Dragon Ball FighterZ Gets a Release Date
Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released for Xbox One, PS4 and PC on January 26, 2018.
Bandai Namco also announced two editions of the game with bonus content. The FighterZ Edition will include a 'FighterZ Pass' adding 8 extra characters to the roster, along with cosmetic items to go with them.
The Ultimate Edition adds the FighterZ Pass, as well as a commentator voice pack, and the Anime Music pack, which adds 11 songs from the Dragon Ball anime to the soundtrack.
It's not clear from Bandai Namco's press release whether the 8 bonus characters from the FighterZ Pass will be available at launch, or as a season pass of content - we'll update once they let us know.
Digitally pre-ordering either of the two special editions will allow players to unlock SSGSS Goku and SSGSS Vegeta early, and all pre-orders for Xbox One and PS4 will offer early access to an open beta in January.
Star Trek: Discovery Will Return for Season 2
CBS has announced that Star Trek: Discovery will return on its All Access streaming service for a second season.
Announced in a press release, showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have also signed on to return.
CBS Interactive president, Marc DeBevoise explained the decision to renew the show mid-season:
"In just six episodes, Star Trek: Discovery has driven subscriber growth, critical acclaim and huge global fan interest for the first premium version of this great franchise. This series has a remarkable creative team and cast who have demonstrated their ability to carry on the Star Trek legacy.“
Discovery has driven record growth for the network's streaming service, and the latest episode "Lethe" was our favourite of the series so far, garnering an 8.7 review and saying that it marked the point at which the show had found its pace.
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Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct This Week, No Switch Info
Nintendo has announced an Animal Crossing-themed Nintendo Direct coming on Wednesday, October 25 (or late on October 24 in the US) - but it will focus exclusively on the upcoming smartphone game, and will not feature 3DS or Switch announcements.
Announced on its Japanese Twitter account , Nintendo says the broadcast will take place at midday in Japan - that makes it October 24 at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern, or October 25 at 4am UK / 2pm AEST.
Nintendo UK has announced a second version for the region, at a slightly more friendly time of 7am on the 25th.
The Untold Story of Xbox One Backwards Compatibility
Quick: name your favorite E3 ever.
Time’s up! Can you even pick one? Hopefully they’re all fun in their own way for gamers, but for 28-year Microsoft veteran Kevin La Chapelle, the answer to the question is both instant and unlikely to ever change: 2015.
That’s the year you heard some of the loudest cheering ever at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 media briefing. And those cheers weren’t for new versions of Halo or Gears of War, or even Project Scorpio. Instead, the Galen Center erupted in applause when Head of Xbox Phil Spencer announced what La Chapelle’s team had spent months working on: backwards compatibility.
Microsoft partner software engineering manager Kevin La Chapelle recounts the early days of the Xbox One backwards compatibility program.
First 13 Original Xbox Games Announced for Xbox One Compatibility
Microsoft has revealed the first 13 backwards-compatible original Xbox games for Xbox One to IGN – several of which we got to play. These first 13 will be available tomorrow, October 24. All are enhanced with 1080p resolution, higher and/or smoother framerates, and faster loading times.
These are the first 13 games you can play on any Xbox One if you own the title, beginning tomorrow:
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
- Fuzion Frenzy
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Psychonauts
- Dead to Rights
4 Xbox 360 Games Getting Xbox One X Enhancements
Microsoft’s Xbox backwards compatibility team is adding Xbox One X-specific enhancements to four high-profile Xbox 360 games that are already playable on Xbox One: Halo 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Assassin’s Creed. All four updates will be available for free to anyone who owns the game on November 7, the same day the Xbox One X launches.
Some titles now have 10-bit color depth unlocked where they previously had 8-bit, others have HDR lighting enabled, and all have nine times the on-screen pixels. I got to see Halo 3 running in a developer mode that clearly showcased the difference. The left half of the screen was standard Xbox 360 emulation on Xbox One, which already offers framerate smoothing and other subtle benefits. On the right it had HDR and the 9x pixel count.
How to Play All of The Evil Within 2 in First-Person on PC
A hidden console command lets players turn The Evil Within 2 into a first-person survival horror.
As reported by DSOGaming, the modification switches the camera from behind the shoulder of Sebastian Castellanos to within his tormented grey matter.
The line of code necessary for the change seems to have been left in the game by developers Tango Gameworks.
Due to the fact that there is a first-person section already in The Evil Within 2, it is unclear whether this is an Easter egg for savvy fans or an experimental tool used by the development team.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Campaign Takes ‘5-7 Hours’ to Complete
Arguably Star Wars: Battlefront 2's biggest change is the addition of a single-player campaign mode, and a producer on the game now says it will take "around 5-7, maybe 8 hours" to finish.
Speaking to Press Start, Motive studio producer David Robillard explained that the team "wanted to stay very driven towards the Star Wars fantasy that the players are going to experience and not have it be drawn out".
IGN recently went hands-on with the game's first three chapters, taking around two hours to do so, which should give some indication of how the mode's missions are divided up.
Walking Dead: How Rick’s Attack Compares to the Comics
The Walking Dead's Season 8 premiere, "Mercy" (which was also the 100th episode of the series), was overflowing with intense action as Rick coordinated a multi-pronged attack on Negan and the Saviors. This plan was also a major part of the comics story arc of "All Out War," some of which we've already seen back in the Season 7 finale and Sasha's transformation. Set-pieces have been shifted around a bit, for the sake of the TV series, but Rick's assault on the Sanctuary remains mostly the same.