Monthly Archives: June 2016
July’s Free Games With Gold Revealed
Microsoft has announced the next titles joining its Games with Gold roster.
Two Xbox One games, The Banner Saga 2 and Tumblestone, and two Xbox 360 games, Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six: Vegas 2 and Tron: Evolution, will be available for free in July for Xbox Live Gold members.
Thief Actor Joins Ex-BioShock, Myst Devs’ New Game
Maine-based developer Eagre Games has announced voice actor Stephen Russell, voice of Garrett in Thief 2 and Nick Valentine in Fallout 4, will be joining its upcoming first-person adventure puzzle game ZED.
ZED, which is in the final days of a modest Kickstarter campaign, is described as an “exploration into the dreams of a dying man, who is battling dementia while trying to piece together his fading memories to leave behind one final gift to his granddaughter.” Players will explore the Dreamer’s imagination, where elements can change rapidly.
The team at Eagre Games includes artist Chuck Carter (Myst, the Command & Conquer franchise), Joe Fielder (one of the writers on BioShock: Infinite), and Pete Paquette (animator on BioShock: Infinite and the Ice Age series). ZED is being developed for Windows, Linux, and Mac, with the potential for consoles, and complete VR support.
Drive Director Wants to Make a Batgirl Film
Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has his eyes on Batgirl.
It's not the first time Refn has expressed interest in a superhero flick; in 2011, the Danish director said he could see himself directing a Wonder Woman film. And while Wonder Woman is getting her own movie—directed by Monster's Patty Jenkins—Refn hasn't given up hope.
"God, I would love to make
, it would probably be great fun," Refn told Business Insider. "I just don't know when it's going to happen. I very much enjoy my freedom creatively, but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity."
Some People Can’t Find The Division DLC After Buying It
The Division Underground DLC is out today, but there are multiple reports of people being unable to find it despite paying for it.
The official Division Twitter account says Ubisoft is aware of the problem and it has now been fixed on PC, and that players should restart the game.
The issue where Underground would not be shown as Owned when owning the Season Pass should now be fixed. Make sure to restart the game
— The Division (@TheDivisionGame) June 28, 2016
64,148 LEGO Bricks and 345 Hours Make One Big Ninja
The LEGO Group's first announcement related to San Diego Comic-Con this year is that they're bringing a 51" tall, life-size LEGO model of Jay Walker - a character from the Ninjago: Master of Spinjitzu TV series - to the show floor.
Even if you're not familiar with the series, it's an impressive sculpture, taking multiple LEGO Master Builders 345 hours to construct.
Game of Thrones Creators Reveal Plans For Season 7
SPOILERS: This story contains potential spoilers for the Season 6 finale, as well as the next series of Game of Thrones. If you want to make like a Jon Snow and know nothing, do not read on.
The brains behind HBO’s Game of Thrones have revealed some of the key threads that will weave through next season.
In an interview with Deadline, showrunners David Benioff and D.B Weiss singled out Cersei as one of the central pillars supporting season 7’s story arc.
With all three of her children now dead, the fortune teller’s prophecy has come true. According to Weiss, this is going to prompt a shift in her character.
Twitch Adds Microtransactions for New Emotes
There's a new way to participate in Twitch chat.
"Cheering is a new way to show support for streamers and celebrate the moments you love with the community," says a post on the Twitch blog.
"A Cheer is a chat message that uses Bits, which are evolving animated emotes that you can buy." You can purchase Bits using Amazon Payments, and below you'll find how much it costs:
- 100 Bits - $1.40
- 500 - $7.00
- 1,500 - $19.95
- 5,000 - $64.40
- 10,000 - $126.00
Fans Solve One of GTA 5’s Biggest Mysteries
An elite team of Grand Theft Auto V players have resolved a major mystery.
The hunt began with the discovery of the golden peyote plant – a hallucinogenic herb that transforms the player into Bigfoot. Then, in search of more of the hidden herb, players took to combing through the game’s code in the hopes of finding more spawn locations.
And more locations they did find. Not only did the players find coordinates, they also found coded messages from the developers at RockStar. One such message reads “he was wrong to start his hunt on Tuesday.”
What the herb-hunting taskforce deduced was each plant must appear on a specific day of the week, under specific weather conditions. With one golden peyote found, this left the team only another six to go.
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Overwatch Becomes Korea’s Most Popular Internet Cafe Game
Overwatch is now the biggest game in South Korean internet cafes.
According to Gametrics (via Polygon), more than 30 percent of gamers in the country's PC bangs (internet cafes) are jumping on to play Blizzard's new MOBA.
Its popularity is pushing Korean favourite League of Legends down to 27.8 percent, toppling it from the top spot it has occupied since August 2012.
Bangs are a huge part of Korean gaming culture - a trend that goes hand in hand with Overwatch's developer, Blizzard, whose 1998 RTS Starcraft became an unprecedented hit in the country. 4.5 million of the game's 9.5 million total sales were made in South Korea alone.