Month: May 2018

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is offering an expensive new add-on pack for the hugely ambitious PC space simulator. The Legatus Pack, as it’s called, comes with 117 ships and 163 extra things like upgrades and skins. It costs….$27,000.

And that’s not all. To even view the Legatus Pack store page, you need to have already spent $1,000 on Star Citizen. If you haven’t, you’ll get a 404 error. For what it’s worth, 117 is almost the total number of ships available in the game.

Forum user Dakuisha has a roundup of everything in the Legatus Pack–see it here (via PC Gamer). Other forum posters have pointed out that you can contact customer support to view the Legatus Pack store page if you haven’t spent the required $1,000.

Star Citizen is the most successful crowdfunded project of any kind in history. It has raised more than $185 million, bringing in $35 million in 2017 alone. For more, check out one hour’s worth of gameplay from Squadron 42 in the video embedded above.

German developer and publisher Crytek is suing Cloud Imperium Games over breach of contract and copyright infringement claims. Cloud Imperium has since fired back.

The Battlefield franchise does not normally use Roman numerals for its titling convention, but that’s changing this year with the World War II game Battlefield V. But why? The official Battlefield Twitter account has the answer–and it fits with the game’s WWII theme.

The “V” is connected to the V sign, which stands for “V for Victory.” UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led Britain during WWII, helped popularised this for the Allied forces.

“[The V sign] represents ‘V for Victory,'” the Battlefield Twitter account said. “The phrase and sign were popularised by Winston Churchill and used amongst the allies for much of WWII. It’s also why we chose to use the Roman numeral V instead of the number 5 for the title.”

In other news about shooter games and Roman numerals, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is officially titled as “Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII” and not “Call of Duty: Black Ops IV.” As it turns out, both IIII and IV are recognised as accurate, according to the curator of the British Museum.

Battlefield V launches for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Origin on October 19. It will be available in both standard and Deluxe editions; those who purchase the latter will get access to the game three days early, on October 16.

Additionally, EA/Origin Access subscribers can start playing a trial on October 11, which is notable because that is one day before Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on October 12. Prior to its release, EA will also hold an open beta for Battlefield V later this year. Additionally, EA plans to talk more about the game at E3 next month.

For lots more on Battlefield 5, check out GameSpot’s roundup feature that covers everything you need to know, “Battlefield 5: Release Date, New Features, And Everything We Know.”

PUBG Corp., the subsidiary of Korean publisher Bluehole and the studio behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Epic Games for copyright violation over its own popular Battle Royale game, Fortnite.

The Korea Times reports that an injunction has been filed with the Seoul Central District Court alleging copyright infringement against Epic Games Korea. The suit, which was allegedly filed in January, was created “to determine whether the latter’s “Fortnite” was copied from the former’s “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.”

PUBG Corp. first suggested it was contemplating action over the similarities between PUBG and Fortnite back in September.

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Zack Snyder has indicated that his next project will be an adaptation of The Fountainhead.

According to Deadline, Snyder announced that the adaptation will be his next project in response to a fan’s question on the social media site Vero. Twitter user @ChrisRa7en documented the exchange.

The Fountainhead is officially Zack’s next project instead of The Last Photograph. pic.twitter.com/pKS84l3uO8

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