Monthly Archives: January 2019
The Messy Timeline of P.T., Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills Horror Masterpiece
What happened to Silent Hill, or more specifically, the Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro collaboration, Silent Hills? What’s going on with P.T., the playable teaser that announced Silent Hills, and is often hailed as one of the best horror games ever made? Is it gone forever? Is there any hope for it making an official return?
Some of these questions don’t have answers – the future of Silent Hill is very uncertain. But we can paint a clear timeline of the Silent Hills saga to better understand the events that lead up to this point. We’re coming up on P.T.’s fifth anniversary, and even after all this time, the mark that demo left on the horror gaming landscape is still there, spawning fan remake after fan remake and inspiring countless other games to follow in its footsteps.
Avengers: Endgame – Major Plot Point May Have Just Been Spoiled
Marvel is keeping tight-lipped on many major plot points in Avengers: Endgame, but it appears the car manufacturer Audi may have inadvertently revealed who attempts to rescue Iron Man from space.
Spoiler warning: potential spoilers for Avengers: Endgame ahead.
As reported by CBR, at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, Audi is presenting an "in-car VR experience” which integrates car movement with what is being displayed on a VR headset in the backseat. The experience, officially called Marvel’s Avengers: Rocket’s Rescue Run, was developed by Disney Games and Interactive Experiences. It has the movements of the Audi translated as a spaceship’s movements being piloted through an asteroid field by Rocket Raccoon.
Get a Detailed Look at Kingdom Hearts 3’s Keyblades
Square Enix has debuted detailed images of the suite of Kingdom Hearts 3 Keyblades Sora will wield in the long-awaited entry in the franchise.
Check out the new looks at the keyblades below:
Kingdom Hearts 3 is just a couple of weeks away from being released, and in December, Square debuted the KH3 Final Battle trailer, which confirmed KH3's second playable character.
While this new, official look at the game is exciting for fans, unfortunately seemingly leaked copies of the game have led to spoiler-filled videos and posts online.
Captain Marvel: Samuel L. Jackson Reveals Potential Avengers: Endgame Spoiler
Samuel L. Jackson let some spoilers slip for Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame in a recent interview from the set of Captain Marvel with ET.
Note that SPOILERS are ahead for Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame. Continue at your own risk.
In the interview, Jackson confirmed that Captain Marvel can time travel.
When asked why he thinks Captain Marvel is the right character to headline her own movie in the MCU, Jackson responded with the strength and capabilities Brie Larson's character holds.
HP’s OMEN 15 Is The World’s First 240Hz Laptop
At CES 2019 HP has unveiled an upgrade to its OMEN 15 gaming laptop in the form of a 240Hz IPS panel, making it the world's first laptop with such a high refresh rate. Previous models have topped out at 144Hz, and super high refresh rates like this are usually favored for twitchy gameplay, so this laptop will likely be a favorite amongst eSports enthusiasts. The panel runs at a resolution of 1920 x 1080, and will be paired with Nvidia RTX 20-series GPUs, namely the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070.
The CPU will be an 8th generation Intel Core-i7 8750H "Coffee Lake" six-core/12 thread model, and the Wi-Fi is can also be upgraded to 80211.ax, a.k.a. Wi-Fi 6, for improved throughput to multiple clients. Storage includes a 128GB SSD for the OS (boo), and a 1TB 7,200rpm SATA hard drive. It will also ship with 16GB of RAM, and HP will allow access to both the RAM and storage for easy upgrades.
Bird Box Monster Theories Explained
Warning! Full SPOILERS below for Netflix's Bird Box. You can read our spoiler-free review right here.
Bird Box really left us in the dark when it came to its monsters. Are they wraiths, specters, hallucinations, or something more sinister? While there are some details that are clearly established about the creatures, by the end of the movie, we still really weren’t sure what they were. But, we have some ideas, digging deeper into the theories brought up by Charlie (the supermarket employee, who was writing an “End of the World” novel) and some conjectures from Reddit.
We never really see how the creatures look, but Gary does draw several images of them. One drawing looks almost like the head of an octopus with slits for eyes. Gary’s sketches also show multiple legs, tentacles or tails? We counted nine of them. Bird Box Creature Designer Andy Bergholtz also posted mockups to his Instagram of what the creatures were originally supposed to look like (at least for Malorie). Bergholtz added that each victim saw a different fatal vision, and this demonic baby creature (with a CGI body added later) would have appeared in a cut nightmare scene for Malorie.
When Should the PS5 Launch?
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the PS4’s latest sales numbers from the holiday 2018 season. Over 5.6 million PS4 and PS4 Pro units were sold over the holiday season, bringing the PS4 to over 90 million units sold worldwide, with strong software sales also boosting the platform’s 2018 success.
And yet, at the same time, discussion of the PS5 has already begun — when will Sony formally announce the PS4 successor, what games will be released for it, and when will the system itself be released? Even with several huge titles like The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Death Stranding yet to be released, many are already looking beyond the PS4.
Nobody Can Figure Out This Crazy Destiny 2 Puzzle
Update 1/9: Bungie has officially announced through Bungie.net that it is unlocking the Bergusia Forge for all Annual Pass holders today at 2pm PT, regardless of if the Niobe Labs puzzle is completed. The full announcement is as follows:
Today, at 2PM Pacific Time, the Bergusia Forge will be unlocked for all players who own the Annual Pass.
While coming together as a community to solve puzzles can be fun, setting this puzzle up as a gate between you and new content that you want to play has not been an ideal experience. As such, we will be decoupling the puzzle from the final offering of the Black Armory. All Annual Pass owners will be able to experience the Bergusia Forge when the puzzle is solved or when the deadline expires - whichever happens first.
Is DC Comics Teasing a New Crisis?
DC Comics' Young Justice #1 does far more than just bring back a classic teen superhero team.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Young Justice #1!
This new series opens with the warriors of the alternate dimension known as Gemworld laying siege to Metropolis, taking advantage of Superman's absence to invade Earth. Fortunately, teen heroes like Robin, Impulse, Wonder Girl, Jinny Hex and Teen Lantern all happen to be in town and ready to repel this invading army.
AMD Announces Radeon VII Gaming GPU at CES 2019
AMD announced its latest gaming GPU, the Radeon VII, this morning at CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
The Radeon VII is touted as the world’s first 7nm gaming GPU with 25% more performance at the same power consumption as previous AMD GPUs. It includes 60 compute units running up to 1.8GHz and 16GBs of high bandwidth memory. Features like Async compute, rapid packed math and shader intrinsics were mentioned as well.
Radeon VII will go on sale on February 7 at $699 and will be bundled for a limited time with Resident Evil 2 Remake, Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2. Seeing as Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2 are both coming out in March, it’s likely this bundle will simply include download codes for these games.