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Begun, The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pre-orders Have
Amazon has kicked pre-orders for The Force Awakens on Blu-ray. There's no release date yet, but they're $20, which actually less than I would've guessed for the biggest movie of the year.
$30 off PlayStation 4 Bundle with Star Wars and Call of Duty
Figma Virtua Fighter Figures Are a Polygonal Dream
Virtua Fighter’s Akira Yuki and Sarah Bryant are being released as figures based on their low polygon count early days.
Toyark, via SST_V on Twitter, revealed images featuring fully painted Figma figures manufactured by Max Factory. They appear to be poseable as the images show Akira and Sarah in win poses from the series.
Image via SST_V
Here’s What’s Leaving Netflix in February
Mark your calendars because it's almost time for Netflix's monthly purge of movies and shows. In February, we're losing '80s classics like The Terminator, The Naked Gun, Fletch, and Terms of Endearment. Plus, Bad Santa, Big Fish, The Firm, and - if you're on a recent Alan Rickman kick - Bottle Shock.
Here's the full list...
Leaving 2/1/16
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
Asylum (2005)
Street Fighter 5 Final Beta Date Revealed
Capcom has confirmed there will be one final beta test for Street Fighter V.
According to Capcom-Unity, the last beta before the game releases next month will begin on January 30 at 12:01am PT and will end on January 31 at 7pm PT.
Capcom did not reveal which version of the game will be playable in the final beta, so it is unclear if players will be able to try FANG for the first time since his introduction at PlayStation Experience. You must have pre-ordered the game in order to have access to the beta.
Platinum’s New TMNT Game Officially Revealed
Update 2: Ahead of tomorrow's scheduled reveal, Activision and PlatinumGames have pulled back the curtain on the announcement trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan.
The countdown timer that appeared on the game's official site earlier today has been replaced by the video. While the timer wasn't supposed to end until tomorrow morning, it appears the trailer's premature release was all part the studio's "official leak" announcement plan.
TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan releases for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PS3 and PC this summer.
Update: PlatinumGames has launched a teaser site for its upcoming TMNT game ahead of tomorrow's reveal.
Story Details and Earning Characters In Street Fighter 5
Street Fighter 5 is going to have the most substantial story mode in the series history, Capcom revealed in a phone interview with IGN.
When it comes out on February 16, Street Fighter 5 will initially feature the kind of standard arcade story mode you've likely experienced before: you'll go through a series of arcade battles with a small amount of backstory for each character. However, that's just going to be the tip of the iceberg. This June, a free update will be released with over an hour's worth of cutscenes, detailing a much larger narrative. Watch the trailer above for an idea of what this will look like.
Capcom also shed a little light on how they'll be handling the earning of in-game currency, called Fight Money, for purchasing DLC characters down the line. Offline activities such as completing arcade or survival modes with different characters, as well as ranking them up individually will earn you Fight Money. Going through most of the offline content will net you enough to buy one new character, the first of which will show up in March. At that time, daily missions will be introduced to earn a steady stream of Fight Money going forward.
Her Story 2 Teased by Developer
Sam Barlow, developer of Her Story, has teased the existence of a follow-up on Twitter.
Barlow Tweeted out that "HS2 has a 1-pager. Neat." He even included an image, but everything except the title is blurred out.
HS2 has a 1-pager. Neat. pic.twitter.com/SsVjfETEmf
— Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow) January 25, 2016
The developer has also been answering a few questions from fans. The sequel will have "no relation story-wise to Her Story," and in response to a question asking whether there would be live acting again, he said "I think it'd be rude not to."
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Coming West
The remastered version World War II-inspired tactical RPG Valkyria Chronicles is coming to PS4 in the west this spring.
The remake, titled Valkyria Chronicles Remastered, will update the graphics and framerate from the PS3 version of the game, with the remaster running at 1080p/60fps.
In addition to updated graphics, the game will also include all of the DLC: Hard EX Mode, Edy's Mission, Selvaria's Mission, and Challenge of the Edy Detachment. Valkyria Chronicles Remastered will release in both digital and physical forms, and a special Squad 7 Armored Case will be available for those who pre-order, as well as a "limited number of launch edition retail copies."
Back in November, Valkyria Chronicles Remastered and Valkyria: Azure Revolution were announced for an upcoming release in Japan, with Chronicles Remastered scheduled for a February 10 release.
Ant-Man Writer Open to Standalone Wasp Movie
Writer-director Adam McKay has been talking about his work with Marvel, saying that writing the first Ant-Man was a blast and stating that he’d be interested in Wasp getting a standalone movie.
However, while he’s game for writing forthcoming sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, McKay revealed that he hasn’t yet been asked.
“I don’t know what my involvement’s going to be yet” he explained. “I’ve been talking to Peyton Reed and to
Rudd, but you know Marvel has a process that they do so they may have other writers working on a script – the only thing I tell ‘em is ‘If you need me, I’m here.’ I love working on those – it’s really fun. It was also very fun just writing. And fortunately we had a great director in Peyton Reed so we wrote all this crazy stuff and then he did it really well. I was like ‘I could get used to this!’ It’s certainly a lot easier – I just showed up at the premiere and was like ‘Good job!’”