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Lucasfilm has delayed the launch of its cross-media Star Wars prequel series, The High Republic, until January 2021.
Announced on StarWars.com, the delay comes asa result of “recent world events” (read: COVID-19). As a result, all three announced High Republic products have been delayed from their original 2020 release dates.
Charles Soule’s adult novel Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, and Justina Ireland’s middle-grade novel Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage will both see release on January 5, 2021. Claudia Gray’s young adult-focused Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark will follow on February 2.
Announcements of release dates for Marvel’s The High Republic comic series, and IDW Publishing’s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures series will follow at a later date.
Lucasfilm Publishing creative director Michael Siglain penned an open letter to fans, explaining the delay by saying it is to “ensure that the launch is as grand and epic as it deserves to be.”
“Now, I know that waiting isn’t easy”, Siglain continues. “And I know fans have been excited for this since it was first announced. I’m right there with you. I’ve also been waiting to tell this story for years. And while I can’t say much about it, I can tell you that our story architects – Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Doniel Jose Older, Cavan Scott, and Charles Soule – are continuing to work away on this new era of stories. You’ll hear from them this summer, and when you do, be sure to ask them about “The Hero of Hetzal,” “the twins,” the “Blade of Bardotta,” the Starros and San Tekka clans, and the Storms. You’re not going to believe what they’ve got in store for the Jedi and the Republic.”
The High Republic era is set roughly 200 years before any current canon Star Wars media, and will focus on the Golden Age of the Jedi. It will also reveal a dark event known as the Great Disaster and see the Jedi confront an enemy called the Nihil.
PlayStation VR Marvel’s Iron Man VR Bundle is set to release on July 3, the same date as the game itself. Like other PSVR bundles with the hardware included here, it retails for $349.99. And since other PSVR SKUs are difficult to find in stock for list price right now, this may your best chance of scoring one.
The bundle comes with a PSVR headset, camera, two Move controllers, physical copy of Iron Man VR, and the demo disc 3.0. Assuming you already own a PS4 or PS4 Pro, that’s everything you need to get started in the many virtual worlds available on the platform, including AAA titles like Skyrim, Resident Evil 7, and No Man’s Sky.
Currently, GameStop is the only retailer with this listing. We’ll update this page if/when that changes.
If you already have a PSVR headset, you can preorder the standalone game by itself (just note you’ll need Move controllers to play it). It puts you in the Iron Man suit and lets you soar through the air, blasting villains out of the sky. Between battles, you’ll retire to Tony Stark’s garage, where you can upgrade your gear and abilities.
Hello Games and Microsoft have revealed that No Man’s Sky will be released on Xbox Game Pass in June 2020.
Announced on Xbox Wire, Xbox Game Pass members will soon be able to play in No Man’s Sky “infinite, procedurally-generated” universe with “over 10 million Xbox Game Pass members.”
However, since then, Hello Games has provided regular free updates that have improved the gameplay experience, including the massive Beyond and Next updates and additions such as VR, multiplayer, new alien races, Exo-Mechs, and so much more.
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Upcoming PS4 exclusive The Last of Us Part 2 has seemingly been banned in some Middle Eastern countries.
Users on Reddit have reported that the game is currently unavailable to pre-order on the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia PS Store pages. In contrast, accessing the PS Store from places like the USA or UK at the moment allows you to view and pre-order The Last of Us Part 2. Many users have come to the conclusion that the game may have been banned and blocked for sale in these countries.
Interestingly, searching for The Last of Us Part 2 on both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia PS Stores provides avatar and theme results, but not the game itself.
IGN has reached out to Sony for comment on the situation.
The Middle East is known for having less tolerance to LGBT themes than Western territories, and some work has been banned, such as this year’s Pixar movie Onward, due to a line of dialogue referencing a gay relationship. The Last of Us Part 2’s protagonist, Ellie, is gay, which may potentially have caused the apparent sale block.
The Last of Us Part 2 has already been rated by the ESRB. with the advisory rating warning of nudity and sexual content. However, considering Cyberpunk 2077 is still available to pre-order in both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the suggestion is that those specific elements – which are definitely in Cyberpunk 2077 – are not the issue.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition, the newly released version of Mafia III that includes all of the game’s DLC, seems to include a new asset within it. Files have been discovered within the game that show off a map of Berlin, and although it’s missing textures, the full town map seems to be in there.
On YouTube, Sliderv2 has posted a video (as seen on Resetera) exploring the map as Mafia III protagonist Lincoln Clay, showing it from both the air and ground. While the video does not explain how the map was accessed, it lines up with earlier reports about a cancelled game by developer Hanger 13.
A 2018 report on Kotaku about the developer outlined their plans for a new game, Rhapsody, which would be an 80s-set spy game that saw you playing a Russian Jew out for revenge for the murder of their parents.
This video does not provide much insight into how the game would have played, but it looks like at least most of the map had been laid out. Rhapsody did not go ahead, but it seems that the map survived in the files for Mafia III: Definitive Edition. Hanger 13’s next game will be the remake Mafia: Definitive Edition. releasing August 28 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
If you own Mafia III on PC, PS4, or Xbox One, the Definitive Edition is available now as a free update.
If becoming as gods and MOBAs are your top interests, then you’re probably already familiar with Hi-Rez Studios’ Smite. Now, Smite has come out with a new Final Boss Battle Pass to keep players entertained. Whether you want to throw down as Baba Yaga, Hades, or even Cthulu, there’s something for you in the upcoming month of June.
The latest Smite Final Boss Battle Pass was released on May 20, bringing with it access to four new skins: Shadow Guan Yu, Legon Hades, Elder Djinn Baba Yaga, and Frost Gorgon Medusa. Chapter 3 of the Grim Omens storyline also went live at the same time, along with the launch of the Galaxy Hero chest for players to purchase. The patch notes for 7.5 on the Smite website go into further detail about what will be launched next, so stay tuned to keep abreast of upcoming content drops.
Players who choose to pick up the Battle Pass will unlock Legion Hades upon purchase, while those opting to shell out for the Battle Pass using Battle Points will unlock Elder Djinn Baba Yaga as well.
According to the official Smite website, the Final Boss Battle Pass will set players back 600 Gems. Gems can be earned from participating in in-game activities, or by purchasing them via the Smite store using real money.
With June looming on the horizon, players will also be able to access Cthulu as a playable character. The Giant Dreamer will be larger than all the gods, and his ultimate will reflect a truly monstrous size and shape when it’s active. Fans who have long wanted to take up the reins of Cthulu will no doubt enjoy this new battle pass and the update to come next month.
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Paul Feig, director of the 2016 Ghostbusters, recently sat down with Collider to chat about his work, revealing some interesting details on why the Ghostbusters reboot happened the way it did.
From Feig’s telling of it, Sony Pictures was courting him for some time to direct a new Ghostbusters movie, and even had a script for a direct sequel to the originals. Feig didn’t like the idea; with only two of the original cast members returning, he said it would have felt like “them handing off their legacy to somebody else.”
It seems like Sony struggled to struggled to find a director interested in this sequel, with Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal asking Feig, “Why doesn’t anybody want to do this?”
It was only when Feig started thinking about his own idea of a new Ghostbusters film that the reboot started becoming a possibility.
“I was just kind of like, if I could kind of reboot this and start a new origin story,” he told Collider. “I have all these funny women who I work with who I’m dying to get into a ‘supergroup’, why don’t I just make it them? Then it won’t compete with the memory of Bill and Dan and Harold and Ernie.”
From Feig’s telling of it, the film was never conceptualized as a genderbent reboot, beyond the director wanting to work with the funniest actors he knew–who all happened to be women.
“I thought it was the best way to avoid all the pitfalls [of remaking a classic],” Feig said. “So when suddenly it became this big thing, that that was our big pitfall, I kind of couldn’t compute.”
The director also wanted to clarify his comments, complaining that he had been misquoted as saying that everyone who hated the movie was a misogynist. “The attacks became so misogynistic, the ones that I was getting,” he explained. “That was all I saw, but I know a lot of people just didn’t want it rebooted.”
But beyond all the toxicity, Feige says he has no regrets about making the film–though he does regret some of the cut sequences that ended up out of budget. “That Times Square fight had a few extra beats that I wish we could have had in there, with Leslie Jones,” he said. “There was a really fun sequence that we didn’t get to shoot, where Leslie Jones goes into a haunted FAO Schwarz and has to fight this giant Barbie doll.”
“After we’d not done that great at the box office and all the trolls were celebrating, we won Best Feature Film at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards,” he said, adding that the film beat out heavy hitters like Star Wars: Rogue One and Captain America: Civil War. “After getting yelled at for three or four years about ‘thanks for ruining my childhood’ from a bunch of middle-aged guys, well maybe some kids in their actual childhood have something that they like now.”
A new Ghostbusters movie is currently in the works, this time as a direct sequel to the original films. Some of the original cast are returning, while Ant-Man’s Paul Rudd and Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard are newcomers to the franchise. You can check out the first trailer for the film here.
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EA Sports and the NFL are going to extend their deal to keep making more Madden games for years to come. That’s according to a report from Sports Business Daily and information from Albert Breer of MMBQ (see the tweet below). They both say the NFL owners will vote this week to give EA exclusive rights to making simulation football games through the 2025 season. According to the reports, the new deal could extend to the 2026 NFL season if the game series reaches “certain revenue goals.”
The deal between EA and the NFL will also reportedly give the game developer non-exclusive rights to arcade-style NFL games in addition to “embedded companion apps/modes.” EA’s deal with the NFL is currently set to expire at the end of the 2021 season.
Another BIG voting matter for next week’s virtual owners meeting: NFL teams will vote to ratify a five-year extension of their video-game licensing agreement with EA Sports, through the 2026 season. So, I believe, this would take you through Madden NFL ’27.
2K Sports hasn’t published a football game in years, but it used to released the NFL 2K series, which was a simulation franchise. However, EA later snapped up the exclusive rights. If 2K is ever going to get back into the simulation football market, it won’t be for at least five years.
The meeting of NFL owners will take place on May 28.
Madden NFL 21 is due to launch later this year, featuring Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson on its cover. The game has so far only been confirmed for Xbox One and Xbox Series X, but it’s also expected to release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. EA has teased that more details on Madden NFL 21 will be announced on June 1.
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While most of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia co-creator Rob McElhenney’s attention is currently on his new game development workplace comedy Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, he has hinted that the Always Sunny gang will eventually deal with the COVID-19 crisis in some form.
In an interview about the production of Mythic Quest’s surprise quarantine episode, NME asked what a similar episode would have looked like if it was produced for Always Sunny instead. As McElhenney has been writing new Always Sunny episodes while in quarantine, he promised, “When we come back, don’t worry, we will address all this in the way only Sunny can!”
Though as McElhenney pointed out, Always Sunny does already have a quarantine episode: The Gang Gets Quarantined, which is episode seven of the show’s ninth season. The episode sees the gang locking themselves inside the pub to avoid a seasonal flu, and even plays on the hand sanitizer-mania we’ve now experienced in real life
With new show Mythic Quest now confirmed for a second season, McElhenney touched on the future of Always Sunny–and he still hopes it’ll be a long one. Unlike many TV shows that are now being planned for limited runs, McElhenney hopes his show will go on for as long as it possibly can. “If people keep watching it and we keep having fun, why would we ever stop? It’s my dream job. I never understand why people leave shows,” he told NME. “And if they keep paying me and the audience keeps watching it and I still love it… why would I ever stop?”
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