Month: March 2020

Ghost of Tsushima will be released on June 26.

Announced on the PlayStation Blog, Sucker Punch’s new game also got a new story trailer, and details of the special, collector’s and digital deluxe versions of the game.

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The story trailer shows off the game’s hero, Jin Sakai, as well as his uncle Shimura – who is the lord of Tsushima – and Khotun Khan, the leader of the invading Mongol army.

As for those various editions of the game, you can get a good look at each one, and their contents, in the gallery below:

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Both the special and digital deluxe versions of the game come in at $69.99, and collector’s edition at $169.99 (UK and AU prices not available at time of writing).

It’s been a long time waiting for Sucker Punch fans – Ghost of Tsushima was announced at Paris Games Week in 2017, and it was unclear when we’d get the game until last year’s Game Awards, when were were teased with a ‘Summer’ release window.

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Ghost of Tsushima, the latest PS4 exclusive developed by Infamous developer Sucker Punch, will launch on PS4 on June 26.

The release date announcement was made alongside the launch of a new story trailer for the game, which you can watch below.

Ghost of Tsushima follows the story of Jin Sakai, known as The Ghost to the invading Mongol armies led by the ruthless Khotun Khan. Trained by his uncle Shimura, the jito (lord) of Tsushima, Jin is an incredibly skilled samurai who adopts more cunning death-dealing techniques, to the concern of his mentor.

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For the final episode of our competitive Pokemon Sword and Shield mini-series, Kallie dives into Pokemon breeding and EV training.

Doom Eternal’s ultra-gory action needs a brutal soundtrack behind it, and composer Mick Gordon returns from 2016’s Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus to deliver the goods. With heavy metal vocalists serenading the legendary Doom Guy, Doom Eternal’s tunes will get you pumped up in between battles and ready to slaughter thousands of demons.

In a behind-the-scenes video for Doom Eternal, Gordon solicited the help of a heavy metal choir in order to give the game a unique tone compared to its predecessor. The development team put out an open call for heavy metal singers to join a choir, which would fittingly record in a circle surrounding a satanic candle cluster.

Chanting an ancient language in unison, the participants delivered a massive battle cry. The group was split between men and women whose combined voice would intimidate even the mightiest Cyberdemon. They came from a diverse background of metal bands, including industrial metal and even Mongolian metal.

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Hacker Lance McDonald is adept at pulling back the curtain on video games and showing us things we were never meant to see. From revealing that P.T.‘s creepy ghost Lisa is behind you at all times, to uncovering the town of Silent Hill in the aforementioned teaser, and finding cut content in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Now, McDonald has set his sights on 2018’s PS4 release of God of War and has already discovered a hilarious snippet of punk rock-energy from antagonist Baldur.

This began recently when McDonald managed to fully hack God of War’s camera, allowing him to move it around the environment when in and out of cutscenes, and start and stop time freely.

God of War is notable for using a one shot-style camera throughout the entire game, with no cuts or breaks in the action–similar to a movie like 1917. Being able to see how everything unfolds with a free camera hack is fascinating, particularly when it comes to looking in places the camera was never intended to go.

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Lucifer star Tom Ellis has reportedly finalised a new deal to return as the title character in a possible sixth season of the supernatural series on Netflix.

This latest update, reported by TVLine, is devilishly good news for Lucifans, as it seems to indicate that the show’s stars are signing on to extend their contracts ahead of a potential season renewal, as co-showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson were also reported to have inked new deals last week.

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It is believed that Netflix recently entered talks with Warner Bros. to resurrect Lucifer beyond its planned fifth and “final” season, as fans have been campaigning for the show’s continuation ever since it was cancelled by Fox after just three seasons on the air.

The fifth season of Lucifer was originally set to be a 10-episode run but Netflix significantly expanded the episode count while the show was still in production, ordering six additional episodes to take the grand total up to 16, split across two parts on the streamer.

The episode expansion signified that the writers required more scope to tell the story and wrap up all of the threads from the fourth season of the series, loosely based on Neil Gaiman’s depiction of the Devil from the Sandman comic book and its spinoff Lucifer.

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Meanwhile, veteran actor Dennis Haysbert recently joined the cast of Lucifer to play God in the show’s expanded fifth season. His role as the Almighty could potentially give his two sons, Lucifer and Amenadiel, more opportunities to bond together as a family.

In our review of Lucifer Season 4, we commended the characters’ individual storylines, saying “a shorter season spins a tighter arc in which all threads wind together for a finale that either serves as a bittersweet conclusion or leaves the door open for a fresh, new chapter.”

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.