Star Wars is Getting The Secret Cinema Treatment
Before The Force Awakens in December, Star Wars is heading to a secret London location for three months of sci-fi action.
Secret Cinema – who have been organising experiential screenings in the UK since 2007 – will show The Empire Strikes Back from June 4 to August 2.
The organisation say they are “seeking rebels from around the world to join the Rebel Alliance and head to a Secret City where they will be taken on a journey through the world of Star Wars."
BBC Working on New Drama About Origins of GTA
The BBC has revealed it's working on a new drama focused on the people behind the creation of Grand Theft Auto.
BBC News reveals the "new drama based on Grand Theft Auto" will come as part of a concerted effort to get the UK more interested in coding and technology. Other aspects of the scheme include giving a million Micro Bits - stripped down computers similar to a Raspberry Pi - to students starting secondary school this year.
Former Gamespot UK editor-in-chief Guy Cocker is involved, and has revealed it's a 90-minute feature focusing on the people who made the game - the Houser brothers.
Disney Considering Virtual Reality Theme Parks
Disney lovers may soon no longer need to leave their homes if they wish to experience the magic of one of the company's theme parks, as The Walt Disney Company is looking into recreating its magical worlds for virtual reality.
"If you think about the way we approach technology in general, The Walt Disney Company is about creating content," imagineering creative technical design lead Bei Yang told GamesBeat. "It’s about creating connections among friends and family through stories. We can do that through any number of mediums. VR is just one of those mediums."
Star Citzen’s Client May be 100GB, Close to $75M in Funding
The client for Roberts Space Industries ’space exploration sim Star Citzen may be a 100 GB download, director of game operations Jeremy Masker posts on the developer’s official forum.
“As I have already said, I would not count on this. The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40 GB,” he writes. “The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100 GB.”
Masker adds that the patch sizes for the could range in size from an indie game to a full AAA release. “Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size. Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200 MB, this leads to 2-6 GB patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20 GB."
Comic Book Reviews for March 11, 2015
Comics!
Things are heating up as we grow closer to Marvel and DC's big events -- Secret Wars and Convergence, respectively -- plus the world of indie comics just keeps on delivering more fresh, unique books for us to gobble up.
Marvel's Howard the Duck comic debuted from the guy who draws Sex Criminals, we got the next chapter in the rip-roaring Star Wars series, and in New Avengers #31 we finally got the reveal of the big villain "Rabum Alal."
At DC, we got the Batman: Arkham Knight prequel comic, a couple finales, and then the next chapter of Mortal Kombat X -- a game we can't wait to play.
From the other publishers, we got another terrifying chapter of Rachel Rising, the debut of Ninjak's solo series (finally!), a new comic written by Becky Cloonan called Southern Cross, and Spawn: Ressurection #1, which is designed as the ideal jumping-on point for those who want to get some Spawn in their life.
Mad Catz Is Making Officially Licensed Street Fighter 5 Controllers
Mad Catz has announced a partnership with Capcom for a new line of Street Fighter V related controllers for PlayStation 4.
The video game peripherals company plans on launching an assortment of its FightPad controllers and arcade FightSticks in time for the release of Street Fighter V on PS4. Mad Catz has been producing Capcom licensed controllers and FightSticks since Street Fighter IV’s release in 2008.
Mad Catz Community Manager Mark Julio also mentioned that the company is working on a new controller, tentatively named FightPad PRO, which is catered specifically to gamepad users, according to a post on the Mad Catz blog. Mad Catz is also soliciting suggestions and feedback regarding the Street Fighter V controllers from users on both its blog and its official Twitter account.
Here’s How Much Space Battlefield: Hardline Takes Up
Battlefield: Hardline takes up to 43 GB on latest generation systems, the IGN team found when we installed the game on an Xbox One today.
Its install size is up there with last year’s biggest releases of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Grand Theft Auto V, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Wolfenstein: The New Order. The titles range from an install size of 41 GB up to 47 GB, and Hardline's heft adds to the trend of increasingly growing install files.
The recommended minimum hard drive space for the title on PC is 60 GB, according to the latest specifications. Although the actual install size may be a lot less, it's a leap on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's recommended space of 50 GB.
Vote for Just Cause 3’s Collector’s Edition Items Now
Square Enix is soliciting votes to help decide what could go in the Just Cause 3 collector’s edition.
Fans of the open-world action game developed by Avalanche Studios can log into the official Just Cause 3 website and select their top three items, in order, out of a possible 12 items.
Potential collector’s edition swag could include a mini art book, a grapple hook replica, a radio-controller helicopter, or various dioramas featuring series protagonist Rico.
For a full list of items, see the list below:
- Mini Art Book
The 100 Creator on the Big Season 2 Finale Events
Note: Full spoilers for The 100: Season 2 finale follow.
The 100: Season 2 Finale Review
The 100 ended its second season in a harrowing, unsettling manner, as Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor) finally succeeded in freeing her friends trapped inside Mount Weather – by flooding the place with the radiation those from the Ark were immune to, in the process knowingly killing everyone who lived inside Mount Weather, including those who’d tried to help them and the children present.
I spoke to The 100’s executive producer and showrunner about this huge turn of events and where things are leading in Season 3, now that Clarke has decided she needed to leave Camp Jaha and go off on her own in the wake of what she did. Not to mention that entirely new storyline introduced, as Jaha (Isaiah Washington) and Murphy (Richard Harmon) encountered a holographic life force with an uncomfortable interest in nuclear weapons.
PS4 Update 2.50 Features Suspend/Resume, 60fps Share Play
PlayStation 4 will receive the long awaited Suspend/Resume, a feature that keeps apps running while it enters rest mode, with its upcoming system software update 2.50, “Yukimura.”
The feature allows users to suspend the game they’re playing and put the PS4 into Rest Mode. They can then immediately access the title with no progress lost when powering the console back up.
"Suspend/Resume, which will be supported by nearly all PS4 titles, will create an atmosphere where your games are immediately available at any time — just pick up your DualShock 4 wireless controller, hit the PS button and get right back into the action of your games," Scott McCarthy, director of product planning and software innovation at SCEA, writes. "When it’s time to log off, simply put your PS4 in Rest Mode and when you power up the next time, you’ll start your game where you left off."