Month: April 2019

As its title suggests, CinemaCon is the annual convention for the National Association of Theatre Owners, and in recent years has become a vital part of early movie publicity. Unlike San Diego Comic-Con, it isn’t a public event, but studios clearly realise that screening early footage for the industry and media can be a major help in building buzz for new films.

Warner had a major presence at this year’s CinemaCon, which is currently underway in Las Vegas. The studio previewed three of its highly anticipated upcoming DC movies, namely Joker, Birds of Prey, and Wonder Woman 1984.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first Joker trailer was introduced by director Todd Phillips, who explained that rumors about the film’s tone and plot “[haven’t] been accurate.” Phillips then described the movie as a “tragedy.” As for the trailer, THR states that it includes footage of Joaquin Phoenix’s lead character being attacked before trying on various costumes to find his iconic Joker look. [UPDATE: the Joker trailer is now online.]

Unlike Joker, early footage of Birds of Prey was officially released in January, but CinemaCon attendees got see more of the movie, which arrives in February 2020 and sees Margot Robbie reprise her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn. Slashfilm described the new footage as “bright, bold, and bursting with neon colors,” and it included a shot of Harley Quinn roller skating behind a moving vehicle. In addition, the Birds of Prey presentation revealed that Harley isn’t actually a full-time member of the titular female superhero team.

As for Wonder Woman 1984, although the movie isn’t due for release until July 2020, it was shot before both Joker and Birds of Prey. According to Variety, there were several scenes shown, including footage of Diana (Gal Gadot) and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) walking through Washington DC, Diana getting involved in some action in an ’80s shopping mall, and Kristen Wiig’s villainous Cheetah.

The listing for Borderlands 3 on Microsoft’s store page claims that the game will support cross-platform co-op.

So far in the game’s short-but-loud marketing campaign, developer Gearbox has yet to say anything about cross-platform play. And yet here it is, in black and white, under the ‘Capabilities’ section of the Microsoft store listing.

We’ve reached out to Gearbox for comment. Hopefully it refers to full cross-platform compatibility, but chances are it more likely refers to co-op play between PC and Xbox One. A recent example of this kind of co-op is Sea of Thieves, although it should be noted that Rare’s pirate sandbox is a Microsoft exclusive, and thus would naturally be limited to Microsoft platforms. Still, there’s significantly less corporate mess to untangle with PC to Xbox cross-platform play than there is when Sony is involved.

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As more hardware manufacturers release laptops with Nvidia’s RTX 20-series of GPUs, a clearer picture of what kind of performance we can expect from the RTX line and its various models has begun to take shape. The first GeForce RTX 2080 laptop I reviewed was the ROG Zephyrus S from Asus, and it was ludicrously powerful. Then I had a chance to test out the Razer Blade 15 (2019) with an RTX 2060, which showed modest improvements over last year’s GTX 1070-equipped model. Next up is the MSI GS75 Stealth with an RTX 2080 Max-Q inside. It’s available in seven different configurations, and the configuration I was sent sells for $2,999 (See it on Amazon). If you’re on a tighter budget, MSI offers a similarly spec’d GS75 variant with an RTX 2060, 16GB of memory, and a 256GB SSD for a mere $2,099.

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