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Call Of Duty: Warzone Adds A 50v50 Mode Called Rumble In Season 4
Call of Duty: Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale game, is adding a new mode with the Season 4 update. The new mode is called “Warzone Rumble” and it’ll be added with the newest playlist refresh across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Warzone Rumble features two teams of 50 players, and the action takes place on “various areas” on the Verdansk map. The wording in the patch notes sounds like it won’t be the full map. Additionally, players can select their own custom loadouts, while there will be “quick respawns,” Infinity Ward said.
The Warzone playlist update also confirms that the following other modes will be available in Warzone with the Season 4 update:
Netflix’s The Last Days of American Crime Joins the Rotten Tomatoes 0% Club
The consensus appears to be in: Netflix’s new dystopian thriller The Last Days of American Crime has entered an elite group of the worst movies ever made.
Following its arrival on Netflix on June 5, The Last Days of American Crime is sitting at 0% on the Rotten Tomatoes ‘Tomatometer’ spectrum. None of the 28 reviews tracked to date have been positive.
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As noted by Variety, only around 40 films have the distinction of retaining a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes after at least 20 reviews have been collected, placing The Last Days of American Crime in the company of esteemed corkers like Dennis Rodman’s Simon Sez, the 99-minute 1988 McDonald’s commercial Mac and Me, and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. Of course, without the 20-review caveat the list of films with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is much larger; there’s a huge amount of dreck at the bottom of the Rotten Tomatoes barrel with only a small handful of reviews aggregated (including piles of direct-to-DVD debris and several other Police Academy sequels).
Directed Olivier Megaton (Taken 2 and… Taken 3), The Last Days of American Crime is an action thriller based on a 2009 graphic novel of the same name. Set in the near future, the story revolves around a crew of crooks seeking to execute one, final big score before the government broadcasts a nationwide signal that will render the population unable to deliberately break the law. IGN’s review called it bloated, boring, and “distractingly dull.”
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Luke is Games Editor at IGN’s Sydney office. You can find him on Twitter sporadically @MrLukeReilly.
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Amazon’s PS5 Price Listing Confirmed to Be an ‘Error’
Yesterday, Amazon.co.uk added a number of listings related to PlayStation 5, including a number of games and, most notably, the PS5 console itself at a price of £599.99 (approximately $746 USD). Amazon has now confirmed to IGN that these listings were an error.
As noted by Wario64 on Twitter, Amazon UK posted listings for 500GB, 1TB and 2TB models of PS5 (currently, PS5 is listed only with an 825GB model), all priced at £599.99. At around the same time, a reported 118 listings for PS5 games also appeared on the retailer’s site, including apparent unnamed games from publishers such as Konami, Bethesda, and Rockstar. Several of those listings included a £69.99 retail price (full price games in the UK typically retail at £59.99 on current-gen).
The same pricing across console models, as well as the sheer number of game listings suggested that these were speculative, rather than informed listings from Amazon, and Amazon UK PR has now confirmed that. “This was an error,” said an Amazon UK spokesperson to IGN. Speaking specifically to the PS5 console listing, it “was priced as a dummy product with a dummy price.”
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Amazon will often create dummy listings ahead of announcement events, which can be filled out if and when those announcements are made – that goes some way towards explaining the scattershot approach to what was included in this swathe of listings. There’s some discussion to be had over how Amazon UK arrived at those dummy prices, but it’s unlikely that, if it did have privileged information, it would be posting it publicly before any potential announcements at today’s PS5 event.
PS5’s price has been a constant talking point since its initial reveal. We don’t know any specific retail numbers, but reports have said that it’s running at a $450 manufacturing cost, that stock could be ‘limited’ in its first year, in part due to a hugher-than-expected price, but that COVID-19 hasn’t affected its RRP.
Speaking of that PS5 event, you can stay here with us for all the info, live from the show – here’s how to watch Sony’s PS5 reveal event on IGN. Before that, there’s the matter of IGN Expo Day 2, where we’ve got more exclusive reveals, gameplay and trailers for you – here’s how to watch that (and if you want, you can add the whole schedule to your digital calendar).
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