Monthly Archives: November 2015
Paragon: The New Shooter From Gears of War Developer Epic
Epic Games has revealed its next game coming to PC in 2016.
Paragon appears to be some sort of shooter as the teaser reveals its first playable hero, Twinblast. The character is equipped with snazzy red cybernetic arms and dual-wielding futuristic looking handguns.
In addition to Twinblast, the game’s official site lists four other characters, Steel, Sparrow, Dekker, and Grux. The Fortnite, Gears of War, and Unreal Tournament developer plans on officially revealing a new character each week through December, with unlockable in-game items for the characters in the beta.
Beta sign-ups are currently open for Paragon.
Evan Peters on Quicksilver’s Arc in X-Men: Apocalypse
Quicksilver actor Evan Peters has come forward to share a few new details about his role in X-Men: Apocalypse, offering a sneak peek at what's in store for the super-speedy mutant.
"The story is that my character is searching for his father and wants to find him," Peters told Details in a recent interview. "It starts there and then he jumps on the X-Men train and gets sucked up in this whole Apocalypse madness: he tries to stop him from destroying the world."
Peters also didn't shy away from hyping up 20th Century Fox's mutant-centric movie. When asked whether or not Apocalypse will be the greatest X-Men movie yet, the actor replied: "Absolutely. It's the biggest X-Men film. It's about the apocalypse, so the scope of the film is huge."
First Amazon Physical Retail Location Opens Today
For the first time, people now have the opportunity to visit an official Amazon retail location.
Located in Seattle's University Village, Amazon Books is a brick-and-mortar bookstore that works in tandem with Amazon.com to sell retail books. Using the data gathered by Amazon's website, the store will stock books according to ratings, popularity, and demand.
Street Fighter 5’s Six Post-Launch Characters Leaked
The mystery behind Street Fighter V’s post-launch characters may have been solved via information mined from the code of the PC version of the game.
According to Shoryuken, audio files of character names were found, including all of the 15 revealed characters plus a sixteenth named “Fan” or “Fun” as well as Alex, Guile, Ibuki, Balrog, Juri, and Urien.
At Paris Games Week, post-launch plans for the roster were revealed, with six characters teased as coming to the game within its first year.
Hotel Transylvania 3 Officially Announced
Hotel Transylvania 3 has officially been announced and is set to open in theaters on September 21, 2018.
The news comes by way of Box Office Mojo, which also mentions another new addition in Mark Wahlberg's The Billion Dollar Man, which was just recently announced for release in December 2017.
Hotel Transylvania 2 opened back in September to great success, dominating the weekend box office and setting a new record high for the month. In light of its success, Sony Pictures' Rory Bruer teased the inevitability of a third film, saying: "There are a lot of stories left to tell."
Konami Planning for Next ‘Large-Scale’ Metal Gear Solid
Following the success of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which has already shipped 5 million copies, Konami is reportedly gearing up for the next entry in its beloved stealth-action series.
According to Nikkei (via Kotaku) the publisher is currently planning what's next for Metal Gear Solid, confirming the next entry in the series won't be a small project. "When we start development, a large-scale investment will become necessary," Konami said.
Sony Holding The Last Guardian Footage to Preserve Story
Ever since Sony re-revealed The Last Guardian for PlayStation 4 at E3, the publisher has kept a tight lid on the project. According to Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, this is being done to preserve the story.
"Development is going well, but because it's about the story, we don't want to show too much," Yoshida told GameSpot. "We wanted to show that it exists, it works, it runs. It's not like we won't show anything before launch, but I think we will try to limit what we show about the game."
Voice Actress: Fallout 4 is Like a Pixar Movie
Courtenay Taylor is very familiar with Fallout 4. To bring its 'player female' character to life, the voice actress recorded around 13000 lines of dialogue over a two year period, the longest she's ever spent on a video game (and she's spent a lot of time on video games).
Taylor has, in fact, spent so much time on Fallout 4 that she's familiar with the stuff that even the most obsessive player will never see. "Even if the camera never goes there, we know it’s there," she tells me during our interview. Here's what else Taylor has to say on Fallout 4, from her audition to playing a character that will be, essentially, defined by millions of players across the world.
100 Xbox One Backwards-Compatible Games Announcing Next Week
Microsoft is preparing to announce the first 100 Xbox 360 games playable on the Xbox One on November 9.
The company's Xbox chief Phil Spencer made the announcement on Twitter, bringing an end to months of waiting just in time for any Xbox 360 owners wondering whether or not to pick up an Xbox One for Christmas to be swayed.
Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature was one of the biggest surprises to come out of E3—so naturally, when we finally got back to the office after the show, we tested it out straight away. We've also managed to find out heaps of new info about what the feature will allow, including being able to play older titles online with gamers who own an Xbox 360, and how Achievements will function.
World of Warcraft Subscriber Numbers Fall to 5.5 Million
Activision Blizzard's latest earnings report reveals World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have fallen to 5.5 million, down 100,000 from three months ago.
The MMO continues to see the number of players actively paying to play the game fall, though this is to be expected in a period where no new content is arriving ahead of the next expansion. With Blizzcon coming the end of this week, it's likely we'll be getting details on just how much longer the wait for that expansion, Legion, will be.