Month: October 2019

With Saitama’s popularity in anime fandom, it should come as no surprise that the One Punch Man universe is getting a video game adaptation. Prolific anime game publisher Bandai Namco has released a new One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows trailer that reveals some of the game’s mechanics, character customization, closed beta, and more.

Launching sometime in 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, A Hero Nobody Knows will feature a dedicated story mode where you embark on missions as a created character, seeking to rise through the ranks of the Hero Association. You will engage in 3v3 battles impacted by the game’s world; various obstacles–such as giants, meteors, other heroes, and more–will attempt to thwart your mission success.

Alongside the trailer, Bandai Namco announced that A Hero Nobody Knows will have a closed beta for US, Canada, and Latin America next month on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Sign-ups are open now and will remain so until October 16, with participants being selected and notified on October 29. The closed beta takes place between November 1-3 and Xbox One players are required to have an active Gold membership to join.

One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Closed Beta Start Times

• Session 1: November 1, 3 AM – 5 AM PT
• Session 2: November 1, 11 PM – 1 AM PT
• Session 3: November 2, 2 PM – 4 PM PT
• Session 4: November 3, 1 PM – 3 PM PT

Bandai Namco shared a trailer showcasing a variety of the game’s characters in August. Next to Saitama, A Hero Nobody Knows will include Atomic Samurai, Bang, Genos, Speed-o’-Sound Sonic, Tatsumaki, and many more. And true to the series’ lore, Saitama KOs most characters in one punch.

Despite the fact that Nintendo’s newest Switch models, the Switch Lite and upgraded Switch with better battery life, only recently hit the market, we’re already seeing some nice bundles available ahead of Black Friday and the holiday season. If you’re interested in the upgraded Switch, GameStop has two different Switch bundle offers this week. While the console itself isn’t discounted, you can get a digital $25 GameStop gift card with your purchase. Alternatively, you can buy the Switch and receive a free Starlink: Battle for Atlas Starter Pack.

Over at Rakuten, there’s also a Switch Lite bundled with Link’s Awakening for only $219 right now (you can also get the game by itself for only $45.90).

If you’re looking to buy a Switch for the first time or upgrade to the newer model right away, these are solid deals to take advantage of; however, keep in mind we’re now two months away from Black Friday and may see better bundles then.

There are some solid game deals worth grabbing at GameStop right now, including Wolfenstein Youngblood for $20 on Switch, God of War for $20 on PS4, and the Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and 2 for $20 on PS4 and Xbox One. Check out more of the best deals at GameStop this week below, including the aforementioned console bundles.

Consoles

• New Nintendo Switch (Neon Red and Blue) with $25 GameStop gift card — $300
• New Nintendo Switch (Gray) with $25 GameStop gift card — $300
• New Nintendo Switch (Neon Red and Blue) with free Starlink Starter Pack — $300
• New Nintendo Switch (Gray) with free Starlink Starter Pack — $300

Games

• Assassin’s Creed III Remastered — $20 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
• Borderlands: The Handsome Collection — $15 (PS4, Xbox One)
• God of War — $20 (PS4)
• The Incredibles — $20 (Switch)
• Katamari Damacy Reroll — $20 (Switch)
• The Lego Movie 2 Videogame — $20 (Switch)
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 — $20 (Switch)
• Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 + 2 — $20 (PS4, Xbox One)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider — $20 (PS4, Xbox One)
• Wolfenstein Youngblood — $20 (Switch)

It’s a new week, and Netflix subscribers are getting a whole batch of movies, TV shows, and originals to check out. However, the main focus of the week is El Camino: The Breaking Bad Movie. Check out everything coming to Netflix below.

The Netflix original movie El Camino takes place after the events of the series finale of AMC’s critically-acclaimed series Breaking Bad, where Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) has escaped his meth-making captivity, and now he’s on the run. There is a bit of secrecy surrounding who else will appear in the movie, but there will be at least 10 cameos from the original series. Mark your calendars for this Friday, which is when El Camino arrives to Netflix.

There are a few other selections to keep your eye on this week. Also arriving on Friday is Fractured, which stars Sam Worthington as Ray Monroe. The film follows Ray, his wife, and their child, who breaks her arm at a rest stop. Ray checks her into a hospital, and wakes up later to find that his wife and daughter are gone, and the hospital has no records of either of them. Ray tries to find out what happened to them, but did they ever exist at all?

Below, you’ll find everything headed to Netflix this week, and for more streaming service info, check out what’s headed to Hulu and Amazon Prime Video for October.

What’s new on Netflix this week?

Monday, October 7

• Match! Tennis Juniors
• The Water Diviner

Tuesday, October 8

• Deon Cole: Cole Hearted
• The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween

Wednesday, October 9

• After
• Rhythm + Flow

Thursday, October 10

• Schitt’s Creek: Season 5
• Ultramarine Magmell

Friday, October 11

• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
• The Forest of Love
• Fractured
• Haunted: Season 2
• Insatiable: Season 2
• La influencia
• Plan Coeur: Season 2
• The Awakenings of Motti Wolenbruch
• YooHoo to the Rescue: Season 2

Saturday, October 12

• Banlieusards

Rainbow Six Siege has become one of Ubisoft’s most successful live games with a steady stream of new operators joining the competitive landscape. One fan recently wondered if the game would ever add a K9 operator, and while the team at Ubisoft has considered it, there’s one problem holding them back: no one wants to kill a dog.

The answer came in the midst of a Q&A with presentation director Alexander Karpazis. The format was addressing questions from Twitter, which means his answers were quick and pithy. In response to one fan asking about a K9 unit in Siege, he simply acknowledged that the team had thought about it, but implied the team hasn’t figured a way around that central problem.

“This is something we’ve talked about for a while,” Karpazis said. “Our creative director always talks about a K9 unit. But to answer your question, I have to ask you a question: are you okay with shooting a dog?”

Dogs as enemies are common in games featuring hordes of undead, and less so but still present in games like Call of Duty. The upcoming game The Last of Us 2 features dogs as enemy units, which may make you pretty uncomfortable. But introducing it in a competitive game is a different kind of design challenge, and Karpazis doesn’t sound sure they’ve solved it.

Elsewhere in the Q&A, he mentions that the team cancelled plans for an Area 51 map. The most recent update added an operator with a flame-throwing shield, so despite its gritty Tom Clancy roots the game isn’t exactly afraid to get absurd. Ubisoft just doesn’t want to make you sad while they’re at it.

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep’s newest Raid, Garden of Salvation, went live over the weekend. Thanks to the first group of players who were able to complete it, new content has now been unlocked for all players with access to Season of the Undying (included with Shadowkeep): the Vex Offensive. The central component of the new, Vex-centric season is now officially underway, but in order to take part in the Vex Offensive you’re told to complete the Eyes on the Moon quest. Despite being given the name of the quest, you might be at a loss for how to proceed. Here’s what you need to do to finish Eyes on the Moon and unlock the Vex Offensive.

Now that the Raid has been beaten, when you log into Destiny you’ll get a new cutscene where Ikora talks about the Vex and we see the new threat they pose. You’ll want to speak directly to Ikora at the Tower, and she’ll give you a quest. At this point, it seems as if you can jump into Vex Offensive, which has its own node when looking at the moon’s map, but this is locked until you complete the aforementioned Eyes on the Moon quest. Despite some confusion with the name, all you need to do is complete the quest Ikora has given you, where you have to kill 100 Vex and three Gate Lords on the moon.

How To Complete Eyes On The Moon

While you can find the occasional Vex wandering around the moon, this quest step can only fully be completed by taking part in one of the Vex Invasion Zones–so-called “warpgate hot spots.” These are public event-style occurrences that take place in one of three designated areas: Hellmouth, Archer’s Line, and Anchor of Light. These happen periodically, seemingly before or after the standard public events that can unfold in these areas. There’s little mistaking them: You’ll see a giant electric storm and warpgate in the sky and a lot of Vex on the ground.

For the purposes of finishing Eyes on the Moon, you’ll just have to kill a lot of Vex and the boss–known as a Gate Lord–that spawns at each of these invasion sites. If you successfully kill the Gate Lord before it leaves, another warpgate will open up nearby. You can make your way through three of these encounters before then taking on a special hydra enemy called an Overlord. Killing that will end the event. You don’t need to successfully make your way through the entire event for the purposes of Eyes on the Moon, but doing it in one shot will guarantee you the three Gate Lord kills that you need.

The Vex Offensive

Once you’ve secured the necessary number of kills, only then are you technically granted the quest called Eyes on the Moon (hence the confusion some players have experienced). This simply involves speaking with Eris Morn. Once that’s done, you can freely access the Vex Offensive, which is a six-player PvE matchmaking activity. You’ll fight waves of Vex (including Champions, which are the special enemy class that is best dealt with by using weapons with special mods unlocked through the Gate Lord’s Eye seasonal artifact) and earn new weapons.

Ikora, who has long had little purpose at the Tower, now has weekly and daily bounties for Vex Offensive. These pay out XP, glimmer, and Vex Mind Components, a new type of currency you might have already obtained by leveling up the seasonal battle pass. We now know what these are used for: You cash them in with Ikora for “data input” quests, which simply involve racking up 50 Vex kills (in Vex Offensive or elsewhere) with a specified weapon type. Completing one rewards you with a specific weapon which can also be earned in Vex Offensive. Doing these quests, much like the Essence ones on the moon, are a way of farming for your ideal weapon roll.

After shuffling through some hands before landing in the palms of Netflix, the live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop is finally in production. Though we have already seen some of the cast, Netflix has given us the most important casting announcement: Ein the Corgi will be portrayed by a very real and very good Corgi.

Dubbed “Corgi-vision,” the new behind the scenes trailer, below, shows the dog’s perspective as it struts through the series’ set. Following the ascension of some stars and the rounding of some corners, the dog arrives at the reading room where the rest of the main cast sits.

Alongside Ein the Very Good Corgi, Cowboy Bebop will feature Alex Hassell as Vicious, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, John Cho as Spike Spiegel, and Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black. Casting announcements for characters like Ed and others have yet to be made.

The live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop will have Alex Garcia Lopez (who has also worked on Netflix shows like The Witcher) direct the first two episodes. Christopher Yost (Thor: Ragnarok) will write the first episode. The show will feature a total of 10 episodes.

Though Respawn has yet to confirm the information but recent datamine leaks point to Apex Legends‘ upcoming Halloween-themed event being fairly extensive. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the apparent return of Kings Canyon, Apex Legends’ original map, which has since been replaced by Season 3’s World’s Edge.

According to dataminer Shrugtal, the limited-time event, Fight or Fright, will allow you to participate in a game mode called Shadowfall that will take place on a nighttime version of Kings Canyon. In this new mode, you drop solo into a free-for-all. But death isn’t the end, as dying brings you back with enhanced speed and melee damage. So depending on how well you do, your endgame objective for the mode changes. The last 10 survivors win by ensuring at least one of them makes it to a dropship that spawns at the end of the match, while the infected win by killing all of the final 10 survivors before they can make the ship.

Like previous events, Fight or Fright will offer unique limited-time challenges to complete alongside the traditional weekly and daily challenges–providing a way to earn special Apex Packs that include thematic cosmetic skins for guns and characters. On Twitter, That1MiningGuy has datamined most of them, including an heirloom for Lifeline.

Given the Halloween theme, the character skins are all fairly spooky. Gibraltar, Crypto, Mirage, Wraith, Lifeline, Bangalore, Bloodhound, and Caustic all dress up in Halloween costumes as Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, a cowboy, a witch, a zombie, a skeleton, a scarecrow, and a clown respectively. Octane and Wattson dress up too, but just in Halloween-themed garb, not an actual costume. If the datamine is accurate, Pathfinder seems to not get a skin for the event.

Respawn has already teased a Halloween-type event is coming to Apex Legends, so it’s probably only a matter of time before the datamined information is confirmed to be true or false. While waiting for confirmation, there’s plenty of new content to unlock in Season 3: Meltdown’s battle pass, a brand-new map to explore, and a new character to try.

Mario Kart Tour‘s second in-game Tour event is set to begin soon. The event kicks off tomorrow, October 8, at 11 PM PT (2 AM ET on October 9), and it will introduce “additional new and nostalgic courses,” including another one inspired by a real-world location.

Whereas the game’s first Tour took players to New York City, this event will have them racing around a new course based on Tokyo. As before, you’ll be able to earn Grand Stars based on how many points you accumulate in a race, which in turn will let you unlock new Tour gifts, cups, kart parts, and more.

Nintendo has not yet announced what other “new and nostalgic courses” will arrive as part of the Tokyo Tour, but the company did confirm the event will bring new characters. During the aforementioned New York Tour, players had a chance to unlock Pauline and Musician Mario, but it remains to be seen which new racers this week’s event will introduce.

Mario Kart Tour launched on iOS and Android devices on September 25, and the game has already proven to be a big success. Mobile analytics tracker Sensor Tower reports that it racked up 90 million downloads worldwide in its first week of availability, making it Nintendo’s biggest mobile game launch to date.

Mario Kart Tour doesn’t yet feature multiplayer, so you can currently only race against bots, not other players on your friends list. However, Nintendo says the option will be added in the future. We’ve been playing Mario Kart Tour and feel the game isn’t great, but it has some good ideas that future entries in the series should incorporate.