NetherRealm Studios will hold its latest live broadcast "Kombatcast" event this afternoon, possibly offering some news about upcoming fighting game Mortal Kombat X.
No further details about what to expect are available, but you won't have to wait much longer to find out what the developer has in store. The broadcast starts at 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT. You can watch the entire event via the Twitch embed above.
Check out GameSpot's roundup here for a full list of Mortal Kombat X's confirmed (and rumored) characters. For a closer look at the game's roster, check out the image gallery below.
PS3 and PS4 TV service PlayStation Vue is expanding its lineup of networks, and among the additions is the home of The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul.
Sony announced today that AMC, IFC (Comedy Bang Bang!), Sundance, and WEtv are all now available on Vue. Both AMC and WEtv are included with all Vue packages, while you'll need the more expensive Core or Elite packages to get IFC and Sundance.
We just recently learned the specifics of Vue, which is available from $50 per month for the Access package. Those looking for additional content can subscribe to Core for $60 or Elite for $70, with the specifics of which channels you get depending on the particular market you're in. More details are available here.
Although its name has become synonymous with the Demon's/Dark Souls series and, more recently, Bloodborne, From Software has been making games since the 1990s--and one of those games, Shadow Tower, is headed to the PlayStation Store.
Hopefully your heart can withstand some mild frights
As revealed at the 15:12 mark of the latest PlayStation Blogcast, Shadow Tower will be released on PSN next week as a PS1 Classic, making it playable on Sony's handhelds and PlayStation 3, but not PlayStation 4.
The first-person action-RPG was released in 1998 in Japan and a year later in North America, by which time its graphics were quite dated. The game plays similarly to the company's earlier King's Field games and would later receive a Japan-only sequel, Shadow Tower Abyss.
PS1 Classics on PSN are typically sold for $6, though occasionally some--like Suikoden II--go for $10. A price for Shadow Tower wasn't announced, but with the PlayStation Store's weekly update coming on Tuesday, we don't have long to wait to find out.
From Software's latest game, Bloodborne, debuted earlier this week on PS4.
[UPDATE] The full trailer, featuring System of a Down's "Chop Suey," is now available. Watch it above.
The original story is below.
Mortal Kombat X developer NetherRealm and rock band System of a Down are teaming up. As revealed in the sneak peak trailer above, NetherRealm has enlisted the help of System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian for the fighting game's launch trailer, which will use one of the band's biggest hits, "Chop Suey."
"I felt more like I was editing a movie," he says about working on the trailer. "I kind of forgot that it was a video game."
Mortal Kombat X's launch trailer will debut later today. We'll have that video for you as soon as it's available.
Check out GameSpot's roundup here for a full list of Mortal Kombat X's confirmed (and rumored) characters. For a closer look at the game's roster, check out the image gallery below.
Bloodborne received rapturous praise upon release earlier this week, but the game's launch hasn't gone entirely smoothly. Long load times were immediately reported (something Sony and From Software are investigating), but now comes what sounds like a more serious problem with the PlayStation 4 game.
Gamers on Reddit and GameSpot sister site GameFAQs are reporting that they've discovered a significant bug that blocks their progress in some areas. Some players are even calling it a "game-breaking" issue.
A fix for this bug (full, spoilery details about it are below) is in the works, a Sony representative told Polygon. For now, however, avoiding the problem area sounds simple enough.
The Bloodborne bug involves the Lunarium Key. Due to the bug, this key--found in the Byrgenwerth location--does not spawn. Without the key, players can't fight the area's boss (and access the unlocks received for defeating him), nor can they visit Master Willem or the Moonside Lake.
According to Sony, to steer clear of the bug, make sure you do not initiate a multiplayer session in Bloodborne's Forbidden Woods area by using the Small Resonant Bell or Sinister Resonant Bell items.
This temporary workaround is not ideal, of course, but it sounds better than the alternative.
A hotfix to address the bug, version 1.02, will be released sometime next week. As mentioned earlier, Sony and From Software are also looking into a patch that reduces load times and fixes additional bugs. A timeline for this patch, however, has not been announced.
Rockstar Games on Friday published a new batch of Grand Theft Auto VPC images, showing off the world and characters of the open-world game in extremely high 4K resolution. This could be the best-looking Los Santos we've seen to date. You can see all 15 of the new GTA V PC images in the gallery below.
In other GTA V PC news, Rockstar has announced that a new trailer for the game will be released sometime next week, though the developer didn't say exactly when.
As part of a previously announced promotion, preordering the digital version of the game nets you a $1.5 million in-game cash bonus. This is spread across story mode ($500,000) and GTA Online ($1,000,000).
GTA V for PC will include online Heists right out of the gate. It will also feature a new editing tool called the Rockstar Editor. This will give players a "full suite" of tools that they can use to create and publishing clips to the Rockstar Social Club and YouTube.
GTA V was originally released in September 2013 for last-generation consoles. The game launched for current-generation machines in November 2014, selling 10 million units on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 as of December 31. In all, GTA V has shipped a massive 45 million copies worldwide.
The 2015 Call of Duty Championship kicks off today and runs through this weekend, and you can watch it right here. (You'll probably want to pause or mute some of the streams, which start playing on their own.)
32 teams will be competing in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for a prize pool of $1 million, $400,000 of which will go to the champions.
Before that happens, those 32 will have to compete to reach Sunday's championship game (taking place at 2 PM PDT), starting with today's matches. Teams are split into eight groups of four, with the top two from each advancing to a 16-team, double-elimination bracket.
You can watch all of the action in the streams above and below. There are four in all, with multiple games being played at the same time as each other. The tentative schedule--there's no telling exactly how long each match will be--can be found on Major League Gaming's website.
Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has announced the winners of its Make Arma Not War contest, which saw modders compete to take home various sums of money--including a top prize of €200,000 (roughly $217,000 USD).
Mods were divided into four categories: single-player game mode, multiplayer game mode, add-on, and total modification. The total prize money adds up to €500,000 (about $543,000), with first place in each of the first three groups taking home €50,000 (about $54,000). The winner of the total mod category, RHS: Escalation, took home the biggest prize of the competition.
RHS: Escalation
Created by Red Hammer Studios, a group that's been producing content for the Arma series since 2003, RHS: Escalation focuses on the armed forces of the Russian Federation (seen above) and the United States. This includes accurately modeled vehicles, infantry models, weapons, and more, as well as various tweaks to enhance realism.
You can download the mod here, and find out more about the others (listed below) here. Arma 3 is on sale from now until March 30 for $30 on Steam.
Although Arma 3 does use Steam Workshop, which makes installing and managing mods extremely simple, it doesn't currently support large-scale mods like Escalation. Bohemia is currently at work on addressing this issue, and is also exploring the possibility of a marketplace where Arma 3 modders could sell their content.
The Make Arma Not War competition kicked off last year, with the finalists being announced in January. Winners were chosen by a "jury" comprised of developers, media members, and Bohemia partners.
In addition to the the aforementioned awards, a special one--the Health Care In Danger Special Award--has been given to the mod that best covered the subject of "health care in danger." RobJ2210, creator of the Pilot Civilian Air Rescue on Missions mod, will get to go on a Red Cross mission to a foreign country.
The full list of winners follow:
Single-Player Game Mode
1st place (€50,000) – RESIST by Kydoimos
2nd place (€30,000) – Pilgrimage by Rydygier
3rd place (€20,000) – Deliverance by Sarge Studio
Multiplayer Game Mode
1st place (€50,000) – King Of The Hill by Sa-Matra
2nd place (€30,000) – Battle Royale: Ghost Hotel by PLAYERUNKNOWN
3rd place (shared) (€10,000) – Get Wrecked* by Sli
3rd place (shared) (€10,000) – Twilight Onslaught* by Dorian23Grey
*These entries received an equal amount of points from the Make Arma Not War jury.
Add-On
1st place (€50,000) – Task Force Arrowhead Radio by Nkey
2nd place (€30,000) – Bornholm by Egil Sandfeld
3rd place (€20,000) – F/A-18X Black Wasp by Saul
Total Modification
Winner (€200,000) – RHS: Escalation by Red Hammer Studios
Grand Theft Auto V's Lester character is normally a pretty subdued guy, usually more interested in staying behind the scenes and playing a supporting role.
He gets around either in a wheelchair or sometimes on foot with a cane. And even though he certainly has anger issues, he's not the type of person you'd expect to fly off the handle and kick someone's teeth in on a sunny day in Los Santos.
But I guess we don't know the real Lester.
By way of YouTube user 10Phoenix01 Gamer comes the video above showing Lester, during a Heist mission in GTA Online, carjacking an NPC. His first attempt is unsuccessful, but Lester is persistent, pulling the man out of the car a second time and kicking him twice before ultimately moving on.
Another video, this one from Thoraxe0987 (below), shows Lester partaking in another un-Lester-like activity: riding a motorcycle. Something seems to be wrong here, however, as Lester ends his ride by slowly driving into a bush just off the road.
As Kotaku notes, it's unclear why Lester is acting out-of-character in these two instances. We've followed up with the video creators, asking for further insight. Whatever the case, seeing Lester in this new light is certainly exciting, even if we can't yet determine why he's acting this way.
Have you noticed Lester acting strangely? If you have, drop us a line via the email below.
Two are available in the game's multiplayer mode, while the third is a campaign-based challenge. Below is a breakdown of the three new achievements.
"Beware the Ides of March" (100 gamerscore) -- Players must complete fifteen multiplayer executions in a single match.
"Lunacy in March" (100 gamerscore) -- Simply play seven matches on the Barbarous map to earn the achievement.
"Et Tu, Brute" (50 gamerscore) -- Save the Emperor in the first chapter and then kill him in chapter eight, all in one consecutive playthrough.
Ryse was released in November 2013 as an Xbox One launch title. In his 4/10 review, GameSpot reviewer Mark Walton praised the game's gorgeous visuals, but lamented the combat for being shallow and repetitive. The game has since been released for PC.
The Japanese publisher says it will share feedback with the development team in an effort to improve the final game. The Final Fantasy XV demo is available only to people who bought Final Fantasy Type-0 HD.
As such, players will need to register their copy of the game on this website before they can submit feedback. This, in theory at least, will ensure that Square Enix hears from only the people who have actually played the game.
The Final Fantasy XV demo is set in a small area of the game's overall world, the Duscae region. Players can embark upon a number of missions, including one where they hunt down a Behemoth. Right now, it's unclear if anything players earn in the Final Fantasy XV demo will carry over to the full version of the game.
So is the demo worth playing? Check out GameSpot editor Alexa Ray Corriea's opinions here.
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