With The Walking Dead’s 100th episode coinciding with its Season 8 premiere, “Mercy,” EP/showrunner Scott Gimple and EP/director Greg Nicotero decided to throw in a few nods back to the very first episode, “Days Gone Bye.”
The episode wasn’t filled top to bottom with references, so as to not constantly pull viewers out of the story, but some of the opening sequences, in particular, were meant to pay tribute to the show’s pilot. Check out the slideshow below to see all the little winks and nods contained in The Walking Dead’s 100th episode.
Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead’s Season 8 premiere…
So what did you all think? Did you spot all those moments? Were there any that you saw that we might have missed? Let us know down in the comments.
A movie based on the long-popular Nickelodeon series Dora the Explorer in the works thanks to Nick Stoller and Michael Bay.
Bay is producing the film, while Stoller has been brought onboard to write the script. The Hollywood Reporter’s story does not indicate whether or not Stoller will direct, but, as he has experience in that area, it would not be surprising if it ended up being the case.
Dora the Explorer aired on Nickelodeon for 172 episodes from 2000 until 2014. The show focused on Dora, a seven-year-old girl who went on adventures with her monkey, Boots. She was notable for speaking in both English and Spanish at a time when that was not common on children’s programming in the United States. While the show was animated, the film will be live action.
According to analysts at The NPD Group, September’s best selling game was Destiny 2, followed by NBA2K18.
In only one month of sales, Destiny 2 is now the “best-selling game of 2017 year to date.” NBA 2K18 is the best-selling sports game.
Interestingly, the top selling hardware unit for September wasn’t the Nintendo Switch, but rather the Super NES Classic.
Switch was the top selling console for September 2017, beating out PS4 and Xbox One, but Sony led the pack in overall consumer spending tied to the PS4 platform.
Nintendo issued a statement last week ahead of the public release of NPD’s sales data championing its hybrid console. Two-thirds of all hardware sales in September belonged to Nintendo.
With dozens of comic books to choose from, let us show you which are the best coming out this week. Take a look at this list spotlighting our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.
Check out our picks, then head to the comments to let us know what you’ll be buying this week!
Writers Keith Giffen, Brian Keene, Weston Ochse | Artists Rags Morales, Bilquis Evely, Howard Porter, Scott Kolins, Dale Eaglesham | Cover Artist Michael William Kaluta (DC Comics)
The upcoming Superhero team-up movie Justice League will be the shortest DC Extended Universe film to date.
After much speculation around the runtime for Justice League, Batman News has reported that the movie will only be 121 minutes long including credits.
Originally movie theatres around the world were showing a plethora of different times ranging from two to nearly three hours but now two of the biggest chains AMC and Regal both list a 121 minute or just over 2 hours run time.
It’s not often thought of in these terms, but Wolfenstein is one of gaming’s oldest active franchises. Its origins go back more than 35 years, when it started out as a rudimentary top-down action game. But it wasn’t until 1992, when Wolfenstein 3D was released, that it truly rose to prominence.
In our latest “History Of” episode, GameSpot’s Jean-Luc explores the entire Wolfenstein series, which–with the upcoming release of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus–now spans more than eight games, depending on how you count them. None of these have been as impactful as Wolfenstein 3D, which effectively established the first-person shooter genre, leveraging experiments with 3D graphics conducted by legendary designer John Carmack. But the contributions of Silas Warner–an early game developer who designed the original Castle Wolfenstein–should not be forgotten, as outlined in the video.
Despite the post-Wolfenstein 3D years seeing the series focus almost exclusively on single-player first-person shooters, there have been some offshoots. Most notably, there’s Wolfenstein RPG (a twist on Wolfenstein 3D) and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (a free multiplayer spin-off).
In one of the stranger career changes from a video game personality, Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey is helping lead a new defense company–and it’s now hiring.
Anduril Industries, named after Aragorn’s reforged sword from The Lord of the Rings, is a military technology startup looking to disrupt the defense world. Luckey and the company assert that the defense industry has stagnated, and there’s not enough innovation happening at the moment. So Anduril aims to help develop new technology quickly, focusing on the possibilities of augmented and virtual reality.
It’s pretty bizarre to see Luckey jump to military tech from a games-focused approach, especially since his time at Oculus produced some distinctly unserious, non-militaristic moments. However, toward the end of his involvement of the company, Luckey courted quite a bit of controversy, such as when he helped fund an anti-Clinton meme campaign. As a result, I’d guess that Anduril probably gives him a way to stay out of the public spotlight.
It’s unclear what, exactly, Anduril is making at the moment, but we do know that it’s full of people from the more militaristic side of Silicon Valley. A couple of former Palantir engineers have come on as CEO and COO, while another Palantir engineer–Trae Stephens–co-founded the company and worked on the Trump administration’s transition team for the Department of Defense. We also know that they’re interested in surveillance technology to be deployed for border defense.
One of the big new releases is Ubisoft’s highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed Origins. After taking a year off in 2016, the mainline series returns with a game that tells the … origins of the Assassin order. Set in Ancient Egypt, you play as Bayek and can do things like hunt down hippos and ride camels. The combat is also changed significantly, while those who want no combat at all can get that experience in the education-themed Discovery mode.
Origins arrives on October 27, alongside Bethesda’s similarly greatly anticipated shooter sequel Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. A sequel to 2014’s The New Order, The New Colossus tells the story of a Nazi-occupied America. You play as B.J. Blazkowicz who wants nothing more than to rid America of the invaders and restore order.
The huge turn of events in “eXit Strategy” will have serious implications for the rest of the first season of The Gifted. We hopped on the phone with showrunner Matt Nix to hear more about what tonight’s game-changing twists mean for the future of the show.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for The Gifted: “eXit Strategy”!
From the first episode, both the Strucker family and the mutant underground have been splintered thanks to Sentinel Services capturing both Reed and Polaris, but after tonight’s successful prison break, they’re all back together. Having every principal character in the same scene taking part in a dangerous battle filled with gunfire, explosions and mutant powers might sound more fit for a season finale than Episode 4 of 10, but Nix purposely planned it this way so that it would have an impact big enough to change the course of the show.
