Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, will be presenters at The Game Awards next week.
Announced by Geoff Keighley, the Russo brothers being presenters may hint that we are going to see more of Square Enix’s Avengers game in development by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal.
Sooner or later, the first trailer for The Avengers 4 will hit the Internet. We’re not exactly sure when, and it’s looking more and more likely that the footage won’t debut in November as was previously reported. But regardless of when the trailer hits, MCU fans will finally have a better idea of the plot of this sequel and how it builds on the cliffhanger ending of Avengers: Infinity War.
There’s a delicate art to crafting great movie trailers these days. Marvel Studios needs to show fans just enough to whet their appetites without needlessly spoiling the movie (or Captain Marvel, for that matter). With that in mind, here are some things we do and don’t want to see out of the new trailer when it does finally drop.
While it doesn’t necessarily guarantee any news regarding any of their projects, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 directors the Russo brothers will be in attendance at The Game Awards next week. They’ll be there as presenters, according to a tweet from the show’s creator, Geoff Keighley.
“We are excited to welcome Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Avengers, to the #TheGameAwards next week,” Keighley wrote. “Don’t miss the stream live everywhere around the world on Thursday night. #WorldsWillChange” The latter hashtag is in reference to a tagline used in relation to this year’s awards show, so it doesn’t necessarily pertain directly to the Russos. Perhaps to temper expectations regarding any news, Keighley also shared that another big star–one of the Muppets, Pepé the King Prawn–will also be a presenter.
Even as just presenters, the Russos’ presence will stir speculation about some kind of announcement. An Avengers game known currently as The Avengers Project is in the works, though the Russos are not known to have any involvement with it. Their inclusion could simply be a matter of attracting more mainstream attention to the show.
The Square Enix-published game is in development at Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics, with Deus Ex developer Eidos Montreal also working on it. The game was first announced back in early 2017, though we’ve heard little about it since. Crystal Dynamics did announce the opening of a new studio in Washington earlier this year that will be contributing to the game, among other things.
The Russos participated in a public Q&A this week, during which fans had been hoping for the long-awaited first Avengers 4 trailer. That trailer ultimately didn’t surface, though we have previously been told to expect a trailer before the end of the year.
The Game Awards are set to take place on Thursday, December 6, at 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET (2 AM GMT / 12 PM AET on Friday). The award nominees have already been announced, and Keighley has teased that 10 games will be announced during the show.
Fantastic Beasts producer David Heyman recently discussed the decision to extend the series to five movies from an initially planned trilogy.
In an interview with Collider, Heyman responded to a question about the extension, saying “It wasn’t a difficult conversation to have at the studio… it didn’t go from anybody speaking to Jo
and saying, ‘You know what? Let’s milk this.’ Both in fairness to the studio, but also to Jo. While it may look like it to some people, there is nothing cynical about this. This is all from her head.”
“So she begins with three films, because she thinks that’s the story she wants to tell, and then as she digs deeper… and she hadn’t written anything when she said three. Then she wrote the first, and as she was writing the second, actually just before then, but as she says we working on the first, she began to realize there was a whole lot more, and she was trying to figure out, ‘how the hell am I going to squeeze this into three?’”
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Black Friday may be over, but the deals on Blu-Rays and 4K Movies haven’t stopped thanks to seemingly never-ending Cyber Week sales. We’ve gone through the listings, and picked out a selection of the absolute best discounted movies worth owning. Whether you’re purchasing for yourself, or securing an early gift for someone else, don’t miss out on these deals while they last!
Jurassic World was a fun and refreshing entry in the Jurassic Park franchise, and now you can own the Blu-Ray + DVD combo for only a few bucks. It doesn’t get much better than that.
The Elder Scrolls Blades has been delayed. The first mobile installment in Bethesda’s long-running RPG series was originally slated to hit iOS and Android devices sometime this fall, but according to the series’ official Twitter account, it will now arrive in early 2019.
Bethesda hasn’t shared any further details on the game’s new release window, nor did it provide a reason for the delay. However, the company says that players are still able to pre-register for The Elder Scrolls Blades on its website. Doing this will grant you early access to the game ahead of its launch, although we likewise don’t yet know when this early access period will begin.
First announced during Bethesda’s E3 2018 presentation, The Elder Scrolls Blades is billed as a “pure Elder Scrolls game” with “console-quality graphics.” Unlike recent console installments such as Skyrim, Blades doesn’t feature an open world–although Bethesda says one could be added down the line. The game contains PvP and town-building elements, as well as the same kind of combat as previous Elder Scrolls games.
Blades was also one of the games showcased during Apple’s 2018 keynote address back in September. During the presentation, Bethesda’s Todd Howard took the stage to demonstrate how the game will run on the new iPhone XS. Howard also noted the advantages the XS’s OLED screen and other hardware improvements offer.
Blades will be free to download and play when it launches for iOS and Android. It also isn’t the only Elder Scrolls project Bethesda is currently working on; the company also announced the next proper installment in the series, The Elder Scrolls VI, is in development, although that might not launch until the next generation of consoles.
You may soon have the chance to try out the new Destiny-esque action game from BioWare, Anthem. EA has announced an upcoming closed alpha test, and sign-ups for it are now live.
As outlined on EA’s website, the test will be quite brief–it’ll run from December 8-9, though it’ll be available on all three of the game’s platforms: PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The test will not be available for the entirety of the two days, as there will instead by “multiple sessions” spread across the weekend.
In terms of the alpha’s purpose, EA explains, “It’s an opportunity for you to check out Anthem but we’ll also be adjusting things like matchmaking and server load on the fly. These Community Playtests are more limited than what we want to share in the pre-launch demos. All of these factors combined mean that we’re making access to our Playtests limited, which is where the ‘closed’ part of the name comes from.”
Sign-ups are now live, and you can register your interest here. You aren’t guaranteed access just by signing up, and you’ll need a PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold membership on PS4 and Xbox One, respectively. When registering your interest, you’ll need to pick the specific platforms and time windows you’re hoping to participate in.
Participants will be bound by a non-disclosure agreement. That means, barring any leaks, you shouldn’t expect to see players sharing any thoughts, screenshots, or videos from the alpha test.
If you don’t get in, this won’t mark your only chance to try the game before launch. EA and BioWare have plans to offer an Anthem demo next year, and EA/Origin Access members will presumably get their usual limited early access to the game as well. Its full release is set for February 22.
Outside of Anthem, BioWare is at work on the future of Mass Effect. It also just recently teased that Dragon Age news is coming very soon.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night developer ArtPlay has brought Shantae: Half-Genie Hero developer WayForward Technologies on board to help with development.
Announced through Bloodstained’s Kickstarter page, producer Koji Igarashi called WayForward a “top-tier” developer of side-scrolling action games, adding that he worked with one of WayForward’s employees on a previous project. Igarashi said WayForward would help him to realize his vision for the game.
The producer added that WayForward has been “helping to improve the game and fix any bugs that pop up.” There’s one bug in particular that’s currently making Bloodstained crash, but Igarashi said it’ll be fixed with the new partner studio’s help.
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Audeze burst onto the scene ten years ago, and since its inception has become a household name – if your household is full of high-end headphone enthusiasts, that is. The company was born out of a meeting between two headphone industry professionals and an engineer who had developed special materials for NASA, and they wanted to use some of those materials in the production of a headphone line. The result was a true high-end headphone experience that cost up to $4,000. (Yes, that is the correct number of zeroes.) Luckily one of those zeroes disappears for the company’s first gaming headset, the Mobius (See it on Audeze’s site). It’s a high-grade wireless (or wired) cross-platform gaming headset with sophisticated technology, and head-tracking for VR. They’re in a class of their own due to their design and $400 price tag, so how well does that high-end philosophy translate to gaming?
Fortnite isn’t just the biggest battle royale game in the world; it’s one the biggest games in the world, period. And although it’s technically free to play, a lot of people spend a lot of money on fashionable in-game outfits and accessories. For a limited time, if you buy select GeForce graphics cards, you’ll get free items in Fortnite.
The deal is available on the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, 1070, and 1060 graphics cards, which GeForce advertises as “up to 3X the performance of previous generations.” Buy one of those from the GeForce Fortnite bundle page, and you’ll receive 2,000 V-Bucks as well as the male Fortnite Counterattack Set.
Here’s what comes in the Counterattack Set:
As for the V-Bucks, you can spend them on things like new outfits, emotes, and gliders, or use some of them to pick up the Battle Pass for Season 7, which should begin shortly after Season 6 ends on December 6.
For now, Epic is being tight-lipped about what’s in store for Season 7 of Fortnite. As is typical for the game, though, players have begun noticing some mysterious things happening, including indications that the temperature may be dropping and an iceberg floating toward the island. This could portend a winter theme for Season 7, though we’ll have to wait a little longer to be sure.
In the meantime, if you’ve been on the lookout for a new graphics card, you might consider one of the following GeForce Fortnite bundles.