Why The Walking Dead’s Latest Twist Has Us Hooked Again
This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, episode 5, "What Comes After."
AMC's The Walking Dead unloaded quite a bit on us this past Sunday. Not just with Andrew Lincoln's official exit from the series - which we all knew was coming - but with the news that Lincoln would be starring in three Walking Dead movies. On top of this, creating some non-Rick Grimes buzz, there was a huge time jump during the final moments of the episode.
Microsoft Built Its New Campus in Minecraft to Introduce Employees
There seems to be nothing Minecraft players can't or won't build in the game. Case in point, Microsoft has now constructed its own corporate headquarters inside the game it bought for $2.5 billion in 2014.
CNBC reports that Microsoft hired Blockworks, a UK design studio that works in Minecraft, to give employees an advance look at a planned refresh of Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus. The 500-acre campus' overhaul is scheduled to be finished in 2022.
Microsoft's decision to preview the project in Minecraft came about when an employee saw his son playing the game. He realized Minecraft could be used to show employees the planned campus changes well ahead of their completion, and in a more immersive way than traditional building renders can.
Nintendo Is Hiring for a Zelda-Related Project
Nintendo appears to be starting work on a new Legend of Zelda project, according to a pair of job listings.
First spotted by Resetera user guru-guru, the listings are for a 3DCG designer and a level designer. Neither reveals much about what sort of Zelda project the developers would be working on at Nintendo, but do have callouts to a few Legend of Zelda franchise staples.
Unsurprisingly, Nintendo wants the designer to have experience working on action games and to be able to work on designing terrain like fields and dungeons. Similarly, the level designer needs to have worked on planning video game dungeons, fields, and enemies.
Blizzard Has ‘No Plans’ for Warcraft 4 Right Now, Warcraft 3: Reforged Is the Priority
Fans of Warcraft's real-time strategy roots might have assumed that the announcement of Warcraft 3: Reforged at BlizzCon 2018 indicated that a full-fledged fourth game was on the way, but it doesn't appear that this is the case – at least for now.
Speaking to GameSpot, Blizzard senior producer Pete Stilwell said that his team's priority, "first and foremost," is to make Warcraft 3: Reforged as good as it can possibly be. Stilwell stopped short of saying Blizzard would never develop a fourth Warcraft game, but said the studio doesn't have any plans for it at the moment.
PUBG Seemingly Coming to PS4 in December
It appears that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be coming to PS4 after a year of Xbox One console exclusivity, if the PS4 game database is any indication.
A user on the PSNProfiles forum spotted that information about PUBG was present on Sony's servers, including a content ID code for the North American and European versions, as well as images.
Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad corroborated the rumor on the forum ResetEra, adding that it would be out in December. If Microsoft's console exclusivity deal had been for a year, this timing makes sense, as PUBG was first introduced to the Xbox One Preview program in December 2017.
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Suicide Squad’s Joker and Harley Quinn to Join PUBG
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is teaming up with DC to allow players to use skins that make them appear as Suicide Squad's Joker and Harley Quinn in-game.
This collaboration will arrive in the near future and a glimpse of the two characters in action can be seen below as they are breaking out from what appears to be Miramar's prison.
Whether PUBG will simply receive the skins or a new limited-time game mode, like Avengers: Infinity War's Thanos in Fortnite, that has the Joker and Harley Quinn trying to escape the prison or be the last to survive remains to be seen.
The History of Fortnite… So Far
Fortnite rules the world of modern cross-platform gaming, but it wasn’t all that long ago that it seemed we knew barely anything about it.
Here’s the strange, twisting, timeline that led to the cultural phenomenon of battle royale.
2011
In September of 2011, Microsoft published Epic’s Gears of War 3, the culmination of the original Gears trilogy. Only a couple of months later in December, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski formally announced Fortnite at the Spike Video Game Awards, alongside an accompanying teaser trailer.
The Best Gifts for Grandparents
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It can be challenging to find the best gift for grandparents during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. What could Memere and Pep-Pep possibly need in their lives? They're older and wiser, so they require gifts suitable for grandparents. Here are our suggestions for the best gifts for grandparents you can give this holiday season.
Best Tech Gifts for Grandparents
Bethesda Responds to Fallout 76 Hacking Concerns, Planning Fixes
UPDATE 11/5: Bethesda have provided further comment to IGN contesting the validity of the claims made in a Reddit thread asserting that Fallout 76 is extremely vulnerable to hacking. Here is the full statement:
"Many of the claims in the thread are either inaccurate or based on incorrect assumptions. The community has however called to attention several issues that our teams are already actively tracking and planning to roll out fixes for. Our goal is always to deliver a great experience for all our players. Cheating or hacking will not be tolerated. We know our fan base is passionate about modding and customizing their experience in our worlds and it's something we intend to support down the road."