Update: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s Recommended PC Specs Revised
Update 10/8/19: Since publishing this article, EA reached out to let us know that it has updated Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's recommended system requirements on its Origin store page to a much more reasonable 16GB, down from the originally listed 32GB. Seems this was simply a mistake, as I speculated below that it might be.
The original, unchanged story follows below:
Original Story: The PC system requirements for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order have popped up on its Origin store page, and the steep RAM requirement listed in its recommended specs is turning some heads.
Man Steals $40,000 Worth of Games and Equipment From Valve
Charges have been filed against a man in Bellevue, Washington for allegedly breaking into Valve’s company headquarters in Lincoln Square and stealing more than $40,000 worth of video games and equipment, according to a report by KIRO 7, first spotted by GamesIndustry.biz.
Charges for the burglary were filed last month against 32-year-old Shawn Shaputis. At the time, Shaputis had six warrants for his arrest.
Robert Downey Jr. Responds to Scorsese Saying Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema
In the ongoing saga of celebrities reacting to Martin Scorsese’s comment that Marvel movies are “not cinema,” actor Robert Downey Jr. has thrown his hat into the ring with his own response, according to Deadline.
In an interview on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show, Downey took a measured amount of umbrage with Scorsese’s comment.
“According to Scorsese, it’s not cinema. I gotta take a look at that,” Downey said.
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Outer Wilds Is Coming to PS4 This Month
Outer Wilds, the mysterious space exploration title from developer Mobius Digital and publisher Annapurna Interactive, will be launching on the PlayStation 4 on October 15, 2019.
Mobius Digital producer Kelsey Rice took to the PlayStation Blog to reveal the news of Outer Wilds arrival on PS4 following its release on Xbox One and PC earlier this year.
In our review of Outer Wilds, which sees players repeatedly exploring a vast open-ended universe while being stuck in a 22-minute time loop, we called it great and said that "exploring the uncharted worlds of Outer Wilds feels like a true adventure in ways most games never achieve."
The First 11 Minutes of Afterparty, the Latest from the Oxenfree Developers
Afterparty, the follow-up (but not sequel) to 2016's fantastic teenage adventure Oxenfree, will be released on October 29 for Xbox One (including Xbox Game Pass on day one), PS4, and PC. I played the first two hours of it on Xbox One X, and came away pretty impressed, outside of some moments of slowdown that seemed to be tied to loading new areas. Take a look at the first 11 minutes of the game in the video above. WARNING: This video contains strong language.
Afterparty has you alternating control between best friends Milo and Lola, who've both died and gone to Hell for reasons they will spend the game trying to figure out. They quickly discover that if they can out-drink the Prince of Darkness himself, they'll be allowed to go back to Earth, alive. It's an adventure game in the classic LucasArts sense, though its gameplay is entirely through dialogue; there is no inventory system or object-based puzzle-solving. If you've played Oxenfree you'll feel right at home.
Call of Duty: Mobile Breaks Record with 100 Million Downloads in First Week
Call of Duty: Mobile has reached 100 million downloads in its first week, surpassing Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon GO, and both mobile versions of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to become the largest mobile game launch in history.
As reported by CNBC, Sensor Tower revealed the news that Call of Duty: Mobile's 100 million downloads in its first week milestone is a huge jump over rivals PUBG's 28 million and Fortnite's 26.3 million in the same time frame and is the "largest mobile game launch ever."
Call of Duty: Mobile also beat out Pokemon GO and Mario Kart Tour's first week, which saw 85.5 million and 90 million downloads, respectively.
The Walking Dead Season 10 Draws Series Low Ratings With TV Premiere
The tenth season of The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on Sunday night, but drew in the show's smallest ever live episode viewership.
In the series' ratings post-mortem, The Hollywood Reporter determined that the tenth season premiere of The Walking Dead received the smallest same-day audience of all-time for the zombie show, with just 4 million total viewers watching live, showing a decline of 34% compared to last season's premiere.
How Will Microsoft Flight Simulator Deal With What Governments Don’t Want You to See?
Microsoft Flight Simulator might be as interesting for how it simulates the world as it does the, you know, flight. Using Bing Maps, the game will procedurally recreate almost the entirety of Earth with something approaching true accuracy. And I do mean "almost" the entirety of Earth.
As a connoisseur of wasting lots of my time on mapping sites just looking for weird stuff, it occurred to me there are places that Bing can't show. Military bases, government research sites and other secretive areas are often obscured or blanked out, leading to odd areas of lost space. My first thought, when looking at the new Flight Simulator, was "how are the developers going to deal with that?"
Playmobil Reveals Back to the Future and Scooy-Doo Toys at NYCC
Playmobil toys aren't just for kids anymore. That's the takeaway after seeing some of the company's upcoming movie-themed releases at NYCC.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at the new Scooby-Doo and Back to the Future sets in the pipeline:
Playmobil is clearly targeting adult collectors in a way they haven't before. Previously, the company partnered with Funko to release a series of vinyl figures inspired by the classic Playmobil designs. Now they've gone a step further, teaming up with Warner Bros. and Universal to license these two franchises for full-fledged play sets.
For everything NYCC, head over to our New York Comic Con hub for all of our coverage! And for a closer look at the hot new collectibles at the show, check out Hasbro's newly revealed Star Wars figures and our galleries for the Kotobukiya booth and DC collectibles booth.