LawBreakers Dev Reveals Battle Royale Game Radical Heights

LawBreakers developer Boss Key Productions’ new project is a free-to-play battle royale shooter called Radical Heights.

As detailed on the game’s official website, Radical Heights will be available on Steam Early Access tomorrow, April 10. Radical Heights mixes the battle royale formula with a colorful ’80s aesthetic and a live game show element that takes place in the year 2023.

Players will battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons, including confetti bombs, inflatable decoys, and BMX bikes. You can keep the cash you earn during matches, regardless if you win or lose, and then use those earnings on customization, new weapons, and more. Check out the reveal trailer below:

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Overwatch Not Ready for Player Role Queues Yet, Says Jeff Kaplan

Overwatch players might be clamoring for role queues and it might solve a lot of problems in an ideal world, but game director Jeff Kaplan says the game’s just not ready for it yet.

“There’s two versions the community has proposed, and neither is fully satisfactory to me,” said Kaplan in an interview with Kotaku. “One is the honor system version where I queue up as a tank, but actually I want to play McCree, and the game lets me do that since Overwatch is very much about fluidly responding to the enemy team’s composition. The other version is that it locks you in. I think that also hurts the spirit of the game.”

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GTA 5 Has Made More Money Than Any Film, Book or Game, Says Analyst

Industry analyst Doug Creutz says Grand Theft Auto 5 has made money than any other form of media in history, with over 90 million units sold and $6 billion in revenue.

Creutz, managing director and senior research analyst covering the media and entertainment sector at Cowen, told MarketWatch that the game has made more than blockbuster movies like Star Wars, and Gone With The Wind, which both brought in around $3 billion in theaters when adjusted for inflation. Creutz estimates that even with home entertainment sales, which he puts in the ballpark of $1 billion, the films don’t come close to Rockstar’s 2013 title.

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Revisiting Night in the Woods as an Allegory for the Millennial Condition

It’s not often that you stare into the deep well of video games and find your own reflection staring back at you, but the first time I played Night in the Woods, I saw myself in Mae Borowski’s nightmare eyes. From her snarky cynicism to her steadfast rejection of the world, I saw flaws in Mae that mirrored my own, but on a much larger scale, mirrored the overall sense of nihilism and defeat that characterises the millennial worldview. Mae, to me, became a representation of a generation of silenced voices, and of uncertain futures.

Ostensibly, Night in the Woods is a game about the intriguingly odd Mae Borowski returning to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college, but beneath its charming surface, it represents all the horrors of the postmodern millennial condition. It is a game unafraid of exploring the context of the world in which it takes place, drawing parallels between Mae’s circumstances, and the financial and emotional struggles of the current generation of young people.

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Solo Trailer Breakdown – Details You Might Have Missed

Han, Chewie and Lando are back alongside a larger focus on new faces in the latest trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, so IGN got a ragtag crew together to break down all the details frame by frame.

There’s a lot to get excited about, so watch the full breakdown in the video above or scroll through the slideshow below for our personal highlights.

That’s everything we found in the new Solo trailer. But there’s more where that came from…

Where will Solo debut? At Cannes! Solo’s major reshoots reportedly used the same script! And finally, here’s why Donald Glover thinks Solo is like a “fun, Summer film!”

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Lord Of The Rings TV Show: Sense8 Creator Wants To Work On It

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show is one of the most buzzed-about upcoming shows on streaming or network TV, in part for the $1 billion that the company is reportedly spending to produce it. It’s going to be a prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but that’s almost all we know about it. While we wait for more details, a prominent Hollywood writer has come forward to say he’d like to work on it.

J. Michael Straczynski–who created or co-created the shows Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah, and Sense8–says he would “give a lung” to be its showrunner. It’s 2018, so this all happened on Twitter, where Straczynski accidentally tagged Netflix in his post instead of the show’s actual network, Amazon. Whatever the case, he’s clearly passionate about The Lord of the Rings, saying he reads the books every two years and has seen all the Lord of the Rings movies “dozens of times.” Not only that, but he also wrote a term paper in college completely in Elvish. Yeah, I’d say he knows his stuff.

Straczynski also thinks Sean Astin, who played Sam in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies, would think Straczynski would make a good showrunner. Astin chimed in as well to say Straczynski’s take on The Lord of the Rings “would have passion and integrity.”

Here are the relevant tweets:

Straczynski’s tweets were in response to him being named on The Lord of the Rings fansite The One Ring’s list of people they would like to see serve as the showrunner. Amazon has yet to make any announcements about the talent in front of or behind the camera for the show. Given that the show needs to be in production in the next two years, we expect more details to come relatively soon.

Straczynski also wrote the Clint Eastwood-directed movie Changeling, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

While no new Lord of the Rings films have been announced, a movie about Tolkien’s relationship with with his wife Edith Bratt and his time in World War I is in the pipeline. Another film will explore the author’s relationship with Narnia writer C.S. Lewis and how he helped convert Lewis to Christianity. In other news, Universal might be working on a Lord of the Rings amusement park in Florida.