2020-07-09
River City Girls, WayForward's scrolling beat-em-up that updates the River City Ransom series, is getting a follow-up. After Limited Run Games' stream, which revealed physical versions of numerous games on the horizon, WayForward tweeted out about a new River City Girls project being in the works.WayForward says that they do not have any details to share right now, but there will be updates in the future. However, a follow-up tweet clarified one important detail.Great news, River City Girls fans! We're thrilled to confirm that, as mentioned on @LimitedRunGames' LRG3 stream, more RCG action is on the way! We don't have any more details to share at this time, but stay tuned for updates in the future! pic.twitter.com/NY66kLl2aa — WayForward (@WayForward) July 8, 2020When asked by one fan if this meant DLC was coming, WayForward responded "It is a separate project, not DLC." The game is listed as River City Girls 0 on Limited Run Games' site, so it's likely a prequel.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
If you've been wandering the solar system in Destiny 2 during the Season of Arrivals, you've probably noticed the weird Eyes of Savathun floating around. These blue orbs have always been immune to gunfire--until now. With the release of the new Ruinous Effigy Exotic trace rifle, we now have a way to destroy the orbs, and a reason to do so.There are 50 Eyes of Savathun to destroy, and knocking out all of them seems likely to set back the Hive Witch Queen's efforts in the solar system. Finding and wrecking all 50 Eyes will earn you the Hive Optometrist Triumph, which goes toward your Moments of Triumph and Season of Arrivals seals. You'll also earn progress toward the Ruinous Effigy Exotic catalyst, so it's worth hunting them down. It's worth noting that you don't need to destroy every Eye to complete the catalyst, so if you don't care about seals but do care about Ruinous Effigy, you can quit at around 30 Eyes destroyed.Here's the complete list of locations for Eyes of Savathun, complete with images to help you track down all of them. Most are on the four locations the Darkness is currently occupying, but you'll also find some in The Whisper mission on Io and in the new Prophecy dungeon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Netflix has confirmed that The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is coming to an end. Its upcoming fourth season will be its last, the streaming network announced on Wednesday.Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa said in a statement (via THR): "Working on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been an incredible honor from day one."He added: "I am beyond thankful to the crew, writers, editors, assistants, and everyone for pouring so much love into this dark dream of a show. I'm also grateful to our partners at Netflix, Warner Bros., Berlanti Television, and Archie Comics for letting us tell the story we wanted to tell, the way we wanted to tell it. We can't wait for everyone to see part four."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Where so many VR games still fall back on restricted controls, the PlayStation VR-exclusive Iron Man VR asks you to learn and master its unique flight controls if you really want to feel like a Marvel superhero. Getting comfortable in Tony Stark’s iron skin makes you feel like you know what it’s like to "be" Iron Man in a way no standard game could. At the same time, the game around that core mechanic feels overly thin. With reused environments, recycled mission objectives, and a predictable story that overstays its welcome, Iron Man VR quickly loses its luster.For better and for worse, Iron Man VR tells a complete ripped-from-the-page Marvel comic storyline. Tony Stark squares off with a mysterious new villain, the Ghost, who uses an army of old Stark Industries drones to systematically terrorize him and his company. The Ghost invokes Stark’s past of making weapons and selling them indiscriminately, forcing him to reckon with his past self as well.Like Insomniac's Spider-Man, Iron Man VR is an original variation of existing Iron Man stories, with vague allusions to moments that comic book and MCU fans will know, which makes it easy for any Marvel fan to jump in and follow along. It's a bit too familiar, though. Retreading themes and issues you've already seen Iron Man work through in both the comics and films, Stark's struggles, both internal and the threats he faces on the battlefield, feel a bit stale. And though there’s a complicated, long-winded plot, you can identify every twist from a mile away.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Brooklyn Nine-Nine will return to NBC for Season 8 at some point, but the show faces a difficult path going forward. It was recently reported that the four scripts produced so far were scrapped following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many other innocent victims by police in the US. With calls to defund the current police administration amid multiple instances of police brutality, many will struggle to find police on television likable or funny.With this in mind, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg has told People that the show's writing staff are working hard to figure out the right thing to do with the next season of the show."We're taking a step back, and the writers are all rethinking how we're going to move forward, as well as the cast," Samberg told People. "We're all in touch and kind of discussing how you make a comedy show about police right now, and if we can find a way of doing that that we all feel morally okay about."While this statement makes it sound like there's some question of whether the show will return at all, Samberg remains confident. "I know that we'll figure it out, but it's definitely a challenge," he says.While the main characters of the show are generally likable, crooked cops and a corrupt system are often the show's villains, and Captain Raymond Holt--played by Andre Braugher--frequently discusses the discrimination his character has faced as a gay Black man in the NYPD. But this does not make it, necessarily, easier for many viewers to see the police force presented as heroic. The show's cast, alongside showrunner Dan Goor, made a $100,000 donation to the National Bail Fund Network in June.GameSpot's Play For All--a celebration of all things gaming--is ongoing. Join us as we bring you the summer's hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.Info from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Vigor, the free-to-play shooter that has seen 4.5 million players on Xbox One, is now available on Switch Eshop too--although right now you can't play it for free. The game has launched alongside a Founder's Pack, which must be bought to play the game.The Founder's Pack will set you back $20, and it contains the following items and benefits:Early access to the game before the Free-to-Play releaseFounder UniformVigor Baseball CapGesture "Dust-off Hands"Crowns (in-game currency, valued at $40)This is a time-limited pack, although we're not sure how long it will be available for. The full free-to-play release will come later this year.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Actor Tom Holland is seemingly getting back to work on a new project. The Spider-Man actor recently posted a video to his Instagram story that showed him getting what appears to be a coronavirus test. He did not seem to enjoy the throat swab very much, as you can see in the video.It appears Holland was getting tested as part of a health and safety protocol for an upcoming project. It's unclear what that might be. However, you can hear people speaking in German in this video, which might provide a clue.Holland told Jimmy Kimmel in April that he was all set to start filming the Uncharted movie in Germany when production got shut down due to COVID-19. Now, just because someone in his Instagram story is speaking in what sounds like German, that doesn't necessarily mean this swab test was for the Uncharted movie.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Harvest Moon, and now Story of Seasons, have thrived on their personality above all else. With each entry in the series offering fresh story and minimal improvements to gameplay, replaying one of the older titles is asking for disappointment, even if it has a new coat of paint. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town brings the 2003 Game Boy Advance title into 2020 with enjoyable cutesy graphics and personality, but does little to add depth to the already outdated gameplay..After choosing from an extremely limited set of character customization options, you set out to take over a farm left to you by your late grandfather, where you once spent the summer 20 years ago. It's unclear why your character left whatever life they had behind, but you are quickly thrust into the day-to-day work of maintaining a farm, starting with crops.Growing crops is one of the main methods of making money, but progression is slow. You can't improve your crop yields in any meaningful way until the option to buy better farm soil becomes available in the second year, which is 25 to 30 hours into the game. Upgrading the watering can allows you to tend to more crops at once, but the increased stamina usage makes for minimal improvement to your crop yield.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first Deadly Premonition.The first Deadly Premonition was an anomaly, a seemingly unintentional oddity that enjoyed cult success by happenstance. It was an oxymoron of character development and unpredictable storytelling accompanied by a clunky, unintuitive gameplay experience. Its sequel, Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise, follows suit; however, though the return of the original's off-kilter writing, outlandish characters, and disturbing twists is an exciting prospect, it all feels diluted this time around, missing many of the flavor notes that defined its predecessor. There are incredible moments worth experiencing, all of which are held together by the game's protagonist, Francis York Morgan. But inexcusably poor performance issues (even by Deadly Premonition standards) make it hard to recommend to anyone outside the existing fandom. And even then, Deadly Premonition 2 stumbles in some of the places that made the first truly special.The game flips between the past and the present, first beginning in 2019, which is 10 years after the Greenvale case from the first game. FBI agent Francis York Morgan, now Francis Zach Morgan, has neither fully recovered from the tragic loss of his love, nor the revelation of his dual identity, and is now a retired recluse in his Boston, Massachusetts apartment. Seeing Morgan for the first time is jarring; he looks frail, sick, and alarmingly grey. He doesn't come off as slick and charming as he once did, but rather deranged and unstable, murmuring and talking to himself in the midst of a hoarder's dirty apartment--it's a stark contrast from the agent we know and love. The once illustrious agent, regaled for his inexplicable, and rather supernatural, investigation techniques, is now under scrutiny by the very bureau he once worked for.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-09
The experience of waking up with a foggy mind in a weird, unfamiliar hotel room is already distressing, but there are myriad ways it could be even worse. Let's say you blacked out so hard that not only do you not remember last night, you don't remember anything at all. Making things even more upsetting, there's an unconscious woman with her hands tied up laying in the bathtub. The real kicker, though, would be seeing a news report with your face on it describing you as a wanted serial killer. And now someone's knocking on your door…Death Come True is the latest project from Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka. Much like that beloved adventure series, Death Come True places the protagonist in a horrifying, deadly situation where the only way out is to uncover the mystery of what's really going on. But the approach here is very different: Where Danganronpa told its twisted sagas of death and despair through visual novel-style presentations, Death Come True is presented as a live-action film with branching paths. While the heavy use of full-motion video (FMV) has seen an interesting comeback in games like Her Story and Control, Death Come True hearkens back to the simpler, experimental FMV adventure games of the mid-'90s--all the while reminding us of what was good and bad about those titles.Protagonist Makoto has no idea where he is, how he got here, or even who he is--save for the TV report describing him as a serial killer--but he knows something's deeply amiss in this hotel. Things quickly go from bad to worse when Makoto, through your choices, makes another unsettling discovery: When he dies, he wakes up again in the same hotel bed to restart and repeat the same sequence of events over again, so not even death can free him from the bizarre reality he's trapped in.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-08
A group of America's biggest movie theater chains has filed suit against the state of New Jersey over forced closures due to coronavirus. AMC, Cinemark, and Regal are among the companies arguing in court that the restrictions violate their freedom of speech.THR reports that the theaters claim the state government is using "unconstitutional and unlawful distinctions" by allowing some public spaces to open but not others. In particular, the complaint from the National Association of Theatre Owners of New Jersey says that Stage 2 of the state reopening plan includes retail stores and shopping malls, but not movie theaters. It also notes that the state has allowed places of worship to reopen. It says that the distinction between these spaces is "arbitrary and irrational.""By this Complaint, Plaintiffs challenge Defendants' unconstitutional and unlawful distinctions in allowing certain places of public assembly to reopen, while requiring movie theatres to remain closed," the complaint states. "COVID-19 represents a serious public health risk, and Plaintiffs support fair and reasonable actions by the government to address that risk. However, the government-mandated total closure of movie theatres is neither fair nor reasonable, and is instead a violation of Plaintiffs' First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, Equal Protection of the laws, Due Process under the law, and is a Taking of property without just compensation."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-08
Earth Defense Force: World Brothers, the latest title in the save-the-world-from-giant-bugs series, is coming to the West on Nintendo Switch and PS4 early next year, GameSpot can exclusively reveal. It features a voxel art style that's a big departure from the series' usual bleak and foreboding visuals.D3 Publisher, which co-develops and publishes the series with Sandlot, XSEED Games, and several other studios, said that the change in style is meant to help their developers create a "fun and casual EDF to enjoy while [fans] wait for the next series title." You can check out a new trailer below."We will continue to do our best to make this series constantly evolve for players," said Earth Defense Force: World Brothers producer Nobuyuki Okajima. "However, doing so gives our dev teams tremendous pressure, leading us to longer development cycles for each title."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-08
British film magazine Empire has published a new photo and some information offering more of a peek into the upcoming film adaptation of Monster Hunter. The movie, written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (who has worked on other game adaptation movies like 1995's Mortal Kombat and 2002's Resident Evil), is due out on September 4 and is said to be a thriller featuring "massive monsters in lush natural landscapes with a variety of ridiculously over-sized weapons."Milla Jovovich reveals why she chose to wield the iconic Dual Blades in the #MonsterHunter movie adaptation – exclusive image: https://t.co/agpuPFdcja pic.twitter.com/ZMYRNZz96W — Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) July 7, 2020The film stars Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, and Ron Perlman, though many other major elements have yet to be announced or disclosed. The Empire piece explains that Jovovich and her husband Anderson are both "huge" fans of the Capcom series, and that her character, Artemis, isn't canon but is meant to be a "grounded, relatable real-world character who is fresh to the world of Monster Hunter" to help create a way into the game's world and lore for newcomers.Speaking about Jovovich and her film character, Anderson explains that, "Although Milla’s character's not specifically in the game, she chose the same armor and weapons she uses in the game, so there were aspects of her game character that got folded into the movie representation."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-08
For ages mankind has wondered, how can we put Hilary Swank on Mars? Well, executive producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights) and first-time show creator Andrew Hinderaker have an upcoming Netflix series about just that. And now there's a teaser trailer up, showing us Swank on her way to Mars feeling sad that she can't be with her family. In Away, Swank portrays Emma Green, an American astronaut leading an international crew on Earth's first mission to Mars. The first teaser shows off the lonely, isolated mood of the show, which Netflix describes as, "a thrilling, emotional drama on an epic scale that celebrates the incredible advancements humans can achieve and the personal sacrifices they must make along the way."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com
2020-07-08
Streaming giant Netflix has given the green light for a new season of its hit historical drama The Last Kingdom. The cast has confirmed on social media that The Last Kingdom will return for Season 5.In a two-minute Instagram video, various cast members announced the news of The Last Kingdom's renewal. According to Variety, Season 5 will consist of 10 episodes, though a release date has yet to be confirmed. The renewal comes approximately three months after the release of The Last Kingdom Season 4, which arrived on Netflix on April 26.The Last Kingdom is based on a series of novels called The Saxon Stories by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell. There are 13 books in total, with the latest, War Lord, scheduled to publish this October.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com