Dragon Age: Inquisition Patch Features Beard Alignment
BioWare has released the patch notes for its next update for Dragon Age: Inquisition, and one of the many fixes included in Patch 7 realigns the beards that improperly appear on some of the characters' faces.
Other changes, as detailed on BioWare's official blog, include the addition of trophies for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of the Jaws of Hakkon DLC, which releases on May 26, as well as a fix for the Dragon's Bane achievement, ensuring it will unlock after killing any 10 High Dragons.
Director Shares the Origins Behind the Name Kirby: Triple Deluxe
To celebrate the first anniversary of Kirby: Triple Deluxe, director Satoshi Ishida explained what went into the creation of its title.
"...we started with a variety of ideas. One was a title that would reflect the game's theme of an adventure through floating islands," he said. "Another idea was to use the letter 'X,' since this is the tenth traditional Kirby platformer," Ishida shared via Miiverse.
"We also wanted to find a title that reflects the game's full use of Nintendo 3DS features, such as the 3D function, motion sensors and StreetPass. Something short and catchy that we could use all around the world. That's how we came up with the title '3DX' - in other words, 'Triple Deluxe'!"
GTA Online Banning For Single-Player Mods
Rockstar is reportedly banning Grand Theft Auto 5 players from GTA Online for using mods – in single-player.
Shortly after the immensely popular Grand Theft Auto 5 launched on PC in April, Rockstar told IGN that it would not tolerate mods that negatively affect the GTA Online experience.
"Our fans do some amazing things with our games," Rockstar told us last month, "but our priority is on making sure nothing detracts from the integrity of the GTA Online experience, and working to prevent anything that can potentially have a negative impact on the overall community."
Players now are saying that they're getting banned from GTA Online even if the mods they're using are kept to the offline single-player mode.
Report: Boba Fett is Next Star Wars Anthology Film
Those long-standing rumors may in fact prove true: Boba Fett is reportedly getting his own movie.
TheWrap claims that the Boba Fett standalone movie will be Disney's second planned Star Wars Anthology film, the new designation for all non-Episode, spinoff and standalone films as announced by Lucasfilm at Star Wars Celebration last month.
Chronicle and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank exited the project Friday, saying in a statement, "After a year of having the incredible honor of developing with the wonderful and talented people at Lucasfilm, I’m making a personal decision to move forward on a different path. I’ve put a tremendous amount of thought into this, and I know deep down in my heart that I want to pursue some original creative opportunities."
Quake Creators Almost Paid Modders in 1995
Although Valve's recent plan to pay mod makers was met with controversy and negative community feedback, it wasn't the first company with that kind of idea.
During the short time Valve's failed program was active, id Software co-founder John Romero spoke about id's plans to compensate Quake modders back in 1995. The developer wanted to create a company called id Net, which would have essentially functioned as a website portal for all of the Quake community modders.
"I've always believed that mod makers should be able to make money from their creations," Romero told Gamesindustry.biz. "It was to be a curated site, levels and mods chosen by us at id, and if we put your content on our network we would pay you an amount equal to the traffic that your content drove to the site. The idea was that players would log in and be in a big level that felt like a castle with lots of doorway portals and signage that explained where you were going and what was there."
The 13 Scariest Moments in Silent Hill History
Warning: This article contains spoilers for almost every Silent Hill game.
Rather than spend too much time dwelling on what's gone, I instead want to look back on the series that we all love and remember some of the good times. The terrifying times.
Here are 13 of the scariest moments in Silent Hill history.
Who’s Who on Suicide Squad
With director David Ayer giving us our first look at the entire Suicide Squad team for the upcoming movie, we created this handy infographic that lists each character's name, the actor playing them, and what they can do, plus a look at how they appear in the comics.
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Maze Runner Actor Cast as Its Pennywise
True Detective director Cary Fukunaga has reportedly found his Pennywise.
According to Variety, British actor Will Poulter will play the evil clown in the New Line retelling of Stephen King's It. Poulter's most recently been seen in We're the Millers and The Maze Runner, but others will remember him as "Eustace Scrubb" in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and from 2007's Son of Rambow.
"After considering older actors like Mark Rylance and Ben Mendelsohn for the Pennywise role, New Line wanted to take a different route and go younger," claims Variety. "Sources say in the end, Fukunaga could not say no after being blown away by Poulter’s audition for the part and felt he was the right choice for the role."
MKX Devs Contribute $20k To Tournament Prize Pots
In today's official Mortal Kombat X stream, NetherRealm Studios announced its plans to contribute $10,000 each to the prize pots for two upcoming tournaments: Combo Breaker and CEO.
"You're going to be hearing a lot more stuff regarding future tournaments and just the tournament scene in general," said director Ed Boon. "It's all in the plan."
The Mortal Kombat X team will also be in attendance for what it refers to as "a whole season of tournaments," in addition to its prize pot donations.
NetherRealm community specialist Tyler Lansdown added, "We couldn't just forget about these grassroots tournaments that have been pushing our games for years and years and years."
Ed Boon Explains Why MKX Has Easy Fatalities
On today's Mortal Kombat X livestream, series creator Ed Boon explained why the Netherrealm team included easy fatalities in MKX.
"There are players who cannot do fatalities," Boon said, "especially when it says 'Finish Him' and there's a timer counting down. That's part of what prompted us to make these easy fatalities."
He continued, "
, we did research and had focus groups play the game, and easy fatalities was the number one request. Having them helps everyone in that group. It's for people who will never be able to do a fatality, who will never experience doing fatalities in MK."
MKX includes microtransactions for easy fatalities, if you find yourself unable to pull them off. You can also unlock them by opening containers in the Krypt