Author: Trafficblast

Imagine being able to fling yourself over any obstacle or ledge with your own two hands instead of a pair of thumbsticks. Stormland, developed by Insomniac Games for the Oculus Rift, gave me a first glimpse into how the open-world shooter format can be morphed and reshaped for the better when brought into virtual reality. It’s brief, only presenting a grand total of four different regions across a roughly five hour campaign, and the combat isn’t nearly as strong as its exploration, but it was exciting when Stormland finally took the reins off and let me loose to propel myself through its eerie alien landscape.

Stormland’s plot isn’t its main draw, placing me into the generic robot shoes of Vesper, a lost android searching for his missing friends amid a violent robot uprising. While the story is decently told for a virtual reality game, what’s really exciting here is some of the most fluid movement mechanics and the coolest vertical world design in a made-for-VR game to date. You can climb trees, rocks, cliffs, and even up the sides of buildings. When you leap off of a surface, your rocket shoes kick in and you can control your flight path by sticking your arms out. And it’s great that you can do all of this with an online buddy at any time, which is definitely the better way to experience Stormland – though it’s a drag you have to complete the first hour before two-player co-op becomes available.

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New shortform streaming platform Quibi has announced plans to release a Marvel vs DC docuseries, which will be produced by Avengers: Endgame directors the Russo brothers. The upcoming show will be called Slugfest, and is inspired by the book Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC.

Anthony and Joseph Russo will be executive producing Slugfest. Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce will serve as the directors of the docuseries, while Todd Makurath (AGBO CEO), Peter Rieveschl (The Amazing Race, Undercover Boss), Nick Gilhool (Top Chef), and Jen Casey (Extreme Weather) have signed on as producers for the project.

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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege will change how bullet penetration works in its Y4S4 season update so that shots will do more realistic damage to their human targets. These updates will mean that some weapons will be able to hit more than one target per shot, while others will be able to pierce through one body part of an Operator and hit another, potentially doing more damage.

The exact details have been explained on the game’s dev blog, complete with a diagram explaining the levels of penetration different guns and bullets can achieve. This ranges from no penetration to full penetration (get your laughs out now because we’re going to use that word a lot in this write-up). This change aims to make shots more lethal and “reduce the impression of inaccurate hit registration.”

When this system is in place, shotguns and machine pistols will work much the same as they did before–your shots will hit the body part they hit without passing through. This is how most guns in Rainbow Six Siege have operated up until this point, and these ones will continue to have no penetration.

Simple penetration, which will effect most types of guns, will mean that bullets can pass through one part of an Operator’s body and hit another point. For example, the post states that if an Operator is shielding their face after a flashbang and you shot them in the hand with an assault rifle, the bullet will pass through their hand and potentially hit them in the head, resulting in a headshot. For guns with simple penetration, the damage taken from a shot will be modified by which parts the bullet passes through, but the essential takeaway is that you’ll now do more damage if your bullet penetrates. Bullets operating under simple penetration rules will not penetrate through to a third body part, though, nor will they pass through and hit anyone else.

Designated marksman rifles and sniper rifles will offer full penetration, meaning that if you shoot someone with one of these guns you could potentially hit the person behind them, too. If your bullet hits a second Operator, they will take 70% of the damage they would from an equivalent full shot, meaning that a well-timed sniper bullet will be extremely dangerous. Bullets cannot pass through into a third person, though.

This system will go up on the test server ahead of launch in the full game. Ubisoft is also currently working on Rainbow Six Quarantine, a PvE spin-off that will come to both current and next-gen consoles.

It wasn’t so long ago that the Green Lantern franchise was a major pillar of DC’s publishing lineup, with as many as four monthly titles shipping every month. DC has scaled back considerably in the last couple years. Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern is now the only dedicated, monthly Green Lantern comic on the stands. As much as the quality over quantity approach is appreciated, there’s no doubt DC could and should be doing more with these characters. And now they are, thanks to Far Sector.

A joint effort between sci-fi novelist N.K. Jemison and Naomi co-creator Jamal Campbell, Far Sector is a 12-issue maxi-series about a lone, human Green Lantern patrolling the most remote sector in the DC Universe. In a technological utopia populated by 20 billion lifeforms, Sojourner “Jo” Mullein is tasked with solving the first murder case in 500 years. Making that task more difficult is the fact that Jo is dealing with a city where all inhabitants other than herself have been stripped of emotion.

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On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation podcast, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano and Max Scoville to talk a bit more about Death Stranding now that it is launched and available worldwide. We discuss some of our extended thoughts on Hideo Kojima’s latest, as well as read many Beyond viewers and listeners’ impressions of Death Stranding so far.

Plus, the cast also dives into Kojima’s recent comments about Death Stranding reviews, break down our thoughts on the Sony exec shakeup ahead of the PS5, and much more.

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If you’re a PS4 owner or you’re looking to become one, there’s no better time to score a deal than on Black Friday. The big day is on November 29 this year, but many of the discounts will begin earlier than that. Below, we’ve gathered all the best deals announced so far on PS4 games, consoles, and accessories. As more retailers make their plans known, we’ll continue updating this article.

Black Friday PS4 Console Deals

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