After much fanfare and a prolonged development, Turtle Rock Studios' Evolve is available across consoles and PC from today, but the asymmetric shooter has stumbled into a handful of technical issues on day one, with the developer acknowledging reports of crashing, AI misbehaving and more.
Of all the sequels landing on the silver screen over the course of 2015, few will contain such zealous glee as Elizabeth Banks' Pitch Perfect 2. Building upon the musical foundations laid by 2012's smash hit -- itself drawing in an impressive $113 million worldwide off of a $17 million budget -- the next adventure for The Barden Bellas will take the budding singers global. Brace yourself, world, you're about to get "pitch slapped."
NBC's supernatural drama Constantine has been wrangling with the ratings since its inception. And given the fact that the network opted against giving the show a full 22-episode order, fans of the titular demon-hunter have been kept on tenterhooks right up until the season finale, which is due to air this Friday.
When it arrived unassumingly on the small screen this time last year, HBO's True Detective proved to be an instant hit due to its mix of compelling characters and a masterful sense of suspense. It rose above its other contemporaries as a police drama with real clout behind it, but with season two slated to go the anthology route and reset the entire set-up, fans are curious about how the series will continue.
After much speculation and deliberation between both parties, last night brought news of an agreement between Sony and Marvel over Spider-Man which would see the webcrawler return to the latter company ahead of an appearance in the ever-evolving Marvel Cinematic Universe. Such a deal means that the studio will also help Sony finance and produce Spidey's next solo outing, which is slated for 2017.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that, after close to three months on the market, developer 343 Industries had all but wrapped up work on Halo: The Master Chief Collection. But given the multiplayer issues that clouded its tumultuous release, the studio is still massaging a lot of the intricate online systems with its remastered compilation.
As it happens, those who considered BioWare's recent plan to reboot its nascent action RPG Shadow Realms to spell the death kneel for the new IP were correct, as the studio has cancelled all work on the four versus one multiplayer title.
Over the course of his career in high-profile films, Kyle Chandler's involvement has been in the form of the supporting role more often than not, with Zero Dark Thirty, Argo or The Wolf of Wall Street being the most recent examples. For his next project, though, the actor is set to change tact to embody John Rayburn in Netflix's upcoming family drama, Bloodline.
The legacy of Walter White still rings true. Close to eighteen months after we said our goodbyes to Albuquerque's apex predator in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad and we have the arrival of Better Call Saul, the spinoff prequel set within the same unforgiving, dog-eat-dog universe. Many reserved their judgement on the series until it made its premiere; after all, walking in the shadow of what many consider to be one of the greatest TV dramas of the modern era is no mean feat.
