Monthly Archives: June 2016
Surgeon Simulator Update Lets Players Go ‘Inside Donald Trump’
Developer Bossa Studios is letting players operate on reality TV personality and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Inside Donald Trump update is free for those who own Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition on Steam. Players who have Surgeon Simulator 2013 will have to upgrade to the newer edition to perform surgery on Trump.
Inside Donald Trump for Surgeon Simulator
Players get to vote via surgery, choosing whether to give Trump a heart of gold or a heart of stone. Results are tracked live on the Surgeon Simulator website. At the time of writing, 64 percent of players—around 49 in total—had given Trump the stone-heart transplant.
Twin Peaks Revival Could Premiere in Spring 2017
Twin Peaks creator David Lynch is targeting a spring 2017 release for Showtime's revival, network boss David Nevins said.
During a conference call with press, Nevins reported the show's production has wrapped. According to Variety, Lynch is "now in the editing room."
Twin Peaks is expected to return as a limited series, continuing the story twenty-five years after the original series ended. Each episode is directed by David Lynch, and written with his original series' co-creator Mark Frost. Twin Peaks originally aired from 1990 to 1991, and followed FBI agent Dale Cooper as he investigated the eerie circumstances surrounding a local woman's death.
E3 2016: Nintendo E3 Livestream Schedule Revealed
Nintendo has announced the schedule for its E3 livestream, which includes live gameplay for The Legend of Zelda Wii U and new Pokemon games.
Starting at 9am PT on June 14, the livestream will kick off with new gameplay from Pokemon Sun and Moon, before showing off Zelda.
On June 15, the stream will begin at 10am PT, showcasing a Q&A with Pokemon Go developer Niantic Labs, before showing off upcoming games for both Wii U and 3DS, "including Monster Hunter Generations, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE".
The Nintendo of Japan website is also advertising an "E3 2016 Pokemon Special" at 7am PT on June 16, but it's not yet clear if this will be a part of the wider Treehouse: Live programme.
All the Movie X-Men…So Far
With X-Men: Apocalypse now in theaters, it's the perfect time to take a look at all the X-Men who have been part of the mutant super-team in the films in the Fox-produced series. This list isn't just limited to mainstays like Professor X and Wolverine -- we've also thrown in a few major characters who served on an X-team in the comics but appeared in the films as bad guys or just solo players. (Lookin' at you, Gambit.)
Some may complain about the absence of a name here or there -- Spike (an X-student in the comics), for example, pops up briefly in X-Men: The Last Stand but is barely more than a visual effect for Wolverine to slash at. Others may protest the exclusion of non-mutant movie characters who were nonetheless crucial components of certain X-lineups in the comics, like Moira MacTaggart and Kavita Rao. But yeah... not mutants. (As Mystique would say, this list is mutant and proud!)
Preacher Clip: Jesse is Used for a Mysterious Ritual
In this coming Sunday's second episode of AMC's Preacher - titled "See" - Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) finds out the hard way that he's being pursued by two out-of-towners, desperate to track down the cosmic power that's found its way into our hero.
Introduced in the pilot episode, Fiore (Tom Brooke) and DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef) are men on a mission. And here, in this exclusive clip from "See," you can watch them try to perform some sort of strange ritual over Jesse's unconscious body.
There's a musical contraption, a song (a version of the poem "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"), and... well, not the results they're expecting. Take a look...
Preacher: "See" airs Sunday, June 5th at 9/8c on AMC.
Before Battlefield 1, EA Wasn’t Sure Young People Would Know WW1 Was a Thing
EA's CFO has said that, during the process of greenlighting DICE's Battlefield 1, the publishers wasn't sure if younger potential consumers would know what World War 1, World War 2 or even the Vietnam War were.
"World War 1," said Blake Jorgensen at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2016 Global Technology Conference (as reported by GameSpot). "We were worried that many of the younger consumers out there didn't know that there was a World War 2 or Vietnam, so World War 1..."
It seems to have been a long, questioning road for DICE's new project. Last month, we learned that EA Studios boss Patrick Söderlund originally "absolutely rejected" DICE's pitch, saying that a trench war "can't be fun to play."
Valve Has Sold Half a Million Steam Controllers
In a June update blog post, Valve has announced it has sold over half a million Steam Controllers since their release last year.
In addition to the controller's original features, you can now configure and use the controller from your desktop, and its Force Reactors can now "capture and reproduce the rumble effects" from various games. There's also full Steam Controller support in VR Game Theater mode, including being able to use its motion controls as a virtual steering wheel.
There are also more configuration options coming soon. Valve says upcoming updates will include being able to use Activators to assign actions to press-and-hold, double click, toggle, and more. The example the company gives is being able to cycle through all your weapons in DOOM by pressing a button, or double tapping it to bring up the BFG.
Painted and Certified Items Coming to Rocket League
Psyonix's post-release support of Rocket League continues, as now there are new changes coming to cosmetic items.
The item attribute system can assign special properties whenever you receive an online item drop, but it will be a rare occurrence.
First of all, Painted Items will recolor whatever you get with a unique pigment, and Bob Ross fans will be excited to learn the color will be randomly chosen from a set containing the likes of Titanium White and Burnt Sienna. The first release of painted items will include wheels and toppers.
Secondly, Ceritifed Items will track certain statistics while you play online. Each item will have a prefix designating which stat it is tracking, such as a "Sniper Wizard Hat." With this specific item, every time you score a Long Goal online, its counter will increase.
NBA 2K17 Cover Star, Release Date Announced
Indiana Pacers All-Star shooting guard Paul George will grace the cover of NBA 2K17 Standard Edition, 2K announced.
George previously served as the cover star of the MyNBA2K16 companion app, and as a guest commentator during the NBA 2K16 Road to the Finals tournament. He'll also appear as the cover athlete for NBA 2K Online in China.
NBA 2K17 Cover
Pokemon Sun and Moon: New Legendaries, Characters Named and Detailed
A new trailer, and an update to the Pokemon Company website have revealed brand new gameplay and details about the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Moon.
The trailer reveals the names of both new legendaries - which we saw glimpses of in last month's glut of new information - as well as a number of characters.
Solgaleo - the lion-esque legendary from the Pokemon Sun boxart - is a Psychic- and Steel-type with the Full Metal Body ability (which prevents its stats being lowered) and a new move called Sunsteel Strike.