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Here’s a great deal for fans of comic books, magazines, fiction, nonfiction, and pretty much any other writing you might purchase in digital format: You can get three months of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited for just $0.99. That’s a killer deal on one of the best services for readers.
Kindle Unlimited grants you instant access to over 1 million digital books, comics, and even current magazines. You can also listen to over a thousand audiobooks for no extra charge.
Resident Evil 3’s remake will have more changes to the original game compared to how Resident Evil 2’s remake was handled.
Capcom producers Peter Fabiano and Masao Kawada revealed new details about Resident Evil 3 in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Siliconera). Producer Masachika Kawata also appeared in the latest episode of Capcom TV to talk about the remake (via ResetEra).
The Johnny Knoxville-created Jackass film franchise is coming back. Paramount Pictures has announced that the film series based on the MTV show will return in 2021 with a fourth movie. The untitled movie will premiere on March 5, 2021, Deadline reports.
The first Jackass debuted in 2002 with numerous sequels coming thereafter. In total, the franchise has grossed more than $335 million at the box office. The Jackass films were directed by Jeff Tremaine, who also directed the Bad Grandpa movie starring Knoxville.
It’s expected that the new Jackass movie, which would be the fourth in the main franchise, will follow the format of the earlier ones with Knoxville and his pals performing all manner of dangerous and awkward stunts played for laughs and shock value.
There is no word on who else beyond Knoxville will return for Jackass 4. The MTV series was co-created by Knoxville and Spike Jonze, who would go on to earn an Oscar nomination for Being John Malkovich and then win an Oscar for the Joaquin Phoenix movie Her.
Jackass 4’s March 5, 2021 release date puts it up against Sony’s Masters of the Universe movie.
Socks are the classic bad holiday gift, but what if they were also prohibitively expensive? Enter the Puma Active Gaming Footwear sock, an absurd example of capitalism run amok that you can wear on your feet. Next time you ask “where we droppin’ boys?” your feet could be swaddled in luxury.
That luxury costs about £80 through the Puma store, or about $100 USD–though they aren’t available to purchase in the USA, where we appreciate our rugged foot freedom. These monuments to excess promise a “knitted upper” for comfort and breathability, a “low rubber outsole for grip,” and a custom fit. All of these features suggest Puma believes video gaming involves a lot of athletic foot movement, so we’re not entirely sure what they think gaming actually is.
Pictured: A sock.
But wait, there’s more! It also features three “modes,” by which they mean features. Sock features. Those include a medial wrap-up grip (“SEEK mode”), lateral wrap-up support (“ATTACK mode”), and heel wrap-up stability (“CRUISE and DEFENSE mode”). So basically, these are just different weaves to support different foot parts.
If you happen to live in the UK or Australia, you can order the socks now with free express shipping. And if you do, and then you rocket to the top-tier of Fortnite competitive play and win millions of dollars, make sure to thank your socks in the acceptance speech to teach us a lesson.
The PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller is about to get an upgrade. Sony is gearing up to release the DualShock 4 Back Button on January 27, with an MSRP of $29.99.
The DualShock 4 Back Button is a controller add-on that snaps into the undercarriage of your PS4 controller. It adds not one, but two, fully customizable buttons to your controller. And because these buttons are on the back of the controller, close to where your fingers normally rest, they’re easy to access for instant, perfectly timed button presses.
Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper’s new movie, Cats, is out in theatres this weekend. Reviews have begun to appear online ahead of the premiere, and the movie sounds like an unsettling CGI nightmare.
The film–which features unsettling CGI-cat versions of actors like Ian McKellan, James Corden, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, and Taylor Swift–currently has a 31 percent rating on GameSpot sister site Metacritic. We’ve collected some quick-hit highlights of the movie’s critical reception below.
Cats is based on the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical of the same name. It’s Hooper’s second musical movie, following 2012’s Les Miserables. It also stars Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, Rebel Wilson, and Francesca Hayward. It hits theatres on December 20, which is the same day that the divisive Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits screens.
What The Reviewers Are Saying About Cats
i09’s Cats movie review went with the headline, “I Have Seen Sights No Human Should See.” Reviewer Alex Cranz elaborated, “You will witness things no eyes should see and things nobody should be able to do, and you will be in awe. And that’s more than enough.”
The Chicago Tribune used the headline, “Wrong Animal. It’s A Dog” for their Cats review. “Is it the worst film of 2019, or simply the most recent misfire of 2019?” reviewer Michael Phillips said. “Reader, I swear on a stack of pancakes: Cats cannot be beat for sheer folly and misjudgment and audience-reaction-to-Springtime for Hitler’-in-The Producers stupefaction.”
Lena Wilson of The Playlist said of Cats, “Tom Hooper’s Adaptation Of A Broadway Classic Is A CGI Nightmare.”
“Once Hooper’s 110 minutes of Cats are over, theater is dead,” Wilson said. “One lucky Jellicle cat is dead. And we unchosen ones are left, tragically, to continue living.”
The Los Angeles Times writer Justin Chang wrote: “For the most part, Cats is both a horror and an endurance test, a dispatch from some neon-drenched netherworld where the ghastly is inextricable from the tedious. Every so often it does paws–ahem, pause–to rise to the level of a self-aware hoot.”
USA Today’s Brian Truitt described the movie in this way: “A furry Taylor Swift sprinkles the contents of a bedazzled can of catnip to create a fog of intoxicating magical dust, and that’s not even in the top five truly insane things that happen in Cats.”
Collider’s review of Cats said, “You can never get swept up in Catsbecause it’s so abrasively weird and anti-narrative that you needed some kind of fearless auteur like a Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) who would lean into those sensibilities rather than flail desperately at making it palatable for audiences.”
For more on the critical reaction to Cats, go to Metacritic.
Amazon’s excellent MacBook Air deal is still live. It’s not down to its Black Friday price, but it’s close, and you might be able to get it delivered ahead of Christmas. Delivery options depend on where you live and what you’re willing to spend above the normal, free shipping rate.
If you’re looking for a nice Apple MacBook Air at a great price, I can’t really find any fault with this one. It’s an older-model, so the price is likely a reflection of retailers clearing out stock, but as someone with an even older model than this one, I heartily recommend the Air for your laptop needs. Unless you want something for gaming, it’s a great little computer. It’s so light, it’s kind of unbelievable.
2064: Read Only Memories has released the first issue of its comic sequel, simply titled Read Only Memories. The comic, which is published by IDW, follows the events of the game, and features Lexi Rivers working as a private investigator in a beach town 50 miles away from Neo-San Francisco.
According to the press release description of the issue, “her usual work of tracking down promiscuous partners gets turned upside down when the seemingly simple case of finding a robot’s human lover drops her into the middle of the town’s feuding factions.”
The main story in this issue was written Sina Grace, with art by Stefano Simeone. It also features a short story titled Angels Don’t Cry, written by Mary Kenney and drawn by Christina Antoinette Neofotistou. The 36-page first issue has a standard cover and two variants, all shown below. The comic is available in both physical and digital forms.
Read Only Memories will run for four issues, with the second part releasing in January 2020. A preview of the first issue is available online.
2064: Read Only Memories is an adventure game developed by Midboss, and it received an 8/10 in our 2015 review. Reviewer Daniel Starkey praised the game for its tackling of important issues of identity. “In the face of a world and a society that is still struggling to accept lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people, ROM clearly says that if you can relate to a pretend gender-fluid robot, you can relate and connect with anyone. It’s a bold, declarative statement backed with aesthetic skill on nearly every front. ROM is a resounding success and one of the most affecting adventures I’ve ever had.”
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