Fallout 76 Is a Strangely Lonely Multiplayer Game
The thing I can’t stop thinking as I cross Appalachia is how quiet everything seems. Bethesda might have taken the unexpected sideways step of turning another of its largest single-player properties into a multiplayer game, but I don’t think I’d term this a “massively” multiplayer RPG. This world is vast – four times larger than Fallout 4, apparently – and it’s clear that’s part of the plan. Fallout 76 feels oddly lonely for an online game and, after three hours with it, that’s for better and worse.
Bethesda still won’t confirm exactly how many players will be dropped into a single instance of its game world, but I was told it will be in the region of a few dozen. Against the wide backdrop of Appalachia – the name given to 76’s West Virginia setting – that really isn’t a great deal. Since announcement, Bethesda's made clear that every human you meet will be a real person, but it’s only in playing the game you realise quite what an effect that has.
Atomic Heart: Beta and Pre-Orders Announced
Alternative '60s first-person RPG Atomic Heart is now available for pre-order, and will receive a beta in Q4 2019, developer Mundfish announced today.
Mundfish has put three different versions of its first-person RPG up for pre-order on PC on its website. Anyone who pre-orders the basic and Deluxe Founder's Edition will save 25 and 50 percent, respectively, off their final retail price while the Atomic Founder's Edition costs the full amount regardless of whether it's preordered or bought after release.
The base game costs $30 USD to reserve and includes a digital soundtrack, behind-the-scenes video, digital art book, a beta invite, and access to the full game one week before it's released. For $45 USD, the Deluxe Founder's Edition adds a Founder's badge to buyers' in-game profiles, a unique in-game Founder's mask, and access to the closed forum area for "bakers." Finally, the Atomic Founder's Edition runs $90 USD and adds buyers' names and photos to a wall in the in-game Safe Zone while also giving players access to a unique location within Atomic Heart.
Guacamelee! 2 Coming to Nintendo Switch This Year
The Guacamelee! series is coming to the Nintendo Switch, with Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition available today and Guacamelee! 2 coming later this year.
Developer DrinkBox Studios announced today that the pair of games would be hitting the Switch. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, which includes all of the original game's DLC as well as a bevy of additional content, is launching today in North America and Europe, and Guacamelee! 2 is coming this December.
DrinkBox also provided footage for both of the games on Switch, with Guacamelee! STCE receiving an official trailer, and Guacamelee! 2 getting 6 minutes of gameplay.
Hitman 2 Welcomes You to the Jungle
I did that tattoo artist a favor by poisoning his beer and choking him to the point of unconsciousness in that Colombian village bar bathroom in Hitman 2, really. Let me explain.
As I was hanging out, posting up at the bar and blending in, Dumb & Dumber-style (“putting out the vibe”), P-Power was complaining about being down here, somehow summoned by ruthless drug lord (and Agent 47 target) Rico Delgado to do some tattoo work on him. He was rife with anxiety about screwing up the job, which would surely lead to his death. So I went around the back of the building, found some rat poison that, well, someone had conveniently left there, and then made my way back around the front and into the bar, waited for P-Power and the bartender to look away, and then spiked the drink.
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Why Stardew Valley Fans Should Start Their Own Garden
Games have always been a powerful form of escapism, but what I’ve found over the last few years is that they’ve also been inspiring me to seek out new experiences in my real life.
In a previous article, I talked about how The Witcher 3 inspired me to take up sword fighting. I also bought my first motorbike after cruising around Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. Kingdom Come Deliverance, meanwhile, inspired a recent trip to my family’s hometown in Germany, and when my girlfriend and I were looking for a new house, we planned out what we each wanted in The Sims 4 first.
Red Sonja: Director Bryan Singer Seeks Massive Paycheck for Conan Spin-off
Bryan Singer is currently negotiating a big payday to helm Millennium Films' remake of Red Sonja.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Singer, whose previous outings include X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, is reportedly seeking $10 million to direct the Conan spin-off.
His appointment as director is a subject of some controversy as, late last year, Singer was accused of sexual misconduct, leading him to be removed as executive producer on Legion.
Venom Sets October Box Office Record With Massive Opening Weekend
Venom has shattered a North American box office record in October with an $80 million opening weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A Star Is Born also brought in an impressive $42.6 million domestically during its opening weekend.
Venom’s $80 million weekend gross topples the previous October domestic opening weekend record set by Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity when it earned $55.8 million in 2013. Though Venom’s domestic haul is impressive, its $125.2 million earnings overseas during its opening weekend further bolsters its total opening weekend gross to $205.2 million, Variety reports.
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Riverdale Casts Jughead’s Mom and Sister for Season 3
Riverdale has finally cast Jughead's mom and sister for Season 3.
As announced at New York Comic Con, Gina Gershon will play Jughead’s mother, Gladys Jones, "a 'businesswoman' who runs the salvage yard (chop shop) that doubles as a Serpent compound, and the Serpents all snap to attention when she gives them an order. A Serpent with a GED, she acts as Fagin to a crew of teenaged car parts thieves." And newcomer Trinity Likins is set for the role of Jughead’s sister, Jellybean “JB” Jones. She's described as "wise beyond her years, and her favorite bands are Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. Jellybean lives with her biker mom in Toledo where they run scams to make ends meet. And like mother like daughter: Jellybean — who goes by JB now — is quite the little con artist herself."