At the time of its release, I Am Legend received widespread critical acclaim. The majority of it focused on its depiction of a desolate Manhattan, now being reclaimed by nature. Lions and deer roamed Times Square. Vegetation poked out of the concrete. Glass facades of buildings had collapsed, exposing their steel underpinnings. The emptiness of the City That Never Sleeps was enough, on its own, to create an uncanny, creepy atmosphere.
But bring up the movie today, and most of the dialogue concerns the ending, which was different from the novel’s and different from the filmmakers’ original intentions. Thanks to DVD / Blu-Ray extras, we can watch the filmed alternate ending and decide for ourselves: Is this a more sophisticated, impactful ending to the movie? Or had I Am Legend simply not earned this ending, by not laying the necessary groundwork for it?
I Am Legend is currently available on HBO Max and Netflix. Here are 30 trivia facts and Easter eggs you might have missed the first time around.
As part of the Spring Into Spring event, a new Collection Challenge is underway in Pokemon Go. Like previous Collection Challenges, this one tasks you with capturing specific Pokemon within a limited time, with a special medal and other rewards up for grabs if you’re able to complete the challenge.
In keeping with the motif of the Spring Into Spring event, the Pokemon you need to catch for this Collection Challenge are spring-themed. You’ll have to capture 10 monsters in total to complete the Challenge. Fortunately, most of them will be appearing fairly frequently throughout the event, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble. You can see the full list of Pokemon to catch, along with where to find them in the game, below.
Pokemon
Where To Catch
Exeggcute
Spawns in the wild
Shadow Exeggcute
Defeat Team Go Rocket grunts
Buneary
Spawns in the wild
Bunnelby
Spawns in the wild or one-star Raid boss
Plusle
Spawns in the wild
Minun
Spawns in the wild
Flower crown Pikachu
Spawns in the wild
Diggersby
Evolve Bunnelby
Azumarill
Three-star Raid boss or evolve Marill
Flower crown Chansey
Spawns in the wild or Research task encounter
The Spring Collection Challenge runs until April 8, giving you only a few more days to complete it. If you do manage to finish the challenge before time runs out, you’ll receive a handful of nice rewards, including one Lucky Egg, 50 Lopunny Mega Energy, and 2,500 XP, plus a medal commemorating your achievement. You can see all the Pokemon you have left to catch by tapping on the Research icon in the bottom right corner of the screen and opening the Today tab.
That’s not all that’s happening in Pokemon Go this month. Niantic has a variety of events lined up for the next few weeks, including April’s Community Day, which takes place April 11 and features Snivy. The Rivals Week event is also set to kick off on April 13, and new Field Research tasks and rewards are live this month.
DC Comics’ upcoming Festival of Heroes will introduce a new Monkey Prince superhero to the mythos of DC.
The company will release its 100-page DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration commemorative anthology on May 11 and one of the 11 stories inside will tell the tale of a new superhero, Monkey Prince. This hero is inspired by the Monkey King of Chinese mythology and will be the star of the 12-page story, The Monkey Prince Hates Superheroes.
“Debuting in a story written by award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (Superman Smashes the Klan, Batman/Superman, New Super-Man) with art by Benard Chang (Teen Titans, Batman Beyond), Monkey Prince is inspired by the Monkey King, legendary hero of Chinese mythology and the classic tale, Journey to the West,” a release from DC reads. “In Yang and Chang’s original 12-page story, ‘The Monkey Prince Hates Superheroes,’ Monkey Prince battles and teams up with Shazam to defeat both the evil Dr. Sivana and a Chinese deer demon spirit.”
To celebrate this character’s arrival to the DC Comics universe, the publisher is releasing a special, 1 in 25, Monkey Prince variant cover by Chang. This Asian superhero celebration anthology will feature 10 other stories about Asian superheroes and it will arrive to comic book stores and digital platforms on May 11, 2021.
Other characters featured in the anthology include stories starring Batgirl Cassandra Cain, Green Lantern Tai Pham, Cheshire, Katana, and more.
“DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration is an incredible celebration anthology spotlighting DC’s past, present, and even future Asian super heroes, featuring some of the most dynamic Asian storytellers in and out of comics,” the release reads. “Featuring an incredible cover by the team of DC Publisher and Chief Creative Officer, Jim Lee, and colorist Alex Sinclair, this anthology includes a foreword by activist and CNN and WSJ Online contributor, Jeff Yang, a selection of tribute pinups of DC’s Asian super heroes, plus an awesome variant cover featuring Cassandra Cain by artist Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau.”
Paramount+ has released a teaser for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, revealing that the show will return for another outing sometime in 2022. A slow-burn clip clocking in at just over a minute, the teaser has a weary Jean-Luc Picard providing a voice over, waxing philosophical about what will likely be a dominant theme in the upcoming season: “Time offers so many opportunities, but never second chances.” Check out the clip below.
As exciting as the announcement of Season 2 is, it’s heightened even more by the winking tease at the end that Picard’s recurring nemesis Q will likely be playing a role. This was confirmedin a companion videowhere Wil Wheaton (The Ready Room) interviews Patrick Stewart about the upcoming season, only to be interrupted and “surprised” by the appearance of John De Lancie (Breaking Bad), who played Q.
“I wish I could sit here and blurt out to you all the new storylines and situations and times that you’re going to be seeing in this second season,” said Stewart. “Despite 178 episodes of Next Generation… and four feature films, there are events coming up in Season 2 that have never been seen before.”
Of Q’s return, De Lancie said, “It’s been a long time coming, and I’m more than ready… He is deliciously naughty, kind of marvelously annoying, terribly self-involved. As my wife says, ‘It’s not much of a stretch [playing this character].'”
The Masters Tournament, one of golf’s four major championships, kicks off this Thursday. It’s fairly common for golf games to be discounted during Masters week, and right now golf fans can save big on PGA Tour 2K21 on PlayStation and Xbox. Normally $60, you can snag digital copies for $19.79. While PGA Tour 2K21 doesn’t have a next-gen update, it’s backwards-compatible with PS5 and Xbox Series X|S and features significantly reduced load times. The Nintendo Switch edition isn’t on sale on the eShop, but Amazon is selling physical copies for all three major console platforms for $30.
Developed by HB Studios, PGA Tour 2K21 is technically the latest entry in The Golf Club series. Just like its predecessors, PGA Tour 2K21 offers a superb golfing experience that aims for realism. It earned an 8/10 in GameSpot’s PGA Tour 2K21 review. “PGA Tour 2K21 improves on the mostly stellar foundation of The Golf Club series, offering the most realistic and pure golf experience in a game to date,” we wrote.
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At this point, I’ve logged hundreds of hours into PGA Tour 2K21. From its career mode and myriad of online leagues to the robust course creator, PGA Tour 2K21 has almost everything you could want in a golf game.
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2K Sports recently announced a new partnership with Tiger Woods, marking the return of the all-time great to golf video games. Woods was previously the cover athlete for EA Sports’ golf series, which is making its return from a lengthy hiatus to compete with 2K’s series on next-gen consoles. This year’s Masters Tournaments will be without Woods, as the golfer is recovering from serious leg injuries stemming from a car accident in February.
The Masters Tournament is one of the rare major sporting events that’s available to stream for free on the official site. You can watch the latter portion of each day’s coverage without spending a dime. That said, if you’re a diehard fan and don’t have cable, you may want to get an ESPN+ subscription ($6 per month). ESPN+ will have earlier coverage of featured groups and the most iconic holes at Augusta National.
Here’s some good news for anyone in the market for a smart watch, fitness tracker, or wrist-mounted internet machine: Apple Watch Series 6 is on sale for $80 off at Amazon right now (the discount appears at checkout). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen this model drop to in the entire history of the universe. Granted, it only applies to the (Product)Red color scheme, but it’s a great color.
Apple Watch Series 6 is the latest version of the company’s smartwatch. The 40mm GPS model normally retails for $399, but right now you can get one for $319.99 at Amazon. If you’re more the 44mm sort, you can save $50 on the red one in that size instead.
The Apple Watch Series 6 brings all the high-tech features of previous models forward and adds a handful of new hardware and software features of its own. So it still offers all kinds of internet connectivity, like letting you place and receive phone calls and send and read text messages. The always-on screen, inherited from Series 5, is 2.5-times brighter than the previous model as well.
Apple Watches are full-featured fitness trackers. They count your steps, track a range of exercises from swimming to yoga, and can periodically remind you to stand up and move around.
As for what’s new in Series 6, the headline new features are all about health. You can monitor your blood oxygen level now, thanks to a new sensor. You can take an ECG anytime, if you’re interested in that kind of thing. It also has a new sleep app that helps you set a nighttime routine and can monitor your rest. You can even set sleep goals for yourself, and it will track them for you.
Beyond all that, you can swap out watch bands to match your outfit or mood. They play nicely with other Apple products, like Airpods, the company’s wireless earbuds. It’s a good watch, and this is one of the best deals we’ve ever seen on it. Grab it before it’s gone.
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All of the above games will be available to play starting April 6. Marvel’s Avengers will be available until July 5, 2021, and Borderlands 3 will be on PSN a little longer, leaving the service on September 29, 2021. There is currently no set date for when The Long Dark will leave PSN.
Marvel’s Avengers released on August 20, 2020 and is an action-RPG brawler featuring–you guessed it–Marvel characters. The latest Marvel’s Avengers update, Patch 1.5.0, brought Hawkeye Clint Barton onboard as a playable character and added a campaign replay feature. Patch 1.5.0 also gave PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players a free next-gen update, promising better visuals, improved destruction and Heroic detail, and significantly faster load times.
Borderlands 3 is a loot-shooter by Gearbox. In GameSpot’s Borderlands 3 review, Jordan Ramée commented, “If you’ve never been a fan of the franchise, it’s unlikely Borderlands 3 does enough things differently to change your mind, as the game best excels at continuing what the series has always done: deliver a humorous tall tale of misfits looting and shooting their way to heroism.” The Borderlands franchise is also getting a movie featuring Haley Bennett and Cate Blanchett, which is expected to begin production soon.
The Long Dark is a survival game–a genre that has received plenty of love as evidenced by the success of Rust and Valheim. Released in 2014, The Long Dark sets players in a freezing wilderness where the objective is to survive as long as possible.
PSN offers a seven-day free trial to players. For those who want to know more about the service, you can read our PS Now Explained article where we breakdown what you can expect.
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The first flight of NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has been delayed to April 11 to give the team and the aircraft more time for preparation.
Originally scheduled to fly on April 8, NASA delayed the flight of its first and only Martian helicopter to give the Ingenuity team back on Earth more time to characterize the helicopter’s energy story. The extra time is also just a matter of caution as well, as the team is being “extremely careful” with every step they make in the process.
NASA Working on Ingenuity Helicopter, Photo Credit: NASA
The helicopter, which weighs about four pounds with a wingspan of 1.2 meters, is powered by batteries that are charged through solar panels on its top side and at a full battery, the helicopter can fly for about 90 seconds, according to NASA. It must then land safely and charge enough of its battery again to power the heater on-board as this protects the helicopter from the Red Planet’s cold nights.
Ingenuity’s flight delay on Mars
The extra three days give the Ingenuity team the time it needs to get a better read on what that power cycle looks like and more importantly, ensure that’s its energy is positive throughout all steps of the process. The helicopter’s first flight will occur on a full battery and it will only fly a couple of meters up during that first flight before returning to the surface of Mars. It won’t go any higher than about 15 feet, according to NASA.
“This next step (flying for the first time) is huge,” Mars helicopter operations lead, Tim Canham, said during an Ingenuity Q&A held today. “Can it go up and hover and land safely? That will be a major moment of triumph for the helicopter team.”
That’s currently scheduled for April 11, although an official time has not been announced. The flight will not be live-streamed, however. People back on Earth won’t see anything of the flight until the telemetry of the flight is retrieved, which will take a couple of sols – or Martian days – which are about 40 minutes longer than days on Earth. NASA said the Perseverance rover, which is the rover that recently landed on Mars and carried Ingenuity to the planet with it, will be watching the flight from about 65 meters away. It will take photos that will eventually make it to Earth, but that could take some time as well.
Why NASA’s Ingenuity flight is such a big deal
What makes this first flight such a milestone for NASA, beyond it being the first flight of a helicopter on Mars, is that it’s powered completely by pre-programmed sequences. There are no joysticks involved nor is the helicopter remote-controlled.
“The sequences (of flight) were prebuilt by the team on the ground,” Perseverance operations engineer, Elio Morillo, said during the NASA Q&A. “These sequences have been tested over the years, (but) they’re pre-canned. We do not have real-time control of the helicopter. It’s completely autonomous.”
This posed a lot of challenges for the Ingenuity team. What happens if there’s a Martian wind gust that happens during a flight? The helicopter has sensors that can detect those wind gusts and correct its course accordingly. For the most part, though, the prebuilt flight sequences have been tested over and over again in chambers that simulate what Ingenuity is experiencing on Mars.
The Perseverance will watch Ingenuity’s first flight roughly 65 meters away from the helicopter on the Van Zyl Overlook. It will take images and the team is currently determining if the rover will be able to record sound. It has a directional mic on-board, but the team isn’t sure if, due to the distance, it will be able to pick up sound from the helicopter.
Perseverance integration lead, Farah Alibay, said it’s important to remember that Mars’ atmosphere, which is 1% the density of Earth’s atmosphere, is quite different from our planet and as a result, sound travels differently on it.
NASA Ingenuity Milestone List, Photo Credit: NASA
After the first flight, Perseverance and Ingenuity will go their separate ways. Ingenuity will begin to charge and prepare for its next flight and Perseverance will return to its original mission: collecting samples of Mars to be sent back to Earth during a later mission. The two vehicles will still communicate by way of radio, though. The base team will talk to Perseverance and Perseverance will relay the messages to Ingenuity. The helicopter will respond to the Perseverance and the rover will pass the message along to Earth.
Ingenuity’s main mission on Mars
As far as the bigger picture for Ingenuity goes, its mission is to serve as a technology demonstration.
“Ingenuity is a test vehicle for Mars,” Canham said. “It will take super-detailed logs…500 times a second…(for us) to see what happened and characterize flying on Mars. An apt analogy is the Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner — to try something never been done before and learn a ton from it…for future engineers and scientists to make bigger and better helicopters for Mars.”
To tie in with its day-long celebration of First Contact Day, Star Trek has shown off a brand new teaser for Star Trek: Picard’s second season — and with it, confirmed that the elusive Q will make an appearance.
The trailer features a voiceover of Patrick Stewart as Picard musing on the subject of time, though we don’t see his face in the trailer. Instead, we see a series of objects connected to both the idea of time and Picard’s own history, culminating in a Queen of Hearts playing card that disintegrates, until only the letter “Q” is left.
John de Lancie has separately confirmed on his own Twitter that he will be reprising the role of Q, which he has played across numerous Star Trek properties including Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and more. In his multiple encounters with Picard, he has served as an enigmatic mentor figure, as well as often providing comic relief.
Other returning actors for Season 2 include Alison Pill (Agnes Jurati), Isa Briones (Soji Asha), Evan Evagora (Elnor), Michelle Hurd (Raffi Musiker), Santiago Cabrera (Chris Rios), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Orla Brady (Laris) and Brent Spiner (Data).
Star Trek: Picard’s first season ended last January, with our review at the time calling the final episode emotional, if scattershot. Its second season is planned for some time in 2022 exclusively on Paramount+, and is expected to last for ten more episodes. The series has also been renewed for a third season.
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