Out This Week: Yooka-Laylee, Hidden Figures, Mr. Shifty
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Nintendo Direct for Upcoming Switch Games Coming This Week
Nintendo will be showing off Arms and Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch during a Nintendo Direct presentation this week.
A press release says that while the two first-party Switch games will be the focus, the broadcast will feature "information about Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS games".
The Direct will take place on Wednesday, April 12 at 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm BST (or 8am AEST on April 13), and you can watch by tuning in on the official website.
Information on Splatoon 2 has been slowly trickling out, and a public "Testfire" demo period took place late last month. The full game is due for release later this year.
Thor: Ragnarok Poster Released
The first poster for Thor: Ragnarok has popped up, and it's as colourful as we could have hoped for.
Released alongside the film's first trailer, director Taika Waititi tweeted out a poster featuring Chris Hemsworth's new look, plus a little dig at the colour palettes of his rival blockbusters:
Check out this photo of a bumpy arm surrounded by colours!
Orange & Teal is dead. Long live Orange & Green & Red & Yellow and Pink. pic.twitter.com/szSMjZP2iX
Superman Blames Batman for Everything in Injustice 2 Prequel Comic Book Series
Writer Tom Taylor is back for the Injustice 2 comic book series, which tells the story in between the first game and leads into the sequel. The comic is a digital-first series that releases weekly chapters online every Tuesday (starting April 11) and will be released in print each month (starting on May 1 for the first issue).
The story of the first game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, showed an alternate world ruled by a tyrant Superman driven to the dark side by the grief of losing his wife Lois and their unborn child, all thanks to an attack by the Joker. The comic explored the five years between when this tragic incident happened and when Superman took rule over the world. It showed how Batman tried to stop him, with each side enlisting the help of various heroes and villains, and the many twists, turns, and deaths along the way.
Minecraft Marketplace Coming With 1.1 Discovery Update
Minecraft Marketplace, a new program that allows players to access and play community-created content, is coming to Minecraft on Windows 10 PC and mobile this spring.
According to Microsoft's announcement, Minecraft Marketplace will be available with the 1.1 Discovery Update. With this new marketplace, players will be able to "browse, download and play cool community creations from within the game itself."
Minecraft Marketplace will launch with a library of content, including texture packs and adventure maps, created by community members like BlockWorks and Noxcrew. The Minecraft Team is initially working with a selection of existing partners, but in the future will begin taking submissions from anyone with a registered business.
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Overwatch’s Omnic Uprising Skins Seem to Have Leaked
In what's become something of a tradition at this point, some upcoming Overwatch content appears to have leaked - in this case, upcoming event skins.
Posted by Imgur user raulrsd, off-screen images of the Xbox One dashboard appear to show Tracer, Reinhardt, Mercy and Torbjorn in new get-ups:
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Could Be 10 Hours Long
It sounds as though Naughty Dog isn't skimping on upcoming standalone story DLC, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, with original pitches for the expansion coming in at around 10 hours long.
Speaking to IBTimes, Naughty Dog director of communications Arne Mayer explained that the studio had been asked whether it would make a single-player expansion for Uncharted before, but always declined because the impulse to make a full-length game would be too strong:
"There's no way we could, sort of, constrict and restrain ourselves," said Mayer, "and that's exactly what was happening here. When we were doing story pitches, we were coming up with a game that would be over ten hours long and so we suddenly realised everything we said was true and we couldn't keep it short."
Smurfs Stomped by The Boss Baby at the Box Office
Smurfs: The Lost Village had an underwhelming opening weekend, placing third at the domestic box office with an estimated $14 million.
As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, Smurfs: The Lost Village cost $60 million to make and had one of the worst openings for a big-budget Hollywood animated production in quite some time. It now stands as the lowest debut in Sony's animated franchise, behind The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2's $35.6 million and $17.5 million respective opening hauls (via Box Office Mojo).