Street Fighter 5 on Xbox One Is Not Going to Happen
If you want to play Street Fighter V, you have two options and one of them isn’t Xbox One.
A Capcom representative definitively confirmed to GameSpot in an interview that Street Fighter V will only release on PC and PlayStation 4.
“One comment we see a lot is that something like a Super Street Fighter 5 is going to come out on Xbox,” the representative said, adding that the partnership between Capcom and Sony is “real” and that Street Fighter V is console exclusive to PS4 for the game’s run, meaning no future ports to another console.
Driveclub for PS+ In ‘Final Stages of Development’
Driveclub game director Paul Rustchynsky has confirmed via Twitter that Driveclub’s long-awaited PS+ Edition is nearing completion.
Pressed for information regarding when PS+ members could expect to be able to play the free version of Driveclub, Rustchynsky replied, “We’re in the final stages of development now.”
@undeadrocker666 We're in the final stages of development now.
— Paul Rustchynsky (@Rushy33) June 10, 2015
All the Characters in Suicide Squad
Director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad is currently shooting in and around Toronto for an August 5, 2016, release. That much is obvious to even the casual observer of comic-book movie news, with a virtual flood of fan photos and videos hitting social media in recent weeks from the exterior locations of the film.
All the Mutants in X-Men: Apocalypse
But despite all those images, we don’t know a heck of a lot about the movie aside from the fact that it will be the third DC Cinematic Universe film (after Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) and that it will star an ensemble cast led by Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jared Leto as a group of criminals turned anti-heroes. Really, many of the characters featured on the Squad and in the film aren’t all that well known to even semi-serious comics fans.
GRRM Confirms He’s Working on 3 New TV Show Concepts
Game of Thrones may not be the last George R.R. Martin-created property you'll ever see on television.
In a recent blog post, Martin confirmed he's busy working on a number of different projects, including the new book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, three "short low-budget films" he hopes to produce, and three new series concepts for HBO and Cinemax.
He offered no further details about what these concepts are about or based on, although it's likely one of them is the Captain Cosmos project he was recently reported to be working on.
The Best Xbox One External Hard Drives
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Nowadays, the Xbox One comes stock with respectable storage capacity up to to 2TB. Still, it's not THAT hard to fill up the space. Thankfully, there has always been the option to use external storage solutions, so rather than crack open the case and swap out the HDD inside, just plug it in.
The Witcher 3 Was May’s Best-Selling Game
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has taken the top spot for software sales for the month of May, according to the NPD Group.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt also had "the best-selling first month unit sales," for an RPG released for the current generation of consoles so far, according to the report.
Mortal Kombat X, another Warner Bros. Interactive game, was the second-place winner in sales. In fact, Warner Bros. Interactive is currently the top software publisher, "with over 140 percent increase in dollar sales versus last year."
The top 10 games for May, according to the NPD Group, are as follows:
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Mortal Kombat X
DC Comics Head Hints More On-page Ads Coming
At the end of May, it was revealed that DC Comics would be putting Twix ads on story pages in all of their June comics, which earned the ire of the comics community and created the hashtag of a lifetime, #TwixGate. Ads have been part of comics since the beginning, and it's not uncommon for 10 full-page ads to be found in your standard Marvel or DC comic these days, but for many, putting the ads on the same page as the story crossed a line.
PS4 Came Back On Top of Sales for May
Sony's PlayStation 4 was the best selling console for the month of May, according to numbers from the NPD Group.
The PS4 regained the title of top-selling console after faltering to the Xbox One's stronger sales numbers for the month of April.
Despite having not come out on top last month, the PS4 has seen lifetime sales of 22.3 million units as of April 30, 2015.
Overall sales "across hardware, new physical software, and accessories declined by 13 percent," according to the NPD report. However, game sales for current-gen consoles rose by 8 percent in May. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to the top-spot for sales in May, beating out Mortal Kombat X.
Scalebound, Crackdown Skipping E3 for Gamescom
Scalebound and Crackdown will both be skipping this year's E3. Microsoft announced today it's opting to showcase the two Xbox One exclusives at Gamescom in August.
While both Scalebound and Crackdown were revealed during Microsoft's E3 press conference last year, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer explained on Xbox Wire that Microsoft's "jam-packed lineup of games to show at E3" makes it impossible for the company to give every upcoming Xbox One game "its well-deserved time in the spotlight." Therefore, Crackdown and Scalebound will be joining Remedy's Quantum Break "front and center" at Gamescom in August, "along with new game reveals for both Xbox One and Windows 10."
Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Bites Pizza Becomes Available This Month
It seems we're in the midst of a Pizza Renaissance. Between Little Caesar's Bacon-Wrapped Pizza and the Australian Pizza Hut Sarlacc Pit, the large pizza chains of the world are in a seeming arms race to develop the most unique spin on pizza yet.
Pizza Hut has again announced an all-new product that pushes the boundaries of traditional pizza and modern science by combining it with the taste of hot dogs. Twenty-eight of them, to be exact, conveniently baked right into the crust.