Yearly Archives: 2018
Jessica Jones: All the Characters Confirmed for Season 2
It's been nearly three years since the first season of Marvel's Jessica Jones landed on Netflix. At long last, the series is back for another round. And even though the titular heroine conquered her biggest personal demon in Season 1, her challenges are just beginning.
To help get you prepped for these new episodes, here's a breakdown of every character confirmed to be appearing in Season 2. With any luck, there will be a few surprises in store.
Jessica Jones Season 2 will debut on Netflix on March 8. If you're rusty on what happened in Season 1, here's everything you need to know before watching Season 2. Then, check out our spoiler-free impressions of the Season 2 premiere.
Horizon: Zero Dawn Producer Joins Ubisoft for an Unannounced Title
Horizon: Zero Dawn producer, Samrat Sharma, is returning to Ubisoft to work on an unannounced game.
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Sharma, previously a senior producer at Guerrilla Games, has left the studio to move to Ubisoft, Toronto. Sharma has worked at Ubisoft before, on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Phantoms, and Future Soldier.
Sharma's new position is also senior producer, but the title he's working on has yet to be revealed.
"I am excited to join the team at Ubisoft Toronto who are working on some very interesting games, and offer me a chance to continue my focus on leading teams and plan franchise businesses," he said.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Update Adds New Mode and Map
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is getting new content more than two years after its initial release, with the Infected mutiplayer mode and the new Redwood Snow map.
Update 1.27 is live for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and weighs in at 2.7 GB. The Redwood Snow map is a snowy variant of the Redwood map, which you would probably have guessed, given adequate time.
Infected is a popular mode that's made an appearance in other CoD titles, with one player becoming infected at the start of the match, and having to infect everyone else before the clock runs out.
Call of Duty 2018: New Leak Points to Black Ops 4
A leaked Gamestop listing has bolstered rumours that Activision's next Call of Duty title will be Black Ops 4.
CharlieIntel reports that a tipster sent it images from Gamestop's internal database of listings for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 merchandise.
The listings are for t-shirts and lanyards, priced at $19.99 and $6.99 respectively, due to arrive in May. Last year, Activision announced Call of Duty: WWII in April, so the May dates in the listing lend a bit of credibility to the leak.
Rumours that Treyarch's Black Ops 4 will be released this year were sparked last month, with multiple sources reporting that the sci-fi elements that have been prevalent in the last few games will be dialled back in favour of "a more grounded feeling."
7 Best Comics to Read for Avengers: Infinity War
With Avengers: Infinity War hitting theaters, you might want to read up on the inspiration for the big Marvel film, so we’ve assembled this list of the essential comics to read based on key elements from the movie. If you want to know more about the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos, the attack on Wakanda, and the fractured state of the Avengers, then check out these reads.
If you only read one book on this list, this is the one. The definitive Thanos story and one of the most eye-popping stories in Marvel Comics’ history. Jim Starlin and George Perez’s six-part cosmic masterpiece explores the motives and machinations of Thanos with deft plotting, unfolding the Mad Titan’s quest for power like a horror story, culminating in a desperate all-out assault by earth’s heroes on a giant, intergalactic monument to death Thanos has crafted to win the heart of his true love, the personification of death.
Modders Are Working to Fix Square Enix’s Shoddy Chrono Trigger PC Port
Square Enix's rather disappointing PC port of Chrono Trigger is being rescued by modders.
A port of the game released on Steam last week, and appears to be the mobile version, which wasn't brilliant compared to the original. PC Gamer reports that the modding community has stepped in to fix Square Enix's shoddy port, with modder Jed Lang - who overhauled the equally poor Final Fantasy 6 port - reaching out to say that he would be releasing an update with modding capability.
Pinball FX3’s Switch Issues Unlikely to Be Fixed
Pinball FX3 has a performance problem on Nintendo Switch, and the developer has confirmed that it's unlikely to be fixed.
Many saw the opportunity to play in portable mode - which can use the Switch screen in portrait to show a full table - as a key feature for the game. Unfortunately, at launch the mode ran at a lower frame rate than on other versions, while its resolution made some tables look terrible when in docked mode. A patch was promised, but never arrived.
Zen Studios posted an update on Reddit addressing the community's issues - the long and short of it is that it would involve too much work to get the game to 60 frames per second in handheld mode, and the studio says it doesn't have the resources.
Nintendo Updates Mario’s Profession Back to Plumber
Mario is back to unclogging pipes and doing other complicated things involving waterworks, now that Nintendo has confirmed his profession is a plumber once more.
Nintendo Everything reports that his profession has been updated on Nintendo's Japanese website. This is a big deal because of the heretical update last year that denounced his career.
The Witcher’s Geralt Could Make a Guest Appearance In Another Game
CD Projekt Red has hinted that The Witcher's lead character, Geralt of Rivia could be about to make an appearance in another game, coming this year.
Community manager, Marcin Momot dropped the hint on Twitter today - the inevitable question being: "OK, what game will he be in then?"
What if Geralt was going to step out of the @witchergame for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year? pic.twitter.com/dMTn1Im6HD
— Marcin Momot (@Marcin360) March 6, 2018
Battlefield 2018 Will Reportedly Feature Co-Op Mode
The leaks keep coming, it seems. This year's Battlefield game will reportedly feature a co-op mode, a similar campaign to Battlefield 1, and include a Rainbow Six: Siege-inspired prone stance.
GamesBeat - which initially reported the game's apparent title, Battlefield V - has followed up with a series of further details. Apparently, the game will feature a co-op mode that has squads running through "randomly generated Conquest missions", although split-screen has not been confirmed.