Resident Evil 7 Demo Coming to PC, Xbox One This Month
Xbox One and PC owners will soon have a chance to try out Resident Evil 7, as Capcom has announced a demo for both platforms will be available later this month.
According to the publisher's announcement, the demo will launch for Xbox One on December 9. Meanwhile, those on PC will be able to check out the demo starting December 19.
The Xbox One and PC versions will be the fully-updated "Midnight" edition of the Beginning Hour demo that's been available on PS4 in one form or another since E3 this year. The PC version will also the PC version offer an array of new settings and graphics options.
World of Warcraft ‘Vanilla’ Servers Will Reopen Next Week
Nostalrius, the World of Warcraft vanilla private servers, will reopen next weekend on Saturday, December 17.
After being shut down by Blizzard for breaching its terms of service, the Nostalrius servers - which allow players to play World of Warcraft as it was upon its initial release in 2004 - will be making a return, courtesy of The Elysium Project.
Elysium is an initiative that was started to recapture Blizzard's MMO in its original state. Check out the video announcement (spotted by Eurogamer) below:
Stress tests were held to great success this past weekend, pulling in over 10,000 concurrent players. Both the PvP and PvE-dedicated Nostalrius servers will open on December 17 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UK time (or 4am AEDT on December 18).
MechWarrior 5 Coming in 2018
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries has been announced and is slated to release in 2018.
Piranha Games, the studio behind MechWarrior Online, announced that it's developing the project (via RockPaperShotgun), which will be a single-player game will a full campaign mode. No specific platforms were announced.
According to the game's official site, MechWarrior 5 puts players in "the role of a rookie MechWarrior pilot thrust into combat as the Third Succession War continues to fracture the Inner Sphere." Throughout the campaign, players will "take contracts from the factions of
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Amiibo Offer Very Strange Rewards
Nintendo has shown off how its new line of 30th Anniversary Legend of Zelda amiibo will interact with the upcoming Breath of the Wild. It gets pretty weird.
I'm just going to jump straight into it here - using the Ocarina of Time Link will drop a randomly selected amount of meat from the sky. There's no explanation as to how this decision was made, or if there is a deep-lying thematic connection between the era-defining adventure game and hunks of animal flesh. But there you have it - skymeat for all.
Here's a (sadly low-quality) gif of the results of plonking down your anniversary figurine:
Crackdown 3 Aiming for Holiday 2017 “or Earlier” Release Date
At E3 this year, Microsoft announced that Crackdown 3 had been delayed to 2017, and it now seems as though we're looking at a Holiday release.
Spotted by NeoGAF, art director Dave Johnson and executive producer Peter Connelly - appearing on an Extra Life livestream - responded to questions by saying that the game would be released by the festive period next year, "or earlier".
The Last of Us Director Not Returning for Part 2
Bruce Straley, game director on The Last of Us, will not be returning to direct The Last of Us Part 2.
After sources told Kotaku that Straley was on a year-long sabbatical following the completion of Uncharted 4, Sony confirmed the news:
“Bruce recently decided to take some much deserved time off after shipping two critically acclaimed games in the last few years", said a spokesperson. "He’s looking forward to returning to the studio soon and jumping back in on his next project.”
It's not clear whether Straley will serve another role on The Last of Us Part 2, or if that "next project" is something else entirely.
Westworld: Season 2 Will Be ‘Defined by Chaos’
Full spoilers for Westworld's Season 1 finale continue below. Read on at your own risk.
Westworld ended Season 1 on a major turning point, and the creators of the show explained in a segment following the episode on HBO Go how Season 2 will explore the fallout of that.
"If the first season was defined by control, the second season is defined by chaos," said co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan during the episode's "The Big Moment" segment. "That's part of what we come to understand Ford has been planning all along."
The big question remaining after the finale is what Ford's true motives are, and Nolan promises that will be a key focus in Season 2.
How TWD’s Negan and Carl Story Compares to the Comics
Major spoilers for The Walking Dead, both TV show and comics, continue below. Read on at your own risk.
Best laid plans, right? Carl's mission to infiltrate the Sanctuary and kill Negan was cut short almost immediately on The Walking Dead (despite his mowing down a couple Saviors along the way), but it did lead to some unexpected consequences. Instead of killing Carl upon his capture, Negan actually took the young Grimes under his wing for this week's extended episode, "Sing Me a Song," in a way that showed more depth of character in the Saviors' leader than we've seen so far.
Vampire Chronicles Producer on Anne Rice’s TV Hopes
Author Anne Rice recently revealed she has regained the screen rights to her Vampire Chronicles book series, a film adaptation of which had been in development at Universal Pictures with Alex Kurtzman producing. (Rice's Lestat tales Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned were previously brought to the big screen.)
In making the announcement on her Facebook page, Rice said she wishes to see The Vampire Chronicles adapted as a TV series instead to allow for a "Game of Thrones style faithful rendering." I recently had the chance to interview Kurtzman and asked him about Rice's revelation and whether he was still involved.