Monthly Archives: April 2015
SPECTRE Trailer Recreated in GTA 5
Grand Theft Auto V has been used to recreate the recently released debut teaser for the upcoming James Bond film, SPECTRE.
YouTube user Joris Prudhon crafted the video using in-game content from Rockstar Games' hit open-world action title. You can see the stunning results of his creation below.
Prudhon made a name for himself late last year when he took the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and gave it similar treatment using Grand Theft Auto V. You can check out that video, and the rest of his work, over at his official YouTube channel.
You Can Now Play Pac-Man in Minecraft
A Minecraft player called MrSquishy has recreated a physical and playable Pac-Man cabinet in-game.
The cabinet, spotted by Polygon, boasts the entire first level of Pac-Man. MrSquishy, who has no prior programming experience, documented the Pac-Man cabinet's progress on the Minecraft forums, where you can download and try it out yourself.
"Over a year ago I set myself the challenge of creating a fully functional Pacman minigame in Vanilla Minecraft using the same ghost AI as the original Pacman game," MrSquishy says. "After many hours and attempts, I've finally managed to create a map that manages to accomplish this, and much more!"
Google Patents Personality Development System for Robots
In a densely worded filing on the US Patent and Trademark Office website, Google has outlined systems and methods to develop personality in a robot.
The filing, dated March 31, would give a robot access to a device "to determine or identify information about a user." From there, a tailored personality would be created to interact with the user based on the user's own data.
In addition to forming a custom personality, the robot would also pull data associated with identifying a user, through speech or facial recognition systems. This data could then be shared via the cloud, which would allow the personality to be transferred from robot to robot.
Marvel Officially Announces Infinity War Directors
Following various reports over the last several months, Marvel officially announced today that Captain America: Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo will helm The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2.
Reports that the Russo brothers would be directing Avengers 3 and 4 began to surface late last year. Following another report just a couple weeks ago, an official announcement seemed imminent, and today we got just that.
Smite’s New Content on PC and Xbox One
Welcome to IGN Godlike, IGN's show dedicated to covering the mythological mayhem that is Smite. Join Brandin Tyrrel, Kyle O'Connor, and Vince Ingenito as they cover all the new content to hit the PC and Xbox One, and what's in store for the future. Plus, they discuss how to keep your cool in a sea of bad manners online, and what tools you can use in Smite to keep things cordial. It's Godlike: Episode 4 – Love Thy Neighbor!
App Store Update: April 7
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War – (Free, Down from $4.99)
From our Review: Valiant Hearts focuses on how lives are torn apart, how strangers become saviors, and how madness thrives. It’s a small-scale human perspective of the war, which tries to salvage those little acts of love and heroism from a world overwhelmed by violence. There’s not much of a challenge or a reason to revisit once you’ve finished, but the story alone is worth experiencing. Ultimately, it’s a game about warfare that’s more interested in the people and their experiences, than bullets and their targets. I could’ve done without some of the footnotes and heavy-handed narration, but it remains a beautiful, harrowing experience nevertheless.
Zen Studios Is Releasing an Avengers: Age of Ultron Pinball Table
Zen Studios' next virtual pinball table is based on the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron film.
According to Zen Studios' blog, the table will "allow players to relive the struggle of Earth’s mightiest heroes, including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye against Ultron and his seemingly endless army."
It also includes three difficult levels and dedicated game modes for each Avenger. Hawkeye, for example, has a first-person sharpshooting minigame.
"It’s both exhilarating and a bit overwhelming to base a pinball table on a film as it is being made," Zen Studios said. "Often times, final decisions about the film (like costumes, lines, etc.) have not even been made while we’re designing the table, so we have to be able to change with the film as needed ... Timing a table release with a film’s release is always a challenge; we have to be careful that there are no leaks, and most of all, no movie spoilers!"
No Post-Credits Scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Of all the MCU post-credit stingers, it's hard to top the non-epic epicness of the shawarma scene at the end of Marvel's The Avengers. Which is partly why director Joss Whedon and Marvel head Kevin Feige decided not to include a post-credit tag at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Yep.
In a recent interview with EW.com, Whedon explained that he and Feige tried to come up with something but ultimately went the other way. "It didn't seem to lend itself in the same way, and we wanted to be true to what felt right," he said. "The first rule of making a sequel is take the best moments and do something else. Don't do the Indiana Jones gun trick again differently. Just go somewhere else. Don't try to hit the same highs, because people will sense it."
7 Ways to Kill Deadpool
Marvel has been heavily promoting the fact that Deadpool will be dying in tomorrow's Deadpool #45 -- the 250th Deadpool comic ever published -- but the thing is, from what we've seen in the comics thus far, Deadpool is really impervious to death.
Whether due to an unfairly prodigious healing factor or the result of a Mad Titan’s jealous curse, Wade’s ability to survive the non-survivable cements his status as the cockroach of the Marvel U. However, following the recent demise of another nigh invulnerable mutant (RIP), we’ve come to realize that maybe it’s not that he can’t die — it’s that no one has ever done it right.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Gold Edition Now Out on Xbox One
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Gold Edition is now available for purchase on the Xbox One marketplace.
According to a listing on the Xbox Store, the Gold Edition includes the full game, along with the Havoc DLC Pack and Atlas Gorge Multiplayer Map. In this expanded release, players will also have access to the Exo Zombies co-op content, as it's part of the Havoc DLC.
While release information has yet to be announced for other platforms, listings for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions have popped up on Amazon France, indicating an April 20 release for that region.