Month: January 2019

The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and acclaimed drama Green Book were the big winners at the 76th Golden Globes awards on January 6. Bohemian Rhapsody took home the award for Best Drama, while star Remi Malek won Best Actor in a Drama for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Green Book won three awards, including Best Musical or Comedy Picture and Best Supporting Actor, Musical or Comedy, for Mahershala Ali. Other winners in the movie categories include the highly acclaimed Netflix film Roma (Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón and Best Foreign Language Film), period comedy The Favourite (Best Actress, Musical or Comedy, for Olivia Coleman), and the political satire Vice, which won Christian Bale the Best Actor in a Drama for his portrayal of Dick Cheney.

In terms of TV shows, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story won Best Limited Series, and the Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method took home Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor in same category for Michael Douglas. The long-running thriller The Americans won Best Drama for its final season, while Golden Globes host Sandra Oh won Best Drama Actress for Killing Eve.

The Golden Globe winners are voted by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They are seen as an indicator of what might triumph at the Academy Awards next month. You can see a full rundown of the Golden Globe winners and nominees below.

Best Motion Picture – Drama

• Black Panther
• BlacKkKlansman
• Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• A Star Is Born

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

• Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
• Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
• Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased)
• Winner: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
• John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

• Winner: Glenn Close (The Wife)
• Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
• Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
• Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
• Rosamund Pike (A Private War)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Crazy Rich Asians
• The Favourite
• Winner: Green Book
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Vice

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns)
• Winner: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
• Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
• Charlize Theron (Tully)
• Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians)

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• The Alienist (TNT)
• Winner: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
• Escape at Dannemora (Showtime)
• Sharp Objects (HBO)
• A Very English Scandal (Amazon)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Barry (HBO)
• The Good Place (NBC)
• Kidding (Showtime)
• Winner: The Kominsky Method (Netflix)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Kristen Bell (The Good Place)
• Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown)
• Alison Brie (Glow)
• Winner: Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
• Debra Messing (Will & Grace)

Best Director – Motion Picture

• Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
• Winner: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
• Peter Farrelly (Green Book)
• Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
• Adam McKay (Vice)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Antonio Banderas (Genius: Picasso)
• Daniel Bruhl (The Alienist)
• Winner: Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (Patrick Melrose)
• Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal)

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

• Capernaum
• Girl
• Never Look Away
• Winner: Roma
• Shoplifters

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Winner: Christian Bale (Vice)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns)
• Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
• Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)
• John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
• Winner: Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects)
• Penelope Cruz (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)
• Thandie Newton (Westworld)
• Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

• Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
• Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
• Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
• Adam McKay (Vice)
• Winner: Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie (Green Book)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

• Winner: Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
• Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)
• Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
• Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
• Sam Rockwell (Vice)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

• Caitriona Balfe (Outlander)
• Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale)
• Winner: Sandra Oh (Killing Eve)
• Julia Roberts (Homecoming)
• Keri Russell (The Americans)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

• Amy Adams (Vice)
• Claire Foy (First Man)
• Winner: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
• Emma Stone (The Favourite)
• Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

• All the Stars (Black Panther)
• Girl in the Movies (Dumplin’)
• Requiem For a Private War (A Private War)
• Revelation’ (Boy Erased)
• Winner: Shallow (A Star Is Born)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

• Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place)
• Alexandre Desplat (Isle of Dogs)
• Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther)
• Winner: Justin Hurwitz (First Man)
• Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Amy Adams (Sharp Objects)
• Winner: Patricia Arquette (Escape at Dannemora)
• Connie Britton (Dirty John)
• Laura Dern (The Tale)
• Regina King (Seven Seconds)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Alan Arkin (The Kominsky Method)
• Kieran Culkin (Succession)
• Edgar Ramirez (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)
• Winner: Ben Whishaw (A Very English Scandal)
• Henry Winkler (Barry)

Best Television Series – Drama

• Winner: The Americans
• Bodyguard
• Homecoming
• Killing Eve
• Pose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

• Jason Bateman (Ozark)
• Stephan James (Homecoming)
• Winner: Richard Madden (Bodyguard)
• Billy Porter (Pose)
• Matthew Rhys (The Americans)

Best Motion Picture – Animated

• Incredibles 2
• Isle of Dogs
• Mirai
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Sacha Baron Cohen (Who Is America?)
• Jim Carrey (Kidding)
• Winner: Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method)
• Donald Glover (Atlanta)
• Bill Hader (Barry)

14 Days of Fortnite is live again on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. As a make good for previously announcing the wrong end date, developer Epic Games has brought the holiday-themed event back for another week, giving players on all platforms another chance to unlock any rewards they may have missed out on the first time around.

The encore event will be live through 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET / 8 AM GMT on January 15. During this time, all of the 14 Days of Fortnite challenges will be available, allowing players to complete any remaining tasks and unlock their corresponding rewards; however, any previous progress on partially completed challenges has been reset. You can see the full list of challenges and rewards in our 14 Days of Fortnite roundup.

14 Days of Fortnite first kicked off in December. As its name describes, the event ran for two weeks, with a new challenge to complete and reward to unlock each day. However, there was some confusion surrounding when the event would end, and as a result, many players felt they didn’t have as much time as they expected to complete the challenges.

Epic acknowledged it had shared the wrong end date for the event on its social channels and offered to give everyone who completed at least one 14 Days of Fortnite challenge the Equalizer glider–the 14th unlockable reward–for free. The developer later announced it would instead bring the entire event back for a week.

“We communicated an incorrect end date for the 14 Days of Fortnite event and did not feel the Equalizer Glider compensation was the right approach,” Epic wrote on its website. “After further discussion, we’ve decided to bring back this event early next week through January 15 at 3 AM ET (0800 UTC). We’ll also be enabling some of the most popular Limited Time Modes that were available during the event.”

Capcom released a Devil May Cry 5 demo for Xbox One in December, but if you didn’t already grab it you have officially missed your chance. The demo has been pulled from the Xbox store, though it’s still playable if you downloaded it previously. Its listing now says it is not currently available.

Take heart, though, demon hunters. If you missed out on that demo–or if you’re just a PS4 owner and never had access to it in the first place–you’ll get a fresh bit of DMC5 next month. The tweet that announced the demo had been pulled also gave word that a new one will be coming on February 7, this time for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Since the demo’s release, Capcom has continued a steady stream of announcements, like its seamless co-op play. Most recently the studio showed off the new playable character V, who controls very differently from swift melee-focused characters like Dante. V moves slowly around the battlefield, instead summoning a variety of beasts to do his fighting for him. The game is among our most anticipated games of 2019.

“It all seems fitting for Capcom’s next stylish-action game to look back on its lineage as a whole, as it plans to finish the main story of the Sparda saga,” wrote editor Alessandro Fillari. “Whether it’ll close things proper, or if it’ll lead into the next phase of the series remains to be seen, but Devil May Cry 5 will no doubt revel in the time it has–and it’ll definitely look good while doing it.”

Devil May Cry 5 is coming to PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on March 8. For more details, including the various bonus goodies you can get for pre-ordering or with special editions, check out our pre-order guide.

During Nvidia’s CES 2019 live press conference, the company announced a wave of gaming laptops that will feature its latest GPUs, the GeForce RTX 20-series. These laptops will have mobile versions of the RTX 2060, RTX 2070, and RTX 2080 depending on the model, and will come from major manufacturers like Samsung, Acer, Asus, Razer, and more. Over 40 different models will be available on January 29.

This is the first batch of laptops that feature RTX GPUs, a new generation of video cards that debuted with high-end desktop versions back in September last year with the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, some of these laptops will be “twice as powerful as the PS4 Pro” and, specifically, an RTX 2060-powered laptop will be 1.6 times as powerful as a PS4 Pro. Compared to desktop GPUs, that same RTX 2060 laptop is said to outperform a desktop GTX 1070.

Of the 40 laptops coming soon, 17 of them will feature the low-profile power-efficient Max-Q design. Max-Q was introduced last generation as a way to pack high-end GPUs into ultra-thin laptops with little compromise in terms of overall performance.

Not only do the RTX video cards offer better overall performance from the previous GTX 10-series generation, they’re also capable of real-time ray tracing and DLSS. The RTX GPU architecture features RT Cores that specifically take care of ray tracing as to not impact overall performance. As a result, there are a few more active parts in these GPUs so temperatures and power consumption remain a key question.

In the same presentation, Nvidia introduced a new mid-range video to the line up with the RTX 2060; it’s said to perform on par with or better than the GTX 1070 Ti, and between 1.4 and 1.9 times better than the GTX 1060. It’ll launch on January 15 with prices starting at $350.

Desktop GPUs buyers will also get a free game (or two). Those who purchase the RTX 2060 or RTX 2070 can choose between Battlefield V and the upcoming game Anthem for free. If you buy the RTX 2080 or RTX 2080 Ti, you’ll get both games bundled.

For more coverage around the event, you can also check out CNET’s CES 2019 hub.