Obsidian’s New RPG Won’t Have Any Microtransactions
Role-playing game developer Obsidian Entertainment has confirmed its next game won't have any microtransactions.
"The answer is simply: 'no.' No microtransactions, of any kind, in our game," the studio said in a post on its official forums.
While not much is known about Obsidian's currently untitled RPG, just last week Take-Two Interactive announced its new label Private Division will publish the upcoming title. Speaking to its partnership with Private Division, the Obsidian said, "Far from 'pushing' us to put anything—microtransactions or otherwise—into our game, Private Division has been incredibly supportive of our vision, our creative freedom, and the process by which we work to make RPGs."
The Last Jedi Has Second Biggest Opening of All Time
Star Wars: The Last Jedi enjoyed a strong first weekend at the domestic box office, placing first with an estimated $220 million.
Not only did The Last Jedi eclipse its projected $200 million domestic debut and have the biggest opening of 2017—soaring well past Beauty and the Beast's $174.8 million debut—the film had the second biggest opening of all time, trailing only Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $248 million domestic debut in 2015. The Last Jedi opened significantly ahead of 2016's Star Wars release, with Rogue One debuting to $155.1 million last December.
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Last Jedi: Why Benicio Del Toro’s Character Is Named DJ
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Newly published tie-in books for Star Wars: The Last Jedi reveal why Benicio Del Toro's character is nicknamed "DJ." The shady character is a "slicer" (hacker) enlisted by Finn and Rose in Canto Bight.
The Star Wars The Last Jedi The Visual Dictionary reveals "DJ" aren't his initials but actually stands for "Don't Join." Indeed, his cap bears a tin plate with the motto "don't join" stamped on it.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Gives a Name to THAT Kid
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While in Canto Bight, Finn and Rose encounter some young orphans who slave away as stable hands in the pens holding the Fathiers, the racing steeds gambled on by the casino city's wealthy class.
In the very final moments of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, one young stable boy seen earlier reveals he's Force-sensitive by pulling a broom to him. As he looks up at the stars, we see he's wearing the ring Rose gave him that bears the symbol of the Resistance. A new hope indeed ...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi CinemaScore Revealed
Star Wars: The Last Jedi received an "A" CinemaScore in audience exit polling its opening night.
Given how highly critics have rated the franchise's latest installment (93% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) versus how bitterly divisive the film has been among hardcore Star Wars fans (a mere 57% audience score on RT), you would think The Last Jedi's CinemaScore would reflect that apparently more negative audience reaction.
But The Last Jedi's "A" CinemaScore is the same high grade audiences gave to both The Force Awakens and Rogue One.
Phasma’s Best Story Isn’t in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
This article contains full spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Check out our spoiler-free review here). Don’t read this article unless you have seen the movie.
There was an outcry for more Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) after her lackluster debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Her dazzling armor and imposing figure were displayed for all to see in the trailers and merchandising, but when it came down to her story within the film -- there wasn’t much to get excited about.
The way she allowed Finn, Han Solo, and Chewbacca to get the better of her at Starkiller Base was also disappointing. By the end of The Force Awakens, Phasma felt more like a bad joke than a real threat to the resistance. Perhaps The Last Jedi could find a way to redeem her character?
The Metro: Exodus Trailers and the Problem with “Vertical Slices”
So that trailer for Metro Exodus at the Game Awards was pretty great, right? The sweeping shots of a snowed-in ruined Russian city, the flicking of a flare dancing on the wall of a pitch black tunnel—it all made for a post apocalyptic vision that was as beautiful as it was sad.
Too bad it feels as though it came from a different game than the footage we saw in E3’s Metro Exodus reveal trailer, which was an orgy of visual delights that seemed like a revolution in graphical prowess. In June’s trailer, the icicles sparkled in the dim light, subtly revealing the ghosts of nearby objects behind them. In comparison, the icicles in the Games Awards trailer looked more like frosting oozing from a cake. The June trailer has camera shifts that moved between intricate cobwebs, dandelion stems, and little pebbles that tumble off a cliff while the player gets chased by a mutated bear. The Games Award trailer, though, is far less ambitious. It’d be wrong to call it ugly, but the differences between the two trailers were vast enough to lead us to call it one of the show’s “losers.” So what the hell happened?
Overwatch Heroes Kick Each Other in the Bricks
Welcome back to Brick Battles, our stop-motion animated series that brings your favorite video game worlds to life. Each episode is made in conjunction with the talented folks at Digital Wizard Studios, and for this first season it's all about Blizzard's popular hero shooter, Overwatch.
In Episode 5, the Overwatch heroes take turns sneaking up on each other and use ultimate punishments on their most sensitive weapons. Watch "Kicked in the Bricks" in the video player above.
Explaining Han Solo’s Gold Dice in Star Wars (No Solo Spoilers)
Note: With Solo: A Star Wars Story about to hit theaters, we figured this was the perfect time to take another look at Han Solo's dice and the importance they have to his history. Warning: Full spoilers for The Last Jedi follow, but this article is spoiler-free for Solo: A Star Wars Story!
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Han Solo’s chained gold dice play a small yet important role. Here’s a rundown of where they came from, what they mean, and where we expect to see them again.
The dice originally appeared in a A New Hope, hanging in the cockpit the same way people hang those fuzzy dice from their rearview mirrors. The dice were probably just put there as a joke and weren’t considered an important detail because they were not there in Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi. You have to look closely to spot them - in the photo below, they're hanging in the middle above Luke and Obi-Wan's heads.