Soundgarden have announced that they will release both a Deluxe and a Super Deluxe edition of their 1994 album Superunknown on June 3rd in honor of the album’s 20th anniversary.
Stealing is wrong. Whether you shoplift a candy bar from the corner store, nick a handful of quarters off your dad’s bureau, or download a pirated copy of a new video game, being a thief is not cool. And if you don’t believe me, just play Thief, a deeply flawed and ultimately dull first-person stealth action game for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC in which you make your living by stealing anything that isn’t nailed down.
Gentle Giant have announced that they will release a mini bust of Kili from The Hobbit movies at the end of the year, around the time that the third and final movie, The Hobbit: There And Back Again, hits theaters.
Gentle Giant have announced that they will release a maquette of The Inquisitor from the upcoming animated show Star Wars Rebels, which is slated to air on Disney XD this fall.
Gentle Giant have announced that the third in their series of Walking Dead Army Men playlets will be released at the beginning of 2015.
Warner Home Video have announced that they will release The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug — the second of the three Hobbit movies — on DVD, in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, in a 3D DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, and in a limited edition 3D DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on April 8th.
With the novel Diablo III: Storm Of Light, writer Nate Kenyon isn’t just delivering another epic set in the world of Blizzard’s fantasy role-playing game, he’s helping set the stage for the game’s next chapter, Reaper Of Souls. Though in talking to him, it’s clear he didn’t just write this novel to get gamers from one plot point to another.
Released in 1976, the movie Network took a grim and darkly comic look at the state of television and TV news. In the almost forty years since it came out, though, the movie has become less of a satire of what could be and more of sad case of art imitating life. It’s a transition explored by New York Times writer — and my pal and former editor at Spin and Maxim — Dave Itzkoff in his new book, Mad As Hell: The Making Of ‘Network’ And The Fateful Vision Of The Angriest Man In Movies (hardcover, paperback, Kindle)