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Here’s HBO’s New Rorschach and a Dr. Manhattan Hint
Update: HBO teases new masked characters, and a couple of familiar ones including Rorschach, Doctor Manhattan and Jeremy Irons’ Ozymandias, in new cast footage from the upcoming TV show.
AMD Announces Radeon VII Gaming GPU at CES 2019
AMD announced its latest gaming GPU, the Radeon VII, this morning at CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
The Radeon VII is touted as the world’s first 7nm gaming GPU with 25% more performance at the same power consumption as previous AMD GPUs. It includes 60 compute units running up to 1.8GHz and 16GBs of high bandwidth memory. Features like Async compute, rapid packed math and shader intrinsics were mentioned as well.
Radeon VII will go on sale on February 7 at $699 and will be bundled for a limited time with Resident Evil 2 Remake, Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2. Seeing as Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2 are both coming out in March, it’s likely this bundle will simply include download codes for these games.
Samuel L. Jackson on How Captain Marvel Will Tell Nick Fury’s Origin
The upcoming Captain Marvel movie will not only introduce audiences to the high-flying titular hero but also reveal the origin of Nick Fury. While visiting the southern California set of Captain Marvel, IGN and a small group of press spoke with actor Samuel L. Jackson about how the movie will show us a very different side of Fury while also showing the beginnings of how he got the idea for the Avengers.
We’re used to seeing Fury as the spymaster in charge of SHIELD — before it collapsed courtesy of Hydra, anyway — but Captain Marvel’s ‘90s setting turns back the clock to when he was but a lowly desk jockey without much purpose or direction to his life. According to producer Jason Schwartz, “It’s the mid ‘90s, the Cold War is over, the war on terror hasn’t begun yet. It’s a little bit of a slow period for worldwide espionage.”
Asus Reveals Liquid-And-Air Cooled ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti
Asus has pulled the wraps off its flagship GPU at CES 2019; the liquid-and-air cooled GeForce ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti. The company reserves the Matrix branding for only its extreme high-end GPUs, and this one is certainly worthy of that title. The GPU sandwiches a closed-loop cooling apparatus dubbed Infinity Loop between the PCB and a three fan array, with the liquid handling the cooling of the GPU and memory, and the fans cooling the radiator and VRMs.
The pump, tubing, and radiator are all hidden behind the fan assembly, and despite all this cooling technology the GPU is still only a three-slot affair, making it nearly same size as some high-end air-cooled versions of this GPU. Asus claims the integrated closed loop cooler runs quieter than a GPU with an external 120mm radiator, and that its performance nearly matches that of a GPU with a 240mm radiator.
Sony Shouldn’t Rush to Release the PS5 Soon
Beyond, hello, and happy new year!
IGN’s weekly PlayStation show returns in 2019 with your host Jonathon Dornbush, as well as Lucy O’Brien and Brian Altano, to take a look ahead at the PS5. With the news of strong PS4 holiday sales success, we address the inevitable next generation and whether we actually feel the need for it, or if we’re ok to wait and focus on the PS4 for awhile. And we take our best, long shot prediction for when Sony will reveal and release its next system.
Additionally, the trio takes a preview of games coming out in January, including Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, and more. Timecodes below:
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– PS4 sales numbers and the state of Sony’s current-gen system – 3:00
Glass Review
Glass, M. Night Shyamalan’s unexpected sequel to both Split and Unbreakable, works best when it’s acting as a sequel to Unbreakable and at its weakest when it’s trying to tie in the newer additions to the continuity. It’s filled with all the big ideas that the director is known for, but due to what feels like rushed execution, strange narrative choices and a shocking third act, it’s likely that fans of both Unbreakable and Split are going to come away disappointed.
It’s hard to really talk about Glass without revealing all of its secrets, but it begins by reintroducing us to Bruce Willis’ David Dunn. He’s continued his life as a vigilante with the help of someone close to him.While that relationship quickly becomes one of the strongest threads of the film, his crime-fighting career though is slightly lacking. When we meet him he’s breaking into homes and beating up teen YouTubers who have apparently time-traveled back to 2006 and decided that happy slapping is in again. It’s hardly the most noble of causes and this narrative beat hints at the slightly rushed and often questionable decisions that Shyamalan makes throughout the story.
Disgraced Former Disney/Pixar Boss John Lasseter Gets A New Job After Being Ousted
After he was ousted from Disney/Pixar in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, former animation chief John Lasseter has found a new job. The disgraced filmmaker has been named head of Skydance Animation, which is an offshoot of Skydance Media, the production company responsible for movies like Mission Impossible: Fallout and the upcoming Terminator and Top Gun sequels.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lasseter will report directly to Skydance Media CEO David Ellison, who defended the choice in a memo to his employees. “John has acknowledged and apologized for his mistakes and, during the past year away from the workplace, has endeavored to address and reform them,” it reads.
Those mistakes, which Lasseter referred to as “missteps” when he first took a leave of absence from Disney and Pixar in November 2017, included allegations of “grabbing, kissing, [and] making comments about physical attributes” toward employees, amounting to what was called a “toxic” and “sexist” culture for female employees.
In a statement, Lasseter said, “I’m grateful to David and the Skydance team and know that I have been entrusted with an enormous responsibility. It is a distinct privilege that I will relish. I have spent the last year away from the industry in deep reflection, learning how my actions unintentionally made colleagues uncomfortable, which I deeply regret and apologize for. It has been humbling, but I believe it will make me a better leader.”
The hiring was quickly met with criticism from the Time’s Up organization, which has been a vocal opponent of ongoing sexual misconduct issues in Hollywood. As reported by THR, the group said, “Skydance Media’s decision to hire John Lasseter as head of animation endorses and perpetuates a broken system that allows powerful men to act without consequence. At a moment when we should be uplifting the many talented voices who are consistently underrepresented, Skydance Media is providing another position of power, prominence, and privilege to a man who has repeatedly been accused of sexual harassment in the workplace.”
In his role as the head of Skydance Animation, Lasseter arrives before the company has released a single film. The division launched in 2017 and two films currently in the works, including a co-production with Paramount, called Luck. Neither film has a release date.
Xbox Boss Talks Partnership With AMD for Future Platforms
During AMD’s keynote address at CES 2019, Microsoft’s head of gaming Phil Spencer came on stage and briefly discussed a partnership with AMD that would involve “future platforms.”
Speaking of AMD, Spencer said, “As we look forward to future platforms that we’re building and work that we’re doing, the partnerships and the innovations that we’ve seen in the past have led to what we’ve been able to do today, I think they’re going to be critically important to our future endeavors. I’m really looking forward to showing those to people more in the future.”
While Spencer didn’t outright say that the next Xbox would use AMD technology, it seems highly likely AMD will supply the APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) for Microsoft’s next gaming box. After all, AMD provided semi-custom AMD APUs based on its Jaguar microarchitecture for Xbox One and Xbox One S while an upgraded version of this APU was used for Xbox One X. AMD similarly supplies Sony with APUs for the PlayStation 4 family of consoles.
Star Trek 4 Shelved, As Director Takes Game Of Thrones Job
It looks like the fourth entry in the new Star Trek series has hit an intergalactic roadbump. Deadline reports that SJ Clarkson, who was announced as the franchise’s first female director, is no longer involved with the project, and the film isf “shelved.”
Clarkson is keeping busy without Star Trek, however, as she’s directing the new Game of Thrones spin-off for HBO. Clarkson also directed episodes of Orange is the New Black and Jessica Jones.
This is just the latest setback for Star Trek 4, as it was previously reported that Chris Pine–who played the iconic Captain Kirk–had dropped out after contract negotiations broke down. Chris Hemsworth, who played Kirk’s father, also reportedly couldn’t come to terms on a contract.
The 2009 Star Trek reboot made $385 million worldwide, while 2013’s Star Trek: Into Darkness pulled in $467 million globally. 2016’s Beyond was the worst performer of the bunch, bringing in $343 million worldwide.
Back in August, it was reported that the new Star Trek movie was a “priority” at Paramount, with deals expected to close for the other cast members, including Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, and John Cho. Actor Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in the new films, died in June 2016 in a car accident.
The fourth Star Trek was being written by JD Payne and Patrick McKay, and while the film now may never happen, the pair are writing Amazon’s ambitious Lord of the Rings TV show. Star Trek 4’s story, which has never been revealed, was producer JJ Abrams’ favourite in the history of the franchise.
What happens next with the new Star Trek film remains to be seen, but whatever the case, it seems like it won’t be coming anytime soon.
The new, untitled fourth Star Trek movie was expected to be followed by another Star Trek film from Quentin Tarantino. However, it remains to be seen if that’s ever going to happen.