Call of Duty 2016 Will Be Set in the Far Future, Say Rumours
Rumours say that this year's installment of Call of Duty, developed by Infinity Ward, will be "full on sci-fi" with space combat - and will not be a sequel to the same developer's Call of Duty: Ghosts.
On NeoGAF, proven industry insider, shinobi602 has said that the new game's future setting "makes Black Ops 3 feel like the stone age". When asked if he meant the game would be in the style of Battlefield 2142, he simply replied: "Very far future. Space Combat. Full on sci-fi."
Five Years After Release, Two Worlds 2 Is Getting Story DLC
November 9, 2010 saw the release of action-RPG, Two Worlds II. 5 years, 4 months and 17 days later, developer Reality Pump Studios announced two new pieces of story DLC, set arrive this year.
Announced via the DLC's new website, Reality Pump announced Call of the Tenebrae and Shattered Embrace, two story updates that will come alongside eight new multiplayer maps.
The game will also add an engine update that will allow for "a much higher level of character and landscape detail, an HD-GUI, in addition to tons of in-game achievements, co-op multiplayer, and lots of new in-game features and upgrades.
The first single-player update, Call of the Tenebrae will release in Q2 of 2016, and involves the game's original Hero fighting off a new enemy race, rat-like humanoids called The Chosen.
Blizzard to Change Overwatch Pose Following Fan Complaints
Blizzard is removing a victory pose for Overwatch character Tracer following fan complaints.
"What about this pose has anything to do with the character you're building in Tracer?" asked fan Fipps in a recent post on Battle.net (via Eurogamer). "It's not fun, it
s not silly, it has nothing to do with being a fast elite killer. It just reduces Tracer to another bland female sex symbol."
"We aren't looking at a widowmaker pose here, this isn't a character who is in part defined by flaunting her sexuality. This pose says to the player base, oh we've got all these cool diverse characters, but at any moment we are willing to reduce them to sex symbols to help boost our investment game."
The Pokémon Go Japanese Field Test Has Begun
The field test for mobile AR game, Pokémon Go has now started in Japan.
According to a roughly-translated Google Plus update from developer, Niantic Labs, potential users will be invited by email, with more invites sent over the course of the coming days.
Earlier this month, Niantic said that once the field test was live in Japan, it "will expand to other countries in the weeks to come."
Pokémon Go is a mobile AR game that has players travelling to real-life locations to capture Pokémon revealed on their phone. The field test is a beta period, prior to the game's full release on an unspecified date later this year,
Domain Names Registered for Just Cause Go, Life is Strange Go and More
Domain names have been registered for Just Cause Go, Life is Strange Go, Deus Ex Go, Thief GO and Tomb Raider Go.
Spotted by NeoGAF user, ekim, the registrations were made using CSC Domain Tools, which Square has used on many of its previous projects.
With this breadth of franchises, it's likely that at least some of these registrations are simply for brand protection, but given the success of the Go spin-off series they could provide clues as to what might come next.
GO is a mobile-centric puzzle series that so far has used Square's Hitman and Lara Croft franchises as its base. In our review, we said that Lara Croft Go possessed "all the heart and spirit of classic Tomb Raider in a miniature puzzle game package." It was IGN's Mobile Game of the Year 2015.
Supergirl Producers Talk Flash Crossover and Myriad
CBS and executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg invited IGN and a small group of reporters to an early screening of the highly anticipated Supergirl/Flash crossover. Now, we can share all the juicy details from the Q&A that followed and tease what's coming next for both DC superheroes...
Full spoilers for "Worlds Finest" continue below.
The new dynamic duo.
Ubisoft Starts a New Studio
Ubisoft announced it will open a new studio in the Philippines. The new branch will focus on collaboration and development of its upcoming AAA console games.
The new studio, Ubisoft Philippines, will be the second production house for the company located in Southeast Asia. Ubisoft Singapore was the company’s first studio in that region when it opened in 2008. The Philippines-based studio will open in the second quarter of 2016, with a goal to hire up to 50 employees in its first year.
Ubisoft has big plans for its studios in Southeast Asia. Speaking to IGN, the company pointed out that its Singapore team started small team and grew to over 300 employees as of 2015. The Singapore-based team has also made major contributions to the Assassin’s Creed series, most notably pioneering the naval gameplay of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Ubisoft Singapore is currently the lead studio on an unannounced project for console and PC.
Out This Week: Oculus Rift, MLB The Show 16, Hyper Light Drifter
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Snyder’s Superman is Not the Hero we Deserve
Recently, I was made aware of a crowdfunding campaign for Rikki, a 23-year-old woman whose sudden development of aggressive encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain) has left her in desperate need of cognitive rehabilitation therapy. Distressed by the lack of support from the Australian healthcare system, Rikki’s mother Lisa posted an article about it on a national website, and within days the campaign was almost halfway to its goal.
What was particularly moving about this campaign was not just the generosity of donations, but the messages left behind by people - a lot of whom are strangers to the family - with offers of support. “If you would like some moral support please contact me. We have survived 20 years of system neglect and have a life worth living,” reads one. “You're not alone, and people care, Lisa. Keep fighting for your baby” reads another.
Humans May Have Encountered Real-Life Unicorns
Our ancestors might have walked with unicorns, according to a recent fossil find.
The "Siberian unicorn," or Elasmotherium sibiricum, was not itself a new find. Though scientists previously thought the animal only walked the Earth as recently as 350,000 years ago.
A Siberian unicorn's skull. (Photo: Ghedoghedo/Wikipedia)
The fossilized skull on which the new estimate is based was located in the Pavlodar Priirtysh region of Kazakhstan. The Mother Nature Network reports that researchers at the Tomsk State University in Siberia now suspect the unicorn survived for as up until at least 29,000 years ago.