Doom Developer Asking Fans to Vote for Alternate Cover Art
Doom developer id Software is looking to fans to choose the game's reverse cover ahead of its May 13 release. Here are the options:
id Software has been working on some #DOOM reverse sleeves. Here’s Option A (Poll Incoming) pic.twitter.com/LGZ4Xb4em6
— DOOM (@DOOM) March 3, 2016
Here’s Option B (Poll incoming) #DOOM pic.twitter.com/XyTsq9ENQ1
Pokemon Go GDC Session Canceled
Niantic Labs' Catch 'Em All: 'Pokemon Go' and Real World Gaming session at this year's Game Developer's Conference has been canceled. The presentation was originally set for March 14.
"We have decided to forego our GDC talk on Pokemon Go in order to focus on getting the product ready for beta test and launch," Niantic CEO John Hanke told Game Informer. "As much as we hate to disappoint those in the industry attending GDC, we feel our time and energy right now are best spent on making sure every aspect of the product is where we want it to be."
Those looking forward to the session will have to wait longer for the promised "first hand, in-depth look" at how players will interact and explore "the world with one another through Pokemon Go." According to the GDC schedule, Hanke was scheduled to discuss the company's "unique vision for delivering a mobile Pokemon experience that gets would-be trainers into the outdoors."
Dead Island Definitive Collection Announced
Deep Silver has revealed a remastered edition of the Dead Island series.
Dead Island Definitive Collection launches on May 31 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. It will include "fully remastered" and "greatly improved" versions of Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide, DLC from both games, and a bonus game, Dead Island: Retro Revenge. It should be noted Escape Dead Island is absent from this collection.
Retro Revenge was recently outed in an Australian Classification Board rating. It appears Retro Revenge is a 2D side-scrolling beat ‘em up, based on a screenshot posted on All Games Beta’s Twitter account.
Suicide Squad 2 Slated to Shoot in 2017
The sequel to the upcoming Suicide Squad movie could begin shooting next year.
Will Smith, who plays Deadshot in the film, and director David Ayer are once again teaming up this year to make thriller Bright. Variety reports that "the hope is to get production rolling this year
in order to get both Ayer and Smith ready for a Suicide Squad sequel shoot by 2017."
Suicide Squad is set to release on August 5. All sorts of Suicide Squad collectibles were on display at this year's Toy Fair, and you can check them all out here on IGN.
Paragon ‘Early Access’ Begins This Month
Founder's Packs for Epic Games' upcoming MOBA Paragon will go on sale on March 14, with Early Access starting a few days later on March 18.
Getting a Founder's Pack allows you to play early, and your progress will carry over to the full game. If you would rather wait and not pay, a free Open Beta will be coming this summer.
Founder's Packs will cost $20, and will include the game, skins, boosts, and other cosmetic items that you can unlock by playing. Challenger Packs ($60) and Master Packs ($100) will include even more skins and boosts, as well as a unique skin and a Founder's Pack that you can gift to someone else.
All Heroes are free in Paragon, with cosmetic items on sale for real money. On the PlayStation Blog, Epic says "buying a Founder’s Pack will get you in-game content at a huge discount from normal prices."
No Man’s Sky: The Real Game Begins to Reveal Itself
I’m not sure I’ve ever wanted a game to live up to its potential as much as No Man’s Sky. It has ignited my imagination with the promise of limitless galactic exploration for years now. Could the math that powers this universe also make it interesting? Would trading, space combat, and alien interaction be meaningful?
I’m getting closer to finally having all of those questions answered. See, No Man’s Sky still stubbornly refuses to reveal all of its secrets, even with its June 21 release date now set in stone. But after a new demo from Hello Games mastermind Sean Murray and an all-too-short 30-minute hands-on with a new build, I now have a much better sense of what No Man’s Sky is. And I still haven’t met a game I’d rather see live up to its full potential.
No Man’s Sky Release Date, Collector’s Edition Announced
Hello Games has confirmed that No Man’s Sky will be available on June 21 for $59.99 on PlayStation 4 and PC.
Beyond being available for purchase separately, iam8bit announced today that the PC version of No Man’s Sky will receive a collectible Explorer’s Edition limited to 10,000 copies.
The 100 Will Reveal Some Big Secrets Tonight
The 100 airs a crucial episode, "Thirteen," Thursday night – one that offers a lot of insight into the show’s backstory and mythology.
As The 100’s executive producer and showrunner, Jason Rothenberg, explains, “We tell a flashback to 97 years ago and we see the origin story of the show. We see what happens to the world and why the apocalypse happened.”
Thanks to those flashbacks, there's good deal of outer space-set material in “Thirteen,” and as Rothenberg noted, by the end of it, “We understand the origin of the Ark, which had become a home for our heroes as the series began, three years ago."
Watch the New Ghostbusters Trailer
Sony released the very first trailer for their upcoming Ghostbusters reboot today. Check it out below!
We were among the press and cosplaying Ghostbusters fans invited to an event at Sony Pictures on Wednesday to screen the trailer and then chat with director Paul Feig, screenwriter Katie Dippold, and producer (and original Ghostbusters director) Ivan Reitman about making the film.
The supernatural action-comedy is not tied to the world of the first two movies. This Ghostbusters is set in a world where spooks and specters or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man never terrorized Manhattan.
As Dippold explained, "One other reason to do it this way is today’s scientists don’t believe in the paranormal anymore. And so to say ghosts have existed for the past 30 years, it’s just a new world. In the original it’s so fun when the ghosts are unleashed on the city for the first time. It’s just such a fun thing. You don’t want to skip over it."
Comic Book Reviews for March 2, 2016
The first week of March brought with it a number of great comics. This week Green Lantern became the first New 52 book to hit issue #50, Marvel launched a terrific new Black Widow comic from the team behind Daredevil, BOOM! Studios launched their ongoing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic, and Dynamite gave Vampirella a huge makeover. Scroll down to read our reviews for these and many other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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