Monthly Archives: March 2018
Listing for ‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 2018′ Spotted
A listing for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 2018 has popped up over on Amazon's Canadian website, although the product is listed as "currently available" and has no information on the release date or platforms.
A Redditor spotted the product page - which hasn't been taken down at time of writing. There's no box art, and it's likely that the 2018 title is just a placeholder name.
As with all placeholder listings, it's entirely possible that this is a speculative entry by Amazon itself, which may have no knowledge of the game.
A Way Out Wants to Feel Like a Different Game in Every Scene
Most games make a point of selling you on one core mechanical concept, the interactions you’ll hopefully be enjoying for 10, 50, 100 hours. Halo’s ‘gunfeel’, Bayonetta’s Witch Time, Mount Your Friends’, er, physics. Each one should feel good enough to keep you playing, no matter how repetitious it might actually be. A Way Out is almost stubbornly trying to do the exact opposite.
Every time Josef Fares, the game’s director, and I finish playing a section of his co-op narrative adventure game, he turns round, smiles and tells me that the game will never do that again. In half an hour of skipping between various scenes I’ve crept through a stealth section, gone spear fishing, taken part in a police chase, balanced on wheelchairs, button-mashed through 2D brawler combat, and played Connect Four. A single run-through’s aimed for 6-8 hours. There’s going to be a lot to do.
DC’s Plastic Man Stretches Into New Miniseries By Birds of Prey Creative Team
DC has announced a Plastic Man six-issue miniseries from Birds of Prey duo, Gail Simone and Adriana Melo, that will go on sale in June.
“When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero,” said writer, Gail Simone, in an interview with SyFy Wire. "I’m obviously attracted to that. There’s also this great mixture of tragedy in there, too, that I love.
Jeff Goldblum Will Appear in Jurassic World Evolution
Jeff Goldblum will reprise his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the upcoming Jurassic World Evolution.
Reported by EW, it's not clear how much Malcolm will appear in the park building sim, although Goldblum himself said:
"I'm going to be with you the whole game, as Dr. Ian Malcolm - that's the character that I play in those Jurassic Park movies. I highly recommend it. It gets 10 Goldblums out of a possible 10 Goldblums - that's my highest rating."
EW's report seems to indicate that Malcolm will act as a tutorial or adviser of some sort, saying that he "will be around to guide players through their decision-making process."
Battlefield 1 Incursions Servers Going Offline For Now
Battlefield 1's Incursions mode's multiplayer servers are going offline today as EA works on "new developments".
The 5v5 competitive mode is very much geared around re-framing the gameplay in terms of eSports - something we found out at Gamescom 2017, when IGN's UK news editor Joe took a sound thrashing. It recently moved from the closed alpha to the Community Environment on PC, and now that EA and DICE have gathered feedback and suggestions from players, the multiplayer servers will be temporarily unavailable as they develop and implement changes.
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Warframe Reaches 38 Million Players for Its 5th Anniversary
Warframe turns five years old on March 21. To celebrate, developer Digital Extremes is rolling out a whole bunch of anniversary celebrations and events, which IGN is kicking off in style with a look at some of its monumental numbers.
Since its initial open beta launch in 2013, Warframe has reached over 38 million registered players (38,083,936, to be exact), roughly seven million of which came in the last year alone - no doubt thanks in part to the massive Plains of Eidolon update. Digital Extremes sent us a few fancy images to illustrate a fewer of Warframe's finer stats, starting with its register users by year:
Marvel Releases 9 New Avengers: Infinity War Photos
Marvel Studios has released several new Avengers: Infinity War photos.
Some of the characters featured in the images, released via Marvel Studios's official Facebook page, include Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Captain America (Chris Evans), Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), and Shuri (Letitia Wright).
There's also a lone image of Thanos using what seems to be one of the Infinity Stones. Check out the photos in the gallery below:
Avengers: Infinity War opens in theaters on April 27. Find out what films Marvel's superhero ensemble movie is opening against.
Nintendo Switch 5.0 Firmware Released
Firmware update version 5.0 is now available for Nintendo Switch.
As outlined on Nintendo's official support site, the update has added Facebook and Twitter Friend Suggestions, which suggests friends to add based on the Facebook and Twitter accounts linked to your Nintendo Account.
The update, which was outed earlier today, also adds 24 new ARMS and Kirby-themed user icons, as well as the ability to filter news to content from specific channels or just unread news.
Jessica Jones: All the Easter Eggs in Season 2
Netflix has finally unleashed the second season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones. Not only does the new season continue the journey of the titular heroine and friends like Trish Walker and Jeri Hogarth, it also crams in plenty of references to the comic book source material and even inducts a few new Marvel characters into the MCU.
From the debut of The Whizzer to the obligatory Stan Lee cameo, here are all the Easter eggs and hidden references you might have missed in Season 2.
Jessica Jones Season 2 is currently available to stream on Netflix. You can check out our reactions to every episode here. After that, find out what we think the ending means for the future of the series.