Month: June 2020

Seven years after the release of the original, The Last of Us Part II is finally out now on PlayStation 4. Even before release, writer-director Neil Druckmann acknowledged that some fans of the first game would dislike the sequel, and now that the game is out, he’s responded to more of the internet hate.

Speaking on former Nintendo boss Reggie Fils-Aime’s podcast, Druckmann said it’s worthless to fight against people when they share their opinions about a game–whether it be good or bad. However, Druckmann said he can’t understand how people get so worked up and upset about fictional characters.

“I think you have to create some separation to say, we made this game, we believe in this game, we’re proud of this game, now it’s out there and it’s like whatever reaction people have–whether they like it or not–that’s fair,” Druckmann said. “That’s their reaction and you don’t fight that. The other thing with the more hateful stuff, the more vile stuff, that’s a little harder. It’s especially harder when I see it happening to team members or cast members who play a particular character in the game.”

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First impressions of Cyberpunk 2077 have started rolling in after a number of journalists spent time with a demo of the upcoming CD Projekt game. However only IGN’s preview seems to have unearthed a very important feature of the game: that you can, in fact, pet the cat.

The preview unfortunately didn’t go into too much detail on whether there is just a single, pettable cat to be found, or whether multiple are dispersed throughout the game, but it’s still a big improvement on The Witcher 3’s disappointingly Witcher-averse cats. Whether dogs are present or pettable in Cyberpunk 2077 still has yet to be seen.

While “can you pet the dog?” has long been an important question in video game criticism, inspired by the Twitter account of the same name, cats are only just starting to get the same kind of recognition in virtual petting.

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More details about Crysis Remastered have leaked ahead of a bigger reveal on July 1.

A listing on Xbox Live reveals the game’s supposed release date, July 23, while the page also contains the game’s first screenshots and its debut trailer. The trailer is available below, as spotted by Wario64 on Twitter. You can see the first three screenshots further down the page.

The description for Crysis Remastered states that the game will have “remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware.” It will be about 7 GB, according to the listing. The leaked trailer shows that Crysis Remastered was co-developed by Saber Interactive and original creator Crytek.

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A number of shows have started to re-examine old episodes in light of recent discussions about racism, with both The Office and Community among those that have removed or edited episodes where blackface was used for comedy. Three episodes of Scrubs that feature blackface have been removed from rotation on streaming services, at the request of creator Bill Lawrence.

In a new episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends, a Scrubs rewatch podcast featuring stars Donald Faison and Zach Braff, the two actors invited Lawrence and fellow actor Sarah Chalke (who also appeared in blackface) to discuss the episodes and the decision to remove them.

Series creator Bill Lawrence started the show by taking full responsibility for the episodes. “I did see some things directed at Donald and Zach and Sarah,” he explained. “And everybody should know that the reason the word showrunner exists in television is that you’re the gatekeeper, and anything that get allowed on a show you have to ultimately take responsibility for.”

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It’s been 10 years since the end of Lost, Damon Lindelof’s and J. J. Abrams’ intense, strange fantasy show, and the ending of the final season is still hotly debated and discussed. Now one of the show’s stars, Josh Holloway, has weighed in on the ending with a very straightforward view of why it was good–for his character, at least.

Holloway, who played bad boy Sawyer on the show across its entire run, spoke to Collider about his current role on Yellowstone, and was asked what he thought of the Lost ending. Asking if he was “personally happy” with how his character’s plot concluded, he said that he was, because Sawyer made it through.

“Yes, I am,” Holloway told Collider. “He survived.” He went on to say that Sawyer didn’t necessarily grasp everything happening in the show, and was focused on making it through. “There came a point where Sawyer just didn’t understand any of the s*** that was going on and didn’t care,” he explained. “He was like, ‘I don’t give a s***. I’m gonna survive. I’m gonna survive this s***, and I don’t even know why.’ But he did, and he made it.”

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Ubisoft teases its own battle royale game, Hyper Scape, The Last Of Us Part II will not be getting story DLC, and Call Of Duty: Warzone is adding a 200 player mode.

Like many creative endeavors, not everything that was planned for Red Dead Redemption 2 made it into the game. The studio already spoke about how five hours of content was cut, and now the actors who play Dutch and Arthur Morgan have shared more insight on the content that was cut from the game.

Speaking to GameSpot, Arthur Morgan actor Roger Clark said Rockstar decided to cut one mission involving Arthur and Dutch. We don’t know the full context of the scene, but Morgan said it involved an action sequence on a train. “There was one that got cut that was kind of fun where we take out some Boston bounty hunters on a train,” he said.

Benjamin Byron Davis, who plays Dutch, said of this mission: “We spent a lot of time on that. That was going to be … oh, I hate that that got cut. It got cut because I guess they couldn’t get it up to snuff.”

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