Star Wars Battlefront Dev Addresses DLC Concerns
Star Wars Battlefront's producer has reassured fans content will not be held back from the initial release of EA's upcoming shooter to be sold later as DLC.
Taking to Reddit, Jesper Nielsen stressed the team is committed to releasing a game that expands on the strengths of past titles when it comes to core gameplay, and there'll be plenty of content available at launch.
"I cannot stress this enough; there will be more than 8 maps!" he wrote. "Also, the amount of content in the game has absolutely zero to do with DLC. I can say that with all honesty.
Pain-free Blood Test Could Do Away With Needles
DARPA-funded company Tasso Inc. has developed a device that does away with stabbing the body with a needle to extract blood in a process that “is almost entirely painless.”
Using vacuum, the pingpong-sized ball device causes a small amount of blood to flow into an attached sample tube when its held against the skin for two minutes.
Ben Casavant, vice president and co-founder, explains in a press release that the device “relies on the forces that govern the flow of tiny fluid streams" and that “at these scales, surface tension dominates over gravity, and that keeps the blood in the channel no matter how you hold the device."
Latest GTA V Patch Fixes Rockstar Editor Issues
Rockstar Games has released a list of fixes that are live in the latest 335.1 patch.
The full list is on the Rockstar Games website, with the majority of the items covering tweaks and improvements.
The Rockstar Editor has had some smoothing out, with a handful of fixes, while Steam compatibility has been improved. While installation of Windows Media Player was a requirement prior to the 335.1 patch, this has been replaced with the requisite installation of Windows Media Foundation.
New BMW 7 Series Sports Gesture Control and Remote Parking
BMW’s upcoming BMW 7 Series will sport a remote control parking feature so it can maneuver itself in and out of tight parking spaces.
Drivers can instruct the car to park itself via a new Display Key, a remote control and LCD control screen rolled into one. "Forget everything you know about keys," BMW says, the Display Key offers other functions and supplies drivers with useful information about the vehicle. Although BMW wasn’t yet ready to reveal the design of the BMW 7 series, its new features were teased in a recently released video.
“This is just one example of many for the new way of interaction between driver and car,” BMW spokesman Chris Brow said in the video. “And BMW will be first in class to offer gesture command as well as a navigation with a touch screen for improved operating. Also an all-new level of voice command.”
Driveclub Update 1.14 Adds Free Car, New Tour
The latest update for Driveclub is available, developer Evolution has confirmed via the Driveclub Facebook page. Update 1.14 adds the Ferrari LaFerrari, a new Tour, multiplayer replays and several other changes. The update is free and will download automatically.
In order to access the LaFerrari you’ll need to complete rank 5 of the “Ferrari Owners Club” Driver Accolade. Doing so will unlock it for use in all areas of the game.
The new Tour features 11 events and 45 objectives. The “Startline Tour” will serve mainly as “a varied and well balanced introduction to Driveclub.” All new players will jump into this tour when they first play the game.
Bloodshot and Harbinger Comics Films Incoming
Sony Pictures has signed a five-film deal with independent comic publisher Valiant Entertainment to bring Bloodshot and Harbinger to the silver screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, both comic properties will receive two films each before an Avengers-style fifth movie called Harbinger Wars will unite the casts from the previous four films.
Metal Gear Online Supports 16 Players on PS4, PC, and Xbox One
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s multiplayer component Metal Gear Online will support up to 16 players on PS4, PC, and Xbox One, and up to 12 players on PS3 and Xbox 360.
The details were revealed via Konami’s official Japanese website, reports Videogamer.
Metal Gear Online was first showcased back in December last year during The Game Awards. The initial gameplay footage teases a tactical multiplayer experience with a significant smattering of MGS’s endearingly absurd flavour.
Daredevil: Here’s Why Kingpin Is the Best MCU Villain
Spoiler warning for all three seasons of Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix...
Back when Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk burst onto the MCU scene in Daredevil: Season 1, as the towering-yet-reclusive crime lord bent on leveling Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and rebuilding it as the neighborhood's secret savior, fans were blown away.
D'Onofrio's scarily tender performance, as a socially awkward mastermind with a preference for killing people with his bare hands, gave viewers a villain with depth and layers that the Marvel movies simply didn't have time to explore. Fisk was lauded at the time for being the best bad guy ever produced by the MCU.
And now, two seasons later, he still is.
Daredevil Renewed for Season 2 But with New Showrunners
The Man Without Fear is coming back for a second season. Netflix and Marvel have announced that Marvel's Daredevil has been renewed for Season 2, which will debut in 2016.
However, in a notable change up, the series will have new showrunners. Steven S. DeKnight, who was showrunner for the first season, will not be returning, with Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez now running Daredevil together. Both wrote for the first season of Daredevil, with Ramirez previously writing for Sons of Anarchy and Petrie another alum of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, along with DeKnight and Daredevil executive producer Drew Goddard.
New Halo: The Master Chief Collection Patch Includes ODST Details
343 has released a new patch for Halo: The Master Chief Collection which includes fixes for matchmaking, stability, and more.
It also says the remade Halo 3: ODST campaign and the Relic MP map remake are both "on track" to release in next month's content update.
If you don't remember, as a thank you for dealing with MCC's launch issues, 343 is giving away the ODST campaign for free to anyone who purchased the game on or before December 19, 2014.
Below is the full list of changes included in today's Halo: The Master Chief Collection update, including four new screenshots of ODST and the remastered Relic map.
- Made a variety of improvements to ranking consistency and penalties.