Monthly Archives: December 2018
Update: Carlton Dance Cannot Be Copyrighted Amidst Fortnite Lawsuit
Update 2/15: Fresh Prince of Bel Air star Alfonso Ribeiro'a lawsuit against Fortnite for the inclusion of the famous "Carlton Dance" in the battle royale game has hit a major snag, as the U.S. Copyright Office has called into question his attempts to copyright the dance.
In a letter posted by The Hollywood Reporter, Saskia Florence of the Copyright Office's Arts Division, said Ribeiro's copyright request should be refused on the basis of the dance being "a simple dance routine."
"The combination of these three dance steps is a simple routine that is not registrable as a choreographic work," the letter readers after laying out the specific movements. Florence then follows up this description by refusing the registration claim.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Opens With Solid $35 Million Opening Weekend
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse earned $35.4 million its opening weekend in the domestic box office.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Spider-Verse grossed $21 million overseas across 44 markets, netting it a $56.4 million global opening weekend. Its most successful overseas market was South Korea, where it earned $3.3 million, and the UK followed at $2.9 million. This runs against the film’s reported $90 million budget.
Coming in second over the weekend is Clint Eastwood’s The Mule at $17.2 million, which he stars in, produced and directed. Over half of The Mule’s audience has reportedly been over 50 years old, and the film’s budget reportedly sits at $50 million.
Sony May Have Revealed How Many People Have Played PS4’s Biggest Games
With the launch of My PS4 Life from Sony, people have been reverse engineering player counts and percentages to calculate the total number of players for each PS4 game available.
Reddit user Gamstat revealed the simple math involved to get the estimates and the difficulty in finding an accurate number.
Gamstat pointed out that My PS4 Life videos – which show personalized highlights for users of their in-game trophies – discloses the exact number of players who receive said trophy.
That number, combined with the percentage of people who obtained the trophy (shown on the PlayStation website) can give an estimation of the amount of people playing that specific game.
11 Big Games That Got Delayed in 2018
Video games get delayed all the time. It’s probably never worth fretting too much about because there are always plenty of great games to play. We live in a golden age, truly. But nevertheless, it’s good to keep tabs on the titles you’re interested in so that you can budget your time and money accordingly. These are 11 of the biggest games that got delayed in 2018.
New Release Date: January 25, 2019
Once The Last Guardian finally released in December 2016, Kingdom Hearts 3 inherited the mantle of the biggest game to be delayed the longest. The wait for the next installment in Tetsuya Nomura’s Disney/Square RPG crossover has been nothing short of trying for fans, who’ve seen Disney buy both Marvel and Star Wars since development on Kingdom Hearts 3 began. It – along with its Frozen, Toy Story, and other characters and areas – is finally almost here.
Kingdom Hearts 3 Trailer Confirms Second Playable Character
Since Tetsuya Nomura hinted about the possibility years ago, fans have speculated about whether Kingdom Hearts 3 will have another playable character beyond Sora. Now, the sequel's latest trailer has confirmed that is the case, and who this second character is.
Spoilers for Kingdom Hearts 3 follow! Turn back if you haven't watched the latest trailer for the game and don't want to know.
During the Kingdom Hearts 3 Final Battle trailer, viewable above, gameplay of Riku as a player-controlled character is shown (around the 1:06 mark).
This isn't the first time Sora's childhood friend has been playable in the series — notably, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, originally released for the GBA and then remade for the PS2, included a storyline featuring a playable Riku.
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If you are hoping to give the gift of Nintendo Switch this holiday season, and you want to make sure it's under the Christmas tree in time, you really need to stop dragging your feet. There are plenty of Nintendo Switch deals and bundles to be had, most of which will arrive before Christmas, but you seriously need to act now.
Walmart offers free 2-day shipping on these Nintendo Switch bundled deals, but everyone is doing last-minute shopping right now and it tends to put a strain on the busy people of your favorite delivery services. There's a little bit of urgency to these Nintendo Switch deals, is what I'm saying.
Battlefield 5 Undoes TTK Changes Following Fan Feedback
DICE has announced that the changes made to Battlefield 5’s Time to Kill (TTK) values will soon be undone following negative fan feedback.
Announced by DICE on the Battlefield 5 Reddit, TTK will be reverting back to launch values starting tomorrow, December 18 at 4am PT. DICE made the changes so it would be easier for new players to jump in to BF5, though experienced players quickly made their grievances known.
At launch, many fans felt that TTK and Time to Death (TTD) was far too quick, though the recently implemented changes went in the opposite direction, causing many players to feel like enemies were “bullet sponges” and took far too long to kill. Many complained of overall balancing issues caused by the changes.
Spider-Man PS4 Gets His Own Marvel Comic
Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4 is getting its own Marvel Comic, due out March 2019.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: City at War #1 looks to follow the plot of the game, taking place eight years after Spider-Man gains his powers. It centers on Peter Parker putting the crime kingpin Wilson Fisk in prison and dealing with the repercussions of this action, like Mister Negative rising to fill that vacuum of power.
Credit: Marvel, Clayton Crain
City at War will also include new story moments not seen in the game, as well as bonus behind-the-scenes content. It will be the first of six issues, and the first in a series of new stories from what Marvel is calling its “Gamerverse."
PS4’s Dreams Potentially Teasing Beta Announcement
After already being delayed from the original beta announcement, Media Molecule teased the beta for Dreams Monday on Twitter.
Media Molecule announced a "Totally normal dreams stream" Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 5:00 pm GMT / 9:00 am PT.
PS4's Dreams was originally announced in 2015 at E3, with a beta announced at Sony's Paris Games Week keynote that same year, for the beta to come in 2016.