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Breaking down barriers was a common theme among this year’s biggest Game Developers Conference announcements. Google aims to do so on a grand scale, theoretically removing hardware barriers with its Stadia streaming platform, while smaller barriers of exclusivity were torn down in the forms of Cuphead and Quantic Dream’s PlayStation library.
With the final day of GDC upon us, we’ve decided to revisit the week that was and compile a list of the conference’s most exciting stories. From the unveiling of Google’s gaming initiative to surprise game reveals, here are the five biggest announcements from GDC 2019.
Inarguably the biggest news out of this year’s conference was the official announcement of Google Stadia. During its hour-long presentation earlier this week, Google officially detailed its gaming initiative, outlining a platform built for gamers, developers, and streamers alike.
Next week is shaping up to be a busy one for Pokemon Go players. In addition to Giratina’s return to Raid Battles, Niantic has announced a new Limited Research event, which will give players their first opportunity to catch two new Shiny Pokemon.
The event takes place on Saturday, March 30, and runs from 11 AM to 8 PM local time. During those hours, Pokemon that are affected by weather conditions, such as Castform, will appear more frequently in the wild. You’ll also receive special Field Research tasks from Poke Stops, which will culminate in encounters with Lotad.
On top of that, the Shiny forms of Lotad and Castform will appear during the event, marking the first time either has been available in Pokemon Go. Niantic is also adding the move Weather Ball for Castform permanently to the game. You can read more details about the new Limited Research event on the official Pokemon Go website.
In the meantime, a few more days still remain in Pokemon Go’s ongoing spring equinox celebration. Until March 26, Grass Pokemon will appear more frequently in the wild. On top of that, the rare Rock/Psychic Pokemon Lunatone and Solrock have swapped regions, and their Shiny forms have likewise started appearing for the first time.
Pokemon Go’s next Community Day takes place on March 23. Not long after that, the Legendary Pokemon Giratina will make an encore appearance in Raid Battles. You’ll be able to catch it again in its Altered Forme from March 28 to April 2, after which point it’ll assume its Origin Forme–the appearance it takes in Pokemon Platinum–for the first time in Pokemon Go until April 29.
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Before Phil Harrison even joined Google, he wanted to ensure the company had its own game development studio for its inevitable entry into the industry.
I spoke to Harrison after the Google Stadia GDC 2019 reveal, specifically discussing Google’s decision to open a first-party studio (rather than say, acquire other, existing companies or rely solely on third parties.) He told me that creating a first-party studio was a key factor of his choice to join Google.
was a decision I made before I joined Google. I said to Google, ‘This is a fundamental of being in the game platform business,'” Harrison explained. “And I said, ‘I know this is a different muscle than Google has historically had.”
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Respawn has released the patch notes for a PC update for Apex Legends. The update is already live and is specifically aimed at fixing game crashes on PC.
“The game should now write an apex_crash.txt file to your My Documents folder when it crashes,” Respawn community manager Jay Frechette wrote in a Reddit blog post. “The apex_crash.txt files we got from players had a lot of information that we needed… We had never seen the crash in any of our internal testing before, but now we could finally reproduce the bug and that meant we could find it and fix it.”
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More updates for Apex Legends are planned for next week. Frechette didn’t provide specifics, but did list several issues that Respawn is working towards fixing. Those broad problems are outlined below.
The Apex Legends Season 1: Wild Frontier battle pass is now available for purchase, as is the game’s first post-launch add-on playable character, Octane. The battle pass costs 950 Apex Coins–about $9.50 USD–and offers a variety of rewards, such as cosmetic skins, stat trackers, new Legend voice lines, and Apex Coin and XP drops. Each reward is unlocked by earning XP and climbing up the battle pass’s 100 levels. It’s unfortunate there aren’t any challenges, like the Fortnite battle passes, but thankfully, Apex Legend’s pass allows you to earn enough Apex Coins to buy next season’s.
You don’t need to put the Apex Coins towards the next pass, though. Instead, you can use them to purchase the new character, Octane (although he can be unlocked using Legend Tokens too). The ninth Legend in Respawn’s battle royale game, Octane is all about being the fastest. His tactical gives him a boost of speed at the cost of his health, while his ultimate throws out a launch pad that can propel Legends and items through the air. In order to keep on running, Octane’s passive heals him over time, provided he’s not in combat.
Apex Legends is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
It was bound to happen one day, but that doesn’t make it any easier of a pill to swallow. The CW’s Supernatural–which recently celebrated its 300th episode–will officially come to an end after the previously-announced 15th season, which will premiere in the fall of 2019.
The news was announced by stars Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins in a social media video, where they revealed the crew of the show has just been informed of the decision. “Though we’re very, very excited about moving into our 15th season, it will be out last,” Ackles said. “Fifteen years of a show that has changed my life, I know it’s certainly changed these two guys’ life. We wanted you to hear it from us that, though we’re excited about next year, it will be the finale. The big grand finale of an institution.”
The final season will consist of 20 episodes, bringing Supernatural’s run to an incredibly impressive 327 episodes. For some perspective, Supernatural is the only CW TV show that’s older than the network itself. The series originally premiered on The WB.
“Firstly, we would like to thank all the people who have been involved with the show both in front of and behind the camera. For us, it has been an experience of a lifetime. The support we have had from both Warner Bros Television and The CW has been incredible,” executive producers Robert Singer and Andrew Dabb said in a statement. “We’d like to give special thanks to Jensen, Jared, and Misha for making this journey so special. It is now most important to us to give these characters that we love the send off they deserve.”
With Supernatural and Arrow coming to an end next season, that leaves The CW without their two longest-running shows as the network looks to the future. Whatever the case is with the future of the network, chances of a Supernatural spin-off aren’t likely. The CW has tried more than once to expand the show’s universe with no luck. Recently, The CW president Mark Pedowitz said at the TCA press tour, “If there was a spin-off to be had, I’d love to have it. That said, I’ve come to somewhat of a conclusion that the show is the two brothers.”
Supernatural airs Thursdays on The CW.
In a presentation given during GDC 2019, God of War director Cory Barlog revealed how he actively approached the game as a continuation rather than a reboot, that the game’s script had been rewritten after a year of work, and how he continuously pitched the game during the course of development.
Before writing the game, Barlog wanted to establish that SIE Santa Monica wasn’t rebooting the series, but expanding upon it. He compared the mythologies that exist in God of War to “galaxies spread throughout a complete universe,” saying they all “exist together concurrently, and they are simply separated by geography.” Using that as a basis, he had to figure out how to describe this game, wanting to stay away from calling it a reboot.
