Oxenfree PS4 Release Date, New Features Announced
Supernatural teen thriller Oxenfree will launch on PlayStation 4 on May 31, Night School co-founder Sean Krankel announced today.
Oxenfree's New Game+ mode—the "director's cut" of the game—will also release on Steam and Xbox. New content, locations, and dialogue options will add alternate endings for Alex and her friends. After making it through the night on Edwards Island, players have the option of starting New Game+ with "fresh dialogue options and a creeping sense of deja vu."
PlayStation 4 users will be able to use their DualShock 4 controller like Oxenfree's "supernaturally charged" in-game radio. Glowing color changes will sync with radio broadcasts, which will be played through the controller's speaker. A PlayStation 4 dynamic theme will also launch alongside the game. It'll be available as a bundle with the game or on its own.
Nintendo CEO: Wii U Could Cease Production By March 2018
Nintendo's CEO, Tatsumi Kimishima has said that production of the Wii U could be halted by March 2018.
According to reports from the BBC and Reuters, Nintendo's latest home console may finish a relatively short run just a year after the Nintendo NX launches in March 2017.
The comments appear to have been made during Nintendo's Q&A session following the release of its financial reports for the past year. That session has not yet been formally translated, but could be available as early as tomorrow.
May’s PlayStation Plus Games Have Been Revealed
Sony has revealed the six free games coming to PlayStation Plus subscribers in May.
Here's the list of titles, all of which you'll be able to grab for free from May 3:
- Tropico 5 - PS4
- Table Top Racing: World Tour - PS4
- Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 - PS3
- LocoRoco Cocoreccho! - PS3
- Switch Galaxy Ultra - PS Vita, PS4
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta - PSP, PS Vita
Table Top Racing: World Tour is a sequel to the Vita original, and launches as a PS Plus game. It's made by one of the co-creators of WipeOut, and draws its aesthetic from the likes of Micro Machines.
No Man’s Sky Creator Talks Burnout/Road Rash Reboot
Before Hello Games founder Sean Murray launched his own independent studio, the programmer behind No Man's Sky worked on the Burnout franchise at Criterion. During his time at the studio, there was talk of rebooting Road Rash in the spirit of the popular car-crashing series, but much to Murray's dismay, it never came to fruition.
"It never happened," Murray said on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, which airs this Friday. "I think there was a studio that was working on it that was using the Burnout engine. And there was this discussion of a Burnout/Road Rash reboot kind of thing that married the two, which I think would have been awesome."
New VREAL Streaming Works With Any VR Device
Newly announced VREAL service promises a new spin on streaming. The platform allows for full, 360-degree virtual reality streaming through VR headsets, as well as through 2D displays, and offers social elements for interaction between streamers and fans.
VREAL promises to put gamers "right next to their favorite streamer," incorporating full freedom to move about the virtual space "from hovering over the game play arena to standing right next to player one."
What The Deadpool 2 Guys Want From Their Cable
The filmmaking team behind Deadpool have been talking about why they want Cable to feature in the forthcoming sequel, and what they are looking for in the actor that will portray him.
Deadpool 2 has just been officially announced, and director Tim Miller says the character will make a great foil for Wade Wilson.
“There’s a lot about Cable’s history that I like because he’s so intertwined with the world of the X-Men” he explained. “Why he was put together with Deadpool – other than that he was in a comic that wasn’t selling well and Deadpool was in a comic that wasn’t selling well so they put them together – it’s the same reason we had Colossus; he’s a straight man. And I think Deadpool needs a straight man. Cable is the ultimate, archetypal, silent, strong and cynical warrior, which Deadpool is not.”
Superhot Xbox One Release Date Revealed
Superhot's release date for Xbox One has been confirmed as May 3.
The time-bending FPS came out for PC earlier this year, and is an Xbox One console exclusive.
Superhot began as a game jam prototype (which you can still play for free), and then went through a successful Kickstarter campaign to become a fully-fledged project.
The core conceit of the game is that time moves only when you move, and one-hit kills work both ways, forcing you think about how to escape a series of seemingly impossibly fatal shootouts.
Leak Names “Xbox One Second Generation”
What appear to be production notes for a revised model of Xbox One have leaked.
Users on NeoGAF and our own translator have said that "Xbox One 二代" translates as "Xbox One Second Generation":
The leaked production notes.
The notes say that this project started in 2014 (which tallies with reports of a possible new slimmer console from the same time), and suggest mass production began in February.
7 Craziest Moments from Marvel’s Civil War Comic
With Captain America: Civil War (loosely) adapting the modern Marvel Comics classic Civil War by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven, we decided to take a look back at just what made this comic such a thrilling superhero blockbuster, one that not only sold insanely well but is regarded as one of the best comic book events ever made.
Warning: Beware of full spoilers from the Civil War comic book!
iPhone Sales Fall For First Time in Thirteen Years
UPDATE: Our original story stated that iPhones sales have fallen for the first time since 2003. This is incorrect, and has now been amended below.
Apple has reported an almost 13 percent drop in quarterly sales -- the first decline in revenue in thirteen years -- and confirmed iPhone sales have fallen for the first time.
In its quarterly sales statement (via The Guardian), Apple also confirmed iPad and Mac sales have also stalled compared with the same period last year -- 12.6m to 10.3m and 4.6m to 4m respectively -- contributing to an overall revenue fall from $58 billion to $50.6 billion.