulette. Each object must be manipulated in specific ways. Here’s what you need to do to each one:
Once everything is in order, spin the roulette but make sure to step off the red carpet after doing so. If you’ve followed each step correctly, you’ll be rewarded with an Astral Blip crafting material, two Ability Points, and the Golden Suit.
Once envisioned as a vital part of the DC Extended Universe, Cyborg was introduced on the big screen during a brief cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before actor Ray Fisher reprised the role in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, where the character stole the show during his scenes with Ezra Miller’s Flash. But after the poor reception the movie got, Cyborg’s solo movie–once slated for 2020–seems all but certainly canceled. Fans of Victor Stone didn’t need to worry, however, since the best portrayals of the character came to our TV screens in 2019, from Cyborg’s introduction in DC Universe’s Doom Patrol to the character’s long-anticipated return to the team where he was first created in Young Justice.
Created in the ’80s by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Victor Stone is the son of two prominent scientists at STAR Labs who treated him as a mere experiment. Victor got his superhero name when one day, while visiting his parents, an experiment on dimensional travel went horribly wrong and allowed a monster to crawl into our world, killing Victor’s mother and then mutilating Victor’s body. Though his father, Silas Stone, managed to save Victor, he did so by equipping his body with experimental cybernetic prostheses that forever changed his appearance and self-image. After that, Cyborg was added as a member of The New Teen Titans, where he could be amongst other outsiders like Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Raven, Starfire, and Beast Boy.
When we meet Victor (Joivan Wade) in Doom Patrol, he’s already been working as Cyborg for a while. The first time we see him, he’s stopping a robbery with Silas Stone acting as a sort of Alfred to Victor’s Batman, except way more manipulative and controlling. Silas is constantly scolding Victor for spending time stopping small crimes instead of focusing on their goal: joining the Justice League.
What makes Doom Patrol special is the way it deals with trauma and self-acceptance. Though the show skips the early days of Cyborg and his brooding over his new condition, we do see a flashback to the fateful accident that resulted in his cybernetic implants and the death of his mother. The feeling of guilt haunts Victor, as he relives the images of her mangled body in his sleep every night. The belief that he caused his mother’s death informs Cyborg’s character, as every criminal he busts or innocent person he saves is an attempt to make his mother proud by becoming a hero.
As with the other members of the Doom Patrol, Cyborg’s journey is not only one of healing or overcoming the past, but simply of being able to live with his demons and move on. Even as part of an ensemble, Cyborg has enough time to shine in Doom Patrol.
If you wanted to see more of Cyborg in Justice League and left disappointed at the lack of resolution to his character, look no further than Doom Patrol. Since the show skips the initial surprise of his origin story, it allows the audience to see an aspect of the character’s development we hadn’t seen before.
Young Justice, on the other hand, takes us back in time to those first few months after Victor’s accident. Even if we have seen that duality and self-hatred before (even as recently as the Justice League movie), the writers change things up by focusing on the larger context. This version of Cyborg doesn’t seek out the Teen Titans after months of being rejected, but instead is left in the care of “The Team” so he can receive treatment for his spreading cybernetic virus.
Because the plot of this season is the public discussion that’s happening around the emergence of metahuman kids all over the world, Cyborg is no longer as big of an outsider as he was when he debuted in the ’80s. Sure, we do see him dwelling on his newfound condition, but the show is more interested in exploring Victor’s experience with his powers, instead of his physical appearance.
Where previous adaptations of the Cyborg mythos rely on the basic idea of Cyborg’s powers coming with a physical change in Victor’s body, it wasn’t until recently that even the comics started exploring the idea of Cyborg’s powers being themselves a threat to his body and mind. In 2013, writer Geoff Johns introduced the idea of “Grid,” the name given to the sentient computer system that appeared in the backend of Cyborg’s programming, and quickly became obsessed with hunting down metahumans.
Grid makes an appearance in Doom Patrol as a more aggressive side of Victor that wants to take over his body, but Young Justice takes that idea a step further by making the very technology that turned Victor into Cyborg evil. This season of Young Justice introduces the New Gods, highly powerful beings that live on the idyllic planet of New Genesis and the hellish Apokolips. Like in both the New 52 DC comics reboot and the live-action Justice League movie, Cyborg’s origin was changed to include a piece of New Genesis technology fused with his body.
Young Justice, on the other hand, turns Cyborg into the result of an Apokoliptan living computer fusing with his human body. Due to the evil origins of the computer, Cyborg’s transformation this time around is a horrific scene of body horror a la The Fly. Though his screen time this season is short, this version of Cyborg truly accentuates Victor Stone’s struggles to control his powers and accept them, turning his powers into an actual threat for Victor and others, and making his arc of self-acceptance into one where he learns to balance the evil and anger within him with a higher call and purpose.
We may not get a solo movie or series for Cyborg, and that’s ok. TV alone is giving us new sides of the famed superhero that we haven’t really seen in his nearly 40-years-long history. Though many ’90s kids remember him as the pizza-loving member of the Teen Titans, this year has shown us that there are many layers to Cyborg, and we’re just scratching the surface.
Sometimes, alternate endings to movies can actually be better than the one that released theatrically, like with this year’s Pet Sematary. Other times, you know exactly why the movie cut it out, and this is 100 percent the case with the horror/thriller Ma.
Just a heads up, this post contains spoilers for the end of Ma.
The film follows a Erica (Juliette Lewis) and her daughter Maggie (Diana Silvers), who who move back to Erica’s hometown to start over. Maggie befriends some other teens, and they all find Sue Ann AKA Ma (Octavia Spencer) who buys them alcohol and allows them to use her basement to throw parties. Things get a bit weird when they all realize Ma is unhinged and trying to relive her high school days while taking revenge on those who wronged her in the past. It gets pretty screwed up at the end.
In the original ending, the teens–and Ma’s daughter Genie–escape the basement with the help of Erica, and a bloodied Ma heads upstairs to cuddle the corpse of a man she killed while the house burns around her. It is an extremely abrupt ending that lets the viewer know, “The good guys lived and the bad guy died,” and nothing more.
On the home release for Ma, there is an alternate ending–which feels a whole lot more like the original ending of the movie–and it is an extremely typical one for any horror movie. Some time has passed after Ma’s house burned down, and the teens–along with Genie–are all hanging outside of the school, and they’re still best buds. We learn that Ma’s body was never found through some dialogue, and the teens plan to party in the middle of nowhere.
This cuts to them drinking at night on a pile of rocks, which then cuts to the vet Ma used to work at. We see a burned hand grab some tranquilizers–which she used on the kids in the film–and then we see Ma in a hat that says, “Sexy” walking towards the camera. This was a shot used in the trailers for the movie. It was essentially the end to any slasher movie made from the ’80s to the ’00s where the studio felt they could spin out some sequels. Everyone is safe, or are they? (They’re not.)
Luckily for Ma the movie, changing the ending up was a good thing. The movie itself is actually a lot of fun, and Spencer’s Sue Ann character is very unsettling. The home release of Ma is available now digitally and on Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday, September 3. There are a few other extras, aside from the alternate ending, including 12 deleted scenes and a couple of featurettes, one of which is Spencer talking about the Sue Ann character.
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If you’re having trouble logging into Xbox Live, you’re not alone. Microsoft’s online service is currently experiencing issues, which means you may not be able to sign in and access certain games and apps on Xbox One. [Update: It appears the issues have been resolved, although another problem–this one involving issues with party chat–have since emerged. Microsoft says it’s working to address that, but you should at least be able to get online and begin playing games as normal in the meantime.]
The Xbox Live status page, which was last updated at 3:46 PM ET, confirms some core services–such as signing in and managing your Xbox Live account–are “limited.” The latest update reads, “Our engineers and developers are actively continuing to work to resolve the issue causing some members to have problems signing in to Xbox Live. Stay tuned, and thanks for your patience.”
The official Xbox Support Twitter account also tweeted about the login issues, noting that teams are “working on it now.” No timetable was provided for when we can expect the issues to be resolved, but we’ll update this story with any further developments.
We’ve seen reports that users are having trouble signing in. We have teams working on it now! We’ll update you with additional details as soon as we can.
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) August 28, 2019
Because players are not able to sign into their Xbox Live accounts, they can’t currently play online games like Fortnite or use apps like Spotify and Amazon Video, both of which require you to be logged into the online service.
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If you’re having trouble making it through Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a new patch aims to alleviate some frustration. Available right now on PC and sometime next week on consoles, the latest Youngblood update makes the game easier with the addition of checkpoints, improved companion AI, and more.
Patch 1.0.5 adds a variety of “player-requested features,” including checkpoints in Towers and end bosses, a toggle to remove enemy health bars, and improvements to the companion AI. This last one is important, as update 1.0.5 will now see your AI partner retreat more often when taking damage from large enemies, as well as being able to heal you when you’re downed.
Elsewhere in the patch, Youngblood will see the difficulty of all boss fights adjusted, the “bullet sponginess” of enemies supposedly reduced, an increase in special weapon ammo in the more challenging levels, and more. While the PC version of Youngblood saw 1.0.5 today, and the PS4 and Xbox One versions will see 1.0.5 next week, the Nintendo Switch version will get 1.0.5 sometime “in the following weeks.” You can check out the full update notes below.
1.0.5 follows patch 1.0.4, which dropped earlier this month. That update introduced a host of changes and fixes, including issues surrounding players loading into online matches despite selecting the offline option, padlocked doors being opened from the wrong side, and more. Most significantly, patch 1.0.4 added the ability to pause Youngblood while offline. Since the Nintendo Switch still has yet to get 1.0.4, both updates will be combined in 1.0.5.
In our Wolfenstein: Youngblood review, we said, “Wolfenstein: Youngblood has the series’ signature first-person shooting thrills that’ll have you gladly busting shots and blasting lasers in the face of Nazi trash–and the opportunity to do so alongside a friend. Jess and Soph–and Abby too–learned from the best, and embrace their newfound duty of ridding their world of tyranny while being cool as hell doing it. Youngblood is short, but oh-so sweet.”
Patch Highlights
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Following serious allegations leveled against Night in the Woods co-developer Alec Holowka, the indie studio Infinite Fall has cut ties and changed its release plans for a physical edition of the game. In a series of tweets, developers Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry say they take the allegations very seriously and that they share their fans’ hurt and anger.
On August 27, developer Zoe Quinn detailed sexual abuse and assault allegations against Holowka on Twitter. Though the response from Benson and Hockenberry does not mention Quinn, it does reference “allegations of past abuse” that have come to light this week. Quinn’s statement came alongside a broad range of abuse accusations within the games industry.
“We take such allegations seriously as a team. As a result and after some agonizing consideration, we are cutting ties with Alec,” the studio stated. “We are cancelling a current project and postponing the Limited Run physical release. The iOS port is being handled by an outside company and supervised by Finji and will remain in development.”
The studio goes on to address how people may feel about the game itself, and that this shift in studio roles may impact their plans in other ways. The situation is in flux.
“Thousands of people have connected with Night In The Woods in a very personal way,” it stated. “We can’t tell you how to feel about any of this. Whatever you’re feeling is valid. Your experience with art is yours. What it means to you is yours, regardless of anything else. Going forward, Night In The Woods will be handled by Bethany and I [Scott]. We’re not sure what that all means yet. This stuff takes time.
“Thanks for your support over the years. We’re sorry to even have to say any of this. That’s all I can say at the moment. Thank you for your patience.”