Ubisoft Confirms Plans For Watch Dogs Movie

Ubisoft have announced that a movie based on their hit video game Watch Dogs is in the works. speaking at yesterdays conference at E3, it was revealed that, working alongside Sony, Ubisoft are still looking to adapt the hacking game onto the silver screen after discussing it three years earlier. While no other details have been announced, Watch Dogs looks set to join Assassins Creed and The Division, starring Michael Fassbender and Jake Gyllenhaal respectively, in the list of their video game movie adaptations. First up of course is Assassin’s Creed, due out this December.

More news as we get it, but it seems more will soon start to be unveiled. Most likely after the reception for Assassin’s Creed at the end of the year.

Pixar Teases Latest Short Piper

With the release of Finding Dory swimming ever closer to cinema’s, Pixar have released a first look at the short film that will be preceding it. According to the brief synopsis, the 6 minute short, Piper ‘tells the story of a hungry sandpiper hatchling who ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline.’ and if the short 25 second clip is anything to go by, it’s going to be absolutely adorable!

Alan Barillaro is directing, having worked on 8 previous Pixar features as animator including A Bug’s Life and Finding Nemo. Check out the brief teaser below and head to a screening of Finding Dory from July 29 to get the full short beforehand.

Metal Stars Pay Tribute To Motörhead Lemmy

Superstars of Metal Music including Megadeath Guitarist Dave Mustaine, Anthrax and  Motörhead band mate drummer Mikkey Dee paid tribute to music icon Lemmy at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2016 ceremony  in London last night. Bands including Saxon, Creeper, Amon Amarth, Enslaved, Beartooth, New Years Day, Faith No More and Chthonic also added their words of praise and respect to a proud salute to one of the genre’s biggest superstars.

Check out the full video tribute below:

Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards Winners

The Metal Hammer Golden God Awards in association with Fireball blew the roof off a sold-out Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith last night, and honoured the very best of the past 12 months’ metal and rock from around the globe.

Hosted by Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta, this unique and special night is all about the fans. There are no tables, no sit-down dinners, no industry backslapping – this is a room full of genuine fans who have voted in their hundreds of thousands to see their favourite bands be victorious. Plus, all profits from the Golden Gods ticket sales went to Heavy Metal Truants, an annual charity cycle ride, sponsored by TeamRock, from London to Download Festival to benefit Nordoff Robbins, Teenage Cancer Trust and Childline.

One of the most celebrated drummers of the past 30 years and former member of Slipknot, Joey Jordison was announced as 2016’s Golden God, following in the footsteps of Dave Mustaine, Lemmy and Marilyn Manson. Among other winners were Asking Alexandria for Best UK Band, whose 2016 album ‘The Black’ entered the US Billboard Top 10 and UK Official Chart Top 15. Iron Maiden’s Number One album ‘The Book Of Souls’ won Album Of The Year. Ghost, Sweden’s iconic and internationally celebrated occult rockers, won Best International Band. Sixx:A.M.’s Nikki Sixx picked up Icon, thrash metallers Anthrax won Inspiration and Lamb Of God picked up Best Live Band.

Interwoven with the award presentations were live sets from Grammy Award-winners Halestorm, French metal innovators Gojira and the immense and unwavering Amon Amarth, in what were the only UK summer shows for any of the bands outside of festival appearances.

Closing the evening was A Salute To Lemmy – a monumental celebration of the life of one of music’s biggest icons. Lemmy was, and will always be, a godfather of rock. A renegade, an innovator, an icon and an inspiration, there is no doubt that our music scene would look very different today if it wasn’t for him. A Salute To Lemmy was a unique celebration of the man. Saxon, one of Britain’s greatest rock bands – who in their own right have sculpted and inspired the world of rock today and influenced generations of bands – performed Lemmy’s three favourite Saxon songs and were then joined onstage by Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee and performed Motörhead’s ‘Ace Of Spades’, ‘Born To Raise Hell’  and ‘Overkill’.

“There’s only one publication in the world capable of putting such a broad range of talent under one roof, and that’s Metal Hammer,” says Alexander Milas, Metal Hammer’s editor-in-chief. “For our 30th anniversary we pulled out all the stops, but it’s really our Salute To Lemmy that’s hit the loudest note. His legend will always live on.”

This year, TeamRock and the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards teamed up with Pinewood Live to film the event. Pinewood Live is part of the Pinewood Studio Group, a leading provider of studio and related services to the global creative industries, synonymous with world-class British and international film and television productions.

The 2016 winners are…

Best New Band – Creeper

Best Underground – Enslaved

Best UK Band – Asking Alexandria

Best International Band – Ghost

Breakthrough – Beartooth

Best Live Band – Lamb Of God

Best Independent Label – Prosthetic Records

Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’ – Lzzy Hale

Best Album – ‘The Book Of Souls’ Iron Maiden

Riff Lord – Phil Campbell

Inspiration – Anthrax

Icon – Nikki Sixx

Global Metal Band – Chthonic

Golden God – Joey Jordison

Best Video – Parkway Drive

Preacher Episode Three Review

The Plot

Cassidy helps Jesse explore his newfound power; based on new information, Tulip tries to convince Jesse to seek revenge.

The Good

After last weeks slightly lacklustre episode, Preacher’s third episode, The Possibilities, picks itself up again and moves forward in its story at a leisurely but entertaining pace. With Jesse now fully aware of his newfound powers having tested them on Tracy Loach at the end of last weeks episode and promptly leaving her in bed still practically brain dead but now with her eyes open, his next test subject is Cassidy. In one of the episode’s funniest scenes, in which Jesse commands Cassidy to hop and sing him some Johnny Cash (that’s right, the Cash motif continues, though in a much more literal sense).

Meanwhile, Tulip is working towards exacting some revenge on a ‘rat-bastard money-stealing child-killing life-ruining son of a bitch’ Carlos, who, through the briefest of flashbacks, seems to have screwed over both Jesse and Tulip. How this plot line concludes remains to be seen, but the seeds are starting to be sewn. Perhaps Carlos will be the main antagonist for the show. What’s clear for now though, is that writer Chris Kelly manages to use this as a perfect way to grow Jesse’s character, providing a realistic internal battle of deciding whether to use his powers for good or evil.

We also get some more details of the mysterious duo hunting down Jesse as they have another run-in with Cassidy, still vainly believing they’re out to get him.

The Bad

What becomes clear in this episode is that, while Cassidy is more fun, the show needs Jesse to drive the story. His absence for the first fifteen minutes or so is extremely notable. Perhaps given more time he will start to become less needed, but for now at least, the titular character needs some more time to be properly filled out.

The choice to pick up some time after episode 2’s cliffhanger seems like the wrong one. What’s more irritating though, is that Tracy seems to be just left there with her eyes open. Here’s hoping Jesse returns to finish the job he started.

The Ugly Truth

Episode 3 picks up the pace that episode 2 had dropped. With two episodes left until we hit the halfway mark for season one, the plot threads are definitely starting to become stronger. If it keeps this up Preacher will be hard to limit to only 40 minutes a week…

Review by Johnny Ellis