Happy new year to everybody and hopefully this one will be better than the last one. A new design/theme is now out for AvPGalaxy – Version 8. Given that Aliens is going to be celebrating its 35th Anniversary this year, I’ve based it around Hadley’s Hope. I’ve made the layout a little wider, there’s a new mobile layout and the Gallery has been completely redone. I’ve got rid of the old system and used something a bit more modern so images in there now will be presented in a mosaic-style layout. Thanks to Hicks and RidgeTop for trying to keep me motivated to get this new theme done for the site. It has been long overdue.
A lot of work has also been done to the Games section the last few months and I’ve tried to add as much as information as I could find even for really old games. Thanks to Ross Sillifant for suppling me with really obscure magazine articles for many games.
It’s been quiet in these franchises for the past couple of years but I think we’ve finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel with the recent announcements at the end of last year. One of the biggest pieces of news in 2020 was that Marvel have taken over the licensing rights of new Alien and Predator comics from Dark Horse. New Alien and Predator Omnibuses are due out later this year but the first brand new Alien comic from Marvel will be hitting shelves in March 2021.
In November, a new Predator sequel was announced which is going to be directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison. Trachtenberg is best known for directing 10 Cloverfield Lane. The story is rumoured to be set in the past and will focus around Native Americans before the territories were taken by the American settlers.
The last big piece of news is that in December, Disney announced that an Alien TV Series is in active development at FX and will be coming to the Hulu streaming platform. Writer and Producer Noah Hawley will be overseeing the series. Hawley is best known for being the showrunner on the shows Fargo and Legion, and has been working to get an Alien TV series launched for quite some time.
As usual, we’ll be covering these projects intensely and will try to bring you all the latest news and rumours surrounding the projects. We’ll keep releasing new articles and videos where we can and keep up with the podcast. Hicks, RidgeTop, Xenomorphine and Voodoo do a great job with the podcast. We’ve come a long way with the series since the team first started it in 2011. In 2020, we released 21 episodes including interviews with the likes of writers Mark Verheiden and Alex Litvak, and Charles de Lauzirika. We’ve got a lot more planned for this year.
Edit: This is for default theme only.
That's not working on Firefox.
Yeah, that has been changed because it never really worked properly before. Now, it opens in a fancy window like the gallery images. When you open that window, look to the top right corner and you can use the magnify glass to zoom in or download it.
Comments overlapping on mobile have been fixed now.
It's still working for me. It's a bit different now, when you click on the image to enlarge it, it pops-up full screen and the background gets greyed-out. You can then zoom in even further if the image resolution is larger than your screen.
Actually works much better now because you don't have to scroll the image around within the confined forum borders.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmLdiB2XIAEEleF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WeakWearyEuropeanfiresalamander-size_restricted.gif
Chrome.
But did you just do something on your side because now it's working 100% for me.
I tried logging in and out and clearing the browser cache to no avail, but now it just started working fine by itself. The forum format is also back to normal, it was using the whole wide screen expanse earlier today. Avatars also back to one only per post.
The forum section itself seems to be working fine except now I see double avatars on all the posts, and that's without even having had a drop to drink.
Have you got the container thing on? I find that stops them showing up.
Loving the new look, Darkness! Thanks for the huge work getting this up for the New Year!
I've thought it was stylised to look like Predator hieroglyphics
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1344737204271124481
Does that show up as embedded on your end? It doesn't on mine.
EDIT: Turns out it's a browser thing. The embedded Tweet shows up in Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox.
https://twitter.com/ridgetop21/status/1345174961611132928
https://www.facebook.com/avpgalaxy/posts/3713754782005267
Not gonna lie, the new font for the top kinda looks like the Battlestar Galactica font, which is not a bad thing by any means.
Also need the next podcast, need it bad
That's the first thing I ever click on as it allows me to see everything that's been added since my last visit.
EDIT
Ignore me. I found it!