Aquaman’s greatest superpower isn’t controlling the seas or communicating with fish – it’s the ability to embrace and absorb his own inherent cheesiness and use it to make himself more entertaining to watch. His first solo movie is often corny, but it owns all that with the audacity and fearlessness to just go for it. This James Wan-directed DC film declares to the world that this is a giant B-movie where krakens are voiced by screen legends and characters ride seahorses into battle, and it’s not going to pause to let you dwell on any of that. It’s precisely because it’s so damn zany, unafraid to embrace its comic bookiness, and is just plain out there that Aquaman is a blast.
New Black Ops 4 Patch Notes Detail Armor Changes, Weapon Camo Support For Blackout
Following the release of Operation Absolute Zero on Xbox One and PC, Treyarch has rolled out another update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. This one focuses primarily on tweaking armor durability and repair in Blackout mode, but it also makes a handful of changes specific to the PC version of the game.
As Treyarch detailed on Reddit, armor has been given an all-around nerf in Blackout mode. The durability of Level 2 and 3 armor has been reduced to match that of Level 1 armor, while the number of armor plates that can be carried at once has dropped from 10 to five.
Moreover, Treyarch has increased the amount of time it takes to use an armor plate by one second. The developer has also “slightly increased” Paladin weapon damage against armor.
“While we’re pleased to see Armor lasting through more than one gunfight with this redesign, we agreed that Level 2 and Level 3 Armor was a bit too durable,” Treyarch wrote. “With the durability dialed back on these, players should be able to destroy their enemies’ Armor more frequently.”
Along with the armor adjustments, Treyarch has added Weapon Camo support to Blackout. Now, players can apply any Camos they’ve earned in multiplayer, Zombies, or the Black Market to their weapons in the battle royale mode. The developer has also addressed a handful of issues across all platforms, including some stability improvements to the newest Zombies chapter, Dead of the Night.
In terms of PC-specific changes, Treyarch has fixed a bug that prevented players from changing their reticle color, as well as one “where a console prompt would be displayed in the tutorial screen when opening the Create-A-Class menu for the first time.” You can find the full patch notes for the December 19 update on Reddit.
For Honor’s Assassin’s Creed Crossover Event is Available Now
For Honor, for three weeks, will be taken over by Assassin’s Creed thanks to the For The Creed crossover event, featuring characters, themes, music, and more from the long-running franchise.
Revealed during the For Honor Warrior’s Den livestream, the For The Creed crossover event will run from today, December 20, through January 10, 2019.
This limited-time event will feature characters such as Ezio Auditore and Cesare Borgia as Commanders, the soldiers will be dressed as either Templars (Knights), Assassins (Samurai), or Pirates (Vikings), music from the franchise will appear throughout the game, themed menus and maps will replace standard ones, and much more.
Spider-Man PS4 Will Let You Dress As The Worst Version Of The Character
Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man is one of the best PlayStation 4 releases of 2018 and undoubtedly the best Spider-Man game of all time. Since its launch the studio has supported the title with DLC that includes extra story missions and, more importantly, brand new outfits for everyone’s favourite web slinger. Thus far we’ve had the Spider-Clan outfit from Marvel’s Mangaverse, Spider-UK from Edge of Spider-Verse, and numerous other cool costumes. It’s been great.
However, we’ve now hit a bit of rough spot with Spidey outfit releases. In the newest update for the PS4 game, Sony and Insomniac will include the suit from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, in which Peter Parker and his crime fighting alter-ego were played by absolute charisma void Tobey Maguire.
For those that grew up with these movies and enjoyed them, this is great news and I’m happy for them; they get to cut about New York in a Spidey outfit they know and love. And it’s free, so you really can’t complain.
But I can complain. And I will. Because, unfortunately, for many others out there this only serves to remind us of that sad six-year period where everyone was so desperate for a superhero movie that didn’t make them embarrassed to be comic book fan that they doublethinked themselves into believing that trilogy was good. It wasn’t.
At most the entire Raimi series had one or two moments that were exciting and Alfred Molina was ok as Doctor Octopus, I guess. For the most part though, those movies were awkward, cheesy, and completely failed to look beyond the surface of what makes Spidey interesting. And you cannot kiss someone while upside down and have a good time; it feels as bad as it looks.
Complaining aside, Insomniac has done a great job in rendering the suit in-game, based on the screenshot above. It’s a cool looking outfit and the webbed design makes it distinct in the lineup of many, many costumes that have existed over the years. Now that there’s a good Peter Parker wearing it, it can actually be done some justice.
Spider-Man was released for PS4 in September and, in his review, Edmond Tran awarded it a 9/10. “Minor shortcomings don’t detract from Insomniac’s achievement in creating a game that feels like an authentic interpretation of a beloved creation,” he said. “The feeling of embodying Spidey and using his abilities is astonishing, and the time spent on exploring its major characters help make its story feel heartfelt, despite superhero bombast.
“There have been open-world Spider-Man games before, but none so riveting and full of personality, none that explore and do justice to this many facets of the universe. Insomniac has created a superior Spider-Man experience that leaves a lasting impression, one that has you longing for just one more swing around New York City, even after the credits roll.”
The next major DLC release for Spider-Man on PS4 is Silver Lining, which launches on December 21 and will wrap up the City That Never Sleeps story arc. As the name indicates, Silver Sable will play a big part in this chapter, as she’s not very happy that Hammerhead has been stealing her weapons.
Surprise! Sony Launches New Lemmings Game, Out Now
Without warning, Sony has launched a brand-new Lemmings game for mobile. Simply titled Lemmings, the game is out now for iOS and Android.
It appears the new game attempts to stay true to the Lemmings releases from the ’90s, while modernizing the series for mobile devices. “We took the Lemmings experience that people know and love and re-engineered it to make the most of smartphones and tablets,” developer Sad Puppy wrote on the PlayStation Blog. “We’ve designed levels that are played in portrait orientation, as this is the most comfortable position to hold a device with one hand.
“We worked tirelessly on touch controls, removing secondary elements like camera control and making it as simple for players to assess the level, plan a strategy and execute it. It’s the Lemmings game you know and love, redesigned for the best experience on your device. Under your direction, they’ll dig, climb, build, block and fall through levels, with an ease of control that is both fun and challenging.”
Lemmings is free-to-play, with an energy system and optional in-app purchases available for those who wish to spend a bit of cash. Note the game’s description states an internet connection is required to play.
The first Lemmings game came to the Amiga in 1991, before being ported to a number of other devices. After publisher Psygnosis was acquired by Sony, Lemmings became a PlayStation-exclusive series. The most recent entry was a 2006 remake of the first game in the series for PS2, PSP, and PS3, also titled Lemmings.
Latest John Wick Chapter 3 Image Introduces New Canine Cast
The first two John Wick movies provided even the most jaded film fan with some of the most exciting action of recent years, and expectations are high for the upcoming third entry. John Wick: Chapter 3 arrives in May, and a new image has been released.
The picture comes via Entertainment Weekly. As fans of the series will know, retired hitman Wick’s troubles began in the first movie when his beloved dog, left by his dead wife, was killed. But it looks like our hero, played once more by Keanu Reeves, has some new canine friends in Chapter 3. The dogs belong to Sofia, a new character played by Halle Berry. Check the image out below.
In an interview with EW, Reeves revealed that Berry’s character “has a past with John,” and ends up helping him as he is hunted by rival assassins. In addition, director Chad Stahelski provided some information about Sofia’s furry pals. “Whereas John’s puppy was symbolic of his wife, Halle’s two dogs are symbolic of someone she’s lost,” he said. Stahelski also revealed that there is an action scene centered around them.
John Wick: Chapter 3 hits theaters on May 16, 2019. Ian McShane and Lawrence Fishburne will reprise their roles from previous movies, and the new cast includes Asia Kate Dillon (Orange is the New Black), Mark Dacascos (Cradle 2 the Grave), Jason Mantzoukas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place), and Angelica Huston (Isle of Dogs).
There is also a John Wick TV spin-off named The Continental in the works, which was announced by Starz earlier in the year. The channel’s president Chris Albrecht said that the show will “include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introducing some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world.”
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Sean Bean is Back at the End of a Sword in Netflix’s New Period Drama
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for its new historical drama, Medici: The Magnificent, the second installment in an ongoing anthology series centered around one of Italy’s most infamous political families.
The first season in the Medici saga was Medici: Masters of Florence, starring Dustin Hoffman as Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici and Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden as Cosimo de’ Medici. The new season is set 20 years after the events in Masters of Florence, following Cosimo de’ Medici’s grandson, Lorenzo (Daniel Sharman), after an attempt on his father’s life forces Lorenzo to assume leadership of the family-run bank. Once in power, Lorenzo resolves to do things differently, which swiftly brings him into conflict with the head of Florence’s other powerful banking family, Jacopo Pazzi (Sean Bean) who will stop at nothing to defeat him.
How Syfy’s Nightflyers Brings Horror to Life Through Technology
Syfy’s new space-thriller Nightflyers is now available to binge online in its entirety, and the sense of danger in the George R.R. Martin-created story permeates every scene. Earlier this year, IGN visited the set of the show, where we saw the lengths the production team have gone to in creating a practical and immersive environment, and spoke with the cast about how this effort has affected their performance.
“I got this job and I was like, ‘it’ll be a wooden spaceship and some green screen,’ and I was happy with that,” Sam Strike reveals, a broad grin across his face, “and I get here and I was like, ‘oh my word, this is insane.’”
Killer Deals On Civilization 6, Final Fantasy 9, Chrono Trigger, And More For iPhone/Android
Some seriously high-profile games are on sale right now for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Even if you’re not typically a mobile game player, you might want to pick up some of these titles to have access to games like Civilization VI and Final Fantasy VII any time in your pocket. Let’s take a look at what’s available and for how much.
First up is Sid Meier’s Civilization VI for iOS. This is the complete computer game, but it’s been revamped for touch controls and is compatible with iPhone and iPad. The game is free to download, but that only gets you 60 turns of play. Once you run out, you’ll have to pay to unlock the full game. The unlock normally costs $60, but it’s currently on sale for $15, which amounts to a hefty 75% discount.
But to sweeten the deal further, over the coming days Aspyr Media is giving away all of the expansions for free to anyone who owns the core game. So if you buy Civ VI now, you can get free civilizations and scenarios for Poland, Australia, Persia, and more between December 20 and January 1. Paying $15 for all of that is a great deal, considering the usual price for the core game is $60 and each DLC runs between $5 and $9. You’ll just have to remember to pick up your free expansions every two days.
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI — Free ($15 to unlock full game; Reg: $60)
- 12/20 – 12/22: Free — Poland Civilization & Scenario Pack (Reg: $5)
- 12/22 – 12/24: Free — Vikings Scenario (Reg: $5)
- 12/24 – 12/26: Free — Australia Civilization & Scenario Pack (Reg: $5)
- 12/26 – 12/28: Free — Persia and Macedon Civilization & Scenario Pack (Reg: $9)
- 12/28 – 12/30: Free — Nubia Civilization & Scenario Pack (Reg: $5)
- 12/30 – 1/1: Free — Khmer and Indonesia Civilization & Scenario Pack (Reg: $9)
In a separate deal, Square Enix is running a huge sale on its classic RPGs for iOS and Android. You can pick up Chrono Trigger for just $5 and get big discounts on every Final Fantasy mobile port that’s available. For instance, Final Fantasy VII is on sale for $10, and Final Fantasy IX is $13. If you’re in the mood for a more strategic take on the series, you can grab Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions for $7 ($8 for the separate iPad version).