The Red Viper is cast for GOT

With Season 3 having just finished on our screens, and people still recovering from a certain Red Wedding, Game of Thrones is getting ready for Season 4 and has announced who will be playing Prince Oberyn, aka the Red Viper.

Pedro Pascal, who has been in The Good Wife and Graceland, will be portraying the prince in the vital role as, without getting too spoilery,the Red Viper has an important part to play in the story.

EW.com describes the character as “a brash, charming, cunning prince of Dorne (part of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros). His sister Elia was brutally murdered by the Lannister knight Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane when Mad King Aerys was overthrown by Robert Baratheon and the Lannisters. In Season 4, Oberyn comes to King’s Landing with revenge on his mind.”

Any Game of Thrones new is exciting for us here at +3, roll on next spring for more awesome!

 

Source: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/06/28/game-of-thrones-casts-oberyn-the-red-viper

Reboot of Terminator due June 2015

The press release for the reboot of Terminator has confirmed that Paramount, Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures have set a June 26th 2015 release date.

The film is intended to be the first past of a possible trilogy and will have Arnold Schwarznegger on board in some capacity, although the press release hasn’t stated what role he will playing.

Writers who have worked on Avatar and Drive Angry have been working on the script, and the studios are currently looking for a director.

With the North American rights of the franchise due to revert back to James Cameron in a few years, the companies are hopeful to get two movies out sooner rather than later.

 

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/paramount-sets-terminator-relaunch-for-june-26-2015/

 

PS4 to be dev-friendly like original PlayStation

Key system architect of the PS4, Mark Cerny, has claimed that Sony’s new console will be developer friendly.

Cerny has spent five years working on building the next-gen console and claims that the development time to create games will be 1-2 months for the PS4, the same as for the original PlayStation, compared to the average 6-12 months for the PS3.

Cerny said that in 2008 he sent a questionnaire for third parties to ask what features they wanted on future hardware, and found that most popular request was unified memory, which has been fulfilled in the PS4.

After speaking with more than thirty teams from around the world, he said the most popular request from developers was unified memory – a requirement which the PS4 team fulfilled.

This has enabled a straightforward approach, that gives “excellent day one performance” and will cut down on developing time to one or two months, theoretically making the system as developer friendly as the original – benefitting indie developers.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/416631/ps4-as-dev-friendly-as-original-playstation-claims-cerny/

Ouya released in UK today

The Android console was released in the UK today, priced at £99.99

The console was funded by Kickstarter and raised $8.5 million, with creative backing from Square Enix, the makers of Final Fantasy III, which is available as a release title.

With the tech in place, existing Android developers can port their games to the Ouya easily. The developer toolkit is shipped with the console, so new game makers have a new option to try making their own game into a reality.

The specs are 8gig storage, HD graphics for TV ,1.7GHz Nvdia Tegra 3 quad-core chip with 1GB of RAM, the console also supports both WiFi and Ethernet.

Julie Uhrman, one of Ouya’s founders stated that “there will be a new Ouya every year, but the games will backwards compatible and tied to the user’s account, rather than the hardware itself.”

It’ll be interesting to see how well the Ouya does in the UK, and whether it’ll be around to stay.

 

Jurassic Park 4 said to have underwater dinosaurs

The upcoming sequel  is due to hit cinemas in 2015, and will reportedly feature underwater dinosaurs.

The latest installment is set on the original’s Isla Nublar and is said to feature a giant underwater beast that eats a great white shark, as well as the velociraptors and T-Rexes we all know and love from the earlier films.

Sam Neil has said recently that he won’t be reprising his role as Dr Alan Grant, which is a shame, but underwater dinosaurs certainly sounds interesting!

The film is expected to be shot in 3D and is to be directed by Colin Trevorrow, his first major full length motion picture.

 

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a492594/jurassic-park-4-plot-has-underwater-dinosaurs-return-to-isla-nublar.html#ixzz2X9oZhZzR

World War Z to get sequel

The Brad Pitt zombie film ‘World War Z’ is due to get a sequel, following a $111.8million world wide box office in its opening weekend.

Paramount confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that they will be actively developing a sequel, following the film’s success so far as it earned $66million in the US alone.

Initially envisioned as a trilogy, the film has had a strong start so far, both commercially and critically, and that appears to be enough for the execs at Paramount to greenlight a second film, despite the $190million budget spent on the movie.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paramount-brad-pitt-set-sights-573814

 

Beta registration for Project Spark now open

The registration for the beta test of Project Spark has now opened. Microsoft hasn’t said which platforms the beta will use or when applicants can gain access to it.

To register for the beta, visit: https://joinprojectspark.com/

Source: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/06/24/project-spark-beta-registration-open-now

Star Wars Episode VII casting call leaked

If you’re around the UK, an actor and looking to be in the new Star Wars film then your luck may be in, if you fit into one of categories below, all of which were leaked yesterday.

Deadline.com confirmed the casting notices, as detailed below:

A young man aged between 20 and 25, witty and smart, fit but not classically handsome,

Man in late twenties, also fit, but this one is handsome and confident.

Late teenage girl, independent, good sense of humour, also… physically fit.

Second young female, also late teens, tough, smart and physically fit.

Man in his forties, obviously physically fit, this one is a military type.

A man of around thirty or so, this one is an intellectual type.

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

We don’t know if these details provide any hints to the new films’ plot, as none are particularly specific, but the news may aid fans in theorising over who and what will be involved. We already know that Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford have signed up to reprise their roles.

Star Wars Episode VII is due to be released in 2014.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/star-wars-episode-vii-casting-calls_n_3467258.html

International poster for Kick-Ass 2 released

The anticipated sequel to the awesome Kick-Ass is due on our screens 14th August (16th August in the US), and today the latest poster has been released for all of the internet to marvel at.

Kick-Ass 2 sees Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) team up with a band of other ‘superheroes’, including Jim Carrey’s Colonel Stars-and-Stripes, whilst Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) is trying to adjust to normal life. That is until The Mother Fucker (Christopher Mintz-Passe), the former Red Mist decides to get some vengeance on Kick-Ass and co.

The film looks awesome, as does the poster, we can’t wait for August 14.

Source: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=37866

Steam may soon allow you to share your games with friends

As Steam users will know you can’t share your downloaded games with friends, not in the way the console users can by simply lending them a disc. But this may be about to change, after three lines of code were discovered in the latest Steam client beta.

The lines of code in question are:

• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicense_Title” “Shared game library”
• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_OwnerText” “Just so you know, your games are currently in use by %borrower%. Playing now will send %borrower% a notice that it’s time to quit.”
• “SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_BorrowerText” “This shared game is currently unavailable. Please try again later or buy this game for your own library.”

From that it appears that you will be able to let other Steam players borrow your games, and then take them back when you fancy.

What this means for publishers we don’t know, or whether if Steam will go ahead with it. But there is the possibility that Steam users will be able to share their games with other users, just like you can do with console games.

Source: http://kotaku.com/steam-might-soon-let-you-share-your-games-with-your-fri-514219133