Month: October 2020

On this week’s bittersweet episode of GameSpot After Dark, Jake and Kallie are joined by GameSpot Australia’s Edmond Tran and Jess McDonell for their last day at GameSpot. Though they’re leaving the team, they’re not leaving our hearts and minds–and yes, we got the sappy stuff out of the way early so we could have a laugh and talk about new games, old games, and very new consoles.

CRPG expert Jess gives her impressions of Baldur’s Gate 3, then Kallie and Jess talk about how incredible Persona 5 Royal is before Ed and Jake give their thoughts on the newly released Watch Dogs: Legion. Oh, and Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed again. We don’t spend too much time on that one.

The main event this episode is, of course, that we can now talk a little bit about PS5 and Xbox Series X|S! Jake has a Series X, Kallie has a PS5, Jess’ roommate has a Series S, and Ed wins with hands-on time with all three. While we still can’t talk about too much, Ed shares his early impressions of PS5 pack-in Astro’s Playroom.

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The first episode of The Mandalorian Season 2 features a major plot point that is remarkably similar to the story outline previously rumoured for a Boba Fett standalone Star Wars movie.

Warning: spoilers follow for Season 2, episode 1 of The Mandalorian. 

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Back in 2014, a report suggested that The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens co-writer Lawrence Kasdan had pitched a Boba Fett solo movie that would be about a “complete stranger killing Boba Fett and taking his armour, starting a Man-With-No-Name bounty hunter tale.”

The first episode of Season 2 of The Mandalorian, ‘The Marshal’, features a character who has taken Boba Fett’s armour for himself and now wears it while protecting the Tatooine settlement of Mos Pelgo. While not the exact same plot, there’s a notable similarity here, as a character largely a stranger to the audience (aside from those who may have read the Star Wars Aftermath novels) and is now walking around dressed as Boba Fett.

Provided the rumours about the Boba Fett film plot were actually true, this wouldn’t be the first time Star Wars has taken unmade old ideas and used them as the basis for something new. A 2015 art book collecting concept work for The Force Awakens features images of an underwater Death Star, which would have been included in a scene for Episode VII where Rey explores the sunken wreck. That scene was, of course, not part of The Force Awakens, but an underwater Death Star did appear in The Rise of Skywalker. It may be we’re seeing a similar case with The Marshal.

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For more on The Mandalorian, check out our Season 2, episode 1 review, and the prequel trilogy Easter egg we spotted.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Just like the original Spider-Man, Miles Morales will have plenty of costumes to try out and wear in his own solo game on PS5. Miles Morales: Spider-Man has already shown off the regular costume that the young hero will wear, the TRACK suit designed by artist Javiar Garron, and the Crimson Cowl suit which gives Miles a fashionable hoodie.

Insomniac Games revealed yet another superhero suit for Miles, which will be instantly familiar to anyone who saw the hero’s big-screen debut in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Not just a faithful reproduction of that costume, donning this outfit will actually replicate the look and feel of that film, emulating the 12 FPS animation style that Miles was rendered in for most of that film. Fortunately, for those with accessibility concerns, this animation style can be disabled, as the effect is a suit mod you can deactivate, according to Insomniac’s James Stevenson.

Insomniac also tweeted that the Spider-Verse costume can be unlocked in the game by anyone and won’t be a preorder exclusive. Preordering Miles Morales simply gets you quicker access to the suit.

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Cooperative ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia has recently become one of the most-played and most-watched games on Steam and Twitch. Last week’s update for Phasmophobia added more cunning ghosts to the game, but this week’s latest patch is focused on dozens of fixes as well as new Halloween additions. Developer Kinetic Games hasn’t revealed yet what the Halloween content actually is, but players have reported seeing Jack-o’-lanterns, a scarecrow, and a new type of crawling ghost.

Plenty of small issues have been fixed within Phasmophobia, such as disappearing ghost orbs, loading level timeouts, and dead players being able to use the walkie talkie. New changes to the game include ghost-writing now counting as photographic evidence, upgraded server code to fix most voice chat issues, and removing the Australian server from the region selection options as those players will instead be matched up according to their best ping results.

Ghost events will also be more forgiving on your dwindling sanity resource and the EMF Reader will also generate less noise. You can read the full patch notes below:

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The PS5 doesn’t arrive until November 12, but some players are already getting their hands on accessories. They’ll have nearly two weeks of holding a DualSense controller and pretending they’re enjoying its haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, and if you placed an order for an extra controller, you can likely pick yours up, too.

Though scheduled to arrive today, October 30, according to Sony’s website, the DualSense appears to have released even earlier at certain retailers. One member of the GameSpot team had his order delivered by Target the day before, and Best Buy orders are also available for pickup today. Oddly, this isn’t universal for all retailers, with GameStop still listing them as preorders, and not every accessory released on the same day. The charging station for the DualSense isn’t releasing for another week, for instance.

The DualSense can be recognized by a PlayStation 4 if you’re curious to connect it, but you can’t actually use it for any games. It will be required for playing PS5 games, though the DualShock 4 will still work for playing backwards compatible PS4 games on the new system.

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