March 2018 – Page 129

Brawlhalla Dev Acquired By Ubisoft

Ubisoft has announced it’s acquired Blue Mammoth Games and has stated its commitment to hit free-to-play fighting game Brawlhalla. Blue Mammoth officially released Brawlhalla on PC and PlayStation 4 in October 2017. Since then, it’s become the most-played fighting game on Steam and one of the most downloaded free-to-play titles on PS4.

Blue Mammoth Games is a 21-person studio based in Atlanta. With Brawlhalla, it has had big success in the esports market, with the number of players continuing to grow throughout its second and third seasons. “The team at Blue Mammoth Games is expert at developing and running scalable, competitive, multiplayer online games, and they’ll be a great addition to Ubisoft’s network of studios,” said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft NCSA.

Brawlhalla is a platform fighter where up to eight players can battle it out online or locally. There is a free-for-all game mode, ranked matches, and the ability to make custom rooms for your group of players. There are more than 30 playable characters to choose from, each with unique moves, abilities, stats, and weapon combinations.

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Ubisoft is affirming its commitment to Brawlhalla with this acquisition and promising to expand the game’s online reach. “We’re looking forward to leveraging Ubisoft’s expertise and resources to continue developing and supporting Brawlhalla for the long term, and to benefiting from their help in bringing the game to new players,” said Matthew Woomer and Lincoln Hamilton, the founders of Blue Mammoth Games.

Monster Hunter World Event Quest Reset And Playing As Aloy

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Nintendo Switch Is Resetting Play Times After One Year

The Nintendo Switch is already celebrating its first anniversary in parts of the world, but some Switch owners are discovering an unpleasant surprise on the console’s birthday. It appears the Switch only keeps track of your game play times for one year and has begun resetting many players’ records.

As pointed out in a thread on video game forum ResetEra, play times for launch day titles are being reset on Switch profiles. GameSpot has verified the issue; as you can see in the screenshot below, our Switch now says that we first started playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild nine days ago.

This only appears to affect the play times listed in your user profile; save data for the titles in question remains unchanged, but you can no longer accurately see how many hours you’ve sunk into any games you first started playing on launch day. It’s unclear if this is a permanent issue or if Nintendo will be able to restore the times via a system update. We have reached out to the company for comment and will report back with a response.

As the Nintendo Switch officially launched to the public on March 3, many early adopters in North America still haven’t owned the console for exactly one year, so your play times should appear normally for the time being. If you care about preserving a record of your play times, now would be a good opportunity to take screenshots of your user profile before they are reset on the console.

Switch’s first year has been a tremendous success for Nintendo and fans alike; the system was difficult to find in stores for much of 2017 and has already amassed an impressive library of acclaimed titles like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and most recently, Bayonetta 2. Despite that, the console is still missing some basic features we are hoping to see, such as a proper Activity Log to keep track of your play times. This new issue only reinforces the need for one.

Doctor Strange Goes to Space In Relaunched Series

Doctor Strange’s relaunched comic book series will take the Master of Mystic Arts beyond the stars.

How and Where to Pre-Order the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus

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UPDATE: Pre-orders are live! Check the links below to get your Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus from your preferred carrier.

The S9 and S9 Plus use the latest Snapdragon 845 processor with 4GB of RAM in the S9 and 6 in the S9 Plus. Both come with 64GB of storage and support for MicroSD cards and are dust and water resistant.

Orphan Black is Getting a Sequel Comic

If you’re still mourning the loss of Clone Club, we’ve got good news — IGN can exclusively reveal that IDW Publishing is launching a new Orphan Black sequel comic that picks up right where Season 5 left off, with Cosima and Delphine traveling the globe to cure the other 274 sick Leda clones. Over the course of their journey, they’ll fall deeper in love, and deeper into a mysterious agenda which threatens to tear apart their noble mission, and their hearts.

The six-issue miniseries will be written by Heli Kennedy with art by Fico Ossio (Transformers vs. Visionaries), and will debut in June 2018.

Check out the cover for the first issue below.

Kingdom Hearts World Tour Orchestra Sets 2018 Dates

The Kingdom Hearts Orchestra World Tour concert series is coming back for a second round of performances around the world in 2018.

Canada, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, and the United States—including some cities that missed out on the 2017 tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts—will have a chance to experience the orchestral concert tour.

The locations and tour dates are as follows:

Los Angeles (USA) – June 9, 2018 – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Sydney (Australia) – July 7, 2018 – Sydney Opera House

NRA Shooting Game Removed From App Store

The NRA: Practice Range game launched by The National Rifle Association has been removed from the iOS App Store.

Polygon reports the game was pulled at a time when public pressure on companies dealing with the NRA is particularly high.

Original makers of the game MEDL Mobile, also want nothing to do with the title, telling Polygon it no longer has anything to do with either NRA: Practice Range or the NRA itself.

Furthermore, Inedible Software, who is now listed as the game’s publisher on the App Store, reportedly is proving difficult to track down with no functioning website or social media contact.

Fear the Walking Dead Teasers Introduce Morgan and Maggie Grace

Morgan Jones is still busting skulls alongside Rick and Carol in The Walking Dead Season 8, but come this April, Lennie James’ resilient character will be making the jump to TWD’s sister series, Fear the Walking Dead.

While we don’t yet know how or why Morgan will end up crossing paths with Madison (Kim Dickens) and her family, IGN has an exclusive first look at the new teasers for Season 4, which feature Morgan and newcomer Althea (played by Maggie Grace), to whet your appetite for the upcoming season.

Here’s how AMC is teeing up Season 4, which will be helmed by new showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg: We will see the world of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her family through new eyes — the eyes of Morgan Jones (Lennie James), joining the story from the world of The Walking Dead. The characters’ immediate past mixes with an uncertain present of struggle and discovery as they meet new friends, foes and threats. They fight for each other, against each other and against a legion of the dead to somehow build an existence against the crushing pressure of lives coming apart. There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; the heroic, mercenary, and craven, all crashing together towards a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead.

Stranger Things Season 3 Adds New Character

Stranger Things’ upcoming third season will introduce a new character.

Variety reports Maya Hawke (Little Women) has joined the hit Netflix show as an “alternative girl” bored with her mundane day job and seeking excitement in her life. However, after discovering a dark secret in Hawkins, Indiana, she gets more than she bargained for.

Maya Hawke and Priah Ferguson, image via Variety.