Steam Breaks Huge Record for Concurrent Players
Steam broke a record for concurrent players this weekend with exactly 14,370,167 users.
The record was set around 1pm on January 8, according to Steam's stats page. Dota 2 is the most played game on the platform with 849,970 peak concurrent players today, followed by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (661,144), Grand Theft Auto V (109,138), Team Fortress 2 (73,690), and ARK: Survival Evolved (74,413).
The figure broke a record of 12.3 million, which was set at this time last year on January 3, 2016. At that time, the top played games were Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V, and Football Manager 2016. Steam hit the milestone of 10 million concurrent users on June 14, 2015.
Mass Effect: Andromeda Won’t Have a Season Pass
Mass Effect: Andromeda will buck the AAA trend by not including a DLC season pass.
Bioware general manager and confirmed enjoyer of the letter Y in his name, Aaryn Flynn was was asked whether the new game would adopt the sometimes controversial DLC pre-order model on Twitter. His response was to-the-point:
@coldboy33 @masseffect Nope
— Aaryn Flynn (@AarynFlynn) January 7, 2017
It's not a huge surprise - the Mass Effect series has never previously used season passes. It's not clear if this means future DLC will be free, paid for individually or use a different model.
There Was Going to Be a Halo Mega Bloks Game
Back in 2013, now-defunct video game developer N-Space was working on a Mega Bloks game set in the Halo universe.
According to a recent video from PtoPOnline (thanks Polygon), the game, codenamed "Haggar" would've been a third-person action game for the Xbox 360 along the same lines as the popular LEGO games.
Footage from a leaked build of "Haggar" shows lengthy levels in which you're fighting enemies using familiar weapons, building structures, driving in vehicle sections, and solving simple platforming puzzles. A co-op mode was also in development, along with "Besiege Mode," where players would build up their base to defend it from waves on enemies.
Unsheathe the Master Sword to Open This Zelda Art Book
The upcoming hardcover artbook The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts will have a limited edition version featuring a life-size Master Sword on the cover that you can unsheathe.
The book is a followup to last year’s Hyrule Historia, a collaboration between Nintendo and Dark Horse that chronicles the history of the land that Link has to save over and over again throughout time.
The book comes with a plastic slipcase with the Master Sword scabbard on it. Pull it off to reveal the 3D embossed Master Sword on the book’s cover.
Check it out in the video below:
The standard edition cover is red with regular paper stock, whereas the limited edition is purple with a design of the Lost Woods and gilded pages. The inside content is identical in both books, which features over 400 pages of artwork from every Zelda game, exclusive interviews with the artists, and pixel art from the early games. There’s also a few pages of artwork from the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Huge Unused Areas Found in Final Fantasy 15
A host of unused areas in Final Fantasy XV have been found via an out of bounds glitch.
YouTuber Fotm Hero, per Siliconera, spent over an hour exploring the unmapped plains. There's a quick roadmap of when the different areas pop up just below the video:
- 0:00: Cartanica
- 12:33 : 3 kilometers before Cartanica station
- 16:34 : 5 kilometers before Cartanica station
- 24:32 : Eusciello
- 39:30 : Where one of the boyband falls from the train
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Hidden Message Hidden in Nintendo Famicom Mini’s Code
Nintendo Famicom Mini owners have unearthed a secret message hidden deep within its code.
Via Siliconera, the code reads as so:
“This is hanafuda captain speaking. Launching emulation in 3..2..1. Many efforts, tears and countless hours have been put into this jewel. So, please keep this place tidied up and don't break everything!
“Cheers, the hanafuda captain.”
That "don't break everything" message could be seen as a message to potential hackers looking to alter the emulation machine's base code - unfortunately for the hanafuda captain, Ars Technica today reports that the NES Mini has indeed been hacked.
Watch the New Beauty and the Beast TV Spot
A new TV spot for Disney's Beauty and the Beast debuted during the broadcast of the 2017 Golden Globes.
The new teaser offers more of a taste of Emma Watson singing as Belle, as well as how the film recreated iconic scenes from the animated movie. Watch the video below:
Meanwhile, the official Beauty and the Beast Twitter account shared a gorgeous new poster for the upcoming live action film. See the full poster below.
Justice League Movie: New Team Photo Released
Warner Bros. has released a new team photo for its upcoming Justice League flick.
The photo, which features Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Ezra Miller as The Flash and Jason Momoa as Aquaman was originally posted in USA Today's 2017 movie preview (as spotted by Batman News). Check it out, in all its gritty Zack Snyder-esque glory, below.
via USA Today
Golden Globes: All the TV and Movie Winners Revealed
The full winners for the 74th Golden Globe Awards have been revealed, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association certainly had a handful of surprises.
From The Crown sweeping in the TV drama category to Donald Glover's Atlanta getting significant recognition, to La La Land making history as the movie that's won the most Golden Globes to a twist winner for Best Drama Film, here is the full of Golden Globes winners.
Winners are marked in red.
- The Crown - WINNER
- Game of Thrones
- Stranger Things
- This Is Us