Monthly Archives: May 2015
Podcast: The Digigods get their groove on with Masters of Sex and Squidbillies. Unrelated, of course!
From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles.
Digigods Podcast, 05/05/15 (MP3) -- 32.9 MB
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Hearthstone Reaches 30 Million Players
Following Hearthstone's release on iPhone and Android last month, Blizzard announced today 30 million people have played its digital strategy card game.
The announcement was made on Hearthstone's official Twitter account: "BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair!" The Tweet was accompanied by the celebratory image seen below.
Rogue Legacy Headed to Xbox One Later This Month
Rogue Legacy, the 2013 action platformer from Cellar Door Games, is making its way onto Xbox One on May 27th.
The game features roguelike elements like randomized levels, but was notable among fans for its unique take on the constantly questing player character.
Each new adventurer you spawn as following a death is a descendant of the previous, with their own unique personality traits or physical attributes that change up aspects of the game.
One character may be near-sighted, making distant things blurry. Another character may be clumsy, breaking any object they touch or stand on. There are about 37 known traits in the PC version.
We're not sure yet if the Xbox One version of Rogue Legacy has any new features, but we've reached out to developer Abstraction Games to confirm.
Samsung Teases Real-Life Avengers: Age of Ultron Gadgets
The slick-looking transparent screens on the tablets and other various gadgets seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron may soon be available from Samsung.
At least, that's what suspicion suggests. After a recent screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Korean Herald reports Samsung discussed the tech seen in the film, pointing out the display used by Tony Stark and some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. No official announcements were made, but Samsung does have a marketing deal with Marvel and will be releasing a special edition Iron Man Galaxy phone.
GOG Galaxy Public Beta Now Live
GOG Galaxy, CD Projekt's answer to Steam, is now open to sign-ups for its public beta.
Visitors to the GOG Galaxy website will be able to sign up and install the client if they're running Windows or Mac OSX 10.8 or newer. A client is also coming "soon" for Linux.
GOG is best known for its library of older games, but it plans to expand significantly, particularly into the area of big-budget blockbusters. The first release to support the GOG Galaxy platform will be The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which comes out May 19.
Will Iron Man Don His Bleeding Edge Armor in Cap 3?
Some alleged concept art from Captain America: Civil War may reveal Iron Man's new armor for the next Marvel movie.
Blogger Umberto Gonzalez (formerly of Latino-Review) posted the following two images to his Instagram account.
The armor seen below is believed to be the "bleeding edge" model, which in the comics was an upgrade to the "Extremis" model and allowed Tony Stark to mentally command it via nanotechnology.
Killer Instinct Fans Raise $100,000 for Tournaments
The developers of Killer Instinct recently began a community fundraiser in which they collected all the money spent on downloadable content up to $100,000.
The Killer Instinct community helped reach this goal within three days, and after which the money was added into a community fund that will be used to help bolster the prize pools of several fighting game tournaments across the country, including EVO 2015.
Additionally, the team announced that Shadow Jago would soon become a playable character with his own boss move set and balanced for competitive play.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Takes the Fight to Wulfburg
In celebration of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood's release today, Bethesda Softworks has posted a launch trailer for the expansion to MachineGames' Nazi-filled first-person shooter.
Give it a look below.
Set before the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Old Blood features two intertwined stories, spanning a total of eight chapters. Players will once again step into the shoes of B.J. Blazkowicz, this time, however, in 1946 during the end of World War II. In this standalone expansion, our gun-wielding hero will not only face off against a maniacal prison warden, but also must thwart the efforts of an deranged Nazi archaeologist whose work could "unleash a dark and ancient power."
WildStar’s Newest Content Update Brings Pets to Nexus
WildStar's fifth content update is now live and brings new adventures, raids, and the addition of companion pets to the MMO.
The latest update, called INVASION: Nexus, adds new content and customization features to the game, including companion pets, "a feature fans have been requesting for a while," according to developer Carbine Studios. Over 50 different pets are available to collect.
In addition to the new pets, the update adds a new adventure, a new raid, a new contracts system and a new post-cap space in Star-Comm Basin.
The new Bay of Betrayal adventure tasks players with infiltrating the Ascendency as an acolyte Technopath "to subvert the Ascendancy and rise through the ranks by emerging victorious in contests against other hopeful acolytes."
Windows Media Center Is Dead, Won’t Carry Over to Windows 10
Windows Media Center is effectively dead, as Microsoft has no plans to support the software with Windows 10.
In fact, during this year's Build Developer Conference in San Francisco, the company confirmed to ZDNet in a private meeting that those who opt for a free OS upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1 will lose Media Center functionality altogether. And no, there won't be a way to get the software back.
We can confirm that due to decreased usage, Windows Media Center will not be part of Windows 10.