The new Resident Evil 2-themed mode, titled Zombie: Survive Till Dawn, has gone live in PUBG Mobile. The crossover introduces Resident Evil 2's enemies into the mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and also adds the extra challenge of bosses to the battle royale game.
Added in patch 0.11.0, Zombie: Survive Till Dawn, has 60 players face off in a 30-minute battle royale match that's divided into three days and two nights. During the day, you still must contend with other players and scavenge for weapons and resources, but wandering computer-controlled enemies from Resident Evil 2--such as lickers and undead police officers--present an added challenge. Killing these enemies rewards you with resources, but doing so might telegraph your position to other players.
At night, the game gets even more tricky. The darkness makes it hard to see, and computer-controlled enemies become much more aggressive. During both the day and night, you'll have to be on the lookout for the mode's bosses as well. William Birkin, aka G1, spawns in PUBG Mobile's police station. Regardless of the time, you'll have to contend with him if you want the location's excellent loot. Resident Evil 2's Tyrant, aka Mr. X, randomly appears around air drops to pursue those who try to claim them. To help hold back these threats, the Zombie: Survive Till Dawn introduces the new MI34 minigun.
If you play Zombie: Survive Till Dawn, you can unlock Leon and Claire skins for use in PUBG Mobile, as well as costumes inspired by Ada and Marvin. PUBG Mobile is available for both Android and iOS.
After braving the horrors of Resident Evil 2 in a battle royale setting, consider picking up the actual game as well. In our Resident Evil 2 review, we gave the game a 9/10, describing it as "a stellar remake of the original" that "delivers anxiety-inducing and grotesque situations" and tops "some of the series' finest entries."
January saw the release of two of the year's most anticipated titles, Kingdom Hearts III and Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake, and both unsurprisingly had strong debuts in the US. According to the NPD Group's latest sales report, the two were the best-selling games in the country last month, with New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe following at third.
While the NPD Group doesn't disclose sales numbers, it notes that Kingdom Hearts 3 was the US's best-selling game for January. Furthermore, the title's total launch month dollar sales were two-and-a-half times higher than the series' previous best, Kingdom Hearts II.
Resident Evil 2 took the runner-up spot last month and similarly had 2.8 times higher dollar sales than the original, which released on PS One back in 1998. New Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, meanwhile, generated 30% higher launch month dollar sales than the original Wii U title did when it released alongside the system in 2012.
While Kingdom Hearts may have been the best-selling game, the Nintendo Switch was the US's best-selling console last month in both units and dollars. Moreover, NPD says Switch was the only platform to grow year-on-year, and the Switch Pro Controller was the best-selling accessory last month.
Despite these strong sales, NPD reports that overall video game spending last month was down 19% compared to January 2018. That's not all bad news, however, as the group notes that January 2019 still had "the second highest market total achieved in a January month since the $917 million reached in January 2013."
Respawn Entertainment has said it intends for Apex Legends to be a live-service game, and that means we'll see changes and events pop up in the future. What exactly those are isn't quite clear yet--the game's first season, and the new content Respawn has teased with it, doesn't come until March. We've seen one update to the game that brought new cosmetic items and some error fixes, but players are just getting their first taste of long-term Apex Legends today.
In a new trailer, Respawn showed off the first new gun it's adding to Apex Legends since the game's launch earlier this month. The weapon is the Havoc energy rifle, which looks to be a fully automatic assault rifle that handles in a similar way to current weapons like the R-301 Carbine or the Devotion light machine gun. The Havoc is live in the game now--check it out in action in the trailer below.
The most interesting thing about the Havoc as seen in the trailer is that it's different from the rest of the guns in Apex Legends. It accepts two kinds of "hop-up" attachments; these are rarer items you can add to certain guns that change the way they perform, but usually guns only support one kind of hop-up. For the Devotion LMG, for instance, you can add the Turbocharger hop-up, which speeds up the charge time when the gun begins to fire. The Prowler submachine gun can take the Select Fire hop-up, which can switch the gun from its default burst-fire mode to a fully automatic mode that makes it even more deadly.
The trailer shows that the Havoc can handle either the Turbocharger hop-up or the Select Fire hop-up, and each has a different effect on the gun. The Turbocharger speeds up the rate at which the gun hits its top speed in fully automatic mode--like the Devotion, the Havoc seems to have a short charge time before it gets up to its full energy bullet-spewing potential. With the Turbocharger, the gun looks pretty effective at short and medium ranges.
The Select Fire hop-up allows you to switch the Havoc to a single-fire mode, which fires one charging shot. In the trailer, Select Fire makes the gun effective at longer ranges and, from the looks of things, can turn the Havoc into a sniper or scout rifle.
That's a whole lot of versatility in one gun, and more than we've seen so far in Apex Legends. The Havoc also suggests that future additions to the Apex armory could offer even more customization depending on the attachments and loot you find in the game once you drop into a match. That could make the potential changes coming with Apex Legends' first season pretty powerful, but we'll have to wait until March to find out for sure.
Square Enix has announced a release date for Final Fantasy XV's last DLC chapter, Episode Ardyn. The expansion arrives on PS4, Xbox One, and PC next month, on March 26. Some mild Final Fantasy XV spoilers follow.
Episode Ardyn casts players in the role of the eponymous Final Fantasy XV villain. According to Square Enix, the story is set 35 years before the events of the main game, after Ardyn is freed from his centuries-long imprisonment by Niflheim researcher Verstael Besithia.
Much like previous Final Fantasy XV DLC chapters, Episode Ardyn features some unique gameplay mechanics. As Ardyn, players will be able to speed around the environment using his Shadow Move ability. He can also Daemonify enemies, turning them into daemons.
Ahead of Episode Ardyn's release, Square Enix shared an animated prologue video that sets the stage for the DLC. You can watch it below.
Excluding the multiplayer Comrades expansion, Episode Ardyn marks the fourth DLC chapter Square Enix has released for Final Fantasy XV. The previous three, Episode Gladio, Episode Prompto, and Episode Ignis, each revolved around protagonist Noctis's retainers.
Episode Ardyn wasn't intended to be Final Fantasy XV's last DLC. Square Enix originally had three other DLC episodes planned for the game, but the publisher announced back in November that those have been canceled, and Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has left the company. Square Enix also said that Luminous, the subsidiary developing the DLC, is now devoting its resources to making a new AAA game, although no further details were shared.
Netflix has a whole slew of new movies, TV series, and originals coming to its service for the month of March. From classic movies you've seen a thousand times and want to watch again to brand-new movies and series produced by Netflix, and there are plenty of those.
Hitting the service on March 1, Stanley Kubrick's classic A Clockwork Orange arrives. The film centers on the leader of an ultra-violent gang who undergoes behavior modification experiments, which doesn't go as planned. Also arriving to Netflix that day is the Ron Howard film Apollo 13. Starring Tom Hanks, the movie centers around the real-life story of the Apollo 13 space flight, which had a disaster mid-flight, and the astronauts and NASA searched for a way to get everyone home safely.
As you'll see, there are a lot of new Netflix originals for March, and there are a few of note you might be interested in. On March 15, there is a new round of Arrested Development episodes coming, and the third season of Queer Eye arrives that day as well. Mark your calendars for March 22, when The Dirt comes to Netflix. The movie is a dramatization of an autobiography about the '80s rock band Mötley Crüe. If you know anything about the band's antics off stage, you'll want to check this one out as their stories are legendary.
It's not all good news though. There are plenty of movies and TV series leaving the streaming service in March as well. On March 31, all five seasons of The Real Ghostbusters will fade away, so get your animated fix of Slimer while you still can. And on March 1, both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II will be leaving as well. It's almost like Netflix hates people who bust ghosts.
Below, you'll find everything coming to Netflix in March and leaving the service as well. For more streaming service stuff, check out what's hitting Amazon Prime Video next month.
Coming in March
On My Block: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL (Date not listed)
Avail. 3/1/19
A Clockwork Orange
Apollo 13
Budapest (FR)-- NETFLIX FILM
Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Disney's Saving Mr. Banks
Emma
Junebug
Larva Island: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Losers-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Music and Lyrics
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Northern Rescue-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
River's Edge (JP)-- NETFLIX FILM
Stuart Little
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind-- NETFLIX FILM
The Hurt Locker
The Notebook
Tyson
Wet Hot American Summer
Winter's Bone
Your Son (ES)-- NETFLIX FILM
Avail. 3/2/19
Romance is a Bonus Book (Korea) (Streaming Every Saturday)-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/3/19
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: Volume 2 (Streaming Every Sunday)-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/5/19
Disney's Christopher Robin
Avail. 3/6/19
Secret City: Under the Eagle: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/7/19
Doubt
The Order-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/8/19
After Life-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Bangkok Love Stories: Hey You!-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Bangkok Love Stories: Innocence-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Blue Jasmine
Formula 1: Drive to Survive-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Hunter X Hunter (2011): Seasons 1-3
Immortals-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Juanita-- NETFLIX FILM
Lady J (FR)-- NETFLIX FILM
Shadow-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
The Jane Austen Book Club
Walk. Ride. Rodeo.-- NETFLIX FILM
Avail. 3/12/19
Jimmy Carr: The Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 6-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/13/19
Triple Frontier-- NETFLIX FILM
Avail. 3/15/19
A Separation
Arrested Development: Season 5 B-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Burn Out (FR)-- NETFLIX FILM
Dry Martina (AR)-- NETFLIX FILM
Girl (BE)-- NETFLIX FILM
If I Hadn't Met You-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Kung Fu Hustle
Las muñecas de la mafia: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love, Death & Robots-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Paskal (MY)-- NETFLIX FILM
Queer Eye: Season 3-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Robozuna: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Lives of Others
Turn Up Charlie-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
YooHoo to the Rescue-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/16/19
Green Door-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/19/19
Amy Schumer Growing-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/21/19
Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/22/19
Carlo & Malik-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Charlie's Colorforms City-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Delhi Crime-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Historia de un crimen: Colosio-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Mirage (ES)-- NETFLIX FILM
Most Beautiful Thing-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Selling Sunset-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Dirt-- NETFLIX FILM
Avail. 3/26/19
Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/28/19
Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey: Season 2-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Avail. 3/29/19
15 August (IN)-- NETFLIX FILM
Bayoneta (MX)-- NETFLIX FILM
Osmosis-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Santa Clarita Diet: Season 3-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Highwaymen-- NETFLIX FILM
The Legend of Cocaine Island-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Traitors-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Avail. 3/30/19
How to Get Away with Murder: Season 5
Avail. 3/31/19
El sabor de las margaritas-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Burial of Kojo
Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series-- NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Leaving Netflix In March
Leaving 3/1/19
Bruce Almighty
Fair Game - Director's Cut
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Hostage
Pearl Harbor
The Breakfast Club
The Cider House Rules
The Gift
The Little Rascals
United 93
Leaving 3/2/19
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Eighteenth Year
By Anonymous on Feb 20, 2019 09:30 pm Will Stranger Things season 3 revolve around a shopping mall? Chastity explains her favorite fan theory about how Starcourt Mall is a main focus, with a season ending epic battle against zombies!
Microsoft previously announced its slate of Xbox Game Pass offerings for February, but more than halfway through the month the company has now announced even more coming before the month ends. This new batch includes a cute game starring Mickey Mouse, another chapter of Telltale's The Walking Dead, and more.
First, on February 21, the service will add Headlander, the Metroidvania from Double Fine starring a disembodied head, along with Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, the sequel to Epic Mickey with co-op play between Mickey and his erstwhile rival Oswald. As previously announced, February 21 will also bring Batman: Return to Arkham, remastered versions of the first two Arkham games.
Then on February 28, you can play the second season of The Walking Dead, along with Alien: Isolation. The first one continues Clementine's story after the events of the first season, which joined Game Pass on February 7. The second is a a creepy survival thriller as an alien stalks you aboard a space station.
Xbox Game Pass offers all-you-can-eat gaming from a selection of titles for $10 per month. The company offers all first-party games on the day of release, which is why Crackdown 3 is included for February. As a subscription service the games are playable as long as you're a subscriber. Separately, Microsoft offers Games with Gold for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, which grant a few games every month.
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Anthem is BioWare's latest game, but fans of the studio's massive RPGs like Mass Effect and Dragon Age will find a very different experience waiting for them. Anthem is a loot shooter, more akin to Destiny or The Division, consisting of a campaign followed by an extensive post-game with bigger and better rewards to collect and more difficult bosses to take on.
Anthem differentiates itself from the competition with extensive use of a flying mechanic, letting you zoom above the battlefield like Iron Man. It also lets you swap between classes more easily, as your character is a pilot called a "Freelancer" who can take the controls of the various suit types at will.
So far Anthem has only been released in early access on PC and Xbox One, through EA's various membership programs. Many of the reviews published thus far are early impressions without scores. Still, a consensus seems to be forming that while flying through the battlefield is enjoyable, the story is lackluster--especially compared to BioWare's best--and many say the game feels unfinished in its current state. Read on for impressions from around the industry, and check out GameSpot sister site Metacritic for more details.
GameSpot -- No Score (In Progress)
"I'm currently treating Anthem's disparate missions as an excuse to try a new weapon or special attack, which, combined with flight, gives me incentive to keep going. I'm hoping that I get more out of the story as I go on, but so far it's too generic to get its hooks in me. I'll keep playing on PC--I've luckily only been kicked due to server issues twice--so look out for the full review in the next few days." -- Kallie Plagge [Full review]
Destructoid -- 7/10
"I wish some things were different but I find myself wanting to play Anthem beyond the scope of this review. It isn't changing the way the genre operates, not by a long shot, and if you've struggled with a few of them before and tossed them in the gutter, you'll probably do the same here. BioWare will need to build quickly on top of its shimmering jet-fueled foundation to hold people's interest, but folks looking for a new neighborhood to move into might want to give Anthem a try--either now or after fixes and updates." -- Chris Carter [Full review]
Ars Technica -- No Score
"This game is freaking rad at its best, but it's just not done. It's not fun to have sessions with friends so constantly interrupted. It's not fun to keep quitting out of the main map just to check my loot and quest beats. It's not fun to fight these boring bad guys in these boring missions, again and again and again. It's not fun to feel confused by a lack of information all over the place. Anthem has flashes of being a really good game, but what's the point if it's not fun?" -- Sam Machkovech [Full review]
Polygon -- No Score
"BioWare has already done a lot of the hard work. A satisfying core gameplay loop is difficult to create, but the studio has managed it. Playing makes me feel like a true sci-fi superhero, 10 seconds at a time. But in order for Anthem to survive, BioWare will need to clarify its identity and prioritize the right elements of it. I'd love for the story, the interface, the experience of playing Anthem to service that loop, rather than fight it. I'd love for unique quests and activities to not just keep me occupied, but give me something to strive for. Playing Anthem, I can sense where this game is going. I just worry about how long it will take to get there." -- Russ Frushtick [Full review]
GamesRadar -- No Score (In Progress)
"But there's nowhere near enough of the stuff that makes BioWare games distinctly BioWare. That's the content that Anthem needs sooner rather than later because, at the moment, it's existing solely in the shadow of Destiny. Not Destiny 2, which has steadily grown and evolved with the community, mind – but the Destiny of five years ago. Anthem is designed to grow and evolve over time, but unless that happens sooner rather than later it'll be dead on arrival." -- Sam Loveridge [Full review]
USGamer -- No Score (In Progress)
"It's a beautiful game where the movement is unique and freeing. The story is throwing a lot at the players and some of the characters feel like living mannequins, but there are standouts as well. And the overall mission loop feels like it has too many operations and too much downtime. It feels like the first Destiny: it's an intriguing start, but there are several problems that need to be ironed out. What's frustrating is that many of these problems have already been solved by other MMOs. It's baffling to me that Anthem seems to be starting from scratch, even if I'm sure BioWare is going to do whatever it takes to improve post-launch." -- Mike Williams [Full review]
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Cities: Skylines publisher Paradox Interactive has announced it is partnering with Microsoft to bring its opening modding platform, Paradox Mods, to Xbox One. Beginning today, February 20, players will be able to download and play mods for select Paradox titles on Microsoft's console.
Through this partnership, mod creators can now easily distribute their mods across PC and Xbox One "with a single upload" using either GOG or the Paradox Launcher.
"Modding has been, and remains an important part of the Paradox community," Paradox Mods product owner Andres Törlind said. "As we have diversified the way we distribute our games, we want to make sure all our players can take part in the creation process."
The first game to receive mod support is Surviving Mars, a 2018 simulator that tasks players with building and sustaining a colony on the red planet. More than 30 mods are now available for the title. These can be accessed by logging into your Paradox Account on the game's title screen, then selecting the Mod Manager option at the bottom of the screen. Additionally, the Xbox One version of the game has been updated to allow mouse and keyboard support
While Surviving Mars is currently the only Xbox One title to take advantage of this new feature, Paradox says that mod support for other titles "is planned to come later this year." You can take a look at some of the mods that are available through the platform on Paradox's website.
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There's quite a bit that Anthem doesn't explicitly tell you in its tutorial or first few hours. The basics--such as shooting, dodging, and flying--are covered, but several of the game's more nuanced mechanics, like executing a combo during combat, are left for you to figure out. Setting up and executing a combo isn't necessary for beating Anthem, but understanding how to do so--and also knowing how each Javelin does so differently--can really help with tackling the game's Grandmaster difficulties.
To combo in Anthem, you'll first need to know which of a Javelin's unique abilities act as a primer and which are a detonator. Primers typically cause a status effect to an enemy, such as ice or acid, and set an enemy up for a combo. A detonator, meanwhile, will execute a combo on an enemy that has been primed. There are also standard abilities in the game, which neither prime nor detonate, and the Storm's Ultimate attack--Elemental Storm--is both a primer and detonator. In-game, primers are marked in the Forge customization window with a circle icon, and detonators are identified by a four-pronged star icon. If a weapon does neither, you won't see either symbol.
Both primers and detonators can be used alone and still cause enemy damage, much like a standard weapon. However, you'll want to execute combos as often as you can to do the most damage in the shortest amount of time. Some enemies tend to be bullet sponges and take a while to kill with firearms alone, so detonating a primer on them is a much easier way of dealing with them.
Detonating an enemy won't remove a primer's effect either, so you don't have to worry about neutralizing status effects by pulling off a combo. If you freeze a group of enemies with a Ranger's Frost Grenade, detonating the combo with a Colossus' Lightning Coil won't unfreeze them. You will have to prime the enemies again for another detonation, but the ice status effect remains until it naturally melts away.
It's also worth noting that each Javelin creates its own unique special effect when it detonates an enemy, so if you're playing in a group, you should know when to combo and when to let a teammate take the lead. Each Javelin and their corresponding combo effect are outlined below.
Javelin Combo Effects
Ranger -- Critical Target Damage: Detonating an enemy causes more damage than any other Javelin's detonation
Colossus -- Explosion: Detonating an enemy causes an explosion which damages all nearby enemies
Storm -- Spread: Detonating an enemy causes an explosion which spreads the enemy's elemental status effect to nearby foes
Interceptor -- Aura: Detonating an enemy causes its elemental status effect to imbued into your Javelin, which can then be spread to nearby targets through proximity
Each Javelin's Role When Setting Up A Combo
Ideally, you'd have Ranger handle all of the detonations when fighting a boss, as its combo effect allows it to do the most damage on a single target. Colossus, Storm, and Interceptor, on the other hand, are great for handling mobs of enemies bunched up together.
That's not to say these roles can't be reversed, though. Ranger's Ultimate, the Multi-Target Missile Battery, hits a bunch of enemies and is a detonator. If you prime a mob, you can do huge amounts of combo damage with this attack. Conversely, Storm and Interceptor's combo effects are ideal in situations where a boss is joined by enemy mobs. Also, Colossus' Ultimate, Siege Cannon, launches three detonators, which can do a lot of damage if your teammates can quickly prime a boss between each shot.
Each Javelin's melee attack needs to be taken into consideration as well. The Ranger's Shock Mace is a primer, while the Colossus' Heavy Smash, Storm's Fiery Strike, and Interceptor's Bladed Daggers are all detonators.
Going Solo Vs. Being A Part Of A Team
In Anthem, it's good practice to have at least two loadouts for each Javelin, one for solo play and another for when you're with others. Because when by yourself, you want a Javelin that can both easily prime and detonate so you're not scrambling against high-powered foes. For example, it's not the best strategy to play by yourself with a Ranger armed with Inferno Grenade and Venom Darts--both of which are primers--as then you'll only be able to detonate a combo with the Javelin's Ultimate. It's a great loadout, however, when playing with another player who's armed with a powerful detonator.
By yourself, one of the best Ranger loadouts is Frost Grenade and Seeking Missile if you prefer fighting from long range. This loadout will allow you to keep enemies in place and detonate them from afar. For close range, consider Inferno Grenade and Pulse Blast. Colossus has a devastating solo build with Lightning Coil and Flamethrower, and it'll put you right in the enemy's face where the Javelin can do the most damage. Interceptor, who also excels at close-range, has two solid solo loadouts: Cyro Glaive and Tempest Strike for those who prefer to shoot firearms or Venom Spray and Spark Dash if you enjoy using melee attacks and a hit-and-run playstyle. You've got a ton of choices for solo builds with Storm, since most of its primers and detonators are really good and can be mixed and matched.
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