Tunisian Mobile Game Gives Away Real Cow as a Prize
The International? More like The Unfashionable. Curiosity? The only thing we're curious about anymore is how best to take a huge chisel to our brains to forget all about it. The greatest ever prize for playing video games has been revealed, and it is a cow called Pamela.
As reported by the BBC, Tunisian developer Digital Mania gave its players an incentive to master its game, Bagra in the form of a real-life bovine.
Halo 5 Forge Map Allows for Pokemon Battles
A fan-made Halo 5: Guardians map evokes memories of Nintendo's Pokemon Stadium.
Poke'Battle, created by Forge creator Captaindirewolf, lets players choose one of three Pokemon—Venusaur, over at the green terminal; Charizard, at the red terminal; or Blastoise, from the blue terminal—and "battle" rock-paper-scissors style in a scenic stadium.
The winner is chosen via element advantage, so Venusaur beats Blastoise, Charizard beats Venusaur, and Blastoise beats Charizard. A sniper rifle becomes available for the winner to kill their opponent.
Players can only battle with the three main Pokemon, but others—like Pikachu, Magikarp, and Snorlax—are scattered around the map.
Star Wars: Episode 7 Opening Once Included Severed Hand
The opening sequence of Star Wars: The Force Awakens originally featured a severed hand, Mark Hamill confirmed.
Back in 2014, an unofficial outline of Episode 7 leaked—and according to those rumors, a severed hand gripping a lightsaber would float through space following the opening Star Wars crawl.
Speaking with The Sun, and as reported by Birth.Movies.Death., Hamill said in the original version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens "the first thing that came into frame was a hand with a lightsaber."
"A severed hand that enters the atmosphere, and then the hand and bone burn away and goes sticking into the surface of Jakku," the actor said, "and this alien comes in, don't know if it was Maz but it was an alien hand who takes the lightsaber away, and then the movie proceeds as you see it."
Official Mod Support Announced for Total War: Warhammer
Creative Assembly has announced Steam Workshop support will be available from day one for Total War: Warhammer.
The Assembly Kit will also be released along with the Database Editor so you'll be able to create your own mods. Creative Assembly previously announced the game would not be supporting mods, however the developer has caved to fan-demands and made it a reality.
Mods will be available when the game launches, as anyone who has attended one of the company's Mod Summits in the last three years will be given early access to the game and mod tools. Creative Assembly is currently working with well-known modders Magnar and Dresden in order to create custom Legendary Lord start positions and alter settlement rules allowing each race to settle in every region.
Persona 5 Japanese Release Date Announced
Atlus announced today that Persona 5 will launch in Japan on September 15 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
A new trailer confirmed the date, in addition to revealing new party members and gameplay. You can check it out below:
A date still hasn’t been confirmed for the West, though last we heard from Atlus Persona 5 is still expected to be released in 2016.
A 20th anniversary-themed Collector's Edition was also announced for Persona 5 in Japan, including an art book, a soundtrack with songs from previous Persona games, and series-inspired DLC, including outfits from Persona 3 and 4. The set will be available for 13,800 yen (roughly $128USD). A Western version of the Collector’s Edition has not been confirmed.
Comic Book Reviews for May 4, 2016
This week was one of endings and beginning for the comic book world. DC began wrapping up some long-running New 52 titles like Green Arrow and Green Lantern while also continuing the "Final Days of Superman" storyline. Marvel, meanwhile, kicked off several new series, including The Punisher and Thunderbolts. Elsewhere, Hellboy in Hell reached its penultimate issue, Image debuted Kaare Andrews' Renato Jones: The One Percent and Valiant unleashed the first chapter of their latest event comic, 4001 AD.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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Nintendo Announces Zelda-centric E3 Plans
E3 for Nintendo this year will revolve around The Legend of Zelda.
At 9 am PT on June 14, Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime will be kicking off a day-long stream of Nintendo Treehouse: Live. It will feature gameplay from The Legend of Zelda with special commentaries from Nintendo developers, as well as behind-the-scenes information.
This Treehouse will effectively be replacing Nintendo's normal E3 Direct stream.
The next game in the Zelda franchise will be playable at the show for the first time ever, and will in fact be the only playable game at Nintendo's booth. Nintendo hopes that by giving fans extended time with it, they'll gain a deeper understanding of what the game will be.
Watch a Dark Souls 3 Player Kill a Horrible Boss in One Hit
If you don't want Dark Souls 3 bosses, high-level items or abilities spoiled, I suggest you turn back now.
In one of the more impressive testaments to just how flexible Dark Souls can be when it comes to equipment and abilities, footage has emerged of a player downing Pontiff Sulyvahn - one of the game's tougher bosses - in a single move.
YouTuber neptunusequester achieved the feat through a cocktail of equipment, weapon and spell buffs, even intentionally getting hit for high damage (that's not a mistake at the start of the video) to gain a stat boost. The result was a parry and riposte that more than tripled the usual damage dealt.
The Division 1.2 Update Doesn’t Have a Date So It Can Be “Rock-Solid”
Ubisoft Massive has addressed the multiple problems that faced The Division's 1.1 update, and laid out how it plans to make the upcoming 1.2 patch "rock-solid" as a result.
In yesterday's State of the Game livestream, community developer Yannick Banchereau said that 1.1's troubled release was down to the studio's pre-release checks: "There was testing," he explained, "but obviously the process was not good enough because there are some bugs that made it through that shouldn't have."
Those bugs have included Daily Challenges not updating, multiple exploits and a big that removed some players' characters from Xbox One versions of the game. Most have now been addressed, and Ubisoft has given in-game compensation to affected players.
XCOM 2 DLC to Beef Up Aliens
Firaxis has announced that the second XCOM 2 DLC pack, Alien Hunters, will be available starting May 12 for $9.99. This DLC is included in the season pass.
With Alien Hunters installed, once you complete a new story mission you'll see beefed-up "Ruler" versions of the Viper, Berserker, Archon appear at random in future missions. If they're not killed quickly, they can retreat from the mission and reappear in future missions.
Alien Hunters will also introduce four new one-of-a-kind weapons:
- Bolt Caster - a high-damage, single-shot weapon.
- Hunter's Axe - a powerful melee weapon that can also be thrown.
- ShadowKeeper Pistol - killing an enemy with its guaranteed-hit Shadowfall shot puts the user in concealment.