Resident Evil 2 is set around the time it originally appeared on store shelves: the late 1990s. Rather than set the upcoming remake in the present, its creators have decided to stick to the original late-’90s setting, making it a period piece of sorts. In the original game, it’s a generic motorcycle design. But for the remake, we actually worked with Harley-Davidson to put the 1998 model of the Night Train in the game. Instead, the creators focused on a few specific aspects of the game that coul

“Mixtape matchmaking,” a type of playlist preferencing seen in Titanfall 2, will soon be joining Halo: The Master Chief Collection by popular request, according to the game’s community manager. pic.twitter.com/P0LJ3ovWeA — Brian Jarrard (@ske7ch) October 5, 2018Mixtape matchmaking would be especially useful to The Master Chief Collection because it spans four different games in the Halo series, providing more eras and maps than the typical multiplayer shooter. Halo: The Master Chief Collection g

Venom may be a critical mishmash but commercially, the $80 million worth of tickets it sold set a record for an October open, reports Box Office Mojo. The $80 million is per Sony Pictures’ estimate, more than enough to top the previous October premiere weekend record, 2013’s Gravity ($55.7 million). Venom’s surprise box office totals don’t square with the critical reception it got; Rotten Tomatoes splats it with a 32 percent fresh overall, 21 percent among top critics. That might explain why Ven

As Assassin’s Creed Odyssey continues the franchise’s transition into a full action role-playing game, a lot has changed. Gear basicsEvery piece of gear, both weapons and armor, has three pieces of information you care about — level, rarity, and at least one stat. This will cost you resources and drachmae, and the item’s rarity broadly determines how much of each it’ll cost. It costs a lot more (both in drachmae and in resources) to upgrade a legendary item than it costs to upgrade a common item

In earlier Assassin’s Creed games, your characters had something called “eagle vision” that would let them see through walls to track their targets. In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Alexios and Kassandra don’t have that ability. But they do have an eagle named Ikaros that can share his sense of vision. What Ikaros doesIkaros provides you with a lot of, effectively, metadata about the world around you. How to use IkarosThere’s a pretty standard set of steps to using Ikaros effectively.

Star Trek: Discovery finally gave fans what they’ve been anxiously waiting for: Spock. Spock, originally played by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series in the 1960s, will be played by Ethan Peck, grandson of To Kill a Mockingbird star Gregory Peck. “Through 52 years of television and film, a parallel universe and a mirror universe, Mr. Spock remains the only member of the original bridge crew to span every era of Star Trek,” Kurtzman told Variety. We searched for months for an

Fortnite will stage a “Support-a-Creator” event beginning next week, through which content creators on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter and other platforms can earn money when their fans spend V-bucks in the game. How that works: Players will, from the Item Shop menu in Fortnite Battle Royale (the Loot tab in Save the World) go to the event’s menu and add their favorite creator’s Epic tag. Thus tagged, that creator will earn money based on the V-bucks that user, and all others who have them tagged, spen

The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be finished, under an agreement Skybound Games has reached with Telltale Games. We’re SO happy to announce that we’ve reached a deal with @telltalegames that will allow Skybound to continue #TheWalkingDead: The Final Season! pic.twitter.com/ShyREw65iq — Skybound Games (@skyboundgames) October 7, 2018Variety reported this evening that Skybound is working with developers on Telltale’s Walking Dead team, though nothing has been finalized yet. Skybound Games i

His uncle Aaron stole a spider from the same experiment that gave Peter Parker his powers, which escaped and bit Miles. Eventually, however, he was inspired by the tragic death of his world’s Peter Parker to assume the mantle of Spider-Man. Like Peter, Miles is strong and agile, he can stick to walls, and he has a “spider-sense” that warns him of immediate danger. Most of that is still true in Sony’s Into the Spider-Verse — including the part about the Peter Parker of Miles’ universe dying while

Amazon’s Good Omens finally has a trailer after years of teasing. Good Omens will operate as a six-part mini-series that Amazon is co-producing alongside the BBC. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist …Good Omens fans will be happy to learn that Gaiman has written each episode. David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) are set to star. Good Omens premieres in 2019.

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Just like in the movie, the comic book version of Anne Weying is a successful lawyer, and used to be romantically involved with Eddie Brock. Anne and Eddie were already divorced when the journalist first encountered the Venom symbiote, which had just been callously discarded by Spider-Man. After she was shot by the supervillain Sin-Eater, the symbiote bonded with her in order to save her life. But unlike Eddie, Anne found her stints as She-Venom pretty traumatic. In Venom, the Symbiote bonds to

AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead is moving into a new phase. Fans of The Walking Dead may recall their freshman year English classes of high school, reading William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies. Through its nine seasons, The Walking Dead has seemed to loosely adapt Golding’s structure and plot points, while drawing out the drama and further complicating the plot-lines, archetypes and characters along the way. This occurrence in the classic novel reincarnates and updates to fill the

System Shock’s remade textures and environments are shown off for the first time in this look at the “Adventure Alpha” Nightdive Studios supplied late yesterday. Kickstarter backers who pledged $750 or more have been invited into the alpha to poke around; this is what they’re seeing at the moment. In the video, one can see Nightdive is working off the original levels and even bringing in the old textures. From the update note to backers, it sounds like the Adventure Alpha is more about recreatin

At issue is PC update 22, which rolled off of test servers and into the full game earlier this week. Here’s one from the PUBG subreddit:We all hoped that players, unless specifically invited, would be restricted to their own region. Players have called for China to be segregated away from other PUBG regions before, and the reaction to the new matchmaking has renewed that demand. “For now, please use ‘quick join’ for the fastest matchmaking time.”But whatever problem that has solved, it doesn’t a

Netflix’s adaptation of Gerrard Way’s popular gothic comic book series, The Umbrella Academy, is finally upon us. Netflix brought the comic adaptation to New York Comic Con as part of its “Netflix and Chill” spooky programming block. The Umbrella Academy was published by Dark Horse Comics, and follows a family of superheroes hellbent on investigating the strange circumstances surrounding their father’s death. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates

Dark Phoenix, the sequel to 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, will offer an intimate look at Jean Grey and her struggles with the Phoenix Force. Note: Spoilers for early moments in Dark Phoenix]The film opens with the launch space shuttle Endeavour launches (remember, it’s 1992). Nightcrawler finds the commander, but cannot reach Jean in time and has no choice but to teleport back to the X-Jet. The X-Men watch helplessly as the golden cloud encompasses the shuttle — and Jean inside of it. Mystique follo

Kristian “KaptainKristian” Williams, one of YouTube’s most beloved video essayists, is back after a year away, and the community is rejoicing over his return. His last YouTube video was published in October 2017, and Williams also disappeared from YouTube until now. “Thanks everyone for the well wishes and for sticking around, I really appreciate it,” Williams tweeted. Williams’ new video examines 12 specific techniques used by Disney animators to create that specific Disney style. “2016 — 19 vi

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. Its first exotic perk is Slug Rifle, which causes the gun to deal Solar damage and become more powerful when you’re aiming down its sights. The second exotic perk is For the Empire. Its exotic perk, Starless Night, causes your Ward of Dawn to blind enemies who walk inside it. Its exotic perk, Actual Grandeur, causes you to take very low damage while casting Nova Bomb — and your Nova Bomb kills grant Super Energ