The third season of Stranger Things is coming to Netflix on July 4, 2019. Once more viewers will journey back to Hawking, Indiana–and the Upside Down–for what will surely be another horrifying supernatural adventure with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and her friends.
Thus far, we don’t know much about the third season of the Netflix original series. Thanks to the first trailer and key art, we learned it’s set during the summer of 1985. Now, thanks to a batch of new character posters, we’re getting full looks at returning favorites, as well as some new faces.
Among the additions to the cast in Season 3 is Maya Hawke as Robin. In her poster, she’s wearing the same outfit she’s seen donning in the trailer for the season, a uniform for her job at the mall–where she works with Steve (Joe Keery). Another interesting thing to note is that Priah Ferguson gets her own poster. First introduced in Season 2, Ferguson plays Erica, the younger sister of Lucas. It seems Stranger Things 3 will increase her role, though she’s the only one who doesn’t look even slightly worried on her poster. Perhaps she knows more than she’s letting on. Then again, it’s also possible she has no clue what’s unfolding in her town.
Take a look at the posters as you continue to get ready for the July 4 release of Stranger Things 3 on Netflix.
John Wick: Chapter 4 has been announced in a very interesting way, as Lionsgate sent out a text to fans of the series stating that the next chapter in the John Wick saga will be released in theaters on May 21, 2021.
As reported by Polygon, the text message simply said: “You have served. You will be of service. John Wick: Chapter 4 is coming – May 21, 2021.”
No further information was given, and IGN has reached out to Lionsgate for further clarification.
Mortal Kombat 11 features the series’ best and most brutal fatalities ever. But with so many to choose from we decided to narrow them down to our top 15 favorites.
You’ll find them here in order from 15 all the way down to our favorite. The only ground rule we set, no character could appear twice on the list. Additionally, we’ve included the combos for each of them in case you want to try them out for yourself.
The Division 2 raid Operation Dark Hours has proven to be exceptionally hard to beat, especially for console players, but it appears Ubisoft is open to adjusting its difficulty.
Reddit user Inkist posted yesterday that his team (which includes players Bloodshy, Inkist, Tico79, Jaqev, Hansome Lancer, AZPrimeminister, I’m Bats, and H2K Predator) was the first to beat the eight-player raid on console – three days after it went live.
Johan from Ubisoft took to the thread to congratulate the team on beating the raid, to which a Reddit user criticized the raid’s difficulty. To this, Johan responded “The raid is very much designed to be the toughest challenge yet in the history of the franchise. It is built around the idea of a well-coordinated team with good communications. That said, raid difficulty is certainly feedback that we have been looking at since the release of Dark Hours, and it is not outside the realm of possibility that tweaks will be made moving forward.”
Like many great sagas, the ending of Game of Thrones mirrors the beginning in various key ways. Once again, a mad Targaryen monarch has been killed, preventing the deaths of countless thousands. Another new ruler has been crowned in King’s Landing. One Stark sibling maintains peace and order in the north, while another wanders the land in search of adventure.
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is premiering this week at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tarantino is now speaking up to urge those fortunate enough to see it early to keep their lips shut so as to preserve the “journey of discovering a story for the first time.” The movie doesn’t have its public premiere until July.
In a note posted on Twitter, Tarantino said, “I love cinema. You love cinema. It’s the journey of discovering a story for the first time. I’m thrilled to be here in Cannes to share ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” with the festival audience. The cast and crew have worked so hard to create something original, and I only ask that everyone avoids revealing anything that would prevent later audiences from experiencing the film in the same way. Thank you.”
The Cannes Film Festival is a special place for Tarantino. One of his earlier movies, Pulp Fiction, won the show’s Palme d’Or award years ago that helped make Tarantino a big name.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells a Pulp Fiction-style story that features intersecting stories set in Los Angeles during 1969. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, who is the struggling former star of a Western TV show, while Brad Pitt plays his stunt double Cliff Booth. Rick’s neighbour is Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who was murdered by the family of Charles Manson (Damon Herriman).
The movie is due in theatres on July 26. It also features Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, James Marsden, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Timothy Olyphant, Lena Dunham, Emile Hirsch, and Dakota Fanning. Bruce Dern came aboard the movie last year to play a part meant for Burt Reynolds who died in September 2018. Luke Perry filmed scenes for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood before his death in March.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood might be one of Tarantino’s final movies. In 2016 he said that he would quit directing after his tenth movie, but it remains to be the seen if this is still the case.
Sony has again provided some new details on its next-generation console. As part of Sony’s Corporate Strategy Meeting today, the company discussed at a high level what it hopes to achieve in the future across its various business units, including PlayStation.
The two keywords for PlayStation going forward are “immersive” and “seamless,” Sony said. Concerning hardware, Sony said its next-generation console, the PlayStation 5, will offer an “immersive experience created by dramatically increased graphics rendering speeds.”
This will be made possible through the “employment of further improved computational power and a customized ultra-fast, broadband SSD,” Sony said.
Overall, the PlayStation 5–or whatever Sony ends up calling its new console–will offer experiences that “greatly exceed” what is possible on PS4 and PS4 Pro. Sony said people can expect “completely transformative and immersive gaming experiences” on the PS5.
One of the features that PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny talked about for the PS5 is how its use of solid-state drives will reduce loading screen times.
Cerny pointed out that the fast travel loading screen in Spider-Man on PS4 took roughly 15 seconds on a PS4 Pro, but less than one second on a dev kit for the PS5. Given that the new hardware will be backwards compatible with older games, that means your load times will likely be reduced across the board when you upgrade. Check out the video below from The Wall Street Journal report Takashi Mochizuki who is attending the Sony event today to see the faster load times in action.
Cerny also talked about how the PS5 will allow for faster rendering, which means more environmental objects and textures will populate at a faster rate. In the presentation today, Sony said the PS5 will offer “many new features” beyond these advancements to loading and rendering, though none were mentioned.
Also during the presentation, Sony said it expects the PS4 to reach sales of 100 million units by the end of the 2019 calendar year. PS4 sales currently stand at 96.8 million systems sold. PlayStation Network has 94 million monthly active users, the company said.
Additionally, Sony management talked about how streaming will play a big role in the PlayStation brand going forward. The PS5 will support Remote Play functionality, Sony confirmed, while management also said it’s looking to its new deal with Microsoft for cloud-gaming solutions to play a role in the company’s future success in that area. Sony of course already operates the PlayStation Now streaming service (which has 700,000 subscribers by Sony’s latest count), but it appears the company has bigger and bolder plans in the future.
Sony is not attending E3 2019 next month, so the company presumably won’t be announcing the PlayStation 5 there. The PlayStation 5 will have an “appealing” price point given its specs, according to Cerny, but there is no ballpark estimate yet regarding what the price may be.
