Steep Hits the Olympics With New Expansion
“Living dangerously?” asked the developer as my skier held his grab to the very last second, barely sticking the landing. Still, the judges at Pyeongchang were impressed, awarding my run with a top score in the Slopestyle competition. One more run like that, and the gold was mine. But in my next run, I got a bit ambitious on my double backflip and landed on my head, the ragdoll physics splaying my poor skier across the snow. The commentators were aghast. The crowd went silent. With such realism, I half-expected an ambulance to wheel onto the snow. I not only ended up knocking my skier out cold, but out of medal contention. Ouch. Such is the duality of going for glory in Steep: in attempts to reach new heights, you’ll either achieve Olympic glory or gloriously fail. In Steep’s latest expansion, Road to the Olympics, the outdoor action sports simulator gets a surprising addition: a story. In the campaign, you get to make your mark as a “legendary” skier or snowboarder at the Pyeongchang Olympics across three freestyle events. But true to the original game, the expansion offers a new set of mountain playgrounds to jump, traverse, and plummet down – plus ten new events to conquer. 
Comic Book Reviews for October 11, 2017
It was another major week of comic book releases. DC reached the halfway mark in the epic Dark Nights: metal crossover and continued to explore the fallout of the Mr. Oz reveal in Action Comics and Detective Comics. Marvel inducted a number of ongoing books into the Marvel Legacy era, including Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool, Defenders and All-New Wolverine. And IDW delivered the penultimate chapter of the First Strike crossover.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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South Park Creator ‘Would Love to Make a FPS’
After now having worked on two South Park role-playing games, series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker discussed what other genres they might like to explore.
"I would love to make a first-person shooter. I'm not even kidding," Stone said in an interview with IGN. "Some sort of first-person, going through a 3D thing where you're seeing characters."
Stone went on to note how the role-playing genre is such a good fit for South Park, saying, "I love the way we do
and Stick of Truth where the whole conceit behind those is it looks like the show." Parker also pointed out how "RPGs just play so well into... writing, and applying to characters," which makes the genre such a good fit for South Park.
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How South Park Made Its Brand of Production Hell Work for The Fractured But Whole
Last-minute deadlines have never stopped South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker from getting things done, even when their own bodies won’t cooperate.
TV show executive producer Frank C. Agnone II told me the story of being nearly finished with The Fractured but Whole, the sequel to 2014’s outstanding South Park RPG The Stick of Truth, but the TV team’s usual last-second process left Parker with 10,000 lines of dialogue to record just one week ahead of a big deadline. As if that wasn’t a tall enough task on its own, Parker then got very sick and ended up having emergency surgery to remove his gallbladder. Following the operation, Parker somehow convinced his doctor to let him temporarily leave the hospital to go get the dialogue laid down, and on the way back to the hospital, an exhausted Parker said to Agnone, “I just want this game to be sweet.”
Yoshi Was Originally Going to be a Horse
Mario's reptile mount Yoshi was initially supposed to be a horse.
The dinosaur's origins were revealed in an interview with the developers of Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
The interview was conducted as part of the Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES developer series, looking behind the scenes at some of the classic titles available on the retro console.
Super Mario World director Takashi Tezuka disclosed the details surrounding his creation. "Shigeru Miyamoto said he wanted Mario to ride a horse! When we were making Super Mario Bros. 3, he had drawn a picture of Mario on a horse and hung it on a wall near where he used to sit. I would look at that and think, "I think he wants Mario to ride something.
IGN Happy Hour: Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Special
IGN's Tristan Ogilvie and Luke Reilly sat down with Jens Matthies, Creative Director on Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, to get an insight into the development of the upcoming Nazi-slaying shooter sequel. Additionally, Jens spoke at length about his time at Starbreeze, the chaotic development of seminal shooter Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, working with Faith No More's Mike Patton on The Darkness, and how keen he'd be to make a game based on the Robocop license. Download it now!
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PUBG Just Hit 2 Million Concurrent Users on Steam
The massive success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has pushed the game to the top of Steam's current player listings, and now the game has broken the 2 million mark.
It's the first Steam game to do so, and sits atop its mighty throne looking down on other Steam heavyweights like Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Team Fortress 2.
Two years ago, Dota 2 was the first game to break 1 million users on Steam, a milestone reached by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds earlier this year.
Venom Heads to Space With X-Men Blue
Spinning out of Marvel Comics' Venomverse event, Venom will team up with the X-Men Blue team and head into space to fight the symbiote-consuming Poisons in a storyline called "Poison X."
This six-part crossover will kick off in January's X-Men Blue Annual #1 by Venomverse writer Cullen Bunn and artist Edgar Delgado with cover art by Nick Bradshaw.
Art by Nick Bradshaw. (Marvel Comics)
The Best Board Games for Beginners
Board games are making a comeback, which is great, because board games are awesome. But the sheer number of games now on shelves can make it hard to spot the gateway games ideal for newbies.
Don’t sweat. We’ve compiled a list of awesome games to ease you into the ever-growing world of tabletop awesomeness. Don’t think “beginner” means these are games that a veteran board gamer wouldn’t play. These are all games respected and loved across the hobby. They also happen to be easier to learn and introduce mechanics that more complex board games will assume you already have experience with.
All you need to enjoy any of these polished, ultra-fun, and lightweight board games are a few people to play with. If your friends aren't up for it, it should be easy to find a local group. Search to see if there's a local board game store, and they'll be able to advise you. Otherwise try Meetup.com or BoardGameGeek.com for groups near you.