Enlarge / Jon Favreau at Comic-Con in 2012. reader comments 85 Share this story Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man and the live-action The Jungle Book film, has been selected by Disney to executive produce and write a live-action Star Wars TV series for Disney’s upcoming streaming video service, according to a blog post on ..
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Enlarge / An example of some of the “hilarious” options for how to pick up women in Super Seducer. reader comments 82 Share this story Sony won’t allow a controversial game about seducing women on the PlayStation 4’s online marketplace, the company said this week. Super Seducer, which launched on PC and Mac via Steam ..
reader comments 65 Share this story A photo provided by Paul Allen shows one of USS Lexington‘s 5-inch gun mounts. Nearly 76 years after it sank, the rifling is still visible in the barrel. An anti-aircraft gun mount aboard the wreck of the USS Lexington. Two Dauntless dive-bombers stacked on the bottom near the wreck ..
Enlarge / Thumbs down for this week’s weird Facebook survey. reader comments 104 Share this story Facebook’s ongoing effort to solicit user feedback reached a bizarre low over the weekend. As reported by The Guardian, the social network included a question in a survey that allowed responders to indicate that FB should allow illegal, sexualized ..
Enlarge / This is a screen grab from the forthcoming Clicker Heroes 2. reader comments 50 Share this story Playsaurus, a small Los Angeles-based game studio that makes Clicker Heroes and the upcoming Clicker Heroes 2, has recently been threatened with a lawsuit if it doesn’t pay $35,000 for a patent licensing fee to cover a ..
Enlarge / A fully painted stormtrooper battalion at last year’s Essen game show. Owen Duffy reader comments 24 Share this story If you’re a Star Wars fan, you may have felt a recent disturbance in the Force. Don’t be alarmed, though—it’s just the upcoming (March 22) release of a new tabletop game from Fantasy Flight ..
Enlarge / All of these Lego pieces will now be made of sugarcane-derived polyethylene. reader comments 53 Share this story Starting this year, buyers of new Lego playsets will begin to see a new type of block in their boxes—ones made of plant-based plastic. The Danish company announced the initiative on Thursday, confirming that roughly ..
Enlarge / Is it too late to measure the “health” of Twitter? Aurich / Getty reader comments 132 Share this story Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted a series of tweets on Thursday to concur with growing resentment about his platform—and to admit that Twitter is somehow not in a position to fix the problems he ..
Enlarge / Trump as he appears in a satirical, video-game-styled animation Donald Trump: Fired Up! reader comments 189 Share this story Presidential Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced at a briefing Thursday that President Trump plans to meet with members of the video game industry next week “to see what they can do” on the ..
reader comments 51 Share this story Ralph and Vanellope survey what the Internet looks like from within. Our heroes argue over how to pronounce “Wi-Fi.” Of course they get to the Internet via a series of tubes. Ralph helps feed a bunny in a tablet game. In getting the high score, Ralph makes this bunny ..
