Monthly Archives: July 2019

PS Plus for July Removes PES 2019, Adds Detroit: Become Human

Sony has removed Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 from July’s free PS Plus games and replaced it with the Digital Deluxe Edition of Detroit: Become Human.

The monthly games that subscribers get with PS Plus usually go unchanged once announced. But as July’s games went live for players today, Sony issued a blog post to announce that they have replaced the previously announced PES 2019 with the Digital Deluxe Edition of Detroit: Become Human. It’s not yet clear why Sony decided to make this swap so late, but it may be due to widespread complaints on social media about Pro Evolution Soccer being this month's offering; as a sports title, its appeal is more niche than many other genres.

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Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town Remake Coming To Switch

Update: A remake of the beloved Harvest Moon game Friends of Mineral Town is indeed coming to the Nintendo Switch, and confirmed for a North American release, but it will now be known in its North American release as Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town.

Publisher XSeed Games, part of Marvelous USA, confirmed in a press release that Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is coming to North America. Natsume originally published Friends of Mineral Town under the Harvest Moon name, but given that Natsume still owns the publishing name rights to that franchise, XSeed and Marvelous will now be bringing the game back under the Story of Seasons branding.

XSeed confirmed an October 17 release in Japan, and only mentioned that the North American launch date "will be confirmed at a later time."

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Nvidia Announces Upgraded SUPER GPUs

Nvidia has been teasing something SUPER new since before the start of E3 2019 and today the company is introducing ‘Super’ versions of the RTX 2080, RTX 2070, and RTX 2060.

What makes these new graphics cards so ‘Super’ is they all feature a new GPU with additional CUDA cores, Tensor Cores, RT Cores, faster clock speeds, and generally more of everything. While the Super cards still feature memory operating at 14Gbps, there have been several other enhancements made to the memory and cache. Specs have yet to be revealed for the 2080 Super, but the 2060 and 2070 variants have been revealed, which you can see below.

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Upcoming Evil Dead Game Will Be ‘Immersive’ but Not VR

Bruce Campbell, the actor who played Ash Williams in the Evil Dead films and TV series, has clarified that the upcoming Evil Dead game is in development for consoles and PC, and not for VR.

In a post on Twitter, Campbell said “This is a swell time to clarify some incorrect info that might be out there (including from me!): the upcoming Evil Dead video game is being developed for consoles and PC, not VR. Sorry for any confusion.”

Red Faction: Guerrilla’s Destruction Is Still the Best, and That’s a Crime

In 10 years, no one has reused Red Faction: Guerrilla’s destruction technology, except for those making its horribly off-the-mark sequel, and the people re-releasing Red Faction: Guerrilla. That is a disgrace.

I started playing the Switch version of the game (I refuse to type its horrible subtitle) this weekend and, approximately 12 minutes in, I’d already remembered why it was one of my favourite games of the last generation, despite having dull combat, dull missions, a uniformly brown world, and a protagonist with the personality of bread. The moment I remembered why I loved it so much back in 2009 was when I made a chimney fall over with a sledgehammer.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home Suits Coming To Spider-Man PS4 For Free

Peter Parker’s new suits from Spider-Man: Far From Home are coming to Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 in the form of a new free DLC pack.

As announced by the PlayStation Japan Twitter account, Peter’s Upgrade Suit and Stealth Suit will be available to players for free. It appears that they will be available today, acting as a simultaneous launch with the Spider-Man: Far From Home movie. We'll confirm the suits launch day as soon as we can.

The addition of these suits brings Marvel’s Spider-Man’s MCU suit count up to five: the original MCU Spider-Man suit, Peter’s DIY suit from before he met Tony Stark, the Iron Spider suit, and these two new Far From Home variants. Yup, that means literally every MCU Spidey is in the game, alongside the Rami suit and the Spider-Verse suit.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Features Three Unique Playable Origin Stories

In Cyberpunk 2077, players will be able to select from three different origin stories, each of which features a different starting location in the world for their character.

Talking to VG247, lead quest designer Paweł Sasko explained a system that CD Projekt Red calls “Lifepaths”, which in practice sound much like Dragon Age: Origins’ character origin stories.

“The player in Cyberpunk 2077 can create a custom character that has one of three origin stories, that we call lifepaths: you can be Nomad, Corpo or Street Kid,” Sasko explained. “Each of that Lifepaths has a different starting location and story background that are strongly connected with the origin story.”

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The Best Easter Eggs in Spider-Man: Far From Home

Full SPOILERS ahead for Spider-Man: Far From Home! Do you want to avoid spoilers and just find out if there are Far From Home end credits scenes? Then head here. Additionally, be sure to read director Jon Watts address whether the PS4 Insomniac game influenced this movie.

Spider-Man: Far From Home is here, capping off Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ushering in some major changes for Peter Parker. And like every MCU film, Far From Home is crammed full of hidden Easter eggs, references and callbacks to older movies and the comic book source material.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home Ending Explained

Full spoilers follow for Spider-Man: Far From Home!

If you just want to know how many Far From Home end credits scenes there are, click here. Keep reading for the new Spider-Man movie's ending and end credits explained in full spoiler-y detail. And for even more on Spider-Man: Far From Home and the end credits scenes, ponder the many WTF questions we have about the film, dig into the movie's Easter eggs and cameos, and get the lowdown on Tom Holland's Marvel contract and just how many movies he has left as Spidey.

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