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  • New Injustice 2 Video Breakdown Shows Off Next DLC Character, Enchantress

    NetherRealm has shared a new trailer for its superhero fighting game, Injustice 2. The new video provides our first look at the game’s next DLC fighter, Enchantress, who is slated to arrive on the roster for some players very soon.

    Fittingly, Enchantress battles primarily using her magical powers. She can create clones of herself to attack other fighters from a distance, and at one point in the new trailer, she encases an opponent in a block of ice. NetherRealm provided an even closer look at Enchantress in action during a livestream today. You can watch her moveset breakdown above, while her reveal trailer is embedded below.

    Enchantress is the second character from Injustice 2’s Fighter Pack 3; the first, Atom, was added to the game’s roster last month. She’ll be followed by another surprise addition to Injustice 2: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. NetherRealm announced the quartet back in November, but the developer still hasn’t shared any details on how the characters will play or whether players will get to choose which Turtle they take into battle.

    Enchantress will be available for all PS4, Xbox One, and PC players who purchased the Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Ultimate Pack, or Fighter Pack 3 beginning January 9. Everyone else will be able to purchase her individually one week later, on January 16. Previous Injustice 2 DLC characters cost $6, while the Fighter Pack 3 runs for $20.

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  • Independent Games Festival Awards Nominees Announced

    The Independent Games Festival has announced its nominees for this year’s awards, with critically-acclaimed indie games like Night in the Woods and Baba is You topping the list with multiple nominations.

    In total, 35 games have been nominated for the awards, which will be given out in March at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. It’ll be hosted by Trent Kusters, co-founder of League of Geeks, the Australia-based development team behind Armello.

    The most-nominated game is Baba is You, a puzzle game that allows players to alter the rules and game logic to help them solve puzzles. The adventure game Night in the Woods, known for its exploratory gameplay and iconic cat characters, has received several nominations too, and so has Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, a sadistic climbing game that rewards players who reach the top of the mountain. All three games are nominated for the $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize, along with West of Loathing, Into the Breach, and Heat Signature.

    The IGF awards will be announced immediately before the Game Developers Choice Awards, which highlights all sections of video game development. Follow GameSpot for full coverage of the winners, and check out the full list on nominees below.

    The alt.ctrl.GDC award is also returning to IGF Awards. For the second year, it will honor the most creative and unique video game controller, with a prize of $3,000 given out to the winning game. IGF Award winners will receive more than $50,000 of prizes in various categories, both the IGF Awards and the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremonies are available to attend for all GDC 2018 pass-holders. They’ll also be livestreamed online.

    Seumas McNally Grand Prize

    Excellence in Visual Art

    Excellence in Audio

    Excellence in Design

    Excellence in Narrative

    Nuovo Award

    Best Student Game

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  • Wonder Woman Star On James Cameron's Criticism: “I Didn't Want To Give Him The Stage”

    Wonder Woman Star On James Cameron's Criticism: “I Didn't Want To Give Him The Stage”

    Wonder Woman was one of 2017’s most successful movies, achieving strong reviews and huge box office results. It ended the year with a global gross of $821.8 million, and the sequel is set for a 2019 release. There was, however, one person who wasn’t happy with the film–Avatar and Terminator director James Cameron. In August, Cameron criticised the movie, calling it a “step backwards” for strong female movie characters. Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has now spoken about Cameron’s comments, and explained why she didn’t address them at the time.

    “I didn’t want to give him the stage,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “First of all, I’m a big fan of his work. His movies are great. He was very innovative in many things that he did, and I’ve got nothing but great things to say about the creative and professional side of his work. When it happened, the timing of when it happened, he was promoting another movie of his. It was like he was looking for publicity and I just didn’t want to give him the stage.”

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    As Gadot states, Cameron’s comments coincided with the announcement that he is producing the next Terminator movie, which will see the return of Linda Hamilton in the role as Sarah Connor. “All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided,” he said. “She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing. I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie but, to me, it’s a step backwards.

    “Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit. And to me, [the benefit of characters like Sarah] is so obvious. I mean, half the audience is female!”

    Although Gadot was reluctant to comment at the time, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins did offer a strong rebuttal to Cameron’s criticism. “James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman,” she said. “There is no right or wrong kind of powerful woman.”

    In related news, Jenkins recently hinted at what fans can expect from Wonder Woman 2 when it arrives in November 2019. She described it as a “funny and a great love story again [with] a couple of new unbelievable characters who I’m so excited about, who are very different than were in the last movie.”

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  • Overwatch's Mercy Nerfed Yet Again On PTR

    Overwatch‘s Mercy has been the subject of many changes over the past few months, and now developer Blizzard is changing her yet again. In the latest Public Test Realm update, the company has tweaked her Ultimate, Valkyrie, so it no longer makes her Resurrect ability instant, and it no longer gives a bonus Resurrect charge. In addition, Valkyrie’s duration has been reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds, and the speed boost that the Ult grants to Guardian Angel has been cut in half.

    Mercy has been subject to a number of changes recently, but Blizzard thought the hero’s Valkyrie and Resurrect combination was still too strong. “Mercy’s recent Resurrect changes have helped in allowing enemies to have more counter-play in dealing with her, but she was able to use Resurrect through Valkyrie enough to largely mitigate the impact of the previous changes,” the company said in a forum post. “Additionally, we’re toning back the amount of mobility Valkyrie provides through Guardian Angel and reducing its duration to overall reduce the power of this ability.” The developer concluded by saying it will “likely be iterating on these changes in the coming weeks.”

    Elsewhere in the new update, Junkrat’s Concussion Mine will now deal less damage to enemies far away from the explosion’s center. Blizzard argues it had become “a bit too easy to throw out huge bursts damage in a large area,” and that this tweak will still allow players to use his mines effectively, but also force them to be more accurate.

    These changes are live now on the PTR, which you can check out if you own Overwatch on PC. However, be aware that these latest changes have not yet come to the live game (and may never arrive there), as Blizzard wants to continue experimenting before implementing anything.

    Outside of the PTR, Overwatch has a new map and event coming “very soon,” while a new hero is already in testing. The game’s esports event also starts next week, and you can read more about that in our primer for everything you need to know about the Overwatch League.

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  • A Big Rainbow Six Siege Exploit Is Getting Fixed, But PS4 And Xbox One Players Will Have To Wait

    A very irritating Rainbow Six Siege exploit is finally getting fixed soon. The glitch allows players to become much harder to kill by equipping a ballistic shield onto Jager’s head if they perform a series of button presses, and it has plagued the shooter for months.

    Thankfully, Ubisoft has now said its internal tests of a fix for the bug have been successful, and it is “in the process of preparing a build to be deployed next week.” The company said it did not yet have an exact date for the patch, but that it was targeting “earlier in the week.”

    However, this update will seemingly only come to PC players for the time being. Regarding a PS4 and Xbox One fix, the company stated, “There are aspects outside of our control that prevent us from being able to deploy a patch at this point in the year. As a result, we have included the fix in our next scheduled patch (mid-season reinforcements).” The latest season of Rainbow Six Siege DLC, Operation White Noise, launched in December, meaning the mid-season reinforcements update could be expected within the next couple of months.

    After that, a third year of DLC for the multiplayer game will begin to roll out. Lots more content will arrive throughout the year, including new characters, maps, co-op events, and more. You can already buy the Year 3 season pass–it’s available now for $30 / £25 / AU $45. Purchasers can expect a bunch of VIP benefits such as extra credits, customization options, and shop discounts. If you grab the pass before March 5, you’ll also get a special Damascus Steel weapon skin, and if you owned the Year 2 pass, you’ll receive an extra 600 credits. For more on the Tom Clancy game, meanwhile, check out our in-depth look at Rainbow Six Siege’s astonishing comeback.

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  • X-Men Spin-Off Show The Gifted Renewed For Second Season, Staying On Fox For Now

    X-Men Spin-Off Show The Gifted Renewed For Second Season, Staying On Fox For Now

    With the success of Fox’s X-Men movie franchise, it was only a matter of time before the Marvel mutants moved to the small screen. 2017 saw the premiere of two acclaimed shows, Legion and The Gifted. It has now been announced at the Television Press Association winter press tour that the latter will return for a second season.

    The show’s first season has enjoyed solid viewing figures, with an average of 8.3 million viewers across all platforms. However, Disney’s recent $52 billion deal to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets had cast some doubt over the future of Marvel-related shows such as The Gifted, as Fox’s Marvel movie properties like X-Men and The Fantastic Four are expected to be integrated into Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, Disney plans to launch its own streaming service in 2019 and it is likely that its Marvel properties will have a heavy presence there.

    Despite this, The Gifted is remaining on Fox’s broadcast network for at least one more season. It is also worth noting that unlike the X-Men movies, Marvel was involved with development of the TV show, as it retains some of the TV rights to the characters.

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    The Gifted stars Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White, and focuses on a suburban couple who are forced to go on the run from government agents when they discover that their children are mutants. The showrunner is Matt Nix, who previously produced Burn Notice.

    In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in September, Nix spoke about juggling the different creative forces involved with the show. “It’s weirdly much better than you think and much worse than you think,” he said. “My feeling truly about everyone involved in the process is that they all really care about this, and nobody’s stupid. They have all been down this road and know how to deal with it. The thing for me is that everybody gives really smart input, so it’s my job to square, like, four different kinds of notes.

    “Fox, for example, is very respectful of the source material. It’s incredibly important to them, and they are conscious of wanting to make a show for everybody. You don’t want to just service one fandom. At the same time, Marvel very rightly is protecting their property, so they’re saying, ‘This is the way this works, this is how these powers work, this is who this character is historically in the comic books.’”

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  • PUBG-Like “Battlegrounds” Game Mode Coming To Hero Shooter Paladins

    Paladins, a free-to-play hero shooter that has previously been compared to Overwatch, is launching a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds-like battle royale mode. The new mode is simply called Battlegrounds, and it’s coming to Paladins at some point in 2018.

    Battlegrounds will spawn 100 players into a “massive map” that developer Hi-Rez says is over 300 times the size of a typical Paladins Siege map. Success in Battlegrounds will involve exploring the territory and looting its outposts for gear. Where Battlegrounds differs from PUBG, however, is that players are put into squads and must work together to be the last team standing. Check out a trailer for the new mode below.

    Paladins is not the first game to add a free battle royale mode. Warface added a similar mode in November, while Fortnite added a free, standalone PUBG-style mode in September. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp took issue with Fortnite’s version, saying, “We are concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is known.”

    It’s no surprise other developers have tried to emulate PUBG’s formula. The game has been wildly successful, and recently passed 3 million concurrent users on Steam alone. That milestone came after finally reaching its full 1.0 release on PC. PUBG also launched on Xbox One in December, albeit still in early access. It was a quick hit there, selling 1 million copies in its first 48 hours. The game has now sold over 30 million copies across both PC and Xbox One.

    Developer PUBG Corp. recently said it wants to bring the game to “every platform,” so a PlayStation 4 release could be in the cards. Additionally, the developer said it has spoken with Netflix and people in Hollywood about extending the game to new mediums. For more on the hit multiplayer game, check out our PUBG review.

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  • Original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Just Got Updated, 12 Years After Launch

    EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II may have launched towards the end of last year, but that hasn’t stopped the original Star Wars: Battlefront II from being improved. The classic game has just received a new update on PC, over 12 years after its launch.

    The patch is relatively minor: Disney says it includes things like minor bug fixes and improved lobby functionality. Steam usernames should also now be displayed correctly in-game, while ping calculations will be more accurate going forward. Check out the full patch notes, via Disney, at the bottom of this article.

    Star Wars: Battlefront II received a major update back in October, when online multiplayer support was restored after it being switched off years ago. It also added cross-play support between GOG and Steam users.

    EA’s newer Battlefront II, meanwhile, recently received some free DLC centered around The latest Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. It added two new maps and new hero characters, among other things. As for the film itself, we thought the film had issues, but successfully developed the sequels’ characters and subverted series tropes well. For more, check out our Star Wars: Last Jedi review.

    Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) Patch Notes

    • Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:
      • Lobby functionality has been improved.
      • Steam usernames should now display correctly.
      • Ping calculations are more accurate.

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  • New Destiny 2 Update Re-opens Faction Rally And Iron Banner For Non-DLC Owners

    As part of its continued effort to expand the amount of content available to non-DLC owners, Bungie has released a new Destiny 2 update on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Rather than address any bugs or exploits, this patch deals exclusively with undoing the studio’s previous decision to lock those who haven’t purchased Curse of Osiris out of content they had access to previously.

    Bungie has shared patch notes for hotfix update 1.1.1.2, which is now available following a batch of server maintenance. It makes good on Bungie’s previous announcement to expand both Iron Banner and Faction Rally, which became inaccessible to non-DLC owners after Curse of Osiris’s release. The brief, complete patch notes for the new update follow at the bottom of this post, but they boil down to letting everyone access the two events.

    Community manager David Dague recently teased that these changes were coming as part of this update. The most recent Faction Rally event, which would have been the first as part of the game’s Season 2 that started with Curse of Osiris, was scheduled to take place in mid-December. But Destiny 2 players were outraged over the newly imposed DLC paywall, and Bungie canceled the event “to ensure all of our players can access the activity and the appropriate rewards.”

    A new date for the next Iron Banner or Faction Rally has not been announced, but Dague said, “Updates to the live calendar [will] come next week.” Once they do return, existing Season 1 rewards from the events will still be available to all players. But new seasonal rewards, which will include armor ornaments, will be limited to those who own Curse of Osiris.

    Update 1.1.1.2 is now available on all platforms. Unfortunately, it doesn’t address the Warlock Super glitch in Crucible’s Mayhem mode, but Bungie warned players in December that it would not be able to fix it before The Dawning event comes to an end on January 9.

    Destiny 2 Update 1.1.1.2 Patch Notes

    Iron Banner

    • Players who do not own Curse of Osiris may once again access Iron Banner when available

    Faction Rallies

    • Players who do not own Curse of Osiris may once again pledge to Factions during Faction Rally events

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  • The Original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Just Got Updated, 12 Years After Launch

    EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II may have launched towards the end of last year, but that hasn’t stopped the original Star Wars: Battlefront II from being improved. The classic game has just received a new update on PC, over 12 years after its launch.

    The patch is relatively minor: Disney says it includes things like minor bug fixes and improved lobby functionality. Steam usernames should also now be displayed correctly in-game, while ping calculations will be more accurate going forward. Check out the full patch notes, via Disney, at the bottom of this article.

    Star Wars: Battlefront II received a major update back in October, when online multiplayer support was restored after it being switched off years ago. It also added cross-play support between GOG and Steam users.

    EA’s newer Battlefront II, meanwhile, recently received some free DLC centered around The latest Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. It added two new maps and new hero characters, among other things. As for the film itself, we thought the film had issues, but successfully developed the sequels’ characters and subverted series tropes well. For more, check out our Star Wars: Last Jedi review.

    Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) Patch Notes

    • Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:
      • Lobby functionality has been improved.
      • Steam usernames should now display correctly.
      • Ping calculations are more accurate.

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