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Persona 5 DLC Announced for Catherine: Full Body
Persona 5 DLC, with full English voice over by the original cast, has been announced for Catherine: Full Body.
During the Catherine: Full Body Experience and E3 Celebration, a brand new trailer was shown, showcasing the Joker + Phantom Thieves DLC. It looks to be the same DLC the Japanese version of Catherine: Full Body got last year, which allowed you to play as Joker in the Babel and Coliseum modes with commentary by the Phantom Thieves, and included some music from the notoriously amazing sound track. If you play Catherine: Full Body, you may hear some similarities - both it and Persona 5 have music composed by Shoji Meguro.
Catch a look at Joker in action in a level from the Japanese version of Catherine: Full Body above.
How Tom Nook Uses His Money and 14 More Details About Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the next entry in the beloved series and we’ve learned plenty since it was revealed for the Nintendo Switch back in 2018. In an interview with IGN at E3, Nintendo’s Aya Kyogoku and Hisashi Nogami told IGN more details about the upcoming game along with some new information about features shown during the New Horizons Nintendo Treehouse live presentation.
You’ll start with two or so neighbors in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Ranking The E3 Conferences
E3 isn’t just about what games are announced: it’s about how they’re announced. Every year the major players (except for Sony, in this case) get up on their respective stages and do their best to wow us with the most explosive presentation they can muster, and 2019 was no exception. IGN watched them all with bated breath, and while each of them had some impressive games to show that made us excited about the next year-and-change of upcoming games and gaming-related stuff, here’s how we thought all the major conferences ranked, from most exciting to least.
Best: Nintendo Direct - Tuesday, June 11
How do you get gamers to swallow the bitter pill of a delay until March 2020 for Animal Crossing: New Horizons? How about announcing that you’re working on a follow-up to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Yes, that’ll do it. Nintendo’s Direct hit almost all the right notes with its steady stream of announcements, updated looks, and release dates.
Contra Rogue Corps Plays Nothing Like the Original
If you were just going off gameplay alone, you’d never know that Contra Rogue Corps is the latest entry in the storied Contra series. It’s a completely new direction for the classic 2D sidescrolling franchise that evolves it into an entirely 3D twin-stick shooter. Rogue Corps also adds elements of character progression in the form of being able to upgrade both your weapons, and the cybernetic parts of your body – another staple of today’s standards.
It’s such a dramatic change for the series that there was some strong initial whiplash. While I’m not totally sold that this is the path I want to see Contra pushed down, I at least saw a glimpse of a fun twin-stick shooter. That’s especially true if you’ve got a group of like-minded friends over for some local co-op play when Contra Rogue Corps is released on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam) on September 26.
Netflix’s Chronicles of Narnia Reboot Hires Its ‘Creative Architect’
Netflix is making steady headway on its planned transmedia adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia. The streaming giant announced its multi-year deal with the C.S. Lewis Company back in October 2018, with plans to bring the beloved series to life in a series of movies and TV shows, and now it's tapped its "creative architect."
Netflix announced via its Twitter account See What's Next that Coco co-writer Matthew Aldrich will "serve as the creative architect and oversee the development of all films and shows adapted from C.S. Lewis’ beloved Narnia universe for Netflix." While Coco is Aldrich's best-known work, he also wrote the 2007 Samuel L. Jackson thriller Cleaner and the 2018 Guy Pearce thriller Spinning Man.
The Halo Infinite Cover Art Hides Some Tiny Secrets
The Halo Infinite cinematic trailer gave us a Master Chief floating in space and a few more clues about the state of the world in the Halo Universe. Now that we’ve gotten our hands on the Halo Infinite cover art that includes a few more hints about the game.
Doom Eternal Won’t Have ‘Traditional’ Deathmatch Multiplayer
Doom Eternal won't have traditional (deathmatch) multiplayer. Its offerings are strictly the 2 v 1 Battlemode announced at Bethesda's E3 conference; but by all accounts, this is a very good thing.
"No traditional multiplayer mode. Battlemode is our primary multiplayer mode," says Executive Producer Marty Stratton. "The cool thing about it is it’s ripped straight from Doom; it’s the combat players want and love, you’re familiar with the gameplay, playing as a Slayer."
Although Doom 2016's single player mode was fantastic, the team learned a lot from its not-particular-well-received multiplayer mode.
"When you look back to Doom 2016", says Stratton, "we kind of did something more traditional. Skill vs skill twitch vs twitch. It didn’t have any of the components of Doom that people loved from the campaign. It didn’t have the slayer or demons in a meaningful way. It just kind of fell flat so we really flipped the script on it and decided we need to develop this internally, we need to pull it from what Doom is all about, demons vs slayer."
Live Like Tony Stark By Renting His Avengers: Endgame Cabin
This story contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, which you really should've seen by now.
If you want a taste of what it's like to live the billionaire playboy lifestyle of Tony Stark, you now have your chance. Sadly, you can't pilot a working Iron Man suit just yet, but you can rent Tony Stark's plush cabin home from Avengers: Endgame.
As reported by CNN, the cabin featured in the latest MCU movie is currently available for nightly rentals on Airbnb. The three-bedroom home is located on a piece of an 8,000 acre farm in Fairburn, Georgia, and sleeps up to six guests. If you'd like to recreate your own Tony Stark funeral (or a wedding, if you were as confused by that scene as Tom Holland), you also have full access to the pond where that poignant memorial scene took place.
The Witcher 3 Switch Port Performance Details Confirmed
In what was certainly one of E3 2019’s more peculiar rumors, CD Projekt confirmed during Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Being a console designed for both portable and home gaming, many fans had even more questions about how it would run and just how good it would look. Thanks to some tweets from the official Witcher Twitter account, we finally have an answer.
Originally reported by GameSpot, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition will run at a resolution of 540p while in handheld mode, and 720p while stationed on the Switch dock and with dynamic resolution enabled on screen, the official Witcher Twitter account confirmed.