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Xbox Series X Launch Game The Medium Was Originally Planned For Two Console Gens Ago
The Medium is an Xbox Series X exclusive horror game, where you play across two different realities at once. The game, from Layer of Fear developer Bloober Team, is one of a few games announced for Series X that is not coming to Xbox One–but it nearly made it to an earlier Xbox console.
As Nintendo Life recalls, back in 2012 many game sites reported getting a mysterious phone call, which played a pre-recorded message: “Do you know about Medium? If not, you will.”
It was discovered, at the time, that Bloober Team had registered a domain for the game, and that they intended to release it on modern systems at the time–PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, and mobile.
It’s hard not to wonder what the Wii U version would have looked like, as the system’s two screens would have lent themselves to the game’s concept. At the same time, if the game was being designed with the Vita and mobile in mind, it must have been very different in scope.
Bloober Team has previously said that the game is skipping Xbox One because developing it for a current system would have meant making compromises. This leads some credence to this idea–evidently, the game wouldn’t work on earlier generation consoles.
The Medium is now available to preorder.
New Zealand suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty
The country follows Australia and the UK in its response to China’s new national security law.
Sam Rockwell In Talks To Play Country Music Legend Merle Haggard And Do His Own Singing
A new biopic about the late legendary country singer Merle Haggard is in the works at Amazon Studios, and Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell is reportedly in talks to play the lead role.
Deadline first reported the news, adding that Rockwell will do his own singing. The film is said to take place in the 1960s as Haggard rose to fame. Haggard died in 2016.
The film will be directed by Robin Bissell, who produced Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games. It’s based on Haggard’s memoir, Sing Me Back Home, and Haggard’s wife Theresa will be a producer.
Star Fox 2 Almost Featured A Human Woman Pilot With Incredible Hair
The recent Nintendo leaks have revealed numerous old designs for SNES and Nintendo 64 games, including a janky-looking Yoshi and our first look at a Luigi model inside of Super Mario 64. One leak is for a game that, while designed for the SNES, didn’t release until 2017–Star Fox 2.
As Kotaku reports, one of the early designs that has leaked for the game shows off a different co-pilot line-up. One of them is a human woman, and her hair is incredible. We don’t know much else about her, but considering the absence of humans across the rest of the Star Fox series, it’s certainly interesting to see one here.
@dylancuthbert Whoa, who is this in the bottom left? pic.twitter.com/6aM9JCLm35
— dallowbg (@shelfcompact) July 24, 2020
The woman is Black, too, which is significant as Nintendo has historically had few Black characters. It was only the most recent Animal Crossing, for example, that started to allow you to choose Black skin for your villager. On the SNES, she would have been even rarer.
Republicans Fussing With Unworkable Unemployment Plan As Benefits Lapse
Ride 4’s October Release Date Revealed In Gameplay Trailer
RIDE 4 is back on the race track this October, with a new gameplay trailer ready to show off all the new details that are lurking under its hood. In a new press release, developer Milestone says that the latest footage features an in-engine look at several new motorcycle models, with each two-wheeler revealing “incredible bike details that have been perfectly reproduced from their real-life counterparts.”
“All bike models in RIDE 4 have been created from the ground up using the most advanced technologies and the original CAD and 3D scans of real models, to bring to life authentic and lifelike replicas of the most iconic motorcycles, even the rarest and most exclusive ones.”
Rick and Morty: Summer’s Best Moments of Season 3
In Rick and Morty Season 3, we saw Summer come into her own as a character. Here are Summer Smith’s best moments of Season 3!
Suikoden Spiritual Successor, Eiyuden Chronicle, Reached Kickstarter Goal In Two Hours
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, the spiritual successor to Suikoden and Suikoden II, has met its Kickstarter goal of about $500,000 USD in about two hours. The campaign went live at 9 AM PST today to help fund Suikoden and Suikoden II writer and director Yoshitaka Murayama’s next project. Kickstarter crashed for about 45 minutes during the campaign.
The initial goal funds the development of a PC release; however, there is a stretch goal at $1,000,000 to bring the game to all major consoles. Considering the campaign is live through August 28, and it took less than 24 hours to fund $500,000, a console release seems likely.
The game was announced on July 27, and is being developed by Rabbit & Bear, an independent studio founded in Tokyo earlier this year. Eiyuden Chronicle is a 2.5D turn-based JRPG featuring a massive cast of 100 heroes. The game will feature a six character party system, as well as a fort-building element to house your heroes.
Tenet Has Yet Another Release Date For Select U.S. Theaters
Director Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet finally, for real, has a release date that is seemingly likely to stick. Recent rumors from last week indicated that the film could launch internationally before a domestic release, and that is true: Tenet will debut internationally on August 26 before opening in select cities in North America on September 2. In all, the movie will be launching at the end of August in 70 international territories, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom. This news comes after Warner Bros. recently indicated it would be shelving a traditional release for the film altogether amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It’s unclear how long Tenet will be in American theaters, and for how long.
This is the third time Tenet has been delayed and then had another release date set, but these plans seem plausible as there are also reports from Deadline that a 10th anniversary screenings of Nolan’s Inception are also in the works. Nolan, a staunch advocate for film as a medium and it to remain a theater experience long before COVID-19, has said that Tenet is “most designed for the audience experience, the big screen experience.”
Despite how much has been written about and anticipating Tenet’s release, not much is known about the film itself. Its cast includes David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Caine. The plot reportedly is about spies who are tasked with preventing World War III with time travel. A trailer for Tenet recently premiered inside of Fortnite.