Monthly Archives: January 2019
Red Dead Online Adds Battle Royale-Like Gun Rush Mode
Rockstar is adding a new mode, Gun Rush to Red Dead Online today, and it sounds an awful lot like the Battle Royales we're used to.
Gun Rush, according to a press release, puts "your survival instincts to the test, gathering weapons and ammunition while the play area shrinks in this new mode for up to 32 players." The mode's available in both team and free-for-all variants.
The existing Make It Count mode takes Battle Royale's shrinking map, but only allows players to use a bow or throwing knives – the weapon scavenging in Gun Rush sounds far more like Fortnite or PUBG in approach.
Final Fantasy 10, 10-2, and 12 Arrive on Switch and Xbox One This April
The Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age will both headed to the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One this April.
Announced by Square Enix alongside a piece of new artwork by character designer Akihiko Yoshida, Final Fantasy X / X-2 will arrive on April 16, 2019, while Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age will be released on April 30, 2019.
What Did You Think of This Week’s Comics?
It was another big week for the comic book industry. Marvel relaunched Captain Marvel's monthly series with a new creative team and debuted Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. DC kicked off the new Wonder Comics imprint with Young Justice #1 and delivered a dark new chapter of Batman.
Scroll down to check out our new reviews and thinkpieces, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Batman #62 Review
Stan Lee Tribute Spotted in World Of Warcraft
An eagle-eyed player has discovered a delightful Stan Lee tribute following the latest World of Warcraft patch.
When patch 8.1.5 went live on the World of Warcraft public test servers, players were expecting more allies, shiny new battlegrounds textures and a tonne of other fixes and updates. However, when walking through the streets of Stormwind Keep, Twitter user Bas Schouten (via Eurogamer) also noticed that a familiar face had been added.
Excelsior! @TerranGregory @TaliesinEvitel pic.twitter.com/9jplxvgEff
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Someone Played Mario Kart on a Baseball Stadium’s Jumbotron
Someone was caught playing Mario Kart on Kauffman Stadium’s CrownVision display, but it turns out, the way this came to pass was quite admirable.
The footage was captured by Kansas City KCTV5’s helicopter while en route to a different assignment, but the crew noticed the game being played on this particularly massive screen used by the Kansas City Royals in the process. Tom Martin of KCTV5 tweeted the footage, causing it to go viral.
Vision and Scarlet Witch TV Series Gets Captain Marvel Writer as Showrunner
The Vision and Scarlet Witch, a television show coming to Disney+ based off characters of the same name, has reportedly landed a showrunner familiar with the MCU.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Captain Marvel co-writer Jac Schaeffer has been named as showrunner for The Vision and Scarlet Witch. Schaeffer will also write the pilot episode and executive produce the series. On top of this, Schaeffer is attached as a writer for the upcoming Black Widow solo film and has acted as screenwriter for The Hustle and Olaf’s Frozen Adventures.
Asus Reveals Liquid-and-Air Cooled ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti
Asus has pulled the wraps off its flagship GPU at CES 2019; the liquid-and-air cooled GeForce ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti. The company reserves the Matrix branding for only its extreme high-end GPUs, and this one is certainly worthy of that title.
The GPU sandwiches a closed-loop cooling apparatus dubbed Infinity Loop between the PCB and a three fan array, with the liquid handling the cooling of the GPU and memory, and the fans cooling the radiator and VRMs.
The pump, tubing, and radiator are all hidden behind the fan assembly, and despite all this cooling technology the GPU is still only a three-slot affair, making it nearly same size as some high-end air-cooled versions of this GPU. Asus claims the integrated closed loop cooler runs quieter than a GPU with an external 120mm radiator, and that its performance nearly matches that of a GPU with a 240mm radiator.
Sony Shouldn’t Rush to Release the PS5 Soon
Beyond, hello, and happy new year!
IGN's weekly PlayStation show returns in 2019 with your host Jonathon Dornbush, as well as Lucy O'Brien and Brian Altano, to take a look ahead at the PS5. With the news of strong PS4 holiday sales success, we address the inevitable next generation and whether we actually feel the need for it, or if we're ok to wait and focus on the PS4 for awhile. And we take our best, long shot prediction for when Sony will reveal and release its next system.
Additionally, the trio takes a preview of games coming out in January, including Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, and more. Timecodes below:
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- PS4 sales numbers and the state of Sony's current-gen system - 3:00
Xbox Boss Talks Partnership With AMD for Future Platforms
During AMD’s keynote address at CES 2019, Microsoft’s head of gaming Phil Spencer came on stage and briefly discussed a partnership with AMD that would involve “future platforms."
Speaking of AMD, Spencer said, “As we look forward to future platforms that we’re building and work that we’re doing, the partnerships and the innovations that we’ve seen in the past have led to what we’ve been able to do today, I think they’re going to be critically important to our future endeavors. I’m really looking forward to showing those to people more in the future.”
While Spencer didn’t outright say that the next Xbox would use AMD technology, it seems highly likely AMD will supply the APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) for Microsoft’s next gaming box. After all, AMD provided semi-custom AMD APUs based on its Jaguar microarchitecture for Xbox One and Xbox One S while an upgraded version of this APU was used for Xbox One X. AMD similarly supplies Sony with APUs for the PlayStation 4 family of consoles.