Month: March 2018

Yesterday morning, developer platform GitHub was hit with what appears to be the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded. 1.35 terabits per second of traffic targeted GitHub, and the service was down for about five minutes from 9:21am PT, and then intermittently unavailable for the following four minutes.

Image from GitHub.

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On the heels of the Rainbow Six Siege price hikes instated last month, Ubisoft is making Siege’s operators and attachments much easier to acquire.

Starting with the launch of the game’s third content year on Tuesday, March 6, players who own Siege’s Standard, Advanced, Gold or Complete Editions will be able to use the original 20 operators without spending any Renown, Siege’s in-game currency.

Renown costs for all previous and future attachments are also being removed for all players, which is especially welcome news considering Ubisoft recently said its goal for Siege is to release 100 operatives over 10 years. However, players who already own any attachments or any of the original 20 operators will not be refunded “due to a technical limitation,” Ubisoft said in a blog post.

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It won’t be long before a new season of Jessica Jones arrives on Netflix. While early indications are that the new episodes may not be as well-received as Season 1–at least at first–it’s still one of Netflix’s most highly anticipated returns.

Ahead of the premiere, the streaming service has offered a new behind-the-scenes look at the women who bring the show to life–namely the cast and creator/showrunner Melissa Rosenberg–and what made it such a massive hit in the first place. “Jessica Jones resonated in such a big way because we haven’t seen a superhero like this before,” star Krysten Ritter, who plays the titular role, says in the video. “Jessica’s strong, she is vulnerable and despite everything that she’s been through, she still fights.”

For Rosenberg, that’s what makes the character so special. “It’s not about being a superhero, it’s about being a human being in the world,” she explains. “All of the characters are dealing with the issue of ‘Who am I?’ and ‘How do I fit into the world?'”

Of course, another reason the series resonated with such a large audience was it shined a spotlight on the lack of female superheroes getting attention. While Black Widow and Scarlet Witch both feature heavily in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, neither has gotten their own movie yet. Meanwhile, Jessica Jones allowed a woman to serve as the primary focal point of a superhero story, long before Wonder Woman was a box office success or Captain Marvel went into production.

Still, as important as having a character like Jessica at the front of her own show, Rosenberg realizes this is more than a story about a female hero. “It’s not necessarily about a woman’s perspective. It’s about a balanced perspective,” she explains.

However, she’s quick to note how rare this type of story–and the team assembled to tell it–is. “A powerful female protagonist, or female director, or female showrunner–that shouldn’t be unique,” Rosenberg says.

The second season of Jessica Jones will arrive on Netflix on March 8. Not coincidentally, that also happens to be International Women’s Day.

You won’t have to wait as long to see Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War in theaters in North America.

Marvel announced on Twitter the third Avengers film will now be released on April 27 as opposed to its original planned May 4 release date. Marvel Studios made the announcement via a Twitter exchange with Iron Man star Robert Downey, Jr and a new poster highlighting the date.

Any chance I could see it earlier?

— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) March 1, 2018

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