Month: April 2020

According to Respawn, fans of Titanfall and Titanfall 2 may be excited to see what Respawn has in store for Apex Legends at the start of Season 5. Season 5 is scheduled to begin in late May or early June, as Season 4: Assimilation is halfway done, having gone through its ranked series split.

In an interview in Game Informer Issue 324, Apex Legends general manager Dusty Welch and game director Chad Grenier spoke about the future of Respawn’s battle royale game, with one of them saying, “We’re always bringing in stuff from the Titanfall universe. We built an awesome world in Titanfall 1 and 2 and want to make sure we’re bringing that forward. I will say this: There could potentially be a pleasant surprise for Titanfall fans in Season 5.”

Neither Welch nor Grenier provided further details beyond that, though Season 5’s tie to Titanfall could be hinted at with the arrival of Bloodhound’s town takeover. The arrival of the technological tracker’s town takeover was teased with a prowler, a vicious wolf-like creature native to the planet Leviathan (the setting of Titanfall 2’s incredible Effect and Cause level). Perhaps, just as Apex Legends left Kings Canyon after two seasons, the battle royale is getting another brand-new map after two seasons on World’s Edge–one that will be located on Leviathan.

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Movie dialect coach Andrew Jack, who worked on The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars franchises among many others over a career that spanned decades, has passed away due to complications related to COVID-19. He was 76.

In response to his passing, tributes have poured in from across Hollywood, including the stars of the Lord of the Rings films. For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies specifically, Jack was the senior supervising dialect coach, according to The One Ring. He helped the actors with their accents for Middle-earth.

Elijah Wood, who played Frodo in the series, said he was heartbroken to learn of Jack’s passing. “He was a kind and lovely human being,” Wood said.

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Thanks to the addition of terraforming and infrastructure options available in the newest Animal Crossing game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are free to create almost any island home they like. One player, reddit user VaynMaanen, has created an impressive homage to Zelda: Link to the Past, recreating the original SNES map with high levels of detail and dedication.

The recreation goes beyond just the map, with VaynMaanen going to the effort to recreate the landmarks and villagers as best you can with the tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Paths, flowers, trees, ponds, and even an ocarina all work in tandem to recreate the classic Zelda feel in a 3D space on the Switch. Seeing an island like this makes you wonder how a Zelda: Link to the Past remake would look on the Switch.

Of course putting in enemies, dungeons and some of the more unique structures will prove to be difficult, but the whole point of Animal Crossing is to be creative, it will be interesting to see what kind of solutions people come up with.

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Xbox Series X is due holiday 2020, but up until now we haven’t seen many game reveals for the console beyond Halo Infinite and Hellblade II. But in an interview for IGN’s podcast Unlocked, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says that’s going to change soon, and future reveals will have a much greater focus on games.

When asked if there was anything left to say about the system itself, or whether it was “all games from here on out,” Spencer said that while there are still things to reveal about the system and services provided by Xbox Series X, what they’ve announced so far has been done to “make room for games” in their further reveals.

“We know games are what people play,” Spencer says. “You don’t play variable rate shading, you don’t play ray tracing, you play the games that use those technologies.” Showing off these technologies has paved the way for them to show off how their games will use them. “This is one of the reasons we had Hellblade when we did the unveil at the Game Awards–I thought showing up at the Game Awards without a game would be a little tone-deaf,” he continued.

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The Urban Jungle Apparel Event is now live in The Division 2. Running until April 20, the latest event gives you a chance to earn new apparel for your agents via time-limited Apparel Caches.

There are 35 new apparel items included as part of the Urban Jungle event. Earning cache keys is done by leveling up your SHD levels (one key is awarded for every four levels), or by purchasing them outright using Premium Credits. Anyone who logs in will receive one key to get started, and you can gift keys to other players as well.

The event contains a collection of four full cosmetic outfits: Reconnaissance, Hazard, Gorilla, and Chrome. It also includes additional clothing items, four weapon skins, and one mask. If you manage to collect every item from the event, you’ll be awarded the unique Purifier Face Mask. Fortunately, Event Caches don’t contain duplicates, so there’s no RNG preventing you from getting your hands on everything.

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The Elder Scrolls Online is preparing to close the book on its Skyrim story as it transitions into the Greymoor season. The new content isn’t live yet, but the prologue chapter is now available alongside a patch on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

The patch notes across all three platforms make some of the same changes, especially across the two console platforms. On PC the patch has fixes for some abilities and a game crash, but the notes say the developers are still investigating ability desyncs and lag. On PS4 and Xbox One, there are input delay and desync fixes, and a fix to the Coldharbour questline.

A free prologue chapter for Greymoore is now available in advance of the story’s launch. Paired with a limited time free-play period, you can dip a toe in the new content. Parent company Bethesda also recently announced that it is canceling the digital showcase that it had planned to give in absence of its E3 appearance.

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