Month: August 2020

Project Cars 3 is releasing August 25 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and a new trailer is here to build up your hype for taking to the tarmac. The trailer showcases the game’s gorgeous graphics, and asks a loaded question–what drives you, the player?

The trailer is made to show off the customization options, which will let you put livery on your car and tinker under the hood however you see fit, and asks you to consider what it is about a racing game journey you’re after. The implication is, of course, that Project Cars 3 can cater to everyone.

You can watch the trailer below.

The game will have a Season Pass too, with four content releases coming after launch. It’s also aiming to be more welcoming to new players than past entries were.

For more, check out our interview with production designer Pete Morrish about how the game overhauls the racing sim series.

Nowhere Prophet recently released on Switch, PS4, and Xbox One, following the deck-building its 2019 release on PC, and it marks the first time that publisher No More Robots has released a game for Sony’s system. The publisher also has Descenders coming to PS4 on August 25–but if sales of their first release are an indicator of what to expect, the publisher might withdraw from releasing on Sony systems completely.

Kotaku Australia picked up on tweets from Mike Rose, the owner of No More Robots, indicating that sales for Nowhere Prophet on PS4 have been terrible. Although he does not provide specific figures, sales were much, much higher on Switch than PS4–20 times higher, in fact.

In another tweet, Rose said that the Xbox One and Switch ports made enough money to cover the cost of porting within hours of release, but the PS4 version has struggled so much that Rose can’t see the publisher releasing more games on the system in the future.

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EA Sports has published a new blog post about what’s coming to Madden NFL 22. That is not a typo. Even before the release of Madden NFL 21, the developer has begun to discuss some its plans for next year’s game as part of a new level of transparency at the studio.

Producer Seann Graddy said in the blog post that, while it’s “still very early” for Madden NFL 22, the development team is already planning for areas they would like to focus on.

With the caveat that Madden NFL 22 is only in pre-production, Graddy outlined some of the areas that EA Sports may address, but isn’t committing to definitively just yet.

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The Xbox team has lost one of its most veteran staffers. William Stillwell, who joined Microsoft all the way back in 2000, has announced that he has resigned to take on a new role somewhere else.

“For the first time in two decades, I am a free agent. Look out world!” he wrote on Twitter. “Going to miss all the great people I had the honor of working with over the years, but I’m excited to start the next chapter in my career. Stay tuned…”

Stillwell did not share any further details about where he’s headed next or if he will stay in games.

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, which is currently gearing up to enter production, may have found a leading man. The Hollywood Reporter has heard that Bradley Cooper is currently in talks to star in the director’s next film.

The film, which will center around a child actor in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, is still very much under wraps. It is not known what role Cooper is circling, but the film is reportedly planning to begin shooting in the fall.

Anderson’s previous film, Phantom Thread, was a huge critical success when it released in 2017. Other previous credits include Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood.

Bradley Cooper is has been nominated for eight Oscars since 2013, including Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Picture (as a producer), but is yet to win. Last year, Cooper was a producer on Joker. The star of that film, Joaquin Phoenix, previously starred in two films by Anderson: The Master and Inherent Vice.

Anderson’s eight films have earned a total of nine acting Oscar nominations and one win (Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood).

Hopefully more details about this film–including a name–will emerge soon.

Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition is available now on Steam, bringing the strange and wonderful Frog Fractions to Steam for the first time. And, lo-and-behold, it secretly contains a whole other game within it–albeit one you’ll have to pay real money for.

Frog Fractions, which famously hides its real intentions behind the veneer of a frog-centric maths game, comes with a piece of DLC on Steam–Hop’s Iconic Hat, which adds a funky new hat to the game’s frog. The $8 hat is priced just high enough to turn people away–but check under the brim and you’ll find a new game.

PC Gamer is reporting that the hat awakens something new in the game. From the menu screen, there is a toggle for whether or not you want Hop to wear the hat. Put it on, and you’ll get a whole new experience–one that PC Gamer doesn’t spoil, and we’ll do the same.

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