Battlefield Hardline: Robbery Expansion Announced
At Gamescom 2015, EA revealed the second expansion to this year's Battlefield Hardline. Titled "Robbery," the new DLC revolves around, you guessed it, heists.
EA elabroates, "The theme of this pack is the Big Score: how to steal it, or how to stop it. The new maps and game mode in Battlefield Hardline: Robbery are designed to let criminal teams plan and execute the perfect heist; or, for law enforcement, to get the crooks in cuffs before they can pull it off.
EA highlighted the following features as standouts in Robbery
New 2TB Xbox One Hard Drive Coming This Month
Xbox One and Xbox 360 users will soon have another option to expand their consoles a further 2TB with the official Seagate Game Drive for Xbox, Seagate announced today at Gamescom.
Designed to work with Xbox One and Xbox 360, the drive uses USB 3.0 to plug directly into any USB port in either console for plug-and-play functionality. The Xbox-branded drive also doesn’t need a separate power cord.
The Seagate Game Drive for Xbox will be available later this month for $109.99 USD from retailers such as GameStop, Amazon and more.
Both Microsoft and Sony recently released bigger versions of their stock 500GB home consoles to help address this generation's growing appetite for hard drive space. Microsoft launched a new Xbox One console with a 1TB hard drive in June, while Sony released the 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition the following month.
Star Wars Battlefront’s ‘Fighter Squadron’ Mode Revealed
EA and DICE have announced Fighter Squadron, a new aerial vehicle-only multiplayer mode for Star Wars Battlefront. A new trailer debuted at Gamescom 2015 showed X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter combat above Sullust, in addition to playable A-Wings, TIE Interceptors, the Millennium Falcon, and Boba Fett's iconic Slave I ship.
The premise of Fighter Squadron sees the Rebel Alliance hunting down an escaping Imperial transport shuttle, which the Empire team must protect. Each ship has its own abilities, giving the A-Wing and its homing-missiles a different role than the X-Wing, for example.
This Is the Lexus Hoverboard in Action
Car manufacturer Lexus has lifted the lid on its hoverboard and release footage of the board in action.
The company first claimed it developed a rideable hoverboard in June, but with threadbare details or proof of it working. A few days later, a skatepark Lexus converted for its hoverboard was discovered in Cubelles, Barcelona.
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The board uses superconducting magnetic levitation tech so it must be ridden on a magnetic metal surface to operate properly. Lexus embedded almost 200 meters of magnetic track into the specially constructed skate park to demonstrate the hoverboard.
Final Fantasy 15 Dawn Trailer
During Gamescom 2015, Square released a new trailer for Final Fantasy XV, titled "Dawn."
Its official description reads, "The destiny of the stars is set in motion 15 years before the events of FINAL FANTASY XV. As the shadow of turmoil is cast over the land, there is hope on the horizon as an unbreakable bond is forged between a father and son, and the light of a new dawn rises on a hero."
The emotional trailer begins with the text "Fifteen years ago...Fate would fall to the father and son of Lucis" before cutting to a handful of events that helped shape the world of XV.
A young Luna is shown terrified, as she attempts to escape the clutches of a soldier. We then cut to a security checkpoint in a city patrolled by armed guards, but most importantly, a super cute dog.
The Deadpool Trailer is Here
The full red band trailer for Tim Miller's 2016 Deadpool movie has landed - check it out below! If you're, er, of an "appropriate age".
And, as a bonus, here's the green band trailer, too:
Leave your thoughts on both trailers in the comments below.
Deadpool will be directed by Tim Miller and stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein and Gina Carano. The film is scheduled for a February 12, 2016, release.
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Charlize Theron Isn’t Signed for Any Mad Max Sequels
Imperator Furiosa hasn't signed on for any Mad Max sequels.
Charlize Theron, who played Furiosa, told USA Today that she has not been formally approached to star in Fury Road's sequel, possibly called Mad Max: The Wasteland. However, little is known about the sequel beyond Tom Hardy (Mad Max) being signed for two more films in the series.
“What’s Wasteland? This is all news to me. I have not heard anything like that,” Theron said.
Chicken to Get $2,500 3D Printed Prosthetic Leg
A three month old chicken named Cicely is about to be fitted with a US$2,500 3D printed prosthetic limb, Reuters reports.
Owner Andrea Martin was given a choice to either fit Cicely with a prosthetic limb or euthanase her after she was born lame due to a torn tendon in her right leg.
"It was a no-brainer," Martin told Reuters. "She needs to be able to live a normal life.”
Dr. Emi Knafo will remove Cicely’s right leg his Wednesday and will then run a CT-scan on the left limb to be used for a 3D printed prosthetic. The chicken will be fitted with the prosthetic in two weeks time.
Martin, who runs a Massachusetts-based farm that specializes in chicken rehabilitation, has previously spent US$3,000 on a hysterectomy for a hen.
Unlocked: Xbox Just Killed it at Gamescom
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After Xbox's killer Gamescom, we just couldn't wait until Wednesday to do our next show. So here we are, talking about everything from Gamescom, including Halo Wars 2, Crackdown 3, Scalebound, Quantum Break, Homefront: The Revolution, the Halo 5 Xbox One console, new ID@Xbox games, strange Destiny news, Xbox One TV DVR functionality, and Xbox One's downright ridiculous 2016 lineup!
How Much $$$ Downey Jr. Has Made this Year
For the third year running, Robert Downey, Jr. is the best-paid actor in the world. In 2015, he took in $80 million, most of it in that crazy Marvel money, of course.
Forbes has broken down the full list of the highest-paid stars, which also includes fellow Marvel thesps Bradley Cooper (number four with $41.5 million), Chris Hemsworth (number 15 with $27 million), Chris Evans (number 32 with $13.5 million) and Chris Pratt (number 33 with $13 million). Simple addition tells us that Marvel’s Chris triumvirate made $53.5 million combined this year!