After being announced at E3 this year, Shadow of the Colossus‘s PS4 remake became one of the console’s most anticipated games. The action game was critically acclaimed when it launched on PS2 in 2005, and playing it in HD on PS4 is a tantalizing proposition.
Thankfully, we got to play a small slice of the game at Paris Games Week, and we were impressed. Bluepoint, the team handling the port, appears to have done a great job of modernizing the game and improving its visuals. On the gameplay front, the biggest change is jump now being mapped to X rather than Triangle, a change that threw Tamoor off when he first sat down with the game. The tweak makes sense, however, and helps the game feel less like the 12 year old title it is. Tamoor also thinks the game feels a touch faster now, but in a good way. See more of his thoughts in the video at the top of this article. Note: we were only able to capture off-screen gameplay.
Developer DICE has announced that Nivelle Nights–a Battlefield 1 map previously exclusive to owners of the Premium Pass or the They Shall Not Pass expansion–is going free for everyone. The map is set at night time in northern France, and will be going free on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in “early November.“
“Early November” will also see the start of Battlefield 1’s new Operations Campaigns. The first, called Eastern Storm is coming very soon, combining In the Name of the Tsar‘s Brusilov Offensive and Red Tide Operations into one Campaign.
Looking ahead, a new DLC pack, called Turning Tides, is slated for an initial release sometime this December. It will include two new maps (Cape Helles and Achi Baba), two vehicles (the L-Class Destroyer and L-Class Airship), a new Elite class (the Infiltrator), a new Operation (Gallipoli), and new specializations, service assignments, and unlocks. A month later, we’ll get two more maps (Heligoland Bight and Zeebrugge) and a new faction, the British Royal Marines.
Turning Tides is the third major DLC pack for Battlefield 1 to date, with the Apocalypse expansion still to come in “early” 2018. In the meantime, check out everything in the latest Battlefield 1 update.
LA Noire is coming to Nintendo Switch in just a few days, but you may have some difficulty in playing the game if you don’t own an SD card. The Eshop version of LA Noire for Switch comes in at 29 GB, making it too big to fit on the console’s internal memory.
The Switch contains 32 GB of storage built in, but Nintendo states “6.2 GB of internal memory is reserved for use by the system.” That means you’ll need to buy extra storage if you want to download the 1940s detective game to your Switch.
For comparison, Bethesda told Rolling Stone that Doom’s upcoming Switch port has a campaign and arcade mode that “fit on a 16 GB cartridge,” though the multiplayer mode is a separate 9 GB download. We don’t yet know how big the total game will be if you were to purchase it from the Eshop.
Developer Blizzard is testing the change on Overwatch’s PTR as it feels Resurrect “still feels too strong and frustrating to play against,” even though the company believes “Mercy’s recent rework has been successful.”
In a blog post, the developer continued: “Now that [Resurrect] has a cast time, there is more room for enemies to counter the ability. However, casting Resurrect happens instantly when Valkyrie is active. This should make her feel powerful when she transforms on the battlefield.”
Ana has also been tweaked. Her Biotic Rifle now does 70 damage rather than 60, as it did previously. “Ana has been outshined by other support heroes lately,” Blizzard stated. “Boosting her damage will help her defend herself and make her more threatening to the enemy team.”
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 are not yet live in the live game (and may never go live there), as Blizzard wants to continue experimenting before implementing anything.
Developer Comment: Ana has been outshined by other support heroes lately. Boosting her damage will help her defend herself and make her more threatening to the enemy team.
Mercy
Resurrect
Cast time increased from 0 seconds to 1.75 seconds
Mercy’s movement speed is now reduced by 75% while casting
Can now be interrupted when Mercy is knocked back, stunned, or hacked
Valkyrie
When activated, Resurrection no longer has a cast time
Developer Comment: We feel that Mercy’s recent rework has been successful, but her Resurrect ability still feels too strong and frustrating to play against. Now that it has a cast time, there is more room for enemies to counter the ability. However, casting Resurrect happens instantly when Valkyrie is active. This should make her feel powerful when she transforms on the battlefield.
Bug Fixes
Fixed several issues that prevented the announcer voice lines from playing correctly in Competitive, Elimination, and Capture the Flag game modes
Fixed an issue causing Roadhog’s Chain Hook to latch on to enemy players for longer than intended
With October behind us, November is here, and Hulu has shared a full list of new titles coming to its streaming service this month. In addition to new episodes of your favorite TV shows, November will see the debut of some notable Hulu original series and a slew of new movies to watch.
The most notable addition for the month is sure to be the series premiere of Marvel’s Runaways, the streamer’s first comic book adaptation. From Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the creative duo behind The O.C. and Gossip Girl, Runaways tells the stories of six teenagers who learn their parents are supervillains.
Future Man, from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, will bring time traveling comedy to Hulu. Josh Hutcherson stars as a janitor that might also be the savior of the universe.
As for movies, popular titles like 13 Going on 30, Ocean’s Eleven, and Terminator 2: Judgement Day will become available to stream. Additionally, 21 James Bond films have debuted on Hulu, giving subscribers access to almost every single film starring the famed secret agent, prior to Daniel Craig taking on the role. The only early film that’s missing is 1967’s Casino Royale.
Take a look at the full list of what is arriving and departing Hulu in November below.
November is here, and it’s going to be a big month for subscribers to Amazon Prime. The service’s streaming video component is beefing up its library heading into the end of the year with original TV shows and movies–including the critically acclaimed The Big Sick.
The big news for Amazon in November comes in the form of a secret agent, though. As with Hulu, a large piece of the James Bond film library is now available–practically every film from 1962’s Dr. No through 2002’s Die Another Day. The one omission is the original Casino Royale, which starred David Nivens as 007.
Another major arrival to Prime is three Thursday Night Football games, taking place throughout the month. Matchups featuring the Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks, and Pittsburgh Steelers will be available live exclusively through Amazon Prime Video.
EA has released a new FIFA 18 update for PS4, Xbox One, and PC players, bringing with it a bunch of gameplay changes, bug fixes, and aesthetic tweaks. Most interestingly, passing will no longer be as accurate when passing “blindly” through 90 – 270 degrees from the direction you’re facing. That means if you receive the ball and instruct your player to pass it directly behind the way they’re looking, that pass will be slower and have reduced accuracy.
In addition, EA says it has resolved issues where goalkeepers would parry the ball into their own goal, and goalies’ diving has been improved when facing downward headers and volley shots. Finally, the update includes the previously-announced return of co-op play in FUT Online Seasons.
The patch, dubbed Title Update 3, actually launched on PC a week ago, but has only just been released on PS4. You can take a look at the full patch notes at the bottom of this article, via EA. A separate FIFA 18 Nintendo Switch update was released just recently, bringing a similar set of small improvements and bug fixes.
In other FIFA news, EA says the US national team’s failure to qualify for the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1986 will not affect the franchise’s sales. “The World Cup is the world’s largest sporting event and it is followed by all people around the world who love soccer or football, depending on what they call it where they come from,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said. “Does it heighten their enjoyment if their national team is participating? Of course. But we don’t see people stopping watching a World Cup just because their team is not there. As you think about the US in particular, we are a very multicultural country.” For more on the popular sports game, check out our feature on FIFA 18 vs PES 2018.
FIFA 18 Title Update 3 Patch Notes
Made the following changes in Gameplay:
Made ground passes and ground through passes less effective when blindly passing the ball between 90 and 270 degrees, where 0 degrees is the direction the player is facing.
The most significant impact will be seen when the pass angle is between 140 and 220 degrees.
The impact scales when the pass angle is between 90 (least impact) and 139 degrees and between 221 and 270 (least impact) degrees.
The passes impacted by this change will see:
Reduced ball speed.
Reduced accuracy.
Disabled user controlled reactions, when locked to a player, when the goalkeeper is holding the ball.
Addressed the following issues in Gameplay:
The goalkeeper sometimes parrying the ball into his own goal.
The goalkeeper diving too early on downward header and volley shots.
Players sometimes becoming invisible during a match.
Dragbacks not working when rapidly tapping the modifier button.
Players being unable to string together multiple stepovers.
The goalkeeper, in some situations, being unable to throw the ball after making a save close to the goal line.
The player automatically passing the ball from a set piece after the game had been paused in an Online match.
An issue with Custom controls where movement with the directional buttons was not working when locked to a player.
Made the following changes in FIFA Ultimate team:
Added the Objectives tile to the Pause Menu in all FUT Online modes.
Added Guest Mode in FUT Online Seasons and FUT Online Draft.
Disabled the FIFA Trainer within FUT Champions.
Addressed the following issues in FIFA Ultimate team:
An issue in Squad Building Challenges where tagging a group of challenges would make it unselectable.
ICONs displaying their current age on in-game overlays.
Wrong badge showing for your opponent on the Online Season’s Match Preview screens.
Objective Completed visual notification not displaying correctly for some Daily/Weekly Objectives.
Alignment of the text on Manager League items.
An issue with the effects shown during the pack opening animation.
The icon of your rank in Squad Battles displaying incorrectly when claiming rewards.
Addressed the following issues in Online Modes:
Players crashing when matching up in Pro Clubs Friendly Matches in certain situations.
Players would not receive invites in Pro Clubs Friendly Matches in certain situations.
Addressed the following issues in Career Mode:
Players crashing during the first game of the season in certain situations.
Made the following changes in Audio / Visual / Presentation:
Updated the Chile National Team kits and crest to be authentic.
Addressed the following issues in Audio / Visual / Presentation:
The volume of the audio in the Cristiano Ronaldo celebration.
Some issues with crowd flags displaying the wrong images.
Some visual issues with the Bundesliga broadcast package.
Situations where the ball would appear to go through the goal netting.
An issue where a player on the ground would incorrectly animate as flipping or spinning.
Developer DICE has announced that Nivelle Nights–a Battlefield 1 map previously exclusive to owners of the Premium Pass or the They Shall Not Pass expansion–is going free for everyone. The map is set at night time in northern France, and will be going free on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in “early November.“
“Early November” will also see the start of Battlefield 1’s new Operations Campaigns. The first, called Eastern Storm is coming very soon, combining In the Name of the Tsar‘s Brusilov Offensive and Red Tide Operations into one Campaign.
Looking ahead, a new DLC pack, called Turning Tides, is slated for an initial release sometime this December. It will include two new maps (Cape Helles and Achi Baba), two vehicles (the L-Class Destroyer and L-Class Airship), a new Elite class (the Infiltrator), a new Operation (Gallipoli), and new specializations, service assignments, and unlocks. A month later, we’ll get two more maps (Heligoland Bight and Zeebrugge) and a new faction, the British Royal Marines.
Turning Tides is the third major DLC pack for Battlefield 1 to date, with the Apocalypse expansion still to come in “early” 2018. In the meantime, check out everything in the latest Battlefield 1 update.
When Ron Howard took over as director of the upcoming Star Wars spin-off Solo: A Star WarsStory back in June, the film was reportedly only a few weeks away from the completion of principal photography. However, Howard continued to film throughout the summer and fall, and only wrapped production this month. It has now been reported that he has reshot almost the entire movie.
The news comes via The Resistance Broadcast, a podcast associated with Star Wars News Net. The show’s sources claim that up to 80 percent of the movie has been reshot, with a dramatic increase in the movie’s budget.
Solo: A Star WarsStory stars Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, with Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Emilia Clarke also star. It hits theaters on May 25, 2018.
The much-anticipated reboot of the classic ’80s sci-fi action movie Predator is released next summer, and although we’re yet to see any footage from The Predator, a few details have started to emerge. A cool motion poster was revealed via the franchise’s official app last week, and now star Thomas Jane has been speaking about the movie.
In an interview on Shadow Nation, Jane provided the first clue as to what The Predator is actually about–and it sounds amazing. The actor explained that the film will focus on a group of “shellshocked” soldiers, who are arrested and are in the process of being transported to an army hospital. However, one of the soldiers is being targeted because he has seen the Predator ships come to earth.
“They’re going to take that bus, drive it down to a ditch and shoot us all just to get rid of this one guy,” Jane explained, via AVP Galaxy. “But, of course, we take the bus over. We’re all like, ‘Let’s go kill these f***ing Predators ourselves!’ And we’re just crazy enough to believe that this guy really did see a UFO and there’s these aliens out there. So that’s kinda cool!”
Jane went on to talk about working with director Shane Black, who previously helmed Iron Man 3 for Marvel and last year’s comedy thriller The Nice Guys. “I can just say I had a blast,” he said. “We had a great cast, with this terrific ensemble with all these great actors. And Shane Black wrote and directed it, so it has that kind of Shane Black humor. We had a blast. It was funny.
“You know the Predators, you know they didn’t f*** those up. They’re still Predators and they’re pretty much the same Predator as always. I think it might be great. I tell you the acting is going to be pretty good. I’m going to be good in it!”
The Predator was originally set to arrive in March but will now hit theaters on August 3. It also stars Boyd Holbrook (Narcos, Logan), Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Keegan-Michael Key (Keanu, Key & Peele), Sterling K. Brown (The People v. OJ Simpson), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse), and Jacob Tremblay (Room).
