Fae Tactics, an upcoming tactical strategy game developed by independent studio Endless Fluff, is launching on July 31. The New York-based developer is trying to implement a menu-less experience where the majority of combat happens on screen and not behind a series of text boxes.
Coming to the Humble Store and Steam, Fae Tactics emulates popular games like Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Final Fantasy Tactics. Players take the role of a character named Peony as she “summon[s] allies, cast[s] spells, and befriends a motley crew of characters” according to the game’s’ Steam page. Players can build their own team of fae, magical beings with elemental powers, and level them up over the course of the game’s story.
“Fire Emblem is very simple though, all the info is conveyed by the units type and where they are on the map,” Kyron Ramsey, one half of Endless Fluff, said in an interview with Gamasutra. “But in Tactics you have to scroll through a series of menus to get all that info. Our approach is a combination of both.”
Fae Tactics tries to make turn-based combat as smooth as possible by making enemy types, move-sets, movement, and other gameplay elements easy to understand with distinctive art. Humble Games, which is publishing Fae Tactics, says the story will be over 60 hours long with “tons of side quests” as well.
Fae Tactics will only come to PC in July but will come to the Nintendo Switch at a later date.
The long-troubled Uncharted movie hasn’t started production yet, Sony confirms. The cast and crew are preparing to start shooting soon and will take special precautions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speculation ran rampant after Spider-Man: Far From Home and future Nathan Drake actor Tom Holland posted a photo with the caption “Day one #uncharted” on Instagram although production hadn’t actually begun yet. A Sony representative confirmed that production on Uncharted hasn’t begun, but they’re “hoping to start soon.”
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the adventure movie is set to begin production on July 20, although the pandemic could push things back again. The movie will be unable to shoot large crowd scenes and will require crew that isn’t on camera to wear masks. But with COVID-19 cases on the rise, productions across Hollywood could face more delays.
The Uncharted movie has been in development for over a decade, shuffling between several directors and screenwriters. Notable industry names— including Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, and Tati Gabrielle–have seemingly joined the Uncharted cast. The movie was delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, jumping back from its March 5, 2021 date to a new October 8, 2021 release.
In August, Disney+ will stream its third 20th Century Fox X-Men film following July’s addition of X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Days of Future Past (which features an F-bomb and Hugh Jackman’s uncensored bare butt). This time it’s the original X-Men movie, from 2000, landing on the site, during the first week of August, along with a documentary about the life of Howard Ashman, the lyricist behind Disney classics like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid.
Also hitting in August? The Peanuts Movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Greatest Showman, and the live-action Beauty and the Beast from 2017 starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. And as one of the final MCU films to make its way over to Disney+ (the last remaining being the Spider-Man films and Incredible Hulk), Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp will finally be available.
As far as original movies go, The One and Only Ivan, starring Bryan Cranston, about a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall, is ready to tug at your heartstrings while Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe finds stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb on a mission to rescue their older sister Candace from aliens.
Read on to see the full list of shows and movies coming to Disney+ in July.
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It seems like a lifetime ago now, but last summer, Nintendo offered a nice–and all-too-brief–game voucher program for Nintendo Switch Online members. Subscribers could purchase a pair of vouchers for $100 USD and redeem those for select Nintendo-published games from the Switch Eshop, saving up to $20 off of their regular combined price–a nice chunk of change considering how rarely Nintendo drops the price of its titles, particularly digital versions, which seldom go on sale even when their physical counterparts are discounted at other retailers.
Of course, if you only purchased one set of vouchers, then the program was a bit of a wash as your savings would amount to the cost of a Switch Online subscription (and you could often find physical copies of some of the eligible titles at an even steeper discount on Amazon or at another retailer). If you were already a subscriber, however, it was a tempting perk, especially if you preferred to buy games digitally. Moreover, you weren’t required to use both vouchers immediately, so you could save them for upcoming titles and snag Nintendo’s newest releases effectively for $10 off.
Unfortunately, the voucher program was short-lived. The last day you could purchase vouchers was July 31, 2019–a little over two months after the promotion began. Any vouchers you bought would also only be valid for one year from the date of purchase, which means if you snapped some up last July and have been hanging on to them since, as I have, then you only have a few days left to redeem them before they expire.
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And that’s a shame because the Switch voucher program, brief as it may have been, was a great perk and the kind of incentive Nintendo should offer more frequently to attract additional subscribers. Although Nintendo Switch Online is significantly cheaper than PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold, it’s still comparatively meager next to Sony and Microsoft’s offerings. Arguably the service’s biggest draw is being able to play classic SNES and NES games on Switch, and those arrive sporadically. Benefits like the voucher program were genuinely worthwhile, bolstering the value of the service and helping set it apart from its rivals.
It was a surprisingly generous program, as well. Considering how reluctant Nintendo typically is to put its games on sale, being able to save on Switch’s biggest titles, including new releases like Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the just-launched Paper Mario: The Origami King, was wonderful, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who stocked up on multiple vouchers to use on whatever surprise games Nintendo had on the way for the system.
It’s disappointing that, come July 31, the voucher program will officially be over, and I hope Nintendo dusts it off again down the line. Although we may not know what else lies ahead for Switch this year–outside of Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s Crown Tundra expansion and Bravely Default II, neither of which have firm release dates, Nintendo hasn’t yet announced any other games for 2020–it would be nice as a Switch Online members to be able to stock up on more vouchers for when new titles (like the heavily rumored Mario remasters) inevitably do arrive. Ah well, at least we can finally play Donkey Kong Country on the system.
Following the decision by the Washington Redskins to change their team name and logo, Madden NFL 21 will be pushing an update when the game is released that will also replace the Redskins’ name and logo with a generic Washington team.
EA confirmed the change to Kotaku, and also stated that the disc version will still feature the former name and logo, as the game is already preparing for its imminent release on August 25, 2020. However, as soon as players connect to the internet, the update will take place.
“We are pleased to see Washington’s decision to change their team name and visual identity,” EA said in a statement to Kotaku. “We are quickly working to update Madden NFL 21 to feature a generic Washington team, while we await final word on the updated team name and logo design.”
Following release, EA will continue to update other parts of the game that feature the Redskins, including commentary, stadium art, crowed gear, etc. Obviously, once a new name and logo is chosen for Washington D.C.’s team, that will be included as well.
“Changes to the name and logo will come via title updates that will download automatically,” the EA rep explained. “The first changes will be available to our EA Access players and will include audio/commentary updates; motion graphics and presentation updates; stadium art, environments, crowd gear and signage updates; and uniform updates. Players may continue to see some outdated Washington references in other areas of the game at launch, but we are committed to removing all of those from the game in additional title updates coming shortly after launch.”
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