Month: October 2019

Halloween is just around the corner and the spooky festivities are kicking off in Fortnite this week. The popular Skull Trooper and Skull Ranger skins are back in the item shop, each with a new style. There are also some new Halloween-themed skins as well.

The new Skull Trooper and Skull Ranger skins will be available to purchase today before disappearing into the ether once again. They only come to the store once a year, and there’s a new pickaxe, backbling, and glider accompanying them this Halloween, too.

Ghoul Trooper, Brainiac, and Raptor have also received new styles, and there’s a host of creepy new skins including a horned sorcerer and what looks like an alchemist with a taste for frogs, who’s mostly comprised of teeth. You can also purchase new emotes, pets, and weapon skins.

Credit to Twitter user ShiinaBR for these images.

Along with the final trailer, Lucasfilm has unveiled a brand new poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, placing Carrie Fisher as the top-billed actress.

The stunning one-sheet honors the late actress by listing her name, alongside her on-screen brother Mark Hamill, ahead of the rest of the cast and crew of Episode IX in a touching tribute to her final appearance in the franchise.

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Crystal Dynamics has offered a little more insight into why it chose Ms. Marvel as the protagonist for Marvel’s Avengers over other, more well-known superheroes.

Talking to IGN at EGX 2019 in London, where Virgin Media held the UK’s first play of Marvel’s Avengers, senior producer Rose Hunt explained that Kamala Khan was chosen because her personality is very relatable for people playing, and that her lack of history allows the studio more freedom when crafting her story for the game.

Check out the reveal of Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel below.

“When Marvel brought

up as a possibility for us, we were super excited about her,” says Hunt. “Because she’s a fan girl like us. She’s a fan of the Avengers like the whole world is, so we thought that she would be a super relatable character to be our protagonist.”

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WWE 2K20 is out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, but the internet is already filled to the brim with videos showing off the various glitches and hilarious oddities affecting 2K’s latest pro wrestling game.

Twitter user MrMacho419 might have captured the best of the lot so far with this farcical match between NXT’s Dakota Kai and superstar Ronda Rousey. The disappearing ladder isn’t ideal but is mostly fine, but then things take a turn for the worse when the steel steps sink into the ring, Rousey becomes entangled in ropes that aren’t meant to move like that, and Kai’s knees bend and move in a way that belongs in an exorcism movie.

Glitches like this have existed in each of 2K’s WWE games, especially when weapons are involved, but the frequency with which they happen in WWE 2K20 is bordering on the absurd. I’m playing the game for the purposes of writing GameSpot’s review and have encountered various glitches in every single match I’ve played so far. I’ve seen character’s teleport across the ring, witnessed foreign objects gain sentience, and encountered one game-breaking glitch that caused both superstars to stop moving for 10 minutes until I gave up and restarted the match.

The hashtag #FixWWE2K20 has been trending on Twitter throughout the day, and a user on Reddit has even compiled a list of every glitch discovered so far. It’s a bit of a mess.

Gaming laptops are quite typically heavy, large, and expensive. This shouldn’t be the case in 2019, especially as parts get even smaller, notebooks become lighter, and prices continue to drop.

Thanks to some shifts in the market, there are plenty of great notebooks that make powerful gaming machines, and run at 1080p. Normally, these are available at much lower prices than traditional gaming laptops, with plenty of affordable options to consider.

We’ve picked out the best gaming laptops in the UK that won’t cost the earth. These are all equipped with graphic cards, and other features that are essential when it comes to running games. With the recent release of Nvidia’s GTX 16-series GPUs, budget machines continue to improve in performance, while the costs continue to stay low.

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Developer Obsidian is eager to create a sequel to The Outer Worlds and turn the RPG into a series, but the team is wary of making the series open-world.

Talking to Game Informer, when asked about an open-world sequel co-game director Leonard Boyarsky said “Possibly. But I think the franchise leans a little bit away from that. It’s a pulpy space opera where you’re a guy or woman who flies from place to place, exploring a solar system. So to have one giant map defeats that.”

See what we think of The Outer Worlds in the review above.

Echoing that idea was narrative designer Nitai Poddar, who added “I’m always skeptical of this idea that seems to be going around in AAA development that open-world is the standard. That if you’re going to have a very big budget game that it should be open-world.”

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A new poster for The Grudge features a throwback to the original 2004 film, featuring disgusting fingers protruding from the back of a character’s head.

2020’s The Grudge will act as as a sort of reboot, sort of continuation of the story begun in 2004’s The Grudge, itself a remake of the Japanese film Ju-on. In the American remake, Sarah Michelle Geller’s character is seen washing her hair in the shower, only to feel the fingers of another hand on the back of her head. That same scene is mirrored in this new poster for 2020’s The Grudge, although this variant seems significantly grungier.

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After the release of BioShock Infinite in 2013, Irrational Games studio head Ken Levine decided to trim down the development team in order to work on smaller, more emergent and narrative-driven games, as opposed to the larger titles it had been creating. The studio restructure eventually led to a name change in 2017, and Ghost Story Games was born. In the years since, information on what exactly it’s cooking up has been sparse, but a recent job posting sheds some light on what to expect.

The job posting is for a cinematic narrative scripter at the studio and reveals that Ghost Story Games is working on a “creatively ambitious project in the immersive sim genre.” Those with a “passion for narrative first-person shooters” and “firsthand knowledge of design for shooters, immersive sims and/or action RPGs” is a plus, which certainly falls in line with Levine’s previous output, having worked on the likes of System Shock 2, SWAT 4, and the BioShock series.

At the 2014 Games Developers Conference, Levine spoke about the concept of “narrative Legos,” and followed that up in 2015 by saying that his next game would utilise the concept in a first-person sci-fi setting. Little else is known about the project beyond this, and the recent job listing indicates that it’s still a long ways off yet. “We are committed to making games that we judge by quality, not arbitrary timeliness.” In the meantime, there’s always System Shock 3.