Category: Gameinformer

Sega has announced that Team Sonic Racing has been delayed to May 21, 2019. The title was originally scheduled to launch this December, but a statement released by Sega says the delay will enable the team to “deliver the highest quality experience to fans” and “hone the title to enhance the player experience to ensure Team Sonic Racing delivers the best gameplay experience possible.”

Team Sonic Racing lets players select from 15 characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe and compete in team-based kart races. Each character fits into one of three classes (speed, power, or technique) and provides bonuses to the characters he or she is aligned with. Uses the three-character teams, players can gift items, request items, and even draft to slingshot around teammates.

For more on Team Sonic Racing, check out my impressions from E3. Team Sonic Racing now hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on May 21, 2019.

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Not content with just the Detective Pikachu movie, film studio Legendary has announced plans to create an adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga/anime. The popular manga tells the story of a young boy in a world where everyone has some kind of super power and his own struggles to be recognized as a hero. 

The manga has been running since 2014 following a one-shot issue that Horikoshi had published a few years prior with a very different concept. The original pitch put protagonist Deku as an older salaryman who eventually got wrapped up in a superhero battle. When it finally started as a series in the weekly manga magazine Shonen Jump, Deku was a young teenager who joined the world’s most prestigious superhero school.

Beyond announcing their intentions with it, Legendary did not provide many details. Executives Alex Garcia, who was announced in 2014 to be shepherding a Mass Effect film, and Jay Ashenfelter, best known for producing Pacific Rim Uprising, will be leading the charge on the movie for Legendary.

The My Hero Academia fighting game, My Hero One’s Justice, is releasing on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 26.

[Source: Deadline]

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In a weirdly cryptic manner, Nerf has announced that they are partnering with Fortnite for presumably a line of guns based on the game’s weaponry. Nerf says so in an Instagram post, simply showing the logos of both Nerf and Fortnite with the caption “Who’s ready to add some gold to their loadout?”

Fortnite has a number of different guns, some of the explosive variety, so it will be interesting to see which ones that Nerf decides to make for their decidedly less lethal soft variants. It would also be kind of neat if the partnership worked both ways and Fortnite added in some well-known Nerf guns for the game, so we can live out the Nerf War dream commercials taught us to have when we were kids.

Details about the partnership should be coming soon, but I imagine Nerf and Epic will want these on the shelves before the holiday shopping season.

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Invites to Sony’s new PS4 firmware beta 6.10 have begun to go out, and with it plenty of changes are coming to the system including the option to change your PSN handle. However, players receiving the invite have begun to report a bizarre laundry list of potential issues associated with the name change in a disclaimer attached to the invite. 

According to forum users on Reset Era, players receiving the invite are being warned to be aware of the “software’s restrictions,” noting that players might experience some issues with the name change. 

Among the myriad problems reported in the disclaimer, games and apps may not function properly. Players may lose access to paid-for virtual currency and DLC. Saved game data may be lost, which includes leaderboard status, progress made in-game, and trophy data. And your former PSN handle may remain visible to both you and other players even after you change it. 

For players who’ve logged hundreds of hours in their favorite game, or racked up some elusive trophies, this simple ID change could prove costlier than expected. 

According to forum users, players can revert their name back to their original ID once during the preview period, with this rule applying to multiple accounts. If there are any issues associated with the change, you can also revert back to your original ID free of charge. However the disclaimer also warns that reverting back to your original ID may not solve all the problems that come with the first change. 

[Source: Reset Era]

Our Take
For players who’ve received the invite but also accumulated hundreds of hours, trophies, and experience under their current online ID, it might be worth it to create a new profile to try out the beta, or just skip it entirely. We can’t image it’d be worth it to lose all that progress just for a name change that other players might not even see.

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The Pokémon Company has released a short video showing off Meltan and the Pokémon’s evolution, meaning that we’ve now seen two entries for what appears to be the 8th generation of Pokémon. The video, which you can watch below, has Professor Oak’s character model from Pokémon Let’s Go and Professor Willow from Pokémon Go talking to each other over a video call about Meltan. The two have massively different art styles so the whole thing is real weird.

Meltan becomes Melmetal by converging with other Meltan and becoming an absolute unit. This is kind of similar lore-wise to Pokémon like Dugtrio and Magneton, but also tends to match thematically with how Pokémon Go treats leveling up and evolution as a consequence of catching Pokémon of the same breed repeatedly. In this case, it is 400 Meltan candies to evolve into a Melmetal, or just transferring him to Pokémon Let’s Go and doing it the traditional way.

Melmetal looks like it would not be out of place in Pokken, either, and would almost certainly be a command grab character. In Pokémon Go, its unique move is called Double Iron Bash, which spins its arms around on an axel. Like other Pokémon, if you have Melmetal in Pokémon Let’s Go, it can follow you around like some sort of Golem body guard.

Pokémon Let’s Go releases on November 16 on Nintendo Switch in Eevee and Pikachu variations.

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EA and DICE have outlined its post-release roadmap for Battlefield V, giving players who are looking forward to the shooter’s take on battle royale a better sense of when it’s coming. What are you doing in March 2019?

In addition to providing an estimated release for Firestorm, EA runs down the timeline for Battlefield V’s Tides of War, which is their name for the games live-service component (click the image to enlarge). The first chapter will come out a few weeks after the game’s November 20 launch, bringing new maps, a practice range, and a new single-player mission. The second chapter arrives between January and March, adding the 32-player Squad Conquest mode, the co-op Combine Arms mode, and additional challenges. Firestorm is part of chapter three, which starts in March. In addition to the battle royale mode, it adds a Greece map, which has a focus on aerial combat.

[Source: EA]

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Fortnite’s Fortnitemares promotion has begun, bringing loot-dropping cube monsters to Battle Royale in a limited time event as part of a larger 6.20 patch.

The event brings with it new weapons (the Six Shooter, Fiend Hunter crossbow), the reactive Deadfire outfit that changes the better you do in a match, and new sets of challenges with new rewards such as the Dark Engine Glider.

Earlier today Epic reported matchmaking problems and disabled Fortnitemares in Battle Royale, so check the Epic status page in case of any future issues.

Fortnitemares is also coming to Save the World with the Vlad Moon Rising questline featuring past Fortnitemares heroes.

For more info on the event and update, head over to the official patch notes.

[Source: Epic Games (1), (2)]

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100 Thieves

Musician Drake, who made Headlines when he joined streamer Ninja on a Fortnite stream, has seemingly decided to get deeper into gaming circles by investing in gaming brand 100 Thieves.

The Emotionless Drake, seen standing here with 100 Thieves found Matt ‘Nadeshot’ Haag, are joined by entertainment mogul and investor Scooter Braun, who represents artists like Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber. Both Drake and Braun are now co-owners of 100 Thieves, which a lifestyle brand focused around gaming and esports as a central idea. 

The brand has raised $25 million in funding over the last few years and seems poised to do more through design and apparel produced in-house, which tends to sell out in a matter of minutes. 

[Source: Forbes]

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