March 2019 – Page 80

The company has sent out invitations for a March 25 event in San Francisco with the intriguing tagline, “It’s show time.” An accompanying graphic shows the “4… 3… 2…” countdown that is traditionally shown before the start of films and TV shows.

Apple is rumoured to be launching a video streaming service to potentially rival Netflix, Amazon Prime, and others. As GameSpot sister site CNET points out, Apple has in recent months inked content deals for new projects from M. Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon, and Oprah.

We’ll report back with all the big news from Apple’s March 25 event as it unfolds. One of the next big new streaming services in the works is Disney+, which is slated to arrive last this year.

GameSpot’s parent company, CBS, recently launched its own streaming service in CBS All-Access. The next original show for CBS All-Access is the new Twilight Zone, which comes to the service on April 1.

NOS4A2’s Doesn’t Suck, but It’s Not Great Either

This is an advanced, spoiler-free review for NOS4A2 from SXSW in Austin, TX. The series will premiere on AMC this summer.

When vampire fiction is adapted for the screen, it generally gets reduced to a narrative involving beautiful supernatural beings falling in love with each other or a gorgeous and naive mortal – as demonstrated by the likes of The Vampire Diaries, Twilight, True Blood, and A Discovery of Witches. Sure, many of the aforementioned takes on the blood-sucking genre do have value – especially True Blood – but none of them has redefined the genre in a compelling way. NOS4A2, AMC’s new supernatural-horror series based on Joe Hill’s bestselling novel of the same name, attempts the lofty goal of taking a centuries-old tale and turning it on its head… and they kind of get it right.

Fortnite Update Adds A Hamster Ball Vehicle on March 12 – GS News Update

Fortnite is incredibly popular on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. Currently, Fortnite is on its 8th Season with different challenges happening every week, and the next update will introduce a new vehicle for Season 8 that looks like a hamster ball. Along with these updates, a new week of challenges are now available for the season. Fortnite’s latest update will arrive March 12.

PUBG Pro Shares 4 Tips to Win

Cloud9’s Kaymind has several tips on how to improve your gameplay on the battleground.

Devil May Cry 5: Secret Missions Locations

Where to find all Secret Missions in DMC5 and how to beat them.

Apex Legends is a Leap Forward for Accessibility

From cognitive disabilities to physical ones, there are a lot of reasons someone could feel uncomfortable or be incapable of engaging in voice chat. Sometimes, this isn’t a huge deal, but in this era of team-focused multiplayer games, it’s getting harder and harder to effectively communicate with your teammates without directly speaking to them. Yet Apex Legends, the latest addition to an ever-expanding landscape of Battle Royale shooters, is changing that.

Apex’s ping system allows for more universal types of communication. Through simple button inputs combined with thoughtful audio cues, it creates an environment where virtually all relevant in-game information can be relayed to your team without uttering a single word. The system lets you place various markers on the map and battlefield, such as enemy locations, where to loot, and the direction you want your team to go next. Once the marker has been placed, your character will verbally express the type of marker you chose, establishing visual and auditory indicators simultaneously. But it isn’t just a neat way to save time, it is a huge step forward toward inclusivity for gamers with disabilities.

New Fallout 76 Expansion Delayed, But Not For Very Long

Bethesda has announced the first piece of its three-part 2019 roadmap for Fallout 76 is delayed. Don’t worry, though, it’s only been delayed by a day.

“We are moving the release of Wild Appalachia back one day on all platforms,” Bethesda tweeted. “We just need a little more time to brew. Experience the new quest, crafting station & much more starting now on March 13.” Wild Appalachia was first announced on Fallout 76’s 100 day anniversary, alongside the game’s two other major follow-up expansions for 2019, Nuclear Winter and Wastelanders.

Wild Appalachia includes two new quests and a game mode, as well as several features. The two quests, titled Shear Terror and Ever Upwards, offer new stories for you to pursue, with the former focusing on mythical monsters and the latter having you join the Pioneer Scouts and earning merit badges. The new game mode, called Survival, is a PvP variation of Fallout 76’s Adventure mode. Of all the new features, brewing and distilling your own Nukashine recipes is the most notable, but the expansion also includes a means for exchanging unwanted legendary gear for new legendaries and setting up your own store for you to sell items to other players.

Fallout 76’s two other 2019 expansions are scheduled for much later in the year, with Nuclear Winter launching in the summer and Wastelanders in the fall. Nuclear Winter unlocks a new Legendary status and abilities for players who are level 50, and opens up Vaults 94 and 96 as challenging Raids for you to tackle with your friends. Wastelanders introduces “a tale with true choice and consequences” that includes a new main quest, factions, events, and features.

In our Fallout 76 review, Edmond Tran wrote, “Bethesda has stated it intends to continue supporting the game for a long time, but at launch, Fallout 76 is a poor experience. There are echoes of the series’ admirable qualities, but look past that facade, past the cute Vault Boy animations, past the familiar radio tracks, and you’ll find no heart–just an inconsequential wasteland doomed to be nuked over and over again.”

Captain Marvel and the Problematic History of “Girl Versions” of Heroes

Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel.

The MCU is certainly no stranger to major character revisions — some superhero history just doesn’t translate from page to screen all that well. It’s usually fairly innocuous stuff, changing strangers to friends, tweaking superpowers, overhauling villains. But with Captain Marvel, one of the changes made to Carol Danvers’ origin story is anything but minor. It may actually be one of the most important updates the MCU has made to a hero since the franchise debuted almost 11 years ago.

Annette Bening’s Wendy Lawson both is and isn’t someone from Carol’s comic book history. She was a Kree scientist named Mar-Vell stationed on Earth in secret who played a direct hand in Carol’s origin story. But in the comics, Wendy was Walter — still secretly Mar-Vell, but a male soldier and scientist rather than a woman, and the original Captain Marvel. On the surface, it seems like a fairly simple pivot. Both Walter and Wendy were major figures in Carol’s life before their real identities as Kree infiltrators were revealed, they both played a direct role in Carol’s origin story, and they both inspired her to be a hero — but for Walter, that meant casting Carol as Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel’s quintessential girl counterpart. For Wendy, it meant Carol evolving directly into Captain Marvel herself.

Apple Expected to Reveal New TV Service Details at March Event

Apple is officially holding an event later this month where many expect the tech giant to reveal new details on its upcoming TV streaming service.

Reported by The Verge, Apple sent out an announcement revealing it will hold a press event on March 25 at 10 a.m. PT at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. This announcement was accompanied by a brief countdown gif, which simply ends with the Apple logo and the tagline “It’s showtime.” Apple notably used this tagline at a 2006 event where it revealed the iTV (renamed Apple TV) and announced it would begin offering movies on iTunes.