Star Wars Battlefront 2: The Last Jedi Content Detailed
Star Wars: Battlefront 2's first DLC "season" based on The Last Jedi arrives in December.
As detailed on EA's blog post, the add-on content includes new multiplayer maps, playable characters, and a new single-player story mission following the First Order's rise to power. All of this new content will be free, as will all of Battlefront 2's future DLC.
Starting on December 5, players can ally themselves with either the First Order or the Resistance. This choice will be important, because over the next few weeks you'll be completing special challenges to earn your faction specific rewards.
For Honor: Every Shaman and Aramusha Execution and Emote
The fourth season of For Honor, dubbed Order and Havoc, hits PC and Consoles on November 14.
In addition to kicking off Season 4 of the persistent faction war, Order and Havoc will be bringing quite a bit to the table. Starting with a pair of new heroes – The Vikings' Shaman and the Samurai Aramusha – the update also adds two new maps, new armor and weapon variations, and new new mode called Tribute.
Thw two new heroes will be included with the season pass and playable on November 14, or can be unlocked for 15,000 Steel and playable for non-season-pass holders one week later on November 21. But before you can get your hands on the Shaman and Aramusha you can see every execution and emote these warriors are bringing to to the battlefield.
Kojima to Show Del Toro Death Stranding Gameplay Soon
Famed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who's working with Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding, briefly spoke to IGN about Kojima Productions' upcoming title, actual gameplay of which he expects to see in the not too distant future.
"It's been great as a friendship, and it's been great as a learning experience," del Toro said of working with Kojima in a recent interview with IGN. "In Death Stranding I'm just a puppet. I don't know what he's gonna make me do. He's supposedly going to show me the gameplay at some point in the next couple of weeks."
Prior to working with Kojima on Death Stranding, del Toro aided in the creation of P.T., the playable teaser for what would have been Silent Hills. "My most rewarding experience was to know him and help him realize P.T., which never happened on Silent Hills," he said.
16 Games Released for Nintendo Switch in Next Week
The Nintendo Switch is seeing one of its most packed release weeks over the next seven days, with ports of L.A. Noire, DOOM, Rocket League, and more.
Today kicks off a release of 19 games through next Wednesday, Nov. 15, for the Switch, with Octodad: Dadliest Catch and more hitting the system today. Among today's releases is the Switch's first U.S. TV/movie streaming app, Hulu.
Check out the full slate of this next week's releases in the gallery and list below:
- Koi DX — Available Nov. 9
- Maria the Witch — Available Nov. 9
Black Panther Character Posters Revealed
Marvel has released several new characters posters for Black Panther, highlighting the main cast, including star Chadwick Boseman.
The posters, which you can view in the gallery below, feature some of the film Wakandan characters, including Boseman as the titular Black Panther/T'Challa, Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia, Forest Whitaker as Zuri, and Angela Bassett as Ramonda, as well as Andy Serkis as the villainous Klaw.
Black Panther opens in theaters on February 16, 2018. The rest of the cast includes Michael B. Jordan, Sterling K. Brown, Winston Duke, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, John Kani, Florence Kasumba, and Danai Gurira.
For more on the upcoming MCU film, read about how Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger can wear the Black Panther suit and why Klaw (Serkis) is out to expose Wakanda's "hypocrisy."
Home Theater Projectors You Need For Your Gaming Setup
Screen sizes have come a long way since many of us played Adventure on our Atari 2600 connected to a 13-inch color CRT. In just the last 10 years flat-panel prices have lowered as screen sizes have grown. But if you want to cover your entire wall with Fortnite, there still isn’t a reasonably priced television that can compete with a gaming projector.
Gaming projectors don't just let you game on a giant screen, you can also get all the benefits of modern displays with 4K, and even 8K resolutions, as well as the latest HDR standards.
TL:DR – These are the Best Gaming Projectors:
Sledgehammer Wanted to Make CoD: Advanced Warfare 2
Call of Duty: WWII developer Sledgehammer Games originally wanted to make Advanced Warfare 2, before Activision executives asked them to take on real-life history instead.
Speaking to Newsweek, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg explained that, "Sledgehammer wanted to make Advanced Warfare 2", but added that the publisher had seen the increasing calls from fans to return to the series' roots, and head back to the 1940s.
“We knew
would become historians," Hirshberg continued, "that they would tackle it with authenticity, give it tremendous care and we also knew they would capture the unspeakable scale of World War II.”
New Batman Comic Leads Into Season 2 of Telltale’s Game
Batman: Sins of the Father is a comic book miniseries coming in February 2018 based in the world of Batman: The Telltale Series.
Written by Christos Gage (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel & Faith, TV’s Daredevil) with artist Raffaele Ienco (Fantastic Four, Black Knight), it will bridge the gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of the game.
Warning: beware spoilers for Batman: The Telltale Series!
Video game variant cover to Issue #1 from Telltale Games. (DC Comics)
The Best PlayStation Gifts for 2017
Sony is and has been crushing it since the PlayStation 4 debuted, so there's a good chance you know a Sony fan or two. If you're stumped on what to get the PlayStation lover in your life, we've put together this guide to help you land on the perfect gift to help your status as a gift-giver achieve greatness.
What good are games and services if there's nothing to play them on? If you want to help someone take the first step into the world of PlayStation, or upgrade their experience, we've got a few suggestions for you.
Exploring, Fighting, and Shopping in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Check out the video above for 17 minutes of gameplay including battles, boss fights, shopping, and more!
Don’t worry about getting bored in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. From RPG staples like towns and inns to unique mechanics like cloud diving and bonding with Blades, Xenoblade will keep you busy even when you’re not progressing through its massive story.
While we’ve already written about Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s beautiful open world and why it might be Nintendo Switch’s next great RPG, we recently sat down with Nintendo Treehouse to check out roughly an hour of the game and were introduced to a few of its early areas, plus its robust upgrade system and mechanics.