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Overwatch‘s Roadhog will have his hook ability nerfed in the Public Test Realm very soon, according to the game’s principal designer Geoff Goodman.

On the shooter’s forum, Goodman details upcoming changes to Roadhog’s ability: “The hook victim will now move in to the position directly in front of Roadhog, rather than just a straight line towards him. There is a cap on how far ‘to the side’ you can be pulled, so you can’t just hook someone, spin 180, and dump someone off a cliff.”

Goodman goes on to describe how Roadhog can no longer hook someone who he can’t see, and a persistent line-of-sight check will cut the line between Roadhog and his victim if they drop out of sight mid-hook.

The changes are planned to go live in the PC PTR “very soon,” possibly even this week.

Goodman says elsewhere in the thread that he thinks Sombra “could use a bit of a boost,” suggesting she may get a buff in the near future.

Overwatch recently got a new map, called Oasis. It’s the first new content of 2017 for the hero shooter, but director Jeff Kaplan has promised many more updates for this year, including new heroes, maps, modes, and more.

Continued support is partly why we love Overwatch here at GameSpot–we awarded it our Game of the Year for 2016.

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Nintendo has re-registered a trademark for its acclaimed 2002 horror title Eternal Darkness.

The application was submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office on December 20, 2016, just three weeks before the Nintendo Switch is fully unveiled on January 12 / 13.

The application mentions “downloadable electronic game software,” suggesting a virtual console re-release could be on the cards. There’s no mention of any platform in the application, but it seems unlikely at this point for the game to be released on Wii U or 3DS and not Switch.

This isn’t the first time that Eternal Darkness’s trademark has been extended: Nintendo re-registered the game back in 2010, and again in 2013. No re-release has yet materialised, however.

There’s also no mention of the successor to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, Shadow of the Eternals. The semi-sequel was first teased in 2013, but the failure of its Kickstarter campaign put the project at risk. Creator Denis Dyack claimed in 2016 that the project was still alive, however.

In other Nintendo Switch news, the platform is rumored to be getting a third version of Pokemon Sun and Moon, as well as a new 3D Mario and a port of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Keep an eye on GameSpot for all the latest news on Nintendo’s new platform.

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Alien: Covenant will be getting a VR companion experience at some point this year.

As reported by The Verge, the virtual reality app is being produced by the film’s director, Ridley Scott, who also directed the original Alien in 1979. It’s apparently a collaboration between Scott’s production company RSA Films, VR production house MPC VR, and Twentieth Century Fox’s in-house VR department, the Fox Innovation Lab. The latter describes the experience as “a dread-inducing journey into the depths of the Alien universe.” There’s currently no news on which platforms the experience will be available on.

This isn’t the first time the Alien universe has been playable in VR. Alien: Isolation, the 2014 Creative Assembly game, had a pre-release VR demo, but that never materialised into a final commercial product. We awarded the final, non-VR game a 6 in our Alien: Isolation review.

Alien: Covenant, meanwhile, hits theaters on May 19. It recently got an action-packed first trailer, and director Ridley Scott explained why he’ll never make a superhero movie.

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