Earlier this year, our first look at the comedy sequelDumb & Dumber To arrived with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back as dimwitted best friends Lloyd and Harry. The film doesn’t come out until this fall, but the first teaser posters have finally arrived, and while they don’t feature Daniels or Carrey, they each have a little item everyone will recognize from the first film. It’s the two ridiculous tuxedos the dumb duo wears to the fancy preservation society dinner where Harry accidentally kills an owl with a champagne cork. We hope the appearance of these posters means there’s a teaser trailer not too far behind. See the two posters below! ›››
The demo allows you to play as Mexico, Brazil, USA, England, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, or Ivory Coast in the game’s Kick Off mode. It weighs in at 1.7GB on PS3 and a slightly slimmer 1.66GB on Xbox 360, where you’ll be to be an Xbox Live Gold subscriber in order to get it.
The full game comes out for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on April 17, far in advance of the actual tournament which kicks off on June 12.
What started out as the search for a killer very quickly becomes something so much more. In a unique story set alongside the events of the second film, Spider-Man discovers he’s not the only one tracking down Manhattan’s criminals.
The underworld has been turned upside down with a one-man campaign of violence and murder that has captured the city in an iron grip of fear. Villains from the film as well as fan-favorite, classic Marvel characters are woven together in a twisted web of adrenaline-fueled, free-roaming, web-slinging action that puts players on a collision course with an evil far beyond Spider-Man’s reckoning.
He’s on the rise, making big steps into Hollywood with two major roles coming up. French actor Omar Sy, who won the Best Actor César Award for The Intouchables a few years ago, is already starring as Bishop in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. However, the actor has also revealed via his twitter that he’s also officially cast in Colin Treverrow’s upcoming Jurassic World reboot of the Jurassic Park franchise. Oh hell yes, this is awesome, Sy is a great actor and he’s yet another stellar name added to the impressive cast of the new Jurassic Park movie. Maybe this reboot is headed down the right track? We can only hope. ›››
DayZ creator Dean Hall is not the only developer who is not terribly pleased with Microsoft and Windows 8. Speaking with Polygon, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney said he’s concerned about the “closed” nature of Microsoft’s latest operating system.
“I genuinely worry about the future of Microsoft,” Sweeney said. “They’ve locked down this Windows 8. They say future app developers should focus there, but you can only ship that with Microsoft’s permission and Microsoft’s approval through Microsoft’s store. And that sucks compared to the open nature of the PC platform before…”
On the other hand, Sweeney praised Valve’s line of Steam Machines, describing the product line as the “most open high-end gaming platform ever.”
But Sweeney isn’t ready to write Microsoft off entirely in the PC gaming space. He said he’s hopeful, due in part to the recent senior management shakeup, that Microsoft will become more “open” as it relates to developing for the Windows platform. If they don’t, Linux and Steam OS are a good backup plan, he said.
“I sense kind of a renaissance at MS in the last six months,” Sweeney said. “Talking to the DirectX team for example, they’re making some brilliant decisions on DirectX 12 to make it more efficient and more open than ever before. You just generally sense a momentum to be more open with the community and more broad with their Windows strategy. I’m hoping that takes root.”
Also in Polygon’s interview, Sweeney said the virtual reality market is going to explode in popularity and prominence over time. “We’re doing a huge amount of research in VR, working with Oculus kits,” he said. “We see this as a technology that will influence every game and every platform.”
Sweeney went as far to say that virtual reality technology, like the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift or Sony’s Project Morpheus, are going to revolutionize the world in a more meaningful way than smartphones did.
“It’s technology that I think will completely change the world,” Sweeney said. “I think It’s going to be a bigger phenomenon than smartphones. You have to put it in perspective and realize we’re in maybe the [first-generation] iPhone stage right now where you have this really cool device, but it has some real flaws that prevents it from being a pervasive device for everyone. There might be an audience for 10 million users of the current tech, but as it improves with each generation, the audience is going to keep growing until eventually you’re going to reach a critical point where you can put on one of these devices and have an experience that is effectively indistinguishable from reality.”
Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on Twitter @EddieMakuch
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Briefly: With the annual CinemaCon exhibition industry convention taking place next week, Hollywood is solidifying their upcoming release schedule with dates for their next five years of blockbusters. 20th Century Fox has set some big comic book movie release dates to top off everything else on their line-up in the next few years. Fox has scheduled The Wolverine sequel, which just announced that James Mangold would be returning to direct, for March 3rd, 2017 early in the year, along with The Fantastic Four 2 (sequel) set for July 14th, 2017. They’re betting big on this, as we still have to see Josh Trank’s new take on Fantastic Four in 2015 to begin with. As we still have three years to go, we expect plenty of updates on these projects. ›››
From the too ridiculous to be believed, to things that make you cry when you learn they’re a lie, April Fools’ Day is a day when it’s impossible to trust anything you read. To help you separate fact from fiction, we’re rounding up the best jokes we find:
This one’s half true. You can catch Pokemon on your iOS or Android device using the Google Maps app right now. However, you’re probably not going to get a job at Google just for finding Pokemon on a map.
This Blizzard take on Flappy Bird isn’t a real game, but if it was, it would let you “take on the role of Malthael, the Angel of Death, who’s recently returned to Sanctuary with a vengeance.”
A developer diary shows how Cryptic is balancing dragons as a new playable race for their Neverwinter MMO. Watch the video above to see OP dragons wearing hats and riding mounts.
Charge your phones and batteries by plugging them into cakes and cereal (editor’s note: don’t actually do this). Sony says “By creating an enzyme that enables the chemical energy of organic matter to be transferred directly into gadgets, we’re bringing about the next step in electronic evolution. Voltaic Enzyme.”
Remember Nester from the old Nintendo Power magazine cartoon Howard and Nester? A spoof site (with incredibly terrible art) will try to convince you that the the red-headed protagonist is in the next version of Smash Bros. The art is pretty terrible, but the page layout mimics the official Smash Bros. site well.
The new trailer for War of the Vikings shows off Thor-like hammer throwing abilities, the ability to fly, and “God-like Fury,” which rains death down from the heavens.
From the official Sony Killzone blog comes a movie direct by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The site says, “The movie focuses on the events depicted in Killzone: Shadow Fall after the Helghast settle on planet Vekta.”
Here are a few other sample headlines that might not have been written yet, but that you’ll probably read somewhere before the end of the day tomorrow:
Video game company X buys video game company y (i.e. Microsoft buys Nintendo)
Game publisher known for one type of game makes a game using that IP in a new and ridiculous genre (i.e. Battlefield kart racer)
Anything at all related to Half-Life 3
Justin Haywald is a senior editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on Twitter @JustinHaywald. Find a great April Fools’ joke we missed or got a hot news tip? Email news@gamespot.com
Demon Gaze is a role playing game that is works on a progression system. Within every dungeon is another location to conquer before moving forward.
The goal of each dungeon is to bring out the big boss and defeat him. There are 90 character pictures to use within 8 different races and 8 different classes. Players can create their own parties to customize their playing experience even further. The possibilities and combinations available provide hours upon hours of entertainment. Players can also have fun with language selection. If preferred, English can be delivered but some players may want to experience playing with Japanese language being spoken as they go through each level. Oz is the main character and he seems to be missing part of his past. He chooses to find artifacts and become familiar with a world that appears different to him.
The release of X-Men: Days of Future Past is still two months away, but director Bryan Singer and writers Simon Kingberg, Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris are already busy working on the 2016 sequelX-Men: Apocalypse. Just recently, Singer was quoted as saying the follow-up would take place in the 80s and have massive destruction on a scale we’ve yet to see in the X-Men franchise. Now he’s gone on the record talking about a couple possible mutant additions to the cast. Speaking with Cine Premiere (via Comic Book Movie), Singer said they’re thinking about bringing Gambit and Nightcrawler into the mix next. ›››
