Monthly Archives: September 2018
Fortnite Season 6 Downtime and Patch Information Detailed
Epic has detailed the release date and time of the launch of Season 6 set for tomorrow.
Season 5 will conclude at 1am PST on September 27 and downtime for the 6.00 patch will begin immediately after. As soon as downtime begins, Epic will release patch notes detailing new additions and any other changes coming to Fortnite.
In previous seasons, downtime between updates typically lasted an hour, but updates between seasons are typically longer.
Any replays saved before the update will rendered useless after downtime concludes. Outfits with unlockable styles from the Season 5 battle pass can still be unlocked in Sesaon 6 as long as the skins were unlocked prior to the new season.
Fortnite: Epic Confirms Merging in Wake of Sony Cross-Play
Epic Games has announced it's working on an account-merging solution for those who've created multiple accounts to play Fortnite on different platforms.
In a post on the official Fortnite Twitter account, Epic announced it is working on "an account-merging feature to combine Battle Royale purchases," as well as "enabling unlinking a console from one Fortnite account, and relinking to another Fortnite account."
The ability to unlink a console and relink to a different account will arrive within "a few days," while account merging is set to arrive sometime in November.
This news from Epic comes hot off the heels of Sony's announcement that PS4 will now support cross-platform play for Fortnite, starting with an open beta that begins today.
Experience a New Canon Star Wars Story in Vader Immortal
At Oculus Connect 5, Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series was announced for the Oculus Quest and will be a three-part series that will debut in 2019.
A short teaser was revealed that you can see below and begins by a woman saying "there is something wrong captain. I need you in the cockpit now."
The crew was pulled out of hyperspace over Mustafar and the video cuts to Darth Vader's Castle and his iconic breathing shortly follows.
Darth Vader then asks, "You may wonder why I have brought you here?"
The teaser ends with what appears to be a first-person lightsaber battle against a robotic enemy, hinting at what players can expect when they see this tale unfold themselves.
Fortnite Is so Big It Can Bully Sony and Nintendo
Fortnite is undeniably one of the biggest games in the world, but today we saw an example of just how big it is. Sony’s long-standing (and, frankly, embarrassing) stance against cross-play with other consoles is finally coming to an end, and Fortnite is pretty much leading the charge.
Developer Epic Games has been vocal in the past about wanting Sony to embrace cross-play (alongside developers like Psyonix and Bethesda), and actually accidentally enabled the feature briefly last year. Sony even caused a big headache for Epic during Fortnite’s launch on Switch as players who had previously played on PS4 discovered their accounts couldn’t carry over – an issue Sony didn’t have much to say about at the time.
Original Shenmue Developer Complains About Re-Release Bugs
“As a developer on the original games, the last thing I wanted for the re-release
is for them to be worse than the originals,” Sega’s Eigo Kasahara said during IGN Japan’s Tokyo Game Show 2018 live stream.
Sadly, that is pretty much what happened with the Western release of Shenmue I & II. The game released for PS4/Xbox One/PC (Steam) on August 21 in North America and Europe, and while it received generally favorable reviews and positive fan feedback, the port was far from perfect. Sega released a day-one-patch, but Shenmue I & II still suffered from numerous bugs, including sound and graphics glitches, cutscenes not playing correctly, swapped button issues, training progress not being saved and much more.
The Last of Us Part II Poster May Give Us Our Best Look Yet at Joel in Sequel
A new official The Last of Us poster featuring Joel has been released for Outbreak Day 2018, and it may just give us our best look yet at Joel in the upcoming The Last of Us Part II.
Available on the official The Last of Us website, the poster shows Joel sitting down in what appears to be a wooded area playing an acoustic guitar next to a wolf. Enemies in the most recent gameplay demonstration of The Last of Us Part II called Ellie “The Wolf,” suggesting that this beast represents the sequel’s protagonist.
Though his eyes are obscured, sporting what looks to be a new haircut, Joel appears to be about the same age as in the first game, though the sequel takes place years later. Ellie’s arm tattoo in the sequel features a moth, a few of which can be seen flying around in the poster (though these may just be butterflies). Take a look at the poster below. We’ve reached out to Sony to confirm if this is indeed Joel’s new look in The Last of Us Part II.
Dark Phoenix: First Trailer for Final X-Men Movie Debuts Wednesday, New Poster Revealed
The first poster for X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been released, with news that the trailer will debut Wednesday night.
Jean Grey, played by Sophie Turner can be seen standing in a silhouette form in front of a galaxy-filled sky with a faint "X" behind her.
Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox
X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the next film following 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse and takes place in the 1990s. It will focus around inspiration from Marvel's Dark Phoenix Saga comics.
Oculus Quest Standalone VR Unit Announced
During today’s Oculus Connect 5 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came onstage to announce Oculus Quest, a standalone VR unit.
It is completely wireless, portable, supports six degrees of freedom and allows for users to move in a virtual space. The 64GB headset will ship Spring 2019 at $400 US.
Introducing #OculusQuest, Our First 6DOF All-in-One VR System, Launching Spring 2019 // https://t.co/wi4XF7TJ59 pic.twitter.com/cuun3sFD0i
— Oculus (@oculus) September 26, 2018
New to Netflix for October
Netflix and KILL is in full effect this October, as Castlevania returns, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Haunting of Hill House debut, and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining returns to the ferocious fold.
On top of that, hit Netflix Originals Marvel's Daredevil and Making a Murderer premiere new seasons while director Paul Greengrass (three Bourne films, Captain Phillips) chronicles the true story of a terror attack in Norway in the movie 22 July.
Plus, more Big Mouth, the first two Blade films, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Meaning of Life, Gotham: Season 4, The NeverEnding Story, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Green Mile, V for Vendetta, and more!
The Walking Dead: The Final Season Pulled From Sale at Telltale’s Request
Only two of the four planned episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season were released when developer Telltale requested that the game be pulled from sale from various online storefronts.
As reported by The Verge, the GoG page for the The Final Season has removed the option to buy the season or its released episodes, including the note: "Telltale has requested a temporary pause of sales of The Walking Dead - Final Season. For all up to date Telltale news, please refer to their official Twitter page.” Episode 3 was scheduled to be released on November 6, and Episode 4 would have concluded the series on December 18.