Halo 5’s Warzone Firefight Update Detailed

Ahead of the Halo 5: Guardians' Warzone Firefight update, 343 Industries is giving fans a peek into what's to come with the free DLC.

As mentioned previously, it's the biggest update for Halo 5 yet, and 343 is "packing in as much as

can fit." Players can expect the Warzone Firefight PvE mode on a bunch of maps, the Warzone Boss Refresh, a new Forge canvas alongside additional Forge updates, Campaign Score Attack, new achievements, and plenty of new vehicles, armors, and weapons.

via 343 Industries

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Blizzard Shares New Details on Overwatch’s Competitive Mode

Blizzard Entertainment is expected to launch Overwatch's competitive mode at the end of the month, but the feature doesn't have an exact release date just yet.

How will competitive mode be different than it was in the beta, you ask? Good question—and one Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has the answer for. In a Developer Update video posted to YouTube, Kaplan went into detail.

Players thought competitive play wasn't competitive enough, Kaplan said. To account for this, Blizzard removed the tier-based progression system from Overwatch's competitive mode. Instead, it'll "directly correlate" a player's matchmaking rating to a player's skill rating. Now, players will be able to see skill ratings for themselves, as well as for others. The team's average skill rating will also be displayed.

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Dishonored 2, No Man’s Sky Included in Into the Pixel Art Exhibit

The official selections for the 2016 Into the Pixel art collection were on display at E3 2016.

The exhibit "honors video game artists who continue to push the interactive entertainment art form forward," and is a joint effort between the Entertainment Software Association and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

AIAS president Martin Rae said the exhibit is welcome respite from the "the craziness of the conference" for many convention goers.

The 2015 Into the Pixel winners were on display at DICE 2016, and featured selections from games like Destiny, Overwatch, and Assassin's Creed. Details on Into the Pixel can be found on its website, including past winners.

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Orange is the New Black: Season 4 Spoiler Discussion

Welcome to the full-spoiler discussion page for Season 4 of Netflix's Orange is the New Black. This is for those who've watched all 13 episodes of the fourth season and want to read my thoughts about plot specifics or comment down below about the finale or any other spoiler-ific aspect of the show. For my overall, non-spoilery thoughts, click here to read the Orange is the New Black: Season 4 review.

I feel like I should have seen tragedy coming Poussey's way since her love story with Soso this season seemed to spell out doom. It's just the way TV works. We know this. Likewise, I suppose, something awful could have happened to Soso. I think I just didn't see Poussey's enormously sad death coming because she seemed to dodge a bullet back in Season 2 with the Big Vee storyline. But, because this show plays things against the grain, she didn't fall when it was expected. She fell when, essentially, the rug could get painfully pulled out from under us.

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No Man’s Sky Developer Settles Lawsuit With Sky TV

After a legal dispute with Sky TV, No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has secured the rights to include the word 'Sky' in the title of its ambitious space exploration game.

Studio founder Sean Murray shared the news in a post on Twitter, saying, "Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word 'Sky'). We can call our game No Man's Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over."

In a subsequent post, Murray noted the dispute was with "the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive... so it was pretty serious." Back in 2013, the British Sky Broadcasting Group entered in a trademark dispute with Microsoft, forcing the company to rebrand its cloud storage service.

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The Saint Reboot Moving Forward at Paramount

The Saint is getting a film reboot, as Paramount has secured the book series rights with the intention of launching another action-packed movie franchise.

According to Deadline, producing deals are nearing completion, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brad Krevoy and Robert Evans likely to spearhead the project.

kilmer Val Kilmer in the original 1997 film.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Posters

20th Century Fox has released an assortment of character posters for Tim Burton’s upcoming film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Check out the gallery below to see Eva Green's Miss Peregrine, Asa Butterfield as Jake, Samuel L. Jackson's Barron and many more.

Images courtesy of the movie's official Twitter account.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is directed by Tim Burton and opens in theaters on September 30, 2016. The film is based on Ransom Riggs' best-selling novel of the same name and tells the story of sixteen-year-old boy named Jacob (Butterfield) who discovers the remnants of a unusual home after traveling to a mysterious island.

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 Still Happening, Ubisoft CEO Says

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed during a Youtube Live interview at E3.

"It's still on the way," Guillemot said. "It's something at one point you will see, yes." However, it sounds like the Beyond Good & Evil sequel will take a while.

"Michel

is working on it, but he's doing two games at the same time, he's doing Wild at the same time. It's coming along, but he has to spend more time on it so we can see it faster," he added.

In April, Ubisoft filed a new trademark for the franchise, sparking rumors a new game was on the way. The filing came a month after it was reported Nintendo could fund the Beyond Good & Evil sequel for an exclusive release on Nintendo NX. Neither Nintendo nor Ubisoft confirmed these rumors.

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The Legend of Zelda E3 Demo Contains Coded Messages

It looks like Nintendo embedded secret messages into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild footage from E3.

Zelda fans have already created a translation key for the written language seen throughout Breath of the Wild. They haven't figured out every letter just yet—but they're well on their way.

Image via the Zelda wiki

NeoGAF user RagnarokX mentioned it all began when Nintendo released a teaser image with Hylian text. Another GAFer "noticed a pattern," and figured out the text read THELEGENDOFZELDA. It was enough letters to begin translating the Hylian found in Breadth of the Wild's E3 footage.

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