Monthly Archives: December 2018

THQ Nordic Buys Carmageddon IP

THQ Nordic has announced that it has acquired the Carmageddon franchise from Stainless Games.

The original Carmageddon is a vehicular combat game developed by Interplay Productions and Sales Curve Interactive and released for PC in 1997. Carmageddon was once owned by Square Enix Europe, but original publisher Stainless Games purchased the rights in 2011.

Stainless ported Carmageddon to iOS and Android in 2013. A series reboot, Carmageddon: Reincarnation, followed with a 2015 PC release after being partially funded via a Kickstarter campaign.

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Fortnite: Season 7’s First Tease Warns That ‘A Bitter Ice Spreads…’

Fortnite has begun teasing its seventh season, which begins in three days, with a warning that "a bitter ice spreads..."

Announced on Twitter, the ominous message is accompanied by an image of some mysterious icy figure that may hint at a potential skin in the upcoming Battle Pass or something else entirely.

Even though this is our first official tease, there have already been certain leaks that may or may not indicate future events, including one involving Tilted Towers.

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Deadpool 2: Unused Post-Credits Scenes Revealed

Deadpool co-creator Robert Liefeld revealed a number of previously unknown Deadpool 2 details from an Academy Screening Q&A via his Instagram yesterday.

The following article contains Deadpool 2 spoilers.

According to Liefeld, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds spoke about some unused post-credits scenes. The scenes "involved Deadpool peeing on ShatterStar's grave, Peter showing up with a prosthetic arm and an entire new X-Force team auditioning."

The topic of X-Force in particular apparently came up several times during the Q&A. One of the film's goals was to provide Deadpool/Wade with a sense of belonging, albeit it within the dysfunctional X-Force team. Ryan, along with Deadpool 2 co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, was amused that Deadpool 2's marketing disguised the X-Force team's fate and made it "seem more important in the grand scheme."

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Resident Evil 2 / PUBG Crossover Event on the Way

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile is getting a crossover with the upcoming Resident Evil 2 remake, according to Capcom.

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collaboration decided!" reads a rough translation of a tweet from Capcom's Japanese Resident Evil account (which is known as Biohazard in the region). "The world's most popular mobile game and survival horror monument. What kind of novel play can the combination of two super-IPs produce?"

Capcom also released the brief teaser trailer for the crossover seen above. The video is filled with scrambled footage of zombies wandering through hallways and attacking people.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Won’t Be at The Game Awards

Don't expect to see Cyberpunk 2077 at The Game Awards this week – CD Projekt RED says it won't be showing more until the developer's ready.

Community lead Marcin Momot took to Twitter to quell any undue excitement:

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Captain Marvel Gets New Poster, Trailer Coming Tomorrow

Marvel Studios has released a vibrant new poster for Captain Marvel, alongside news that a trailer will be coming for the film tomorrow.

The poster shows off Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel in a powerful state, posing with what appears to be Earth in the background, and a blue and red motif split down the middle, emphasizing different elements of the film.

Brie Larson Captain Marvel Poster

There are fighter jets on one half, referencing Carol Danvers’ past as a United States Air Force pilot, and futuristic ships on the other half, likely belonging to the Kree (or possibly the Skrulls). Landscapes on both sides appear to be the same location, with one half strewn with what looks to be spaceship wreckage.

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20 Years of StarCraft: A Retrospective

In the mid-to-late 1990s, the real-time strategy (RTS) genre was not only popular but ubiquitous. RTS games of various styles and settings were everywhere, and a company named Blizzard Entertainment was at the forefront. The studio had become a household name with gamers thanks – primarily – to three titles: 1994’s Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, 1995’s Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and an action role-playing game released on the final day of 1996 (and developed by Blizzard North), Diablo. These games cemented Blizzard as a company that made high quality cinematic story-driven experiences that were fun, accessible, and infinitely repayable.

With StarCraft, its third real-time strategy game, Blizzard would leave behind the fantasy world of the breakout Warcraft franchise and set its sights on the distant future. It would take players to a science-fiction setting where humans and strange alien races engaged in isometric high-tech warfare. And the studio would go on a journey of its own; in the time between Warcraft II and StarCraft’s launch in 1998 the look and feel of the game would change drastically - alongside its story, characters, vehicles and other player-controlled units. This is the story of that evolution... and the success beyond.

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Fans Are Really Mad Netflix Cancelled Marvel’s Daredevil

Netflix spent the week both fulfilling fans' dreams and dashing them. Earlier this week, the streaming service announced the critically acclaimed and surprisingly difficult to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion will arrive on the service this upcoming spring, but within days also cancelled the fan-favorite Daredevil series. Fans are not receiving the news well, and the universal frustration is evident across social media.

From passionate fans to members of the cast, many took to Twitter to share their reactions to the sudden news. There's a sadness that comes with most TV show cancellations, but this one in particular is leaving some trying to find a balance between bittersweet heartache and outrage.

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