Dark Souls Creator Would ‘Love’ to Try Making a Battle Royale Game
Dark Souls creator and From Software Director Hidetaka Miyazaki reveals he's got his eye on the Battle Royale genre.
Miyazaki, best known for his work on such titles as Dark Souls and Bloodborne, has revealed that he’s not only been keeping tabs on the Battle Royale and Live Services phenomenon, but that he’d “love to take a crack at them some day."
In an interview with Telegraph, when asked if he and From Software would consider taking on gaming’s fastest growing genres, he said “There’s always the possibility.” He went on to remark that, “These games are definitely fun,” and, “If we did it, it might be a bit different! But we’re definitely interested and there’s definitely that possibility in the future. We’d love to take a crack at them some day."
These Are the Best FreeSync Monitors for Nvidia GPUs
If you’re willing to buy a new monitor, variable refresh rate is one of the best upgrades features you can get. Known as G-Sync on the Nvidia side and FreeSync on the AMD side, they reduce screen tearing and sync your monitor’s refresh rate with your video card’s output for a smoother experience. While FreeSync are easy to come by and affordable, monitors with NVIDIA’s G-Sync are always more expensive, leaving budget-minded GTX users out in the cold, until just recently.
This year at CES, Nvidia announced that it was bringing G-Sync compatibility to some FreeSync monitors with a new driver update. They’ve officially validated 50 monitors as “G-Sync compatible,” but anyone can enable variable refresh rate (VRR) if they have the latest Nvidia drivers and a FreeSync-enabled display—and many have found certain uncertified monitors to work just fine.
New Octopath Traveler Console Game in Production, Mobile Prequel Announced
Square Enix has revealed that a new console Octopath Traveler game is in the works and that a mobile prequel title - Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent - will be headed to iOS and Android later this year, at least in Japan.
As reported by Eurogamer, Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is a "free-to-play single-player RPG" that is set in Osterra, the world of 2018's Octopath Traveler, and will take place a few years prior to the Switch title.
Via Gematsu, the official website details a bit more of the mobile title, including that it will feature the distinctive HD-2D art-style, an eight-character party system with command-based battles, a protagonist who is the "chosen one" and will "fight against a great evil that has achieve fortune, power, and fame," the return of field commands like "Listen" and "Steal," and more.
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Are our best days really gone? Will the Devil actually cry? Will anyone be left alive when Drago is actually found? All these questions and more have been attempted to answer by Simon, Joe and Jesse on this edition of the freshest UK garage podcast around.
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Captain Marvel’s 6 Biggest WTF Questions
In the process of delivering the superhero origin story for Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel raised some important questions that don’t have obvious answers and created more than a few continuity problems for the MCU. We had a feeling some of you might’ve also noticed the same issues, so to attempt to answer them we made some educated guesses based on what we know about the MCU and looked to the comics for possible solutions.
Warning: full spoilers for Captain Marvel ahead!
How Exactly Did Nick Fury Lose His Eye?
We all remember that line from Captain America: The Winter Soldier where Fury told Cap, “Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye.” That painted a picture of Fury being tragically betrayed, but turns out the true story is Goose clawed him in the face because he just couldn’t resist cuddling a cute cat, which is totally understandable… if you hadn’t just seen it turn into a nasty tentacle monster from hell. So maybe try not holding him right up to your face?
Captain Marvel’s Cat Goose Explained
Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel!
Everyone who’s seen Captain Marvel knows that Goose the cat not only steals his scenes in the movie, he also steals the Cosmic Cube. And that’s because he’s not just some mere tabby cat. No, it’s revealed that Goose the cat's species is a Flerken, an alien that just so happens to look exactly like earthly felines …. but with some very shocking and deadly differences.
Introduced in the pages of Ms. Marvel by creators Brian Reed and Roberto De La Torre, the Marvel Comics equivalent of the movie’s Goose was named Chewie — yes, after Star Wars’ Chewbacca, but changed for the movie as an homage to Top Gun and Carol Danvers’ military aviation background. Fun fact: Chewie was also a she, not a he.
How Captain Marvel Pays Tribute to Stan Lee
Some SPOILERS ahead for Captain Marvel.
Marvel Studios redesigned their opening credits logo for Captain Marvel to pay tribute to the late Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics icon who died last November.
Whereas the opening Marvel Studios scrawl typically features images and footage of MCU superheroes, this new version created for Captain Marvel has substituted footage of Lee for the likes of Iron Man and his fellow Avengers.
The Marvel Studios opening logo footage — which had previously been updated last year for Marvel Studios’ 10th anniversary — is followed by a black screen with a simple text message: “Thank you, Stan.”
How Captain Marvel Pays Tribute to Stan Lee
Some SPOILERS ahead for Captain Marvel.
Marvel Studios redesigned their opening credits logo for Captain Marvel to pay tribute to the late Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics icon who died last November.
Whereas the opening Marvel Studios scrawl typically features images and footage of MCU superheroes, this new version created for Captain Marvel has substituted footage of Lee for the likes of Iron Man and his fellow Avengers.
The Marvel Studios opening logo footage — which had previously been updated last year for Marvel Studios’ 10th anniversary — is followed by a black screen with a simple text message: “Thank you, Stan.”
Captain Marvel Switched the Gender of This Iconic Comics Character
FULL SPOILERS ahead for Captain Marvel!
Annette Bening plays the original Captain Marvel, the Kree agent known as Mar-Vell, in the new MCU movie of the same name. The Oscar nominee’s character had been shrouded in mystery leading up the film’s release.
As it turns out, Bening pulls triple duty in the film. Not only is she the first Captain Marvel, but her character Mar-Vell also operates under the guise of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. scientist Dr. Wendy Lawson. Both Mar-Vell and Lawson were male characters in the original Marvel Comics, the latter appearing in 1967’s Marvel Super Heroes #13 as Dr. Walter Lawson.
Walter Lawson was a human scientist who died when double-crossing Kree commander Yon-Rogg (played in the film by Jude Law) betrayed and tried to kill Mar-Vell, shooting down Lawson’s plane in the process. Mar-Vell then assumed Lawson’s identity to investigate and uncover what Yon-Rogg was plotting for Earth.