By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 11:36 pm
Disney Interactive on Wednesday announced the release date for its upcoming toys-to-life game Disney Infinity 3.0, the latest installment in the popular franchise. The game, which includes Star Wars characters in its Starter Pack, will debut in North America on August 30 for consoles, PC, and mobile. The new Starter Pack, which will sell for $65, comes with the Star Wars Twlight of the Republic Play Set, the Disney Infinity 3.0 Base, Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker figures, and a code that unlocks even more content for PC and mobile. Take a look at the box art below.  Something also to remember is that all previously released Disney Infinity figures for past games are compatible with Disney Infinity 3.0 and the new Toy Box. The following play sets and more, with descriptions courtesy of Disney, will also be available at launch: - Star Wars Twilight of the Republic Play Set (Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano figures included) for players who choose to digitally download the Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition software; additional standalone figures (Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Power Disc Pack
- Star Wars Rebels figures (Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, and Zeb Orrelios)
- Star Wars Saga Starter Pack
- Disney Pixar's Inside Out Play Set (Joy and Anger figures included) and additional standalone figures (Sadness, Disgust, and Fear)
- Disney figures (Mickey, Minnie, Mulan, Olaf, Sam Flynn, and Quorra)
- Tomorrowland Power Disc Pack
In addition, Disney said even more play sets and figures will be made available in the fall. Disney has also announced that everyone who preorders Disney Infinity 3.0 at retail will receive an early copy of Toy Box Takeover, an expansion to the Toy Box mode, for free. This multiplayer mode lets players combine the game's various characters, including those from Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, and Pixar. What's more, Disney announced that another Toy Box expansion game, Toy Box Speedway, will launch this fall. This is a kart-racing game that players can unlock inside of Disney Infinity 3.0. Disney Infinity 3.0 and its new Base are required to play the expansion games. Toy Box Takeover and Toy Box Speedway will also be sold separately for $20 each this fall. For a closer look at Disney Infinity 3.0, check out some images in the gallery below.           
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 11:08 pm
Capcom's upcoming PlayStation 4 and PC fighting game Street Fighter V will feature a Brazil-themed stage, joining the previously announced China and London stages. Series producer Yoshinori Ono made the announcement in a video address this week, which shows a work-in-progress version of the stage. It has also been announced that Ono and associate producer Peter Rosas will attend the Brasil Game Show, where they will announce a new Street Fighter V character. The show takes place October 8-12 in Sao Paulo. The Brasil Game Show will also host the Brazilian leg of the Capcom Pro Tour competitive fighting game event. Registration for the tournament, which will be played using Ultra Street Fighter IV, opens in September, with qualifying rounds beginning in early October. The winner will advance to the Capcom Cup Finals, which will be held in the United States later in 2015. In other Street Fighter V news, Capcom has announced new details about the game's upcoming beta, including when it starts, how long it will last, and how you can get in. Street Fighter V launches in 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PC. The game will never be released on Xbox One thanks to an exclusivity arrangement with Sony. Capcom plans to make some kind of Street Fighter V announcement this week at Comic-Con.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 10:58 pm
No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has shared some new information about how you'll trade, craft, and buy objects and materials in the game. In an interview with IGN, managing director Sean Murray described the trading and crafting in the game, revealing that players will be able to choose how they want to interact with the economy. For example, if you want to go down onto planets and gather materials, crafting them into objects to later sell at spaceports, you can do that. To craft, players must discover different chemical elements on planets, gather them, and then figure out how to put them together. Murray stated that the developer isn't giving formulas for crafting to players; rather, they generally must stumble across functional combinations on their own. But if you don't ever even want to set foot on a planet and only wish to roam space, you can still make money. Murray explained that there is a free-market economy in the game, meaning that items have variable prices at different spaceports. This allows players to buy up items at one port and travel to another to sell them at a higher price. No Man's Sky's economy also operates without player involvement. AI-controlled characters travel between planets and spaceports, bringing material up to be sold and traded. They transport material into frigates to be taken to other systems. Murray remarked that one of his favorite activities in-game is just to sit in space and watch the economy progress around him. "I often like to just sit there [in space]," he said. "It's quite nice... you get to sit there and watch the trade economy in motion." No Man's Sky is planned for release sometime this year on PlayStation 4 and PC. At E3 this year, Murray told GameSpot that upon death in-game, players might be met by a Jaden Smith motivational quote. Keep an eye on GameSpot for more news about No Man's Sky as it becomes available.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 10:46 pm
 Microsoft is allowing gamers to vote on the games we want to get Xbox One backwards compatibility. Jeff from Giant Bomb joins Peter Brown to discuss the games they want to play again.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 10:36 pm
The Marvel comics library has grown huge, with tens of thousands of comic books published during the company's history. In celebration of San Diego Comic-Con starting tomorrow, Marvel has made it cost only $.01 to access a significant portion of the collection online.  For a penny, you can join Marvel Unlimited, the company's online subscription service, for a month. This will let you read over 15,000 Marvel comics digitally, including Spider-Man, The Avengers, and Daredevil, among others. Normally, a month costs $9.99. The service is available across PC and mobile devices. To get the deal, enter code "Penny" at checkout. Your account will have auto-renewal active if you buy a month, so be sure to turn it off if you don't want to be charged full price later on. This offer runs from today until July 20. Check back on GameSpot all of this week for more news coming out of Comic-Con.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 10:32 pm
Mobile developer Ijji has announced its latest product, an iOS and Android app called Gameflip, which effectively works as a pre-owned games and accessories marketplace that lives in your pocket. The free app promises nice discounts for shoppers and high returns for sellers, and--unlike other sellers such as Amazon and eBay--it is focused exclusively on video games. The marketplace will accept games, collectibles, accessories, and consoles. Right now, Gameflip boasts a library of some 600 games.  Though it's still early days for Gameflip, it appears the app is attempting to take GameStop on. You'll pay a 10 percent commission to Gameflip for items sold. But if your item does not sell after 30 days, Ijji will pay you the difference (in Gameflip credits) between the Gameflip list price and the current GameStop trade-in price. This is Gameflip's "Seller Guarantee." The Gameflip website states that this guarantee ensures that you will "get more money than at GameStop." "Packaged games are currently the only medium allowing gamers to get cash for their pre-owned games. Yet the process of trading in games and game-related items is neither easy nor cost-effective," Ijji CEO JT Nguyen said in a statement. "We created the Gameflip marketplace to put the power of buying for less and selling for more in the hands of gamers. In other words, we are transferring the monetary power of retailers to gamers." The Gameflip app, available now on iTunes and Google Play, uses your phone's camera to not only take a picture of the game/console/accessory you want to sell, but also scan the barcode where possible. Doing this will automatically associate the relevant product information to, in theory, save you time. There are also push notifications for buyers and sellers to let them know how their transaction is moving along. It also includes social connectivity, allowing users to share their shopping behavior with friends and more. You can also earn credits for referring your friends to Gameflip. The Gameflip app is currently available only in the United States for iPhones and Android phones. The service will launch in other markets and for tablets "soon," according to Ijji. For more on Gameflip, including specific buying and selling instructions and a detailed FAQ, check out this website.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 10:23 pm
The Bard's Tale IV Kickstarter campaign is nearing its end, and developer inXile has released a new trailer to advertise the game that looks like a TV infomercial. Although it doesn't show much of the upcoming RPG, the trailer is notable for its direct response to the common practice of releasing several DLC packs quickly after a game's release. It goes on to lay out all the reasons why people should back its Kickstarter. At the beginning of the trailer, the narrator says, "Are you tired of buying supposedly complete computer games just to find that you've got to buy a bunch of extra add-ons just to enjoy them? Well, here at inXile we do things differently." The game's Kickstarter currently sits at $1.44 million with 56 hours left. It has already crossed its goal, and the next stretch goals involve RPG designers making new dungeons for the game. The developer also recently announced that donating to the Kickstarter at the $20 tier or higher will also get you the first three Bard's Tale games, in addition to a copy of The Bard's Tale IV. This is inXile's third successful Kickstarter campaign in a row. The studio has already released Wasteland 2 and is currently working on Torment: Tides of Numenera.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 09:09 pm
Bungie is not resting on its laurels with Destiny. Lead designer Luke Smith says as part of a new interview that no one at the studio is exactly satisfied with Destiny right now. Instead, the focus is on the "ridiculous amount of work" still to do to build out the franchise and ensure that it lives up to its full potential, he explained.  "I actually don't think there are many, or any, people on the Bungie team who look at Destiny as a job well done," Smith said during PlayStation's first Conversations With Creators roundtable interview; watch it below. "It's like a job in progress that has a ridiculous amount of work in front of us and huge amount of potential that we haven't met at all in a bunch of ways," Smith added. "We've met it in other ways, but that potential is the thing we're still chasing." "We have to make Destiny, the franchise, into something that rises up to meet the potential that people imagine when they sit down and they hear [hums theme song]." Also during the interview, Smith teased that Bungie is already hard at work on what's coming next after Destiny's The Taken King expansion, which launches in September. When discussing Bungie's various Destiny projects currently in development, Smith mentioned that Destiny art director Jason Ellis is taking on the role of game director for an "upcoming title" in the Destiny universe. He didn't share any further details. But it's not much of a surprise that Bungie would be planning to support Destiny for a long, long time, given publisher Activision's sizable investment in the series and recent comments about supporting the game with a "constant stream" of content. On top of that, Bungie has itself spoken previously of having a 10-year, Lord of the Rings-sized vision for the franchise. The full Conversations with Creators episode is quite fascinating, even if you only have a passing interest in Destiny. Also featured in the interview, which is moderated by actor Wil Wheaton, are Bungie co-founder Jason Jones, senior environment artist Jason Sussman, and Ellis. They talk about topics such as the origins of Destiny and where it's headed in the future, among many other things. Bungie recently celebrated Bungie Day, announcing a gorgeous-looking PlayStation 4 console themed around Destiny and a Moments of Triumph in-game campaign.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 08:42 pm
Technology giant Microsoft has announced a major round of layoffs, but the Xbox and HoloLens teams do not appear to be affected. Following a New York Times report this morning, Microsoft issued a press release that confirmed it will cut up to 7,800 jobs, mostly in its phone hardware business.  The job cuts, which total around 6 percent of the company's workforce, are part of a wider restructuring effort of the company's phone business "to better focus and align resources." The layoffs will take place over the next several months. "As a result, the company will record an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services (NDS) business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million," Microsoft explained. An email from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered some additional insight on the move. "We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem including our first-party device family," Nadella said. "In the near-term, we'll run a more effective and focused phone portfolio while retaining capability for long-term reinvention in mobility." For more on this news, be sure to read GameSpot sister site CNET's full report. Less than a year after Microsoft acquired Nokia's phone business for $7.6 billion in 2013, the company cut around 18,000 jobs, its widest ever round of job eliminations.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 08:19 pm
Following its closed beta period in May, the Xbox One's first MOBA--the third-person action game Smite--is now available to everyone. You can download the free-to-play, mythology-inspired game right now through your console or online at the Xbox website. Smite requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription on Xbox One.  Smite's virtual marketplace, where players can spend real-world money to acquire new gear, has also launched. Developer Hi Rez stresses that all purchases, progress, and achievements earned during the open beta will carry forward to the final version, which is scheduled to launch sometime this summer. Though Smite is a free game, players can buy the $30 Founder's Pack to unlock every god character currently in the game (there are 65 right now), as well as all future gods, 400 Gems (the game's virtual currency), an "exclusive" Ares skin, and the Ymir "Cacodemon X" skin. The Founder's Pack will be discontinued when Smite launches in full. Hi Rez has also announced that people who link their PC and Xbox One Smite accounts will receive a special bonus in the form of a Zeus skin, which can be used on both platforms. There is also a one-time account merge option players can take advantage of; get all the details at this special landing page. Originally released in March 2014 for PC to a positive critical reception, Smite has attracted more than 7 million players to date. The game is focused around the Gods of mythology, and Hi Rez claims it offers "more game modes than any other leading game in its genre." For lots more on Smite, check out GameSpot's in-depth interview with the game's creators.
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 07:51 pm
The already-massive world of Grand Theft Auto V continues to grow today with the release of Ill-Gotten Gains Update: Part Two. A follow-up to last month's expansion, Part Two adds new cars, guns, clothes, and more to the open-world action game, and is available now across all consoles and PC.  Like the first chapter, Ill-Gotten Gains Part Two is focused on high-end items. Below is a quick rundown of what's available, while full details are available on the Rockstar Newswire. Vehicles:- Coil Brawler -- Luxury sports-style off-roader with raised suspension and a 400 horsepower engine.
- Progen T20 -- Among the fastest cars to be found in Los Santos.
- Vapid Chino -- An "old-school" sedan.
- Dinka Vindicator -- A fast motorcycle that features a kinetic energy recovery system that stores energy from braking and lets you unload it for a burst of speed.
- Lampadati Toro -- A speedboat built using the "finest timber from protected rainforests."
Weapons:- Marksman Pistol -- A single-shot gun "with more stopping power than a pump action shotgun."
- Knuckle Dusters -- For up-close-and-personal encounters, these come in solid gold.
Attire:- iFruit Snap Watch -- "For those players who prefer to wear their status as conspicuous consumers."
- Medici Radial and Covargi Universe -- "Classically opulent" timepieces.
- More -- "A massive selection of new apparel and jewelry for men and women."
Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 also introduces a new radio station, The Lab, for console. Previously, this station was only available on PC. It features tracks from The Alchemist and Oh No. Guest appearances include Killer Mike, Little Dragon, Earl Sweatshirt, Phantogram, Freddie Gibbs, and others. Alongside Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 is a new GTA V title update, 1.28, which includes a long list of fixes, improvements, and tweaks for all versions of the game. Among the changes is the ability to make custom Jobs at the Los Santos International Airport and the Fort Zancudo Military Base. Load times have also been improved for in-game leaderboard screens, among other things. See the full changelog here. Finally, Rockstar Games said it will announce a special Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 Social Club weekend event, featuring "special bonuses," very soon.   
By Anonymous on Jul 08, 2015 07:34 pm
South Park has been renewed.  Comedy Central announced on Wednesday that it has ordered 30 more episodes of the longrunning animated TV show created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The renewal, which lasts through the end of the 23rd season in 2019, will see South Park cross 300 episodes. Parker and Stone will write and direct every episode, Comedy Central said in a press release (via Variety). "Nearly two decades later, South Park today remains as important and influential as any series on any platform and has become one of the most recognizable brands to ever come out of television," Comedy Central owner Viacom executive Doug Herzog said. Herzog added that Viacom will "aggressively expand" the reach of South Park beyond just the TV show by way of new licensing deals across the globe. At E3 2015, Parker and Stone appeared on stage during Ubisoft's briefing to reveal the next game in the South Park series, called The Fractured But Whole. South Park's 19th season, meanwhile, kicks off September 16.
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