Evolve DLC Adds New Monster and Hunters This Month
Four new hunters are coming to Evolve on March 31, 2K has announced. The previously-revealed Behemoth monster will also be available starting the same day.
The four hunters are part of Evolve's Hunting Season Pass, which is priced at £20 / $25 USD. They'll also be available individually, each priced £6.19 / $7.49 USD. The Behemoth monster will be free for anyone who pre-ordered the game, or it can be purchased for £12 / $15 USD.
We've reached to 2K for other pricing and will let you know once we hear back.
Mars One Mission to the Red Planet Won’t Happen, Says Ex-Astronaut
Former Canadian astronaut Julie Payette believes the one-way Mars One mission to send people to live on Mars won’t succeed, saying “nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.”
Largely using existing technology, the Mars One mission aims to begin human colonization of Mars by landing teams of four on the Red Planet by 2025. The US$6-billion project primarily seeks funding through donations, sponsors, private investors and a planned reality TV show.
“We don’t have the technology to go to Mars, with everything we know today, so I don’t think that a marketing company and a TV-type of selection, is sending anybody anywhere,” The Canadian Press reports Payette as saying during a keynote at an aerospace symposium at the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation Gets Full PC Release Date
Carmageddon: Reincarnation will release in full for PC on April 23, Stainless Games has announced. The British studio's gory racer has been on Steam Early Access for just under a year.
The release proper will include at launch a 16-chapter career mode, 8-way multiplayer (LAN or online), 24 vehicles, 9 maps and 36 race routes. Kickstarter backers who helped the game achieve $625,143 in crowdfunding will also receive a Special Edition Red Eagle vehicle among other rewards.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is also due to come to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. According to the game's official Twitter feed, there's no further word on a release date for the console versions.
Dying Light Reaches Over 3 Million Players
Techland has announced that Dying Light has amassed 3.2 million players since its release in January.
According to the press release, "with that timeframe applied, it makes Dying Light the most popular title in the company’s history."
The news also came with an infographic detailing some other information about the game. Players have killed nearly 400 million zombies, and have collectively travelled about the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Valve Boss Talks Game Development, Half-Life 3
Valve boss Gabe Newell recently shared his thoughts on the future of the Half-Life franchise, and how the company he co-founded many years ago has evolved into a service platform as it shifts away from game development.
During an interview with Geoff Keighley in a one-off podcast called GameSlice (via Polygon), Newell was asked whether or not fans will ever see a proper Half-Life 3. Newell replied: "The only reason we'd go back and do like a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why
Final Fantasy XI Will Close Next Year for PS2, Xbox 360
Square Enix has revealed Final Fantasy XI for PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 will close in March 2016.
There is some good news, however, as the PC version will continue to operate for the foreseeable future.
Aiming to go out with a bang, the final scenario – Rhapsodies of Vana’diel – brings three new chapters, with the first hoping to launch in May. Chapter two and three will follow shortly after, in August and November, respectively.
On top of that, as a show of appreciation for the 13 years of support, a new event will be introduced called The Goddess’s Gala, which will bring back fan-favourite campaigns for new and returning players.
Milky Way May Hold Billions of Life-Supporting ‘Goldilocks’ Planets
Astronomers calculate there could be billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that may have one to three “Goldilocks” planets each in the habitable zone, the region around a star that makes it just right for life to potentially exist on a planet.
Using the NASA’s Kepler satellite, astronomers have confirmed about 1,000 planets around stars in the Milky Way and 3,000 potential planets, to date. The Kepler satellite discovers exoplanets by observing if the light curve of a star shows a reoccurring small dip in brightness, indicating a planet obscuring its light as it orbits its host.
To estimate how many of these systems have planets in the habitable zone, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute made calculations based on an updated version of the 250-year-old the Titius-Bode law.
Final Symphony Tour Returns With New Final Fantasy Concert
The Final Symphony tour - the critically-acclaimed concert that celebrates Final Fantasy music - is returning to London, UK on September 12.
Promising an "exclusive, all-new programme of music", Final Symphony II will feature new arrangements from Final Fantasy V, VIII and IX performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. There'll also be a new suite of music from Final Fantasy XIII arranged by the original composer, Masashi Hamauzu.
Composer Nobuo Uematsu will also be at the show and will participate in a "pre-concert talk" where he'll discuss his career and take questions from fans.
“It’s wonderful that we’re able to return to the Barbican with such an exciting new programme of music,” said tour producer, Thomas Böcker. “Performing the original Final Symphony with the LSO back in 2013 was a musical dream come true, and recording the album at Abbey Road Studios was the icing on the cake. The arrangers, Roger Wanamo and Jonne Valtonen – plus Masashi Hamauzu – have been working very hard on something extremely special and we think it’s exactly what fans of Final Fantasy have been waiting for!”
Comic Book Reviews for March 18, 2015
While it was an indie-heavy week, there were still some big books from DC and Marvel.
We got to see Superman without his powers, five Bat-comics, and the finale to the third year of Injustice.
Across the publisher pond, the Hulk crossed paths with Deadpool, Storm teamed up with Gambit, and Princess Leia went on an adventure with her new partner.
There was also the big debut of Mark Millar's new series with artist Sean Murphy, Chrononauts, plus debuts for Invisible Republic, Red One, and Frankenstein Underground (as part of the Hellboy universe).
Agents of SHIELD Star Becomes Preacher’s Tulip
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Preacher pilot for AMC, based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s cult comic series, has found its female lead.
As Deadline reports, Ruth Negga, who's played the scheming Raina on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD for two seasons, has landed the ass-kicking role of Tulip - the gun-toting ex of ex-preacher Jesse Custer (yet to be cast).
Ruth Negga and Tulip.