Monthly Archives: March 2018
Rainbow Six Siege Update to Fix Aiming on Automatic Weapons
Rainbow Six Siege's weapons will have their recoil patterns corrected in an upcoming update, Ubisoft announced today.
Bullets fired from many weapons, especially fully automatic weapons, currently "diverge from where the reticle is pointing," a blog post explains. With the new recoil system, which will initially roll out on the next Siege test server session, Ubisoft is targeting "a clean, tight shooting system that does not cheat players out of a great show of skill, or on the contrary, register a headshot when the player is aiming at the torso."
As-is, bullets don't always land at the tip of your gun's reticle. Sometimes they land below or beside it. Under the new recoil system, bullets will always land exactly at the tip of your reticle. So the kick of each gun won't change, but bullet trajectory is getting tightened up. You can find more details here.
Krypton’s Set 200 Years Ago, But These DC Villains Could Still Show Up
Krypton may be set 200 years before the time of Superman, but that isn't stopping this new TV series from playing with some familiar heroes and villains. Brainiac and Adam Strange have already made their debut in the pilot episode, with the promise of more familiar faces like Doomsday and Hawkgirl joining the fray later this season.
The DC Universe is a vast place. And even given the flashback setting of this series, there's plenty of opportunity for Krypton to bring in more iconic Superman villains down the road. Here are 12 good candidates we'd love to see.
For more on all things Krypton, check out our review of the series premiere, and then find out everything you need to know about Krypton's comic book origins.
GDC 2018 Breaks Attendance Records
The 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) broke attendance records, attracting 28,000 industry professionals to this year's San Francisco-based conference.
GDC will once again return to the Moscone Convention Center next year. GDC 2019 will take place from March 18-22, 2019. Submissions for the conference open this summer.
This year's conference featured over 750 sessions—including an illuminating panel about one of Rainbow Six Siege's least picked operators—and 550 exhibitors, as well as the the Independent Games Festival (IGF) and Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA).
PS Plus Games Lineup for April 2018 Announced
Sony has unveiled the PlayStation Plus free games lineup for April 2018:
- Mad Max (PS4)
- TrackMania Turbo (PS4)
- In Space We Brawl (PS3)
- Toy Home (PS3)
- 99 Vidas (PS Vita)
- Q*Bert Rebooted (PS Vita, Cross-Buy with PS3 and PS4)
Mad Max and TrackMania Turbo headline the PlayStation 4 releases. These two games are joined by a few PlayStation 3 and Vita titles, including Q*Bert Rebooted and In Space We Brawl.
Mad Max, from developer Avalanche Studios, released in 2015 and is an open-world action game. For our thoughts on Mad Max, read our review to find out why we think it "is an engaging rampage through a brutal world of depravity and loss that urges you to probe every ugly corner." Meanwhile, we gave 2016's TrackMania Turbo an 8.4, calling the game "a brilliant arcade stunt racer."
Corey Feldman Claims He Was Stabbed in His Car
The Goonies and Gremlins star Corey Feldman has claimed he was attacked in his car by a group of three men, one of whom stabbed him.
"IM IN THE HOSPITAL! I WAS ATTACKED 2NITE! A MAN OPENED MY CAR DOOR & STABBED ME W SOMETHING! PLEASE SAY PRAYERS 4 US! THANK GOD IT WAS ONLY MYSELF & MY SECURITY IN THE CAR, WHEN 3 MEN APPROACHED! WHILE SECURITY WAS DISTRACTED, W A GUY A CAR PULLED UP & ATTACKED! I’M OK," Feldman wrote on Twitter, with photos of himself in the hospital.
Xbox Games With Gold for April 2018 Revealed
The lineup of games available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in April 2018 has been revealed.
The following titles we be available for download for Xbox Live Gold members next month:
- The Witness - April 1-30 (Xbox One)
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - April 16 to May 15 (Xbox One)
- Disney/Pixar's Cars 2 - April 1-15 (Xbox One, Xbox 360)
- Dead Space 2 - April 16-30 (Xbox One, Xbox 360)
The Witness is "a labyrinthine mystery through a brilliantly designed world" which received a 10 in IGN's glowing review. It was also nominated for our 2016 Game of the Year.
Thanos Makes Even Winter Soldier and Falcon Get Along in Avengers: Infinity War
The Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes, and the Falcon, aka Sam Wilson, are both trusted allies of Captain America, but in Captain America: Civil War, they didn’t exactly get along that well. Between the car seat bitterness and Falcon’s flat-out “I hate you” line after they were webbed up by Spider-Man, it was clear that these two heroes were begrudging allies at best.
IGN and a small group of press visited the Atlanta set of Avengers: Infinity War where we watched a scene being filmed and got a chance to talk to Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie. The actors revealed that when their characters eventually reunite, their determination to beat Thanos will inspire them to leave the past behind and cut each other some slack. The scene in question featured the Avengers landing in Wakanda to ask King T’Challa for aide in defending the Earth against Thanos, which saw the two characters cross paths for the first time since Civil War.
Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Pay $1B for Rights to Chinese Novel
Amazon is reportedly in negotiations to adapt the Hugo-winning Chinese sci-novel, The Three-Body Problem, and its two sequels into a three-season series, and is said to be prepared to pay $1 billion for the rights.
Financial Times (via io9) reports that, according to international investors, Amazon is negotiating for the rights to the sci-fi trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past, more often referred to as The Three-Body Problem, which is the title of the first book.
Dark Nights: Metal Reshapes the DC Universe
DC's epic Dark Nights: Metal storyline wrapped up today, and it's causing some major changes to the DC Universe.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Dark Nights: Metal #6!
Unsurprisingly, the series ends with the Justice League rallying its numbers, defeating Barbatos and his Dark Knights and lifting Earth back out of the Dark Multiverse. But the big surprise is Batman's choice of ally for his final showdown with the Batman Who Laughs. Who better to help Batman defeat a twisted, Joker-ized version of himself than the actual Joker?
New Deadpool 2 Poster Released
20th Century Fox has released a new international poster for Deadpool featuring the sequel's three main characters.
In the image, via Blackfilm, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is sandwiched between the luck-manipulating mutant Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable (Josh Brolin). It also looks as though the Merc with a Mouth is giving Cable a wet willy. Check out the poster below.
Deadpool 2 international poster, via Blackfilm.