Month: November 2017

Spoilers below for Stranger Things: Season 2.

Stranger Things: Season 2 newcomer Dacre Montgomery wants you to believe that his character Billy is more than the hot-headed bully we see him portray. In a recent interview with the young Australian actor, he was adamant about Billy not being just some one-dimensional character.

“I said to them (the Duffer Brothers), that I really want the audience to have something that they see in Billy that makes him more likable,” Montgomery told IGN during a group interview. “You want to see some of the background and later, in episode 8, with my dad, played by Will Chase, who’s amazing. You get to see why Billy is the way he is.”

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World of Tanks developer Wargaming explain how the game has such a thriving fanbase and what’s changed for the franchise over its 7 year existence.

The Xbox Game Pass library on Xbox One expands today with seven more games, including Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Halo Wars Definitive Edition, and Resident Evil HD. The four others are Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, The World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap, Mega Man 9, and Sky Force Anniversary. All of these games were added today, November 1.

One important note is that The Phantom Pain is in the Xbox Game Pass catalog only until January 31, 2018, while the six others are slated to be there indefinitely. Microsoft has been up front from the start that not every game will stay in the catalog forever, but that you can subscribe with confidence knowing there will be a substantial library. In the case of The Phantom Pain, it’s good that Microsoft is letting players know it won’t be an Xbox Game Pass title forever.

Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s Netflix-style subscription program for Xbox One. For $10/month, you can download and play anything you want from a catalog of more than 100 games–see the full list here. The catalog includes both Xbox One games and backwards compatible Xbox 360 titles. Microsoft adds new titles every month, and on occasion, removes some. If you’re curious about Xbox Game Pass, you can try it free for two weeks.

Xbox Game Pass, like basically all other Xbox One services, is also supported on the soon-to-launch Xbox One X. The console arrives worldwide on November 7, priced at $500 in the US. We’ll have a lot more on the system in the days and weeks ahead, so keep checking back with GameSpot for more.

Drummer Andrew Fleming, who performed with Islander on tour with Korn, Stone Sour, and Skillet recently, is back with his latest cover. While the bulk of his past work has focused on video games, this one is for the Stranger Things main theme. It’s a timely video, as the much-anticipated Season 2 premiered on Friday, October 27.

The Stranger Things main theme is eerie and ominous, and with the drums added on top, it gets heavier and fuller. It’s good, in an unexpected way. Watch and listen for yourself:

Fleming wrote and performed the arrangement for this cover, while the audio was recorded and mixed by Mason Bayne. Bayne also filmed and edited the video.

If you like what you see, you can support Fleming’s Patreon or buy merch here. You can check out all of Fleming’s videos on his AF Drums YouTube page.

Stranger Things 2 is streaming on Netflix. Check out GameSpot’s hub for the show to find reviews, theories and everything else you need to know about Stranger Things.

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

The Flash seems to be in decent shape right now. It’s lighter and sillier than it’s been in a while and finally breaking the mold with its main, season-long villain. But I wish I could muster up a better adjective than “decent.” There’s just something missing with the show’s current direction, and nothing about this guest star-driven episode did much to change that.

“Elongated Journey Into Night” introduced two new characters to the Arrowverse, one of whom seems like a fun but forgettable one-off guest star and the other who promises to play a big role in the unfolding Thinker conflict. The former is Gypsy’s superhumanly cranky father, Breacher (Machete’s Danny Trejo). The latter is Ralph Dibny (The Young and the Restless’ Hartley Sawyer).

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

As we creep closer toward the end of this Cult season we must ask ourselves, almost constantly: How much is Kai in control?

When Kai was trying to have a “messiah baby” last week with his sister using that weird made-up sex ritual, it felt like it was a test for Winter. And while Kai, most of the time, has a clear-headed nature and acute self-awareness, there are also times when he seems to be going totally mad. His tears at the end of “Drink the Kool-Aid,” when he was confronted with the lie that he was Oz’s dad, felt genuine – as if he really did believe in the “messiah baby” (that he’d seemingly made up in last week’s episode). So is Kai just full of s*** at all times or is he actually succumbing to his own madness and starting to buy into the lies he’s spreading?

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Stranger Things 2 is packed with tons of easter eggs and 80s film and pop culture references. Ryan Peterson & Ryan Schubert list their favorites from each episode of Season 2!

Speaking to IGN at PAX Aus, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds creative director Brendan Greene has discussed how PUBG has reaped a huge amount of success without a massive advertising budget.

“We published on Steam, you know?” said Greene. “And that’s allowed us to sell millions of copies without having any marketing budget essentially, or store copy…. We have shown that you don’t need necessarily the same marketing or PR budget as a triple A game to really sell a lot of copies.”

According to Greene, prior to the release of Battlegrounds on Steam Early Access, the team were hoping to sell “maybe five million copies, first year.”

“We passed that in a few months and now we’re at 15+

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Full spoilers for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow episode “Phone Home” continue below.

It looks like Stranger Things isn’t the only show embracing all that ’80s goodness, as DC’s Legends of Tomorrow continues its third season by delivering the perfect Halloween treat. Remember those pesky Dominators from last season’s crossover? Well, they’re back, but in a different way than you might expect.

With the team fearing for Ray’s life, they journey back in time to Ivy Town circa 1988 to see what kind of time aberration could have caused this. To their surprise, it was a baby Dominator! The cute little guy, aptly named Gumball, perfectly parodies Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic film, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. The writers did an incredible job embracing the film, while also crafting a memorable episode that shines a new light on Ray Palmer’s backstory.

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