July 2024 may be coming to a close, but it’s still summer weather out there for many of us. Which means you still have a great excuse to stay indoors where it’s cool and dark, and where electricity abundantly flows for us to power our gaming machines.
July 2024 may be coming to a close, but it’s still summer weather out there for many of us. Which means you still have a great excuse to stay indoors where it’s cool and dark, and where electricity abundantly flows for us to power our gaming machines.
Back in 2008, it was announced that Gore Verbinski would be directing a film adaptation of the video game BioShock, with John Logan writing the screenplay. Later, Verbinski decided to hand the helm over to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, but stayed involved as a producer. The movie never made it into production. After years in development hell, BioShock was scrapped by Universal. Now Netflix is working with Vertigo Entertainment and 2K on their own BioShock adaptation, which is set to be directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Green. Lawrence has been developing the project with Green and producer Roy Lee for a couple of years now… and Deadline reports that it’s now moving ahead with a lower budget than previously expected.
During an appearance on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Roy Lee revealed that when Netflix film chief Scott Stuber left the company earlier this year and was replaced by Dan Lin, who plans to shift the streaming service “the streamer “away from producing an abundance of huge tentpole projects, in favor of more modestly budgeted efforts,” it had an impact on BioShock. Lee said, “The new regime has lowered the budgets. So we’re doing a much smaller version… It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, more epic project.“
Set across multiple dystopian and visionary landscapes gone wrong, the BioShock video game series blends sci-fi and horror to pose unique existential and societal questions reshaping how game stories are told—all amidst pulse-pounding action gameplay that rewards sharp shooting, clever planning and lethal improvisation. IMDb provides a synopsis of the first BioShock game: The year is 1960. While flying over the Atlantic ocean, average citizen Jack blacks out and awakens to discover that he is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Amidst the wreckage of his plane Jack spots and swims to a lighthouse and boards a Bathysphere that takes him deep within the ocean and into Rapture. Originally conceived as a utopia where a man would be entitled to all that he made without the interference of “parasites” by idealistic billionaire mogul Andrew Ryan. Rapture has since decayed and festered from the infectious effects of civil war and anarchy, brought about by the very ideals it citizens and it’s leader embrace. Aided by a sympathetic smuggler and a rogue geneticist, Jack salvages gene-altering chemicals, transforming himself into a superhuman, and uses his newfound powers and abilities as well as an arsenal of weapons to fend off the vicious hordes of psychotic mutants, security robots and armored super soldiers that resulted from Rapture’s unrest while given the choice to either rescue or lethally harvest the genetic material from Rapture’s only citizens with a chance: the 10-year-old “Little Sisters”. As Jack wanders through the condemning atmosphere of Rapture, he treads towards a secret that could shatter all that he has known forever.
Speaking with Collider, Lawrence previously said, “I think it’s one of the best games ever created. It’s also, I think, one of the most visually unique games ever created. The other thing, and one of the things that always appeals to me, is it is very thematic. There’s real ideas and philosophies underneath the game property, and it’s really, really, really thought out. A lot of games may have a great world of some kind, or they may have a great lead character, or they may tee you up for great set-pieces, but they don’t really have the ideas, they don’t have the kind of weight and the gravitas that BioShock does. The sort of combo of real ideas and philosophies mixed with the unbelievable aesthetic of it. Plus, one of the other things that I love, love, love is that sort of strange mashup of genre, the idea that you have what feels like a period piece, mixed with body horror, mixed with sci-fi. It’s one of those great mashups, and I think it can be really unique and really beautiful and really entertaining.“
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At first glance, it feels like Once Human gift wraps every resource for you. They’re abundantly available across most zones, allowing you to craft to your heart’s content and construct the base of your dreams. But that’s not the case the deeper you move into the game. As you reach mid-game and end-game content, you’ll…
At first glance, it feels like Once Human gift wraps every resource for you. They’re abundantly available across most zones, allowing you to craft to your heart’s content and construct the base of your dreams. But that’s not the case the deeper you move into the game. As you reach mid-game and end-game content, you’ll…
Gran Turismo 7‘s most recent update was meant to improve and tweak the racing sim’s car physics. But something went wrong (or right, depending on how wacky you like your racing games), leading to flying cars and an apology from the devs.
Gran Turismo 7‘s most recent update was meant to improve and tweak the racing sim’s car physics. But something went wrong (or right, depending on how wacky you like your racing games), leading to flying cars and an apology from the devs.
Update: According to Deadline, Deadpool & Wolverine is lighting up the international box office. From 48 markets over a two-day take, the threequel starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman has grossed $64.8M overseas. This launch is more significant than previous films in the franchise, making fans wonder: Is this the last time we’ll see Deadpool and Wolverine share a screen, or will money urge Marvel to greenlight another film featuring the dynamic duo?
Original Article: Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine is going down as one of the most meta movies ever to exist with its many easter eggs and cameos. The fourth wall is almost non-existent. However, that’s not the only thing this film is breaking. The much-anticipated summer release hits theaters a week after the power of Twisters wrangled up an incredibly impressive opening, which made it one of the year’s biggest hits. All of the chips were pushed in with Deadpool & Wolverine‘s release, though, as the movie was one of the few to get an immediate restart when last year’s strikes ended so it could keep its summer date.
According to Deadline, the Deadpool franchise continues to be some of the most profitable R-rated superhero movies as this new film has already climbed to around $35-$40 million in Thursday previews, which makes it the highest R-rated early previews ever. The previous record was held by the preceding sequel, Deadpool 2, which pulled in $18.6 million in 2018. The appeal of this threequel would smash any hype that came before it with the inclusion of Hugh Jackman and a promise of running around the playground of crossover characters in both the MCU and various incarnations.
The year’s only MCU film has garnered 81% certified fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and a stellar 97% audience rating. In his review for the film, our EIC, Chris Bumbray, glowed, “With this, you have a rock ‘em, sock ‘em thrill ride that delivers fans exactly the movie they wanted to see, with nary a message to be found amidst all the charred, sliced and diced corpses our heroes leave in their wake. It’s glorious fun.” Marvel also surprised San Diego Comic-Con panel attendees with a special screening of Deadpool & Wolverine, along with some spoilerific guest appearances.
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I literally just cataloged a bunch of cool ways that Elden Ring players have managed to beat several of the game’s tough boss fights, and now we’ve got a new one to add to the pile. MissMikkaa, a streamer who’s made a name for herself completing Elden Ring challenge runs—especially on a dance pad—has repeated a…
I literally just cataloged a bunch of cool ways that Elden Ring players have managed to beat several of the game’s tough boss fights, and now we’ve got a new one to add to the pile. MissMikkaa, a streamer who’s made a name for herself completing Elden Ring challenge runs—especially on a dance pad—has repeated a…