Category: Gameinformer

Netflix

Netflix has gone on a tear in the last two months cancelling Marvel TV shows. Initially, Iron Fist’s cancellation spurred speculation that Disney was bringing its licenses home to the company’s own streaming services. At the time, Netflix tried to assuage fears by saying those shows won’t be going away until they themselves decide so. Two days after that, Luke Cage got cancelled, and now it appears Daredevil has had the axe lowered on to it.

According to Deadline, the show about the blind superhero in Hell’s Kitchen won’t be renewed for a fourth season, despite critical acclaim for the most recent batch of episodes. 

“While the series on Netflix has ended, the three existing seasons will remain on the service for years to come, while the Daredevil character will live on in future projects for Marvel,” Netflix told Deadline, indicating that Daredevil is ripe for a revival on Disney’s own service. Considering Matt Murdock’s crossover with the rest of New York’s more well-known superheroes in the Marvel comics, he could even be a good candidate to graduate to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

With the cancellation of Daredevil, only Jessica Jones remains uncancelled from the Netflix and Marvel deal, though if the pattern holds, the private investigator probably does not have long for this world.

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Today, Major Nelson announced the addition of three new titles to the Xbox One’s backward compatible roster. Fans of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning can now resume their hack and slash role-playing on the Xbox One. Fans of the blue hedgehog will also be happy to hear Sonic Unleashed is now backward compatible and players can continue their fight against the xenomorphs with the now-backward compatible Aliens vs. Predator.

As of today, there are over 500 Xbox 360 titles now available for play on the Xbox One, so if you still haven’t made the jump to the current-gen system, there’s never been a better time. If you own the Xbox One X, some select Xbox 360 titles can even be played with enhanced graphics such as Assassin’s Creed, Gears of War 2, and Halo 3.

Backward compatible titles will instantly be available for download if you’re still using the same online profile from your Xbox 360 account, and if you used cloud saved games, you can pick up where you left off on either console. Players can also download backward compatible titles by inserting the corresponding game disc or purchasing the title from the Xbox live marketplace.

A few weeks ago at XO18, it was announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be joining the backward compatible roster. Players can vote on which Xbox 360 games they’d like to see join the ranks by going to the Xbox feedback website. While not every game Xbox 360 game is currently backward compatible, more titles are being added on a routine basis. 

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Pocket Camp, the iOS and Android mobile device Animal Crossing game, released on November 21 back in 2017 and in order to celebrate the game’s one-year anniversary, the game has been updated to version 2.0. Some of the affiliated updates are minor, like the ability to skip some scenes, but it also adds more intriguing things like “the cabin feature”. You can check out the full list of updates below.

• Added the cabin feature.
• Added the Fave Photo feature.
• Made some updates to the Friend List.
• Made it possible to skip some scenes.
• Increased inventory size for clothing and furniture.
• Increased inventory size for items (bugs, fish, etc.).
• Made it possible to unlock more inventory space for items (bugs, fish, etc.).
• Adjusted on-screen display.

We don’t know a whole lot about what’s next for Animal Crossing, but we do know a new entry is making its way to Switch. You can read more about that here.

[Source: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp]

Our Take
I haven’t touched Animal Crossing on my phone in some time… but I also haven’t deleted it and that says something. I am seriously considering loading it back up, but at this point it has been like eight months since I checked in. My campsite can’t be pretty.

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Dragon Ball Super: Broly is a new Dragon Ball movie that will be making its way to North American theaters in January and it has some known quantities: Goku will be in it, Vegeta will be in it, Broly will be in it, and they will fight. A new 30-second clip from the film released today adds another character to the list: Gogeta.

You can check out the clip below which showcases the character as they take on Broly in some impressive fight sequences that will presumably appear in the final film.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly hits theaters on January 16. For more on the movie, head here.

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Anthem is a game that BioWare has been very clear will change and grow after it officially releases. In interviews the developer has taken a “never say never” approach to potential gameplay features, so make sure you keep that in mind while reading this tweet from producer Mark Darrah responding to a fan query on twitter.

The definite news you can take from Darrah’s response is clear – Anthem will not have cross-platform play at launch. Xbox players will not be playing with PC players on February 22. But, it also implies that cross-play could be in the game’s future, and optimistically could potentially leap the PS4 hurdle. We have our fingers crossed, but also aren’t holding our breath.

For a whole lot more on Anthem, head here.

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Rockstar opened up its Red Dead Redemption II shop a few months back, which includes a variety of items themed to fit the game’s Old West sensibilities. Today, the company announced its collaboration with clothing company Barking Irons. The clothier’s Red Dead Redemption II collection features shirts and accessories designed with period-accurate flourishes.

The shirts pictured above will run you between $120-150, while the Henley below is priced at a comparatively more modest $92. The duffel is $325. While they’re considerably more expensive than the usual silk-screened gaming fare you’ll typically find at your local mall, these have the advantage of being a little more versatile than a T-shirt. Those are coming, too, but keep in mind that Barking Irons sells Billy Joel tees for $98.

You can check out the complete line here.

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Sunrise Entertainment

Fans of Shinichiro Watanabe’s 1998 classic animated series Cowboy Bebop remember the show for its specific character writing, jazzy soundtrack, and unemulatable style. Now, Netflix is hoping to capture some of Watanabe’s vision with a live-action series announced via their Twitter.

While details are scant, Variety reports that the series has been in the works for about a year and will have an initial run for ten episodes. Netflix themselves later tweeted, perhaps to calm the reaction to the initial announcement, that director Shinichiro Watanabe is a consultant on the series.

Cowboy Bebop rides the line between cult classic and mainstream hit, being one of the first recommendations anime fans make for almost universal acclaim. The series spawned a movie and multiple manga adaptations, becoming both a critical and commercial success. Some of the series’ most well-known aspects have permeated other media, like Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands series allowing players to release a banner into space with the words “See You, Space Cowboy,” prompting a NPC later to ask if that’s “some anime thing.”

Netflix has taken to adapting popular animated series as live-action, recently announcing an Avatar: The Last Airbender take as well.

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December’s free PlayStation Plus games will get your heart pounding in two very different ways. Soma, Frictional Games’ sci-fi survival horror, received a 8.5 from us back when it released in 2015. Tim Turi wrote that, “All the core genre tenets are still in place, wrapped in a tense, underwater setting that tells one of the most intriguing sci-fi stories in recent memory.”

While Onrush’s bright and colorful vibe is about as far from horror as you can get, the arcade-style racer will make your heart beat equally fast. You can watch Jeff Cork, Matt Kato, and Leo Vader in friendly car-smashing competition on this episode of New Gameplay Today.

PlayStation Plus members can pick up these two headliners as well as the critically acclaimed indies Iconoclasts – which Kyle HIlliad gave a 9 ­– and Papers, Please – developed by Lucas Pope, creator of recently released Return of the Obra Dinn.  

From December 4 to January 1, PlayStation Plus members can check out all these games along with Steredenn and Steinsgate, both originally for the PlayStation 3. Additionally, you can get Warframe: PlayStation Plus Booster Pack III with your PS Plus membership until January 15. Don’t forget to grab this month’s free games before December 4.

[Source: PlayStation Blog]

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QC Games – made up of developers formerly from BioWare – has announced that its online co-op action RPG Breach is entering Steam Early Access in January 2019 with a full, free-to-play launch later in 2019.

The game features a fluid class system encouraging customization and swapping as players work to defeat the player-controlled Veil Demon (and its minions) in an invasion of Earth by creatures from a mythical, parallel Earth.

You can sign up for possible inclusion in Breach’s alpha here.

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DrinkBox Studios’ Guacamelee 2 arrives on Nintendo Switch on December 10, and Xbox One next January. If you already played through the game on PlayStation 4 or PC, new content is coming your way, starting today with the release of the Three Enemigos DLC pack.

Retailing for $2.99, this DLC adds three playable characters to the mix. You can suit up as Jaguar Javier, El Muñeco, or Uay Pek, each bringing unique abilities and approaches to combat.

In December a second DLC pack arrives for $3.99, and adds 15 challenges to the game, along with a bevy of playable characters, including Chamoya Coscorrona, Uay Coco, Ramirez, Flame Face, and two others. Again, each of these characters performs differently.

Game Informer’s Kyle Hilliard reviewed Guacamelee 2 on PlayStation 4, and called it familiar to the first game, but still a riot. He said “with myriad combat and platforming improvements, a worthwhile story, and better challenges, this is the follow-up I didn’t know I wanted.”

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