A civil disobedience movement is gaining momentum with teachers and students demonstrating.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Trims Some Gratuitous Butt Shots
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is finally out this year, and while it’s a near-complete collection of the original trilogy it is making some camera tweaks to the game’s infamously gratuitous focus on butts.
“Kevin [Meek] actually called out some camera cuts that were just…. why was that focusing on Miranda’s butt?,” project director Mac Walters explained to Metro. “So in some cases, we said, ‘Okay, we can make a change there’.
Character and environment director Kevin Meek also mentioned in the same interview that male Shepherd’s habit of manspreading was tweaked. BioWare couldn’t overhaul the entire animation, but the studio did find that changing the camera angle and reframing the scene made for a more elegant solution.
Dril, The Best Twitter User, Is Making A Video Game
Gather up TekkenChauncey, RickGamecube, and DigimonOtis, because the greatest Twitter user of all time–Dril–is starting a new project. The master of surrealism is creating a video game, and he is crowdfunding on Patreon to complete the project. We have no idea if the video game will actually be coherent, but it will be Very Online.
Dril, whose semi-anonymous Twitter page uses a very blurry image of Jack Nicholson for his profile picture, posted a description of the game on his Patreon page.
“The game follows the quest of a silent protagonist who stumbles upon the gift of immortality in a dangerous future where Top influencers and corrupt hollywood guys maintain a cruel grip on society,” the announcement said. “The gameplay places a strong emphasis on employing satisfying, responsive aerobatics to traverse a dozen or so worlds and find a sh*t load of treasures and secrets.”
Call Of Duty: Warzone Patch Notes Address Stim Glitch And More
A new patch for the battle royale game Call of Duty: Warzone has arrived and one of its key improvements is a new fix that addresses the infinite stim glitch.
The patch notes state that the issue “stemmed from player getting stuck in throwback state after throwing back a live grenade,” but it should now be fixed. This has been an ongoing issues with the game, so hopefully this latest patch does the trick.
Additionally, match bonuses and kill XP rewards for the Kingslayer mode have been adjusted as part of the studio’s efforts to “normalize” XP rewards across modes.
Apex Legends Has Made $1 Billion In Less Than Two Years And The Switch, Mobile Editions Are Coming
Electronic Arts is optimistic about the future of its battle royale game Apex Legends. During EA’s latest earnings call, CFO Blake Jorgensen confirmed that the game has already made $1 billion and it hasn’t even released on Switch or mobile yet.
“Let’s all remember, less than two years ago, no one knew this product existed. Today, it’s over $1 billion,” Jorgensen said. “We think there is a huge upside to this product over time, and I just encourage people to keep focused on that because we don’t have a mobile product today. We don’t have a Switch product today. There are still other platforms around the world that we might go on. This is an opportunity that will last for a very long time, and we’re trying to build it for the long range, not just a 1-year blip. So we’re very excited about it.”
Apex Legends is coming to Nintendo Switch in March, and part of the reason why EA is releasing the game on Nintendo’s console is because of Apex’s popularity in Japan where the Switch is doing big numbers.
GeForce Now Adds Chrome Browser Support
Nvidia is celebrating GeForce Now‘s first anniversary by introducing Chrome support and adding a number of new games to the service. As part of the celebrations, GeForce Now Founders can also look forward to receiving a “unique offer,” while all members will get “something special.”
Beta support for streaming games directly through the Chrome browser on both PC and macOS is now live. Simply head to this link and you can log in and start playing games like Hitman 3, The Medium, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla right in your browser. The latest client update has also added official support for Macs with the new Apple M1 chip via Rosetta 2.
After some initial pitfalls, with major publishers such as 2K, Activision Blizzard, and Bethesda pulling its games from the service, Nvidia can now boast a roster of more than 800 supported games from 300 different publishers and 6 million members. Over 175 million hours of gameplay have been streamed using GeForce Now so far, with Cyberpunk 2077 accounting for over 3 million of those hours.
Marvel’s WandaVision Just Introduced the MCU’s Strangest Ever Cameo
Marvel’s WandaVision Episode 5 has introduced an extremely unexpected character into the mix – with potentially major implications for the MCU as a whole.
The story beyond this point will contain full spoilers for Marvel’s WandaVision Episode 5 – proceed at your own risk!
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As Episode 5 draws to a close, WandaVision makes perhaps its most bizarre introduction yet – Pietro Maximoff (aka Quicksilver, aka Wanda’s dead brother) shows up at her front door. Except it’s not the MCU’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson playing the character, it’s Evan Peters, who played the character in Fox’s X-Men universe. Peters played Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, earning plaudits for his performance, even if the movies themselves weren’t as well received.
And to make absolutely clear this isn’t just some regular real-world recasting, Kat Dennings’ Darcy confirms that this is some extremely weird in-universe recasting by saying: “She [Wanda] recast Pietro?”
This marks the first time one of Fox’s X-Men actors has played the same role within an MCU project, and opens some fascinating possibilities for where Marvel’s movies and TV shows could go next. While it’s been clear for some time that mutants would be coming to the MCU in some form, how that would happen has been the source of speculation. Some theorised that Thanos’ blip could have caused mutations in those returned to life, while others have pointed to the upcoming introduction of the multiverse to the MCU as a way in.
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The latter now feels far more likely. With Wanda explicitly tied to the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it’s possible this is our first clue as to her part in crossing the boundaries between realities – perhaps she’s pulled a different reality’s Quicksilver into her own, after ‘her’ Pietro was killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron. It must be said, however, that in a series built on illusion, transformation, and deceit, Peters’ addition could be a simple nod to a superhero movie fan audience. We’ll likely have to wait for next week’s episode to get more answers on that.
If this is a formal crossing over of the established X-Men universe with the MCU, the implications are fairly huge – could we see Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, Ian McKellan’s Magneto, or Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine enter the newer Marvel movies? It would explain how Deadpool 3 can safely be a canon MCU movie, at the very least.
We have even more WandaVision theories for you, if that’s what you want – from why a major comic book villain may be behind it all, to the question of how (or if) Vision is even alive.
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WandaVision Episode 5: All The Easter Eggs, References, And Major Reveals
This week’s episode of WandaVision was by far the creepiest of the series, with no shortage of majorly uncanny moments to show the sitcom structure beginning to fray at the edges. And the artifice of the whole thing isn’t the only thing fraying–Wanda’s mental state does not seem to be improving. And on top of their reality literally starting to feel like a poorly rehearsed play, Wanda and Vision are also struggling to keep up with their new twin sons who are displaying some disconcerting abilities of their own.
Meanwhile, outside the Westview anomaly, SWORD and their contracted experts Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis are doing their best to figure out the best way to breach the bubble and rescue the civilians trapped inside–but there are some major differences of opinion among the ranks when the question of how Wanda should be handled comes up.
WandaVision Episode 5: Yes, That Character Is Now In The MCU. Here’s What It Might Mean
The following contains major spoilers for WandaVision Episode 5. If you have yet to see the episode, this is your last chance to turn away.
In addition to being the creepiest one yet, this week’s episode of WandaVision had one of the biggest (and most meta) twists in MCU history–the “resurrection” of a long-dead character but with a caveat only a show like WandaVision could actually pull off.
Pietro Maximoff, AKA Quicksilver, is back. But he’s been very literally “recast.” Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who played Pietro in Avengers: Age of Ultron has been officially replaced in the MCU by Evan Peters, who played Pietro in Fox’s X-Men movie franchise. And to make matters even stranger, people in the universe of the show are aware of the change–the comment about “recasting” the role comes directly from Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) as she observes the show-within-a-show from the SWORD base.
Tom Holland Says Uncharted Movie’s Action Scenes Are His Biggest Yet
Uncharted games, without fail, beat the crap out of their protagonist, Nathan Drake, with over-the-top action sequences. We won’t know whether the movie is good until the credits roll, but Tom Holland said the Uncharted film is at least getting this part right in a new interview.
Talking to Variety on its Awards Circuit podcast (via Screenrant), Holland discussed his recent busy schedule, including Spider-Man 3, Cherry, and more. Holland’s upcoming Uncharted film, in which he stars as a younger Nathan Drake, came up during the conversation, and Holland had only superlatives to offer for the movie’s big set pieces.
The Uncharted film has some of the “biggest action sequences I’ve ever been a part of,” said the actor, best known for playing Spider-Man, who has had the snot kicked out of him by Vulture, Mysterio, Thanos, and Captain America. “The cuts and bruises and bangs I got from dangling off of wires and falling off things was ridiculous.” If anyone can speak to cuts and bruises, it’s Spidey.