It’s almost time for our annual trip to Panem, folks — although it seems things have taken a turn for the worst since last we visited, as the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 attests.
How to save a billion dollar franchise; that’s the looming question attached to Entertainment Weekly’s coverage of Terminator Genisys, with Alan Taylor’s ambitious reboot and trilogy-starter adorning the cover of this latest issue.
Ahead of the film’s trailer drop tomorrow, Universal Pictures has unveiled a teaser poster for Alex Garland’s cerebral sci-fi film, Ex Machina, which features Alicia Vikander’s cybernetic A.I., Ava.
After kicking ass and taking names earlier this year in John Wick, Keanu Reeves is set to return to a genre that helped define his career. According to Variety, the 50-year old veteran has agreed to star in Replicas, a sci-fi thriller coming by way of Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures.
Having crafted his own sci-fi comedy three years ago with Paul, Simon Pegg has joined forced with the Monty Python crew — namely John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones — for another bonkers entry into the hybrid genre with Absolutely Anything.
Capcom has posted its performance report for the first half of the current financial year (April through to September, going by the calendar year), which shows a profit of $240 million (£148 million) for the first two quarters.
On Tuesday, Sony introduced a rather hefty update for PlayStation 4 users. Branded with the moniker of firmware 2.0, the patch sought about bringing a hoard of long-awaited features to the system on the eve of its anniversary. Chief among those features was Share Play — a novel addition that allows players to pass on control of a game remotely to a friend over the Internet — enhanced broadcasting and, at long last, a YouTube app.
EA has outlined release windows for two of its most-anticipated titles: Battlefield 5 and Star Wars Battlefront. Keen to prevent a clash of IP, the publisher has slated the latter space-faring adventure for Holiday 2015, and will hope to capitalise on Star Wars mania given that J.J. Abrams’ Episode VII is also poised to release during that quarter — December 18th, 2015, to be precise.
Though we already had an indication of when Destiny’s maiden DLC pack would release, Bungie has formally confirmed that The Dark Below expansion will debut globally on December 9th.
There are a mere seven days between now and the release of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but according to a retail analyst, sales of the soon-to-be-released shooter will fail to emulate that of its immediate predecessor.
