Pinball FX3’s Switch Issues Unlikely to Be Fixed
Pinball FX3 has a performance problem on Nintendo Switch, and the developer has confirmed that it's unlikely to be fixed.
Many saw the opportunity to play in portable mode - which can use the Switch screen in portrait to show a full table - as a key feature for the game. Unfortunately, at launch the mode ran at a lower frame rate than on other versions, while its resolution made some tables look terrible when in docked mode. A patch was promised, but never arrived.
Zen Studios posted an update on Reddit addressing the community's issues - the long and short of it is that it would involve too much work to get the game to 60 frames per second in handheld mode, and the studio says it doesn't have the resources.
Nintendo Updates Mario’s Profession Back to Plumber
Mario is back to unclogging pipes and doing other complicated things involving waterworks, now that Nintendo has confirmed his profession is a plumber once more.
Nintendo Everything reports that his profession has been updated on Nintendo's Japanese website. This is a big deal because of the heretical update last year that denounced his career.
The Witcher’s Geralt Could Make a Guest Appearance In Another Game
CD Projekt Red has hinted that The Witcher's lead character, Geralt of Rivia could be about to make an appearance in another game, coming this year.
Community manager, Marcin Momot dropped the hint on Twitter today - the inevitable question being: "OK, what game will he be in then?"
What if Geralt was going to step out of the @witchergame for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year? pic.twitter.com/dMTn1Im6HD
— Marcin Momot (@Marcin360) March 6, 2018
Battlefield 2018 Will Reportedly Feature Co-Op Mode
The leaks keep coming, it seems. This year's Battlefield game will reportedly feature a co-op mode, a similar campaign to Battlefield 1, and include a Rainbow Six: Siege-inspired prone stance.
GamesBeat - which initially reported the game's apparent title, Battlefield V - has followed up with a series of further details. Apparently, the game will feature a co-op mode that has squads running through "randomly generated Conquest missions", although split-screen has not been confirmed.
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John Williams to Quit Composing for Star Wars
Legendary composer John Williams has suggested that he will write his last Star Wars score with Episode IX.
Speaking to radio station KUSC (via NME), Williams explained that he'll stop composing for the series with the next instalment, ending a 42 year association with the series.
“We know J.J. Abrams is preparing
now that I will hopefully do next year for him", Williams said. "I look forward it. It will round out a series of nine, that will be quite enough for me.”
Fortnite Beats PUBG as Most-Watched Twitch Game
Fortnite is now the most-watched game on Twitch, with a daily average viewership double that of PUBG.
Fortnite Intel reports that based on stats from the past 14 days - with data gathered from SullyGnome - Fortnite streams on Twitch have been watched for an equivalent of 4,882 years, 208 days, beating Twitch's traditional king League of Legends' 4,564 years, 190 days.
It's also the most-streamed game over the same period, with its 246 years, 231 days beating PUBG's 106 years, 194 days.
Rainbow Six Siege: No ETA on Fix for Purchase Issues
Rainbow Six Siege players on multiple platforms are currently unable to spend in-game currency on new items or operators, and Ubisoft doesn't know when the issue will be fixed.
Reports of the problem - which sees the game failing to complete purchases with either earned currency Renown or paid-for R6 Credits - began yesterday, and have continued since.
Reports have come in of the problem occurring on Xbox One, PS4 and PC - we've confirmed that the problem is ongoing on PS4.
Ubisoft representatives have confirmed that they're looking into the problem, but a post on the Rainbow Six Siege Official Forum says, "Unfortunately we do not have an ETA at the moment."
What It Was Like to Live Through That Oscars Wrinkle in Time Screening
Host Jimmy Kimmel pulled off an epic stunt during the 90th annual Academy Awards when he and a crowd of Hollywood's biggest stars -- including Gal Gadot, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong'o and Lin-Manuel Miranda -- took a break from the Oscars and headed next door to crash a screening of Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time at the TLC Chinese Theaters. The stunt might have been a surprise to Oscar viewers, but no one was more shocked by the way the events unfolded than the unsuspecting audience watching the movie. Here's what it was like to be sitting in the front row.
What Shape of Water, Get Out’s Wins Mean for the Future of the Oscars
As Guillermo del Toro and the cast and crew of The Shape of Water took the stage after their Best Picture win at the 90th Academy Awards, I couldn’t help but feel like we were witnessing a turning point for the Oscars. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that we’ll look back on last night’s show as a mold for how the Oscars progress going forward in terms of genre films being represented in the major award categories.
The 90th Academy Awards seemed to speak to folks like me (and I presume a lot of you) who have felt like horror, fantasy, and science fiction films generally get overlooked during Hollywood’s big night. Honestly, in 2018, it’s harder to find someone who isn’t caught up on Game of Thrones or the Marvel Cinematic Universe films than it is to find someone who is. So it makes perfect sense that these giant pillars of popular culture are rewarded when they’re excellent.