April 2018 – Page 30

New Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC Character Revealed

Bandai Namco has officially unveiled the next DLC character coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ. The divine warrior Fused Zamasu will be the newest addition to the game’s roster, and he’s slated to arrive on PS4, Xbox One, and PC “soon.”

Fused Zamasu is a major antagonist from the Dragon Ball Super series. As his name suggests, he’s the resulting fusion of Zamasu and his counterpart, Goku Black. He was first announced in a recent issue of V-Jump magazine (via Gematsu), which also revealed that some his special attacks give him the ability to fly freely through the air. You can see the first screenshots of Fused Zamasu in the gallery below.

Fused Zamasu is included as part of Dragon Ball FighterZ’s $35 season pass. Bandai Namco hasn’t revealed how much he will cost individually, but the previous two DLC characters, Broly and Bardock, could be purchased for $5 apiece and came alongside a new Lobby avatar and Z Stamp.

Fused Zamasu marks the third DLC character officially announced for Dragon Ball FighterZ, following the aforementioned Broly and Bardock. The two Saiyans were added to the game back in March and feature distinct fighting styles; Broly is slow but overwhelmingly powerful, while Bardock favors rush attacks and close-range fighting. You can take a closer look at each character’s epic Dramatic Finishes, as well as their Supers and victory quotes.

At least five more DLC characters are planned for Dragon Ball FighterZ. Bandai Namco has yet to officially announce who they’ll be, but we’ve put together a list of 15 DLC characters we’d love to see in the game.

Westworld Breakdown: Season 2 Episode 1 – Journey Into Night

Puzzled by Westworld season 2’s premiere? The GameSpot Universe gang are here to dissect the episode. Beware, spoilers!

by Lucy James on April 23, 2018 at 8:30AM

HBO’s Westworld is finally back and, just like the first season, the premiere episode of Season 2 throws viewers into the deep end. Picking up shortly after the bloody climax of the previous season’s finale, it barely gives viewers the time to get their bearings and quickly presents multiple timelines to get to grips with. It also contains characters who have fundamentally changed, and a whole new set of mysteries to consider.

Westworld Season 2 Episode 1, “Journey Into Night,” is dense and requires unpacking, which is exactly what we’re here to do for you. As with GameSpot of Thrones, we’ll be here every week to delve deep into the latest episode and pull out the key moments to discuss and theorize. With Episode 1 we look at the new game being set up for The Man in Black to play, analyze the new Dolores, and consider the future of Bernard–along with a whole bunch of other things.

We expect the series has many surprises in store for us, but one of those has already been revealed. In Season 2 the series will travel outside of the Wild West to Shogun World, a zone populated by samurai warriors. What’s going to happen there remains unclear, but Shogun World invites guests to “embrace their inner warrior, in a landscape of highest beauty and darkest horror,” so it’s sure to be exciting. Westworld Season 2 premiered on April 22 on HBO and Sky Atlantic, and is set to have 10 episodes.

Check out our Westworld Season 2 Episode 1 review to see what we thought of the premiere. And if you’re about to start the second season but need a quick refresher on everything, here’s a full Westworld story recap. Once you’ve seen the episode, here’s 17 important things we learned from it.

Get The Witcher: Enhanced Edition For Free

There’s a good chance you’ve played–or at least been intrigued by–The Witcher 3. There’s also a good chance you missed out on Geralt of Rivia’s first outing. Now’s the perfect time to right that wrong by grabbing a free copy of the game that started it all. Right now, GOG is handing out free copies of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition to anyone who plays games on PC.

Since there’s no such thing as a free lunch, you will have to jump through a hoop or two before you can hit that download button. For starters, you have to install Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. It’s free to play, so that’s not a huge deal. And if you’ve dabbled in the card-playing mini-game in The Witcher 3, you’ll know it’s an enjoyable pastime on its own. You can download it here.

Once you’ve installed Gwent, click here to access your free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. Note that to get your free game, you must also subscribe you to the GOG.com newsletter (you can unsubscribe any time). You also get a free Gwent Card Keg, which will come in handy if you plan to continue playing Gwent.

Now you can install your copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and play the game that kickstarted Geralt’s monster hunting career when it launched in 2007. In GameSpot’s Witcher review, Brett Todd wrote, “Memorable story, immersive combat, fascinating characters–what’s not to like? A few fit-and-finish issues mean that The Witcher isn’t quite an all-time classic RPG. Regardless, it’s awfully, awfully close, warts and all, and it provides a new benchmark for future developers that are looking to lift their games out of the done-to-death elf-and-orc ghetto.”

And if you want to complete the trilogy, the other two games happen to be on sale right now on GOG:

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Detroit: Become Human Demo Releasing Tomorrow

Detroit: Become Human has gone gold and to celebrate the milestone, developer Quantic Dream is releasing a new demo for the game tomorrow.

Per the PlayStation Blog, the demo will be available for download on April 24 via the PSN Store. You’ll get to play the first scene of the game, Hostage, which has been shown off at various events previously.

You’ll assume the role of an android named Connor, who’s sent to save a kidnapped girl taken hostage by another android on a rooftop.

In an odd twist, you will also be able to utilize an extended Amazon Alexa Skill named CyberLife, which will help guide you throughout the investigation. The skill will also help you alter your decisions to get different endings.

Amazon Reportedly Making a Home Robot

Amazon is reportedly making a home robot at its Lab126 hardware R&D centre – the developer behind the Echo, as well as the Kindle, and the Fire tablet range.

Bloomberg reports that the project, code-named Vesta for the Roman goddess of the hearth, the home, and domestic life, is being overseen by Gregg Zehr, president of Lab126.

Amazon has reportedly increased the number of hires for the project, which will form part of a “smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges” in order to “transform” their customers’ experiences in ways they “can’t even imagine yet.”

Unreleased Mario Racing Game Revealed

It’s been revealed that Nintendo cancelled a planned DS game called Mario Motors, in which players sculpted their own car engines.

Seaman creator Yoot Saito revealed the aborted project in a talk at the Reboot Develop Conference (per Eurogamer), explaining that he’d been inspired by a DS demo in which players sculpted metal using the stylus tool.

After pitching the idea to Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto, Saito set out to create a game where players would create their cars’ engines in similar fashion, with different shapes offering different abilities.

Detroit: Become Human Makes Your Choices Feel Organic

When I asked the team behind Detroit: Become Human how many endings the game has, they struggled to give me an answer. Adam Williams, one of the lead writers at Quantic Dream, said “that depends how you define an ending.” Writer/Director David Cage thought about it and said, “I don’t know, a lot.” They said there might be a number floating around somewhere in an email, but they didn’t know it off by heart. I asked David what makes Detroit different from a Telltale game, too, and mentioned how gamers had been burned by the ‘every choice matters’ sales pitch we keep getting from publishers. He told me the script was over 4,000 pages long, that there are hundreds of variants when it comes to the ending, and that the game was a nightmare to QA test because of all the permutations.

New Doom Movie Reportedly In Development

It seems a new Doom movie is in the works.

An NBC/Universal spokesperson confirmed to Variety the film is being handled by Universal 1440 Entertainment, which produces non-theatrical projects. That means there’s a chance the new Doom movie could appear directly on a digital platform such as Netflix, or it may also be direct-to-DVD.

Last week, Actress and singer Nina Bergman also tweeted she’s signed on to appear in the film. “Wow, I’m doing the next Doom movie with Universal Pictures!,” Bergman said. “I just signed all the paperwork. I get to go back to Bulgaria again and work with some of my favorite people. This movie with a super cool director AND my new record coming out, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”

Westworld Has a Surprising Thor: Ragnarok Connection

Season 2 of Westworld premiered yesterday, and if you tuned in, you may have recognised a familiar face, and not just because you saw it in the first season. There’s a Thor: Ragnarok connection between one of the actors in Westworld, and it’s none other than the third Hemsworth brother, Luke.

At the end of the first season, we saw Hemsworth’s Ashley Stubbs, head of park security, being surrounded by the Ghost Nation hosts. His return in season two was confirmed ahead of the premiere, but in the 16 months between seasons, Hemsworth took to the stage in Asgard as part of a troupe of actors reenacting The Tragedy of Loki, playing the god of thunder, alongside Matt Damon as Loki, and Sam Neill’s Odin.

Fortnite Streamer Breaks His Own Viewership Record

Popular Fortnite streamer, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, has broken his own viewership record, peaking at 667,000 concurrent viewers at an exhibition event in LA.

ESPN reports that Blevins participated in the event at the new Esports Arena at the Luxor Resort and Casino, breaking his previous viewership record of 600,000 set last month, when he was joined by Canadian rapper Drake on a stream. The event was streamed on Twitch, so it’s another milestone for the platform, although there’s still a way to go before it catches up to the Fortnite stream on YouTube that drew in 1.1 million viewers.