Monthly Archives: August 2016
Sean Bean to Voice Civilization 6 Tech Tree
Not only did Sean Bean voice the Civilization VI E3 trailer, he's also taken on the mantle of tech tree narrator.
According to PC Gamer, the actor will be voicing the historical quotations which appear when you research new technologies in the game.
Sean Bean takes over from Morgan Sheppard, who performed the same role in Civ 5. Before Sheppard, Leonard Nimoy voiced the tech tree in Civ 4.
Bean has done voice acting for a couple of video games video games before, most recently as the narrator in Kholat, and before that as Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, illegitimate son of Patrick Stewart's Uriel Septim.
Disney 16-Bit Platformers Now Available on PC
GOG.com is offering players a blast from the Disney past, with a trio of 16-bit sidescrollers now available beginning today.
The 16-bit era releases of Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Jungle Book are all now available exclusively on GOG.com, DRM free, for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Each game will normally cost $9.99, though GOG has discounted them for launch to be available for $8.99. All three can be purchased together in a special bundle for $19.99.
And for those wondering, the Aladdin version being released is the Sega Genesis and PC version of the game, not the Capcom-produced SNES game also based on the 1992 Disney animated hit.
Telltale Releases Patch to Fix Batman Problems on PC
Telltale is aware of the performance issues people have been having in the PC version of its new Batman game, and has released a patch to remedy some of them.
Some users on the game's Steam discussion page have been complaining about poor frame rates, and Telltale believes many of these issues are due to people running the game on integrated graphics, or the result of outdated drivers.
The new patch automatically defaults the game to run on dedicated graphics cards, and adds graphics settings to enable selection of higher performance textures, or higher quality textures, based on your hardware.
Hidden Master Chief Etched into the Xbox One S
You can find Master Chief on the new Xbox One S, and not just in-game.
Xbox's Mike Ybarra teased at the existence of Chief on the new Xbox on Twitter yesterday, but didn't reveal exactly where he'd be found.
Hmm what's that? pic.twitter.com/c6UrAT0Xox
— ♏️ike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) August 3, 2016
It was actually discovered by Ifixit in its Xbox One S Teardown, which will give you a guide on how to take the console apart, if you dare.
Judge Dismisses NBA 2K Tattoo Copyright Suit
Take-Two Interactive has won the dismissal of a lawsuit over claims the NBA 2K series used copyrighted tattoos on its digital athletes without permission.
The copyright breach, raised by Solid Oak Sketches, sought damages of up to $150,000 per infringement. That means, in theory, the total payout for every tattoo used without permission could be somewhere in the billions of dollars.
Stars who Solid Oak Sketches claim to have inked include LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and a selection of other NBA players.
While U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan has dismissed the case, she says Solid Oak Sketches can still pursue actual damages (money awarded as compensation for loss of profit).
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Rumor: Mario and Pokemon NX Games To Arrive Next Year
A new report claims the Nintendo NX will receive new Mario and Pokemon games, alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild within six months of the console's March 2017 launch.
"Sources close to Nintendo" have reportedly told MCV that the company is hoping to avoid the slow start of its previous two consoles, Wii U and 3DS.
Anecdotally, few of Nintendo's major internal studios or second parties have shipped a major release since 2015, which could be seen to bear out such a rumor.
MCV also claims that Nintendo has already garnered third-party support - another struggle for its consoles in recent years - from Sega, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Activision and Warner Bros.
11 Little Things We Learned from the Harry Potter Play
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child debuted on the West End stage last week, at much the same time the play’s script was released as a hardback book. And we’ve been reading that script to find out what’s new in the Harry Potterverse.
So the following are 11 of the most interesting facts we found. We’re avoiding spoilers for the show’s plot, feeling they should be experienced as you watch or read. But if you don’t want to know ANYTHING about what’s happened to Harry, Ron, Hermione and co. in the intervening years, maybe come back when you’ve checked out the Cursed Child.
Which, incidentally, is REALLY good.
Hearthstone Card Reveal: The Awesome Power of Medivh
The next Hearthstone adventure is One Night in Karazhan, a fun, party-themed riff on one of World of Warcraft’s most iconic locations. It takes place when the most powerful mage in Azeroth, Medivh, was in his prime, and so too was his magical tower Karazhan. Things go awry, however - Medivh goes missing and his magic-imbued creations run amok.
The new content will take place across four wings (the first one opens on August 11 in North America, the 12th elsewhere) and by the end you’ll have 45 new cards. We’ve seen about half of them at this point, but get ready to see a very special new one – Medivh himself!
“Medivh, the Guardian” is a neutral legendary that costs eight mana and has a 7/7 body, but it’s the Battlecry “Equip Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian” that shows Medivh’s true power. Atiesh, you see, is a weapon with one attack and three durability with the text “After you cast a spell, summon a random minion of that cost. Lose 1 durability.” Cool, huh?
Star Wars: First Look at Rogue One’s U-Wing Ship
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will feature a brand-new ship called the U-Wing, and a still from Lucasfilms' upcoming movie provides an early glimpse at the spacecraft.
The image was revealed during the latest episode of The Star Wars Show. You can check out a screen shot below, followed by the video (the U-Wing appears at the 1:30 mark)
As noted by io9, the U-Wing was first shown in the form of concept art back at Star Wars Celebration 2015 in Anaheim.