American Horror Story series creator Ryan Murphy has unveiled a first look at new cast member Macaulay Culkin on Instagram alongside fellow actor Leslie Grossman for the upcoming tenth season of the FX horror anthology series.
Murphy captioned “something wicked this way comes.” This will be Culkin’s AHS debut, and details about his character are being kept strictly underwraps, but knowing AHS, it’s likely to be equal parts gruesome and bizarre. Take a look at the photo below.
Microsoft might be teasing an upcoming enhancement for Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight based on an image in the latest Xbox Wire post.
The post, which relates to a new feature allowing you to see which games support your chosen language, feature a screenshot of the Xbox Series X dashboard with a handful of games on it. One of the tiles is for Batman: Arkham Knight, and features a logo for Xbox Games Pass and another indicating it has been enhanced for Xbox Series X|S.
Batman: Arkham Knight is on Games Pass, and none of the other games featured in the screenshot have been incorrectly labelled either. This suggests that Microsoft, accidentally or not, has leaked a potential upgrade releasing in the near future.
The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie has just released a new poster showing off Kabal, Mileena, Shang Tsung, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Jax Briggs, Sonya, and Cole Young–a character created for the film who so far seems to be the movie’s lead. The film, which is due both in theaters and HBO Max on April 16, is based on the video game franchise of the same name and is intended to serve as a bit of a reset and reboot of previous movie adaptation entries, and the poster helps convey the decidedly not-cheesy tone it’s shooting for. Check it out below.
Choose your fighter: Cole Young. Sonya Blade. Jax Briggs. Scorpion. Sub-Zero. Shang Tsung. Mileena. Kabal. Mortal Kombat – in theaters and streaming on @HBOMax April 16. #MortalKombatMovie pic.twitter.com/jQ4a7pXVML
— Mortal Kombat Movie (@MKMovie) March 10, 2021
The film recently got its first red band trailer, which is only appropriate for a franchise that is pretty much synonymous with tastefully gratuitous blood and guts. Even if you’ve already seen the trailer and the poster doesn’t come as a huge surprise, you should absolutely check out our breakdown of the footage, which is loaded with Easter eggs–and watch our comparison between the trailer and the original 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. The trailer, and this new poster, confirm the presence of many familiar and popular fighters, but as our digging shows, other characters have already been subtly confirmed or signposted.
Mortal Kombat is directed by Simon McQuoid and produced by Aquaman director James Wan. It was previously set to be released in January, but was moved back to April. As with all other Warner movies this year, it will be released in theaters and made available to HBO Max subscribers on the same day. Subsequently, it will then stay on HBO Max for one month before then being available on other on-demand streaming services.
Roblox Corp. CEO David Baszucki’s own net worth is projected to rise by $3 billion on Wednesday thanks to his company going public. Yahoo Finance estimates that Baszucki made $3 billion thanks to the direct listing, which is in addition to the “hundreds of millions” he might have made by selling Roblox Corp. shares to third-parties in the lead-up to the direct listing this week.
Baszucki put about half of his 12% stake in Roblox in the Baszucki Family Office in California, which he registered in 2020.
If you’re looking to upgrade your home theater experience, you’ll want to consider adding a soundbar to your setup–a TV’s built-in speakers can only do so much. Good soundbars can cost you hundreds of dollars, but you can get your hands on a really solid one for less than $100 today. The Amazon-owned online store Woot is running a steep markdown on the TCL Alto 8+ 2.1 channel soundbar, dropping its price to $75. That’s $125 off its usual $200 list price. Amazon itself has the same soundbar on sale for $157, as a point of comparison.
The deal is available for the next 8 days or until it sells out, and the latter is more likely–Woot’s hottest deals usually disappear fairly quickly. It comes with free standard shipping for Prime members with estimated delivery between March 15 and March 17.
Nintendo has given its official Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Island a Mario makeover. Following the arrival of Mario-themed furniture and clothing to the game, Nintendo has added a dedicated Mario section to its Animal Crossing island, complete with a small obstacle course that leads to a flagpole (with a confetti machine ceremoniously spewing confetti behind it).
The redesign is related to one of Nintendo’s Super Mario 35th anniversary My Nintendo missions, which asks you to simply visit Nintendo’s Dream Island between March 9-24. To visit the island, all you need to do is lay down on any bed in your house, select Search by Dream Address when prompted by Luna, then input 6382-1459-4417. You’ll get credit for completing the mission within seven days of the event ending.
The aforementioned My Nintendo missions are tied to the special Super Mario 35th anniversary pin set. You’ll need to purchase Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and complete at least 14 other My Nintendo missions to be eligible for the pins. If you’re still a few missions short, visiting Nintendo’s Dream Island is an easy way to put yourself closer to the total.
The Humble Bundle video game store, which donates a portion of sales to charity, had a gigantic year in 2020. The company announced that it raised more than $30 million in 2020, supporting 224 charities in total.
Of the $30 million, Humble Bundle raised more than $8.1 million for COVID-19 campaigns that supported charities like Direct Relief, Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, and the International Rescue Committee, according to GI.biz.
Another major focus for 2020 was the Australian bushfire crisis, and Humble raised $2.2 million to support the firefighting efforts there.
HTC has announced two new accessories for its HTC Vive VR headset, iterating on an existing add-on while introducing a new one for an entirely new way to interact in a virtual space.
The first is the third iteration of the Vive’s VR Tracker, which you can use to add tracking to additional parts of your body or bring in new items into your virtual space entirely. Previous versions were rather big and heavy, making multiple attachments to your limbs challenging. HTC says this latest version is around 33% smaller and 15% lighter, with the benefit of improved tracking, too.
The VR trackers are roughly four inches smaller than the previous iteration, released back in 2018. Despite this, HTC says that the battery will last around 75% longer, with charging now handled with a new USB-C port instead of the old microUSB one. The device is also backwards-compatible with other VR Trackers you might have, as well as the full suite of HTC Vive accessories, making it an easy replacement or addition to your current setup.
Not only that, but there’s completely free shipping during the promotion as well. This sale won’t last forever, however, so take full advantage while you can. It’s live right now, all the way until the end of play on March 18, 2021.
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