Monthly Archives: March 2019
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Hardcore Blackout Mode Is Now Live on PS4
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Hardcore Blackout mode is now live on PS4 and features no HUD, armor, vehicles, or zombies.
Black Ops 4's Hardcore Blackout mode on PS4 is part of its Shamrock & Awe event that is celebrating St. Patrick's Day and features other changes to Call of Duty's first battle royale game mode.
In addition to the Spring Seasonal Map Update which included updated lighting, greenery, and springtime trees in bloom, Blackout players will also be able to find the Muscle Car and SUV, inspect weapons by pressing left on the d-pad, celebrate with Gestures and Callouts at the Victory Screen, and more.
Xbox One Phantom White Special Edition Wireless Controller Revealed
Today on Inside Xbox, Microsoft revealed the Phantom White Special Edition wireless controller, inevitably banishing all your other gamepads to the dark, lonely drawer where you keep the "guest controllers" with the sticking buttons.
Though already available for pre-order, the Phantom White Special Edition will be available worldwide starting April 2, and will retail for $70 USD.
Yes, that's steep, but the Phantom White Special Edition controller sports a sleek translucent-to-matte-white body gradient, showcasing the mechanical guts of the peripheral underneath.
In addition, the triggers, buttons, and D-pad are white, while the thumbsticks are accented in grey, with a small quad-color decal in the center of the face buttons as a helpful reminder of the color they used to carry before you outgrew the need for such things.
Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin Could Go to Prison for College Admission Fraud
In a bizarre turn of events, Academy Awards nominee Felicity Huffman and Full House actress Lori Loughlin have been charged in an alleged college admissions fraud case.
Reported by CNN, the actresses are two of nearly 50 individuals charged in the scam, which includes 33 parents, nine college coaches, two SAT/ACT administrators, one exam proctor and one college administrator. This nationwide fraud involves parents allegedly paying a college prep organization to take standardized tests on behalf of their children or correcting answers, and bribing college coaches to help admit students as recruited athletes. The FBI’s investigation into the case was code-named Operation Varsity Blues.
State of Decay 2: Choose Your Own Apocalypse Update Arrives Later This Month
State of Decay 2's newest update, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, will bring with it the Dread Zone and Nightmare Zone difficulties.
Announced during Inside Xbox and arriving on March 26 for free to all players, Choose Your Own Apocalypse will allow State of Decay 2 players to choose two new types of difficulty modes - Dread Zone and Nightmare Zone.
Dread Zone and Nightmare Zone will bring with them harder zombies and NPCs, a severe lack of resources, more hordes, a larger blood plague, and much more.
In Dread Zone, armored zombie hordes and plague-infected juggernauts will begin appearing and players who have been infected will die within 30 minutes.
In Nightmare Zone, it will be that much harder to survive and players infected will die within just 10 minutes and they will have to deal with "wandering groups of freaks and hostile humans capable of scoring lethal headshots against your survivors."
Halo: Reach Headed to Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One and PC
During Inside Xbox, it was confirmed that Halo: Reach will be headed to Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One and PC.
This reveal comes alongside the news that Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which originally released in 2014 for Xbox One, will finally make it way to PC.
On Xbox One, Halo: Reach's multiplayer will be included for all owners for The Master Chief Collection, while the campaign and Firefight mode will be available for purchase. For Xbox Games Pass subscribers, all of Halo Reach will be available for free.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Coming to PC and Steam
Microsoft has confirmed Halo: The Master Chief Collection is officially coming to PC, and in addition, to Valve's Steam distribution platform.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is being touted as specifically built for the PC audience, including all the bells and whistles that come with a PC product.
"We're going to roll out each of the games in The MCC one by one," a 343 Industries representative said. "Steam for us is a new opportunity. We want to bring our games to players ... to the platforms of their choice."
In what's quickly becoming the Halo anthology, Microsoft announced Halo: The Master Chief Collection will also be getting Halo: Reach in the near future, bringing the total number of Halo games in the collection to six.
Minecraft Is Coming to Xbox Game Pass
Today on Inside Xbox, Microsoft announced that Minecraft is coming to Xbox Game Pass on April 4.
If you don't already own it on a half-dozen platforms, now you can play Minecraft to your heart's content as part of Microsoft's subscription-based game service.
Minecraft is still being expanded with new content like the upcoming Village and Pillage update coming later this month.
Brandin Tyrrel is IGN's Xbox Editor. You can find him on Unlocked, or chat over on Twitter at @BrandinTyrrel.
Everything You Love About the Switch, the Wii U Did First
You know when a plane in a movie falls into an irrecoverable dive, the rocks rising up to meet it, the collision inevitable, the pilot’s eyes locked wide open - but then, somehow, it pulls up at the last second? For you that image might call to mind Goldeneye; for me, a person so British as to make parody impossible, it’s Wallace and Gromit. The point is, it’s the same satisfying trajectory Nintendo fans have witnessed in the two years since the Switch came out.
The extraordinary success of the Switch has been all the more exhilarating for the downward momentum Nintendo had accrued during the Wii U years. For a single company to be responsible for both a console cycle’s most disastrous machinery failure and its soaring surprise recovery? It’s nothing less than the stuff of cinema, if movies were made about game company financials. And in a world where The Big Short wins an Oscar, maybe they will. But the truth is more complex. In fact, everything that has made the Switch the console of a generation was birthed, rather clumsily, by its predecessor.
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The Best Easter Eggs, Cameos and Secrets in Captain Marvel
Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel!
Every MCU movie features numerous references pulled from Marvel's comic book universe, and Captain Marvel is no exception. This new superhero epic is packed to the brim with cameos, references and Easter eggs for eagle-eyed Marvel fans to find.
From Carol's mohawk to call-outs to heroes like Protector and Spectrum and right on down to Avengers: Endgame tie-ins, here are all the Easter eggs, references and cameos we found in Captain Marvel.
MCU Connections
