Month: March 2018

Now that Star Wars Rebels has come to an end, the creative team behind the animated series is revealing its greatest secret. Throughout the four seasons of Rebels, fans have theorized about the voice behind Chopper, the C1-10P droid that was with the rebels throughout their fight against the Empire.

As seen in the credits after the series finale, Chopper is voiced by none other than co-creator and executive producer Dave Filoni–oftentimes the public face of the series at conventions and fan events. Speaking to a group of fans after a special screening of the series finale, Filoni explained why he decided to come clean about his other job as a voice actor. “Show’s over, so it was kind of then or never,” he jokes.

How did Filoni end up voicing one of the show’s starring roles, though? As it turns out, a temporary fix became permanent. “I wound up playing Chopper, I’ll tell this short story because we had to deliver the first short to Disney to watch and we didn’t have a final Chopper voice. And I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to just do this.’ We did it right in the editorial in Lucasfilm,” he says. “I knew what a likable jerk is like and what I wanted him to be like. Then when we screened it, [Disney boss] Bob Iger said, ‘I really like that little droid.’ And I was like, ‘Well, now I’m stuck.'”

Of course, voicing a fan-favorite character like Chopper isn’t a bad thing. As Filoni explained to his cast at the screening, “It’s good because it gets you used to what you guys go through as actors. It helps me understand what you need to know.”

Thus ends one of the biggest secrets in the Star Wars franchise. Interestingly, though, there was one person outside of the show’s inner-circle that knew it was Filoni all along–a young fan. “A little tiny child asked me who played Chopper and I absolutely told her the truth,” he says. “She never said anything… Kids are smart that way, they make promises and they keep it. That’s why they get Star Wars.”

If you’ve been waiting for a reason to jump back into Rocket League, today’s release of its latest DLC pack makes it a good time to return. The DC Super Heroes DLC adds a whole bunch of cosmetics, but its most interesting items are two Batmobiles.

That’s right–starting today, you can play soccar in the Batmobile from The Dark Knight as well as the one from the 1989 film Batman. They both look really cool, and you can see them in action in the video below.

In addition, the DLC comes with a bunch of other items to make your vehicle DC-themed. These include Wonder Woman and Flash wheels as well as a handful of player banners and decals. You can see all the items over on Rocket League’s blog.

Developer Psyonix also released a new patch for the game. It’s a relatively small update, containing primarily bug fixes and tweaks. It also rotates out Snowy variants of maps and replaces them with Stormy variants, and it also adds the ability for spectators to chat during matches.

The DLC will cost you $4, and it’s available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch. In other news, Psyonix is working on more tie-in DLC, such as a recently announced partnership with WWE. We don’t know what the wrestling-themed items will be; Psyonix said it’ll reveal more about the partnership this spring.

The sickly land of Yharnam, with its obscene litter of gravestones and coffins, is both your battleground and hunting ground in Bloodborne. Hardly anyone wants you here, and they mean it with every swing of a torch and every stab of a pitchfork. Your hunt will send you into repugnant sewers with giant pigs and labyrinthine forests filled with shrewd snipers. The road is long and hard, but you already knew this.

If you’ve been eager to play this punishing adventure by From Software, it’s probably because you’ve toughened yourself in their Souls series and you’re fully aware that this is its successor. That or you’re completely new to Souls games in general and have been interested in making Bloodborne your first. Luckily, the game is one of the PlayStation Plus free games of March 2018, which means you can finally dive into this dark odyssey for the first time if you haven’t already.

Like any Souls installment, there are a multitude of punishing bosses to defeat. Many of these nightmarish creatures are liable to give you a hard time, so if you’re having trouble defeating them, be sure to check out our various video guides for each boss below. And if you’re looking for more tips, be sure to check out our other guides, detailing 13 tips you should know before starting the game and how to defeat every boss in the base game.

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The newest Overwatch hero, Brigitte, is available now on the game’s Public Test Realm. And so are a lot of different skins.

In this gallery we’re rounding up all the Brigitte skins we’ve seen so far. As you’ll see Brigitte has Classic, Engineer, Carbon Fiber, and other skins available. They all seem to retain Brigitte’s same basic look but you’ll see that the skins give her outfit new colors and change the look of her weapon. One of the skins puts spinning gears on the middle of her shield. At least one of the skins also puts cosmetic equipment on her, including welding goggles and a tool pouch that goes on her belt.

Click through the gallery to see all of the Brigitte skins we’ve seen so far.

Brigitte is a Support-class hero who can heal and provide armor to her allies, hit multiple enemies at once with her flail, and equip a shield. With the use of her Shield Bash ability, she’s able to do some notable things, like stun Reinhardt through his shield, stop Reinhardt’s Charge, and stun Torbjörn’s sentry.

It’s been over a seven years since the 3DS first launched in Japan. A lot of Nintendo fans have shifted their focus over to the Switch, but the 3DS is still kicking, with Metroid: Samus Returns and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions being some of its standout games in 2017.

Now, seven years later, we’re taking a look through the 3DS’s impressive library and picking out some of the best games the handheld has to offer. From Zelda and Pokemon to Picross and Rhythm Heaven, the 3DS has a great game for pretty much everyone. Click ahead to see our picks for some of the best games on 3DS.

For more Nintendo, check out our gallery on the biggest 3DS and Switch games to play in 2018. If you missed out on last year’s games, see our picks for the best 3DS games of 2017.

Rainbow Six Siege is getting a big new update, called Operation Chimera, very soon, which adds new content and changes existing characters, weapons, and maps. Today, Ubisoft announced that it’ll roll out the patch to all platforms tomorrow, March 6.

On Twitter, Ubisoft stated that each version of the game will go down for an hour as the company launches the update. It’ll arrive first on PC, which will be down from 6-7 AM PT / 9-10 AM ET / 2-3 PM GMT. Next, the PS4 version will go down for maintenance and deployment from 7-8 AM PT / 10-11 AM ET / 3-4 PM GMT. Finally, Ubisoft will deploy the update to Xbox One from 8-9 AM PT / 11 AM-12 PM ET / 4-5 PM GMT.

The highlights of Operation Chimera are two new Operators–Lion and Finka–as well as the Outbreak event. Outbreak introduces a three-player cooperative mode to Rainbow Six Siege which tasks you and your teammates with fighting back against infected enemies.

In addition, the update includes a bunch of tweaks and changes to other Operators. For example, Ella is getting nerfed, Kapkan has his barbed wire replaced with impact grenades, and Blitz’s stats are tweaked so that he’s a 2 speed/2 armor character (previously 1 speed/3 armor). You can read the full Operation Chimera patch notes here.

Tomorrow, Ubisoft will also make Rainbow Six Siege’s 20 original Operators available for free, as well as all weapon attachments. In addition, there’s a new Siege game mode in the works, called Pick & Ban, that’s coming later this year.