Playing HotS Isn’t Mandatory for New Overwatch Skins
Blizzard is enticing Overwatch owners to engage with Heroes of the Storm by offering exclusive skins for playing the MOBA. But the Genji and D.Va costumes will eventually come to standard loot boxes in the team-based shooter.
Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan addressed the issue on the game's official Battle.net forum. A console player was upset that they might never see the Oni Genji or Officer D.Va skins because they don't play the PC game.
No worries, Kaplan said. Blizzard is totally aware of this. "... We plan to add both the Oni Genji skin and the Officer D.Va skin to the normal, base Overwatch loot box at some point in the future," he said.
Superman Joins Gerard Way’s Young Animal Imprint
DC's Young Animal imprint may be set in the DC Universe, but books like Doom Patrol and Shade: The Changing Girl tend to focus on weirder and more obscure heroes. That's not the case with the latest issue of Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye. Issue #7 features a big team-up between the superhero spelunker and the Man of Steel himself.
We had the chance to chat on the phone with writer Jon Rivera about this new issue and the unusual dynamic between Cave Carson and Clark Kent. Rivera also talked about how his collaboration with Young Animal "showrunner" Gerard Way was evovled over the past year and how this Superman team-up ties into the larger story Rivera and artist Michael Avon Oeming are telling.
Burnout Creators Announce New Car-Crashing Game
Danger Zone, a new vehicular destruction game from Three Fields Entertainment, has been announced.
Releasing for PC via Steam and PlayStation 4 next month (priced at $12.99/£9.99/€12.99), Danger Zone puts players in a virtual crash test facility that features 20 single-player crash testing scenarios, each with its own distinct layout.
In the game, which is built in Unreal Engine 4, players are tasked with driving into a junction to create the biggest collision they can. If enough cars are involved in the crash, the player will earn a "SmashBreaker," which turns their car into a bomb that can be triggered to explode on command.
Points are awarded for the number of cars crashed, and bonus points can be earned by pushing cars off the road or exploding them while in "SmashBreaker." Danger Zone will also feature leaderboards, allowing players to compare their scores against other members of the community.
Halo 6 Will Focus on Master Chief After Halo 5 Complaints
343 Industries' Studio Head Kiki Wolfkill and Franchise Director Frank O'Connor have spoken about fan reaction to Halo 5: Guardians, and their plans for Halo 6.
When Halo 5 was released back in 2015, it was well received by critics, however there was some fan outcry over the relative lack of Master Chief in the main campaign. O'Connor and Wolfkill acknowledged this in a recent interview with GamesTM magazine (via WCCFTech).
"We very much realized that people wanted Master Chief's story of Halo 5," said O'Connor. "We definitely marketed in a way that we hoped was going to bring surprise, but for some fans and certainly fans of Master Chief, it was a huge disappointment because they wanted more Chief."
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Jeff Goldblum on Board For Jurassic World Sequel
Original Jurassic Park series actor Jeff Goldblum is set to join the sequel to Jurassic World.
The actor will "appear" in Jurassic World 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His eccentric character Dr. Ian Malcolm survived the first Jurassic Park only to narrowly escape death once again in the Lost World of the second. The nature of his return in J. A. Bayona's sequel remains to be seen.
Goldblum, who will next be seen as Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok, will join returning Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and new actors Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones in the sequel, which will reportedly "be more suspenseful and scary" than the original.
Gemini Man: Will Smith in Talks to Star As a Cloned Assassin
Will Smith is in talks to star in the long-gestating clone assassin film, Gemini Man.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ang Lee (Life of Pi) is also in negotiations to direct the movie, with Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys) producing. Gemini Man, which was first written in 1997, follows an aging assassin facing off against a clone of himself who's 25 years younger.
The film was originally set to be directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) for Disney with Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers) producing. Since 1997, Gemini Man's script has been reworked multiple times as it was considered unfilmable due to the clone premise. The original plan was to have to separate actors, one older (Harrison Ford) and one younger (Chris O’Donnell), play the same main character.
Bag of Doritos Can Play Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Soundtrack
Partnering with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Doritos have released a set of limited edition bags that play the film's full soundtrack.
According to Billboard, the custom-designed bags are a part of the joint Rock Out Loud campaign and feature a music player that's inspired by a cassette deck to keep with the movie's retro music theme.
The soundtrack, dubbed Awesome Mix Vol. 2, features 14 tracks with a mix of 60's and 70's pop, R&B/funk, country and rock as well as a brand new track titled Guardians Inferno which was created for the movie.
Former Activision Parent Company Could Own Ubisoft Soon
French conglomerate and former Activision parent Vivendi is reportedly honing in on publisher Ubisoft, with an acquisition expected by the end of this year.
This comes via a new report from Reuters, with the publication's sources saying that advertising group Havas and Ubisoft are the first on Vivendi's takeover list as it attempts a major expansion this year. The expansion is reportedly an act to appease investor concerns after Vivendi's shares dropped 3% despite the fact Chairman Vincent Bollore has spent nearly 15 billion Euros on shareholders and acquisitions.
Vivendi currently owns 25% of Ubisoft and has been jockeying to buy the company after it acquired Gameloft. Ubisoft heads Michel Guillemot and Yves Guillemot have been actively against the takeover, and last year reached out to Canadian investors to stay independent.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Wants to Raise Money For Children’s Charity
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene has announced a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds charity invitational, set to take place on Thursday, May 4 at 10am-1pm PT in Europe and 2pm-5pm PT in North America.
According to a blog post on the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds website, the event will be split into two sessions for each region, with 128 streamers participating total. Each session will host 64 players in duos mode only, making for 32 teams per region. After each region completes a set of three matches, the winner will be chosen based on highest overall placement.
All money raised during the charity event will go towards Gamers Outreach, an organization dedicated to providing "equipment, technology, and software" to children in hospitals.