Monthly Archives: October 2019
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Outer Wilds Is Coming to PS4 This Month
Outer Wilds, the mysterious space exploration title from developer Mobius Digital and publisher Annapurna Interactive, will be launching on the PlayStation 4 on October 15, 2019.
Mobius Digital producer Kelsey Rice took to the PlayStation Blog to reveal the news of Outer Wilds arrival on PS4 following its release on Xbox One and PC earlier this year.
In our review of Outer Wilds, which sees players repeatedly exploring a vast open-ended universe while being stuck in a 22-minute time loop, we called it great and said that "exploring the uncharted worlds of Outer Wilds feels like a true adventure in ways most games never achieve."
The First 11 Minutes of Afterparty, the Latest from the Oxenfree Developers
Afterparty, the follow-up (but not sequel) to 2016's fantastic teenage adventure Oxenfree, will be released on October 29 for Xbox One (including Xbox Game Pass on day one), PS4, and PC. I played the first two hours of it on Xbox One X, and came away pretty impressed, outside of some moments of slowdown that seemed to be tied to loading new areas. Take a look at the first 11 minutes of the game in the video above. WARNING: This video contains strong language.
Afterparty has you alternating control between best friends Milo and Lola, who've both died and gone to Hell for reasons they will spend the game trying to figure out. They quickly discover that if they can out-drink the Prince of Darkness himself, they'll be allowed to go back to Earth, alive. It's an adventure game in the classic LucasArts sense, though its gameplay is entirely through dialogue; there is no inventory system or object-based puzzle-solving. If you've played Oxenfree you'll feel right at home.
Call of Duty: Mobile Breaks Record with 100 Million Downloads in First Week
Call of Duty: Mobile has reached 100 million downloads in its first week, surpassing Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon GO, and both mobile versions of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to become the largest mobile game launch in history.
As reported by CNBC, Sensor Tower revealed the news that Call of Duty: Mobile's 100 million downloads in its first week milestone is a huge jump over rivals PUBG's 28 million and Fortnite's 26.3 million in the same time frame and is the "largest mobile game launch ever."
Call of Duty: Mobile also beat out Pokemon GO and Mario Kart Tour's first week, which saw 85.5 million and 90 million downloads, respectively.
The Walking Dead Season 10 Draws Series Low Ratings With TV Premiere
The tenth season of The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on Sunday night, but drew in the show's smallest ever live episode viewership.
In the series' ratings post-mortem, The Hollywood Reporter determined that the tenth season premiere of The Walking Dead received the smallest same-day audience of all-time for the zombie show, with just 4 million total viewers watching live, showing a decline of 34% compared to last season's premiere.
How Will Microsoft Flight Simulator Deal With What Governments Don’t Want You to See?
Microsoft Flight Simulator might be as interesting for how it simulates the world as it does the, you know, flight. Using Bing Maps, the game will procedurally recreate almost the entirety of Earth with something approaching true accuracy. And I do mean "almost" the entirety of Earth.
As a connoisseur of wasting lots of my time on mapping sites just looking for weird stuff, it occurred to me there are places that Bing can't show. Military bases, government research sites and other secretive areas are often obscured or blanked out, leading to odd areas of lost space. My first thought, when looking at the new Flight Simulator, was "how are the developers going to deal with that?"
Playmobil Reveals Back to the Future and Scooy-Doo Toys at NYCC
Playmobil toys aren't just for kids anymore. That's the takeaway after seeing some of the company's upcoming movie-themed releases at NYCC.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at the new Scooby-Doo and Back to the Future sets in the pipeline:
Playmobil is clearly targeting adult collectors in a way they haven't before. Previously, the company partnered with Funko to release a series of vinyl figures inspired by the classic Playmobil designs. Now they've gone a step further, teaming up with Warner Bros. and Universal to license these two franchises for full-fledged play sets.
For everything NYCC, head over to our New York Comic Con hub for all of our coverage! And for a closer look at the hot new collectibles at the show, check out Hasbro's newly revealed Star Wars figures and our galleries for the Kotobukiya booth and DC collectibles booth.
Facebook Removes Integration With The PlayStation 4
Facebook integration is no longer available on the PS4, meaning you won't be able to share captured video or screenshots to your social media page.
It also means it's no longer an option to import Facebook profile photos, add Facebook friends, nor cross-post trophy achievements.
According to PlayStation Support, the removal happened on October 7. Sony apologises "for any inconvenience."
A press release from Facebook back in July acknowledged that its integration with PlayStation and Xbox had caused a "bug." It wrote, "we announced in late 2018 the wind down and discontinuation of many of the integrations we built with partners. Recently, a third party alerted us to a bug, which led us to investigate and find that, unfortunately, our codebase had enabled continued data access for some of these partners.
Doom Eternal Delayed to 2020
Doom Eternal has been delayed from its November release date. It will now launch March 20, 2020.
Bethesda has announced that it and id Software have decided to delay the game in order to live up to "our standards of speed and polish". The studio acknowledges that this may be disappointing to fans, but believes that Doom Eternal will be worth the extra wait.
In addition to an altered release date, Bethesda and id Software have announced three other changes. Invasion mode, in which the player takes on the role of a playable demon and invades another player's gane, will be released as a free update shortly after the new March 20 release date. Doom Eternal will also launch on Nintendo Switch, but not on the same day as the PC, PS4, and Xbox One; Bethesda promises that a date will be announced in the future. Additionally, Doom 64 will be provided as a pre-order bonus for Doom Eternal on all platforms. Doom 64 will also be available to buy desperately, and will release on all platforms on March 20, 2020.
PlayStation 5 Gets a Holiday 2020 Release, More Hardware Details
Update: Famitsu has added one more detail to what we've already learned about PlayStation 5. Sony's next console will include an 8 core, 16 thread x86-64-AMD Ryzen “Zen2" CPU.
We'd already learned that the console would include a custom AMD Ryzen CPU, but not what exact specs it would sport. This brings it in line with AMD's current mid-tier Ryzen 7 processors.
Original story: Sony has announced that PlayStation 5 will be released during holiday 2020.
Revealed in a PlayStation blog post, the console is (as you might have expected) officially called PlayStation 5. The blog also reveals that the console's controller will feature two key new innovations - haptic feedback (replacing the traditional rumble) and adaptive triggers. It will also feature USB C charging, a higher-capacity battery and is a little heavier than its predecessor (but still lighter than an Xbox One controller with batteries inside).