Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment recently announced that their upcoming project, “Gauntlet,” completely modernized action RPG version of the celebrated dungeon crawler, will be available on Steam this summer. It will also have full support for SteamOS and the upcoming Steam Machines shipping the second half of this year. “Gauntlet,” developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, innovates on past titles…
I will be the first to admit I don’t care for playing “Minecraft.” I know, I know, how is that possible? I don’t know but It has never grasped me. However, even if I did like the game, I would still be wary of film adaptation. Regardless, Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to…
Just days after the official announcement, “American Horror Story: Freak Show” has added a new (non-recurring) cast member. Last week at Paleyfest in Los Angeles, show creator Ryan Murphy revealed that the Michael Chiklis (“The Shield,” “Fantastic Four” films) has officially signed on to the cast. Chiklis is set to play “American Horror Story” alum…
A new game in the “Alien” franchise has been announced. SEGA and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have revealed that “Alien: Isolation” will be available on October 7, 2014. “Alien: Isolation” is a first-person survival horror game capturing the fear and tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. Players find themselves in an atmosphere…
Microsoft Office has finally come to iPad. iOS users can now get Word, PowerPoint, and Excel designed “from the ground up” for the tablet. The best part is that users will not be required to use a keyboard or mouse to operate the apps. Content and formatting of Office documents will be maintained whether you…
April is about to get even better for Nintendo gamers. Beginning April 3, Nintendo is releasing several classic games on to the virtual console Nintendo eShop on the Wii U. In addition to off-TV play, these games feature Restore Points that save progress during game play, and Miiverse functionality. Top-selling NES game Super Mario Bros.…
If you haven’t heard of the mysterious and creepy death of Elisa Lam, then prepare to be unsettled. Even if just a little. Elisa Lam was a 21 year old student from Canada who was visiting Los Angeles one year ago. Not long after arriving, Lam went missing, and eventually her body was discovered inside…
Facebook officially announced that it is acquiring Oculus VR, Inc. The social media company bought the virtual reality company for $2 billion. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock (valued at $1.6 billion based on the average closing price of the 20 trading days preceding March 21, 2014 of…
20th Century Fox has confirmed that the sequel to Prometheus is in the works and set for March 4, 2016. The Wrap has also reported that scribe Michael Green, most known for his work on Green Lantern, will rewrite Prometheus 2 and that the script calls for multiple versions of David, the synthetic played by Michael Fassbender in the…
Ryan Murphy has officially announced that the fourth season of “American Horror Story” will be titled “Freak Show” and set in a carnival partially in homage to Todd Browning’s 1932 horror classic, Freaks. Rumors are suggesting that the season will be set in the 1950’s though the time period has not been confirmed. Season 4 will see…
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