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Pro Rocket League Tournament Coming To Free-To-Air TV In Australia

Big news today in the world of Australian eSports, as Gfinity Esports Australia has announced a partnership with Network Ten to show the 2018 Gfinity Elite Series Australia league on free-to-air TV in the country.

This is Network Ten’s first foray into competitive gaming. The programming kicks off in June with Rocket League tournaments; the broadcasts will include five weeks of the regular season and and the two Finals weeks.

You can watch pro gaming on Channel One on Sundays from 10 AM to 1 PM AEST. The competition itself is taking place at the ESports Arena at Moore Park.

“We are committed to growing esports in this country and promoting a new level of quality entertainment and professional gameplay, so we are very excited to be taking Gfinity Elite Series Australia to a new, free-to-air television audience,” Gfinity Esports Australia CEO Dominic Remond said in a statement.

Alternatively, you can watch the Rocket League matches on Twitch right here.

Disclosure: GameSpot parent company CBS owns Network Ten.

The Americans Stuns with Heartbreaking Final Episode

Warning: Full spoilers for The Americans’ series finale follows…

“START,” which marked the end for FX’s The Americans, brought this six-season story to a taut and stoically impactful close. With just this one chapter left, on a shortened season of 10 episodes, there was a lot to address story-wise and, no, not every loose thread got snipped – but what the episode did focus on was mesmerizing and crushing. Namely, Philip and Elizabeth’s decision to leave Henry behind and abandon their entire lives by fleeing back to a home country they hadn’t known in decades.

Ever since the show started, the question of what would happen if the Jennings ever got caught loomed over the series like an inevitable storm. More notably, what would happen to Henry and Paige? After Paige got indoctrinated to the spy life (though, not every ugly aspect of it), things got more complex and compelling and viewers started to worry for both children in different ways. Could Henry be implicated in his parents’ serious crimes without knowing anything about them? When he and Paige were both young, the standing option was they would both just have to escape to Russia with their parents and be told the truth in the aftermath.

Woody Harrelson Says He’ll Return for Future Venom Movies

Woody Harrelson may only appear briefly in the upcoming Venom, but he is apparently set to return in a bigger role for the film’s sequel.

In an interview with Collider, Harrelson was asked about his work on the upcoming superhero flick.

“I’m in a little fraction of this movie, but I’ll be in the next one, you know? So I haven’t read that script, but anyways, just rolled the dice.”

As IGN previously reported, Harrelson joined Venom late last year. At the time, sources said Harrelson would be playing a “Henchman” character, but few details were available. When pressed for details about his character in Collider, Harrelson did not offer any new information.

Legion Season 2: Episode 9 Breakdown!

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DC Builds a Better Justice League

With some DC franchises, the initial luster of Rebirth has worn away with time and changing creative teams. But in the case of Justice League, the luster was never really there to begin with. This was the one corner of the DCU that actually seemed to get worse as a result of Rebirth. But if the No Justice miniseries has proven anything, it’s that one good story can completely turn things around.

No Justice #4 wraps up this short, densely packed miniseries, as the four teams converge on Earth in a desperate bid to stop their home from being devoured like Colu before it. The stakes are high in this finale, even if the enemy itself remains as bland now as it was at the beginning of the series. The Omega Titans never evolved beyond being generic, Kirby-esque space gods. But that’s still a minor concern, as they were never more than a means to an end. As this issue makes clear, the Omega Titans were only ever intended as a taste of the new threats awaiting the DCU on the other side of the Source Wall. This issue does its job as far as setting the stage for the new lineup of Justice League books and building anticipation for what’s coming down the line.

GTA, Red Dead Company Responds To Fortnite’s Massive Success

Take-Two, the parent company of GTA and Red Dead developer Rockstar Games, has responded yet again to the Fortnite phenomenon. During an event today, Take-Two president Karl Slatoff started off by saying any game that is massively successful like Fortnite has been is good for gaming because it brings new players to the market.

But will Take-Two release its own battle royale game? While Slatoff said “fast followers” can have success by chasing a trend, games that are direct copies tend to struggle.

“I think there is something to be said about being a fast follower in certain situations,” he said. “But you can’t be a copy cat. You have to innovate.”

Slatoff pointed out that while Fortnite and PUBG exist in the same battle royale genre, they are “very different games.” As anyone who’s played them knows, Fortnite is a stylised, more casual battle royale experience, while PUBG has a more series look and feel to it. The way Fortnite differentiated itself–and the fact that it is free–no doubt contributed to its success. Slatoff added that Fortnite’s base-building element might have appealed to the millions of young people who play Minecraft and are already familiar with building in games.

“You can’t just get out there and do the same thing and hope to be successful,” Slatoff said.

The executive observed that after League of Legends burst onto the scene, many other copy-cat MOBAs popped up–and they struggled. “You’ve got to do something different,” Slatoff explained.

Don’t expect Take-Two to make its own battle royale game. Earlier this month, CEO Strauss Zelnick said he would rather see Take-Two’s labels–including Rockstar and 2K–innovate and create new experiences than follow in the footsteps of other games.

“I think if one changed one’s business to follow other people’s big hits, you’d be constantly playing catch up,” he said. “And to say you wouldn’t be in second place is an understatement. You might remain in last place. So it’s our job to innovate, and more often than not that has driven our success.”

Rockstar is dipping its toes in the battle royale space with GTA Online, which added a battle royale mode called Motor Wars in 2017. And just this week, Rockstar added another battle royale-inspired mode called Trap Door.

Agony Review

Agony is a victim of its own ambition. It would be inaccurate to say that what Madmind Studios has delivered is different than the one it’s shown in trailers for the past few years, but those snapshots surely do not tell the whole story. For every moment of jaw-droppingly detailed environments overflowing with gore and blood, there are moments of acute frustration due to poor level design, repetitive gameplay, and downright aggravating mechanics. It was almost as if Agony was trying so hard to be a “video game” that it lost sight of what made its trailers so grotesquely appealing to horror-loving gamers around the world.

When your tormented soul isn’t busy scouring mazes of flesh and bones looking for body parts to place on pedestals or dip in bowls of excrement, you’ll spend time hiding from demons and holding your breath trying not to get caught. Or maybe you’re setting fire to doors made of sticks. It’s all just as monotonous as it sounds, and the early portions of Agony feature three of these tedious mazes almost back to back. This eight to 10-hour journey could have been cut in half without losing any of the meat by just removing all these repetitive tasks and filler content. It’d have been a more focused and consistently entertaining horror experience.

Will Red Dead Redemption 2 Have DLC? Take-Two Responds

Rockstar Games indicated that it might release story DLC for Grand Theft Auto V, but it never came to be, which surprised and upset some fans. Will Rockstar release DLC for its next big game, Red Dead Redemption 2? It’s too soon to say for sure, but Take-Two executive Karl Slatoff said during a meeting today that DLC is a “very lucrative” business model for the company.

“Across the board, we do see downloadable content as an interesting business model for us,” he said during a Cowen & Company conference today in New York. “It depends on a game-by-game basis whether that makes sense.”

“Rockstar has specifically said that’s something they would contemplate in the future but hasn’t made any specific announcements about Red Dead or any of their other games going forward,” he added. “It is a very lucrative model for us; it is a very compelling model for consumers because it allows them to continue to engage in the game in a way they are used to engaging with the game.”

GTA V’s multiplayer mode, GTA Online, has been and continues to be monumentally successful, which may explain why Rockstar has focused more on that than single-player content. Not only that, but IGN reported recently that every Rockstar studio around the world was contributing to Red Dead Redemption 2’s development, so resources might be stretched already.

GTA V has shipped an astonishing 95 million copies, so it certainly seems like there would be a business opportunity to launch extra content for the game. That being said, GTA Online brings in lots of money on a regular basis, so it’s not tough to see why Rockstar would want to focus more on GTA Online.

In October last year, Rockstar design director Imran Sarwar explained that it was “not really a conscious decision” to not release single-player expansions for GTA V. Instead, it “just happened” to work out that way. For GTA V, “We did not feel single-player expansions were either possible or necessary, but we may well do them for future projects,” Sarwar said.

Red Dead Redemption 2 launches on October 26 for PS4 and Xbox One–and it absolutely will not be delayed again.

Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Casts James Marsden

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has found one of its lead actors. James Marsden, a veteran actor who now stars in HBO’s Westworld, will have a starring role in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. However, it’s unclear what role exactly Marsden will play in the film, which will be a live-action/CG hybrid.

The Sonic movie is being direction by Jeff Fowler, whose 2005 animated movie Gopher Broke was nominated for an Oscar. The Sonic movie is his first time directing a full-length film. Deadpool 1 director Tim Miller is producing.

Oren Uziel (The Cloverfield Paradox, 22 Jump Street) wrote the latest draft for the new Sonic movie. However, no plot details have been announced.

The new Sonic movie is set for release on November 19, 2019; it was originally expected to premiere in 2018 before being delayed.

2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the Sonic franchise. The latest instalments in the series were Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces, both of which were released in 2017. A new Sonic racing game, Team Sonic Racing, is due out this year on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch.

Gfinity Australia Partners With Network Ten, Twitch

Gfinity Esports Australia is teaming up with Network Ten to bring the Gfinity AU Elite Series to free-to-air television, showing all Rocket League matches on ONE. Online viewership will be handled exclusively with Twitch.

The Gfinity Elite Series, which kicks off this weekend with the Counter-Strike Global Offensive competition, has entered into a partnership with Network Ten to broadcast their Rocket League competition on ONE each Sunday from 10am to 1pm AEST. All matches – including the CSGO and Street Fighter V competitions – will air simultaneously on twitch.tv/gfinityau.

Broadcasting out of the Gfinity HOYTS Esports Arena in Sydney’s Moore Park (which incidentally also opens this weekend), the competition will also allow spectators to attend live, with tickets on sale via HOYTS’ website.