It’s a truth as immutable as the sun setting in the west – comic book fans love Easter eggs. There’s few things that can compare to that little tingle we get when we understand a reference or get to laugh at an in-joke. It’s just as true that showrunners – many of them fans themselves - love packing their shows full of trivia for the most savvy of viewers to enjoy....
Astro City - believed to be the last fully-fleshed, stand-alone superhero franchise not adapted for other media - is finally becoming a TV show. FremantleMedia North America, who also produced the recent adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods for Starz, have picked up the television rights for the long-running and critically-acclaimed comic book and intend to adapt it into a live-action drama. Set in the titular city, which boasts the highest population of super-heroes and super-villains in the world, Astro City first saw publication in 1995 at the height of what became known as The Dark Age of Comics....
The world of Avatar: the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra has its own magic system known as “bending,” and this Asian-inspired setting features the four Greek elements: fire, water, earth, and wind. Among these four, fire bending is the most aggressive and arguably the most flashy, and the lore largely uses fire benders as villains. But just as fire is mistaken for a simple destruction art, some benders of fire prove themselves deeper and more human than they first seem....
Argonus and the Gods of Stone tells a fantastic Greek myth with a danger-free point-and-click interface. Argonus and the Gods of Stone is steeped heavily in ancient Greek mythology, acting as a sequel story of sorts to the events which transpired during the classic tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The player takes on the game’s title role of Argonus, mapmaking son of Argus, the master craftsman who built Jason’s ship, the Argo, for which the group of soldiers who sailed upon it, the Argonauts, took their name....
Despite being more well known in the public eye for his various roles as action-hero heavy-men from the 1980s, actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to humor. Having starred in such popular studio comedy films as Kindergarten Cop and Twins, the onetime California governor knows how to turn on the charm while simultaneously bringing significant physical force to his more comical roles. In recent years, Schwarzenegger has begun to vary his film roles somewhat more, starring in the big-budget action franchise The Expendables alongside turns in smaller arthouse fare like the indie zombie-drama Maggie....
Anatoly will be making life complicated for Oliver when he returns in Arrow season 6. Comic books and their movie/TV adaptations have long used the idea of redemptive villains as plot points. Equally as common, however, is the friend who becomes the enemy. Both stories can offer compelling new lenses to view characters through, and season 6 of Arrow will be put the trope to good use. Following the events of last season, Arrow will open with Black Siren in the mix and Slade Wilson back from Lian Yu....
[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Arrow season 4 ahead.] - Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) has been a formidable foe for our heroes on Arrow. With the vast H.I.V.E. network behind him, an endless supply of resources and assassins, plus mystical powers of his own, Darhk thus far seems impossible to defeat. While Team Arrow may occasionally thwart his immediate plans, his ultimate nefarious goal remains hidden and frustratingly on schedule....
Birds of Prey has roared onto screens with a new live-action version of Huntress; how does the new DCEU version compare to the Helena Bertinelli of the Arrowverse? These are the two most recent times that the DC comics character has made it into live-action, although she’s appeared in animation and video games as well as the original comics, and did have a role in the short-lived (and rarely remembered) Birds of Prey TV series....
AT&T today has revealed a slight change to how it is handling throttling users grandfathered into unlimited data plans. Up until today, AT&T has throttled unlimited data users when they hit 5GB of usage and are in a congested area. As a reader has pointed out to us this evening, however, the carrier has updated its website with a new policy for throttling those on an unlimited data plans… Starting today, users on an unlimited data plan will only be throttled when they go over 22GB of data usage and are in a congested area....
The latest update to the August Home app on iOS brings two new features to the August Doorbell Cam: motion detection and video recording. Adding the new features to Doorbell Cam (review) simply requires updating to the latest version of the iPhone app. Motion detection is free for all customers and can send you notifications when visitors are near Doorbell Cam even if they don’t ring (like an intruder lurking around)....
While the ebook trial may seem like old news now, the case is not yet finally settled. Apple was found guilty of anticompetitive behavior in its ebooks pricing and practices back in 2013, and lost a subsequent federal court appeal – despite some judges expressing sympathy with Apple’s position. Apple then decided to take the case to the Supreme Court, and today got the backing of both authors and distributors, reports The Bookseller....
Stop All Website Notification Requests While you could go through a series of menus, here is the easiest way to get to the Notification settings you need to manage. Open Chrome and type: chrome://settings/content/notifications into the address bar and hit Enter. Then flip off the “Ask before sending” switch and close out of Settings. That’s all there is to it. Restart the browser, and now, moving forward, when you visit a page that wants to pop up a notification request, it will simply be rejected by default and you won’t see the pop up at all....
A lot has happened in the lead-up to the Arrowverse’s 2019-2020 crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths, so a recap may be in order. The Arrowverse has been building up to Crisis on Infinite Earths for quite a while, particularly in the current seasons of Arrow and The Flash, which have been centered around the coming conflict. Crisis on Infinite Earths is perhaps the most important DC Comics miniseries ever published, so it makes sense that the 1985-1986 comic served as the basis for the Arrowverse’s biggest crossover ever....
Anyone with a PlayStation VR is familiar with the character Astro Bot, a perky and charismatic mascot mainstay of the The Playroom VR, who heads off to rescue his friends in a memorable mini-game pack-in. Utilizing a headset-oriented camera, players follow and control Astro as they bop around in search of lost robot pals, hiding behind bright foliage or dilly-dallying down secret paths. Astro Bot Rescue Mission is a full-length upgrade on that initial proof-of-concept, and gives PS VR gamers a signature exclusive to proudly lord over their non-VR-having friends....
Asus Zephyrus is a gamming laptop hence has a high-performance CPU and GPU. With Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, it takes it’s a toll on the battery. However, two cooling fans will be continuously cooling the laptop battery. But people are complaining about Asus Zephyrus Laptop battery life draining issues and rapid battery failure. Some people are stating that after they have switched off the laptop, their battery drains to 10-15%....
AT&T, which claims to have the fastest and most reliable LTE service, is planning to expand its coverage to 50 more parts of the USA by the end of the year. This is expected to boost access from 225M people at present to 270M by the end of 2013. The new areas are: Fairbanks, AK Dothan, AL Selma, AL Redding, CA Durango, CO Pueblo, CO Tifton, GA Waycross, GA Kauai, HI The Big Island, HI Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA Twin Falls, ID Lewiston, ID-WA Decatur, IL Kankakee-Bradley, IL Peoria, IL Paducah, KY-IL Alexandria, LA Lake Charles, LA Lewiston-Auburn, ME Battle Creek, MI Jackson, MI Joplin, MO Poplar Bluff, MO Rolla, MO Brookhaven, MS McComb, MS Natchez, MS-LA Kalispell, MT Greenville, NC Jacksonville, NC Fargo, ND-MN Elmira, NY Utica-Rome, NY Portsmouth, OH Sandusky, OH East Stroudsburg, PA Pottsville, PA Abilene, TX Amarillo, TX Longview, TX Marshall, TX San Angelo, TX Tyler, TX Port Angeles, WA Appleton, WI Fond du Lac, WI Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Gillette, WY Sheridan, WY Over the past five years, AT&T invested nearly $98 billion into operations, and claims to have invested more into the U....
Warning: Contains SPOILERS For Arrow, Season 8, Episode 1, “Starling City.” There’s an old saying that you can’t go home again, and Oliver Queen proved it true in Arrow season 8’s premiere episode, “Starling City.” Most of the episode centered upon Oliver Queen confronting his past and his early days as a vigilante trying to save his hometown, though under drastically different circumstances on another Earth, which was eventually revealed as Earth-2....
UPDATE: The new Green Arrow’s identity has been revealed. The season 7 premiere of Arrow reveals that a new vigilante has emerged to take Oliver Queen’s place as the Green Arrow. The mysterious hooded archer’s identity remains a secret, but there’s a good chance that the man behind the hood is the original Green Arrow’s former sidekick, Roy Harper (Colton Haynes). Thea Queen’s boyfriend, Roy Harper, was trained by Oliver (Stephen Amell) during season 2....
Kate Kane aka. Batwoman (Ruby Rose) uses her Bat-gadgets to stop a prison break in the latest image from the Arrowverse Elseworlds crossover. The TV event includes Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, and takes place over the course of three nights in early December. In the years since Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen and Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen teamed up for the first Arrowverse crossover (between Arrow and The Flash), The CW’s annual DCTV crossover events have further incorporated Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and the Legends of Tomorrow into the mix....
Apple’s sales team must be seriously worried about this one. It seems some are taking Donald Trump’s call to boycott Apple and iPhones seriously. Effective immediately, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office will discontinue providing iPhones as option for replacements or upgrades for existing employees [over] Apple’s recent refusal to cooperate in unlocking an encrypted iPhone used by individuals involved in the recent San Bernardino shootings. There are currently 564 smartphones deployed throughout the office, 366 of which are iPhones....
