Monthly Archives: February 2017
New Mass Effect: Andromeda Screenshots Leaked
New screenshots of Mass Effect: Andromeda have surfaced online.
Posted by Twitter user shinobi602, the new images prominently feature some of the game's characters including protagonist Sara Ryder, her father Alec Ryder, and an asari as-yet unseen in trailers. Check out the screenshots below:
Mass Effect: Andromeda - New Screenshots pic.twitter.com/lOJgGKRMd6
— shinobi602 (@shinobi602) February 14, 2017
A Star Wars Story We Want: X-Wing Squadron
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was unique in that it was the first standalone Star Wars movie and the first film without Jedi. The Force was present (it's an energy field created by all living things, after all), but it wasn't central to the story. Instead, Rogue One centered on everyday heroes. The rebels who stole the Death Star plans had skills, to be sure, but they didn't have the advantages the Jedi possess.
A pilot, an intelligence operative, former Guardians of the Whills, a reprogrammed droid, and a scrappy fighter -- that's the group at the heart of Rogue One. The story showed life as a Rebel Alliance soldier isn't a walk in the park fueled by righteousness. It's a dirty business that fails as often as it succeeds, and hope is the thin fuel keeping the tank running --- and sometimes the tank goes dry. After getting that glimpse of the additional layers and roles within the Rebellion, we're ready for more and we can start by diving into the world of X-wing pilots.
Injustice 2 Confirms Poison Ivy, Cheetah and Catwoman
NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. have released a new trailer for Injustice 2 that confirms Catwoman, Cheetah and Poison Ivy will all be playable characters in the upcoming DC fighting game.
Check out the trailer below, aptly titled "Here Come the Girls," for a look at Catwoman, Cheetah and Poison Ivy, as well as the previously revealed Black Canary.
Poison Ivy was previously shown in the game's official story trailer and, while expected, her status as a playable character had yet to be confirmed.
Street Fighter on Switch Has a First-Person Hadouken Mode
Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers will come with an extra, Nintendo Switch-flavoured mode - it's pretty strange.
The back of the Japanese edition's box (thanks, Nintendo Everything) includes a section on a new mode called (according to IGN's translation), "Fire! Ha-DO-Ken". The "do" represents a play on words, implying that you "do" the action yourself.
The box blurb also makes mention of a "1st person POV full impact mode", and says that the Switch's Joy-Con controllers will be used.
As pointed out by Polygon, the game's announcement trailer appeared to show the mode very briefly - a slowed-down gif of that moment is below:
Call of Duty Dev, Other Activision Studios Hit By Layoffs
Activision Publishing has reportedly laid off 5 percent of its workforce, affecting a number of its internal studios, including Infinity Ward and Beenox.
According to a report from Kotaku, approximately 20 staff members from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare developer Infinity Ward were laid off.
During Activision's quarterly earnings call earlier this month, the publisher acknowledged that Infinite Warfare "wasn't the success we planned," saying the "space setting didn't resonate with players." Despite being the best-selling game of last year in the U.S., Infinite Warfare fell short of the sales success achieved by prior entries in the series. This year's entry in the franchise, developed by Sledgehammer Games, will take Call of Duty "back to its roots."
Nintendo Details Zelda: Breath of the Wild Season Pass
Nintendo has announced an "Expansion Pass" for Breath of the Wild, offering the first ever DLC in a main series Legend of Zelda game.
Available from March 3 for $19.99 USD / £17.99 (Australian price unknown at time of writing), the Expansion Pass will offer two extra content packs, to be released later in 2017, neither of which can be purchased individually. The details of each are:
Pack 1 - Summer 2017
- A new Cave of Trials challenge
- Hard mode
- "A new feature for the in-game map"
Pack 2 - Holiday 2017
- A new dungeon
Elite Dangerous: Arena Pulled from Steam and Xbox Store
Elite Dangerous: Arena has been pulled from sale due to a lack of players.
The game, which went on sale in February 2016 as a standalone PvP mode (previously known as CQC) of Elite Dangerous, has been removed from the Xbox store, Steam, and the Frontier store.
"We've been looking at our metrics which suggest that the vast majority of new and regular Arena players tend to play Arena through the main Elite Dangerous client rather than the standalone Arena one," said senior community manager Edward Lewis on the Elite Dangerous forum (via Eurogamer).
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Pewdiepie Dropped by Disney Following Offensive Videos
Disney's Maker Studios has confirmed that it has cut ties with YouTube star, PewDiePie.
Maker - the YouTube creator network bought by the Walt Disney Company in 2014 - has severed its relationship with Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg and removed all references to him from its website following the release of a series of videos - some since deleted - containing antisemitic messages.
In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, a representative of Maker Studios said: “Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case. The resulting videos are inappropriate.”
Star Trek: Discovery Casts Starfleet Officers
Three new cast members have joined CBS All Access' forthcoming series Star Trek: Discovery.
Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock), Sam Vartholomeos (The Following), and Terry Serpico (Sneaky Pete) will all play different Starfleet officers.
Pancholy will portray the Starship Shenzhou's chief medical officer, Dr. Nambue. Vartholomeos stars as a junior officer named Ensign Connor who has been assigned to the Starship Shenzhou. Serpico will play Admiral Anderson, a high-ranking official of Starfleet.
The trio join a large cast which includes The Waking Dead star Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones (Hellboy), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Anthony Rapp (A Beautiful Mind), Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful), Mary Chieffo (Shelby's Vacation), Chris Obi (Ghost in the Shell), and James Frain (True Detective).