This week we’re spotlighting one of the AHS OGs, Taissa Farmiga. Taissa has appeared in 4 seasons of AHS, including Murder House, Coven, Roanoke, and Apocalypse. She played such roles as Violet Harmon (Season 1 & 8), Zoe Benson (Season 3 & 8), and Sophie Green in one episode of Season 6.
Be sure to check out our other American Horror Story actor spotlights on GameSpot Universe!
Fortnite Week 5 challenges are here and that means another Wolverine task is available to complete. This week’s challenges ask you to locate a Trask Transport Truck. It’s easy enough to find, but isn’t near a named location. This guide will show you where to find the truck so you can land there and collect the reward with ease.
The Wolverine challenges are separate from the rest of the Season 4 battle pass. You still need to purchase it to participate, but the rewards won’t come as you level up. They’ll come with one-off challenges like this one similar to how Aquaman worked last season.
The Trask Transport Truck is located in the C1 tile of the map. It’s on top of another chunk of earth, like the Black Panther Statue, surrounded by a house and several trees. All you need to do is walk up to it to complete the challenge. There is a gold XP coin located in the truck’s cargo haul, as well. Be sure to collect that when you visit.
The Trask name is a reference to Boliviar Trask, a supervillain from the Marvel comics. His company, Trask Industries, is known for creating the Sentinels (mutant hunting robots) that we see near Lazy Lake on the map. This could be a hinting that the robots in the Sentinel Graveyard may come to life for an in-game event later in the season.
Wolverine is also now present in Fortnite as well–players can head to Weeping Woods to try and fight him. If they succeed they’ll get to use his claws. Similar to Doom’s Gauntlets and other legendary items, his claws give players the ability to deal lot of close-range damage by slashing through enemies.
What Do I Get For Locating The Trask Transport Truck?
You’ll get a new glider variant for the MCG glider. It shows an image of Wolverine on an LCD-like screen. Be sure to keep up with all the weekly Fortnite Wolverine challenges in order to unlock other goodies.
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This week on Wrestle Buddies, GameSpot’s professional wrestling podcast, Chris E. Hayner and Mat Elfring have a new video game to obsess over. WWE 2K Battlegrounds is trying to make us forget about the debacle that was WWE 2K20. We also welcome one half of the NXT Tag Team Champions to the show for a wide-ranging discussion.
After spending a few days playing the new WWE 2K Battlegrounds game, Mat and Chris have some thoughts to share about the latest title from 2K. It’s far from a perfect game but is the closest WWE has come to its own version of Super Smash Bros. However, we have many thoughts on how it should be improved with post-release content.
Then, Tyler Breeze, otherwise known as one half of NXT Tag Team Champions Breezango–and the reigning Left Right Left Right Champion–joins us to talk wrestling, winning his first championship, the ridiculous costumes he and Fandango wear, and getting to be part of Xavier Woods’ Up Up Down Down gaming channel. It just so happens that Breeze is one of Chris and Mat’s favorite wrestlers on any current roster, so this ended up being an interview you’re not going to want to miss.
All that plus we answer your questions! New episodes of Wrestle Buddies are released every Thursday on the podcast platform or app of your choice, including Spotify, Stitcher, and Apple Podcasts.
Now, IGN has an exclusive 17-minute gameplay video showing the new character in action in five matches, along with recently unveiled new monster Skorak and stages including Sibera, Hawaii and Tokyo. Check it out below:
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Power-suited hero Gigaman is a homage to Japan’s tokusatsu effects series, firing laser-based projectile attacks with his Giga Beam that ricochet around corners and aerial boost attacks in addition to fighting with his fists. As a limited special move, he can target and fire a powerful volley of lasers that burns a “G”-shaped emblem into the ground, for an extra adorable touch of collateral damage. His suit is blue by default but several color skins are available, as shown in the gameplay video.
According to the character’s profile, he is a once-mighty hero who has emerged from retirement to kick kaiju keister. Although he has seen better days, he has managed to retain his acrobatic skills, pulling off cartwheels, flying kicks, dive kicks, somersaults and tornado kicks.
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The press release accompanying his unveiling says “Gigaman is ideal for players looking for a high mobility type, fast-paced, combo-oriented character. His core mechanics require mastery in spacing and precise timing in each attack. In the right hands, Gigaman can overwhelm his foes in an unending string of air juggles and combos, perfect for players who prefer to beat their opponents with style points.”
The Siberia map is a snow-covered industrial complex of factory buildings, most of which are destructible. The gigantic statue of a pickaxe-wielding worker at its center can be toppled during play, to launch a missile from the silo hidden within and damage your foes.
Developed by Malaysia’s Passion Republic Game, GigaBash will feature 1-vs-all battles as well as team battles among other modes when it is released on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2021. For more information, check out GigaBash’s website, Twitter account or Discord server.
Tokyo Game Show 2020 is taking place 24-27 September as an online-only event. IGN will be covering the show in collaboration with our Tokyo-based team at IGN Japan, so stay tuned for much more.
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Revealed as part of Tokyo Game Show, the trailer shows us lead character Marianne across both of the realities she can perceive, introducing The Maw, and talking about the stalking entity with Sadness, “a mysterious masked girl who resides at the abandoned Niwa Hotel.”
Check out the trailer below:
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We also have some brand new concept art to exclusively show off (click to enlarge), showing Marianne, “as she readies her psychic energy against the backdrop of the material world and the spirit world”:
The Medium – which arrives for Xbox Series X & S, and PC via Steam this holiday – comes from Bloober Team, the horror-focused studio behind Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch.
It will use next-gen power to render two separate worlds simultaneously, with players forced to solve puzzles and overcome challenges in both to proceed – all while avoiding The Maw. Storied voice actor Troy Baker has described his villain as “something I’ve never done before”, and even gave a brief demonstration of how he performs The Maw’s voice for us during Gamescom 2020.
The Medium is just one of two Bloober Team games coming to next-gen this year, with Observer: System Redux also arriving on launch day.
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Innersloth co-founder PuffballsUnited broke the news on the game’s Itch.Io Devlog, revealing that – despite only announcing the sequel last month – the team has decided to cancel Among Us 2 and fold planned features for the sequel into Among Us.
Innersloth held “several long discussions” about the future of the game in the wake of its viral success. Initially, Innersloth had been focusing on the sequel due to the outdated nature of the Among Us codebase, which is “not built to support adding so much content.” However, given how many people have flocked to the game recently, the studio decided that they wanted to focus on supporting the original instead.
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“All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1,” PuffballsUnited explains. “This is probably the more difficult choice because it means going deep into the core code of the game and reworking several parts of it. We have lots of things planned and we’re excited to bring new content to everyone as you continue to enjoy playing!”
The blog also gave us a glimpse at what features will be headed to Among Us in the near future. The team is “working very hard” to figure out server issues at the moment, but will be bringing new features such as colourblind support, a new, Henry Stickmin-themed stage and a friends/account system, something Innersloth has been wanting to implement for a while now.
Among Us is an online social game in which a crew of players prep a spaceship for takeoff, but are faced with impostors trying to murder them. It’s become a viral success two years after its initial release, thanks in large part to streaming influencers beginning to play the game in front of huge audiences. In the last month, it peaked with the third-highest concurrent players on Steam, with 388,000 people playing simultaneously.
If you want to figure out how to play Among Us, check out our handy guide to help you understand the game’s mechanics.
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Originally the Series S was announced at 32,980 yen (about $313 USD) plus tax. This is in contrast with the Series X, which was announced for Japan at 49,980 yen, which is about $474 USD – much more in line with the US price of $499. The new price of Series S in Japan is 29,980 yen plus tax, or about $284, which is closer to the US price of $299.
Xbox Series S価格改定 29,980円（税抜）
次世代ゲーム機を、より多くの皆さんにお求めやすく https://t.co/AXMUjPbEm9— Xbox Japan (@Xbox_JP) September 24, 2020
No reason was given for the price drop. PlayStation 5’s disc edition and digital edition are priced at 49,980 yen ($474) and 39,980 yen ($379) respectively, plus tax. Since the PS5 price was announced after Xbox Series X/S, it may be that Microsoft wanted to offer a more aggressive price difference between the cheaper models of the rival consoles.
Xbox has failed to break into the Japan market with past consoles, being beaten by a very wide margin by PlayStation and Nintendo with every generation. This time around, it is encouraging to see a more aggressive pricing strategy around the Series S, and indeed the Series X, which surprised gamers in Japan with its sub-50,000 yen price point.
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Tokyo Game Show 2020 marks Xbox’s first appearance at the show since TGS 2014. Tune in to IGN for a livestream of Xbox’s TGS showcase (Japanese only), which begins at 5am Pacific / 8am Eastern / 1pm UK / 10pm AEST today.
Preorders for Xbox Series X/S in Japan begin at midnight JST on 25 September, a few hours from now. Both units go on sale in Japan on November 10, the same date as in the United States.
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Weinstein, who was hired to write for the show on a permanent basis in the early nineties, shared the little-known Simpsons trivia on Twitter in response to a tweet which asked: “Is Nicolas Cage a good actor, bad actor, or a good-bad actor?” He replied: “Nicolas Cage is one of the only other actors we considered asking to play Frank Grimes, before we realized Hank Azaria would be the ultimate Grimey. And Hank’s performance was one of the best in the show’s history.”
The Season 8 episode “Homer’s Enemy” introduced us to Frank Grimes, the man who was everything that Homer wasn’t. Grimes was intelligent and ambitious, yet he could never seem to catch a break in life. And all of his pent-up aggression burst forth when he encountered Homer, a happy family man with a house, a decent job, and just about everything that Grimes couldn’t attain. To this day, Hank Azaria’s Grimes remains one of the most popular peripheral characters in the series.
Earlier this year, Azaria, the long-time Simpsons voice actor responsible for some of the show’s most iconic voices such as Moe, Chief Wiggum, and Comic Book Guy, announced that he would no longer be the voice of Apu, the proprietor of Springfield’s Kwik-E-Mart convenience store. The show came under fire for the portrayal of the character in the 2017 documentary The Problem With Apu, which explored negative stereotypes, racial microaggressions, and representations in popular culture.
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A live-action adaptation of the popular video-game series Yakuza is currently in development, according to Variety. The production will be a collaboration between Sega, 1212 Entertainment, and Wild Sheep Content. After Sonic the Hedgehog (which is reportedly getting a sequel), this will be Sega’s next big push to adapt its game franchises into films.
The Yakuza game series started on PlayStation 2 in 2005 and has grown from a somewhat obscure import rarity in the US to a full-on respected global series with many sequels and spin-offs for multiple platforms. The upcoming eighth entry in the series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, was released in Japan earlier this year and is currently slated for a Western release on November 13. The game will see the narrative torch passed from former main protagonist, the honor-bound Kazuma Kiryu, to Ichiban Kasuga, who Sega has described as “much more emotive and outspoken,” via GamingBolt.
“Yakuza offers us a new playground in which to set compelling stories with complex characters in a unique environment that audiences have rarely seen before,” a 1212 spokesperson said. “The saga of Kazuma Kiryu has a built-in cinematic appeal–a mix of kinetic action with bursts of comedy, multiple converging storylines, and a gripping journey towards redemption.”
This is not the first time Yakuza has been adapted into a movie. In 2007, director Takashi Miike helmed the Japanese crime film Yakuza: Like a Dragon based on the debut PlayStation 2 game. It’s unclear whether this new version will retell stories explored in the game or tell an original story set in that universe.
The game’s director Daichi Matsukawa revealed the news during the NieR “We Have a Decent Amount of New Info” show streamed today during Tokyo Game Show 2020. The title will be released in Europe and North America, with further details to come at a later date via the game’s official English Twitter and Facebook channels.
In Re[in]carnation, players are led by a floating character named Mama throughout a world called The Cage on a mission to collect pieces of “weapon’s memories”. Players will go back and forth between The Cage, which is rendered in 3D, and the weapon’s memories, which are played in 2D. No new details about the story were revealed, and the mystery of Mama and The Cage will be revealed as you progress in the game. Matsukawa also presented a new trailer that gave a few distorted glimpses of exploration and battle.
The livestream is available with English subtitles below:
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Preregistration for NieR Re[in]carnation, which will be released on iOS and Android devices, has already started. The game also has gacha elements and if 500,000 people preregister, everyone gets 3,000 gems to spend in-game, or about 10 gacha pulls according to Matsukawa. If one million register early, the team might even make a golden statue of the ghost-like Mama worth 1 million yen ($9,480) to give away, though as with many things involving Yoko Taro, that is something that will have to be seen to be believed.
PlatinumGames’ Takahisa Taura also joined the show to reveal 2017 hit NieR: Automata was nearing 5 million total sales (4,850,000, to be precise).
While there were no new updates about the game itself, there will be something for fans to get their hands on next year. Square Enix is launching a new line of premium collectables called the Square Enix Masterline and one of the first products is a large statue featuring the three main characters from NieR: Automata – the androids 2B, 9S and A2.
Keiichi Okabe, the composer behind the series’ enchanting musical offerings, also showed the package for the Blu-ray of Nier: Theatrical Orchestra 12020, which will go on sale Oct. 28. The concert was filmed in March without an audience due to covid-19 countermeasures. Okabe also said that a new stage production of YoRHa is also coming up sometime down the road.
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