Yesterday, Overwatch’s public test server got an update that added new spectator options and tweaked the balance of Ana, Widowmaker, and Junkrat in ways that may or may not make it into the regular game. But that’s not all.
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Star Citizen's First-Person View Is Based On Birds
Star Citizen’s first-person view isn’t like other games, where you’re essentially in control of a floating camera. That approach is tried and true, but not wholly realistic. In the preposterously ambitious space game, your view and your body are one-in-the-same, just like in a real human body. Problem: turns out, human bodies have a lot going on.
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Today's Best Deals: Socks, Shoes, SSDs, and More
Amazon sales on socks and running shoes, plus discounted SSDs lead off Friday’s best deals.
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Trailer for 'Tower' Texas Sniper Doc Featuring Rotoscoped Footage
“Everybody was in a state of panic. It was just chaos.” Kino Lorber has released a trailer for a documentary titled Tower, retelling the story of the Texas Tower Sniper who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in 1966. Described as a “hybrid of animation, interviews, and recreations”, the film features rotoscoped footage (think Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly) that recreates some of the moments during the shooting. There’s also interviews and other footage that has been rotoscoped, making this a bit more unique and different than just another documentary about a tragic event (shooting) in American history. This seems like it might be interesting to see, since we all know the story but there’s a completely different feel to this. Take a look. ›››
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Fantastic Fest Review: Park Chan-wook's Stunning 'The Handmaiden'
Park Chan-wook once again plays outside the proverbial box with The Handmaiden, another stunning epic from the South Korean filmmaker whose name has become synonymous with breathtaking cinema. Chan-wook has become one of those few storytellers whose every work is an event, a film you simply have to see for yourself to take in all the wonder and beauty that comes with it. His latest is just as subversive, blending an efficient, con artist story with an abundance of strange sex, horror atmosphere, ultra-feminism, and, yes, even love. The Handmaiden quickly proves itself as yet another glorious masterpiece of visual style and effective narrative that eats away at your brain long after the final curtain has been raised. ›››
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Official Trailer for Indie 'Blue Jay' with Sarah Paulson & Mark Duplass
“It’s almost like I don’t know who that person was…” “I remember her really well.” This seems quite charming. The Orchard has debuted a trailer for an indie drama titled Blue Jay, a black & white feature about two old friends from high school who randomly reconnect years later. The screenplay is written by Mark Duplass, who stars in this along with Emmy winner Sarah Paulson. These two used to be high school sweethearts but haven’t seen each other in nearly 20 years. This seems like the perfect little festival film that makes you think about life and your own choices and what it means to grow up. We’ve seen these kind of stories before, but as long as there’s honesty to them I enjoy them. I’m looking forward to this film. ›››
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First Trailer for Unsettling Indie Horror Film 'The Eyes of My Mother'
“I remember I was fascinated by how an inside of the body looked. She always hoped I would be a surgeon one day.” Magnolia has released a trailer for the indie horror titled The Eyes of My Mother, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Diana Agostini plays “Mother” in this creepy horror thriller about a mother who teaches her daughter to be “unfazed by death” – who turns out to be rather freaky as a grown up. The film has been described as a nightmare that is so unsettling and disturbing that many who’ve seen it want to forget it but can’t. It stays in your mind and will haunt you for days, weeks, even months after seeing it. The film stars Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong, and Olivia Bond. You can get a sense of the gruesomeness and bleakness of the film in this trailer. ›››
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Fassbender & Gleeson in Crime Drama 'Trespass Against Us' Trailer
Blood is a brutal bond. A24 has unveiled a trailer for an indie crime drama from England titled Trespass Against Us, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. The film stars Michael Fassbender as a man trying desperately to escape the dangerous criminal world presided over by his savage father, played by Brendan Gleeson. The cast includes Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Killian Scott and Georgie Smith. Not only does this look like a solid crime thriller with plenty to offer in terms of action and drama, but it also has an “astonishing” score by The Chemical Brothers to top it off. Gleeson, Fassbender and The Chemical Brothers pretty much has me sold no matter what. The car chases look like they might be the best part, but I’m definitely interested in seeing this anyway. Fire this up. ›››
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Longest Marathon in TV History Is of Course for The Simpsons
FXX has announced that it will air all 600 episodes of The Simpsons in a row in a marathon event said to be the longest in TV history.
The marathon begins at noon ET on November 24 (Thanksgiving Day), and runs for 13 days, ending on Tuesday, December 6, EW reported. Episode 600, a Treehouse of Horror episode involving Frank Grimes, will air on October 19 on parent network Fox.
It’s not as weird as it looks… #TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/Q7DAwhSOzD
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) September 13, 2016
According to FXX, this is the longest marathon in the history of television, surpassing the previous record of 552 back-to-back episodes in 2014, also for The Simpsons.
The 28th season of The Simpsons debuts this Sunday, September 25, at 8 PM ET. Comedian Amy Schumer voices Mr. Burns’ mother in the episode, which is titled “Monty Burns’ Fleeing Circus.”
The new season will also host the show’s first-ever hour-long episode, featuring Empire‘s Taraji Henson and comedian Keegan-Michael Key.
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DayZ Still Coming to PS4 and Xbox One, But 99% of Resources Focused on PC
The version of zombie game Day Z for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One has not been canceled, despite its developer not saying much about it lately.
Creative director Brian Hicks told Eurogamer recently, “No it’s not dead at all. It’s not dead at all.”
Explaining why we haven’t heard much about DayZ for consoles, Hicks said “99 percent” of developer Bohemia’s development resources are focused on the PC version. PC is the game’s “flagship” platform, he said.
“While there was a lot of push from Sony and Microsoft to get up on their stages and say, ‘Yes, we’re coming,’ our focus has been exclusively (I want to say exclusively because there’s about a one percent development resource trying to keep those platforms at a point at which, once we get to our beta and our bug fixing, we can start pushing forward on that) on the PC,” Hicks added. “We can’t really move DayZ over to these platforms, at least on a playable level for consumers, until the base engine, Enfusion, is complete. Or if not complete, feature-complete so to speak–the core tech is there.”
The report goes on to say that, considering this, development on DayZ’s console versions isn’t likely to begin in earnest until early 2017. Hicks also stated that DayZ would be a likely candidate for Microsoft’s Steam Early Access-like Game Preview program. The PS4 does not offer a similar program, which is part of the reason why dinosaur game Ark: Survival Evolved is not out yet on Sony’s console.
“Once we get to a point with the PC that we’re comfortable and we can start dedicating a little resources into catching up those [console] platforms then we’ll look at doing some announcements and talk about the Xbox Game Preview program, which is what I would imagine is the first place we’ll get to since Sony doesn’t have something similar,” Hicks said
But has DayZ’s time come and gone? Not according to Hicks. He shared that the game recently reached a peak of around 650,000 unique monthly users, with lower peaks standing at around 250,000 or 300,000.
Also in the interview, Hicks explains that, while DayZ creator Dean Hall is no longer actively working on the game (he left Bohemia in 2014 to start a new studio), he still provides informal feedback on the game. The full interview is a great read and touches on a number of other subjects; read it here.
DayZ launched in December 2013 as an Early Access game on Steam, which it still is, almost three years later. Despite being unfinished, the game has sold more than 3 million copies.
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