Author: Heath Andrews

The troubled story of EA and BioWare’s 2019 game “Anthem” has come to an unceremonious end. Earlier this month, “Anthem” publisher Electronic Arts was reportedly mulling over whether to allow BioWare to continue trying to revamp and improve the game, or shut it down altogether. On February 24th, 2021, a post from Christian Dailey on the official BioWare blog revealed that the decision had been made, and further development of the game has been halted. In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem…

Reality’s continued efforts to prove that truth is indeed stranger than fiction have proven successful, as an Alaskan woman was attacked by a bear while attempting to use the outdoor facilities. In what could possibly best be described as a case of un-bear-ably bad luck, on February 13th, Shannon Stevens, her brother, and his girlfriend were snowmobiling in Southeast Alaska to spend some time at the brother’s yurt. For those unfamiliar with a yurt, it’s a round, tent-like structure historically used by nomadic tribes due to its relative ease of assembly and portability. As one would expect, a yurt has…

Fans of Edgar Wright and the musical duo Sparks have cause to celebrate today. Focus Features has secured the distribution rights to Wright’s documentary, “The Sparks Brothers.” The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, and details the more than 50 years brothers Ron and Russell Mael have spent making music as the band, Sparks. Sparks presents one of the rare examples in popular music where an American group or artist has had only minimal success in the States while being far more popular in the UK and various parts of Europe. Since the release of their…

Sony PlayStation’s trademark vehicular combat game, “Twisted Metal,” is poised to be turned into a television series. “Twisted Metal” originally debuted in 1995 as an early first-party title for Sony’s original PlayStation. The title proved very popular very quickly thanks to its edgy characters and vehicular mayhem. A sequel, “Twisted Metal 2” quickly followed in 1996, with two further follow-ups in 1998 and 1999. Its influence also resulted in several imitators of sorts, including the oft forgotten “Vigilante 8” games and the ill-conceived “Star Wars: Demolition.”According to a report from Variety, Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions have reached an…

A young father is dead and his brother injured in yet another case of a gender reveal party going terribly wrong. In the upstate New York town of Liberty, Christopher Pekny was preparing a home-made explosive device, intended to colorfully indicate the gender of his upcoming first child. Unfortunately, the device exploded in his garage, taking his life and sending his brother to the hospital where his knee had to be rebuilt. The somewhat recent fad of gender reveal parties tends to incorporate the usage of a pyrotechnic device that ejects blue or pink colored smoke. Social media has caused…

Hope you like stories about St. Olaf, because you’re about to hear a lot more of them in the UK. According to various sources, the arrival of “The Golden Girls” this summer to Disney Plus was heralded in a Disney press conference regarding their upcoming Star streaming program. In the United States, “The Golden Girls” is viewable on Hulu, a streaming platform that is owned by Disney. However outside of the US, Hulu is currently only available primarily in Japan. Instead of further expanding the brand internationally, Disney has opted to create a new package for films and television shows…

Since Stanley Kubrick’s passing in 1999, his legacy has continued to grow. A new crop of students are introduced to his work every semester in film school, “The Shining” gets discussed annually as one of the greatest horror movies of all time, and “Dr. Strangelove” becomes more frightening than funny with each new passing political scandal. And as luck would have it, two producers are gonna expand that legacy further with the development of one of Kubrick’s unrealized projects. “Lunatic At Large” was supposed to be the third studio film production between Kubrick and novelist Jim Thompson following “The Killing”…

It’s been 21 years since the release of “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” but finally, Gizmo has returned to us. He even brought along his pet human Billy Petlzer in order to do an ad for Mountain Dew Zero Sugar. Zach Galligan returns to play the part of Billy who seems to be living pretty comfortably with the older, but still as curious as ever, Gizmo. The mogwai points towards Billy’s bottle of Mountain Dew Zero Sugar, but apparently in the decades they’ve now spent together, Billy still doesn’t have a handle on the three rules. In case you need…

Nintendo will be making available four more games for their online Nintendo Switch subscription service. Three of them for the Super Nintendo (SNES), one of them for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and all of them seemingly picked through the trusty method of throwing darts at a giant board and seeing what sticks. The three SNES titles consist of 2D one-on-one fighter “Doomsday Warrior,” caveman platforming game, “Prehistorik Man,” and the never before released outside of japan, “Psycho Dream.” The latter of these is a side-scrolling action game where you run, shoot, and uh, twirl your way through levels that…

In a parking lot near Hermitage, Tennessee, 20-year-old Timothy Wilks lost his life after pretending to rob a group of people with a butcher knife. Even the most innocent of pranks can go horrifyingly wrong, resulting in tragedies that no one would’ve anticipated happening.According to local news network WKRN, before Wilks could reveal that he and his co-participant were trying to record a prank video for YouTube, one of the members of the group shot Wilks, fatally wounding him. Rachelle Friedman wound up the victim of one such prank when in 2010 one of her friends pushed her into a…