Matt: Yeah, you have to do the Harry Potter thing. You have to jump a year. Because like Gaten [Matarazzo], his voice has already dropped quite a bit, to the point where we couldn’t even do ADR with him. We had to pitch it way up. It’s dropped. He’s grown. As much as I would love to have it be Christmas right after that, it’s just not feasible, so we’re going to skip a year. They’ll be a year older and all their changes they’re going through, we’ll take that into account and kind of work that into the show.
Ross: It’s also just exciting having these initial conversations about it because the jump allows us to say “what happened in that year?” It actually opens up a lot more storytelling possibilities. These characters have changed and the audience has to sort of fill in those gaps of what went on in that year. To us, it’s exciting. So the fact that we have to make this jump, because of the kids, we’re trying to use that to our advantage.
Microsoft has not talked about it in a very long time, but Steven Spielberg's Halo TV show for Showtime is still on the way, it seems. Asked on Twitter what was up with the project or if it was dead, Spencer stated, "Alive."
That's not much, but confirmation that it's not cancelled is something. This follows news from August 2015, when Showtime boss David Nevins confirmed the TV show was in "very active development."
The Halo TV show was at one time expected to debut in fall 2015 alongside Halo 5: Guardians, but of course that didn't happen. It's unclear exactly what's holding the project up, but it's not uncommon for Hollywood productions to take a long time to come to fruition.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray has posted a huge update on the upcoming Day-1 patch for No Man's Sky, including word that they are going to wipe the game servers today and again tomorrow to reduce the impact of people who received early copies of the game.
Also included in the patch is that there will be a new story progression, changes to planets and that the galaxy itself will be around 10x larger than the launch versions.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have warned the public that "criminal groups propagating radical ideologies" could spread violent ideas and rebellious behaviour among young people through video gaming.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) issued the warning in a statement carried by the state news agency WAM late on Saturday. It urged parents to prevent teenagers from establishing relations with strangers through chat channels in games.
Criminal groups "are trying to recruit young people and adolescents through some electronic games", WAM quoted Mohammed al-Zarooni, the TRA's director for policy and programmes, as saying.
He said the groups identified weaknesses in their targets through conversations and then exploited them by directing them to commit crimes. In particular, some criminals used war games to encourage the use of weapons.
Looking to kill another Saturday afternoon and spend some time with my Dad, I headed out to the theater to check out David Ayer's new super hero flick, Suicide Squad.
Despite some scathing reviews the movie isn't the train wreck that was Ghostbusters or even as divisive in tone as Batman v Superman. It's a good summer action flick with some neat characters and a plethora of fun moments.
Margot Robbie steals every scene as Joker's girl-Friday Harley Quinn and Will Smith gets all the sympathy and characterization as hired killer Deadshot. Most of the other hero characters are just "there". They don't do much and as some people have mentioned they could have been cut out without losing much of anything.
More than a super hero film, Suicide Squad is an action film with super heroes. While the trailers don't give it away, the enemy in the film is The Enchantress and her brother (a giant glowing god-man similar to 300's Xerxes). There is a lot of missed opportunity with the villains. The Enchantress character is fleshed out with a decent amount of back-story, her brother and their army of multi-eyed zombies are the height of disposable genericons.
They do spend a big chunk of the film giving us back story for Deadshot, Harley Quinn and the Enchantress and a much smaller amount on Diablo, Boomerang and Killer Croc and zero time on Katana and Rick Flag. Joel Kinnaman ends up being a terrible choice for Rick Flag, I thought I was looking at Timothy Olyphant until I checked IMDB and they threw away Scott Eastwood as Generic SpecOps Guy #1, when he would have added a lot more personality to the Rick Flag character.
As you can imagine from the trailers, Jared Leto's Joker is fantastic. While he does seem to get an almost criminally small amount of screen time, it isn't as little time as a lot of the other reviews make it seem. Considering he isn't a member of the Skwad, he is on screen for almost as much (or more) than smaller characters like Boomerang, Diablo and Katana. He deserves to be back as the villain in the Batman film or headlining a Harley Quinn feature.
The biggest flaw in the movie is the final battle against the Enchantress. After spending 115 minutes establishing our motley bunch of heroes and their powers, the only character who uses any powers in the final battle is Diablo. Everyone else ends up fighting hand-to-hand, which makes no sense at all for a weapon-based point-and-shoot character like Deadshot. This is the part of the movie that needed the most work. If the rumors about reshoots are true, this is where they needed them the most and got them the least.
Despite a slightly disappointing ending, the movie still entertains and is more "fun" than Batman v Superman.
Hit PC game Ark: Survival Evolved has been downloaded 5.5m times since its June 2015 release date.
Speaking to MCV, the co-founder of developer Studio Wildcard Jeremy Stieglitz said that the Xbox One SKU, which launched in December 2015, had sold 1.5m copies alone. Therefore the PC version will have hit 4m downloads.
He added that the game’s success was unexpected considering the saturation in the survival genre. The firm has also had to drastically increase its scope for what it originally planned for the game.
“[Our first year] has gone very well,” Stieglitz told us. “The launch was an unexpected success, but that’s also a double edged sword because when it succeeds at that level, it kind of raises expectations about how ambitious the game is going to be, and how large of a scope it is going to have when it is finished.
“We have especially blown the doors open on what we had originally planned in terms of number of creatures, features and technical complexity. When we launched we didn’t even plan on having modding support, which has become a huge aspect of the game’s appeal and life cycle on PC.
“It’s been interesting to raise ourselves and our level of work to the expectations that this very large audience now has.”
Fending off dismal reviews, the anti-superhero film looks to beat the openings of 'Deadpool' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' as well as scoring an August-best; overseas, 'Suicide Squad' is also doing big numbers.
Warner Bros.' Suicide Squad is making a killing at the Friday box office, where it looks to earn at least $60 million for the day on its way to an August-best domestic debut of $140 million or more, according to early returns.
Friday's haul will include a huge $20.5 million in Thursday-night previews. Imax locations took in a hearty $2.4 million, or 12 percent.
The David Ayer-helmed supervillain film is destined to boast one of the best showings of the year to date and the top August domestic opening of all time, ahead of Marvel and Disney's likewise offbeat superhero film, Guardians of the Galaxy, which debuted to a surprise $94.3 million in 2014 after earning $11.2 million Thursday night. (Guardians held the previous Thursday record.)
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller DUNKIRK, in theaters July 21, 2017.
"Blood Father" stars Mel Gibson as John Link, an ex-convict who fights to protect his estranged daughter from the drug cartel that is hunting her down. In this thrilling action film, John must use his connections from his past life and his skills as an ex-criminal to keep him and his daughter alive.
Fans of the new movie “Suicide Squad” need their mommies and some pacifiers.
After the comic-book flick opened to scathing reviews this week — The Post’s Kyle Smith called it “a demolition derby of barely explained action and droll quips” — a group of disgruntled devotees began a pointless petition to shut down RottenTomatoes.com, an aggregator of reviews, where the movie scored a measly 30 percent.
On a Change.org page, cutely called “Don’t listen to film criticism,” fearless leader Abdullah Coldwater wrote in a statement, “The aim of the petition is to deliver a message to the critics that there is a lot of people disagree with their reviews.”
Disagree? Impossible!
On behalf of the dwindling number of writers who are paid to opine about entertainment for a readership, I thank you, Abdullah, for informing us that some people don’t appreciate our opinions.
We didn’t know, Abdullah, because social media is such a cordial, respectful and restrained discussion forum. Nobody told us. And we will henceforth make every possible effort to tailor our reviews and columns to perfectly align with the beliefs of you and the other 3 billion people worldwide with Internet access.
Or, here’s another suggestion: Coldwater and the 19,900 people who signed his moronic time-suck of a form could grow up and refuse to let a few professional writers take away whatever joy this crummy movie gives them. Real fans have pride in their passion instead of childishly shaming anybody who doesn’t agree with it.
Quake Champions is strictly a PC game, one that Bethesda intends to have running at 120Hz with an uncapped frame rate. It may still come to consoles at some point, but it doesn't seem likely that you'll see the game on the current PS4 and Xbox One. Bethesda marketing boss Pete Hines told GameSpot, "There is not a console that supports our vision for [Quake Champions]."
"You know, Quake Champions, maybe anybody else would've been like, 'No, you have to do it, and it's got to work on every platform,'" Hines explained. "We were like, 'No, it's a PC-only thing. It's this kind of game. It's got to have this kind of performance, and it's going to be on PC full stop.' We feel very comfortable in making those calls.
"I guess theoretically there's a chance [it could come to consoles]. Who knows what future consoles look like? But this is full stop a PC product: 120Hz, unlocked frame rate. That's the experience we want folks to have."
Hines also commented on the upcoming consoles, PS4 Neo and Xbox Scorpio, saying that Bethesda is big fans of more robust hardware, though it's still early days and it remains to be seen what kind of impact it will have on development.
Nefarious gamers have been using the Steam trading system to gift copies of multiplayer games to alternate, or "low value" accounts, as Valve calls them. This allowed them to avoid getting a permanent VAC, or Game Ban, on their primary account. The low value accounts are used to cheat in games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve has now made some adjustments to how trading and gifting work for these games in order to address the problem.
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Permanent Bans and Gift Restrictions
VAC and Game Ban enabled games can either be bought for your own account, or gifted immediately. They can no longer be saved to your inventory for trading purposes. If you directly gift a game to someone who gets permanently banned, you won’t be able to gift that game again.
Valve Anti-Cheat Technology (VAC)
Many games on Steam utilize the Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) or third party anti-cheat technology that can result in cheaters being banned from secure servers for multi-player games. You can learn more about VAC here. VAC bans are permanent.
Game Bans
Game Bans are used by game developers to address malicious behavior that falls outside of VAC detection. Game bans are determined by the game developer; they can range from single day bans to permanent bans. You can learn more about Game Bans here.
How does this affect gifting?
When a user is caught cheating, their Steam account is banned from playing multi-player on secured servers. This creates an incentive for people who cheat to stockpile copies of games on one account and to gift them to low value accounts where they can continue cheating. In response to this problem, Steam no longer allows users to purchase copies of VAC or Game Ban enabled games to their inventory. Additionally, if an account has directly gifted a game to other players who have been VAC or permanently Game Banned, then that account will lose the ability to gift that game.
We’ve taken these steps to ensure the integrity of the multi-player experience for those participating in online gaming communities. We understand that the restrictions on buying to inventory may be inconvenient for some legitimate users, but we believe that these steps will reduce the number of cheaters you’ll play against. And that’s important in having an online gaming experience that’s fair and enjoyable for everyone.
You might have heard some buzz over the past week about No Man’s Sky copies loose in the wild. There was the story about the guy who allegedly spent over $1,000 for an early copy, of course. But some outlets have managed to get their hands on a copy.
We can confirm that Sony and Hello Games have not released code to the media. There are always stores willing to break street date and sell copies early. If you know where to look, it's an easy enough process to buy one.
Sony is aware that consumers and some media are streaming the game, and has reiterated its plans for releasing code to reviewers. We've been told to expect those to arrive on Monday, in advance of the game's launch on Tuesday. In the meantime, Sony seems to be aggressively pursuing what it calls "unsanctioned copies."
Think of the game as a very, very slow Trials. The real Curiosity Rover itself moves at about a whopping two inches per second, so it’s all about safe, defensive driving. In the game you obviously move at a faster clip than that, but you control the Rover’s speed and can pitch it up and down to get over craters and hills. You’re awarded for being careful and scanning water deposits under the surface as you roam, a nod to the Mars 2020 rover, which will carry a tool called RIMFAX that utilizes radar to search for the all-important resource. So you’ll roll around, bouncing across the surface, but as soon as you break a wheel, you’re done- your poor little rover is stuck on an alien world, lost forever. However, you might earn a high score!
Grab the desktop version here, and the mobile versions here for iOS. Click here for Android.
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal shocks, and subversive comedy, the audacious feature debut from Danny Perez is a no-holds-barred descent into delirium.
Last year, Blizzard has opened up various positions for its development team which was said to be a premise for planned HD remasters of their classic PC game titles, earlier this year news of optimizing WarCraft III for newer and more modern PC machines came out from the wild, and now, just this week, a rumor of Blizzard revealing an HD remake of StarCraft surfaced from the Korean online publication inews24.
According to the website, multiple sources, including a Blizzard insider, Blizzard will plan the StarCraft HD reveal sometime in September, presumably during the StarCraft II World Championship Series Copa Intercontinental in Mexico City, Mexico. While no info as to will the game also receive further updates, the remake is assumed to focus on a major graphic overhaul as well as updating the in-game UI.
Gearbox's hero shooter Battleborn flopped upon its May launch. Its low player numbers on the likes of Steam made that perfectly clear.
But now the boss of publisher 2K has promised to stick with the game in a bid to grow its audience. Speaking after the release of a financial report, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick (Take-Two is the parent company of 2K) admitted Battleborn missed its sales targets, despite a relatively positive reception.
"While the game launched to solid reviews, its performance in the market has been below our expectations," he said.
In its financial report, Take-Two said operating expenses were up by $28.8m "due primarily to higher marketing expense for the launches of Battleborn and our upcoming lineup". Still, there's a commitment to the game.
"We think there remains an opportunity to grow the audience for this unique experience over time," Zelnick said, "and 2K will continue to drive engagement and recurrent consumer spending on the title through add-on content and virtual currency."
So, what's being done, exactly?
In June, Gearbox outlined an extensive DLC plan for Battleborn that involves the release of new heroes and maps. It just released Pendles for 47,500 in-game credits, for example. Also back in June, Gearbox launched Battleborn's premium currency, Platinum. This lets you buy new skins and taunts. Balance updates continue, of course, as do events, such as double XP. It's clear Gearbox is keeping current players interested. But can it get more players interested?
Finally the weekend is here! Load up the weapons, sharpen the swords, oil the armor, and get out there and adventure. What are you playing this weekend?
Today, we released a brand new video that highlights many of the key features in the extensive and enthralling ten-year Career of F1™ 2016.
We’re also very happy to be announcing that F1 2016 will feature Multiplayer Championship, a brand new game mode that allows up to 22 players to compete against each other over the course of a season.
This new mode allows you to race as team-mates or to battle it out as different teams, as well as offering great possibilities for league play. Championships are, of course, saveable, so you can fight it out over the course of many weeks.
Prey is a first-person sci-fi action game from Arkane Studios, the award-winning creators of the 2012 ‘Game of the Year’, Dishonored. Known for their creative gameplay, distinctive worlds and immersive stories, Arkane reimagines this franchise from the ground up, with an added psychological twist. In Prey, you are the first human enhanced with alien powers aboard a desolate space station under assault. Improvise and innovate in order to survive as you search for answers. Prey is a bold new story set in a dangerous universe.
Prey will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2017.
A lifetime of drinking, gambling and running rackets in “Bourbon City” has taken its toll on the man and the Irish mob he runs. Then the Italian Mafia muscled into his territory. But how long can a man be pushed before he starts pushing back?
Mafia III - It’s 1968 and the rules have changed. After years in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth: Family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for.
Hot on the heels of the release of Free Update 2, DOOM’s first premium DLC, Unto the Evil, is now available.
Unto the Evil brings three new diverse maps to DOOM multiplayer: Offering, Cataclysm, and Ritual. In addition, the DLC adds the UAC EMG Pistol as a new weapon, the Kinetic Mine as new equipment, and the Harvester as a new playable demon. Unto the Evil also adds new armor sets, patterns, colors, and taunts, as well as new hack modules. id Software is also introducing the PartyPlay system, which allows anyone to play any of the new maps from Unto the Evil, as long as you party up with a friend who owns the DLC. Similarly, if you own the DLC, the Unto the Evil DLC maps will be accessible to anyone who’s in your party as part of the map rotation.
Don’t miss our double XP weekend to coincide with the launch of Unto the Evil, which will last until August 8, at 12pm ET!
After brutal SetDef attacks leave SATO forces devastated, Lt. Reyes is suddenly field-promoted to Captain as the highest-ranking officer remaining aboard the UNSA Retribution.
The spiritual Planescape sequel Torment: Tides of Numenera is heading to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the first quarter of 2017.
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inXile Entertainment and Techland Publishing are proud to announce that the highly-anticipated science-fantasy RPG game Torment: Tides of Numenera will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Torment: Tides of Numenera, which was funded by one of the most successful videogame Kickstarter campaigns, was originally only set for a PC release in early Q1 2017. However inXile and Techland have been hard at work behind the scenes to ensure the title will have a console launch simultaneous with the PC version.
“After the critical and commercial success of Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut on consoles, and with fans clamouring for it, it had been in our plans to bring Torment: Tides of Numenera to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One,” says Brian Fargo, inXile CEO. “We’re especially excited to be partnering with Techland, who as developers themselves perfectly understand how to do a release without any compromise to the quality of the title.”
The console versions will be officially showcased at this year’s Gamescom. The game will be available for the public in Hall 10.1 while selected press will have their own demonstrations at Hall 2.2 D-020 where inXile will be presenting never-before-seen gameplay.
Three iconic Disney 16-Bit titles have hit GOG.com today. The three fan favorite titles are The Jungle Book, The Lion King, and Aladdin. The Aladdin title is the Virgin not Capcom version of the game .
Each game is sold separately for $9.99, but for the next three days they are on sale for $8.99. All games are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
I think the price is to high for emulated DOS games.
Back with an upbeat vibe! Andre breaks into the fashion world, Theo lounges about watching television, Chris forgets to set his alarm and Joe bows down to the King of Dinosaurs. We're coming at you live, though you'll hear us on tape delay, The Kings are back on EvilAvatar with the twenty-eighth episode of the 4205 Cast podcast and this week The Kings discuss low expectations, positive results!
You know what? We were a storm of negativity in the last episode, so we fixed that right up by discussing the opposite topic this week--low expectations that ended up over delivering. Also included for your listening pleasure, the I Am Setsuna wrapup and some juicy, juicy Nintendo NX rumors.
The Xbox One S runs a little faster than the original Xbox One, and improves the frame rate in some games. The Digital Foundry at Eurogamer has the story.
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Xbox One S releases today and we finally have detailed data on exactly how the new console is faster than the original model. What's more, we've had access to production hardware for several days now, meaning we can test it. The bottom line is this: Xbox One S has a GPU clock-speed of 914MHz, up from 853MHz in the older unit. That's a 7.1 per cent increase and ESRAM bandwidth increases in line, taking that up to 218GB/s effective. Some games see no difference - others run noticeably faster.
As you can read in today's extensive Xbox One S tech interview, the GPU 'overclock' is one of a number of enhancements in a new system-on-chip (SoC) package that adds support for 4K HDR media and gaming. According to Microsoft, upclocking the graphics core is needed to support rendering real-time non-HDR versions of the game for the GameDVR feature, streaming and screenshots. The firm could have disabled it for non-HDR titles, but they chose not to - it's effectively a small, bonus value-added feature. In essence, the difference is rather like a factory overclocked PC graphics card compared to a stock model. By and large, Xbox One S runs like a standard console, but there are scenarios where the improvement is dramatic - far more so than we envisaged when Microsoft supplied the spec.
The Xbox One S console is selling well at Amazon, where it's currently listed at number six in Best Sellers in Video Games.
Deadline is reporting that Sony has canceled their PlayStation TV series Powers after two seasons.
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Inspired by the Powers graphic novels of the same name, the series followed the lives of two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who are assigned to investigate cases involving people with extraordinary abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Season 2 continued to follow the detectives and the Powers Division team as they faced commercialized superhumans who impose their power on the public, which both worships and fears them.
I never watched this, I didn't even realize it starred Sharlto Copley.
PlayStation.Blog has word that Darkest Dungeon, a gothic roguelike turn-based RPG that "Kicks All Kinds of Ass," is coming to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on September 27th.
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Ruin has come to our family… and the terrible task of restoring your estate to its former glory falls to you. It brings us great pleasure to finally announce the upcoming release date for Darkest Dungeon for both PS4 and PS Vita: September 27, 2016!
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic turn-based dungeon crawler about the psychological stresses of adventuring. It draws heaps of inspiration from classic tabletop RPG experiences. Heroes are human, and Darkest Dungeon will push them to their very breaking points. It’s only under great duress that true heroes are born. Success isn’t guaranteed and many adventurers are likely to die along the way. However, with equal parts planning, strategy, and ruthlessness, you will conquer the horrors below!
Since we last gave an update on Playstation.Blog, we’ve added even more content to the game that will be included for release. The Stagecoach is brimming with new hero classes (15 in all!) who will find themselves at the Hamlet for redemption, glory, or fortune. More than 40 different Town Events add variety to your campaign… including a chance encounter with the nefarious Vvulf and his Bandit Raiders, who seek to destroy the Hamlet!
On September 27, we finally get to share years of hard work and passion with players on PlayStation.
The game will be $24.99 or the local equivalent, and will feature both cross-buy and cross-save support! Buy once, and share your Estate between your PS4 and your PS Vita.
PS Plus members can also expect a 20% discount off of the game.
Be sure to keep your eye on Playstation Store, and prepare yourselves, because there can be only madness… in the Darkest Dungeon!
Suicide Squad boasts a talented cast and a little more humor than previous DCEU efforts, but they aren't enough to save the disappointing end result from a muddled plot, thinly written characters, and choppy directing.
A series of tactical skirmishes with faceless minions — semi-zombies that can be slaughtered en masse, without a second thought — leads to a big final showdown. Spoiler alert: It’s essentially the final showdown from ‘Ghostbusters’ and at least a half-dozen other recent blockbusters, with a few differences of what I guess we should call nuance. You can safely duck out of the theater and spend a good 20 minutes on the claw machine or Instagram, slipping back in to catch the final song and the sequel-teasing extra scene during the end credits.
Harley Quinn’s entrance is the best moment in “Suicide Squad.” After that, you can leave. Robbie is a criminally appealing actress, likable in just about every way, but that intro aside, “Suicide Squad” doesn’t serve her well. It serves no one well, least of all its audience ... Now and then there’s a dash of color, especially when Leto’s Joker appears, with his silvery capped teeth and Day-Glo hair. Leto seems to be channeling, consciously or otherwise, Richard Widmark in the 1947 noir “Kiss of Death”—that’s the one where Widmark’s truly creepy-evil character pushes an old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs. But Leto is so textbook twitchy that he barely comes off as menacing. And his scenes with Robbie have no spark, no lunatic ardor. If you can’t strike a spark with Robbie, something’s terribly wrong.
The Joker exists only to inspire his deranged arm candy, Harley Quinn. As evidenced by her gratuitous bathtub cameo in last year’s “The Big Short,” Robbie seems to represent what red-blooded, Maxim-reading audiences want from women on-screen in the year 2016: A doctor stripped of her intelligence and her conservative tweed professional attire, squeezed into hooker hot-pants and a too-tight baby T, who walks like a pole dancer and fights like some sort of homicidal cheerleader. Ayer allows Harley Quinn a certain deranged sense of humor, giving her the chance to deliver the sarcastic zinger to multiple scenes, but he only half-recognizes what a tragic character she is, and it’s discouraging to think that the film’s biggest laugh comes at the expense of Batman punching her in the face.
The reviews are so bad, you have to wonder if Warner Bros. marketing team is missing some essential payout that these reviewers have come to expect from big budget features?
Video-game publisher Electronic Arts Inc (EA.O), known for titles such as "FIFA" and "Star Wars Battlefront", reported an unexpected first-quarter profit, helped by higher downloads of its games.
The company's digital business, where players download digital versions of games, generates higher margins than sales of physical discs.
EA's shares initially rose about 2.5 percent in extended trading, before reversing course to trade down 1.5 percent as the company's current-quarter revenue forecast was slightly below analysts' estimates.
The company forecast revenue of about $1.08 billion, including a change in deferred revenue from online-based games. Analysts were expecting $1.11 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The tragic July 22 shooting in Munich has revived claims linking violent video games to societal violence. The latest to raise this specter was German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who claimed that violent video games "helped inspire" the attack. This episode follows a fairly familiar pattern: A politician or police officer discovers that the young male perpetrator of a horrible crime also happened to play violent video games (as almost all young males do), and links the two in a public statement. News media decides to treat clueless speculation as something near to fact, and the next turn of the violent video game moral panic is on.
In truth, there's no evidence to connect violent video games to violence in society. Several studies, such as by psychologist Patrick Markey and economist Scott Cunningham, have linked the release of popular violent video games with immediate declines in societal violence. Correlation between the consumption of these games and societal reductions in youth violence were well established, but these newer studies suggest there may be some causal element to this.
The PC patch addresses a number of issues. These include:
Controller mapping improvements that address both Xbox One and Xbox 360 buttons, triggers, and a problem specifically with the A button
General improvements to audio and fixes for the crackling sounds
Improvements to player invitations for Marvel Ultimate Alliance
UI updates and fixes for desync/disconnection issues when playing online
DLC should be out in the coming weeks for Ultimate Alliance on all three platforms (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC). The additional characters are already included in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. This will be a free update.
WARSAW, Poland – August 2, 2016 – CI Games, the studio behind Lords of the Fallen and Sniper Ghost Warrior, released a new reveal trailer for Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. The trailer presents the game's 3 different play styles: sniper, ghost, and warrior. It is up to players to decide how to achieve their mission objectives.
As an American sniper you are dropped in northern Georgia, near the Russian border. Explore large, open-world maps with dynamic weather and a day/night cycle that actually impacts your play and decisions. Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 tells the story of brotherhood, faith and betrayal in a land soaked in the blood of civil war.
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One on 27 January 2017. We're thrilled to be able to share the news with you. Stay tuned for more info on Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 as we head closer to the launch.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures sends along a press release announcing "The Division" film with Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Today, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and television studio of Ubisoft®, announced a new project, “The Division” with Academy Award® nominees Jessica Chastain (The Martian, Interstellar, The Help, Zero Dark Thirty) and Jake Gyllenhaal (End of Watch, Nightcrawler, Southpaw) attached.
“We are excited to collaborate with Jessica and Jake, two of Hollywood’s most talented actors and perfect creative collaborators to help bring Tom Clancy’s The Division™ to the big screen,” said Gerard Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer, Ubisoft Motion Pictures. “Attaching Jake and Jessica is part of our development philosophy of working closely with top talent from the earliest stages to collaborate on a high quality film,” added Matt Phelps, Vice President, Ubisoft Motion Pictures.
Slitherine sends along a press release announcing Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach, an upcoming 3D turn-based strategy game from Strayllight Entertainment.
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After the successful launch of Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, Slitherine and Games Workshop renew their association to offer a brand new, 3D turn-based strategy game set in the Sanctus Reach. Featuring some of the most iconic races and characters from the Warhammer 40,000, Sanctus Reach is a fan beloved campaign and story from the universe.
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach brings players to a dark era of carnage and endless war. One of Imperium’s fiercest enemies, Grukk Face-Rippa, leads his Red Waaagh! in the Sanctus Reach system. Worlds after worlds fall to billions of Orks, until only one last planet resists the green tide: the Knight World of Alaric Prime. This is where a brave company of Space Wolves makes its stand to defend the last bastion of mankind in the system.
“Teaming up with Games Workshop for this thrilling project is testament of how well the partnership has worked out on Armageddon”, said Iain McNeil, Development Director at Slitherine. “Straylight are a very promising new development team that we are proud to work with. They bring not only passion and dedication, but a great deal of knowledge of the Warhammer 40,000 universe and that is an invaluable asset”.
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The Overwatch Summer Games have begun! Celebrate the spirit of competition from now through August 22. Collect over 100 unique Loot Box items—including skins, highlight intros, emotes, sprays, and more—or grab your friends and hit the soccer field for a fierce game of Lúcioball!
*Summer Games 2016 is a seasonal event available for a limited time only.
Let Her Out follows Helen, a bike courier who, after suffering a traumatic accident, begins to experience, strange episodic blackouts. She soon discovers that she has a benign growth that is the remnant of a “vanishing twin,” absorbed in utero years ago. As the tumor begins to manifest itself in horrific ways, Helen’s fragile psychological state is pushed to the brink. As she begins to rapidly deteriorate, her episodes become increasingly psychotic and Helen becomes a terrifying threat to both herself and those around her.
LucasArts made some of the best and funniest games in the 1990s spanning Adventure, FPS, Simulation and Star Wars games! Here are 18 big box PC games I have in my collection from that iconic gaming company!
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What are some of your favorite LucasArts games? Which ones do you recommend I still get?
Evil Dead 2: The Board Game comes to us from Space Goat Productions, who are known for their line of Evil Dead 2 comics and are seeking to create a tile-based game that’s full of plastic miniatures. The game will offer an experience for 1-6 players that sees them trying to survive a night in the cabin surrounded by ever-changing woods and enemies, offering a different experience every time. The Kickstarter campaign was funded less than eight hours after launching and has now raised over $400k on a $70k goal, showing you just how beloved the series still is. But what made Space Goat think they could handle the intricacies of publishing a tabletop game in the first place?
“Comics are all we’ve published so far, but we’ve been a service provider behind the scenes on all sorts of games—online and analog—so from a production standpoint, it’s all very familiar to us,” said game designer Taylor Smith. “Gaming, personally, has always been my first love. I’ve been making and running games since grade school and have self-published a couple online. Having Space Goat’s resources to work with on Evil Dead 2 has been a dream.”
