2020-07-16
The Madden NFL 21 player rating reveal week continued on Wednesday with the announcement of the next 99-rated player and other ratings from the professional football game.Aaron Donald of the LA Rams is the latest 99-rated player, and for the achievement, EA sent him a custom-designed "99 Club" trophy designed by Brian Madden and a "99" diamond pendant created by Jason of Beverly Hills. A Los Angeles artist, Gabe Gault, also contributed to the celebration by creating a new art piece of Donald. You can see all the goodies in the gallery below.Donald is just the latest 99-rated player for Madden NFL 21, following Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey. Donald is the first defensive player to receive the honor this year.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Deadpool's creator, Rob Liefeld, continues to believe that Deadpool 3 may never happen. He told Collider in a new interview that another movie might not be made, and he's OK with that."You know what? There may not be another Deadpool, and I'm fine. Because I have to live with the fact that I had two amazing experiences, two movies I'm extremely proud of, I love knowing everybody on those movies," Liefeld said. "I love Ryan [Reynolds], Josh [Brolin], Zazie [Beets], David [Leitch], Tim Miller. All of them. The work they did was fantabulous, those movies are here to stand the test of time. You know, but in the world we live in, nothing is guaranteed. And it takes a lot to make movies. And post-quarantine, it's weird."This lines up with what Liefeld said in May, when he said he believes the Deadpool franchise has "set sail." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Death Stranding is out now on PC, and players who didn't get the chance to experience Hideo Kojima's unusual, yet still prescient take on the post-apocalypse now have a fresh way to experience it. Playing as Sam Porter Bridges, you'll make many deliveries across an alternate North America changed by a supernatural event that has forever blurred the lines between life and death. In addition to a variety of quality-of-life changes and upgrades for the PC release, Death Stranding now comes with a slew of items paying homage to Valve's Half-Life and Portal franchises.On the surface, this new side-story featuring a mysterious imposter who admires games from Valve may seem like another set of references to games and broader pop-culture that you'd expect to see in a Hideo Kojima game. But as it turns out, this extended side-story offers some surprisingly useful perks for Sam, along with a fun payoff at its conclusion. However, it should be noted that this side-story spans across the entirety of Death Stranding. To see this storyline to its finish, you'll need to complete the main story of the game and reach its post-game chapter.In this spoiler-free guide, we're going to tell you how to take part in this questline, and what you'll need to do to get each Valve item in Death Stranding on PC. It all starts with an email marked with a λ symbol in Chapter 2, and from there, you'll get a total of six emails that make some bizarre references to Portal and Half-Life. And as you'll come to find, the requests from these emails run much deeper than the ramblings from a supposed Valve fanboy. So with that, here's how to get each Valve item in the game.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered is releasing on August 27, but it'll be missing a major feature from the original GameCube version. The game's Japanese Twitter account has confirmed that the game will only feature online multiplayer, and you won't be able to set up an offline co-op session.The tweet below, roughly translated, says that the game does not feature offline multiplayer, with online play prioritized so that more people would be able to play together.公弿”¾é€ãªã©ã§ã‚‚ã”紹介ã—ã¦ãŠã‚Šã¾ã™ãŒã€æœ¬ä½œã¯ã‚ªãƒ•ラインã§ã®ãƒžãƒ«ãƒãƒ—レイã«ã¯éžå¯¾å¿œã§ã™ðŸ™é–‹ç™ºã®éƒ½åˆä¸Šã€ã‚ªãƒ•ラインã‹ã‚ªãƒ³ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ³ã®ã©ã¡ã‚‰ã‹ã‚’é¸æŠžã™ã‚‹å¿…è¦ãŒã‚りã€ã‚ˆã‚Šå¤šãã®æ–¹ã«éŠã‚“ã§ã„ãŸã ã‘るよã†ã€ä»Šå›žã¯ã‚ªãƒ³ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ³ãƒžãƒ«ãƒãƒ—ãƒ¬ã‚¤ã‚’é¸æŠžã„ãŸã—ã¾ã—ãŸã€‚#FFCC #クリクãƒhttps://t.co/vZzJGXiASW — FFクリスタルクãƒãƒ‹ã‚¯ãƒ« リマスター å…¬å¼ (@FFCC_PR) July 15, 2020The original GameCube release had couch co-op, but with a twist--extra players beyond the first would need to connect with a Game Boy Advance link cable and play on Nintendo's handheld device. Getting together three extra players who all owned the console and the link cable meant that co-op Crystal Chronicles was a fairly niche activity.Interestingly, a team of four can tackle the game online as long as just one person owns it. A Lite version demo will let you play through the full game if the host owns it, or three dungeons with other folks who downloaded this free version.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Imagine being able to take back every mistake you make, instantly, reliving each moment over and over until it plays out as you hoped. In less astute hands, it could feel like an exercise in trial and error. In Desperados 3, however, it unfolds in masterful fashion, providing ample scope for you to dream up a multitude of creative plans alongside the ability to reset the board in a flash should the plan fail. It's a rapidfire process of forming an hypothesis, testing it and tossing it aside. By encouraging experimentation at every turn, Desperados 3 proves a stealth tactics game where invention thrives.Stealth games can often degenerate into a loop of quick-saving and quick-loading. Desperados 3 is built around that loop, an aspect reinforced by a tutorial which instructs you on how to quick-save and quick-load before it tells you how to deal with an enemy. It's hammered home by regular pop-up notifications informing you of the time since you last quick-saved. You can customise this reminder--tweaking the delay or disabling it entirely--but the fact the default setting is to nudge you every 60 seconds ought to stress the importance of quick-saving.Archetypal gunslinger John Cooper and his friends are rather fragile, even on the normal difficulty setting, while the cadres of thugs, gunwomen and assorted rifle-toting outlaws they find themselves up against are very much of the "shoot first, ask questions later" mindset. So when a plan heads south--as even the most meticulously observed ones are wont to do, usually when one of the gang gets spotted or occasionally a carelessly discarded body is found--it's very much a case of the quick-load and the dead.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Brie Larson is famous for her movie roles, which include Captain Marvel, Scott Pilgrim, and an Oscar-winning turn in Room, but she's also famous for being a huge Nintendo fan. Consequently, Gary Whitta, who has started his own talk show hosted inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons (it's called Animal Talking), says that Brie is the show's most-requested guest.And now it's happening--Brie Larson is coming to Animal Talking for the July 23 episode. She'll join streamers Dr Lupo and Friskk, as well as musician Kenny Fong.Don't say I never do anything for you people.Next week's ANIMAL TALKING headliner is the most-requested guest in the show's history - the marvelous @brielarson! And the rest ain't no scrubs either. @DrLupo! @Friskkmkay! And live music from Kenny Fong! See you next Thursday! pic.twitter.com/qEPK7mVSbJ — Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) July 15, 2020If you want to see Larson's island, though, you won't have to wait--Brie Larson has also released a 17-minute video of her starting her Animal Crossing journey on her recently started YouTube channel. You can watch below, but since she's just starting, there's very little on the island just yet--perhaps by the time she goes on Animal Talking she'll have built her island up more.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
If a youthful obsession with Japanese samurai cinema and an audiobook version of Musashi have taught me anything, it's that if you want to be a great swordfighter, having a connection to nature is important. Skill with a weapon isn't purely driven by physical strength and technique, but also by the acuity that comes from observing trees, mountains, and rivers. Something like that.While I can only make guesses as to how inspirational the rural areas of feudal Japan would have been, the scenic island portrayed in Ghost of Tsushima, an open-world 13th-century samurai epic, is one that often stirs something inside me. Beyond being a game centred around flashy sword fights and the journey of Jin Sakai to becoming a proto-ninja, Ghost of Tsushima invites you to lose yourself deeply in its grasslands, forests, and mountains. And though the tasks you're given often aren't as brilliant as the colour of the leaves, there's certainly something wonderfully humbling about just riding your horse through this beautiful environment and taking it all in. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Bad Robot Games, the video game division of Star Wars and Star Trek director JJ Abrams' production studio, has hired former Valve business leader Anna Sweet as its CEO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.In addition to working at Valve, Sweet spent time as head of developer strategy for Oculus where she worked on virtual reality technology with Oculus Rift. Bad Robot Games was founded in 2018, and it is partially funded by Tencent and Warner Bros. own internal game development arm, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. That company is reportedly up for sale, with companies like Microsoft, EA, Activision, and others said to be interested in a purchase.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
Solo: A Star Wars Story certainly wasn't the worst Star Wars film,but it was the least profitable, and because of that its chances of getting a sequel are slim. But at least one person at the center of the original movie is keen for a follow-up--Alden Ehrenreich, who played the younger Han Solo.In an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, picked up on by GameSpot sister site Comicbook.com, Ehrenreich has talked about where he would like to go with a Solo sequel. Asked if would like to come back, the actor said that he would, but that "it would have to be the right version of it."Ehrenreich says that the movie ends at the point where his favorite aspect of the character is starting to kick in. "It’s when he becomes that guy at the end, that’s the guy we love," he says. "So getting to that, and going from there is interesting, so we’ll see."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
After the review scores for The Last of Us Part II came in--and they were very good--writer-director Neil Druckmann sent an email to his team to thank them for their hard work. Druckmann has now shared some insight on what he said in the email, including his response to the haters.Speaking to actor Troy Baker, who plays Joel in the game, Druckmann said he originally wanted to send thank-you texts to every developer, one by one. However, the team's sheer size made that impossible.Druckmann said he was writing a text to art director John Sweeney, with whom he clashed often throughout development, and he began to cry.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-16
The Paper Mario series thrives on a clever irreverence that can be hard to maintain. Its outlandish scenarios mash the absurdist, dreamlike world of the Mushroom Kingdom and the mundanity of the real world. It takes jabs at the very concepts that inspire it, nodding knowingly at the audience and whispering, "This whole thing's kind of weird, right?" It's a fun take on the usually-earnest Mario games, but that kind of slyness turns grating when the bits--or, in the case of a game, systems--that are supposed to prop it up don't work, which is where the last couple of Paper Mario games have struggled. But in surprising course-correction, Paper Mario: The Origami King's most clever trick is how its overhauled combat complements its sharp wit, turning the series' Achilles' heel into one of its biggest strengths.Paper Mario: The Origami King's conceptual gimmick is how its titular origami king, Olly, transforms the flat cutouts of the Paper Mario universe, folding them into subservient, 3D origami figures, and kidnaps Princess Peach along with her entire castle, wrapping both up in a wall of colorful streamers. So now Mario, along with Olly's repentant sister Olivia, need to flatten everything out again. The origami premise adds a nice visual flair to the already-gorgeous papercraft look of the series, and you get to see yet another take on Goombas, Shy Guys, and Koopas, even if this time they're imbued with a slightly creepy energy.Like other Paper Mario games, The Origami King is less about plot and more about throwing a joke at you at every turn, whether it's a smart turn of phrase, one-off bits that reward you for exploring its environments with a gag or item, or extended setpieces that deliver killer moments. Not every joke or bit lands, but they hit far more than they falter: a theater play that quickly takes a turn for the weird, a guessing game that has you desperately looking at a Snifit's face for any sign of emotion, an extended sequences that riffs, of all things, on The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The Origami King is consistently sharp, using both Mario characters and its interactivity to tell some great jokes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-15
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold over 70 million copies to date and is celebrating by remastering the Sanhok map for Season 8 as part of Update 8.1. Sanhok has been overhauled into a new overgrown and abandoned jungle destination.Since its release in 2017, PUBG has sold over 70 million copies across Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Season 8--which launches on July 22 on Steam and on July 30 on Xbox One, PS4, and Stadia--adds more than just a remastered map.Season 8 introduces the loot truck, an autonomous vehicle that players can attack and destroy for loot, including weapons with pre-installed attachments, and the new overhauled ranked system. The ranked system now gives points based on both personal performance and team placement.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-15
On July 15, NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock will launch. In April, there was a soft launch of the service for Xfinity users that didn't include originals. 2020 has been a big year for new streaming services. Quibi revealed its sub-par service, and HBO Max debuted--which was great, if you could actually watch it.Peacock will showcase NBCUniversal properties. This will include Universal movies, and series from networks like USA, Syfy, NBC, and more. Additionally, Peacock will include content from the networks under the ViacomCBS umbrella--GameSpot's parent company--along with content from A&E and History channels.During a video presentation for Peacock earlier in the year, many movies and shows were showcased that will be a part of Peacock from TV hits like The Office, Parks & Recreation, Saturday Night Live, Murder She Wrote, Xena: Warrior Princess, and more. Additionally, movies like Shrek, Minions, and Fast & Furious were shown as well. Reality TV was also highlighted, with shows like WWE's Total Divas appearing, an E! Networkproperty, which falls under the NBCUniversal umbrella. There will be a large VOD library to watch all of these programs. Many movies, shows, and originals can be viewed in 4K UHD--something HBO Max has yet to deliver on.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-15
During its recent Stadia Connect livestream, tech giant Google announced a partnership with several developers that will create games exclusive to the cloud-streaming platform. The company has detailed two of the five exclusives that will come to Stadia, alongside 15 other titles that will arrive throughout the year.The first is from developer Splash Damage, the studio responsible for Brink and Gears Tactics. The game is Outcasters, a "vibrant and accessible competitive online multiplayer game set in a distinctly stylized vinyl world." It includes millions of customizations options for you to create unique casters as you compete in matches with up to eight players for glory and rewards. You can expect tons of sharp-shooting, bouncing, and springing on the multiple hectic battlefields. An official release date has not been provided.Developer Robot Entertainment, creators of the Hero Academy and Orcs Must Die franchises, is also working on Orcs Must Die 3 as an exclusive for Stadia. Fans familiar with the series will know what to expect. OMD3 is an action-tower defense game where you defend Rift towers from "largest orc armies ever assembled." This sequel features new War Scenarios, mountable War machines, and more. It is free for Stadia Pro subscribers.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-15
In the latest Stadia Connect presentation, Google outlined 15 more games coming to the service in the coming months. That includes the critically acclaimed Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the upcoming action-RPG Outriders, and five platform exclusives.Sekiro is coming in Fall 2020, letting Stadia users catch up on GameSpot's 2019 Game of the Year award winner. The presentation also announced the full Hitman series including Hitman 3, with the two previous ones coming in September. Outriders is coming this holiday, and WWE 2K Battlegrounds is coming September 18.The Stadia Connect also debuted a couple of exclusives, along with studio deals on a few more. The multiplayer arena game Outcasters from Splash Damage will be exclusive to Stadia, along with Orcs Must Die 3. In fact, Orcs Must Die will be included for Stadia Pro subscribers as of July 14. Google also announced that Harmonix, Uppercut Games, and Supermassive Games are all working on Stadia exclusives.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com