xxArray is taking their 90-plus camera 3D body studio on tour to capture ultra gaming nerds in insane high detail, and produce a 3D avatar of their likeness. Once xxArray gives you this file the options are pretty awesome from 3D animation to sculptures. This could be pretty amazing for the gaming industry. Just imagine buying a game and then uploading your avatar to play as yourself.
xxArray started a Kickstarter project to help fund the nationwide tour. The base price for this service is $99.
xxARRAY 3D CAPTURE EXPERIENCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
September 11 – 12, 2015: Chicago, IL
September 13, 2015: Columbus, OH
September 18 – 19, 2015: Toronto, ON
September 20, 2015: Pittsburgh, PA
September 25 – 26, 2015: New York, NY
September 27, 2015: Boston, MA
October 2 – 3, 2015: Atlanta, GA
October 4, 2015: Raleigh, NC
October 10 – 11, 2015: Orlando, FL
October 17 – 18, 2015: Austin, TX
October 23 – 24, 2015: Seattle, WA
October 25, 2015: Portland, OR
October 31 – November 1, 2015: San Francisco, CA
November 7 – 8, 2015: Los Angeles, CA
Chris Evans told Esquire that Avengers: Infinity War would shoot part one and two back to back and filming would take about nine months. Filming is expected to begin in fall of 2016.
“That’s going to be like nine months to shoot both movies back to back,” said Evan.
Apparently Evans doesn’t mind the work load.
“”You know, you plan around the Marvel responsibilities,” says Evans. “You have to.”
Evans is expected to start filming Captain America: Civil War next week.
Captain America: Civil War will be in theaters on May 6, 2016 and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Sebastian Stan, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Chadwick Boseman, Don Cheadle (rumored) , and William Hurt (rumored).
Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 will be released on May 4, 2018, and Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2 will open on May 3, 2019.
We know that Avengers: Age of Ultron will make a billion dollars if not two billion, but there’s something off about the Avengers hanging out at the New York Stock Exchange. At least Captain America wasn’t there. Oh wait! Chris Evans was there to promote Captain America: The Winter Soldier last year.
Robert Downey, Jr. and Jeremy Renner join Marvel Entertainment executives to ring NYSE opening bell on April 27 to promote release of Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The author of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk spoke to Alex Zalben of MTV News about his current project Fight Club 2 by Dark Horse Comics.
Palahniuk explains why he chose the comic book medium for the sequel.
“You know, because there was such a following and such an attachment to the book and to the movie that I thought, ’If a sequel is going to attain its own authority, it would have to be in a fresh medium, so it couldn’t be compared directly to either the book or the movie.’
And number two, I wanted kind of a collaborative process. I didn’t want to sit in isolation and write another book. And I wanted to be able to depict really challenging, gruesome or edgy things without having to make them as literal as they have to be made in a movie. With an artist like Cameron Scott who’s a little cartoon-y, it gives me wiggle room, a little unreality, so that people can be with really confronting things without being emotionally exhausted and closing the book,” said Palahniuk.
Cameron Stewart will handle the artwork for the book, with colors by Dave Stewart and covers by David Mack. Fight Club 2 will have prelude issue on Free Comic Book Day, and then issue one will be out May 27.
On Friday, May 1 Boom Island Brewing Company is proud to announce a unique fundraising event aimed at comic book and craft beer aficionados. Renowned comic writer/artist Bill Willingham will sign specially designed labels of Boom Island Brewing Company’s Belgian Dark Strong “Gravity No. 9.” A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the Hero Initiative, a non-profit organization created to support comic artists and writers in need of emergency medical aid or financial support.
Willingham, a Rochester native, is known for his Fables and Elementals series, along with dozens of other notable titles dating back to the 1980’s, created the Gravity No. 9 label specifically to support the Hero Initiative. Limited supplies of bottles, posters, glassware and t-shirts will be made available at Boom Island on May 1, and at Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis May 1-3.
Gravity No. 9 – 9.2 ABV – Tequila Barrel Aged Belgian Dark Strong Fermented with Plums.
Appearance – Deep, Dark Brown.
Aroma – Subtle Fruit
Flavor – Light and dry with subtle sweet notes and lightly sour finish.
Bill Willingham will be in the taproom to sign labels and posters on Friday, May 1 from 6pm-8pm.
Boom Island Brewing Company is located on 2014 Washington Avenue North, Minneapolis MN 55411 in north Minneapolis. Find the alley entrance to the taproom in the back of the building. As far as beer labels go, the Willingham-designed Gravity No. 9 label is about as cool as it gets. Supply is limited to less than 300 bottles and surely will become a collector’s item. Gravity No. 9 will also be available on tap for this event while supplies last.
An all-new era begins this May as Marvel’s Mightiest Mavens assemble for an explosive new series launching during Secret Wars! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your new look inside the blockbuster A-FORCE #1 – from the creative team of G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel), Marguerite Bennett (Angela: Asgard’s Assassin, James Patterson’s Max Ride: First Flight) and Jorge Molina (X-Men)!
As the Secret Wars begin, the Avengers as you know them are no more – and a new team will lead the way! In a secluded corner of Battleworld lies Arcadia, an island nation fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has never been seen before!
So who are the Marvel powerhouses taking center stage? “She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru and other fan favorites, will take charge,” says series co-writer G. Willow Wilson. “We’ve purposefully assembled a team composed of different characters from disparate parts of the Marvel U, with very different power sets, identities and ideologies.”
And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth’s Mightiest Heroines found themselves united against a common threat. Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, they stand tall, shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to take on the horde. Ushering in a new day with a rallying cry heard across Battleworld – A-FORCE ASSEMBLE!
A-FORCE #1
Written by G. WILLOW WILSON & MARGUERITE BENNETT
Art by JORGE MOLINA
Inhumans 50th Anniversary Variant by ADAM HUGES
Variant Covers by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN, STEPHANIE HANS, JORGE MOLINA and SKOTTIE YOUNG
Blank Variant Also Available
On-Sale – 05/20/15
Konami hasn’t officially cancelled the planned next entry into the Silent Hill horror video game series, “Silent Hills”, but the version many video game fans were hoping for, with longtime “Metal Gear Solid” director Hideo Kojima, film director Guillermo del Toro signed on to help with the story as a creative consultant and The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus playing the lead character, is officially not going to happen, or at least not as planned. And this absolutely sucks, because “Silent Hills” looked like it could have truly been the next evolution of horror games.
“Silent Hills” has fallen apart, less than a year after releasing a playable trailer (cleverly titled “P.T.”), which was in essence, a brilliant marketing strategy, only revealing the actual game it was teasing, “Silent Hills” at the very end along with Reedus in the rain. “P.T.” was released last summer, sort of under the radar, and isn’t exactly a demo of “Silent Hills,” but was more along the lines of a concept demo to show the vision and vibe of the “Silent Hill” game Kojima and del Toro’s team were making. The demo is a winding hallway in a creepy house, and you end up walking through a door only to loop back around to where you started, except every time you loop, things change. You might not notice them at first, but the subtle creepiness of the house and the sounds you were hearing gave way to some of the biggest scares I’ve ever played in a video game (and certainly the biggest since I was a teenager).
You can pretty much only run through the halls, with no jumping actions or weapons of any kind. There aren’t any real enemies, though you can “lose” the demo. Once you got to the end, the “Silent Hills” teaser ran, but initially there wasn’t a clear way of unlocking the trailer that worked consistently (though a reliable way has since been found). If this peaks your curiosity at all, the free “P.T.” demo is still available on PlayStation Network (PlayStation 4 only), but it’s going away forever on Wednesday, April 29, so if you want to have it (or keep it), download it. If you’re lazy, the end trailer is also here.
So while “P.T.” will live on for some lucky few (as long as their PS4s last, at least), it’s still a bitter disappointment to miss out on what was already one of the most intriguing upcoming games. The “Silent Hill” game series often lived in the shadow of the more-popular “Resident Evil” series, but the RE games were survival horror games in the sense that you needed to scrounge up ammo and health and save it, while the early “Silent Hill” games were as close to interactive horror as the PlayStation 1 and 2 would allow. The more recent SH games have deviated further and further away from the core horror at the heart of the series (and also reviewed poorly, leading to poor sales), and the most recent “Silent Hill” game released was 2012’s “Silent Hill: Book of Memories” for the PlayStation Vita, which was a role-playing dungeon crawler, of all things.
If Konami was going to bring the “Silent Hill” series back to the public eye, they needed top convince fans they were going to do the series justice, particularly on next-generation consoles. “P.T.” got many fans, including myself, excited. It was my first true “holy crap, I’m playing games of the future” moment on my PS4, and was truly scary as all hell. I was tired of just shooting ghosts and monsters with guns. I wanted to have the poop scared out of me by a video game, and “Silent Hills” looked like it was shaping up to be on point, with a well-regarded game director in Kojima, an acclaimed horror director in del Toro, and Reedus, star of television’s biggest horror show.
The short version of what happened is Kojima had some sort of a falling out with his longtime company, Konami, and announced he’d be leaving the studio after the next “Metal Gear Solid” game. The silence on “Hills” was deafening, with Reedus confirming via Twitter he was no longer involved, and del Toro following suit.
Super bummed about this was really looking forward to it. Hopefully it’ll come back around. Sorry everyone http://t.co/drZJ8tBsSN
It was too good to be true, but it was, and now it’s been snatched away. Yes, “Silent Hills” could certainly have been a terrible game; plenty of games have had fantastic demos and awful final products. Maybe “Silent Hills” would end up looking nothing like the “P.T.” demo. Maybe that was all the scary they were able to put together. These scenarios are all plausible.
And while there’s probably been no other time in the history of video games with such a variety of game types, too many of the “AAA” game types (the big releases, such as “Metal Gear Solid,” “Call of Duty,” “Assassins’ Creed” and so on) are simply boring versions of what companies know will sell, and “Silent Hills” looked like it might not be boring. That’s not to say “Silent Hills” was a sure-fire slam dunk, it was a risky type of game, but the level of talent fronting it such seemed like it was a worthwhile gamble, particularly for a series that had been stuck in neutral for years, and for a studio in Konami, which honestly doesn’t have a lot going for it at the moment, other than the upcoming “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” (which Kojima will finish before leaving the company officially). “Silent Hills” looked like it could have shaken up the doldrums of the usual annual release serieses.
No, we have no idea if “Silent Hills” was going to be a good game, let alone a landmark one. But being teased with “P.T.” only to never even know the final vision of “Silent Hills” might be the biggest scare of them all, and immediately becomes one of video games’ biggest “What if?” discussions, forever haunted by what could have been.
According to El Mayimbe, he has an unconfirmed rumor that the Spider-Man film will be Spider-Man: The New Avenger. This definitely adds some intrigue to Captain America: Civil War.
Spider-Man: The New Avenger is scheduled for release on July 20, 2018.
Billy Unger really wants to play Spider-Man in the next film. My vote would be for Asa Butterfield from Ender’s Game.
It doesn’t get any better than Cookie Monster as the Incredible Hulk in this Sesame Street parody of the Avengers.
A super villain was prepared to destroy all the healthy foods in the world, until one hero, actually, several heroes stuck together to save the world’s vegetables! Together, Dr. Brownie, Onion Man, Captain Americauliflower, Black Bean Widow, Mighty Corn, and Zuchin-eye are…The Aveggies!
This Winter – the “Best in the World” takes on the baddest in the galaxy! Announced at C2E2, CM Punk will return to Marvel for DRAX #1! Fresh off his thunderous Marvel debut in February’s Thor Annual #1, the wrestling superstar is blasting off into outer space for Drax’s very first ongoing series! Exploring Drax’s time outside the Guardians of the Galaxy, prepare for an ongoing series unlike anything you’ve read before!
“CM Punk has proven that he’s the best in the world in the wrestling ring and now he’s out to prove he’s the best in the Marvel Universe. How could you not want to read this book? I couldn’t be more excited for readers to see what Punk has in store for Drax the Destroyer!” – Jon Moisan, Editor
What does Drax do when he’s not saving the universe alongside the likes of Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon and Groot? DESTROY! Obviously. From inside the intergalactic octagon to the far reaches of outer space – experience the bone-crunching solo adventures of the galaxy’s most fearsome guardian as he makes his way through the Marvel Universe! And demolishes anything and everything in his path!
Prepare yourselves for the debut of a bombastic new series that no fan can afford to miss! The journey begins later this year as CM Punk returns to the House of Ideas for DRAX #1!
