IO Interactive level designers Toke Krainert and Victor Rasmussen break down Hitman 3’s incredible Dartmoor mission, including the development of the enthralling murder mystery storyline.Sony Pictures and XR Games have announced a new virtual reality game based on the Zombieland movies. Called Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever, the upcoming VR game will launch for Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets in Spring 2021. The game will be released later for PlayStation VR.
“With this VR game, we’re bringing the zombie apocalypse right to you in a totally new way while preserving the humor and wit of the hit movie franchise,” Sony Pictures Entertainment SVP Jake Zim said. “Now Zombieland fans can feel what it’s like to stare down an onslaught of Zombie hordes and make split-second gameplay decisions in order to blast their way to survival.”
XR Games founder and CEO Bobby Thandi added, “The Zombieland world is a no-nonsense kind of place, and to this end, we’ve made one of the purest shooting games for VR. We handcrafted the content, upping replayability and incorporating mechanics from racing games such as time splits so you know exactly how well you’re doing.”
Elgato is releasing a new smart light simply called the Light Strip. The thin strip contains 108 tiny LED lights and can be mounted to your TV or monitor. The Light Strip isn’t available to purchase just yet, but it will cost $60. Elgato is also introducing Wave Panels, specially designed foam pieces that bolster the acoustics in a room.
The Light Strip is two meters and can be customized by trimming and bending before mounting with the included adhesive. The RGBWW LED lights offer a range of 16 million colors. The lights have a 2,000-lumen output and be dimmed. To be clear, the Light Strip is purely for style; they aren’t reactive to on-screen action like some other backlit peripherals. Amazon has a listing for the Light Strip, but it’s not available to order yet.
Elgato’s new Light Strip will have Stream Deck integration, allowing you to control the lights along with your other accessories. It will also work well with Key Light, Elgato’s lighting accessory that’s specifically designed for streamers. You can tinker with the lights via Wi-Fi using the Light Strip app on mobile or desktop. With the Stream Deck mobile app for iOS, you can even ask Siri to adjust the lights for you.
The new challenges for Fortnite Season 5, Week 14 are now live, and a few of them are food-themed. Though not particularly difficult, they are a little bit tedious and can be annoying to complete if you don’t know what you’re looking for. One such challenge tasks you to collect cookbooks from Pleasant Park and Craggy Cliffs. We’ll show you how to complete this challenge in just a few minutes.
The name of the challenge is a bit dishonest, as you don’t actually have to go to both locations. We’ve circled them on the map, but we strongly recommend going to Craggy Cliffs, as you’ll be returning to this location at least one other time this week for a different Fortnite challenge.
Head around the buildings in Craggy Cliffs, especially the homes, and examine the floors. All of the cookbooks we found were on floors rather than tables or counters.
MOBA-inspired spin-off Pokemon Unite looks set to have some form of extra monetization when it launches, as leaked footage of the game’s Canadian beta has confirmed a battle pass system. Videos surfaced online of the game once its beta on Android went live and while a number of them have been taken down, Twitter account Centro Pokemon Leaks managed to grab a few screenshots.
Like most battle passes, Pokemon Unite’s take on the gameplay mechanic rewards persistent leveling up with various cosmetic rewards. You can purchase the battle pass with an in-game currency that is acquired with very real-world money and will likely need to grab a new one once the current season of activity wraps up inside the game.
Leaked footage of Garchomp, Cinderace, and Greninja doing battle also surfaced during the beta, although Nintendo has been quick to strike down any of this content online as it violates the NDA that beta testers are required to sign before trying the game out.
Shaquille O’Neal took a major table bump on this week’s AEW Dynamite in a mixed tag team match against Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet. Shaq’s partner, Jade Cargill, also made her official in-ring debut in the wrestling promotion.
AEW has been hyping Shaq’s debut match for a month now, and whether or not it lived up to the hype, the NBA icon was all-in about showing what he could do in the ring. He even landed some offense on Cody with a powerbomb in tribute to Mr. Brodie Lee.
During the match, Jade had set up a table on the outside of the ring. It was Cody who then hit Shaq with a flying crossbody, taking himself and the big man crashing down into the table. Check out the footage.
Rockstar Games’ plans to launch a standalone version of Grand Theft Auto Online were prompted, at least in part, by sheer market saturation for Grand Theft Auto 5.
“As you sell that many units, you will at some point arrive at the conclusion that you’ve saturated for purchasing the title,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said at a Morgan Stanley technology conference. “At that point you’re willing to experiment with the possibility that maybe there is another way to bring people into the online experience. Make it super-low friction, low price point. Sure, you don’t have access to the original single-player experience, but you do have access to an online world. Our view is perhaps that’s a different market and that’s a way to expand the player base.”
He said the company’s experience with putting out Red Dead Online as a standalone release, apart from Red Dead Redemption 2, was a proof-of-concept. That gave Red Dead Online its biggest month since launch, and the people who get in using the online experience might upgrade to the full version too. He sees it as an opportunity to bring in a larger player base, which then helps feed long-term success.
