Month: September 2020

Today, the LEGO Group reveals its latest construction set featuring the beloved character from the Lucasfilm series Star Wars: The Mandalorian™. The LEGO® Star Wars™ The Child construction set is inspired by the small-in-size but powerful-in-charisma character, the Child (or Baby Yoda as fans have affectionately dubbed the character), from the series. The building set will be available globally from October
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SAN FRANCISCO – Radar satellite operator Iceye raised $87 million in a Series C round announced Sept. 22, boosting the Finnish startup’s total investment tally to $152 million. “We’re grateful to have closed a great round,” Mark Matossian, Iceye US CEO, told SpaceNews. “Now, we can stand on the accelerator.” With the Series C round
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Travis Scott is back with a new single on Friday. This one’s called “Franchise,” and it’s been announced with pre-orders available for physical 7″ vinyl and cassette singles. The single artwork, below, is by George Condo—the artist who created a series of paintings for Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. “Franchise” arrives in a
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Exclusive Jackie Stallone, the famed celeb astrologer and Sly‘s mother, has died … TMZ has learned. Jackie recently passed away … according to sources with direct knowledge. The exact circumstances surrounding her death are still unclear. Mrs. Stallone was a renaissance woman, to say the least — well-regarded as an astrologer, dancer and even women’s
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Blizzard has announced their dates for the all digital BlizzCon experience set for February 2021. With this year’s celebration cancelled due to the continued presence of COVID-19, the Blizzard-specific convention had to make a stark pivot with many others like it.  According to a recent BlizzCon update, the BlizzConline experience will take place from February 19-20, 2021.
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The contract is to upgrade and expand the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System that track objects in geostationary orbits. WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies received a $119.1 million contract to upgrade and expand the network of U.S. military telescopes known as the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System that track objects in geostationary orbits. The
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Developers Superbrothers A/V Inc. and Pine Scented Software Ltd. have announced that Jett: The Far Shore has been pushed back to 2021. It seems that the game isn’t quite where the developers would like it to be, so it will now release sometime next year. Jett: The Far Shore made its debut during the PS5
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Hasbro released a new press release. They are joining in on a new celebration of The Mandalorian called Mando Mondays, where new products will be revealed each Monday. The event officially starts on October 26th and will last for nine weeks! To commiserate the announcement of the event Hasbro has revealed some new Mandalorian products.
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UPDATE,Writethru: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet handily passed $200M overseas this weekend with a $25M offshore frame to bring the international box office cume to $214M. Including domestic, the global to-date total is now $250.1M. Boosting play overseas, as we noted yesterday, was the Japan bow which came in at a strong $4.3M in the No. 1
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By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 21 September 2020 20:40 GMT Activision Blizzard has announced BlizzConline, an all-digital, online-only event that will be the alternative to a physical BlizzCon 2020. Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that it would cancel this year’s event – BlizzCon 2020 – ‘in light of all the health and safety considerations’ the company
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WASHINGTON — Arianespace and OneWeb on Sept. 21 announced a revised launch contract that covers OneWeb’s constellation deployment with three fewer launches than originally planned.  Arianespace will conduct 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb, each carrying 34-36 satellites, to complete OneWeb’s internet megaconstellation by the end of 2022. The revised contract canceled two Soyuz launches, and
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It should come as no surprise that after 10 seasons of zombie apocalypse drama on The Walking Dead and five seasons following the same madness in a different location on its spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, AMC further extended its doomed landscape into another era with The Walking Dead: The World Beyond. Is it necessary?
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A secure system that allows troops at the tactical edge to communicate securely The U.S. Space Force acquires, operates and maintains a constellation of Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites that are reserved for strategic, high-priority military missions, providing secure, jam-resistant communications. While tactical military forces do use AEHF, its primary mission is to provide 100% assured
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New York Comic-Con 2020 has gone online and joined the Metaverse, but you can’t stop the NYCC exclusives! Diamond Select Toys is offering five exclusives this year, including four available through a variety of retailers (links below go to AwesomeToyBlog sponsor Entertainment Earth) and one that is only at shop.diamondselecttoys.com! To check out the exclusive Gallery
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New incredible fan art shows The Boys’ star Karen Fukuhara as Cindy Moon, aka Silk. While Fukuhara has held numerous roles in the past, including voicing Glimmer on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and playing Katana on Suicide Squad, she is perhaps best known as Kimiko on Amazon’s twisted superhero show The Boys. While Cindy Moon may have made a relatively recent debut into
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© Nintendo In the short time-frame since the leak and release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, dataminers have been discovering more and more about this 35th-anniversary collection each day. The latest finding once again comes from OatmealDome. This time, they believe they’ve uncovered additional “GPU features” in the GameCube and Wii emulator within the collection.
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