Disney to Bundle Disney+, Hulu & ESPN+ for $12.99 a Month
Disney will be making things a little simpler for streaming customers after Disney+ debuts this November. During a quarterly earnings call (via Deadline), CEO Bob Iger confirmed rumors that Disney will offer a discounted subscription plan that combines the company's three core streaming services into one bundle.
The bundle includes Disney+, ESPN+ and the basic, on-demand version of Hulu. The bundle will be priced at $12.99 per month, a $5 discount versus subscribing to all three plans individually. Not coincidentally, $12.99 is the same price as Netflix's standard monthly subscription plan.
Mortal Kombat 11 Developers Will Fight DDOS Attacks Messing Up Competitive Leaderboards
There is a vulnerability in Mortal Kombat 11 that’s allowing players to fall victim to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. And malicious players are taking advantage of this vulnerability to climb the Kombat League leaderboards.
Mortal Kombat 11 competitive mode players have been complaining about a player in the ranked mode who’s been playing under various usernames and sending DDoS attacks to opponents.
Using names like pa3com, pa4com, and Son-Goku-DZ, this player uses DDoS attacks to force opponents in competitive mode to disconnect from the internet. This player has used these attacks to climb all the way to the Elder God top rank of Mortal Kombat 11’s competitive mode.
Psyonix Axing Randomized Rocket League Loot Crates Later This Year
Psyonix will phase randomized loot crates out of Rocket League later this year, the developer announced Tuesday in an official post.
The loot crates will be replaced by a system in which the player can see exactly what items they will be purchasing in advance. Specifically, the developer referenced the changes that Epic Games made to Fortnite (Epic Games acquired Rocket League developer Psyonix earlier this year), in which players can see what items are up for grabs before making a purchase with its X-Ray Llamas introduced earlier this year.
Everything We Know About Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty returns in 2019 with a reboot of the popular Modern Warfare subseries. The FPS will be the sixteenth mainline Call of Duty game, and developer Infinity Ward hopes to keep things fresh with new modes, features, enhanced realism, and the return of a single-player campaign.
Ahead of next month's beta, we've compiled the most important details about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in one place, including info on its release date, multiplayer, story, gameplay, and much more.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Release Date
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be released globally on October 25 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The PC version is "fully optimized" for the platform and will be released through Blizzard's Battle.net.
Venom 2 Will Be ‘An Extraordinary Piece of Cinema’
Venom 2 is in the works, and it seems that no one is more excited about that fact than newly announced director Andy Serkis. Serkis spoke to reporters at the TCA summer press tour today, teasing what's to come with Venom 2.
"It's a fantastic franchise and I'm honored to be asked to direct it," said Serkis. "It feels like a very contemporary story, and I think, hopefully, that it's going to be an extraordinary piece of cinema."
Serkis wasn't willing to discuss the plot of the film, noting only that writer Kelly Marcel is hard at work shaping the script with input from star Tom Hardy. He did say, "I can't tell you any ideas right now, I'm in the beginning stages, but I have some very clear ideas about what I want to see visually, and how we can take the characters to another dimension."
Horror Movies That Should be Video Games
With the upcoming release of the Blair Witch video game, we thought it was time to take a look at other relatively untapped horror movie franchises ripe for a video game adaptation. Let’s sink our fangs in.
IT
The beauty of IT - both the movies and the original Stephen King novel - is that it lends itself to a video game that could essentially be whatever you wanted it to be. After all, Pennywise is a murderous clown who prays on your worst nightmares; he could take the form of any nasty thing a developer could conjure up. Lepers, werewolves, and a murderous statue of Paul Bunyan are only the beginning. Just as long as the final boss isn’t a giant spider.
Apex Legends Getting Limited-Time Solo Mode Next Week
Apex Legends' Iron Crown Collection Event begins next week and will feature the game's first Solos mode for a limited time.
Announced by Apex Legends on Twitter, the Iron Crown Collection Event will run from August 13 - August 27 and teases that "Only one can wear the crown."
Next week, only one can reign.
The Iron Crown Collection Event featuring an all-new Solos limited time
mode begins 8/13. pic.twitter.com/8tG4EhIqQf
— Apex Legends (@PlayApex) August 6, 2019
Anthem Finally Releases Its Endgame Cataclysm Event
Anthem’s endgame event, Cataclysm, is finally live after a major delay pushed the event back from its May release window to an undisclosed date.
BioWare announced update 1.3.0 which finally releases the Cataclysm endgame event. The Cataclysm is available on Anthem's main menu, and is unlocked for any player who completed the “Incursion” main story mission.
In Cataclysm, players fight Var Brom and her forces in a multi-week endgame event. Teams that take on Cataclysm will have the opportunity to unlock new rewards and work their way up the leaderboards. Along with the Cataclysm story missions and game mode, there are several new features included with the event.
Titans: Every New Character Introduced in the Season 2 Trailer
The second season of Titans is fast approaching, and DC has released the first Season 2 teaser trailer. This sizzle reel (which was revealed at Comic-Con's DC Universe panel along with the Season 2 premiere date) offers a quick recap of Season 1's events, followed by glimpses of the new heroes and villains joining the fray.
From Iain Glen's aged Bruce Wayne to Deathstroke and his children, here's a breakdown of all the new characters who debut in the Titans Season 2 trailer.
Every Marvel Character in the Black Widow Movie
The first stop on the runaway train that is Marvel Studios' Phase 4 -- which includes a mixture of movies and Disney+ programming -- is the hotly-anticipated Black Widow film, which backtracks us a bit in the MCU timeline to a point that rests between Civil War and Infinity War, when Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff was on the run.
Due out May 1, 2020, Black Widow looks to delve deep into the Russian "Red Room" training facility, birthplace of the Black Widows. Natasha will clash with faces from her past as well as possible Black Widow successors. But who all is in Black Widow and what role will they play in Natasha's crucible? Let's take a look at the cast and characters involved...