iCEnhancer Graphics Mod Coming to GTA 5
If you played Grand Theft Auto 4 on PC, you probably remember the wonders that the iCEnhancer graphics mod did for the look and feel of Liberty City a few years ago.
Now, Grand Theft Auto 5 is getting its own version of the iCEnhancer mod, as you can see on its official Facebook page.
Two pre-alpha videos of the mod in progress, plus a Facebook post, detail some early effects, including improved water reflection, color changes, and reduced fog.
FIFA 15 Joins the EA Access Vault
FIFA 15 has been added to the EA Access Vault, joining EA's other 2014 sports games Madden NFL 15, NHL 15, NBA Live 15, and EA Sports UFC.
Subscribers now have access to eleven games in total, including Battlefield 4, Need for Speed Rivals, Peggle 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Madden NFL 25, FIFA 14, and the five games listed above.
EA Access can be purchased for $5 USD/month or $30 USD/year. The service offers subscribers access to every game in the Vault on Xbox One, as well as exclusive game demos and discounts on EA games through the Xbox Store.
For more on EA's latest soccer sim, check out IGN's FIFA 15 review, which called it "one of the most impressively comprehensive sport simulations around."
Tom Hardy Planning a DC Comics… Something
After dropping out of DC Comics' upcoming Suicide Squad film due to a scheduling conflict, Tom Hardy (who previously played DC's Bane in The Dark Knight Rises) has revealed he's working on a different project within the DC Universe.
It's not entirely clear what the project is, or which DC property the project is based on. Hardy himself was rather vague while recently discussing the project with with Screen Crush. Here's what the actor had to say:
"It contains elements of all kinds of stuff. From Ocean's Eleven, to Batman, you can get all the wrappers out and it would be a big, really cool, technicolor Pulp Fiction. It's a psychological f***fest, it's absolutely awesome. It's as if you would take
Sim City Creator Wants Your Life to be a Graphic Novel
Sim City creator Will Wright has released Thred, a platform for iOS which is a blend of Facebook and Snapchat.
The app is described as a toolkit to share ideas: Take a picture, apply stickers, borders, or captions, and create a virtual moment. Speaking with Polygon, Wright compares these moments with creating a graphic novel, albeit one where the pages are someone’s life.
"My initial conception was to take the data we have about you and start turning your life it into a graphic novel," says Wright. "How do we take these different sources of data about you and turn it into a visual story or visual record?"
The concept, in a nutshell, is to create a platform more personal, more specific to the user’s life.
Rosario Dawson Returns for Daredevil: Season 2
Rosario Dawson will officially be returning to Hell's Kitchen for Daredevil's second season, Marvel announced today.
Dawson will reprise her role as Claire Temple, Matt Murdock's love interest/personal nurse. The actress' new deal will also allow her to appear in any of Marvel's other upcoming Netflix series. In the comics, Claire Temple was originally a love interest of Luke Cage's, though the MCU version has been changed and merged with another Marvel character, Night Nurse, who helped treat wounded superheroes.
Tomorrowland: Check Out These 2 Mondo Posters
We have two pieces of exclusive Mondo artwork for you today from the upcoming Disney sci-fi adventure film Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney and directed by The Incredibles' Brad Bird.
Both posters below are by artist Kevin Tong; click on the images for higher-res versions:
Artist: Kevin Tong; Size: 24" x 36"; Edition of 375
Dark Souls 2 Weapon-Breaking Bug Finally Fixed
Of all the horrors skulking around Dark Souls II and the newly released console edition, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, the worst, most hideous might have been the bug that devastated weapon durability. Fortunately, From Software has finally, officially slain that particular issue.
The patch addressing this bug, announced late last month, applies to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam for DirectX 9 and 11 users affected. Specifically, the patch notes state:
"Fixed issue whereby weapon durability was decreased drastically when used on enemy corpses, friendly characters, etc. (Especially apparent for users running the game at 60 fps as the durability decrease rate was linked to the frame rate)."
Losing Your Mind in Phantasmal
Hong Kong’s famed Kowloon Walled City was a ramshackle, ever-growing colossus of haphazardly-connected high-rise buildings, ungoverned by the country’s health or sanitation authorities. Before its demolition in 1993, some 33,000 families resided and worked for a living in dank, windowless apartments, with some children having never seen true sunlight. Squatters, criminals, and drug addicts alike dwelled in the city’s corridors, mingling with great fleshy spiders and sanity-sucking tentacles.
Well, okay – the monster spiders or tentacles probably weren’t part of the real Walled City, but they’re a squirm-inducing addition in New Zealand developer Eyemobi’s procedurally generated horror game Phantasmal, which takes place in the notorious metropolis after its residents have been evicted, just weeks before demolition.
Xenoblade X: 4 Hours in the Alien Wilderness
Just minutes into Xenoblade Chronicles X, it’s difficult to not be impressed by the ambitious scale of this open world role-playing game. The hook (so far) doesn’t involve the mythical blade, called the Monado, from the previous game. Instead, this installment focuses on the theme of survival, as you and an NPC-driven squad explore a dangerous alien planet called Mira. Like its predecessor, Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii, this Wii U game is punching above its weight class, with lots of open space to explore, gorgeous vistas to take in, and plenty of activities to keep you busy.
We spent the four hours with a Japanese import copy of this anticipated RPG. While Xenoblade X is still a ways off for North America, here's what we experienced.
The Batman Theme Park We Want to See
This week's IGN UK Podcast see's Krupa, Alex and Luke react to the news that Nintendo has got into bed with Universal to produce beautiful Mario-shaped rides. I sh** you not.
From Batman and Superman, to World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy, the guys talk about the theme parks they want to see. Lightsabers, Harley Quinn and Poo Beards may also crop up.
Download the podcast now to find out who makes this terrible faecal-related gaffe, or watch the video to see the other guys lose their minds at the revelation.