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Fortnite has another update available right now on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile. Version 3.5.1 aims to address a few issues with the game’s previous patch, version 3.5, and as such is limited to bug fixes. In other words, no jetpack.

In particular, the new replay system caused some problems whereby players’ games could crash. These problems have now been addressed, according to developer Epic Games’ official patch notes. Meanwhile an issue where players could fire weapons before the equip animation had finished under some circumstances has also now been resolved.

In Save the World, Epic has changed the way it converts event tickets into Llamas. From now on, players will receive one event Llama for every 1000 tickets; for any additional tickets above 1000, you’ll receive one extra Llama regardless of how many extra tickets you have. The developer has also granted all Save the World players two Spring Llamas for free. Take a look at all the patch notes at the bottom of this article, via Epic.

More free Fortnite items are now available as an apology from Epic for the game’s recent server problems. This weekend, Battle Royale players can get a free Back Bling item (a new type of customization slot added for Season 3), which is pictured below. Also this weekend, Save the World players can grab a Troll Stash Llama. Both of these will be available from the respective modes’ in-game stores. In addition, Battle Royale players will receive a “pack of Battle Stars,” which are used to rank up the Battle Pass and earn rewards.

There’s still no word on when the removed Guided Missile weapon will return to Fortnite: Battle Royale, but the game is at least playable once again. That’s good news, as the 3.5 update introduced a new Port-a-Fort item and made a variety of other changes. Week 8 challenges are also now available, although the server issues have prompted Epic to delay the release of the new 50v50 limited-time mode until next week.

Fortnite Update 3.5.1 Patch Notes

Save The World Bug Fixes

• ‘Building Edit’ hotkey can be bound to keys other than ‘G’
• We’re changing the Mini-Boss Mission Alerts for Canny and Twine back to their pre v3.5 state.
• ‘Repair the Shelter’ objective now activates when you interact with the control panel rather than be based on proximity to the objective.
• Granted all players two free Spring Llamas (can be found in the Loot tab).
  • We’ve changed the way we convert event tickets. Players get 1 event Llama per 1000 tickets and 1 Llama for any tickets left over.
    • (Example) If you have 5 tickets left at the end of the event, you still get 1 free event Llama.

Battle Royale Bug Fixes

• ‘Building Edit’ hotkey can be bound to keys other than ‘G’
• Fixed an issue where players could fire weapons before the equip animation had finished, if they were sprinting.
• Fixed several client crashes that were related to the new Replay System.
• Fixed an issue that broke player’s walking/sprinting animations if they were firing a Guided Missile while walking/sprinting.

As Sony likes to do every month or so, it has just unveiled a new Flash Sale on the PlayStation Store. Between now and April 16, you can get a good number of games at heavily discounted rates. It’s Friday the 13th weekend, so it’s no surprise the theme is horror. Read on to see what standout games are on sale this weekend. Just make sure to lock in your purchases before the sale ends on April 16.

The game that resembles a horror movie most closely is Until Dawn, a cinematic adventure game about a group of teens staying at a cabin in the woods. It’s on sale for $6 (down from $20). If you haven’t played The Last of Us Remastered, you’ll almost certainly enjoy its cinematic bonafides as you fight nightmare creatures in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s on sale for $8 (regularly $20), and its Left Behind expansion is down to $4 (from $10).

The Evil Within 2 ($30 instead of $60) and Outlast 2 ($12, down from $30) both bring the spooks by dropping you in regions haunted by supernatural horrors. The BioShock Collection ($20, down from $60) and Soma ($8, regularly $30) are frightening games about big ideas, and both feature claustrophobic underwater settings. Alien: Isolation has a sealed-in setting of its own in the form of a space station. It’s on sale for $9, instead of its usual $30. Another space horror game, Prey, is on sale for half off at $20.

A number of dark indie games are also on sale. Inside is $8 (was $20), while Limbo is $2 (down from $10). The spooky narrative-heavy Oxenfree is $5 (down from $20), while the ultra-challening Darkest Dungeon is $10 (down from $25). The rhythm-roguelike Crypt of the Necrodancer is $3 (was $15).

If mind-bending games that are only occasionally horrific are more your speed–and you don’t mind reading a lot of text–check out the collection Zero Escape: The Nonary Games ($20, down from $50) and its sequel Zero Time Dilemma ($16, down from $40).

If you have a PSVR headset lying around, you may want to check out The Inpatient or the zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine, both $16 (down from $40), or The Invisible Hours for $12 (down from $30).

Perhaps you’re in the mood to revisit some PS One classics (or see what all the older gamers are talking about). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is on sale for $3, while the original Silent Hill and a few early Resident Evil games are down to around $2 each. Unfortunately those aren’t playable on PS4, but you can play them on PS3, PS Vita, or PSP.

Visit the Flash Sale page on the PlayStation Store for the full list. All in all, this is a pretty killer sale for anyone looking to add some horror to their Friday the 13th weekend.

The odds of Marvel movies going out of style is very slim. After all, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to keep on chugging after Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, and Fox is likely going to keep pumping out as many X-Men movies as it can in coming years.

That means not only more movies, but so many opportunities to put Spider-Man’s face or Captain America’s iconic shield on any number of products. So what can you purchase? Come along as GameSpot looks back on the very strange history of some of Marvel’s most bizarre products ever made.

One of the biggest creator moves in modern comic history was when Brian Michael Bendis left Marvel Comics to work at DC. It was a shock to longtime readers and became one of the most talked about comic book industry stories in 2017. But why did Bendis make the leap and how did it happen?

During C2E2, Chicago’s comic book convention, GameSpot spoke with Bendis about his departure from Marvel, while discussing his upcoming work on Action Comics #1000 (which releases on April 18). This will be his second published work from DC, with the first being a short story in The Batman Chronicles #21 back in 2000. In addition, he’ll also be working on the upcoming miniseries Man of Steel, which will be a lead in to the newly launched Superman series in May. Then, in July, Bendis will also pen Action Comics as well as a part of his Jinxworld series (some of which were published under the Marvel imprint Icon).

Needless to say, Bendis continues to have a full plate now he’s at DC. However, getting there was a matter of timing and making sure it was right for him. “A few years ago, we talked to [co-publishers] Jim [Lee] and Dan [Didio] about maybe coming over, and they had made a very lovely offer, but it wasn’t an offer that was worth going to my friends [at Marvel],” explained Bendis. “I have very good friends at Marvel who would be happy for me in success, but at the same time, we’re partners, and we’re in the middle of something, so I felt if I was gonna come up to Joe [Quesada, Marvel’s CCO] and say, ‘Listen, I’m gonna go over there,’ it had to be an offer that he would go, ‘Oh yeah! You should go over.’

“And so we talked, and at the same time, I have to say they were really close; ‘I don’t think I’m done. I wanna do Defenders.’ And so I said to [DC], ‘Thanks, but I’m gonna stay [at Marvel].’ …We were struggling to find what I would do next, with this new contract. And again, Marvel had offered me a contract. They had offered me books. They were so nice. They never blinked and made it very clear that I am there as long as I wanna be there.”

Bendis continued his conversations with DC, while still working at Marvel. This time, it was with Diane Nelson, the President of DC Entertainment, who reached out to him numerous times. “I answered her back and said, ‘All right. What do you got? What are you thinking of? What is it?’ So, they came, and they brought enough of a meaningful partnership, with the creator owned and imprint [Jinxworld] and other things that we have coming. And then, I could call up my friends and go, ‘I am shocked this day is coming as well.’ I am not mad at anyone. I am not leaving in a huff. Even that, you couldn’t help but think of the history of comics, of both Marvel and DC. Most people leave in a huff. They don’t leave in a huff after [one] year, they leave in a huff in 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. I don’t wanna leave in a huff. Not everyone has, but a lot, more people have than haven’t.”

“It’s just like any job. It’s a job. You’re going to lose your job eventually. It’s a job that you have and that someone else will have. So, I’m like, can I do that? Can I leave without making anyone mad? …Can we leave on a nice note and keep it that way and can I remind you that I’ve always said I don’t think we’re in competition, Marvel and DC? I think we’re the glue that holds the industry together but the key person for the craft. It is the medium that needs us, right? So we’re not in competition.”

Bendis went on to discuss his early, lighthearted discussions with Didio. And the DC co-publisher recounted his meetings with Jim Lee about Bendis working on Daredevil in 2012 for the End of Days miniseries, the writer’s second run with the character. The publisher wanted Bendis then to work at DC, but the timing wasn’t right.

Preview of Action Comics #1000 written by Bendis with art by Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Alex Sinclair

When the announcement was made in November 2017 that Bendis was headed to DC, he didn’t think it would be a big deal. “When we made the announcement I was still thinking, ‘This might be only interesting to me,'” explained Bendis. “People were like, ‘Oh this is gonna be like John Byrne. It’s gonna be crazy,’ and I go, ‘That was a long time ago and things are different.’

“We live in a different world, and the media is different, and we have a President that gets up every morning and says something s****y, and then there’s no room for anyone else to promote anything because the President farted, and that’s it, right? So I always kept warning people, ‘Listen, I don’t know how this is going to play outside of the comics world.’

“I know the comics world. Yeah, I get that totally, but I don’t know if it’s gonna go out like John Byrne did, so we announced, and then I went to bed. It was six in the morning, and I went, ‘Let’s just go to sleep,’ and that whole craziness, the trending and everything like that. I slept through all of it, which was my most accidental badass thing I’ve ever done. I did it because I was mentally and physically exhausted, and I was so concerned about my friendships and who didn’t I, who did I forget to tell before it was announced?

“I had a lot of anxiety and when I woke up in the morning, when I woke up in the afternoon to that great quote from Phil Hester. He goes, ‘Brian, you are an author, in 2017, who’s trending, and you didn’t die or embarrass yourself or others.’ I’m gonna own that one. I rarely take a compliment, but I’m gonna take that one.”

Spoilers for Westworld Season 1 below!

Watching Westworld can sometimes feel like being a host in the show’s titular wild west park: You’re not entirely sure where (or when) you are, and you’re powerless to do anything about it. Westworld fans don’t obsessively comb through each episode for clues to stoke their theories out of love alone; we do it out of necessity, too. It turns out some of the show’s actors feel the same way.

“Every script I get I have to read three times, just understanding what’s all happening, but even then, I think I don’t really understand it,” Luke Hemsworth, who plays Westworld head of security Ashley Stubbs, told GameSpot during a group interview recently in Los Angeles. “It’s been so long. I’m always surprised, I think. I’m always like, ‘Oh yeah, I remember! And that leads into that, and that’s going to move that. Oh, yes!'”

The first episode of Westworld’s second season will air next Sunday, April 22. Without spoiling anything, it’s safe to say it picks up the story near where the first season ended. Jumping right back into this hosts-versus-humans fray after so long–Season 1 aired back in 2016–will feel like whiplash if you haven’t revisited the show recently.

The last time we saw Stubbs in Season 1, he was ambushed by the Native American warrior hosts known as the Ghost Nation. We’ve known for some time that Stubbs isn’t dead, but it’s still a bit jarring seeing him in the opening scenes of Sunday’s Season 2 premiere. Hemsworth wouldn’t say how his character survived, but he did tease that Stubbs is “pretty stoic. He’s resilient. He finds a way.”

Angela Sarafyan, who plays the host Clementine, said we’re going to see new sides of her character in Westworld Season 2. Clem was out of the loop for most of Season 1, but began to gain more agency by the end. In the final episode, she shot the Man in Black (AKA old William) in the arm as the hosts rebelled.

“You’ll get to see elements of Clementine that are a bit different,” Sarafyan said. “You find your strength in the most unfortunate situations. That’s what she does. And I love that I got to find that strength in her.”

“That’s the direction that we’re going in, this newfound freedom,” she said. “To be the oppressed, and then, what do you do with that freedom that you’re given, especially if you’re a host? How do you bring that to fruition?”

For some shows that are particularly vulnerable to spoilers, like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, the creators will go to extreme lengths like writing scripts in code or shooting multiple versions to guard against leaks. Hemsworth said shooting Westworld can be chaotic, though he attributed that more to the show’s massive scope than any deliberate attempts to befuddle the cast or crew.

“It’s a huge beast, and I think they’re figuring a lot of it out as they go,” Hemsworth said. “When they’re editing they’re picking up things and going, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. We need to do that.’ It’s this constantly evolving, tome amount of scripts. And it does evolve right up until the point that we’re shooting. Sometimes we’re getting scripts at midnight the night before we’re shooting.”

If showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are keeping Hemsworth in the dark about anything, he says he doesn’t know about it. “I guess we’ll find out, because they don’t tell me, right?” he laughed. “There’s definitely stuff that changes at the last minute. Whether it’s on purpose or not is another question. Sometimes you’re like, ‘Come on, you knew that was going to happen. You could have told me that!'”

One thing we know for certain is that the showrunners have a sense of humor about it all. A video they promised to release earlier this week that they said would reveal Season 2’s entire plot–in some twisted attempt to stop fans from spreading theories across the internet–turned out to be one giant troll, a “Rick Roll” of epic proportions. They did release a video that gives a brief glimpse at an early scene from Westworld’s Season 2 premiere, where Stubbs finds Bernard passed out on a beach. But it quickly transitions to star Evan Rachel Wood singing Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up,” with Sarafyan on piano, followed by around 20 minutes of a dog sitting on a piano bench.

Sarafyan said she didn’t know how the video was going to be deployed when Nolan asked her to be in it. Her brother explained to her what a Rick Roll is after the video went out.

“We were going to do press that particular day, and Evan and I were both there, and [Nolan] asked her to sing and me to play the piano piece,” Sarafyan said. “So I learned it that night and then played it the next day. That’s why I’m so focused [in the video]–because I’d just learned the piece!”

The two actors didn’t have much more to share about Westworld Season 2, but they do have their own theories.

“I always believe that the hosts are constantly taking in information, kinda like your phones,” Sarafyan said. “I think that they’re always feeding off things. Even when they’re asleep, I’ve made the decision that she is still awake. She’s asleep, she’s in sleep mode, but then she’s still hearing and receiving, like you would in a dream.”

We do learn a few new things about the hosts in Westworld’s Season 2 premiere, though I won’t say what they are. “It’s an evolution,” Hemsworth described. “They delve into pulling the hosts apart, but also pulling the humans apart and how we react to losing our control.”

As for what happened to Stubbs between the last time we saw him and now? “There’s definitely a cool journey there.”

Finally, Sarafyan teased something Westworld fans have been looking forward to since the Season 1 finale: “I think [Shogun World] is gonna be a really special story,” she said.

Westworld Season 2 airs on HBO beginning next Sunday, April 22.

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer congratulates Sony on the God of War reception, while a bunch of Xbox One, PS4, and PC games go free for the weekend.

by Erick Tay on April 13, 2018 at 11:49AM

God of War has received quite the positive critical reception, with GameSpot’s own review praising it for its impeccable presentation and excellent father-son dynamic–not to mention the brutal, yet satisfying combat. And with all the glowing reviews, Xbox head Phil Spencer tweeted congratulations to developer Sony Santa Monica and Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida.

God of War is certainly one of the most anticipated games of the year, so of course it would headline today’s episode of GameSpot Daily. If Saturday is for the boys, then Friday is for insightful and thought-provoking discussion of all the latest video game news in 30 minutes or less.

Every Fortnite player on any platform can now claim some free items for a limited time. Because of server issues, Epic Games is offering Battle Royale players a Back Bling and Save The World players a Troll Stash Llama. And that’s not all: a pack of Battle Stars is on its way to every Battle Royale player, while some seasonal gold will make its way to everyone in Save The World. That’ll be distributed sometime next week.

Speaking of free stuff, There are a bunch of games with free weekends right now, which means you’ll be able to play them without paying anything until April 15. Some of these include Skyrim, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and Injustice 2. We’ve got the full list and all of the special discounts in today’s episode.

In other news, Hellblade won five awards at the BAFTAs last night, dominating the show. Unfortunately for developer Ninja Theory, it did not take the overall Best Game award. The awards it did win, however, include Best Performer, Audio Achievement, and Game Beyond Entertainment. We run down the rest of the awards in the video above.

Speaking of hitting the jackpot, a game collector discovered some really old drugs in two NES carts. The collector bought the games from a flea market, wondering why they weighed so much. Upon investigating, he found the drugs, called the cops, and learned that they were, in fact, very old drugs. The collector later learned that $5,000 in bills were discovered in a game back in 2012, which leads us to think there may have been some kinda Nintendo-inspired drug smuggling ring.

And now for something completely different. We’ve got some My Hero Academia news, the first of which is the first trailer for the upcoming game My Hero Academia: One’s Justice. We analyze the trailer, talk about its characters, and discuss some of the game’s systems. Additionally, the superhero anime had a bit of a crossover with Avengers: Infinity War. Toho Animation posted a remake of the Marvel movie’s trailer, except with characters from My Hero Academia.

And that’s what you’ll find in today’s episode, but be sure to tune in every day of the week at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST/7PM BST/4 AM AEST for another episode of GameSpot Daily. We cover the most exciting gaming news in 30 minutes or less or we ruin our chances at a nice, congratulatory tweet from Phil Spencer.

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