One foot in the grave.
Borderlands 3’s box art is brilliant, but what if it followed the format of previous instalments? You may recall that the first game in the series showed a bandit with a finger pistol pointing at his head; the second entry than expanded on this idea with two finger pistols. Well, developer Gearbox did try to keep the theme alive – but it eventually gave the concept the boot.
See what we mean below:
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Judas.
Cyberpunk 2077 fans had been hoping for a Bad Romance, with rumours of Lady Gaga joining the project as both a cast member and one of its composers. CD Projekt RED, however, has maintained its Poker Face on the subject – until now. Speaking with WCCFTech, user interface co-ordinator Alvin Liu admitted that while the superstar would fit right in with the hotly anticipated role-playing game, she won’t be included.
To be fair, the developer could just be dancing around the subject, as the artist was snapped by Paparazzi at the studio’s Warsaw offices earlier in the year. It’s already landed John Wick icon Keanu Reeves for the game, so there’s no question that the company has serious celebrity pull these days. We’re still holding out hope for this collaboration – but at this point we’ll be Speechless if it actually happens.
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Massive increase for PS4 exclusives.
Sony’s annual Days of Play promotion has become a big part of the PlayStation calendar, with a surprising number of exclusive titles making the June 2019 NPD software best-sellers list. Discounted favourites such as Marvel’s Spider-Man, Days Gone, MLB The Show 19, and God of War all made the month’s Top 20 in the United States – with Insomniac Games’ superhero smash hit occupying seventh place.
The period was dominated by the Super Mario Maker 2 and Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled double-header, in a month that saw software sales largely flat year-over-year. Hardware, however, was down 33 per cent year-over-year – perhaps owing to the point in the generation. As a result, overall industry spend is down four per cent when compared to the same period in 2018.
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Suit up.
Are we the only ones more interested in Iron Man VR than next year’s Marvel’s Avengers? It’s shaping up to be a really great PlayStation VR game, and it looks the part too in this latest behind the scenes trailer. Check it out above.
Amongst snippets of interviews with the developers of the title, we get brief glimpses of new gameplay that has us excited. The team at Camouflaj has been working tirelessly to make sure flying feels right, alongside an immersive HUD that really makes you feel like the next Tony Stark. It’s pitched as an open-sandbox experience that’ll have you travelling at great speeds and slowing down for tighter turns, while boost will have you speeding away all over again.
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Avengers gameplay after Gamescom.
We already knew that the Marvel’s Avengers gameplay demonstration wouldn’t be making its way out of the San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H, but it really doesn’t sound like there much was for attendees to get excited about anyway.
We followed the panel through a live blog, and for saying that surprises were most definitely promised, they didn’t exactly deliver. Iron Man VR took to the stage with a behind the scenes developer-focused video, that while did look good, didn’t result in any sort of release date.
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First-party developer on the move.
It’s all change at MLB The Show developer Sony San Diego, which seems to be the latest team under the PlayStation first-party umbrella to be leveling up. The studio – which also houses the Product Development Services Group and, purportedly, an entirely new unit rumoured to be working on an original Uncharted title in collaboration with Naughty Dog – has fresh digs and a revised logo.
According to employee Alex Gombos, the new office includes an open air break room, upgraded meeting rooms, and cold brew and kombucha on tap. It’s not the first PlayStation developer to expand, as Sony Santa Monica, Sony Bend, and Guerrilla Games have all moved into new buildings recently as well. It aligns with comments made by president Jim Ryan: that PlayStation is continuing to invest into first-party.
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“We’ve thought about it”.
In what would be an unprecedented instance of video game swapsies, Oculus bigwig Jason Rubin has said that his company would “love” to trade exclusive games with competitor Sony. The former Naughty Dog man told Kotaku that “they have great stuff that they’ve funded and we have great stuff that we’ve funded”.
The insinuation, perhaps, is that if PlayStation were to port a title such as Blood & Truth to the Oculus Rift, it would be willing to return the favour with a release such as Lone Echo. It’s unlikely to happen, of course, but the virtual reality space is generally more collaborative than the console one, so there’s the smallest sliver of a chance.
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Releases this October.
Update: SEGA has now officially announced Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD for PS4. It’s actually releasing in the West slightly earlier than in Japan; you’ll be monkeying around with this updated re-release on 29th October 2019. Have a watch of the first teaser above.
Banana Blitz HD features revamped controls, updated visuals, online leaderboards, and a brand new mini-game decathlon mode that sees you play 10 mini-games in a row. It’ll be available for £34.99 / $39.99.
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Wow.
We hope you’re ready for more awesome Witcher content, because those mad lads over at Netflix have released a brand new shot of Geralt (Henry Cavill) all saddled up on his trusty steed, Roach (a horse).
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Super Strongstyle.
Strongstyle, a legendary community-ran Tekken tournament, returned for the seventh time this past weekend. Taking place in San Jose, California, it featured some of the best Tekken 7 players in the world, but this was a team tournament — something that we don’t see all that often here in the West.
Teams were made up of three players, with each player having two lives. This meant that most matches took over half an hour to complete, but it made for some surprisingly tactical tournament play. It’s also worth noting that players were stuck with just one character throughout the competition, so team composition and deciding who should step up and when were key factors.
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