Terry Pratchett’s series following the antics of Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch is reportedly coming to TV.
Deadline reports that BBC Studios will be making a six-part series currently titled The Watch, based on Pratchett’s City Watch series of books. Narrativia, which is now run by Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna Pratchett and his former business partner Rob Wilkins, will produce.
With Marvel Comics announcing a “Fresh Start” to their comic book line this May, it will be the seventh time the publisher has done a relaunch in six years. DC Comics, on the other hand, has done three in about the same time. What’s with all the relaunches?!
The main reason that these relaunches happen, and will continue to happen for the foreseeable future whether you like it or not, is because they can always be depended on for a sales bump. Look at the sales charts over the past several years and you will see a spike whenever there was a relaunch. When comics relaunch and start over from Issue #1, it not only creates a fresh jumping on point for new and returning readers to buy but it entices collectors to purchase extra copies in hopes that the first issue of a new series will one day be worth something (even though that rarely happens these days). Plus, comic book retailers get discounts and incentives to purchase more of a new comic to sell in their stores, which lets the publisher report big sales numbers, even though they’re artificially inflated because they’re not representative of actual demand for the books.
Xbox One has begun rolling out its Spring update which, among other things, allows stream viewers to control a streamer’s games remotely.
As detailed on Xbox Wire, the update is available today for Xbox Insider Alpha Ring members.
The highlight is Mixer’s new “Share Controller” function. When streaming through Mixer, users can now pass off control to a viewer, who can either play using a plugged in controller, or with onscreen controls. You can see it working below:
Mixer will also receive a set of quality of life upgrades on Xbox One, primarily with streams no longer auto-ending when you switch between games.
The final touches are being placed on the next IGN Box and we can finally reveal the theme is Mercenaries.
Celebrating the best bounty hunters in pop culture, this mystery box contains five hand-picked items that toast the most bad-ass mercs, including Deadpool, the Punisher, and Deathstroke, plus there’s an exclusive IGN t-shirt too.
Numbers for the box are very limited and it’s on sale now, so make sure you order yours today by clicking the image below.
Update: …but it probably isn’t. Polygon got a statement from Blizzard that shoots down the speculation.
“We can assure you we’re not that clever,” said a Blizzard spokesperson. “
meant to be a fun community engagement piece. We have nothing to announce.”
Boo!
Original story: Blizzard has taken to Twitter possibly to tease Diablo 3 on Nintendo Switch. Or it’s just really keen on having us check out its fancy nightlight.
The official Blizzard Twitter account posted a short six second clip of a Diablo nightlight being repeatedly switched (get it?) on and off:
According to Daisy Ridley, director J.J. Abrams had written early versions of Star Wars Episodes 8 and 9, but director Rian Johnson used none of the original draft for his Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Rey actress, Ridley spoke to Geek Le Mag (translated by Tumblr user daisyridleys), who asked if J.J. Abrams had already planned the mystery of her character’s backstory before Episode 7. However, Ridley’s response was far more wide-reaching:
“Here’s what I think I know. J. J. wrote Episode VII, as well as drafts for VIII & IX. Then Rian Johnson arrived and wrote TLJ entirely. I believe there was some sort of general consensus on the main lines of the trilogy, but apart from that, every director writes and realizes his film in his own way.
It would be enormously misleading to call Eli Roth’s Death Wish a remake of the controversial 1974 movie, about a mild-mannered man who becomes addicted to vigilante violence after the assault of his daughter and the murder of his wife. The original Death Wish was a serious drama that asked difficult questions about the personal and societal impact of violence. The new film is a shallow action thriller that decides, early on, that vigilante violence is awesome, and has few (if any) negative consequences.
They may have similar plots, but Eli Roth has changed the tone of Death Wish so much that for all intents and purposes it is no longer a remake of Death Wish. If anything, it’s a remake of Death Wish 2, the first film in the franchise to completely miss the point by turning Charles Bronson’s character into some kind of righteous avenging angel of death, instead of a mentally-ill murderer who happens to have a tragic backstory.
Disney is shuffling the release dates of several live-action movies.
The company announced today that the live-action remake of Mulan will hit theaters on March 27, 2020, according to Variety. That’s almost a year-and-a-half later than the original release date of November 2, 2018.
Disney also pulled the Anna Kendrick-starring Nicole, which tells the story of a female Santa Claus. The movie had been set for release on November 8, 2019. An untitled live-action movie also saw its release date shift from April 3, 2020, to May 29.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with “members of the video game industry” next week to discuss violence in games. The announcement comes a week after Trump suggested a link between violent video games and youth violence.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the meeting during a press briefing earlier today (via NBC News’ Peter Alexander on Twitter). There’s no word on which companies will be represented at the meeting or what specifically will be discussed.
EA had no comment on whether its executives would be meeting with Trump when reached for comment by IGN.