Yearly Archives: 2018
Deadpool 2 Becomes Third Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie
Deadpool 2 has now become the third highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
Deadline reports the sequel has made an estimated $304.1 million domestically and $400.9 million internationally for a combined total of $705 million. It's now surpassed Stephen King's IT, which grossed roughly $700 million at the global box office.
Deadpool 2 now only trails behind the first Deadpool's $783 million box office total and The Matrix Reloaded's $742 million global gross, according to Box Office Mojo.
Nintendo Switch Could Get Its Own New Monster Hunter Games
Capcom almost certainly won't attempt to bring Monster Hunter World to Switch, but it may be making entirely new Monster Hunter games for the console.
A recent shareholder's meeting Q&A transcript includes a Capcom executive saying that the company "plans to continue developing other titles for this platform in the future."
Per Twitter user Koudaiseidaos, that meeting also included a separate question that seems to indicate that Capcom would make Monster Hunter games for Switch specifically, rather than attempt to port home console games to a console with less power:
Call of Duty: WW2 Update Brings a New Class to the Frontlines
Call of Duty: WW2's newest patch version 1.18 adds a division called the Cavalry, basic training, and other improvements to the first-person shooter.
The Cavalry is an objective-focused division that brings players to the frontlines. It offers you a Cavalry Shield (which can be used defensively and offensively), the ability to plant bombs as well as capture Domination flags faster, and lets you build and destroy walls quicker in War Mode. The division even scores more from objectives — two assists from the Cavalry results in a kill.
The update also includes new basic trainings, including Escalation which lets you aim down your sights at double the speed after each kill on SMGs and your ammo will get refilled after each double kill. Wanderlust will respawn you with a new gun with up to six attachments, and Specialist lets you choose three basic trainings to earn instead of scorestreaks.
Australian Ratings Board Reviewing We Happy Few’s Ban
The Australian Classification Board is reviewing its ban on We Happy Few's release after its it refused classification for the game.
Kotaku Australia explains the review comes after an appeal as the game was initially banned in the country due to apparently incentivising drug use in the context of the game.
The Classification Board's report stated "A player that takes Joy can reduce gameplay difficulty, therefore receiving an incentive by progressing though the game quickly." The appeal argues that drug use in the game is portrayed as negative, as it's used to control a dystopian society rather than a simple player benefit.
Fallout 76: All Proceeds from ‘Country Roads’ Trailer Cover Go to Charity
Bethesda has revealed that it is making the cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" from the Fallout 76 trailer available for purchase, with 100% of the proceeds going to charity.
The catchy wasteland version of the 1971 John Denver classic will be available on iTunes starting July 4th.
The charity Bethesda is supporting is Habitat for Humanity, a foundation that seeks to help those in the poorest communities across the globe access decent, affordable housing.
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Blizzard Patents Overwatch’s Play of the Game Feature
Blizzard has successfully patented the Play of the Game feature from Overwatch.
As spotted by Unikrn, Blizzard has received the patent earlier this month, which covers the systems that define, record, and share the hero shooter's end-of-game clips. The developer applied for the patent back in December 2016.
The patent document includes details about how these moments are captured, which starts by placing timestamps around notable events in the match. After that, "the game server scores the events according to a plurality of criteria corresponding
Total War Developer Is Making A ‘First Person Tactical Shooter’
Total War developer Creative Assembly is hiring for a new "First Person Tactical Shooter IP."
The news was revealed via the Creative Assembly careers page (as spotted by VG247), which contains a number of job listings for the new title. Among them are adverts for UI & Environment Artists as well as Animators. The project is being spearheaded by the team behind 2014's Alien: Isolation, which is "exploring new frontiers" with this new IP.
The job listings are all grouped under the tag 'Console Team', suggesting that this new title will appear on consoles, but this is unconfirmed.
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Deadpool Creator ‘Mourns’ for Donald Glover’s Cancelled Series
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has talked about his disappointment that the "brilliant" Deadpool series from Donald Glover was cancelled, but has said that Marvel promises him "good things are coming".
Speaking to Variety at the Ant-Man and the Wasp premiere, Liefeld said:
“I can talk about this now. I thought the whole thing was brilliant. And I really can’t say anything more than that or I’ll get into all sorts of trouble from every side. But I mean, I mourn the loss of that entire project. Donald is a genius, and I’ll always wonder how that would have worked out. But Marvel says: ‘Rob, good things are coming.’ And good things have always come, so I’m gonna believe them and hang on for dear life.”
Mark Hamill on the Weirdly Tragic Trajectory of Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker is arguably the most famous fictional hero of all time. Decades of films, books, games and merchandise cement not only his story, but his image in the minds of millions. He’s become a modern archetype, the word “hero” almost unconsciously bringing to mind the boyish smile, the lightsaber, the slight tack of fingers on action figure plastic.
Presented as a shining counterpoint to a galaxy at war, and even the roguish friends he makes along the way, he begins pure to the point of naivety, is muddied by pain, and comes out stronger but fundamentally unchanged by the time he’s faced his demons. It's so classic it's almost clichéd.