Final Fantasy 15 PC: Demo, Half-Life Pack Announced
In some expected news, Final Fantasy XV is getting a PC demo. In less expected news, buying the game early lets you dress up Noctis as Gordon Freeman from Half-Life.
Announced on the Square Enix blog, a demo will be coming to Steam, Origin and the Windows Store on Monday, February 26, and includes the game's entire first chapter.
Buying the game on Steam before May 1 also unlocks the Half-Life pack, giving players access to Gordon Freeman's HEV suit, crowbar weapon and glasses. Both lead character Noctis, and your Comrades multiplayer avatar can equip the items.
Captain America Does What Superman Couldn’t
Marvel turned quite a few heads when they revealed the direction of their post-Secret Empire Captain America comic last year. Not just because that series boasted the superstar creative team of writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee, but also because Waid and Samnee's pitch sounded more than a little reminiscent of 2010's Superman: Grounded. In both cases, you have an iconic superhero brought low after a major crossover event and who chooses to embark on a cross-country journey in order to reconnect with the ordinary people of America. But with Waid and Samnee now four issues into their Captain America run, it's already clear that Cap is succeeding where Superman failed eight years ago.
Fortnite Patch Brings the Game Up to 60 FPS on Console
Season 3 of Fortnite is underway now that patch v.3.0.0 is live, adding 60 frames per second support for PlayStation 4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, and Xbox One X.
The update is live now and brings the Season 3 Battle Pass with it. 60 FPS will be the new standard on all console versions, but the patch notes do make clear that you can choose to switch back to 30 FPS in return for higher quality visuals.
Alongside that, building is getting some improvements to be faster and easier, and the Hand Cannon weapon is coming to Battle Royale and Save the World mode.
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Warcraft 3 Gets Major Patch Amid Remaster Rumours
Warcraft 3 is getting a major new patch as rumours of a remaster abound.
The update is already live in Warcraft 3's public test realm, and includes hero balancing, widescreen support, and 24-player lobbies for custom games.
The patch notes also say that this is the "last version to support Windows XP" suggesting bigger changes might be planned for the future.
Rumours of a remaster for both Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 were sparked last year after a couple of Blizzard job listings hinted at overhauls for the two titles.
Mark Hamill to Receive a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
40 years since the release of Star Wars, Mark Hamill is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Revealed by Variety, Hamill's will be the 2,630th star on the 2km stretch, and his presentation will be co-hosted by George Lucas and Harrison Ford.
Hamill began his career with small roles on the likes of General Hospital, but shot to fame with the release of Star Wars in 1977. Since then, he has become a prolific voice actor, most prominently playing The Joker in various Batman TV shows, movies, and video games.
This year, Hamill will co-star with Gary Oldman and Gillian Anderson in Squadron 42, the space combat spin-off from the unbelievably successful Star Citizen project.
Death Stranding: Troy Baker, Emily O’Brien Join Cast
Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding features some big names from film and TV, and they'll be joined by veteran video game voice actor Troy Baker, and writer and actress Emily O'Brien.
O'Brien shared an Instagram post of herself with Norman Reedus and Troy Baker, writing, "Honored to be working alongside these two fine lads on
new project Death Stranding."
Baker's more memorable video game roles include The Last of Us' Joel, Infamous Second Son's Delsin, and Bioshock Infinite's Boker DeWitt.
Emily O'Brien's video game roles include Gamora in Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy series, and Camille in League of Legends, while her more recent TV roles include The Young and the Restless, and Rock in a Hard Place.
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Australian Video Games Spending Passes $3 Billion
Australia’s Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) has today announced that Australian consumer spending on video games and related hardware hit $3.23 billion in 2017, breaking through the $3 billion mark that the industry came close to cracking last year.
The figure includes physical retail sales of $1.176 billion (up 11 per cent on 2016) and digital sales of $2.054 billion (up nine per cent on 2016). The majority of digital sales were from mobile game sales (which generated over $1 billion in 2017) but digital full game downloads and “digital extras” have also increased (17 per cent and 12 per cent respectively).