We now have two weeks until Mad Max: Fury Road hits theaters, and just after one final trailer for the big chase blockbuster arrived earlier this week, the first featurette taking us behind the scenes of the bonkers flick has arrived. The action in the trailers promises some mind-blowing stunts, and this featurette shows director George Miller on the desert set, with moving vehicles and all, showing just how berserk this film is going to be. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and more also offer their thoughts on Miller as a director and hype the film’s wonderful chaos. The more I see, the more excited I get to see this flick. Watch! ›››
Now that you’ve seen it, what did you think?“There is only one path to peace… your extinction.” Now playing around the world is Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the highly-anticipated sequel to Joss Whedon’s The Avengers from 2012. The whole cast is back for a superhero team-up unlike anything, but this time the villain is a creation of their own. Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Chris Evans as Cap, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as War Machine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision. Directed by Joss Whedon. So how is it? Better than the first? Once you’ve seen it, leave a comment with your thoughts on Avengers: Age of Ultron. ›››
“It’s a kind of horror that is worse than like in the movies.” One of the most terrifying films of the year won’t be a horror film that Hollywood cooked up with jump scares, it will be a documentary called The Nightmare. The director of Room 237 has turned his camera on subjects who suffer from sleep paralysis, a curious ailment shared by many across the globe, all with similar supernatural horrors and phenomena. This played at Sundance earlier this year, and it’s very unnerving and thought provoking. At the same time, there’s something about it that feels like it builds up the potential horror for the audience a little too much. ›››
PS4 Ships 22.3 Million Units Worldwide:PlayStation 4 sales continue to soar. As part of Sony’s latest earnings report this week, the company announced the new lifetime PS4 shipment tally. And Sony also said it expects to ship another 16 million new consoles in the current financial year.
Silent Hills Canceled, Konami Confirms:The strange developments at Konami continued this week, as the Japanese publisher officially announced that the horror game is no longer in development. It was going to be worked on by Hideo Kojima and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo delo Toro, starring Norman Reedus of Walking Dead fame, but it was not meant to be.
Valve Removes Paid Mods From Steam:Just a few days after Valve and Bethesda released a new paid mod system for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Valve removed the feature. “We’ve done this because it’s clear we didn’t understand exactly what we were doing,” Valve said at the time.
THE OTHER STUFF:
Microsoft has released the next Halo 5 teaser as part of the game’s Hunt the Truth website. This one’s a doozy, and well worth a listen for fans of the franchise looking forward to the new game. Listen to Episode 5 here, where you can also catch up on the first four.
From YouTuber AbsolutePab comes this excellent new Grand Theft Auto V video made using the game’s Rockstar Editor video tools. It’s called “Manhunt,” and it’s well worth a watch. Check it out.
Looking for a game to play on the go? The mobile port of Playdead’s acclaimed Limbo is now available on Google Play for just $1. Buy it here.
Shigeru Miyamoto is a living legend. Having created the Mario and Zelda franchises (among others), he’s affected the lives of millions of people the world over. But that doesn’t mean he’s a pro gamer. Watch this video to see Miyamoto die a lot in the upcoming Wii U game Mario Maker. Gameplay starts at around 2 minutes in.
Free-to-play PC and PlayStation 4 MMO War Thunder has reached a new user milestone. The World War II game now has an incredible 9 million players. What’s more, developer Gaijin Entertainment has released the game’s next major update, called Weapons of Victory.
Here’s another great video. Watch as Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye in The Avengers, sings a song about Mario Kart and getting free guacamole at Chipotle.
Like cycling? Then this is for you. Focus Home Interactive this week released the first screenshots for its upcoming game based on the Tour de France 2015. The game launches for consoles and PC in June, ahead of the big race in France, and it looks quite nice. Take a look at more screens here.
PlayStation’s James Fairbairn has a simple question for you. What amazing new features would you like to see on PS4? That’s what he asked on Twitter. What would you like to see? Let him know and maybe it’ll happen!
Hey all. What amazing/magical/insane capability would you add to PS4’s feature list? Asking for a friend.
With competitive gaming growing in popularity, this was bound to happen. Former Microsoft manager Rahul Sood has launched a new platform that aims to make it easier for people to bet on eSports. It’s called Unikrn; check it out here.
Square Enix this week released its mobile game Hitman Go on Windows and Windows Phones–it even supports Xbox Live features on the new Microsoft platforms. You can buy the game today for $5. It’s already available for Android and iOS.
Sexually Awkward Moments in Video Games. Need I say more?
YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming has posted its latest video, this one diving into the history of the Xbox platform. How much do you think you know about Xbox? Watch and find out.
Whoa! This GTA V modder has unlocked the game’s secret world of North Yankton. Check out the full video below. GTA V doesn’t officially support mods, but clearly that hasn’t stopped fans from making them.
Game of Thrones: Ascent, the free mobile and Web game based on the hit fantasy series, is now available on Amazon for Kindle Fire devices. Get it on Amazon right now. You can also download Ascent from the App Store, Google Play, DisruptorBeam.com, Facebook, and Kongregate.
“We were kind of always a round peg in a square hole.” That’s John Smedley, the president of H1Z1 and EverQuest developer Daybreak Games, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment. That’s his take on what it was like working for Sony, which he said didn’t have much of a PC gaming business. “We were it, and we were part of the PlayStation group. So we always were kind of the odd man out.” Read the full interview over at Polygon.
Mistwalker’s mobile RPG Terra Battle has reached a new milestone. This week, the game eclipsed two million downloads following its release in October 2014. As a result of the milestone, Mistwalker has announced plans to bring the game to consoles. Read more about those plans here.
Update: Xbox Live (and Xbox.com) appear to be mostly back online. The service status page does note, however, that certain apps are currently experiencing issues, including YouTube and Netflix.
Original Story: Xbox Live is currently experiencing problems that Microsoft says it’s in the process of resolving.
The current Xbox Live Status page
On the first day of a free online multiplayer weekend for Xbox 360 owners, the service is offline, though it’s currently unclear why. On top of that, it’s impossible to check its status–the usual webpage tracking any issues lists all services as “unavailable.” The entirety of Xbox.com has also been rendered inaccessible for periods of time.
According to multiple tweets from the Xbox Support Twitter account, Microsoft is aware of the problems and is attempting to fix them. “Our teams are currently working to resolve a few Xbox Live issues,” the account said in one tweet.
We’ll have more details as they are made available.
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Last night, Steam’s Community Market was simultaneously filled with outrageously priced items and absolute bargains due to a currency error that Valve continues to work toward resolving.
At some point in the overnight hours, Steam’s currency exchange rate was thrown off for anyone using Indonesia’s currency, the Indonesian rupiah. According to PC Gamer, the system treated the rupiah’s value as being identical to that of the US Dollar, which in fact is worth almost exactly 13,000 rupiahs.
The effect of this was twofold. Those using rupiahs were able to buy items on the market–where players can buy and sell various things, including in-game items from Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2, among other games–at incredibly low prices. Conversely, those using USD found prices on some items to be a tad higher than usual, like a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive weapon whose starting price was $3,549,383.07 (via Reddit).
In order to deal with this, Valve took Steam trading and the Community Market offline for a period, during which time it “reverted as many of these purchases as possible,” according to a message posted on Steam. “A relatively small set of users have one or more transactions where the item was restored back to the seller, but the wallet funds have not yet been returned to the buyer. We are still working to resolve this issue and appreciate your patience while we sort everything out. “
Likewise, Valve hasn’t yet fixed an issue where rupiah users who used codes to add money to their Steam wallet received the wrong amount. However, Valve says that situation “will be fixed later today.”
Microsoft is planning a phased rollout for its upcoming operating system, Windows 10. The new OS will debut first on PC this summer, following by versions for phones, Xbox One, HoloLens, and other devices later in the year. That’s according to a new report from noted Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott, who attended a special event at Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco today where the details were divulged.
Citing a conversation with Windows executive Joe Belfiore, Thurrott that Windows 10 will arrive for those non-PC platforms “according to their own schedules later in 2015.”
Microsoft announced back in January that Windows 10 would be integrated into Xbox One by way of a future update. Xbox boss Phil Spencer assured fans at the time that when the Windows 10 Xbox One update arrives, it won’t morph the games console into an enterprise-centric device.
How it will operate is unclear, and whether it will come with a dashboard rearrangement is not known.
“We won’t see people using Excel on the Xbox, but Microsoft is making it easier to port experiences from PC over to Xbox where they make sense,” Spencer said at the time.
Xbox One Preview Program members will get to try the new Windows 10 integration first. Spencer said on Twitter earlier this week that Preview Program members will be able to test it out “at least” a month before general availability. Access to the Xbox One Preview Program is available by invitation only.
Sony’s Japanese PlayStation website has launched a new section devoted to the PS4 version of upcoming RPG Persona 5, and along with it, we’ve got a batch of new high-resolution screenshots to fawn over.
Many of the screenshots look to be taken directly from scenes shown off in the game’s debut trailer, while others were previously available only in small images on the official Japanese website. There’s a mixture of images from combat, social areas, and dungeons, as well as one of the game’s ridiculously stylish menu system.
At the time, Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino offered some new information about the game, explaining, “For this game, we’re going with a challenge that fuses together a juvenile school setting that is as large as life, together with a picaresque romance. In the previous game, we wrote a story that involved having a justice group chase down a bad guy that could easily be feared by just about anyone.
“This time, it’s about a group of high school students that are being ‘chased’ by unexpected occurrences due to the justice they believe in. We’re writing [the story] to convey a thrilling everyday life in the shoes of these characters, that are as large as life, in this juvenile school setting.”
No. You can’t do this, Persona 4: Dancing All Night. You can’t just pull out the ‘every day’s great at your Junes’ jingle and weaponize it like this. Noooooo.
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