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While we wait on pins and needles for the next Avengers movie, it's nice to be reminded that the MCU is also a place where superheroes have fun being superheroes, which is exactly what the new Ant-Man and The Wasp teaser does.
The teaser is about Paul Rudd's character, the titular Ant-Man and less-than-mild mannered Scott Lang, making a list of their game plan for tackling the movie's antagonist. Check out the spot below.
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It's been a big week for Dark Souls Remastered, the newest version of FROM Soft's seminal 2011 action adventure game. Certainly, though, the strangest story cropping up from the game is how modders found early Bloodborne data in the new version of the game and then managed to open it up in Grand Theft Auto V.
Kotaku reports on the strange modding story that begins with a modder named Dropoff, who found the map data inside Remastered's files. Dropoff discovered a file, the seemingly innocuous "m99_99_98_00," which follows a naming structure of test files in FROM's games. Opening this up showed the map data of Upper Cathedral Ward from Bloodborne.
The Upper Cathedral Ward is an optional late-game area in Bloodborne that culminates with the hardest non-chalice dungeon, non-DLC boss in the game. It seems FROM had been planning this area since the original Dark Souls release in 2011. Another Souls modder and data detective, Lance McDonald, posted the findings on Twitter, including bits of Boleteria from Demon's Souls.
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Everyone's favorite Metro City rascal Cody was announced for Street Fighter V along with everyone else from season 3, but this new gameplay trailer (with a hint of story) gives Cody some time to shine.
The trailer begins with a live action clip of Cody, played by New Japan Pro Wrestling star and Street Fighter IV Cody main Kenny Omega, entering the mayor's office and receiving a phone call. From there, the trailer begins showing off Cody's two V.skills – his trusty knife and what we can now say is a traditional Metro City mayoral pipe – and a new costume of traditional mayoral pants. Check out the trailer below.
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Ever since the launch of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, it has been plagued with performance issues that have irked players. In a recent Steam post, PUBG Corp outlines upcoming performance fixes and how it has "fallen short" in the past.
The development team's three biggest priorities are "performance, server-side optimization, and cheating." Altering lighting effects so they can be better processed and changing how vehicles maneuver on different surfaces are two of the ways the team believes the game can reach better performance.
Player movement, animations, and character models will also receive adjustments in order to boost framerate. Sever-side optimization, reducing network latency, and tweaking item spawns are other fixes the team has planned. You can read the massive list of changes by heading here.
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Sea of Thieves is receiving its first free DLC expansion in a couple days, bringing a slew of new content to the pirate adventure. The Hungering Deep hits on May 29th, and will be followed by two other expansions called Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores at later dates.
The Hungering Deep features new items, a story campaign, flags, exclusive cosmetics, and more.
The time-limited story campaign centers around Merrick the bard, who is Sea of Thieves' first established character. Players will attempt to find Merrick in the world, and if successful, they can go against his nemesis to reap substantial rewards.
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After remastering The Silver Case and its sequel 25 Ward on modern platforms, Grasshopper Manufacture has set its sights on bringing its cult hit Killer7 to Steam.
Announced during a panel discussing the company's history at this year's Momocon, the remaster arrives this Fall.
The Steam release won't be a remake but a graphical refresh. Grasshopper has told Game Informer the game's simple models and colors scale nicely to modern resolutions. Additionally, mouse-and-keyboard aficionados will be happy to know they'll be able to use their mouse to aim at the many weakpoints on the Heaven's Smiles.
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One of the major aspects of games that separate them from other mediums is the way players can express themselves by making choices. Many of those are mechanical ("should I upgrade my health or defense?") but many of them are narrative.
While many of these choices are black and white ("should you save or kill the Little Sisters in BioShock?"), but some of them can be layered and interesting, causing us to think twice, sometimes pausing the game for a bit.
So which choices in games gave you the most pause? Did you have sleep on the repercussions of the Genophage in Mass Effect when making the final choice? Did the Witcher 2's big choice between Roche and Iorveth in The Witcher 2 make you think twice? Let us know in the comments.
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Not content with creating unconventional gaming devices like a multi-platform boombox or a Wii U gaming coat, Youtuber My Mate Vince has a found a slightly more useful contraption: A way to pump an Xbox One X signal through the airwaves so TV antennas can pick it up.
Making such a weird thing possible requires a few converters and some technical know-how, but the result is really cool: Basically, Vince's house was broadcasting a TV signal of Fortnite throughout a small area, which any device tuned into its signal could pick up.
Part of the contraption involves a signal booster, and Vince even warns those who might want to replicate the invention at home not to boost the signal too much, lest they accidentally create a pirate TV station.
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Next week Destiny 2 fans can expect some major changes to some of their favorite pieces of rare gear, but matchmaking for the new Escalation Protocol activity is still up in the air.
With the release of the Warmind expansion came a number of changes to exotic weapons, and many new weapons became a lot more fun (and useful) to wield. Exotic armor pieces remained untouched, however. That's changing in next week's update on May 29, according to Sandbox designer Victor Anderson.
Each Destiny 2 class is getting two pieces of exotic armor changed up: Titans will get a more consistent punch out of Synthoceps and have more maneuverable air superiority with Lion Rampant, Hunters can expect more utility out of Dragon's Shadow and more kick out of sidearms when switching to them while wearing the Mechaneer's Tricksleeves, and Warlocks will have an easier-to-use Lunafaction Boots and more powerful solar abilities with Sunbracers.
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Video game pioneer and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney has passed away at age 80.
The news comes from close friend Leonard Herman.
Dabney was instrumental in the early history of Atari and video games, but is often left unsung. Originally one of the people behind Syzygy back in 1971, he helped create much of the company's early hardware, including Pong, one of the biggest games in the world. He eventually left the company under disputed circumstances, with Dabney claiming he was forced out by Bushnell and the board of directors.