March 2018 – Page 94

What Do You Want to Know About Valve’s Artifact?

Though there’s already a good amount of information out about Artifact, we’d like to give you the opportunity to ask us any questions you may have about Artifact or Valve’s game release strategy on a Q&A live stream. We’re hard at work on our Artifact preview, but there’s much more to the game than what we can explain in one article.

This stream will feature me and Tom Marks. We were both at Valve’s Artifact press event and each got to play two matches of the game as well as talk to many people who worked on Artifact. I’m an avid Dota 2 player (1,200+ hours and still learning), and Tom has a ton of experience with CCGs. Between us, we’re hoping to help shed some insight on the many, many factors of Artifact.

Fortnite Will Have Cross-Play Between Xbox One, PC, Mobile Versions

Epic Games has announced that its Battle Royale game, Fortnite, will be updated to support “cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-purchase” between the Xbox One, PC, Mac, and iOS versions of the game. Furthermore, support for these features will be added to the Android versions “in the next few months.”

“Contrary to what may have been implied, Microsoft has long been a leading voice in supporting cross-platform play, connecting players across PC, mobile and all consoles,” reads a post on the Epic Games website. “We’ve been working together with them over the last several months to make this possible, and will bring this functionality to Fortnite players on Xbox right along with other platforms.”

It continues: “With each new platform we support and every update we ship, we strive to bring Fortnite to more people, and make it easier to play together with friends. And, as always, cross-play is opt in.”

Fortnite has been available on Xbox One and PC for some time now, but mobile versions of Fortnite were announced on March 10. According to Epic, Fortnite mobile is “the same 100-player game you know from Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, and Mac” with the “same gameplay, same map, same content, same weekly updates.”

The announcement follows previous confirmation that, thanks to a partnership with Sony, Fortnite will support cross-play and cross-progression between PS4, PC, Mac, iOS, and (eventually) Android. Sign-ups for Fortnite’s mobile version will open on March 12 and there will be an invite-only test on iOS and Android “in the next few months.”

Those that are selected to participate will receive an invite by email shortly after signing up. More invites will be sent out over the coming months, so if you don’t get in right away, there will be more opportunities later. If you do get in, you’ll also get codes to share with friends.

PUBG, which is considered as the main inspiration for Fortnite: Battle Royale, also has a mobile edition–but it’s only available in China and it does not support cross-play. PUBG is also not available on PS4, which could explain Sony’s apparent eagerness to partner with Epic for Fortnite: Battle Royale.

Although the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Fortnite can’t currently connect, we do know it is possible. In fact, it happened for a weekend, but the functionality was turned off and chalked up to an error.

Fortnite has gained ground on PUBG in a big way recently, which could spell trouble for the latter. Check out the video above to see GameSpot’s Mike Mahardy, Michael Higham, Nick Margherita, and Jake Dekker discuss the current state of PUBG and whether it needs to evolve to stay competitive with Fortnite.

Xbox One Cross-Platform Support Announced for Fortnite

Fortnite will feature cross-platform play on Xbox One.

Epic Games shared the news in a post on its official site, announcing “Fortnite will feature cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-purchase, between Xbox One, PC, Mac, iOS and (in the next few months) Android.”

Earlier this week, the studio announced its free Fortnite Battle Royale mode is coming to both iOS and Android, and will feature full cross-play support with PS4 and PC.

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A Quiet Place Review

Part B-movie creature feature, part familial chamber piece, A Quiet Place is a gleeful combo platter of horror tropes that manages to coalesce into something that’s both derivative and yet undeniably unique.

Directed by and starring John Krasinski (in his third foray behind the camera), alongside his real-life wife Emily Blunt, it’s a film that’s seething with parental anxieties and adolescent rage — take out the monsters and the film could be a credible domestic drama about the damage that can be caused when families don’t communicate.

Our story begins 78 days after some unexplained catastrophe has reduced America (and perhaps the entire world) to a post-apocalyptic ghost town, in which the few survivors live in self-enforced silence, lest they attract the attention of hideous, near-indestructible beasts who are completely blind but enticed by sound. Krasinski and Blunt’s characters are perhaps better equipped to deal with this new status quo than most, since one of their kids is deaf (played by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds, who’s utterly riveting), meaning that the family is already accustomed to using sign language. To say much more would be to spoil the film’s many delights, but it’s probably safe to assume that things escalate quickly, and while there are moments of levity to help release some of the audience’s jitters, this is a film that’s determined to get a reaction out of you, and proves very skilled at doing so.