Godfall won’t feature microtransactions, and the developers aren’t considering it as a game-as-service title.
In a video interview with Arekkz Gaming, Godfall Technical Producer Richard Heyne was asked whether the looter-slasher would follow the reactive ‘games as a service’ model, utilised by titles such as Destiny and Tom Clancy’s The Division.
In response, Heyne told Arekkz that “there is an experience you can complete,” suggesting that the game will feature a finite campaign that players can play through. However, Heyne also notes that there is “end-game content” in Godfall. “There is more for the player to explore and revisit once they have completed their ascent of the Skybreaker Monolith.
“We don’t consider the game a service,” Reyne told Arekkz. “There are no microtransactions in Godfall, but we are planning that there is plenty of content for the player to dig into once [main villain] Macros is defeated. Once you’ve completed the campaign, you will have the ability to go back to these realms and explore them in new ways, to experience new encounters, new challenges.”
So, something of a hybrid then? We’ve seen plenty of games as a service in the past offer players a campaign as well as replayable end-game content to follow, so that concept isn’t too groundbreaking. It’s the lack of microtransactions which is most interesting – especially for a game of this style, where microtransactions are usually part of the furniture.
Godfall will launch on PS5 and PC via the Epic Games Store this Holiday. In other Godfall news, check out what the director had to say about how the game will utilise the new features of the PS5 DualSense.
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The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie from Warner Bros. is apparently going to feature the franchise’s trademark gruesome fatalities without anything held back. Actor Lewis Tan, who plays an unspecified character in the movie, told GameSpot sister site ComicBook that some of the fatality sequences that he saw on set made him sick to his stomach.
“Let me just say this, there were some days on set that I felt sick. I’m not kidding,” Tan said. “They did not… They did not hold back.”
Fatalities are Mortal Kombat’s trademark gruesome finishing sequences that showcase all manner of horrific things like ripped bones, broken spines, and bodies pulled apart in the most hideous ways. It would appear, based on Tan’s comments, that they will show up in the movie through practical effects, at least in part. Presumably CGI will also be used.
Writer Greg Russo also spoke to ComicBook, and he mentioned that the Mortal Kombat movie will feature fatalities from the game franchise as opposed to invented ones. “We’re not going to come up with some new things that we haven’t seen before,” he said.
Russo added that the producers had to walk a thin line regarding what they wanted to depict on-screen for the fatalities to avoid being too “over-the-top.”
“You want to be truthful, but you also don’t want to be so ridiculous and gratuitous that you may turn people off in the wrong way. So I would just say that it’s going to be faithful to the games and it’s going to earn its R-rating,” he said.
The Mortal Kombat movie is set for release in January 2021. It is produced by Aquaman director James Wan, and is directed by Australian commercial director Simon McQuoid.
The first Mortal Kombat movie, released in 1995, was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who would go on to make the Resident Evil film series. The movie made more than $120 million worldwide, but its 1997 sequel, Annihilation, was a disappointment by comparison with only $51 million. An internet video series called Mortal Kombat Legacy ran from 2011-2013.
For more on the Mortal Kombat franchise, check out the video above in which we talk to Mortal Kombat series creator Ed Boon.
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Yakuza: Like A Dragon gets a release window and confirmation that a PS5 version is happening. It’s also going to have english voice acting. The game’s been out in Japan since January, but is finally being release worldwide in November for the PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. It’s coming to the PS5 at a “later date.”
Final Fantasy 14’s free trial is getting a lot bigger with its 5.3 patch coming August 11. The patch will add Heavensward to the free trial, including endgame content that leads into the following expansion, Stormblood.
And hey, while you’re here, GameSpot launched its own merch store. Until the end of August, all the proceeds will be split between Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 relief.
Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions has featured more of its anime-styled soccer action during the Bandai Namco Play Anime Live stream. The new trailer shows off more of the action we can expect from this over-the-top game, which will let you use character-specific powers to steal the ball, shoot goals, and outpace the competition.
The new trailer focused on online play, which features international matches between players custom teams. Players can select different characters for their team and customize them to make their own squad. Online matches can be played 1v1 or 2v2 and the game will feature division leagues where players can climb the rankings. Online teams can be customized and upgraded using play points, an in-game currency that are not available via in-game purchases.
You can watch the new trailer below.
The game is due on August 28 for Switch, PS4, and PC. It was announced back in February, and is based on the manga first created in 1981. The original anime series debuted in 1983, with a more-recent updated series running from 2018 until 2019. You can unlock bonuses by pre-ordering it.
Developer Sucker Punch has slipped a few fun Easter eggs into the huge open world of Ghost of Tsushima, if you know where to look for them. A few are tied to finding collectibles and completing missions, but one big one shows up at the end of the game, paying homage to a bunch of PlayStation exclusive games that have helped define Sony’s influence on the video gaming landscape.
You can find the Easter egg after you complete Act 3 of the main quest. When you’re finished with Jin’s Tale, you’ll awaken at Tradition’s End, a small shack where Jin keeps a whole bunch of keepsakes regarding the people he meets throughout the game and the events that take place as part of the story.
Look on the table in the shack, however, and you’ll see something else: a bunch of papercraft characters and objects referencing other PlayStation exclusive games. There are quite a few, in fact, and it’s easy to miss some of them. Here’s the full list and what they’re calling out.
The table at Tradition’s End has a whole mess of callbacks to PlayStation exclusives on it, but
Microsoft has reportedly indicated that the Xbox Series X release date is in November, according to tech reporter Dina Bass. In an interview with Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, Bass asked if the “new console” was still on track for the “November holidays,” to which Hood responded yes. [Update: A Microsoft spokesperson told GameSpot that it has not yet announced an official release date for the console.]
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood says new Xbox is still on track for the November holidays launch.
Not entirely explicit, this response indicates that the Xbox Series X release date is sometime in November. Previously, the Xbox Series X has been announced to launch during Holiday 2020, but no specific release date has been officially announced. Back in March, an official product page in some regions listed the console as “Thanksgiving 2020.” However, Microsoft said that listing was a mistake. The original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One released in November of their launch years.
A Microsoft spokesperson told GameSpot, “We’re excited to launch Xbox Series X, which will set a new bar for power, speed and compatibility when it launches Holiday 2020, alongside Halo Infinite. We have nothing further to share at this time.”
Microsoft will be having its Xbox Games Showcase tomorrow, July 23. News on the Xbox Series X hardware, including a release date, is not expected, as Microsoft has already stated that the showcase will focus exclusively on games.
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While horror movies from Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea have been popular with fans for a long time, in more recent years, great examples of scary films from other Asian countries have found appreciative audiences in the west. Indonesia has produced some particularly impressive horror movies, including Timo Tjahjanto’s wild Evil Dead homage May the Devil Take You and Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves, which stands as the most successful ever produced in that country. The need for streaming services to find content has really helped these movies breakthrough internationally, with Netflix and Shudder respectively giving these two films high profile US releases. Anwar’s latest movie, Impetigore, is set to join them, and hits Shudder this week.
Impetigore hits the ground running with a seriously scary opening sequence. Two women, Maya (Tara Basro) and Dini (Marissa Anita), are working in toll booths on either side of a road at night. Maya mentions that she is scared of one regular driver she sees, who–of course–turns up minutes later. Without spoiling anything, this encounter leads Maya to find out that she was born in a remote woodland village, and she might have inherited a large house there. So the two friends head into the countryside to find the village. But inevitably something is very wrong there–the locals believe a terrible curse has been placed upon the village by Maya’s relatives, and her return starts a disturbing sequence of events.
Viewers going into Impetigore expecting non-stop shocks like the opening scene suggests might be initially disappointed. Anwar is a filmmaker who puts atmosphere ahead of obvious scares, and there’s a slow build to the next big fright, as Maya and Dini head to the village to find the potential inheritance. But the director’s skill at building tension and mystery establishes a mood that quickly makes up for any lack of blade-wielding mayhem like in the first 10 minutes. Basro and Anita are both very engaging as the likeable but ill-prepared city girls, who believe they are simply going to find an expensive house then return with a lawyer to force the locals to hand it over. There’s quite a bit of humor early on between the pair, but as the situation gets serious, the laughs gradually disappear.
Although Anwar throws in a lot of familiar horror content–curses, machetes, black magic, evil puppets–he never falls back on lazy cliché. The villagers are not the insane backwoods locals of movies such as The Hills Have Eyes or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The curse that they believe afflicts their village is a deeply disturbing one for the whole community, affecting new-born children, and the dark decisions they take when they realise Maya has returned to her home are driven by this pain. There are a couple of more obvious villains–the elderly woman (a menacing Christine Hakim), who runs the village, and her son, played by Ario Bayu–but for the most part the villagers are portrayed sympathetically as normal people forced to deal with a terrible situation.
Like many of the best Asian horror movies, Anwar uses traditional and folklore to great effect. As well as superstitious belief in curses, the traditional Indonesian art of Wayang Kulit–a type of shadow puppetry–is used as a main plot point. Not only does this allow for some ghoulish horror (hint: these puppets aren’t made from the traditional animal skin), it also proved some incredibly striking imagery. One particularly gory sequence takes place behind the linen screen used in Wayang Kulit, with the spraying blood and butchered bodies strikingly silhouetted. The whole movie is beautifully shot, with the location photography and stylish camerawork making it one of the best looking horror films for some time.
But while Impetigore is visually striking throughout, it does fall down on a story level. As with all films of this type, there comes a point where the director needs to reveal to the main character–and by extension, the audience–the truth of the main mystery. In this case it’s what the curse is and what the villagers want with Maya. Unfortunately this information is dumped via two lengthy flashback sequences, that kills some of the momentum that Anwar has been building. And ultimately it’s not that important, this is a horror movie dealing with familiar themes, and with so much tension and atmosphere created in the first hour, a bit more ambiguity might have helped the movie’s narrative flow.
This is a relatively small misep however, and Impetigore remains one of the strongest horror films of the year so far. Horror is often at its best when it combines the familiar and the new, and Anwar is adept at this. While fans love to be scared, disturbed, and challenged, there is also something impressive and strangely comforting about a filmmaker that understands the conventions of the genre, and can confidently deliver original ideas within a tried-and-tested format. With mainstream US horror entirely absent from the big screen, there’s never been a better time to seek out some great genre movies from other corners of the globe, of which Impetigore is an impressive example.
