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Baby Yoda Urges Mississippi Drivers to Buckle Up
Baby Yoda is being used to urge drivers to buckle up by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
CNet reports the department is banking on the world’s current love for The Child from the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian to help keep people safe on the roads. The Mississippi Department of Transportation Twitter account posted an image of an LED road sign with the words “Baby Yoda uses the force but still needs a carseat” with a caption instructing drivers to buckle up.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends–Bethesda Is No Longer Developing New Content
The Elder Scrolls: Legends is winding down, with Bethesda announcing that the game will no longer receive new content. In a post on the game’s Reddit, Bethesda said that the additional content pack scheduled for 2019 will not release, and that development on all content going forward has ceased.
This is not the end for The Elder Scrolls: Legends–it’s still available to download and play, and the post promises continued support in the form of “monthly reward cards and regular in-game events.” Ongoing maintenance is promised too, but don’t expect new expansions. The most recent released expansion, Moons of Elsweyr, launched in June this year.
All players who log in from now will receive a free card pack, The Tamriel Collection, which features “an assortment of new, three-attribute cards.” The post also promises that the Asia-specific version of Legends currently in development is not affected by this news. There’s no word on whether the planned Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch versions will ever release now, but it seems unlikely.
We didn’t review The Elder Scrolls: Legends, but it was generally well received, and the PC version has a score of 80 on Metacritic. Curiously, Bethesda has recently committed to releasing more mobile games like Legends. Their other major mobile titles as of right now are Fallout Shelter and The Elder Scrolls: Blades.
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IGN’s 2019 Movie, TV, Comic Book and Anime of the Year Awards
Our nominees for the best movies, TV, comic books, and anime for the year 2019.
What Did You Think of Tonight’s Rick and Morty?
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, Rick and Morty returned with another new episode tonight. Morty even snagged himself a dragon, forcing Rick to take matters into his own hands and get to slaying.
We’ll have our review of “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty” up a bit later tonight. Until then, let us know what you thought of the new episode in the comments below.
Epic Games Store Now Gives Developers More Control Over In-Game Purchases
The Epic Games Store has pulled a lot of exclusives with its promise of advances to developers and publishers, and its more generous revenue split compared to Steam, and now it’s taking another step to make things better for the companies releasing games on it. A change in the Epic Games Store policy means that developers are now free to use whatever payment and purchase systems they want within their games.
As reported by Gamasutra, until this change games on the store had to use an Epic-approved payment system for in-game purchases. “We support developers’ right to choose among the best stores, in-app payment processors, online services, and engines,” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told them.
This will mean that developers will potentially be able to retain a larger share of the revenue generated from in-game sales, whether those be microtransactions or the purchase of more substantial downloadable content. From a consumer point of view–and, indeed, for a lot of developers–this change probably will not mean much, but there’s now potential for developers to make more money from their in-game sales.
The latest major Epic Games Store exclusive is Phoenix Point, a spiritual successor to XCom.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Is Deactivating Battle Rewards, But There’s An Upside
The developers of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint have released a December roadmap, and have made it clear that they recognize one element of the game that is fundamentally not working at the moment. The Battle Rewards system is being deactivated, with the beginning of Act 2 last week causing problems for many players. However, to make up for it, you’ll immediately get all the rewards from the first two Acts.
“In response to feedback, we are granting to all players every reward from Act 1 and Act 2 next week,” the post reads. “The Hill and Walker figures will not be mass-granted until we have resolved the issues with the items. We are also deactivating the Battle Rewards system until we have implemented solutions to prevent reported issues from reoccurring. Our team aims to have everything ready for the start of Act 3.”
Elsewhere in the roadmap, some details are provided about title update 1.1.0, which is due December 18. It will contain bug fixes and improvements, including better enemy AI, changes to the base jump mechanic, and the addition of night vision goggles. There’s also a Terminator Live Event being planned, which will see you facing off against the T-800–that’s coming between late December and mid-January.
Breakpoint recently added its first raid, as well as an update that introduced easier character customization, among other fixes. Ubisoft has promised that a “more radical and immersive” version of the game is being worked on.
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Disney Just Set A New Box Office Record, And Star Wars Isn’t Even Out Yet
Everyone knows Disney is a box office behemoth, but just how much money do the film giant’s movies make? After another strong weekend in theatres, Frozen II helped pushed Disney’s 2019 worldwide box office totals past $10 billion to break a yearly box office record set by … Disney.
Collider crunched all the numbers. The $10 billion that Disney has made at the global box office this year surpasses the previous record of $7.6 billion that Disney set in 2016. Disney’s biggest releases of 2019 at the box office have been Avengers: Endgame ($2.79 billion), The Lion King ($1.6 billion), Captain Marvel ($1.2 billion), Toy Story 4 ($1.07 billion), and Aladdin ($1.05 billion). Frozen II, after just three weeks in theatres, is close to becoming the sixth Disney movie to pass $1 billion this year. It currently stands at $920 million worldwide.
Disney’s box office fortunes are set to grow mightier still, as the hugely anticipated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theatres on December 20. Also of note is that the $10 billion thus far does not include money made by movies from Fox, which Disney acquired earlier this year. Had those numbers been included, Disney’s total worldwide box office haul would be close to $12 billion thanks to films like Alita: Battle Angel ($404.8 million) and Dark Phoenix ($252.4 million), among others.
Disney’s Dumbo ($353.2 million) was among the company’s lowest performing films of the year at the box office, though even that number would be enviable for other films. The company’s Maleficent sequel, Mistress of Evil, pulled in $481.3 million. That was well short of the first film’s $758 million, making it a relative disappointment.
The Rise of Skywalker is set to open in theatres on December 20. Box office estimates project it to make $200 million worldwide over its first weekend. New footage from the film will debut inside Epic’s free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite later this month.
Watchmen: Episode 8 Review
This review contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 8, “A God Walks Into Abar.” To refresh your memory of where we left off, check out our recap of Watchmen episode 7. Once you’ve watched, check out all the Doctor Manhattan teases in Watchmen up to this point, plus our ending explainer on that Watchmen episode 8 post-credits scene.