The Sims 4: Island Living Expansion Announced
During EA Play 2019, EA announced The Sims 4’s newest expansion: Island Living.
The Sims 4: Island Living will become available on June 21 on PC and Mac, and July 16 on consoles.
The Island Living reveal trailer showed off a dirty beach being cleaned up, a nighttime beach party, a woman turning into a mermaid, and more. It also introduces water play, allowing Sims to walk into the open water, ride on jet skis, float and even swim with the dolphins. The island also includes an active volcano - Sims who are feeling risky can live nearby and will likely encounter eruptions.
If your Sims want to take care of the island, they can become a conservationist to help keep the beaches clean and wildlife safe. Sims can attend nighttime parties, make special native drinks and interact with friendly islanders. Spirits who care about the island interact with Sims, and will be nice to them if you’re good to the island, and bad if you’re abusing it.
FIFA 20 Reveals Gameplay details, Culture at EA Play
EA Sports revealed more details for FIFA 20 at EA Play 2019 on Saturday.
Professional eSports commentator, Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez, hosted the segment featuring lead producer for FIFA 20, Sam Rivera.
Rivera talked about new gameplay mechanics that are made up of four different categories: Composed Finishing will assist with more accurate and satisfying shooting, making it seem more life-like. Set Piece Refresh offers a more detailed free kicks system and new penalty kicks with better aiming. Controller Tackling lets players be in control over cleaner tackle animations through the Active Touch System. Strafe Dribbling allows the player to be more agile with enhanced dimension while attacking.
EA Shows Off New Battlefield V Maps, Chapter 4 Updates
During EA Play 2019, DICE showed off new Battlefield V multiplayer maps, updates and more.
The first new map, Marita, is set in Greece, showing off the tight streets of a rural town. Marita is an infinity-focused map, where hills and homes allow for steep, vertical gameplay. This is coming in July as part of Chapter 4.
DICE also showed off the new Al Sundan map in Northern Africa, which is focused on land and air vehicle combat. It’s a large sandbox area that includes an airfield, bunkers, and more. It’s described as “classic Battlefield,” where players will fight over possession of critical points. Coming June 27, day one for Chapter 4.
Later in August, other maps will be introduced and are designed to be intense and tighter for close-quarter encounters - something Battlefield fans have been craving.
New Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Gameplay Revealed at EA Play
During the first segment at EA Play on Saturday, Respawn Entertainment and EA revealed 15-minutes of full gameplay footage of the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game.
Hosting the segment was Kinda Funny's Greg Miller, featuring Respawn's Vince Zampella and Stig Asmussen.
During the gameplay reveal, viewers received a solid glimpse of new characters, locations and what fighting styles will be included. Skill points have also been confirmed to be in the game.
Saw Gerrera from Rogue One, played by Forest Whitaker, was shown in the footage to be assisting Cal, along with Kashyyk – the wookiee homeworld, being a starter location.
Additional droids will appear, including the previously revealed BD-1, the black Imperial R2 unit seen in The Last Jedi, and the returning KX-series security droid from Star Wars: Rogue One. Droids seem to be able to inject Cal in order to restore health, and can overcharge consoles and impact the environment.
Apex Legends: Wattson Revealed as 10th Legend
Apex Legends' second season will be called Battle Charge and will be released on July 2, 2019. In addition, the tenth Legend, Wattson, has been revealed.
Wattson was introduced in Apex Legends' first cinematic for one of its characters. Her real name is Natalie Paquette and she's the daughter of the game's lead electrical engineer. Her Tactical Ability is called Perimeter Security and connects "nodes to create electrified fences that damage and slow enemies."
Wattson's Passive Ability is Spark of Genius. Ultimate Accelerants fully charge Wattson's Ultimate Ability and "standing near interception pylons boosts your Tactical Ability recharge."
Her Ultimate Ability is Interception Pylon, where Wattson can "place an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordnance and repairs damaged shields as long as it stands. (Max: 3)"
Dark Phoenix: Why Don’t the X-Men Ever Age?
Time is a funny thing in Fox's X-Men movie universe. X-Men: First Class takes place in 1962, and Dark Phoenix takes place in 1992, yet the X-Men barely seem to have aged in all that time. If these movies didn't make a point of anchoring themselves to specific events in world history, you'd never know the current series takes place over the course of three decades. And don't even get us started on the future timeline seen in Days of Future Past...
To highlight just how weird the aging process in the X-Men movies has become, we've put together a slideshow comparing the cast of Dark Phoenix to how they looked in their original appearances and how they're supposed to look in the era of the classic X-Men trilogy. Apparently Wolverine isn't the only mutant who never ages...
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7 Things You (Probably) Missed in the Pokemon Sword and Shield Direct
The new trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield shown during the Pokemon Direct has some details that you just might have missed.
First, check out the trailer if you already haven't:
Now check out all the cool stuff we found and others on the internet have pointed out.
You can view this piece as a slideshow by flipping through the gallery below or just keep scrolling to read it as an article.
A New Chipmunk Pokemon
An extra secret Pokemon?! While we got our first official look at seven new Pokemon, it looks like an extra one was snuck in. A little boy in the crowd is sporting a shirt with a creature resembling a chipmunk...
Screenshots Reveal Cancelled Spider-Man Game That Became Prototype 2
Wayne Dalton, who was previously a senior environment artist at Radical Entertainment, has shared some screenshots and details of a cancelled Spider-Man 4 that ended up becoming Prototype 2.
On ArtStation, Dalton shared some screenshots of what was once Spider-Man 4, with different scenes featuring our favorite Web Slinger, as well as office furniture and newspaper articles from the Daily Bugle.
Alongside these images, Dalton said "the studio ended up massaging this into what became Prototype 2. Programmers did an amazing job on Spider mans locomotion & wed physics. shame there's no footage."