Monthly Archives: November 2015
Hotline Miami 2 Level Editor Goes Into Beta Next Month
Tired of brutally murdering goons in Hotline Miami 2? Ready to create custom levels where your fellow players can brutally murder goons in your painstakingly built arenas of neon death?
That's great news because the folks at Dennaton Games have just announced that the open beta for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number's level editor will go live on Steam on Thursday December 10th. While only available for Windows, beta-testers will be able to download the level editor without an invitation and play around with it until the beta ends in early January. While Workshop support won't be available at the beginning of the beta, it will be integrated later and levels can be shared by sending fellow testers your level folders.
Ubisoft Celebrates 20 Years of Rayman with Massive Infographic
Ubisoft has released a massive infographic to mark 20 years of Rayman. The colorful infographic details the Rayman franchise—from Rayman, the first game in the series, to Rayman Adventures, Ubisoft’s mobile game, which is available for download now on Apple TV. Rayman Adventures comes to iOS and Android on December 3rd.
Rayman was first released in 1995, and as the infographic notes, started his adventure with his favorite activity, sleeping. But that’s not all he does! Rayman also boasts a record of 261 weeks—5 years—in the top 40 best-selling games in the UK.
Johnny Knoxville Producing Hawaiian Dick TV Show
Johnny Knoxville is set to produce a TV series based on Image Comics’ Hawaiian Dick.
According to Deadline, NBC is developing the show into a one-hour action comedy show, scripted by Paul Lovett and David Elliot (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra).
Johnny Knoxville as seen in The Last Stand
Once Upon a Time Adds Hercules and Megara to Season 5
Once Upon a Time has found its Hercules and Meg in John Whitesell and Hannibal alum Kacey Rohl.
First reported by TVLine, both characters will enter the fray in Season 5's thirteenth episode, dubbed "Labor of Love." As of right now, the pair are only set to appear in that single episode.
Rohl in Hannibal
Hercules is described as "a dashing, strapping young man” who strives "to be the greatest hero who ever lived," but his plans change after falling in love with a princess.
Deadpool Available for PS4 and Xbox One
High Moon Studios' comic book-action game Deadpool has arrived today for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners. This $50 updated release will come bundled with all the DLC content previously released for the game, including the bonus challenge maps "GRT Plaza" and "Inside the Tower," as well as Deadpool's Uncanny X-Force and D-Pooly costumes.
Originally released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, Deadpool follows hero's fourth-wall breaking brawls through the Marvel universe. The story was penned by former Deadpool comic writer Daniel Way, and featured Nolan North as the voice of Deadpool. In January 2014, Deadpool was pulled from Microsoft, Sony and Steam's digital storefronts due to the expiration of Activision's licensing contract with Marvel, and though the game returned to the Steam catalog in July, this marks Deadpool's first return to Xbox and Playstation digital owners.
Heroes of the Storm’s Two-Headed, Two-Player Hero is Available Now
The latest update for Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm includes a throng of improvements and balance updates, as well as the game's first-ever cooperative hero: Cho'gall.
"Cho is a Warrior of unmatched might who charges fist-first into battle, controlling movement and Basic Attacks," the patch notes explain. "While Gall cannot move on his own, he is a formidable Assassin armed with a devastating set of dark spells."
Players looking to control Cho'gall need to queue and select the two-headed ogre together. Each will have their own set of skills and abilities, depending on which self-named noggin they select.
14.5% of Fallout 4 Players Still Haven’t Left the Vault
Steam achievements have revealed that more than one in ten Fallout 4 players on PC have still not left Vault 111.
The amusing statistic was spotted by Reddit user Hilltopchill, who posted the above screenshot of Fallout 4's global gameplay stats from Steam. "War Never Changes" is the achievement given to players who leave the vault in the beginning of the game to begin exploring the Wasteland. 85.5% of players who own Fallout 4 on Steam have this achievement - which makes us wonder what the remaining 14.5% are still doing in the vault.
12 Awesome Gifts for Batman Fans
There are few people, outside of supervillains, who don't love Batman. He's a ninja, detective, and rebel. He's a billionaire playboy who suffers real pain, just like you and I, so it's no wonder Batman is so loved. With the holidays fast approaching, we've assembled a guide to help fulfill the gifting needs of the Batman fan in your life.
Yes, they're both good-guys, but sometimes even super-friends come to super-blows. Batman vs. Superman: Their Greatest Battles is a collection of stories that include the work of Frank Miller, Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb, Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and more, and should sufficiently stoke the flames for the upcoming movie.
Kinberg: Legion to Be “Breaking Bad” of Superhero Shows
Producer Simon Kinberg has provided an update on the two upcoming X-Men shows, Legion and Hellfire, and went as far as to compare Legion to AMC's Breaking Bad.
"What I’m seeing on Legion with
Noah
and FX is an intent to do something completely original in the genre, in some ways to sort of blow up the paradigm of comic book or superhero stories and almost do our Breaking Bad of superhero stories," Kinberg told Collider.
The producer also spoke to the benefit of expanding X-Men to television, adding: “I mean the thing that’s cool and that’s the hope in branching out to TV is that we can tell these X-Men stories in a slightly different way and even with a slightly different tone. It’s one of the thing we’re kind of doing in the different movie franchises."
LOTR’s Philippa Boyens to Bring The Merlin Saga to the Screen
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie scribe Philippa Boyens is set to pen an adaptation of T.A. Barron's The Merlin Saga for Disney.
Considering her pedigree, Boyens is a good fit to launch the saga, which Disney is hoping to spin into a Harry Potter-style blockbuster franchise.
Barron's Merlin saga began in 1996 and spans five books, focusing on the wizard as a boy after he finds himself in Wales with no idea who he is or his history. The books follow his journey as he tries to find answers. Barron himself appears to be quite involved with the series, and on his personal website wrote he was "very excited about what lies ahead".