Monthly Archives: August 2016
This Week on PSN: Grow Up, Bound, F1 2016
Every week, Sony drops a bunch of new stuff onto the PlayStation Network. Those with a PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita can download these goodies, which include PSN games, movies, themes and more. Take a look at this week's highlights below!
NEW GAME RELEASES
ReCore’s Robot Buds Are Not Duds
Leading into E3 2016, we had so many questions about ReCore. Now, after the expo last June and leading into Gamescom, we finally have a few answers. To quickly recap: ReCore is an action-based platforming game with tight jumps and blazingly-fast shootouts that’s coming to Xbox One and PC. It is made by a talent pool of successful game makers: the diverse development team include talent from Halo (Joe Staten), Mega Man (Keiji Inafune), and Metroid Prime (Armature Studios).
In it, you play as Joule, a colonist, talented technician, and athletic heroine that builds robot buddies to help her in combat. Players are rewarded with experience points and resources based on how you choose to eliminate enemies.
Where Team Arrow Stands When Season 5 Begins
Arrow: Season 5 is going to be exploring the theme of legacy and what happens when the past comes back to haunt you. For Oliver Queen, that means wanting to have a solid team of heroes ready to protect Star City, especially now that he's mayor and Team Arrow as we know it has disbanded.
deals with legacy, it deals with the past, and the dramatic irony, the dramatic tension, that we get from it is Oliver's always been a guy -- admittedly, not the most self aware dude ever -- but he's always been someone who is trying to move forward. He's always trying to evolve," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told IGN. "The challenge for Oliver this year is how do you evolve and move forward when the past keeps grabbing at you, trying to pull you back."
Star Wars Battlefront VR Mission Is Rogue One Themed
EA and Criterion Games announced that the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront VR Mission will be Rogue One: A Star Wars Story themed.
Criterion producer Pete Lake confirmed the Rogue One connection during EA's Gamescom 2016 livestream, but did not elaborate on how exactly it will play into the upcoming Star Wars film.
"We've been working really closely with Lucasfilm to make this the perfect tie in to this new movie," Lake said.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies Mode Revealed
Activision revealed the new zombies mode for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Zombies in Spaceland, during Gamescom 2016.
The latest take on the franchise's co-op Zombies mode puts players in the shoes of four aspiring actors, all of whom have come to a movie theater for an audition via invitation by director Willard Wyler (voiced by Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens).
The four find themselves transformed into 80s archetypes — the jock, the nerd, the valley girl, and the rapper — as they are zapped into Wyler's movie, set in the 1980s, where they must face off against waves of zombies in an 80s space-themed amusement park.
The voice actors behind the four playable characters include Robot Chicken's Seth Green, Suicide Squad's Ike Barinholtz, Saturday Night Live's Sasheer Zamata, and SNL alum Jay Pharoah. Baywatch's David Hasselhoff has also lent his voice to the game as the theme park's DJ.
Why the DCEU Is In Real Trouble
First it was Suicide Squad. Now it's Wonder Woman. Fans keep looking to the next film on the DC Extended Universe release schedule to be the project that will mark the shift toward the DC movies they want to see, but a sad truth is emerging: one great film and multiple weak ones does not a great franchise make. No single superhero film is going to be able to swoop in at the last minute and save the day for this franchise. There need to be multiple great films to really mark a change for the series.
That's not to say the tides can't turn for the DCEU; Warner Bros. already changed things behind-the-scenes in the hopes of creating films that are more in line with what consumers want to see. But it's not going to just be Wonder Woman, or just be Justice League, or just be The Flash. At this point, one critically acclaimed project that exceeds fan expectations will be the exception, not the rule for the DCEU.
5 Reasons We’re Excited for Titanfall 2 Multiplayer
We recently got to spend a ton of time playing the Titanfall 2 multiplayer technical test that will be coming soon. It’s a snapshot of what the full multiplayer experience is shaping up to be, and from everything we saw, and played, and killed with a big robot, I’m incredibly excited for more.
You can find a whole bunch of footage below, but before you watch it all, here are my five quick takeaways why we’re excited for Titanfall 2 multiplayer.
The original Titanfall’s multiplayer was a lot of fun, but it was also so chaotic it could be exhausting after long sessions. This time around, Respawn Entertainment wants players to feel like they’re anticipating what’s going to happen, instead of just reacting to the chaos all around. For starters, titans are class-based with set abilities so when you see one you know at a glance what it can do. And now the minimap won’t show the exact point you fire from, so if you're shooting an AI you don't just get wiped out the moment after you do it.
Paid DLC Possible for No Man’s Sky
No Man's Sky will certainly receive plenty of updates moving forward from its release, but creator Sean Murray is now saying he may have been "perhaps naive" in suggesting all those updates would be free.
New features and new content will be continuously added to the game, including a new patch that will make players "very happy," Murray said, but the creator is no longer ruling out paid DLC. Nothing is a guarantee, at this point, though.
"Maybe in the future
there's some reason why we just couldn't possibly afford to do a certain feature without charging for it," Murray told Daily Star Online.
New Overwatch Map Revealed
During its Gamescom 2016 live stream today, Blizzard revealed a new Overwatch map called Eichenwalde, slated to launch in September.
Eichenwalde is an Assault/Escort hybrid map where one team will attempt to lead a battering ram to Eichenwalde Castle, while the opposing team will attempt to defend the keep.
The Overwatch team added a bit more insight during Blizzard's live stream.
"The middle part of this map is very vertical," explained Overwatch's Lead System Designer, Aaron Keller. "It all kind of takes place — it spirals around — this castle, and you have to cross a draw bridge at the end of it."
Daily Deals: No Man’s Sky, Batman v Superman, Razer Accessories Sale
No Man's Sky is Back in Stock, Get it 20% Off
Amazon just refreshed its stock of copies of No Man's Sky. They were all sold out yesterday, so if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can once again take advantage of that 20% discount. Remember, that'll be over next Tuesday, so get your order in before then if you want to get it for $48 instead of $60.
