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Juggernaut gaming franchises Call of Duty and Fallout already have their own beer, and now another one of gaming’s biggest names, Mortal Kombat, is getting involved. Warner Bros., Sound Brewery, and Global Beverage Traders have announced a series of beers based on the fighting game Mortal Kombat X (via Polygon).

Here’s what they look like (full descriptions below):

The beers include a “Scorpion” imperial stout, a “Sub-Zero” imperial IPA, and a “Raiden” imperial saison Belgian-style ale. All of them aim to “match the intensity and excitement” of the game with their “bold flavors.”

Here are the official descriptions for each brew, along with the ABV.

SUB-ZERO IMPERIAL IPA

• Refreshingly cooling on a warm day, an Imperial India Pale Ale that’s not all about the hops or the malt but is a whole lot of both fighting it out for your palate’s supremacy. Drink icy for more of the hops or warmer for more malt. 8.5%

RAIDEN IMPERIAL SAISON

• This amped up Imperial Saison has a blast of hops and CO2 that will hit your tongue with a bang. The aroma jumps out of the glass with its earthly and herbal notes not far behind. 8%

SCORPION IMPERIAL STOUT

• A unique blend for great Imperial Stout brings both fire and ice into your glass. The fiery southwest chilies and cooling Madagascar Vanilla Bean pair nicely with the exotic notes produced by our own yeast strain. 8%

These are officially licensed brews; they come in 22oz bottles and will be available through a “limited release.” They were made by Sound Brewery in Poulsbo, Washington.

For more on video game beers, check out the links below.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops III Gets Its Own Beer, Called “Black Hops”
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III Beer Taste Test [VIDEO]
• Fallout 4 Beer Promises “Hoppy Taste and Floral Aroma”

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Double Fine’s beloved platformer Psychonauts is coming to the PS2-on-PS4 program “soon, but not this week,” Sony announced on the PlayStation blog today. Back in January, Sony confirmed Psychonauts was coming to PS4 this spring, but has not yet announced an official release date; there are only a few more weeks left in spring.

According to DualShockers, Sony initially said the release was scheduled for June 7, but that is not the case. “Psychonauts is coming out soon, but not this week. Apologies for the error. Stay tuned for final timing!” Sony explained.

Psychonauts was originally released in 2005 for PS2, along with the first Xbox and PC. A sequel was successfully funded on Fig earlier this year, raising more than $3.3 million.

When Psychonauts is released on PS4, it will become the 27th game in the PS2-on-PS4 program. The most recent addition was Primal, which came out on May 31.

In December 2015, when the first PS2-on-PS4 games were released, PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida said Sony will work “tirelessly” to release even more PS2 games for PS4 “on a regular basis.” The company is also asking for your suggestions for which games should be added.

On the subject of price points for the PS2-on-PS4 games, Yoshida said the emulation technology that makes it possible, among other things, doesn’t necessarily come cheap. That’s why Sony is charging $10-$15 for games you might already own.

PS2-on-PS4 Games:

• Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
• Bully
• Dark Cloud
• Dark Cloud 2
• Fantavision
• Grand Theft Auto III
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• GTA: The Trilogy
• Kinetica
• The King of Fighters 2000
• Max Payne
• Manhunt
• Okage: Shadow King
• PaRappa the Rapper 2
• Primal
• Psychonauts (“soon”)
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
• Rise of the Kasai
• Rogue Galaxy
• Star Wars Bounty Hunter
• Star Wars Jedi Starfighter
• Star Wars Racer Revenge
• The Mark of Kiri
• Twisted Metal Black
• War of the Monsters
• Wild Arms 3

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Halo 5‘s Warzone Firefight expansion, the Xbox One shooter’s biggest since launch, is coming out at the end of the month. In 343’s latest weekly blog post, the developer shared a status update for how it’s coming along and teased more about what it contains.

“A wide variety of teams are hard at work to get their final work and polish completed,” 343 said. “These include the Warzone team, who are finishing up the PvE mode, the Warzone Boss Refresh we first mentioned in the last issue, and more.”

343 also released images of some of the new Warzone Firefight bosses players will encounter–they look badass. They each have Ultra-class armor, 343 said. Check them out in the images below.

Additionally, while May’s second free update, Hog Wild, did not include any new maps, that won’t be the case for Warzone Firefight. 343 said in the blog post that players can expect “new places,” while the update will also deliver “new tools of destruction.”

Additionally, 343 teased that there are “a few surprises” about the Warzone Firefight expansion that have not been announced yet. One of these could be related to Forge.

343 shared the image below, which appears to suggest the 7 Wood melee weapon might be making a comeback. 343’s Tom French said about the teaser image, “No idea what it might be for.”

The full blog post contains other details about what went on at 343 and across the Halo universe this week. Check it out here.

Warzone Firefight will be Halo 5’s seventh free expansion. The other ones were The Battle of Shadow and Light (November), Cartographer’s Gift (December), Infinity’s Armor (January), Hammer Storm (February), Ghosts of Meridian (April), Memories of Reach (May), and Hog Wild (May).

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Frontwire, the developer behind the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront III remake, Galaxy in Turmoil, has announced that Valve has agreed to host the game on Steam. This is a big change, as Frontwire had previously told its fans it might not be possible (on Steam proper or Steam Greenlight) due to its use of the Star Wars IP. But there was a breakthrough recently.

“It is with great pleasure that as of today I am able to officially announce that Frontwire Studios has officially signed a distribution deal with Steam/Valve for the game Galaxy in Turmoil,” Frontwire president Tony Fergie Romanelli said in a statement. “After ongoing discussion between Valve representatives and myself, Valve/Steam has agreed to ship Galaxy in Turmoil to its millions of users for FREE.”

Since Galaxy in Turmoil will make use of the Star Wars IP, and is unlicensed, you might be wondering if Disney will come forward to shut it down, even though Frontwire won’t charge for it. Romanelli shares some of those concerns, but he isn’t overly worried, it sounds like.

“I’ll be honest–I’ve had mild concerns myself from time to time,” Romanelli explained. “However, Valve clearly lacks that same concern. By agreeing to publish Galaxy in Turmoil, Valve is assisting us in growing and ensuring the longevity of the Galaxy in Turmoil project and community as a whole.”

Romanelli shared an image of Galaxy in Turmoil’s Steam page, but it does not appear to be live on the platform just yet.

For more on Galaxy in Turmoil, which runs on Unreal Engine 4, check out this roundup of everything we learned from a recent livestream.

Despite numerous and detailed evidence about its existence and development, LucasArts never actually confirmed that Battlefront III was in fact in production. The game has long been the subject of much rumor, speculation, and head-butting.

EA launched a new Star Wars Battlefront game in November for PlayStation 4,Xbox One, and PC—it was a big, big hit. Multiple sequels are apparently also on the way.

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Each week we search and gather up the coolest comic book art you won’t see in actual comics. The reason you won’t is because professional artists often draw sketches for fun or commissions and post them on their websites, blogs, and Tumblrs. Some artists even arrange commissions through their sites so be sure to check them out. This is a way to see the artists working on one book draw characters from other comics or publishers.

Ryan Lee posted some commissions from Cherry Capital Comic Con on his Twitter.

Skottie Young posted a couple of Daily Sketches on his Tumblr. You can check if they’re still up for sale here.

Ryan Stegman posted more sketches on his Tumblr. He’s been putting art up for sale here.

Andrew Robinson posted commissions from Megacon on his Instagram.

Khary Payton posted a couple recent commissions on his Instagram.

Marcio Takara posted some commissions on his Tumblr. You can find out about getting his latest sketchbook with a sketch on the back or regular commissions there.

Franco posted a couple sketch covers on his Instagram. Check here for original art.

Chrissie Zullo posted some new commissions on her Facebook page.

Jim Cheung posted new art on his Instagram page. To watch a time-lapse video of the Superman drawing, click here.

Tom Raney posted new art on his Twitter. He’s at Phoenix Comicon this weekend.

Chris Giarrusso put more sketch cards up for sale on his website.

Ramon Perez posted commissions from Megacon on his Instagram.

Brett Booth posted a Bumblebee sketch (with colors by Andrew Dalhouse) on his Twitter.

Agnes Garbowska posted commissions from Megacon on her Tumblr. She’s at Fan Expo Dallas this weekend.

Todd Nauck posted a Mockingbird drawing on his Tumblr. He’s at Phoenix Comicon this weekend.

That’s it for this week. Let us know which ones you dug. We’ll have more awesome art next time.

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Players have added Star Wars ships, the fictional sport Quidditch from Harry Potter, and a live avalanche to Halo 5: Guardians with the game’s Forge mode. Now, one creative player has recreated the zero-gravity Battle Room from Ender’s Game, and you can have actual battles just like the ones from the book and movie.

Reddit user Aurelien-131 is the minigame’s creator, and he showed what the mode looks like in a GIF he posted to the gaming subreddit. The Battle Room in Ender’s Game hosts battles between two “armies,” where they can shoot to freeze each other and open their enemy’s gate to get in. Aurelien couldn’t recreate this perfectly in Halo 5, so they put a twist on it.

Players start with plasma pistols that have infinite ammo. For the gates, they put strongholds that work in a similar way to the movie–in Ender’s Game, five people need to get through the gate to end the battle, while a Halo stronghold gets captured faster as more people stand within it. Capturing the stronghold wins the match, but you can also kill all enemy players if you want to take a more violent approach. Whoever takes three rounds first wins the match.

Aurelien offered some advice to people who want to play his Ender’s Game-like mode.

“Since playing Halo with no gravity is probably not a common occurrence for most of you, I’ll add this tip: Going up is as simple as jumping, but going back down can be tricky,” they said. “Ground pounding is the obvious choice, but for a slower and more controlled descent you can simply zoom in so that your stabilizers activate, which will make you fall when you let go. As a last resort you can also boost to the nearest wall and the downward slope of the sphere will guide you down.”

They added that “8v8 is ideal” for this mode, though 4v4 should be fine. You can read their entire post here.

It was recently announced that Halo 5’s Forge tools would make their way to the PC later this year. A PC version of Halo 5 was not announced, though people will be able to make Forge maps on PC and publish them for use on Xbox One.

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