2020-08-23
Half-Life: Alyx sparked new interest in VR, and since its release, many VR headsets have been hard to find. Stock has slowly returned to normal, though if you want to save some money, and you're willing to go with an older headset, you can snag an original Oculus Rift bundled with its Touch controllers for $300. The original Rift is compatible with Half-Life: Alyx, though you will be sacrificing resolution while also needing to use sensors.While this deal is nice, you can buy an Oculus Rift S or a 64GB Oculus Quest for $400 each. The Quest in particular offers much more utility, as it's a wireless device that doesn't require a PC or any sensors--it's all handled inside of the headset. However, you can still plug it into a PC and use it as if it were a Rift. Oculus Rift with Touch controllers $300 The original Rift is compatible with everything the Rift S can play, though it does require the use of external sensors to track your movements--the Rift S features inside-out tracking built into the headset itself. Thankfully, this shouldn't harm the accuracy of your movements, but you will have to do some set-up before you jump in. See at Woot Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Final Fantasy XIV's latest update has a ton of new content that I'm still just trying to process myself, even after extolling the virtues of FFXIV 5.3's main story events. But the update isn't all about MSQ since there are some substantial optional quests, one of which is another chapter in the Sorrow of Werlyt questline. And the latest mission has you piloting a Gundam...I mean, G-Warrior.Previously in Sorrow of Werlyt, you had to fight Ruby Weapon in an 8-player trial boss fight, which was introduced in patch 5.1. Here in 5.3, you face off against Sapphire Weapon in a solo duty, but as the pilot of a G-Warrior flying mech engineered by Cid and his crew at Garlond Ironworks. A bombastic cutscene, with some cheeky dialogue options, plays before the battle like it's straight out of a mecha anime, too.A close look at the G-Warrior design.The G-Warrior has its own moveset such as a powerful sword slash, ranged beam, speed boost, protective barrier, and restoration spell. You need to manage your EP meter in combat--similar to managing MP as a spellcaster--and learn when to execute certain actions so you're not left vulnerable, as was the challenge in different phases of the Sapphire Weapon fight.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Lego is no stranger to video game sets, having just released the incredible Lego NES and several Super Mario Bros. products, and it regularly receives requests for future sets via its online portal. One such request was made to turn smash-hit game Fall Guys into a building set, and the developers are completely supportive.YouTuber Ashnflash made the request for a functional Fall Guys obstacle course set. His idea would contain several different obstacles, including the spinning Whirlygig, the infuriating See Saw, and Door Dash. As the titular Fall Guys attempt to pass these obstacles, they'll inevitably fall off the edge to their doom. Of course, this is the whole point, and the pitch images Ashnflash submitted look almost exactly like the actual game.More than 2,500 people have already said they support the petition thus far, but more importantly, the official Fall Guys Twitter account took notice.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
If you've already finished Marvel's Iron Man VR but aren't ready to leave the world of Tony Stark, developer Camouflaj has just what you need. The game has added New Game Plus as a free update, and that isn't the only new feature included in the newest version.Starting the game in New Game Plus mode will let you keep any unlocks you've acquired on your armor as well as any unspent Research Points. You can only activate this mode once you've beaten the game, of course, and there is a new harder Ultimate difficulty mode to try out, too. As you can now skip a few of the side missions and can skip cinematics--all with faster loading times in the game itself--it should be less-frustrating to play through the game again.You can find eight new armor decorations in the Armor Station of your garage, though you need to complete challenges first. The launch-week-exclusive Iron Patriot is one of them, as well.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
There's a scene in The Last of Us Part 2 where, after approaching a workbench and dismantling your gun, you are mauled from behind by a group of rogue assailants. They have the upper hand, having quietly arranged a tactical formation on the dilapidated building's upper floor--they take cover behind sofas, kitchen counters, and half-open doors. But this shocking scene isn't all that surprising--or at least it wouldn't be, if you'd been reading the handwritten notes sporadically dotted across the surrounding town.The Last of Us Part 2 weaves together a grimdark narrative filled with colour and noise, and yet, it teems with quieter, often untold stories contained within the pages of its virtual journaling. A man loses two sons to a radical religious cult because he was too afraid to leave the safety of their aquarium hideout, and dies sitting in the chair they berated him for never leaving; a parent passes away beneath the crumbling roof of a flooded factory, with medicine he never got to deliver to his sick family; a soldier whiles away his final hours behind the blast doors of a bank vault, dying to protect something that was not his own from a group of thieves seeking to capitalize on the maelstrom induced by the cordyceps outbreak. These are the quieter tales that The Last of Us Part 2's world is founded upon.The stories of Ellie, Dina, Abby, and Lev are essential to The Last of Us Part 2's overarching narrative, but not necessarily to the construction of its wider world. They mirror it in unique ways and react to it at different times with distinct emotional responses, but their tales are likely no more significant than those we don't play through. This can be said of most stories: Just because Frodo bears the One Ring doesn't necessarily mean that his particular hardships are greater than those of anybody else--something that is particularly resonant in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings books, where Saruman returns to destroy The Shire, taking the lives of the nameless and unwritten in the process.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Just as expected, a new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 has arrived during the virtual event DC FanDome. The virtual convention kicked off on Saturday with the Wonder Woman panel, which featured the stars and director of the film. It primarily consisted of a Q&A with fans, but the panel concluded with a pretty sweet new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984.During the opening to DC FanDome director Patty Jenkins was joined by the cast: Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Pedro Pascal (Maxwell Lord), Chris Pine (Steve Trevor), and Kristen Wiig (Barbara Minerva/Cheetah). They answered questions from fans, including one from Lynda Carter who played Wonder Woman on the iconic 1975 TV series. The panel came to an end with a brand-new trailer for Wonder Woman: 1984, and it was awesome. We got a final look at Wiig as Cheetah.Jenkins mentioned that the October release date is still sticking during the panel. "It's so great on the big screen," the director explained. "We all work so hard to bring something that would be a big, visual, spectacular, great time. So we're going to stick it out, and we believe in you know putting it in the cinema"Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
WB Games Montreal has finally revealed its long-rumored Batman project at DC Fandome, after months of teasers and rumors. As the rumors suggested, the game is called Gotham Knights, and features multiple playable characters from within the Bat-family. It's coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X in 2021.The reveal trailer showed Gotham City grappling with the death of Bruce Wayne. Before he went, though, he recorded a message calling the four protagonists into action: Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl, and Red Hood. The trailer showed each of them in action, including heroes fighting together. A separate press release confirmed it can be played solo or with two-player co-op. The cinematic ended with confirmation that the story will include the Court of Owls, with an eerie recitation of the poem from the comic book arc.The developer chat and extended gameplay demo that followed seemed to suggest some degree of a live aspect to the game, with the ability to customize your hero and enemies shown with HP, XP, and level indicators. The studio said it chose each hero with for their "unique starting point and a long runway for growth." A press release said players can "reinvent themselves into their own version of the Dark Knight." The demo also showed a boss battle against Mr. Freeze.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Following its official reveal trailer during DC Fandome, WB Games Montreal has posted an extended gameplay demonstration for Gotham Knights. The demonstration shows off Batgirl's combat prowess, which is distinctly different from how she, and other characters, played in previous Batman: Arkham games. The video, narrated by creative director Patrick Redding, takes place about a dozen hours into Batgirl's progression in the game. Featuring an attack on Elliot Center--where Mr. Freeze has set up shop--it shows off several of the other playable characters in the game, including Red Hood. Freeze has manipulated the weather to actually flash-freeze the city, and it will take everything the young cast of heroes has to take him down.Batgirl's agile fighting style allows her to quickly close the gaps on enemies and use their aggression against them. It's a far cry from the brutal and power-focused style of Batman, and should help to separate her from the other playable characters.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
It's been over a year since news arrived that Netflix was reportedly developing a live-action Sandman comics adaptation with DC and Warner Bros. TV, and we've heard very little about the show since then. However, Sandman series creator Nail Gaiman gave a rare update on the show during DC's FanDome event.When discussing the various Sandman adaptations that have been made or attempted over the years--including the well-received Audible drama version that came out this year--Gaiman mentioned the Netflix adaptation in passing, confirming that it's indeed still in the works, despite the lack of news. That alone was great to hear, given how many movies' releases and productions have been shut down or delayed due to COVID-19, not to mention the TV shows whose schedules have been upended by the pandemic.But Gaiman shared more details: He went on to say that, unlike the audio drama, which NPR called "rigidly faithful" to the original books, the Netflix version will be "slightly looser, but still faithful."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
The virtual event DC FanDome is doing a deep dive into DC's multiverse. For example, while Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman in Superman v. Batman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League centered around a Bruce Wayne who has worn the cape and cowl for years, Matt Reeves' The Batman will focus on a Caped Crusader--played by Robert Pattinson--in his early years: the second year of Batman's existence, and it's not taking place on the same Earth as other DC movies like Justice League, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman."What the multiverse allows you to do is sort of lean into this idea of you can tell just great stories and you don't have to really be as focused on it, and it has to fit within a singular continuity--on one Earth," DC films president Walter Hamada explained. "We have the Gal [Gadot] and Jason [Momoa] and Ezra [Miller] version of the Justice League, and we can continue telling those stories. While on a separate Earth, we don't have to worry about the continuity. We can have a more grounded real year two Batman and build out that world, and not really worry about continuity story elements."It's really kind of the best of both worlds and allows us to take advantage of everything that's great about what we've done, and really allow us to sort of expand moving forward. And we're trying to keep it as simple as that, like there is that one Earth--the greater Earth--of this existing Justice League, and then the beginnings of another Earth that is sort of happening in its early stages of year two Batman."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
The Flash movie has certainly been put through its paces, with multiple directors entering and exiting the project, script changes, and massive delays. However, it would seem that there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel. The Flash's DC FanDome panel passed the mic to director (for real this time) Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey) to set the record straight and tease what will actually be happening in the final version of the film.Oh, and they also debuted a brand new look at Barry Allen's new costume, which, Muschietti explained, was made by Batman himself. Take a look.The movie will focus on Barry's ability to travel through time, and manipulate the DC Multiverse, something we've already seen glimpses of in the Arrowverse with the Crisis On Infinite Earths event.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
It's hard to imagine how the Arrowverse might top last year's Crisis on Infinite Earths event, the five-part crossover that brought together not only all of the CW DC superhero shows but also brought in comic nods, DC shows from other networks, and Ezra Miller's Barry Allen from the DC film universe.It was a bit of a coup to get Miller into the crossover for a brief, but iconic, scene with Grant Gustin's Barry Allen. However, it showed that the TV universe and film universe could be more connected going forward, and Arrowverse architect Greg Berlanti is definitely open to the idea of having more characters from the film universe find their way to The CW. However, we might have to wait a while before that starts to happen."I think truly because of COVID right now and the pandemic, our aspirations aren't quite as large," Berlanti said during the Multiverse 101 panel during DC FanDome with DC Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee and DC Films boss Walter Hamada. "We'd just like to start shooting again that we would be happy to invite any feature characters that [Jim Lee and Walter Hamada] would have on."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
James Gunn's Suicide Squad has an almost impossibly massive cast, with names ranging from Viola Davis to John Cena, and it's been the source of much speculation for fans as they eagerly await news for the upcoming DC movie. Just who, exactly, is playing whom? What sort of insanity does Gunn have up his sleeve? What can possibly be done with a roster that big?Well, thankfully, DC FanDome presented a simple answer to that question in the form of a roll call. Here is everyone in Gunn's version of the Squad, and who they're playing--and just a heads up, some of them are pretty obscure.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Prior to DC FanDome, there was a lot of secrecy surrounding James Gunn's The Suicide Squad, primarily who many of the actors were playing--and this film has a massive cast list. Many wondered who WWE wrestler turned actor John Cena would be playing, and it turns out he'll be a warped version of Marvel's Captain America... in a DC movie.Cena will be portraying Peacemaker in 2021's Suicide Squad movie. This mantle character from DC Comics isn't exceptionally well known, but he's the perfect fit for Task Force X. A sneak peek at the movie played during the Suicide Squad panel, which gave us our first look at Peacemaker."Be like a douchey Captain America," Cena says in the video. And that's essentially what the character is. The mantle of Peacemaker first debuted in The Fightin' 5 #40 from Charlton Comics in 1966. The character was acquired by DC and later introduced in the Crisis on Infinite Earths story during the '80s. The first Peacemaker--Christopher Smith--is a violent, unhinged character that wants to bring peace to the world.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-08-23
Zack Snyder fans finally got their wish during DC's digital FanDome event: They got a glimpse at the infamous "Snyder Cut" of the 2017 movie Justice League, by way of a brand new trailer.The Snyder Cut trailer, which leaked online earlier in the day, displays several scenes that weren't in the original theatrical version of the movie, including iconic DC villain Darkseid, Superman's super goth black super suit, Silas Stone being disintegrated by a Motherbox, and more.During the panel, Snyder also revealed that his Justice League cut will be much longer than the original. "Four hours of Justice League is coming your way," Snyder said. "We're gonna work on a way of bundling it together so you can watch it as a single film if that's the way you want to experience it."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com