Summer Games Done Quick Online Raises $2.3 Million For Charity

Summer Games Done Quick 2020 couldn’t go forward as it typically does because of the pandemic, and the organizers opted for an online-only format where streamers would speed through games at their homes. This didn’t slow down donations, however, as the week-long marathon brought in $2.3 million for Doctors Without Borders.

Viewership peaked at more than 107,000 during the week, which included runs of games like Demon’s Souls, Hollow Knight, Sonic Heroes, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. There is an archive available on the official Games Done Quick YouTube channel if you want to watch or re-watch a particular run, with videos split up by game to make it easy.

With any luck, the Awesome Games Done Quick event scheduled for January 2021 will be able to take place the traditional way, with fans cheering each player on as they show off their skills. Still, the amount of money raised for charity during the most-recent event is extremely impressive when considering many are on a budget during the pandemic.

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Fall Guys Patch Notes: Big Update Pokes Fun At Players

Fall Guys is getting a new patch on PS4 and PC that aims to fix some of its biggest issues while also making the game fairer and less frustrating. Planned for this week, it addresses several different parts of the game and the patch notes even include a slight jab at players concerned with the Yellow Team’s dominance in team games.

The round-selection algorithm has been altered so it will now only pick team-based games when the team sizes can be equal, and the most-frequent crashing issues were addressed. Jump Showdown was one of the biggest targets for the patch, with a jump exploit and camera issues being fixed, and the Slime Climb will no longer let players grab certain obstacles.

On PS4, inverted control users can finally play the game with an X/Y axis setting as well as sensitivity settings. The UI should also run more smoothly on older PS4 systems, and the jump button’s binding can be changed for Japanese players to better match what other games use.

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Looks Like The Batman Is Not Set in the 1990s After All

The Batman trailer appears to have killed those rumors that the movie is set in the 1990s. Indeed, about the only ‘90s thing evident in the trailer is the Nirvana song “Something in the Way” that plays throughout.

A report last year claimed The Batman would be a period piece, set roughly twenty to thirty years in the past. This, in turn, led to widespread speculation that Robert Pattinson’s Batman and Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker could potentially meet in a future movie. (Joker, you will recall, is set in the early 1980s.)

Alas, the new Batman teaser trailer seems to nix any lingering hope for such a Pattinson-Phoenix crossover as director Matt Reeves’ film appears decidedly contemporary.

Modern tech can be seen at several points throughout the trailer, with two scenes from the trailer showing smartphones that didn’t exist in the 1990s.

car1In one scene, a car that crashes into a public funeral (apparently for the city’s mayor or at least for a mayoral candidate) appears to be a relatively recent model of Lincoln Navigator.

phone3After the crash, a man is seen holding up a smartphone with what appears to be an explosive strapped around his neck. Modern cell phones can be used to remotely detonate explosives.

phone2Then in another scene, one of those face-painted punks is seen recording Batman on his smartphone as the Dark Knight beats the holy hell out of one of the gang.

explosionWhen that van explodes near Batman, a modern mounted digital camera can be spotted just to the right of him.

Batcave-monitorsModern LCD computer monitors can also be spotted in Bruce Wayne’s rather makeshift Batcave.

One big caveat, of course, is that since director Matt Reeves revealed that Batman’s murder investigation will lead him to question himself and his past perhaps it’s possible the movie might include flashbacks to young Bruce in the ’90s. (Maybe long enough to see the Waynes get killed?)

So while The Batman would appear to be very much a 21st-century tale, those yearning for a 1990s Batman movie can always revisit the Batman movies released during that decade for some genuine grunge-era caped crusading.

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For more coverage of this upcoming DC movie, check out what director Matt Reeves said about how The Batman explores Gotham City’s history of corruption as well as what he revealed about when HBO Max’s GCPD series is set.

Also check out all the evidence for and against the Riddler being the mystery killer in The Batman, the latest Batman photos, and the new Batman movie logo. And be sure to catch up on all of DC FanDome’s biggest announcements and reveals.

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