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It’s a fight for your life this week in Grand Theft Auto Online, with Rockstar adding seven new survival maps to the game. That risk comes with some extra rewards though, including higher payouts and a substantial bonus for completing any of the new survival maps. Rockstar is also finally hinting at its upcoming summer update for GTA Online, which will add a Los Santos Car Meet.

This week’s updates for GTA Online can be found on the Rockstar Newswire or down below.

Bonuses For Surviving

Today’s Rockstar Newswire post doesn’t list the new survival maps heading to GTA Online. It does, however, reveal that players will be getting more for completing any game of survival. For the next week, the game mode will be paying out twice the usual cash and XP. But, if you take on one of the new maps and come out alive, you’ll get an extra reward of $100,000, no strings attached.

Be Spontaneous

The free mode events and challenges are more than a petty annoyance thanks to some bonus rewards. Until July 19, anyone participating in one of these challenges will net themselves triple the usual rewards.

Freebies And Discounts

As always, GTA Online’s weekly update also comes with a slew of discounts to take advantage of and some free items to grab. This week, completing any export request for Simon Yetarian will earn you a pair of Sunset Tint Oversize Shades, perfect for cruising around the streets of Los Santos in. The same can be said for this week’s podium car at the Diamond Casino, the Vapid Retinue MK II.

This week’s discounts are perfect for your inner Top Gun fan, with a majority of them applying to different planes, jets, and helicopters. Here’s the full list of discounted vehicles:

• P-45 Notkota – 30% discount
• V-65 Molotok – 30% discount
• R-10 Bombushka – 30% discount
• HVY Vetir – 30% discount
• Ubermacht Revolter – 30% discount
• Western Cargobob – 40% discount
• Kraken Submersible – 40% discount
• Lampadati Toro – 40% discount
• Vapid Slamtruck – 40% discount

This week’s GTA Online Newswire post also makes a brief mention of the game’s upcoming summer update, saying it would add a Los Santos Car Meet, “the breathing heart of car culture in Southern San Andreas.” More details on the update are coming soon, but if the update is anything like the recently-announced Blood Money update for Red Dead Online, players can expect a heap of new content to be added to GTA Online.

Today’s Rockstar Newswire post also stated that some jobs will soon be taken down and replaced with others. “Starting with his event,” reads the post, “we will begin removing individual Jobs to make room for further updates. These Jobs will be cycled in and out over time as we continue to add to the game in the future.” This sounds a lot like the “vaulting” system in Fortnite, except instead of guns being put away, specific jobs are being temporarily retired.

Speculation recently spread saying that the concept and plot for a Silent Hill game made by Bloober Team had potentially made its way onto the internet via an EU funding website. However, Bloober Team tells IGN that the projects fans had pointed to have in fact been shelved in favour of other new games.

Fans have been looking for clues to a new Silent Hill game since franchise owner Konami announced a partnership with Polish developer Bloober Team (The Medium, Blair Witch). Some thought they’d found them after discovering filings from Bloober on the EU’s Creative Europe website, which shows descriptions of (among other things) video game projects that have applied for EU funding.

Three Bloober Team projects were discovered under codenames – H2O (which became Layers of Fear 2), Black (a first-person project set in a medieval Europe beset by alien attacks), and Dum Spiro (a horror game set in a World War 2 Jewish-Polish ghetto). Speculation immediately began to form around the idea that Black or Dum Spiro could be the rumoured Silent Hill game.

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However, in a statement to IGN, Bloober Team CMO Tomasz Gawlikowski made clear that neither of the games described in the Creative Europe files are being actively developed:

“Online speculations based on outdated or incomplete information can often lead to strange theories among gamers, so we appreciate you asking us directly,” Gawlikowski wrote, going on to explain that Creative Europe funding has allowed Bloober to make riskier projects, and confirming that H2O did become 2019’s Layers of Fear 2.

“We have also applied for two other projects, codenamed respectively Dum Spiro and Black,” Gawlikowski continued. “After numerous iterations of Dum Spiro, we’ve concluded we can’t at the moment deliver it in a form that is appropriately sensitive to the topic and commercially viable at the same time. In short, Dum Spiro is no longer in active development at the moment.

“Similarly, the initial idea for Black has also been shelved, and while we’re still developing a game under this codename, it’s now a much different project than what you could read on the web in the past few days.”

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Gawlikowski understandably didn’t go into any detail about whether the studio was working on a Silent Hill game, or what its work with Konami entails, but he confirmed that multiple large projects are in the works.

“At Bloober Team we have two active internal projects, one in the production phase and one in the pre-production phase. Both are going to be bigger in scope than The Medium, however, neither of them is based on themes or premises that have been circulating online in the last days.”

While we’re unable to confirm any further details, it feels likely that the game in production is the new version of the game codenamed Black, while the game in pre-production is the Konami partnership project. Gawlikowski added that the studio is working on porting its existing games alongside new game development, including bringing The Medium to PS5.

Rumours around Bloober working on a Silent Hill game have persisted for some time now, with reports also suggesting that a Japanese developer was also working on a game in the series. Konami has also made clear that it is still making games internally, although the status of Silent Hill within the company remains unknown.

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Following the confirmation that Loki is gender fluid, Marvel Studio’s executive vice president of film production Victoria Alonso revealed that there will be more LGBTQ+ representation in the MCU.

Speaking to Variety at the Black Widow fan premiere in Hollywood, Alonso shared that while it will take some time, there are “so many stories we can tell” with LGBTQ+ characters.

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“It takes time, we have so many stories that we can tell,” Alonso said. “We will empower those that are. We’re not changing anything. We’re just showing the world who these people are, who these characters are…There’s a lot that we have coming up that I think will be representative of the world of today. We’re not going to nail it in the first movie or the second movie or third movie, or the first show or second show, but we will do our best to consistently try to represent.”

Echoing Loki actor Tom Hiddleston’s comments on the matter, Alonso said the decision to make Loki fluid was not as complicated as one might think.

“I have to be honest with you, it’s not a big deal,” Alonso explained. “It is what it is when it suits the character. We’re not going to do it because it’s politically correct or incorrect. It is what it is. Don’t forget, we follow our comics. We try to follow them quite to the tee. So in the comics this is who he was.”

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For more on Loki, check out Loki director Kat Herron’s joy in her part in acknowledging Loki’s bisexuality in the Disney+ show and our review of the latest episode.

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Double Walker is the latest comic book joining the comiXology Originals lineup. This haunting tale reunites the team behind Tremor Dose – writer Michael Conrad and artist Noah Bailey – for a story about a Scottish vacation that takes a twisted turn into paranoia and bloodshed.

IGN can exclusively debut the first 11 pages of this new horror project. Get a closer look in the slideshow gallery below:

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The creative team for Double Walker also includes letterer Taylor Esposito and designer Kyle Arends. Here comiXology’s official description for the new book:

In Double Walker, Americans Cully and Gemma McCarthy decide to take one last trip before their carefree, childless days come to an end. Headed to the magical Scottish Highlands to hit up all the tourist locations, their romantic getaway soon spirals into a nightmare full of paranoia and violence. While staying at a B&B, the young couple soon find themselves at the local pub where they meet a barkeep who weaves tales of Scottish myths and legends and learn of a bizarre string of murders in the area. Haunted by the stories and their recent personal tragedy, their marriage is challenged, forcing them to confront their deepest, darkest fears.

“I have always been fascinated by psychology and human motivation, my background in the mental health field will always inform every story I tell,” said Conrad in a statement. “While I love writing for mainstream comics, a book like Double Walker allows me to push myself further into the surreal, twisted, and often terrifying worlds where I feel most at home. The worlds Noah and I are able to create with comiXology Originals are our own, places where anything can happen, and no one is safe.”

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Double Walker will be released digitally on July 13. The book is priced at $6.99 and is free to read for subscribers of comiXology Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited. A trade paperback version of Conrad and Bailey’s previous collaboration, Tremor Dose, will be published through Dark Horse on November 30. It’s currently available to preorder on Amazon and other retailers for $19.99.

In other recent comic book news, Watch Dogs Legion is getting a comic book spinoff, and Hellboy is back in a new limited series called Hellboy and the BPRD: The Secret of Chesbro House.

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Before we see Colin Farrell’s much-anticipated portrayal of Oswald Cobblepot (aka Penguin) in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the Golden Globe-winning actor will play an 1850s harpooner named Henry Drax in AMC+’s upcoming adaption of Ian McGuire’s novel, The North Water.

Premiering on the AMC+ streaming platform on July 15, this five-part miniseries follows a group of whalers who venture far past the edges of civilization in the Arctic. IGN spoke to writer/director Andrew Haigh (The OA, 45 Years) about Farrell’s Henry Drax, and the steps he took to embody the character.

Be sure to check out our exclusive reveal of the official trailer for The North Water in the video below, or at the top of the page:

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“Drax character especially is a very, very hard one to cast,” Haigh told IGN. “You have to find someone that’s willing to go to some dark places and to physically transform. And Colin was completely up for that physical transformation. Put on a lot of weight, he had a lot of food, he was eating six breakfasts every morning.”

The North Water features an impressive lineup of actors, including Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Peter Mullan (Ozark), and many more.

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Haigh and his team wanted the series to feel as authentic as possible, so instead of shooting everything in studio with a giant green screen, the cast and crew traveled north of the Svalbard Archipelago “to film sequences in the pack ice, the furthest point north it is believed a drama series has ever filmed before,” according to AMC.

We wanted to know what drove Haigh to film in such harsh conditions. “When I first read the book, I fell in love with the book, and it was so brutal and beautiful,” Haigh explained. “And the environment that the story is set, up in the Arctic Ocean, was so visceral in the novel, and I wanted to try and recreate that somehow. And of course, there’s always talk about doing as much as you can with digital effects and doing it on a stage somewhere. But for me, I was pretty insistent that we got to shoot this on the real location.”

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Haigh also explained that though the story has some similarities to classic stories like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, The North Water is its own animal entirely.

“I think there’s definitely some influences at Moby Dick in there, and there are some influences of some other great whaling dramas and ice-bound adventures,” Haigh said. “But I think it does feel different from all of them somehow. And I love that it was purely fictional. And even in the story, it’s a world that’s fading away, set in the 1850s when the whaling trade was dying out. And so, it felt like a window into a past, and it’s not that far away. And I think one of the most fascinating things to me was when I read that some of these whales can live for up to 200 years. So there’s a world in which a whale that was born in the time of this story could still be sailing around in the seas right now. For some reason, that just blows my mind, that all of these people are long dead, the world has changed so dramatically in the last 150 years, but there could still be some of those same whales around in the Arctic Ocean, which I just think is incredible.”

From See-Saw Films and Rhombus Media, The North Water will be available to stream on AMC+ on Thursday, July 15. The limited series will debut in the UK on BBC Two this fall. What did you think of the trailer? Let us know in the comments.

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More PlayStation games are coming to PC, including 2018’s God of War. You won’t find Sony Santa Monica’s latest title on the Steam store, though, as it’s coming to PC via PS Now.

God of War is one of the many titles heading to PS Now this month, along with Red Dead Redemption 2, Nioh 2, and Judgment. PC users can stream all of these games using the PC app for PS Now.

While the possibility of playing God of War on PC is exciting, don’t expect the experience to be much better than what you’d get playing on console. Playing God of War on PC by using PS Now is vastly different from playing a port of the game to PC. Players won’t have access to the myriad of graphics options that come with a full PC port and will need a solid, stable internet connection to stream the game, as well as a controller. Thankfully, any wired or wireless controller should do the trick.

All that being said, PC ports of other PlayStation exclusive titles, including 2018’s God of War, could be on the way. On July 1, head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst announced that Sony had acquired Nixxes, a developer with years of experience in porting games to PC. Sony hasn’t announced what Nixxes will be working on, but as the saying goes, you get the right tool for the job.

The most recent PlayStation game to hit PCs was Days Gone, which was released on Steam with additional features like ultra-wide monitor support and an uncapped frame rate on May 18.

While it has been some time since we’ve received an update on the collaboration between No More Heroes creator Goichi “Suda51” Suda and Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro, Suda51 has confirmed the two developers speak every few months about how to make their game, which may be called Hotel Barcelona, happen.

Suda51 recently held a Reddit AMA, and Redditor The_Rubbinator asked him if his planned team-up with Swery65 on Hotel Barcelona or another game was still in the works.

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“I contact SWERY65 at least once every 2 to 3 months, even during COVID, about how to make Hotel Barcelona happen,” Suda51 said. “It really depends on the timing, since it gets heavily influenced on the work I’m doing at that period.”

This collaboration was announced in late 2019, with these two creators confirming that they were developing a horror game together. During the reveal, Suda51 and Swery65 were brainstorming while livestreaming, with the pair coming up with ideas on the spot.

The idea they seemed to settle on back then was a game that would be about a magazine writer visiting a hip new hotel, before the horror would begin in full. Obviously, this premise may have completely changed since then.

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They also discussed using Siren as an inspiration, in which players would discover the full story through the perspective of ten characters. Hotel Barcelona was, back then, designed with an indie budget, and discussions had apparently taken place with Devolver Digital with a proposed budget of $1 million USD.

While it may be some time before we play whatever this Hotel Barcelona becomes, fans will not have to wait long to play Suda51’s No More Heroes 3, which will be released on Nintendo Switch on August 27, 2021.

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