Month: August 2020

It’s a new month, which means this episode of New Releases is taking an overall look at August. It’s got licensed games like Fast & Furious Crossroads and enhanced re-releases like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered Edition, and many of the games can be played at no extra cost. Both Tell Me Why and Microsoft Flight Simulator will be available on Game Pass day one, and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is making its debut on PlayStation Plus.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout — August 4

Available on: PS4, PC

Fall Guys is like a battle royale plus Ninja Warrior: 60 players compete in a series of obstacle courses and party games to reach the top spot. Games range from keep-away to straight-up platforming challenges, and each of the Fall Guys themselves can be customized with your favorite colors and patterns.

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Tekken 7 will continue to expand, as Season Pass 4 has been announced. The new DLC will add some extra characters the game’s ever-expanding roster, as well as some general improvements to online play and extra fighting moves.

The trailer, below, celebrates the game’s community and hints at the difficulties of 2020–and how Tekken 7 can help to allievate some of them. It also hints at one of the new characters being added, without revealing them directly.

You can watch the Tekken 7 Season Pass 4 trailer below.

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Wide Ocean Big Jacket has released a new content update, adding a few extra chapters to the extremely likable indie narrative game. The Meryl and Alan chapters, which were previously released as a demo during LudoNarraCon 2020, are now available in the full game.

These chapters focus on two characters who appear as side-figures during the main game, and you’ll now be able to play as them and experience their story. As the original game was all of 90 minutes long, this extra content is most welcome.

The full game follows Cloanne and Brad, who have taken their young niece Mord and her boyfriend Brad on a camping trip. It’s not a game that’s particularly rich with incident–the characters hang out, tell spooky stories, enjoy nature, and have tough conversations. It’s beautiful.

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The Halo Infinite gameplay reveal showed off many aspects of the Xbox Series X launch title, including its large world, grapple hook, and back-to-basics combat design. But it also showed off a visual engine that a lot of fans were not impressed by, which has been exemplified by “Craig“, the Brute whose deadpan expression has become a gaming meme for the ages.

Now, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has given his thoughts on the meme, and he seems to see the funny side of it. Asked by a fan for his take, Spencer called Craig “our new official Xbox mascot.”

Continuing on, Spencer cited Craig as a great example of the creativity of the Xbox community. You can view the tweet below.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the battle royale game Warzone are set for a big week, as the much-anticipated Season 5 update is due to arrive very soon.

Writing on Twitter, production director Paul Haile has now warned fans to expect yet another “big” update in terms of the file size. As with previous updates, the file size will be large, but the patch also contains back-end configurations that actually decrease the overall file size of the game. This happens through “optimization” of the game’s asset packs, Hiele said.

“This means the download will be big, but the overall size of the game will actually shrink on your consoles after you download the patch, even though we’re adding a bunch of new content for the season,” he said.

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Mad Max: Fury Road came out five years ago, but is never far from our minds. Charlize Theron, who played Furiosa in the iconic 2015 film, hosted a charity screening of the film over the weekend as part of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, and to celebrate she shared a wonderful video of her preparation for the role.

The video, below, show’s Theron’s “point of no return”–her initial head shave for the role, which represents a full commitment to the part. It doesn’t show the full process, but you get to see Theron’s hair in a half-shaved state, which is a lot of fun.

The video is set to music from Junky XL’s Fury Road soundtrack, so we’re not entirely sure what she’s saying, but the huge smile on her face says everything. Watch it below.

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Ice-T is known to be a big gamer, but he’s only appeared in a few games himself. One of his most iconic appearances is in the Def Jam series, appearing in Def Jam: Fight For NY and its PSP spin-off Fight for NY: The Takeover. The Def Jam fighting series was beloved, and many people have called for its returning–and now Ice-T has joined their ranks.

Ice-T has tweeted out a photo of himself in-game, and said that he thinks that “they really need to reboot this game for the new consoles.” With the PS5 and Xbox Series X on the way, we can’t help but agree.

Whether or not this eventuates–or if Ice-T’s tweet catches the attention of anyone in a position to get the ball rolling–remains to be seen, but Fight for NY was a pretty great game.

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The next title to be added to Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC is Halo 3: ODST, and Microsoft has now announced plans for the first beta test.

This test, or “flight” as Microsoft calls it, will begin the first half of August, developer 343 Industries said in a blog post. To get into the beta, you must be a Halo Insider member, and you can sign up for the free program here. Assuming this beta test is similar to previous ones, the rollout will begin small, so you may not be invited in right away.

Only a “slice” of ODST will be available in the PC beta test, 343 said. A beta test for Halo 3: ODST on Xbox One is also in the works, but this will presumably be related to the Firefight mode, as ODST’s campaign is already available on Xbox One.

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