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Legislation Proposed in Hawaii to Limit Sale of Loot Boxes
Lawmakers in Hawaii have proposed a series of bills that target the sale of loot boxes in video games.
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports the legislation aims to address potentially exploitative monetization like loot boxes which can lead to players harboring gambling addictions.
Two of the bills, if passed, will stop sales of games in which players under the age of 21 can use real money to buy randomized rewards. How exactly this could be regulated is not clear.
Another set of bills would see games with purchasable loot boxes or other random rewards feature labels to disclose as such as well as display the probability rates for prizes.
Venom’s 30th Anniversary Celebrated With Variant Covers
Marvel is celebrating Venom’s anniversary with special variant comic book covers.
Eddie Brock, who was transformed into super-powered anti-hero Venom, has been a Marvel staple for a long time. In preparation for Venom’s 30th anniversary, Marvel is introducing special variant covers to celebrate key moments from the character’s storied history. The first of the variants will hit comic shops on March 7, with the rest available before the month’s end.
The variant covers will feature art by artists such as Mark Bagley, Mike Perkins, Francesco Francavilla, Ron Lim, Inhyuk Lee, and many more. Here’s a look at some of the upcoming covers!
Here’s a full list of all the comics with variant covers, as well as the artists creating them:
Metallica Frontman Cast As Cop Who Caught Ted Bundy
Metallica frontman James Hetfield has been cast as Officer Bob Hayward, the cop who caught serial killer Ted Bundy, in Voltage Pictures’ Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
While this is Hetfield’s first dramatic role, he’s worked with director Joe Berlinger before on the Metallica documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Berlinger also wrote the book Metallica: This Monster Lives.
Deadline reports that Hetfield will be playing Officer Bob Hayward in the thriller, the Utah trooper who arrested Bundy in 1975 after pulling him over and discovering burglary tools and pantyhose in Bundy’s Beetle.
Hot Wheels Making Real-Life Rocket League RC Toy Set
Hot Wheels is teaming up with developer Psyonix to bring out a new Rocket League toy set this fall.
Called the Hot Wheels Rocket League RC Rivals Set, it will feature bluetooth-enabled Octane and Dominus cars players can control with smart devices. The set also features an arena complete with LCD scoreboards, and a ball with an IR device embedded to keep track of the score.
Additional details, and a release date, will be announced later this year. Check out the preview art below:
Hot Wheels is bringing the action of Rocket League to life!
New AMD Driver Boosts Performance In PUBG, Fortnite, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
AMD put out a new version of its Radeon Adrenalin software suite, and with this 18.2.2 update comes a driver that boosts performance in a few popular PC games. Two of the top battle royale games, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite, are getting some extra frames per second on AMD cards. In addition, the newly released Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets proper support and improved framerates.
The benchmarks were performed by AMD internally and the results come out of a system consisting of an Intel Core i7-7700K CPU clocked at 4.2GHz and 16GB of DDR4-3000 RAM on the Windows 10 64-bit operating system. Tests were done with the RX 580 at 1080p and RX Vega 56 at 1440p, and comparisons were made between previous driver versions and the latest version 18.2.2. The following is a breakdown of the benchmark results.
Fortnite
Fortnite is getting a slight boost for AMD users; the new driver shows up to 3% faster performance on the RX Vega 56 video card compared to driver version 17.12.1 at 2560x1440p (1440p) and Epic graphics settings (jumping from an average of 63 FPS to 65 FPS). With the RX 580 at 1920×1080 (1080p) and Epic graphics settings, results show up to 6% faster performance using the new driver, going from a 72 FPS average to 76 FPS.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
When looking at PUBG, the RX Vega 56 showed up to 5% faster performance using the 18.2.2 driver compared to version 17.12.1 at 2560x1440p (1440p) and High settings; the improvement was from 76 FPS to 80 FPS. In testing the RX 580 at 1920×1080 (1080p) and High settings, AMD indicates that you can see up to 7% faster performance with the new driver; results showed the average framerate go from 81 FPS to 87 FPS.
PUBG Vs. Fortnite: Which One Is Better?
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
The RX Vega 56 will get up to 3% faster performance using the new 18.2.2 driver at 2560x1440p (1440p) with Ultra High settings; the average framerate went from 46.1 FPS to 47.4 FPS. When it comes to the RX 580, the new driver shows up to 4% faster performance with 1080p and Ultra High settings, by jumping from an average of 53.5 FPS to 55.9 FPS.
We’ve been covering PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite extensively here on GameSpot, so do yourself a favor and check our camparison between the two battle royale games. We also had a quick conversation about Fortnite’s exploding popularity that you can watch. Kingdom Come: Deliverance just released and had a huge day-one patch and we break it down for you. For more on how AMD’s graphics cards perform, check out our RX Vega 56 review or our RX 580 review.
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New Pokemon Go Update Out Now, Here’s What It Does
Pokemon Go is celebrating Valentine’s Day this week with a higher chance of catching certain Pokemon and earning extra Stardust. Alongside this special holiday event, Pokemon Go also received a new update.
Update 0.91.2 on Android devices and 1.61.2 on iOS was released today, announced on developer Niantic’s Twitter account. It’s a small update, and the iOS and Google Play stores haven’t listed patch notes yet, but Niantic states that it focuses on fixing bugs.
Trainers, Pokémon GO is being updated to version 0.91.2 for Android and 1.61.2 for iOS to implement bug fixes.
— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) February 13, 2018
Meanwhile, the big holiday event is happening from now until Thursday, February 15. It increases the chances of running into the Pokemon Luvdisc and Chansey, and it grants triple Stardust for each of those that you capture.
In other news, the next Pokemon Go Community Day event is coming up soon. It’ll take place on February 24 and, like the first Community Day in January, players will have a chance to capture a special Dratini that knows a move normal Dratinis don’t know.
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NBA Star LeBron James Producing House Party Remake
NBA star LeBron James is producing a a remake of the 1990 comedy House Party.
Variety reports James will be producing the project alongside his SpringHill Entertainment partner Maverick Carter. The script will be penned by Stephen Glover and Jamal Olorim, writers on FX’s Atlanta. The movie doesn’t have a director attached yet and a release has not been set.
The original House Party starred hip hop duo Kid ‘n Play, and follows a high-schooler throwing a house party while his parents are away on vacation. The rest of the cast includes Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, B-Fine, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, and A.J. Johnson
Call of Duty: Sicario 2 Director to Helm Activision Movie
Activision Blizzard Studios’ Call of Duty movie may have found its director.
Variety reports Sicario 2: Soldado director Stefano Sollima is in talks with the studio to helm the film adaptation of the video game franchise. A release date for the movie has not been set yet as it’s currently without a distributor and writer.
Activision Blizzard Studios’ presidents Stacey Sher and Nick van Dyk are producing alongside Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick. Though plot details for the Call of Duty film are being kept under wraps, Sher and van Dyk plan are planning a Marvel-style Call of Duty movie universe.
Devil May Cry Will Be Free For Twitch Prime Subscribers Later This Month
Devil May Cry HD Collection is launching soon on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and today it got a new trailer. But DMC fans still have something to look forward to before it is released: later this month, you can check out the first Devil May Cry game on PC for free through Twitch Prime.
Capcom announced on its blog recently that all subscribers of Amazon/Twitch Prime can snag the freebie starting on February 27. After claiming it, you’ll be able to download the full game through the Twitch desktop app.
Devil May Cry originally launched back in 2001 for PS2, so some players may find it a bit dated. But it’s still cool to see where the series began, especially if your first exposure to the series was the reboot, DmC: Devil May Cry, which was released in 2013. Previous Twitch Prime free games have sometimes been free for only a few days, so be sure to jump on this promotion when it goes live. It’s free to anyone with a Twitch Prime membership, which comes with an Amazon Prime subscription.
The Devil May Cry HD Collection, meanwhile, launches on March 13 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It includes remastered versions of the first three games in the series, all of which run at 60 frames per second. You can check out the new trailer for the collection in the embed above.
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