Now this is good news. THR is reporting that the sequel to Goon, the awesome cult hockey movie starring Seann William Scott, will be directed by actor Jay Baruchel, making his directorial debut with this film. Baruchel is a major proponent behind the entire film, as he’s co-writing the screenplay with Jesse Chabot, and also starring again as Seann William Scott’s character’s friend Pat. Of course they’ve got Seann William Scott back as violent hockey player Doug “The Thug” Glatt and they’re already gearing up to start filming in June in Toronto. I’ve got a good feeling about this, it all sounds quite promising, especially with Baruchel. It was also revealed the title of this follow-up is Goon: Last of the Enforcers. Bring on the hockey fights. ›››
This sounds like it’s going to be so much fun. The first photo from the new Michel Gondry film has hit the web. Gondry moves quickly and quietly when working in France, we didn’t even know this was shot yet. Microbe et Gasoil, as it’s titled (or Microbe and Gasoil), is already filmed and stars Ange Dargent and Théophile Baquet as the two boys, along with Audrey Tautou. This first photo won’t make sense until you hear the plot, then you’ll have a big smile on your face when you realize. “As the summer holidays approach, the two friends don’t want to spend two months in the company of their families, so they build their own ‘car‘ out of a motor mower and some planks of wood, and set off on an adventure on the roads of France.” ›››
“It’s heaven!” Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Darren Aronofsky both present (for US release) the latest film from Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, titled A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. This not only wins the award for best film title of the year, but it’s also one of the most original and visionary creations I’ve seen, unlike any other cinematic work out there. The film premiered at Venice & TIFF last year (where I saw it) and earned mostly positive reviews, so fans of Andersson have nothing to be worried about. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is a movie about “being a human being”, exploring abstract ideas and concepts connected to existence. It’s an absurdly masterful head trip worth experiencing. ›››
Xbox One Outsells PS4 in April: A surprise, perhaps, as NPD data for April released on Thursday showed that Microsoft’s Xbox One console outsold Sony’s, in the United States at least. The PlayStation 4 remains the cumulative sales leader for the US, however, but Microsoft appears to be narrowing the gap.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Revealed: Ubisoft formally announced this year’s game this week, slating the 1868 London game to arrive for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 23. Read this roundup post for everything you need to know about the game.
The Witcher 3 Gets a Perfect Score: Becoming GameSpot’s ninth ever perfect 10 out of 10 is CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Read Kevin VanOrd’s review here and check out this post to see all the games that we’ve given perfect scores to in our history.
THE OTHER STUFF:
The folks behind excellent YouTube series Did You Know Gaming have published their latest video, this one talking trivia about Nintendo’s uber-popular Wii console. Check it out.
Streaming giant Twitch continues to spread to new platforms. It’s now available on streaming box Roku, the company announced this week. The service is already available on more platforms you can say in one breath, including Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Chromecast, and Amazon Fire TV.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the first-ever global Heroes of the Storm tournament, which offers up a total of $1.2 million in prizes. Get all the details about the new event, which kicks off in the coming months and culminates with the final round at BlizzCon in November, right here.
A new update for PlayStation 4 racing game Driveclub coming later this month will raise the game’s level cap to 55. The update, 1.15, also adds new cars and lots more. But there’s still no word on when the free PlayStation Plus version will arrive. Get all the patch notes here.
What? How? Are you kidding me? Yep.
IGN has the scoop on a canceled Rock Band spinoff called Rock Band Sessions. Get all the details in this story here.
Finally, Angry Birds is coming to virtual reality. I’m skeptical about a lot of VR games, but this one sounds particularly interesting. Get the full story over at Road to VR.
What a lovely day. The team behind upcoming post-apocalyptic indie game Bedlam this week released a new poster inspired by the Mad Max franchise, which has returned to theaters with Fury Road. Check out the poster below, and read more about Bedlam at the game’s website here.
Is Microsoft preparing to announce a 1TB Xbox One? It appears that way, as a retailer listing suggests the console will be released in June, just days after E3. Hmmm. Of course, Microsoft already already offered a 1 TB console through last year’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare bundle, but this would be something new.
Here’s something to make you feel old. This week marks the ten year anniversary of the Xbox 360 announcement event in May 2005. Elijah Wood was there! The Killers were there! It was quite the spectacle. Re-live it through this video.
The New Yorker has a terrific interview with Sean Murray of Hello Games about the developer’s ambitious PlayStation 4 project No Man’s Sky. Grab a cup of coffee and put your feet up, this is a good read.
The World of Warcraft Leeroy Jenkins video is now a decade old. That’s right, it was ten years ago that Ben Schulz charged into battle and launched one of the best gaming memes. Re-live the video through this Eurogamer story and video.
Here’s something to hold you over until The Witcher 3 launches next week. GameStop has launched a new promotional page for the game that lets you hunt down monsters in Google Maps. Pretty cool! Check it out here.
The English translation of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s earnings presentation was published this week. In it, he talks about Nintendo’s plans for smartphone games, the new NX console, the company’s new theme park deal with Universal, and lots more. Read the full Q&A here.
Someone has cosplayed as the kid holding the baguette from BioShock Infinite. That’s amazing. Check out the photos below and here:
Resident Evil publisher Capcom has outlined a new takeover defense plan. But it’s not as ominous as it sounds, though. Check out the full document here.
Remember that selfie at the Oscars two years ago? Here’s what it would look like with Naughty Dog characters. Amazing!
The Rockstar Editor is being put to good use. Someone has now re-created Breaking Bad‘s famous parking lot scene (don’t click if you haven’t watched!) in the game. It’s really good.
UPDATE 10:05 PM PDT — Sony’s online services should now be back online.
UPDATE 7:45 PM PDT — The official AskPlayStation support twitter’s last message reads: “We appreciate your patience as we continue working to resolve the PSN issues.”
We appreciate your patience as we continue working to resolve the PSN issues. For current status: http://t.co/0H0knweLYq
And as many people in the comments below have reported, attempting to login online prompts Sony to send an “update your password” email.
The original story appears below.
Are you having trouble logging into your Sony PlayStation Network account? You’re not the only. The service is currently down across both the web and consoles.
According to the , the outtage is far-ranging and affects everything from account management on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 to access to severices such as Vue, Video, and Now.
The message on the site currently reads, “You may be experiencing issues related to launching games, applications, and/or social features such as trophies, messaging, or friends list. We appreciate your patience while we address this.”
We’re currently looking into causes for the problem and when a fix will be incoming. We’ll update this story with more details when they’re available.
It’s a good sale all around. You can check out all the deals (which run from now until May 18) below, or check out the PlayStation Store hubs for PS4, PS3, and Vita games.
PS4:
Title
Platform
Sale Price
Original Price
Don’t Starve: Console Edition
PS4
$4.95
$14.99
Don’t Starve: Console Edition + Reign of Giants Expansion
“While our free offer to upgrade to Windows 10 will not apply to non-genuine Windows devices, as we’ve always done, we will continue to offer Windows 10 to customers running devices in a non-genuine state.” Myerson said in a blog post published today.
“Non-genuine Windows has a high risk of malware, fraud, public exposure of your personal information, and a higher risk for poor performance or feature malfunctions,” he added. “Non-genuine Windows is not supported by Microsoft or a trusted partner.”
Myerson did, however, tease that Microsoft is preparing some kind of incentive to get people with non-genuine Windows copies to switch over to a legitimate copy of Windows 10.
“In partnership with some of our valued OEM partners, we are planning very attractive Windows 10 upgrade offers for their customers running one of their older devices in a non-genuine state,” he said. “Please stay tuned to learn more from our partners on the specifics of their offers.”
As Mary J. Foley of GameSpot sister site Zdnet points out: “Non-genuine Windows copies are not always pirated copies. Sometimes users unknowingly purchase Windows copies that certain resellers or retailers are passing off as legal, which are counterfeit and/or tampered with. Sometimes there are false positives, via which legal copies of Windows show up as illegally licensed.”
Per the terms of Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade offer, all PCs running Windows 7 and 8 will be eligible for a free upgrade to the new OS for the first twelve months following Windows 10’s launch. Microsoft has not yet announced how much Windows 10 will cost after this period.
In just about four days’ time, the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained–the new project from longtime Castlevania developer Koji “IGA” Igarashi–has raised more than $2 million. That’s four times its initial goal, and as a result, a number of stretch goals have been met, and more are close to being met.
Thanks to raising enough money to hit various milestones, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will pack a number of features it wouldn’t have otherwise. These include local co-op, Boss Rush mode, cheat codes, voicework from David Hayter, and more. Assuming the crowdfunding campaign continues to rake in money–it has until June 12 to add to its current $2,026,550 total–we’ll soon see two more tantalizing features.
At $2.25 million, Bloodstained will get a retro level. This area of the castle will feature retro-style graphics that the developers say approximate to those of a 16-bit game (or slightly newer).
Following that, at $2.5 million, is something called Classic mode. Here, portions of the game will be reworked into a linear experience that “reward[s] timing and survival instead of backtracking and exploration.”
“IGA and company are still too early in the planning process to promise anything, but right now he’s envisioning six punishing stages,” a Kickstarter update reads. “In grand classic platformer fashion, you’ll be weaker and the enemies will be stronger, and forget about saving yourself by grinding–no RPG elements here.
“If you’ve always preferred your castles punishingly difficult, straightforward, and scrolling from left to right, this is the stretch goal for you.”
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may not have gotten into programming had it not been for video games, the 31-year-old billionaire said this week during a town hall Q&A meeting. As part of his presentation, Zuckerberg advised parents to let their children play video games.
“Letting them play around with stuff is one of the best things you can do,” Zuckerberg said, as reported by USA Today.
Zuckerberg grew up in upstate New York, which typically gets hammered by lake effect snow. He shared that, because his sisters wouldn’t have snowball fights with him, he decided to build a snowball fighting video game. “It was a terrible game,” he said, but pointed out that working on such projects is what inspired him to get into computer programming.
“I do think this dynamic around kids growing up, building games and playing games, is an important one because I think this is how a lot of kids get into programming,” he explained. “I definitely would not have gotten into programming if I had not played games as a kid.”
“Most of the engineers I know, who are some of the best engineers in the world, are self-taught,” he added. “We need to work on this to get more exposure out to people.”
Also during the Q&A, Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook’s overall goal for its Oculus Rift headset is to eventually update the design over time to look more like “normal glasses.” The Oculus Rift consumer model launches in the first quarter of 2016, meaning it should arrive before April 2016.
Facebook paid $2 billion to buy Oculus VR, developer of the Rift headset, in March 2014.
In addition, Zuckerberg talked about the potential for augmented reality technology like Microsoft’s HoloLens. Though Microsoft may have a working prototype at the moment, Zuckerberg said he doesn’t foresee technology of this nature truly taking off for years.
“It’s going to take five, seven, 10, maybe 12 years to build that out, to have something that really works and is cheap enough for everyone around the world to use,” he said.
What do you make of Zuckerberg’s comments? Let us know in the comments below.
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