Month: July 2020

One of the surprise announcements at Microsoft’s July Xbox games showcase was a new Fable game from developer Playground. Very little is known about this project, and it’s likely still very far off.

Xbox Games Studios boss Matt Booty has now spoken about the challenge of reviving the Fable series, saying it’s not unlike the situation Disney finds itself in when it makes a new Star Wars movie. You want to respect the history of the brand but also push things forward, Booty said.

“With any kind of franchise like that, where you’ve had existing versions, there’s always that balance between what you’re going to bring forward, what still stands up, and what you want to add that’s new,” Booty told The Guardian. “It’s like the challenge of making a new Star Wars movie–there’s stuff that everyone wants you to bring along, but then you’ve got a responsibility to take that to new places and I trust Playground has a good vision for that.”

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Necrobarista, the recently-released Melbourne-set visual novel about a cafe where the dead can return to life, will expand beyond the form it launched in. In an update on Steam, developer Route 59 has announced that DLC is coming, and it will focus on side characters.

According to the update, the game “will be getting a bunch of gameplay and story additions,” although it won’t focus on the main story, Maddy. Characters that will be fleshed out further in new content include the teens Tuan and Hannah, Samantha, and “that guy from the OP with the waistcoat and cigar.”

The new DLC will start releasing “later this year.” There will be two story DLCs released, each containing several chapters. There are also gameplay changes coming in other free DLC releases, although Route 59 does not clarify exactly what these will entail.

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HBO’s new series Lovecraft Country got a new trailer and clip during Comic-Con. Meg and Ryan break down the new footage and discuss what they hope to see in the TV show.

It’s a new week, and that means Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the battle royale game Warzone are being refreshed with new playlists, store bundles, XP events, and more. Activision posted the details on its website, and we’re rounding up the key information here.

Call of Duty: Warzone

The Juggernaut Royale Quads mode returns to the mix this week. As in the past, the Juggernaut suit will drop onto the Warzone map and players will duke it out to claim it to gain the upper-hand. Activision said it recommends using LMGs and launchers to fight against the Juggernaut.

Warzone also welcomes back the Blood Money Trios mode this week, alongside the regular playlists that are staying in rotation: Solos, Duos, Trios, and Quads.

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Halo 3 recently came to PC for the first time through the Master Chief Collection, and it brought with it some upgrades and change. One temporary addition is a new unlockable skull that adds an incredible new power to the game–but there’s only two days left to unlock it.

The Acrophobia Skull lets Master Chief fly his way through the campaign, regardless of whether he has access to a Ghost or Banshee. The skull lets you fly by holding down the jump button, rising perpetually, taking to the skies to see each level of the campaign from a new perspective. The skull can also be used inside other games in the Master Chief Collection.

The skull can be used in single-player or co-op, but you’ll need to work fast and hard to unlock it. You’ll need to defeat 343 flying enemies (such as Banshees, Buggers, Phantoms, or Sentinels) before the end of July 29, 2020. You’ll need to be playing on Normal or harder.

It’s the kind of old-school cheat that games so rarely have these days, and it puts a fun new spin on the game, so you don’t want to miss it. The best way to do it is to play through a mission will a lot of Bugger enemies–like The Storm–and reload checkpoints when possible. It’ll take a while, but it’s worth doing.

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NBA 2K21 is coming to all the major current and upcoming systems–PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. Eyes will be on the new console versions to see what advantages they offer, and with a new soundtrack announcement, 2K has made one benefit clear.

The soundtrack for NBA 2K21 on current systems has been announced, and most of it is now available on Spotify (embedded below). It contains songs from The Weeknd, Stormzy, The Strokes, Tarik, and more. The final soundtrack will consist of 52 songs…but if you buy the game on PS5 or Xbox Series X, you’ll get 202 songs instead.

What’s more, the next-gen soundtrack will be updated after launch with more songs, but it sounds like the other versions will miss out on these new songs.

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A new TV show based on the mob is coming to the TV network Showtime, and it’s assembled some big-name writing and producing talent to make it happen.

Deadline reports that the untitled show is written by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, and it’s inspired by Nicholas Pileggi’s writing about organized crime. Pileggi wrote the books that Martin Scorsese would later adapt into Goodfellas and Casino. He also produced Scorsese’s new mobster movie, The Irishman, which was a big success at Netflix.

As for Winter, he also wrote and produced the HBO show The Sopranos, while he earned an Oscar nomination for his Wolf of Wall Street script. Winter is also writing the new Batman TV show coming to HBO Max.

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