Dragon Age and Metal Gear Lead Deals with Gold
Microsoft has announced the games discounted thanks to its Deals with Gold program from now until May 25.
On Xbox One, both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes are 50 percent off, while Unmechanical: Extended and Jet Car Stunts are 40 percent off. Finally, Dragon Ball: Xenoverse is 33 percent off.
On the Xbox 360 front there's a lot to choose from, but stand out offerings include the original Dragon Age games as well as earlier Metal Gear Solid titles.
The full list of games and their discounts is below.
Xbox One
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - 50%
Valve’s Virtual Reality Kit Teams Up With Razer
Valve has become the latest company to team up with Razer's Open Source Virtual Reality standard drive.
Razer's latest announcement said that Valve's OpenVR, along with MonoGame, VorpX, and the Unigine engine will all be supported by OSVR, bringing the total number of partners so far up to 118.
Razer's virtual reality headsets will be going up against OculusVR over the coming year. The OSVR hardware development kit is expected to ship in July.
Valve joins Ubisoft as another big gaming name behind OSVR, after the Assassin's Creed developer said it was looking to bring its franchises into virtual reality.
This is What Doom 4 Could Have Looked Like
Footage from Doom 4 before it was rebooted back in 2013 has surfaced online, revealing a rather different title to the one we glimpsed yesterday.
The video, which you can see below, was picked up by Doomworld and shows a rather dull, brown world populated by pretty generic characters.
“It wasn’t one thing,” id Software’s studio director, Tim Willits told IGN when we asked why the reboot happened. “It wasn’t like the art was bad, or the programming was bad. Every game has a soul. Every game has a spirit. When you played Rage, you got the spirit. And
GTA 5 Has Sold-in Nearly 52m Copies to Retail
Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in “nearly” 52 million copies across all five formats it’s available on, Take-Two Interactive has revealed via its latest financial report for the quarter ending March 31, 2015.
This is an increase of almost 7 million copies since the last reported figure; in early February Take-Two revealed via an investor call that over 45 million copies of GTA V had been sold-in to retailers.
GTA V is currently available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. Yesterday it was revealed that 5 million physical copies of Grand Theft Auto V have been sold in the UK alone.
L’Oreal Wants to Start 3D Printing Living, Breathing Skin
French cosmetics giant L’Oreal is partnering partnering with bioprinting startup Organovo to develop a way to 3D print living, breathing skin to test products on.
L’Oreal currently grows skin samples from tissues donated by plastic surgery patients that are then broken down into cells that are given a diet and “exposed to biological signals that mimic those of actual skin.” Guive Balooch, vice president of L'Oreal's Technology Incubator, told Bloomberg that they "create an environment that's as close as possible to being inside someone's body."
Here’s How Many Miles Frodo & Sam Walked to Get to Mt. Doom
How many miles did Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee walk to get from Bag End to Mount Doom? Quite a lot, actually.
Clever Imgur user mattsawizard (via io9.com) calculated that the pair walked 1350 miles, which equals 440 hours worth of walking.
For Americans, he worked out that's the same as walking from LA to Austin. For the British, it's like walking from London to Niš in Serbia. For Australians...I'm sorry, that info wasn't provided and I'm not smart enough. Check out the full breakdown here.
Pixar Boss Wants More Diversity Moving Forward
Pixar/Disney Animation Studios head John Lasseter is devoted to featuring a more diverse range of characters in the studios' films moving forward.
“It’s very important to us … to have female and ethnic characters,” said Lasseter, speaking at the press conference for Pixar's Inside Out. “It’s grown in importance over time. As you’ll see in future films, we’re really paying attention to that.”
Lasseter cited Disney's upcoming animated feature Moana, centered on a Polynesian princess, as an example.
“I guess most people think of fairy tales as European fairy tales. We’re trying to reach out and find origins of legends all over the world.”
Lasseter mentioned that much of this shift is already happening thanks to more diverse voices behind the camera in animation.
Fans Reason Why Friday the 13th Killed Found Footage
While it was previously reported that the next Friday the 13th installment might take the popular found footage route, producer Brad Fuller has laid those rumors to rest, and revealed that the fans played a large role in the decision.
"Listen, there was an outpouring of negative sentiment when it was revealed that Friday the 13th might have been a found footage movie," Fuller told Shock Til You Drop.
"That was very clear to us that there was not a groundswell of support for that. That had tremendous amount of impact on us and only substantiated our concern about doing it as a found footage movie. Ultimately, the fact that the movie’s been delayed for a long time might be a good thing, because now the movie’s not going to be found footage.”
Marvel Delays Uncanny X-Men Finale
Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis has confirmed that Uncanny X-Men #600 has been delayed until October.
Originally scheduled for release this month, Bendis took to Tumblr to explain that that the issue has been "bumped until after Secret Wars for editorial and commercial reasons. Not my call. This was Marvel. But they have their reasons."
He went on to write, "It will not effect the story or the impact of the story. In fact it may have more impact on how things shake out after my run. But I promise you, it could easily ship this month as it was supposed to. It has been written. Pages are already in as many of the collaborators have said so on Twitter."
Oculus VR Won’t Block Virtual Reality Porn on the Rift
Oculus VR does not intend to stop the adult entertainment industry from using its Rift virtual reality headset as a platform for virtual erotica, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said during a panel at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference on Monday.
“The Rift is an open platform. We don’t control what software can run on it,” Luckey said in response to question about intentions to block X-rated content or apps, according to Variety. “And that’s a big deal.”
The Facebook-owned company plans to begin shipping the consumer version of the Oculus Rift in Q1 2016, with pre-orders opening later this year. The consumer model is based on the Crescent Bay prototype and builds upon its "presence, immersion, and comfort," hopefully alleviating the effects of nausea-inducing Simulator Sickness.