Monthly Archives: February 2015
Deals of the Week: 20% Off Everything on PSN, a Year of Xbox Live for $36, Laptop With Free 4G
Get The Most Out Of This PSN Sale
Just in time for Sony's Critics' Choice Sale you can grab $50 worth of PSN money for $40, sent right your inbox. That's basically 20% off anything from the PSN Store. Then you've got until the 23rd to grab Dragon Age and Far Cry 4 for $36, Wolfenstein: The New Order for $24, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for $40, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition for $14; the list goes on. Movies are on sale too!
Report: Baccarin Goes From Gotham to Deadpool
One of the recurring cast members of Gotham is reportedly making the leap from DC to Marvel.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Morena Baccarin -- who plays Dr. Leslie Thompkins on the FOX hit about the formative years of Batman -- has won the female lead in 20th Century Fox's X-Men spinoff Deadpool.
Although her character isn't named, THR says Baccarin will play "the love interest" of Ryan Reynolds' titular merc with the mouth.
Morena Baccarin with Ben McKenzie in Gotham.
Giant Fireball Passes Over Pittsburgh
A large space rock entered Earth's atmosphere and passed over Pittsburgh Tuesday night.
Approximately two feet in diameter and weighing 500 pounds, NASA reports that the fireball was traveling at a speed of 45,000 miles per hour when it passed by Pittsburgh. It illuminated the sky as it passed over and was eventually lost to sight.
Speculation suggests that meteorites from the rock may be scattered on the ground outside of Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
Dabbling in Black Science with Rick Remender
Black magic is commonly understood to be the dark, forbidden kind of sorcery, but what if there was black science? That's the concept that writer Rick Remender and artist Matteo Scalera explore in their sci-fi comic book series Black Science.
The story follows a group as they bounce around through alternate dimensions encountering frog people with electric tongues and alternate versions of themselves. They built the dimension-hopping technology -- known as the Pillar -- to make our world a better place, but wound up on a wayward adventure, and now they just want to find their way home while also discovering the mysteries of the Eververse.
Two New Xenoblade Games Take Up a Lot of Space
Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xenoblade Chronicles 3D both release this year, and will take up a considerable amount of memory on Wii U and New 3DS, respectively.
According to Amazon Japan, Xenoblade Chronicles X will require more than 22.7 GB of space on Wii U hard drives; Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, the port of the 2010 Wii game, will require 3.6 GB.
Nintendo previously said that Xenoblade Chronicles X won't be compatible with the old 3DS because the handheld doesn't have enough CPU to run the game –– Nintendo improved the CPU with the New 3DS. Xenoblade Chronicles X will have Amiibo support, as well.
Predicting Fallout 4 and Bethesda’s Other E3 Announcements
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This week's episode of Podcast Unlocked is packed! We predict what Bethesda will announce at their first-ever E3 press conference in June, including Fallout 4. Plus: reacting to Phantom Dust's developer shift, lamenting Shadow Realms' cancellation and what it means for 4v1 games, making our picks from the ongoing Xbox Ultimate Game Sale, and remembering Super Mario Bros. 3 and how it changed our lives as we note its 25th (USA) anniversary.
NOTE: The Fallout 4/Bethesda E3 discussion starts at the 12:30 mark.
Some EVO Competitors May Need a New Fight Stick
The official rules for EVO 2015 have been posted, and one rule change could mean Ultra Street Fighter IV fighters will need to purchase new fighting sticks.
On the EVO section of the Shoryuken website, the game version for Ultra Street Fighter IV is listed as "US PlayStation 4." Previous years have seen world-warriors duking it out on the Xbox 360 version of the game. The 2015 rules made clear Mortal Kombat X will be played on PlayStation 4, as well.
According to Shoryuken, "PlayStation 3 was the console of choice early on," for Ultra Street Fighter IV, but the platform of choice shifted to Xbox 360 due to "frequent issues" with the PS3.
Why Just Cause 3 Doesn’t Need Multiplayer
Just Cause 2 was never meant to have multiplayer. Developer Avalanche put exactly zero effort into an online component, which left the community to contribute cooperative/competitive chaos to the open-world game years after its launch. With Just Cause 3, there’s an air of expectation inside the walls of Avalanche. The developers aren’t talking about adding a multiplayer, but I don’t get the impression they want to — because they know the community is bound to do it for them. But is multiplayer even necessary in a series whose success is so intrinsically connected to an individual’s anecdotes?
How Do You Prepare for Playing Enchantress?
Suicide Squad actress Cara Delevingne is reportedly seeing a psychotherapist in preparation for playing The Enchantress in Suicide Squad.
According to Daily Star, sources tell them the 22-year-old actress is seeing a psychotherapist so that she can have a better understanding of the "split personality" her schizophrenic character has in Suicide Squad. The site notes, "She's dedicated to doing her research for the movie and has been seeing her psychotherapist every day." A model-turned-actress, Delevingne is said to still have "a lot to learn about the way to act" when it comes to playing Enchantress, who is described as a "very dark character."
Starwhal Coming to PS4, PS3 Next Week
Indie darling and co-operative intergalactic jouster Starwhal is making its console debut on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 next week.
The local multi-player game pits 2-4 players against each other as they use their tusks to poke their way to victory. Starwhal was created as part of a 48-hour game jam and originally released via Steam in September 2014.
For the game's console debut, developer Breakfall has added a number of new features including new modes and arenas, an expanded soundtrack, over 9,000 costume combinations, and 32 challenge courses with corresponding Trophies and global leaderboards. The game will run at 30 FPS on PlayStation 3 and 60 FPS on PlayStation 4. PlayStation 4 players will also experience the added benefit of a color-changing DualShock 4 Light Bar to match their narwhal.