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Oh LucasFilms. The company that loves to tinker with it’s own franchise until it resembles a 70 year old celebrity thats gone through so many plastic surgeries her face no longer moves. In it’s latest move all Star Wars games have been declared non-canon. This means that some great games, such as Knights Of The Old Republic have been removed from the timeline, as well as some not so stellar entries such as Super Bombad Racing.
While I might not be a huge fan of all the Star Wars games, this does remove a lot of the punch of certain story moments from the older games. And, of course, it causes concern for the future games that may be tied to the series. LucasFilms has set up a “story group” that will oversee all entries into the expanded universe in the future to ensure it fits into the canon. A prime example of this would be the new Battlefront game being developed by DICE. While it’s nice that this will mean all titles will have LucasFilm’s seal of approval, it also means that game developers are going to be more limited. What makes for a great movie, or great canon may not necessarily be what makes for a great game.
On another note, even though the games are no longer canon, some of them are now considered part of the ‘Legends’ content, meaning that they could potentially be used in some facet later on. In the end, it remains to be seen what the ‘story group’ will do, but part of me isn’t convinced that it will be a good thing. Then again, neither was Jar-Jar Binks, and we still haven’t managed to get him retconned.
Dark Souls 2 has had a strange bug related to weaponry with it since its release. Somehow if the game is played at the higher framerate of 60FPS instead of 30FPS, the weapons will degrade significantly faster. And obviously, this is quite an annoying problem for players.
The bug was discovered about a year ago by players and they’ve been telling developer From Software about it since then. It’s only now that the game has hit consoles and had those players saying “This is a problem.” that they’ve begun to report that they’re looking for a fix.
The bug got spread onto the Playstation 4 and Xbox One versions through the game’s most recent DLC, Scholar of the First Sin and seems to have upped the number of players reporting the problem to the point where From Software have taken notice. Or maybe they’d always been working on a fix and are saying now because of the increased numbers. Who knows?
Although there’s no release date yet for the patch, the studio has stated that “Fixed issue whereby weapon durability was decreased drastically when used on enemy corpses, friendly characters, etc.” with the publisher of Bandai Namco adding “The fix will be issued for PS4, Steam and Xbox One, and will be apparent for people running the game at 60fps as the durability decrease rate is linked to the frame rate.”
After months of waiting for it, Blizzard’s popular free-to-play collectable card game Hearthstone has finally released onto iPhone and Android mobile platforms.
The interface of the game has been slightly tweaked for a smaller screen, moving certain elements around so there’s enough space for everything to be visible. A shot of that can be seen below. It will also let current players use their existing decks and the mobile version will continue to be updated with the same new features and content as the PC and tablet versions are. To celebrate all players who play a game on their mobile will receive one free pack of Classic cards.
Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime said of the release, “We’re excited to welcome mobile gamers to the Hearthstone community. Hearthstone’s quick, super-accessible gameplay is perfect for gaming on the go, and with the mobile versions it’s incredibly easy to jump into a match and have some fun.”
The iOS version of the game is available from the iTunes App Store while the Android versions can be found at Google Play or Amazon.
Those excited for the next Call of Duty game, Black Ops 3, might be waiting now for the full reveal of the game on April 26th. However Activision did hint at possible “new intel” that could be release before then and if you search the source code for the CoD site, you might find a surprise hidden within it: the description for the next game.
“Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is the first title for next-gen hardware in the critically acclaimed Black Ops series. Developed by Treyarch, the award-winning creator of the two most-played games in Call of Duty history. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 deploys players into a dark, twisted future where a new breed of Black Ops soldier emerges and the lines are blurred between our own humanity and the technology we created to stay ahead, in a world where cutting-edge military robotics define warfare. With three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies, providing fans with the deepest and most ambitious Call of Duty ever.”
There’s been other supposed ‘leaks’ of information including an unattributed trailer on Youtube and an image showing a heavily armoured soldier in the same pose as the guy on the cover of the original Black Ops game (as seen above). None of the others have been expressly confirmed as official yet though, so for now all we have is the source code’s hidden text.
