Elite: Dangerous Heading to PS4 Early Next Year
Elite: Dangerous is coming to PlayStation 4 in Q2, 2017.
Writing via the PlayStation blog, Founder and CEO of Frontier Developments, David Braben, explains the PS4 release will be the full Elite experience as well as the Horizon series of expansions.
“When Elite Dangerous arrives on PlayStation 4 next year,” says Braben, “we’re bringing the full game with everything in our ‘Horizons’ season of expansions included, so not only can you fly your ship, but you can carry an ‘SRV’ – Surface Recon Vehicle – in your hold, and charge around the surfaces of planets and moons at up to 100mph, finding materials, attacking bases, or seeking out hidden secret things with your friends.”
X-Men’s Apocalypse Prompted The Mummy to Alter Character’s Look
The titular villain in the upcoming The Mummy reboot originally looked identical to X-Men's Apocalypse.
In an interview with CinemaBlend, The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman revealed that, after watching X-Men: Days of Future Past, he had to abandon his initial male version for the Mummy. Now, the monster is Ahmanet, played Star Trek Beyond's Sofia Boutella.
Kurtzman wanted the character to have a skin pigmentation, which would've made him a bullied outcast. That way, the director wanted audiences to more easily sympathize with the Mummy. Apocalypse is given an near-identical background in Days of Future Past.
WW2 Shooter Days of War Hits Early Access in January
Developer Driven Arts has announced today its multiplayer WWII shooter Days of War will be available via Steam Early Access in January, 2017.
Days of War will debut in Early Access with US and German forces, plus four maps, for $24.99 (€24.99, £19.99). One of the maps will be based on Omaha Beach, which Driven Arts explains was highly-requested by community members earlier this year. Infamous for some of the most ferocious fighting of the June 6, 1944 Normandy landings Omaha Beach has been depicted in various games and films, including the much-loved Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Saving Private Ryan. Indeed, Driven Arts has created a cinematic trailer for the map that riffs very heavily on the latter’s memorable opening sequence.
The Last of Us Part 2: Naughty Dog Teased Game 3 Months Ago
We may have gotten our first look at The Last of Us Part 2 last week, but Naughty Dog was holding an tiny piece of evidence of it under our noses for months before that.
As spotted by Reddit user soapaddict97, the design of a poster released for the game's "Outbreak Day" celebration in September bears an uncanny resemblance to lead character Ellie's new tattoo in Part 2:
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Pokemon Go May Add a Popular Feature from Main Games
Dataminers have discovered a host of new features coming to Pokemon Go secreted amongst the codebase of its newest update..
Some pertain to the addition of new Pokemon we expect to be announced next week, while others add features familiar to players of the main game series.
But for fear of spoilers, I'll give you one last chance to turn back from whence you came.
The good people at The Silph Road (who originally discovered the expected addition of Gold/Silver-era Pokemon to the mobile sensation) have looked into the Android v0.49.1 update, and found evidence of several incoming new features:
Bully: Anniversary Edition Now Available on iOS and Android
Bully: Anniversary Edition is now available on Android and iOS devices.
Available for $6.99 (£4.99), the mobile version of Bully comes 10 years after the original version launched on the PlayStation 2, touted as the "best looking and performing version of the game to date" according to Rockstar Games. The Anniversary Edition features the Bully: Scholarship Edition of the game, which included extra content on top of the base game, as well as improved visuals, controls redesigned for touch displays, and a new multiplayer feature called Friend Challenges.
Friend Challenges are classroom mini-games where players compete against one another in tasks including frog dissection, English class word problems, assisting a flying squirrel in vanquishing his foes with acorns, and more.
Nintendo Shows Zelda: Breath of the Wild Running on Switch
In a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Nintendo president Reggie Fils-aime surprised the late night host with a chance to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running on Nintendo Switch.
During the presentation, Fils-aime showed off the hardware’s ability to go from TV to handheld before handing it to Fallon. Skip to around 4:55 of the video above to watch the segment.
This was the first public demo of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running on Nintendo’s new gaming device since it was unveiled in October. The company said it would provide more detail about the system’s features, launch lineup, and more during a special livestream presentation on January 12.
Depp Once Again Tops Most Overpaid Actors List
Johnny Depp has topped Forbes' list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors for the second year in a row.
The actor, who starred in Disney's big summer flop Alice Through the Looking Glass, returned $2.80 for each $1 he was paid, according to Forbes' Top 10 list.
Forbes compiled their list of the 10 most overpaid actors by analyzing the last three major live-action films (released on at least 2,000 screens) prior to June 2016, calculated the operating income of said films and then divided that by the actor's salary for those films to calculate the final return on investment.
Westworld: All the Hints at the Man in Black Reveal
Full spoilers for Westworld continue below. Read on at your own risk.
The Man in Black was always going to be a key player in Westworld, but the Season 1 finale, confirmed he’s actually two key players when we learned definitively William and the Man in Black are the same person. Westworld had been foreshadowing the reveal since the beginning, and the clues were there for those willing to look.
They started in the premiere, though we didn’t know it at the time. The Man in Black has a history with Dolores, and when we meet William in episode 2, he and Dolores have the same meet-cute that the Man in Black had with her in the premiere. That’s when viewers started picking up on the parallels and questioning whether these storylines were actually taking place at the same time.