Monthly Archives: May 2019
Nintendo Announces Its E3 2019 Nintendo Direct Date and Time
Nintendo has revealed its E3 2019 plans and they include a Nintendo Direct, Nintendo Treehouse: Live, the Splatoon 2 World Championship 2019, and the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Championship 2019 3v3.
Announced by Nintendo, the Splatoon 2 tournament will kick off Nintendo's E3 at 11am PT/2pm ET on June 8, and the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament will begin following its conclusion around 2pm PT/5pm ET.
On Tuesday, June 11, Nintendo will hold its Nintendo Direct at 9am PT/12pm ET and promises we will "get a look at Nintendo Switch titles for 2019." Interestingly enough, there is no mention of any Nintendo 3DS titles or anything beyond this year.
Sega To Acquire Two Point Hospital Developer Two Point Studios
Sega has acquired Two Point Studios as part of its Searchlight initiative.
Two Point Studios developed and released Two Point Hospital last year, with Sega on publishing duties. But the new deal sees the small Brititish studio brought into the Sega stable of developers, which also includes Sports Interactive, Relic Entertainment, and Creative Assembly.
Two Point Hospital is set in the fictional area of Two Point County, and the studio intends for a franchise of simulation games to take place in the same world. Sega says that Two Point Studios has multiple unannounced titles in development due to be revealed in the coming months, and so it seems sensible to expect more Two Point-branded games.
Dota 2’s TI9 Prize Pool Earns Nearly $6 Million in First 24 Hours
The International 19, this year’s flagship Dota 2 tournament, hit nearly $6 million of prize pool funding within the first 24 hours, breaking the record set by last year’s tournament.
The prize pool, which at the time of writing sits at just over $8 million, is raised through sales of The International Battle Pass. 25% of each Battle Pass sale goes towards the prize pool.
As noted by Dota 2 insider Wykrhm Reddy on Twitter, the first 24 hours of the Battle Pass being on sale dwarfed TI18’s prize pool by $1.7million. Currently, this year’s International is 30% ahead of last year’s at the same stage.
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Fortnite Season 9 Patch Notes and Details Revealed
Epic Games has released patch Notes for Fortnite v9.00, which includes details on Fortnite Season 9 and its new locations, features and more.
Fortnite’s Season 9 battle pass is available now for 950 v-bucks ($9.50) and includes 100 levels and over 100 new rewards. New points of interest that have emerged from the destruction of the Volcano include Neo Tilted and Mega Mall. A semi-automatic Combat Shotgun has been added that holds 10 shells, fires nine pellets per shot, and has a tight spread and fast fire rate.
One of the biggest new features from v9.00 are Slipstreams, a wind transportation system consisting of wind tunnels that quickly carry players. Players move faster in the stream, and can use directional input to gain extra velocity, which includes bobbing up and down to increase speeds. Players are then launched out of the stream when exiting based on their movement speed and exit angle, and projectiles and vehicles can also enter the Slipstream. In addition to this, air vents are new environmental items that launch players and grant immunity to fall damage.
Could Sony Be Teasing Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse 2?
Sony could be teasing a sequel to its stylish animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
A tweet from the official Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse twitter account shows a picture of Spider-Man peering into what looks like the collider from the movie. This Spider-Man doesn't have the black and red colour scheme of Miles Morales and looks more like a Peter Parker-style spidey. It's accompanied by text which reads "See you in another dimension" followed by the peace fingers and spider emoji.
See you in another dimension pic.twitter.com/kprck2zmIa
— Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (@SpiderVerse) May 8, 2019
EA to Change Development and Release Strategy in Wake of Anthem Troubles
After Anthem, EA's latest big release that failed to live up to expectations, the company is planning to make changes to its development and release strategy.
PC Gamer reports that EA's CEO Andrew Wilson talked about some of the problems faced in the industry when it comes to developing huge games like Anthem during the company's latest financial results conference call.
"The reality is, it's not just an EA challenge, it's an industry-wide challenge," said Wilson. "You're moving from what was initially a BioWare game which would be somewhere between 40 and 80 hours of offline play to 40 to 80 hours of offline play plus 100 or 200, 300 hours of elder game that happens with millions of other players at scale, online."
Bethesda Investigating Plagiarism Allegations From D&D Authors
Bethesda has announced that they're investigating claims of plagiarism related to a marketing initiative for the upcoming ESO expansion Elsweyr.
In an effort to promote the new Elder Scrolls Online update, Bethesda's Netherlands studio published an unnamed ESO-themed tabletop RPG adventure based on the rules for the fifth edition of Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons. However, it was more than just some basic rules that the studio appeared to copy - it was almost an entire adventure from 2016.
Character sheets from the ESO "adventure scenario".
Why We Think HBO’s Watchmen Is a Sequel
HBO has finally debuted the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Watchmen series. Showrunner Damon Lindelof has often described this series as a "remix" of the original Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic, making it unclear if the series is meant to be a continuation of that story or a complete reboot and re-imagining. The new trailer seems to answer some of the biggest questions fans have about the series, while also confirming the return of one major Watchmen character.
GoT’s Davos Answers Our Burning Series Finale Questions
With only two weeks to go in HBO's Game of Thrones, it's anyone's guess who will end up on the Iron Throne -- and according to star Liam Cunningham, that's exactly where the showrunners want viewers.
During a recent interview to promote Cunningham's role in the new NatGeo series The Hot Zone, IGN spoke with the man behind Davos Seaworth to pry as much information as we could get about the Game of Thrones series finale out of him, while also reflecting on several surprising developments from recent episodes. Unsurprisingly, this interview contains spoilers for Game of Thrones through episode 4, "The Last of the Starks."