Monthly Archives: April 2017
The All-New X-Men Find Surprising New Allies
X-Men Blue has reunited the original five X-Men, but the first issue had a few surprises in store for this familiar team.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for X-Men Blue #1!
X-Men Blue is the latest series to star the teenage original X-Men, who have been stuck in the present day ever since the beginning of All-New X-Men in 2012. This new series sees the team struggling to regroup and find its purpose after the recent revelation that they no longer have a home to return to.
The good news is that these young X-Men have a new mentor to help them find their place in the Marvel Universe. You may recognize him:
Phil Spencer on Why Scorpio Waited Until 2017
Microsoft's mid-gen upgrade to its Xbox One console could have released last year, but according to head Phil Spencer, the company wanted to make sure framerate wasn't sacrificed in the quest for 4K.
Spencer told Gamasutra maintaining a solid framerate "was our design goal, from the beginning. To say: same framerate, increased resolution."
"We didn't think we could make that promise to developers in 2016," he said.
Believing 4K TVs would reach market maturity somewhere in the middle of the current console generation, Spencer said the Xbox team "designed a console for 2016, and a console for 2017," and the Scorpio won out as the fruit of its 2017 labors.
Yakuza Kiwami Coming to the West
Yakuza Kiwami will come out August 29 in the Americas and Europe.
SEGA is only bringing the PlayStation 4 version of the HD remake to the west. Yakuza Kiwami will cost $30/£30/€35.
People who pre-order Yakuza Kiwami will get a steelbook version of the game (seen below). A limited amount of first-run copies will also sport the special packaging.
Yakuza Kiwami was confirmed for a western release back at PSX 2016. The HD remake of the original game was officially announced back at TGS 2015.
Young Dumbledore Cast in Fantastic Beasts Sequel
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law will portray a young Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel.
Spoilers for the original Fantastic Beasts follow.
Law has been officially announced to play the iconic wizard decades before he was the Headmaster at Hogwarts and was still serving as the wizarding school’s Transfiguration professor. Dumbledore was a contemporary of Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the dark wizard who made a surprise appearance in the first Fantastic Beasts film.
Microsoft Taking a ‘More Open and Inclusive Approach to VR’
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has come forward to shed light on Microsoft's plans for virtual reality, saying the company is opting for a "more open and inclusive approach."
"I'm going to try and be as open as we can, definitely across the platforms that we support," Spencer said in a Q&A with Gamasutra. "I think that right now if you're a developer, you're just looking for oxygen to go sell your game."
Spencer explained why Microsoft has currently held off from tying its gaming platform to a specific piece of VR hardware, noting that virtual reality is still very new. "I think we're on like a decade-long journey with VR, and we're still right at the beginning," he said.
Prey Demo Coming April 27
A free Prey demo will be available to download on April 27 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, a week ahead of the game's May 5 release.
The demo features the game's opening hour in which players first board Prey's main setting, the Talos I space station, where protagonist Morgan Yu is working on a scientific breakthrough that'll change humanity forever.
The story follows Morgan as he tries to survive and battle against aliens who have overrun the station and are determined to him down. You can watch the new trailer for the demo below:
Along with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Prey will also be released on PC on May 5. Check out IGN's hands-on impressions of the game, the opening 11 minutes, as well as our complete guide to Prey's preorder bonuses.
Microsoft Shows Off Xbox’s Project Scorpio Dev Kit
Microsoft has taken suggestions from developers and rolled them into its new dev kit for its upcoming Project Scorpio console iteration.
The Scorpio dev kits have more power than the consumer version of the console. According to Gamasutra, "the kits have 44 CUs on the GPU instead of 40," and twice as much DDR5 RAM as the Scorpio's 12GB. The idea is for developer's to build games at huge specs and then "tune them down" for the consoles, the report says.
Also among the features are a toggle switch allowing devs to move from Xbox One, to S, to Scorpio, to make sure games are running correctly on all three of Microsoft's console versions.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo Switch Bundle Outed
Update: A representative from Nintendo has confirmed that the previously outed Mario Kart 8 Deluxe console bundle is indeed coming, but will only be available to those in Russia.
"The bundle is exclusive to Russia and there are no plans to bring it to other countries at this time," the rep told GameSpot.
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If a reported listing by Nintendo's official Russian online store is any indication, a Switch bundle that includes a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is on the horizon.
The listing includes gray or neon Joy-Con options. While the page is unavailable to be viewed in some territories, reddit user Lord_Daenar posted an image of the bundle:
How Fate of the Furious Pulled Off ‘Zombie Cars’
Arguably, the most talked about action set-piece in The Fate of the Furious is the section featuring what the filmmakers have dubbed "zombie cars."
In this insanely entertaining sequence, the film's villain, Cipher (Charlize Theron), has her hackers commandeer waves of cars in Manhattan with auto-drive chips to become her unwitting drone army. What follows is nothing short of an auto-pilot assault unlike anything filmed before.
We have two videos on this for you to enjoy today. The first is a clip from the sequence itself, while the second is a featurette detailing how the filmmakers pulled off these "zombie cars" raining over New York City:
The Fate of the Furious -- which we raved in our review offers "plenty of the high-octane escapism and ridiculously elaborate vehicular mayhem fans of the series expect" -- races into theaters Friday.
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