In their launch weekend, Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s+ have sold 13 million units juxtaposed with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+'s 10 million sales in the same three days of release.
The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s+'s debut included China for the first time. "Customers feedback is incredible, they are loving 3D touch and live photos and we cant wait to bring the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s+ to customers in even more countries on October 9th." said Apple CEO, Tim Cook in a statement.
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s+
The new phones would be available in 40 more countries on 9th October, 2015 and Apple is looking forward to bringing them into 130 countries by the end of the year.
Another year of FIFA is upon us and there are few new things that have been added, FIFA 16 holds its own as a great football game and here's my review for those of you on the fence.
New Features;
Women's Football For the first time in the franchise we see women take to the centre stage as well. Twelve (12) Women's National teams have been added and it gives you a taste of where the franchise is headed. Hopefully more National teams and clubs would be added in the following year.
No-Touch Dribbling
Adding to the various attacking manoeuvres used to embarrass defenders, FIFA 16's No-touch Dribbling will have you leave defenders on the floor without a touch of the ball, hence the name.
Better Defending
The defending overall has been improved, so much that it gets difficult to keep up quick passes; pass too quick too often and you lose possession of the ball, quite awkward for a "possession" game. For a game based on ball possession the CPU tend to stick to the ball like Velcro and it has to be fixed either by a patch or in the following game.
Player Training in Career Mode
This new feature permits you to be able to alter the attributes of the player in your team in what ever specific way you choose. These training drills come in the form of skill games;you can either play them yourself or simulate. You would be able to train first team players, substitutes, reserves and even the youth academy.
Youth Academy Players Growth
That frustrating wait for youth players to clock an Overall (OVR) of 70 has changed. After scouting youth players they can now grow as you progress in your career mode. Apart from the new default natural growth you would be able to train your youth players even if you haven't signed them to the main squad. A bit unrealistic, the growth occurs to quick to be honest.
Career Mode
Pre-Season tournaments, two-years loan options and multiple substitutions during friendlies are some of the new features
FUT Draft Mode
Testing your team building skills is the FUT Draft Mode, draft a squad and challenge opponents in a series of four matches and win rewards. Choose your formation, a captain, and fill out the rest of the 23-man team from a draw of five random players for each position, even legends (only on Xbox though), take to the pitch and the rest is yours to decide.
Pros
Gameplay Experience
It promises an refreshing and competitive gaming experience for long hours, the DEMO hardly showed what much FIFA 16 has to offer. It even plays better with friends online or offline.
Cons
Glitches As some holes have been plugged in new ones have opened, certain glitches have been fixed but some new ones plague this beautiful game, like the overly possessive CPU's hold on possession and difficulty getting the ball back, not sure it is part of the game or a glitch. Like all games and previous FIFA games, FIFA 16 has glitches, but which game doesn't?
Verdict (8/10): Go and get yourself a copy, you won't regret it.
Screen Actors Guild American Federation of TV and Radio.
Screen Actors Guild American Federation of TV and Radio or better known as SAG-AFTRA are threatening to go on a strike to enforce their negotiations with big video game publishers.
A change for how voice actors are paid is amongst the demands leading to Back-End Bonuses; common in film acting, initially charges for voice acting fees upfront but will eventually pay performance bonuses after meeting certain milestones post-release (e.g. After 2 million copies of a game is sold). SAG-AFTRA want a residual sum to kick in after milestones continue to heap following the games sales pattern, also claiming that it protects smaller game developers and publishers as they don't seem to rack in as much sales as AAA developers and publishers, calling for a vote to strike and it 75% of its members agree to go on strike? They are required to not work until a resolution has been reached.
Also Encouraging non-union members to join, certain actors have already used the social media to voice their discontent; Jennifer Hayle Ashley Birch Will Wheaton and Steve Blum have all voted in favour of a strike. Using #PerformanceMatters#IAmOnBoard2015 on Twitter.
Darth Vader is rumoured to appear in both Star Wars: Rogue One and Star Wars: The Force Awakens and even so Hayden Christensen, who had played Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader would be back to reprise his role as the menacing number two of the Empire.
A Darth Vader costume is definitely being worked on for Rogue One, but an appearance in The Force Awakens is speculated to be between a flashback as Anakin or a full blown Vader at present.
Will we see Hayden Christensen in the future +Star Wars and or Star Wars Anthology movies as Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader?
A Wolfenstein sequel might have been accidentally announced by Alicia Bachelda-Curus, who plays Any Oliwa in Wolfenstein in an interview with Polish TV station in which she stated "I'm working on a video game, first part of which I have already made. Now we are making a second one, which will take two more years, I played this game as a child. I was very happy when I got to the point where i could shoot Hitler.
BJ Blazkowicz.
Machine Games' director, Jens `Matthies, in June last year expressed a strong desire to have a sequel, however, +Bethesda Softworks has not announced that a sequel would be coming.
The writer and creative director of The Last of Us explained the reason why all the chatter about a sequel was everywhere in an interview with Official Playstation Magazine
"When Bruce (Straley, game director) and I moved to Uncharted 4, we were brainstorming ideas for The Last of Us 2 with new characters; ideas for TLOU 2 with Joel and Ellie; ideas for a sci-fi game; ideas for a fantasy game and building prototypes for each ideas. And just as we were getting close to narrowing the list down, we were asked to work on +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End ."
Neil Druckman continued. "You know, there's a part of me that's really looking forward to going back to those things, but I have no cycles left in my mind even to be thinking about that right now."
Regular Naughty Dog voice actor Nolan North mentioned that The Last of Us 2 was in the works in June and Druckman quelled such talk explaining. "So I guess he (Nolan North) was kind of right in that we were working on stuff we don't know what we are doing next and we don't know until probably a few months after we finish Uncharted 4."
The League actor/comedian, Steve Rannazzisi, has been lying to the world for 14 years with a false 9/11 story, attributing his survival as an inspiration to do stand-up whilst telling "his story" multiple times. He was recently confronted with evidence that weaken his claim-He had been working in Midtown that day, the company has no record of his employment and had no offices either.
Recently, He admitted to coming up with the 9/11 story saying "For many years, more than anything, I have wished that, with silence, I could somehow erase a story told by an immature young man."
What hits will his career take for this? Rannazzisi, who also does Buffalo Wild Wings commercials might be losing his standing relationship with the network and sponsors. This event begs the question, whether he is the only actor who has lied? or Maybe he was just unfortunate to get caught.
On Wednesday the popular streaming service, +Netflix disclosed a press release showing details that revealed the exact time viewers got hooked on a show.
Observing popular shows like +Breaking Bad and original content like +House of Cards "70% of viewers who watched that episode went on to complete season one." Netflix chief content officer explains "we found that no one was ever hooked on the pilot, this gives us confidence that giving our members all episodes at once is more aligned with how fans are made." said Ted Sarandos, meaning binge-watching is what users want.
The list below shows the number of episodes it took to turn a Netflix session to a binge-watching session:
Regionally, Australia and New Zealand were inclined to watch a few more episode before getting hooked unlike the Dutch that were hooked from the get go.
The 1TB Playstation 4 finally arrives in North America, the same day as the new +Call of Duty : Black Ops III and both drop the same day, 6th November, 2015. It is a bundle in fact and it includes the Nuk3town bonus map costing $450, pre-orders are available. Although the 1TB Playstation 4 had launched in the UK (costing £350) since July, the same price as the Xbox One, it does not come in a bundle as seen below.
The bundle is the spawn of the partnership between +Sony PlayStation and +Activision, Inc (Call of Duty publisher) which was announced at E32015 but previously held by Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Following the crowning of Nathaniel Clyne as the FIFA 16 Celebrity champion beating the likes of Ashley Williams, Rio Ferdinand, Jason Puncheon etc, FIFA 16 drops today and is sure to keep us occupied. The full game comes out to hopefully provide what the Demo promised; crispier gameplay, no-touch dribbling and a better defending than its predecessor which seemed to favour attackers more.
There are many teams we can't obviously wait to play with, test out or endure a 25-year Ferguson-esque run with or even the new FUT Draft feature. There's so many things to look out for in this game, 12 Women's National teams even things as little as new celebrations have been added. There's no telling how long FIFA will keep you away from the work your supposed to be doing now. FIFA 16 is out, Play Beautiful.
"After only 10 days in Chinese theaters, Age of Extinction has grossed more than $221 million—$46 million more than it has made in the U.S - Entertainment Weekly" _ +Entertainment Weekly. Brimming with confidence from the success of Transformers: Age of Extinction Paramount Pictures and Hasbro would want to continue to partner in order to dish out more robot wrestling madness. With fresh news erupting from +Paramount Pictures and +Hasbro UK helm that a fifth Transformers movie will have Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg return with Steven Spielberg exec producing. But thats not all, a HOST of writers have been invited to brainstorm and cook up the best storyline/plot in +Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Ant Man's Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, Iron Man's Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Jeff Pinker of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Even so there is talk about spinoffs, projects that include a Cybertron-set origin story and a Bumblebee solo movie, it is best left as a rumour as no confirmation has been made about delving into those deep waters, but with that writing power? You are welcome to think so. Source +IGN+Entertainment Weekly
According to a +Business Insider video, a study reveals that the Earth is on track to run out of trees in the next 300 years.
Reporting that the Earth has Three Trillion trees but loses Ten Billion trees a year, collecting information of tree density from 400k plots worldwide.
The Good News: There are Seven times more trees than estimated
The Bad News: There are 50% less trees than before human civilisation
The study also showed that for every Five Billion trees grown each year, Fifteen Billion Trees are cut down (that's a net loss of Ten Billion trees every year. However some places have lost more trees than others and at this rate we will run out of trees in 300 years.
Most of them were concept cars adopting the "technology of the future" promising efficiency, the use of electricity and optimum performance without the absence of cutting edge design which also enables such performances. Head to +GQ Magazine to see the full specifications and details
Jim Parsons leads the standings with fellow +The Big Bang Theory co-star Johnny Galecki who with Kaley Cuoco, both recently signed an extension to keep them on the show, the list includes both earnings from TV in addition to gigs. Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar also make the list from +The Big Bang Theory cast which is also dominated by +Modern Family cast member like Ty Burrel, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed O'neil and Eric Stonestreet.
This list was assembled by +Forbes and it represents their earnings over the past year between June 1, 2014 and June 1, 2015.
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The Playstation exclusive intends to launch with audacity by have various edition in which it will be released, there'd be the +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Special Edition and the +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Libertalia Collector's Edition.
In the +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Special Edition Collection you have, the game itself, collectible steel book case, 48-page hardcover artbook by +Naughty Dog and Dark Horse, +Naughty Dog and Pirate Sigil Sticker Sheet and finally Naughty Dog Points to unlock multiplayer content and character upgrades.
The +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Libertalia Collector's Edition includes everything above an a 12 inch Nathan Drake statue by Gentle Giant, Three multiplayer outfits, three custom weapon skins, Henry Avery, Thomas Tew and Adam Baldridge Sigil Ball, Madagascar Sidekick Outfits, Phurba Dagger Taut and the +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End dynamic theme.
The digital version, it is available now to pre-order with the Digital Standard Edition possessing +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End digital download, two multiplayer outfits, two custom weapon skins, the Phurba dagger point and Naughty Dog points or the Digital Deluxe Edition that inclusde everything in the Digital Standard Edition and Desert Drake multiplayer outfit, Desert weapon skin, Thomas Tew and Adam Baldridge, Uncharted 4 Triple Pack and an instant unlock for two multiplayer customisation outfits.
