Where Should Fallout 5 Take Place?
Fallout 4 was revealed a few weeks ago on June 3, and it's been non-stop Bethesda since then. The initial trailer confirmed that Boston would be the game's setting, and did a fantastic job of teasing a much larger gameplay reveal at E3 2015. Cut to a few weeks later, and Bethesda blew the doors off of Fallout 4 with a whole mess of story reveals, new gameplay systems (crafting!), and a mobile game that took the IGN office by storm.
Now obviously all eyes are on Fallout 4 leading up to its November 10th release, but our good friends at ThinkGeek wanted to get ahead of the curve. They polled over 800 people on where they wanted the next-next Fallout game to take place. They also wanted to see which platforms gamers were stoked to play the upcoming game on. Take a look:
Rumor: Tomb Raider Reboot Seeks Female Director
A new rumor suggests that Warner Bros. and MGM are seeking a female director for their upcoming reboot of Tomb Raider.
According to Heroic Hollywood's sources, screenwriter Evan Daughtry's (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) script for the Tomb Raider reboot is now complete, and the studios want to fast-track production on the film with a female director along the lines of Breaking Bad helmer Michelle MacLaren.
"Well the script is out to directors and here is the kicker, they're looking for a female director, a Michelle Maclaren type," notes the site. "The reboot is on a fast track, and there is strong progress to production language in the rights deal with Square Enix, the video game company behind the game."
Star Wars Battlefront Leads Game Critics Awards Best of E3 Nominees
This year's Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 nominees have been announced. IGN's Game of the Show, Star Wars Battlefront, leads the way with five nominations, followed by Fallout 4 and Horizon: Zero Dawn with four each.
2015's Best of Show nominees are Fallout 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Oculus Touch, Star Wars Battlefront, and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment lead all publishers this year with eleven nominations. Bethesda earned seven nominations, while Microsoft Studios and Nintendo each have six.
New Power Rangers Comic Series Coming
BOOM! Studios and Saban Entertainment have announced their partnership to launch a Power Rangers comic series, based on the original incarnation of the franchise, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The series will debut at San Diego Comic-Con in July as a set of six exclusive, one-page comics, which are designed as a series of one-shots focused on a different Power Ranger.
Written by Mairghread Scott (Transformers: Windblade) and drawn by Daniel Bayliss (Translucid), the one-shots work as standalone stories that can also be “stitched together to form one full story.” Each comic also features a pin-up on the backside by artist Goñi Montes (RoboCop).
Marvel published Mighty Morphin Power Rangers back in the day.
Dark Souls Mod Will Let You Control the Bosses
An upcoming Dark Souls mod from DaTeHaCKs will let you take control of the game's bosses. It's called the Dark Souls Boss Arena Mod and it's slated for a September 16th, 2015 release date.
The trailer features the player controlling Manus, the Asylum Demon, Ornstein, Smough, Quelaag, and Kalameet, but according to the developers, you'll be able to play as all of the bosses from the game and every enemy character as well.
You can also set custom "Arena Mode" battles, which I can only hope means I can somehow bring the Bed of Chaos onto the Moonlight Butterfly bridge. Or pit the Gaping Dragon against Kalameet. Or use Sif to stomp the Capra Demon's stupid dogs. The possibilities...
Relaunched Amazing Spider-Man Goes High-Tech
Marvel is relaunching The Amazing Spider-Man comic series under their All-New All-Different banner, giving the wall-crawler a high-tech redesign from legendary artist Alex Ross and a whole new Iron Man-influenced status quo under the pen of writer Dan Slott and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli.
Speaking to MTV about Spider-Man’s new responsibilities as head of Parker Industries, Slott said, “Peter Parker has stepped up. He’s grown. He’s become the Peter Parker we’ve always hoped he was going to be. …This company, with Peter’s inventions and Peter’s gumption has gone to new heights.”
All-New All-Different Amazing Spider-Man #1 cover by Alex Ross
Garden Warfare Headlines This Week’s Deals with Gold
Microsoft has revealed this week's Deals with Gold, which include Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Mirror's Edge, and many more.
Garden Warfare is 50% off this week for Xbox Live Gold subscribers on Xbox One, and 67% off for subscribers on Xbox 360. Peggle 2 Magical Masters Edition, Thomas Was Alone, and Tower of Guns are also discounted this week on Xbox One by 67%, 50%, and 40%, respectively.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 was recently announced during E3. The sequel is expected to be released in early 2016.
Meanwhile, several EA-published games, including Burnout Paradise, Crysis 2, Mirror's Edge, Skate 3, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, are 75-80% off on Xbox 360. For the full list of discounted games, head over to Major Nelson's blog.
Rick Remender Departs Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics writer Rick Remender announced he will be "taking a break" from working with the company to focus on his family and creator-owned work.
"Marvel enabled me to provide for my family as it grew, as my two children appeared into the world, and for that I am indebted and eternally grateful," Remender wrote in a blogpost (via Comic Book Resources). "They offered me their biggest flagship titles, they paid me well, and allowed me to sleep knowing my family could afford a doctor visit should one be needed, and this was not the case for most of my adult life."
Shovel Knight Is Getting a Physical Version
Yacht Club Games has announced that Shovel Knight is coming to retail in October.
Along with the base game, the Shovel Knight physical package includes the Plague of Shadows content update and challenge mode. Plus, picking up the disc version of the 8-bit action game means you also receive all of the free, future updates, like Specter Knight's campaign.
Yacht Club Games, who is publishing the title with help from U&I Entertainment, is also promising a lavish instruction booklet with Shovel Knight. "No two-page inserts here! You deserve a full manual, to hold in your hot little shaking hands and pore over as you wait to get home," Yacht Club said on its website.
New Details on Assassin’s Creed Creator’s Next Project
Patrice Desilets, the visionary behind the Assassin's Creed franchise, has shared a few new details on his next project, which is currently in development at his new studio, Panache Digital Games.
Dubbed Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, this third-person action game aims to chronicle the events of humanity, starting with the dawn of man up through its rule of the planet. Speaking to Kotaku, Desiltes described it as "Civilization tech tree meets Assassin’s Creed."