Archive for: January, 2018

AT&T Follows Competitors in Offering Free Olympic Roaming

AT&T  is following the lead of  its competitors T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, it will offer customers the opportunity to use their mobile devices during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games at no extra cost. Specifically, AT&T will waive the $10 fee normally charged for the AT&T International Day Pass. The Pass gives AT&T customers access to […]

Vince McMahon Announces Plan to Relaunch the XFL

Vince McMahon is officially moving forward with plans to bring back the XFL, the pro football league he launched in 2001 which lasted for one season. The WWE chairman and CEO made the announcement during a press conference on Thursday. “The new XFL will kick off in 2020 and quite frankly, we’re going to give […]

Twitter Claims To Improved the Way It Crops Images – Especially Ones That Lack Faces

Photos that appear on Twitter should begin to look better over the coming weeks. The company says it has changed the algorithms it uses to automatically crop images and the results are much improved. Before this week, the company used a face-detection method to determine which portion of the image to show in users’ feeds. Twitter eventually […]

Female Oriented Reboot of Greatest American Hero Is a GO! at ABC

The Revenge of the Reboots continues as news drops that ABC is moving forward with its female-driven reboot of The Greatest American Hero. The Disney-owned network has handed out a formal pilot order to the single-camera, half-hour comedy that follows Meera, a 30-year-old Indian-American woman from Cleveland, Ohio, whose talents include drinking tequila, singing karaoke […]

USA Network Cancels Damnation After a Single Season

It’s one and out for USA Network drama Damnation. The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has opted to cancel the low-rated series starring Killian Scott and Logan Marshall-Green. Netflix had boarded the Depression-era drama as a co-producer to help offset the costs of what USA described as an “epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s […]

Gotham to Recast Major Villain Role

An infamous villain is set to stalk Gotham anew, albeit with a drastically altered appearance. David W. Thompson has been tapped to take over the role of Scarecrow, the Big Bad psychopath previously portrayed by Charlie Tahan. According to reports, Tahan’s series-regular gig on Netflix’s recently-renewed Ozark precluded him from reprising the role. The character […]

Image Comics Shows Support For Artists with Special Edition We Believe Covers

Image Comics has revealed the first seven (shown in the slide show below) of 14 exclusive virgin wraparound covers in celebration of artists and the importance and impact they have in defining the comics medium. We Believe in Artists will be the first of many initiatives throughout Image’s planned #WeBelieve 2018 campaign highlighting the important, […]

T-Mobile, Verizon Offer Free Roaming In Korea During Olympics

Americans traveling to South Korea to attend the 2018 Winter Olympic Games will be able to roam for free if they subscribe to T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless. T-Mobile says its customers can take advantage of free unlimited high-speed data, unlimited calls within South Korea and back to the U.S., as well as free texting while attending the games. […]

Nintendo eShop Adds Pokémon Crystal on 3DS This Week

This week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop are certainly more robust than last and include Switch and Pokémon Crystal Version on the Nintendo 3DS. Pokémon Crystal Version was first introduced on the Game Boy Color in 2000. This port for the 3DS includes a few new features, including male and female avatars and additional animations. […]

Nintendo Switch to Get Its Own Version of RunGunJumpGun

Deceptively-simple automatic runner RunGunJumpGun is coming to Nintendo Switch on February 8th, according to a tweet by its developers, Good Shepherd. The game first hit iOS and Android in 2016, amassing an army of fans initially intrigued by its simple premise — shoot, jump, survive — and subsequently ensnared by its addictive intelligent level design […]

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