Tom Hardy Clarifies his Comments about the Footage Cut From Venom

Tom Hardy has clarified his recent comments about the footage cut from Venom, telling IGN that everything he wants in the movie is in there, “and more.”

In an interview with ComicsExplained recently, the Venom star and executive producer said Hardy said that Venom may arrive without “30 to 40 minutes” of potentially his favorite scenes. Speaking to IGN at the Hollywood red carpet premiere of Venom, Hardy said his quote had been “misunderstood.” What he meant, he explained, is that some of the extraneous fun stuff he enjoyed as an actor was cut, but ultimately everything he wanted is in the movie.

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After Resident Evil 7, Capcom Might Release More Cloud Games For Nintendo Switch In Japan

Capcom brought Resident Evil 7 to Nintendo Switch in Japan as a streaming-only game. This seems to have been an experiment of sorts, as the Japanese publisher is now apparently considering bringing some of its other games to the Switch in cloud form in Japan. A spokesperson for the company told the Wall Street Journal that Capcom will make announcements about other cloud games for Switch after it gets a look at the numbers and other metrics for Resident Evil 7.

Sources told WSJ that Capcom is already looking at “other titles” to bring to Japan as streaming-only games. However, it’s not clear what these other games are or when they might be released. Presumably they will be ports, just like Resident Evil 7, but this is not confirmed.

One of the benefits of streaming games from the cloud instead of playing them locally is that it allows the Switch, which is underpowered compared to PS4 and Xbox One, to play more graphically and technically demanding games. However, as with other streaming services like PlayStation Now, the quality of your experience will depend on the strength and reliability of your internet connection.

For Resident Evil 7 on Switch, another matter is that Capcom effectively only rents you the game. For that game, Capcom charged about $18 for 180 days of play. It remains to be seen if the same pricing structure would be implemented for future releases.

Whatever the case, many are predicting that streaming is going to become increasingly popular in the coming years. Electronic Arts recently acquired a streaming company to help with its own streaming ambitions, while Xbox has already confirmed it is working on a game-streaming service that has not yet been announced. Xbox boss Phil Spencer says Microsoft’s streaming service will offer “console-quality” gaming on “any device.” And of course, Sony already has its own streaming service in PlayStation Now.

Take-Two Strauss Zelnick said recently that he believes game-streaming will truly take off in the next 1-3 years.

What do you think about streaming to play games? Let us know in the comments below!

GTA Online Brings Back an Updated Sumo Mode

This week, GTA Online is pitting players head to head. Well, I suppose more literally it would be hood to hood. Or hood to trunk. Or Trunk to side? Anyways, the point is that Rockstar is bringing back the year-two adversary mode Sumo.

The original mode featured a variety of sedans, muscle cars and off-road vehicles vying for control of terrain – usually a small island or the roof of a skyscraper – and would end either when all of a teams opponents had been knocked off, or someone could no longer fit inside the shinking final circle. Sumo Remix, on the other hand, has its own custom stunt arenas and a constantly-changing, ever-shrinking safe zone. While the original was a free-for-all demolition derby that eventually came down to a shrinking circle, Sumo Remix has everyone scrambling to get inside a new safe zone every 30 seconds.Each safe zone gets progressively smaller, so you’ll need to fight aggressively as a team to ensure you get a spot inside the zone and keep your opponents out. Parts of the map will occasionally disappear as well, so you’ll need to use caution when traveling between the zones.

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New Tycoon Game Has You Grow and Sell Weed

Publisher Devolver Digital has announced a Tycoon game that has you growing and selling marijuana.

Weedcraft Inc is developed by Vile Monarch, the team behind Crush Your Enemies and the insult simulator Oh…Sir! and will have players carefully managing their resources to cultivate their own unique strains of weed to unleash upon the market.

Selling weed in America comes with its own unique challenges, and Weedcraft Inc looks to explore that by giving players the ability to try to impact legislation to make their business more viable or simply try to pay off the police.

This new Tycoon game promises to explore many different facets of weed culture. As a marijuana mogul, you’ll explore the world of weed from your typical recreational user to those desperate for medicinal cannabis and all the legal and financial aspects that go along with them.

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Hulu’s Into the Dark: Exclusive Trailer Debut for ‘The Body’

Just in time for the Halloween season, Hulu is partnering with Blumhouse Television to bring an all-new horror anthology series to life. Over the next year, Into the Dark will debut “12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday,” featuring Blumhouse’s “signature genre/thriller spin on the story,” according to Hulu.

The series’ first outing, titled “The Body,” is set to premiere on Friday, October 5. Per Hulu, The Body centers on “a sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society who finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume.”

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Here’s Red Dead Redemption 2 in First-Person

Update: Rockstar Games has released the second official gameplay trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, and it showcases the game’s first-person mode.

Check out the trailer below to see the mode in action.

Original story follows.

Rockstar has revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 will follow in GTA V’s footsteps by allowing you to play the entire game from a first-person perspective.

Shown off in our hands-on with the game, first-person mode can be turned on and off at any time (on the PS4, this is done by clicking the trackpad to cycle through the camera modes until you get to first-person), and applies to the entire game, barring cutscenes. The feature will be available at launch.

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Why Do We Love the Character Venom?

With director Ruben Fleischer and star Tom Hardy’s much-anticipated Venom movie about to hit theaters, some of us are on pins and needles in anticipation. This character is important to fans. But why exactly do we love him so much?

Venom, to offer a brief primer for the uninitiated, is a Spider-Man villain invented in 1988 that serves, essentially, as Spider-Man’s evil twin. Venom is the alter-ego of Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter and rival of Peter Parker who had fused with an alien symbiote (visualized as a blob of living, shape-shifting intelligent tar that once served as Spider-Man’s costume) that wrapped around his body and implanted a dark voice in his head telling him to commit acts of violence and, occasionally, cannibalism. Venom, looking like a nightmare version of Spider-Man – complete with a gaping be-fanged mouth and giant lolling tongue – started his career terrorizing the populace, but eventually became a dark antihero – a lethal protector – starring in his own comics and, as of this month, his own movie.

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Titans to Premiere on Netflix Internationally

Though DC Universe will debut its first original series, Titans, in the United States, Netflix has acquired the international streaming rights for fans overseas who don’t have access to DC’s digital subscription service.

As reported by Variety, Netflix will be home to Titans everywhere but the United States and China, the later of which doesn’t have official access to Netflix at all. Though Titans is scheduled to hit the DC Universe streaming service on October 12, the international premiere date for Titans on Netflix has yet to be announced.

Though DC Universe launched in the US on September 15, and has been announced for a Canadian release in the future, it appears Canada will be one of the many countries that will enjoy Titans on Netflix, at least for now.

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