What’s up everybody I’m Nick and this is the weekly fix the show where we round up all the gaming and entertainment headlines you may have missed this week it’s already February can you believe that time just never slows down but that’s okay because we’ve got a pack show for you this week we’re
Looking into everything you need to know about the launch of Suicide Squad killed the Justice League another reputable switch to rumor how Deadpool 3 might save the MCU and a whole lot more anyways time is money I’ve talked enough let’s hit that transition graphic and get to the first Story Suicide Squad kill the Justice League officially hits retail tomorrow January 30th but if you pre-ordered the deluxe edition for $30 extra dollar you were granted Early Access That was supposed to have begun well now unfortunately a bug discovered right when Early Access went live forced developer Rocksteady Studios to pull the
Game entirely via statement on Twitter Rock steady said quote we’re aware that a number of players are currently experiencing an issue whereby upon logging into the game for the first time they have full story completion the statement set it continues to resolve this issue we will be performing
Maintenance on the game servers during this time the game will be unavailable we expect this to take several hours and we’ll update once we have more information we apologize for the inconvenience it’s unclear if customers who forked over the extra money for the deluxe version will be getting refunds
Or any type of compensation after all Early Access was touted as one of the features of the more expensive version and as of shooting this video the game is still unavailable hours after it was supposed to have gone live meanwhile if you’re wondering where IGN’s review of
The game is which you’d think we’d have up by now considering the game comes out for everybody tomorrow well we’re not going to get it up until then either publisher Warner Brothers elected not to send certain Outlets review codes for the game and yeah we published a fairly
Negative preview a while back but considering the state of this early access launch there might be more to it than that if you want to read more on that bit of drama you can check out Tom Marks explainer over on ign.com with games like Starfield and balers
Gate 3 last year getting players all hot and bothered over romance options it can sometimes feel like romance systems are becoming a staple of modern RPGs that’s not going to be the case with AOW which is opting to forego a dedicated romance system for a focus on building thoughtful relationships with companions
Instead in an interview with IGN game director Carrie Patel confirmed avow would not feature romance options she said we are building thoughtful relationships with our companion characters ultimately I personally am a fan of making that an option but I feel like if you’re going to do it you really
Really have to commit and make sure that you’re giving all to fulfilling that in a way that feels both true to the character but also creates an engaging player experience so not something we’re doing for a vow but I wouldn’t say never Patel points out that having a dedicated
Romance system in a story focused game is a ton of work you need options for both a fulfilling romance as well as a regular friendship for those who don’t want to go down that path in addition players generally expect multiple romance options and expectations around the depths of each relationships only
Seem to be climbing higher and higher with each new Shadow Heart video games introduce it’s a big ask and also not in necessary one if the story of the game doesn’t lend itself to romance in the first place so romance wasn’t part of the vision for a vow and they don’t want
To half-ass it I can respect that although i’ love to be able to romance this guy a vow is due out later this year on Xbox and PC I don’t know if it’s a guy or not could be a girl some more rumors have emerged about what we can
Expect hardware-wise from Nintendo’s as of yet unannounced follow-up to the switch Bloomberg reports that OMD analyst Hiroshi hayas a specialist in the display Market claims the new console will feature an 8 in LCD screen and will launch sometime later this year this is in line with previous rumors
That we heard and while it’s a bummer for anybody hoping for an OLED screen the added real estate should be pretty noticeable comparatively the launch switch has a 6.2 in screen diagonally and the OLED version is 7 in launching the new model with an LCD screen will
Keep costs down and based on the number of people that I know who double dipped on the OLED model after already owning a launch model Nintendo seems to have a pretty good reason to wait a couple of years and drop a mid gen refresh with a nicer display again nothing is confirmed
But this is a reputable Source not just some Anonymous post on neoaf or a kid on the playground who says his uncle works for Nintendo previously VGC posted a report that the new console will still have a cartridge slot though there’s no word on whether or not it’ll be
Backwards compatible you better believe we will keep you posted on whatever Nintendo’s cooking up hopefully we get an announcement sooner than later and finally today Warner Brothers has gifted Suicide Squad kill the Justice League deluxe edition owners $20 of in-game currency as a make good for server issues that rendered the always
Online game unplayable for periods during launch Suicide Squad killed the Justice League arrived on January 30th for those who paid $100 for the deluxe edition which was supposed to Grant customers a 3 days Head Start over everyone else but the early launch had issues including a bizarre bug that automatically completed Suicide Squad
For some and forced the game offline for more than 6 hours additional downtime prevented players from logging on before the service stabilized but not before disgruntled customers complained about not getting their money’s worth now Warner Brothers has sent affected customers an in-game message about the gift thank you for being one of our
First console players during Early Access of Suicide Squad killed the Justice League the message reads per post from Twitter user J shock blast we recognize that you’ve been patient with us during our initial launch server updates and we’d like to show our appreciation for your patience with a
Special gift of 2,000 Luther coins thank you again 2,000 Luther coins cost 20 bucks and we’ll get you a couple of standard in-game skins or a single Deluxe or legendary skin the debacle over suicide squad’s launch issues has renewed calls for the promised offline
Mode to be added to the game as soon as possible with Suicide Squad launching for standard edition owners on February 2nd all eyes are on the servers to see if they hold firm or render the game unpl playable once again Warner Brothers games is about to unleash Suicide Squad
Kill the Justice League upon the world one of the most controversial aspects of it is that it will require an online connection to play at launch an offline mode patch will come later but as unpopular a decision as this seems to be it sounds like we should expect more
Always online games from Warner Brothers in the future according to variety Warner Brothers Discovery Chief David zazo is emboldened by the mega success of last year’s Hogwarts Legacy which was the bestselling game of the year and Mortal Kombat 1 CFO gunar wiels at added I’ve double and triple checked some of
The metrics here because it’s such a great investment opportunity I’m stunned that we haven’t been investing more into this opportunity we’re going to start tackling that he’s talking about gaming in general so Warner Brothers wants to double down on gaming and CEO of global streaming and gaming JB pet told variety
They need quote more than just one great hit every 3 or four years and here’s where we come to the quotes that will be most relevant to you dear viewer pet says we want it to be always on and the good news is the gaming space is lending
Itself to that he’s looking to quotee build out live Services mobile games and free-to-play games for Warner Brothers most profitable franchises which include Harry Potter DC Mortal Kombat and Game of Thrones after the dust settles on suicide squad Warner Brothers will be working closely with new DC co-boss
James gun to create more DC games pet said frankly there hasn’t been as close a relationship between the studio and the games business as there should have been and James is actually a gamer so having someone who’s passionate about it is super helpful the lit analyst Kevin Wescott tells variety that streaming
Platforms are looking looking to get more into gaming specifically live service gaming because gaming has a much lower churn rate of subscribers Netflix is obviously really going for it with an already large roster of big names like Grand Theft Auto Tomb Raider dead cells and more Wescott said if you look at
Those companies that have large streaming platforms they’re dealing with three plus% per month churn on their subscribers live games the ones the gaming industry is now talking about have a very very small churn rate as compared to streaming so you’re seeing more and more of the streaming players
Saying why don’t we add games as part of my entertainment offering games have a lower turn rate music has a lower turn rate and I’ve been recommending to our clients that they should think about offering a whole slew of other types of Digital entertainment so more live
Service games for Warner Brothers in the future and if we don’t like the sound of that maybe we should increase our churn rate in Live service Games ubisoft’s long- awaited pirate gam skull and bones is finally coming out next month and for anybody impatient to climb aboard and
Set saale there’s an open Beta taking place a few days before launch the beta will be on all platforms namely Xbox series PS5 and in PC and will run from February 8th to 11th in that time players can reach the infamy cap of tier six and earn exclusive rewards including
Unique ship Cosmetics an emote a weapon and a pandal lemur pet progress will carry over from the beta to the full game which comes out February 16th Ubisoft plus subscribers will get the game 3 days early on February 13th Ubisoft also announced a full year-long road map or maybe more of a nautical
Chart for skull and bones’ post-launch content IGN’s Travis Northup had a chance to experience it firsthand along with some highight endgame content so if you’re curious go check out his preview February is right around the corner and with it comes a new batch of games on PlayStation Plus today Sony revealed
That foam Stars roller Drome and steel Rising will be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers from February 6th to March 4th those games aren’t the only things Sony has cooking for players in February subscribers will also receive a Fall Guys icons pack allowing them to Fashion their little bean dudes and
Costumes of aloy from The Horizon series and Ratchet and Clank from well Ratchet and Clank in addition to the Fall Guys cosmetic p pack ps+ premium and Deluxe subscribers can look forward to a Valentine’s Day gift in the form of a Spider-Man 2 game trial the trial will
Give you a 2-hour time limit to web swing to your crime fighting Hearts content plus any story progress and trophies you unlock during that a lot of time will carry over to the full game should you decide to purchase it later now for the games foam stars is a team
Based hero shooter from Square nck where the goal is to leave your adversaries in your suds basically think about it as if OverWatch 2’s Heroes were dropped into the world of Splatoon and their weapons were soap based foam Stars will be a available to ps+ subscribers on both
PlayStation 4 and 5 roller drone by Ali Ali World developer roll 7 is a third person shooting and roller skating game set in a dystopian 2030 you play as a skater whose tasked with entering a battle arena against waves of arm skaters for the chance to be crowned as
The champion of the roller drum in our review we said its roller skating and third person shooting may sound odd together but just like it Stellar soundtrack roller Drome finds Harmony in marrying the two to create something that truly shreds R drone would be available for ps+ subscribers on both
PlayStation 4 and 5 and steel Rising developed by French game Studio spiders is a soulslike set in an alternate history of the French Revolution where lethal automatons run a muuk in our review we said steel Rising is a competent action RPG with an unforgettable setting but it’s dragged
Down by its hum drum souls-like formula that doesn’t do anything to make its combat or exploration Stand Out Steel Rising will be available for ps+ subscribers on PlayStation 5 anyway finally in other Sony news indie game developer Lilith Walker AKA PSX bun lith has announced that the fan-made
Bloodborne cart has finally gotten the attention of Sony but not in a good way VIA Twitter Walker announced that Sony had gotten in touch about the indie game project and now the bloodborne branding has got to go Walker taking the news in stride saying quote we are all expecting
This to happen although the game will no longer be bloodborne themed the dev team are excited to now be working on an original game that they have quote full control over I guess that’s one way to get eyes on an indie game you launch it
With a known IP attached to it and then I don’t know just follow the cease and desist and change the logos around that’s basically what happened with them’s fighting herds which began as a m Little Pony brawler before Hasbro’s lawyers picked up the phone worked out
Fine for them in the end so here’s hoping that bloodborne cart or whatever they decide to call it finds similar success bloodborne cart was first announced back in 2022 with a release date of January of this year and as you might have guessed that release date is
Going to have to be postponed while changes are made while you wait you can still play the team’s PS1 Dake of bloodborne bloodborne PSX the world of copyright law is immensely convoluted in order for companies to retain the rights to their IP they have to defend it when
Other parties start using it even if they’re using it in like a very nice flattering Love Letter sort of way like this that said a free fan-made bloodborne cart PC game seemed like a pretty textbook example of just parody and a harmless one at that would have
Been cool if Sony gave it their blessing or even help publish it then again it would be nice if Sony did literally anything with the bloodborn franchise we say this every time they announce a state of play but at G whiz it sure would be nice to hear about a bloodborne
Remaster remake PC Port sequel TV show literally anything do put put the put the weird carriage in in Gran Turismo do literally anything with bloodborne just just show the bloodborne logo with no context we’ll all cheer Tekken 8 is out today and even though it’s launching with a hefty
Roster of 32 Fighters fans are already clamoring for one specific guest character they want to see at it TAA lockart from Final Fantasy 7 in fact there have been so many demands that Tekken boss katero harata had to tell them to cool it responding to one of
These demands in a quote tweet harat son wrote we all know she’s attractive and I understand that but as of yet we have not decided anything about guest characters Etc looks aside Tia’s fighting style would be right at home in Tekken the main issue is that Tekken is
Owned by Bandai Namco and Final Fantasy is under Square Enix that doesn’t mean a TIA appearance is out of the question though we’ve definitely seen weirder Crossovers and coincidentally just yesterday haraan posted some photos from the taipe game show saying quote ff7 rebirth and Tech and eight are in the
Same Bandai Namco Booth which is confusing for a moment this is the interesting part of publishing and distributing in the game industry for context Bandai Namco is publishing Final Fantasy 7 rebirth in parts of Southeast Asia these things tend to happen it’s possible that horadan is hinting at a
Future collaboration it’s also possible he’s just pointing something out and it’s also also possible he’s messing with fans because he knows they want Tifa in Tekken 8 he has been known to goof around like that like I said Tekken 8 is out right now without Tifa until we
Hear otherwise the next place you can make her whoop some ass is in Final Fantasy 7 rebirth which hits PS5 on February 29th moving on embrace the group has reportedly canceled a new day of sex game that was two years into development and laid off some staff at
Idos Montreal idos Montreal released a statement on Twitter addressing layoffs but not the reported DSX game cancellation the statement reads the global economic context the challenges of our industry and the comprehensive restructuring announced by embracer have finally impacted our studio the difficult decision has been made to let
Go of 97 people from development teams Administration and support services the report of the cancel DX game comes from Bloomberg although the exact shape the game was in is unclear Bloomberg says it was canceled after 2 years in development but then goes on to say It was supposed to begin production later
This year embrace the group has been aggressively shutting down its Studios ever since its rumored $2 billion deal with the Saudi backed Savvy games group reportedly fell apart other Studios that embrace the group has shut down so far are Saints roow developer volition and time Splitters Creator free radical
Design embracer Group acquired Idol Montreal from Square Enix back in 2022 along with the rights to franchises like Tomb Raider and DX the most recent entry in the DSX franchise was 2016’s DSX mankind divided cool game moving on remedy entertainment has released update 1.15 for Allen wake 2 adding an option
To turn down the game’s spookiness the patch notes also point to Myriad bug fixes alongside the addition of a chapter select option in the main menu letting players Hoover up those final Collectibles with more ease remedy is quick to point out the update also includes the much requested option to
Tune down the horror flashes with players able to choose between low and normal horror flash Visual and audio intensity my favorite patch note here is in the visuals Department it goes fixed the vegetation not always reacting to explosions in a cool way now that makes me want to fire up the game
Again glad to see Alan Wake is releasing a mode that’s tailor made for me because even though I love horror games they’re getting way too scary these days speaking of horror games Sony announced a ton of new stuff this week during their state to play one of which
Is a highly anticipated remake of Silent Hill 2 you can check out everything announced at the link below on IGN playlist all right we’re about to take a quick break but don’t worry because when we come back we’re checking out the latest on Deadpool 3 Dragon Ball daa
Mortal Kombat 2 and much more stay Tuned welcome back you missed me I know there’s a new Dragon Ball anime on the horizon and we’ve got everything you should take away from the latest trailer as well as an update on James gun’s super goal and how Dakota Johnson feels about her upcoming Madam Web
Movie but first let’s check out the latest on Mortal Kombat 2 take it away production on the Mortal Kombat 2 movie has wrapped and actor Carl Urban has some words to share with fans I post on Instagram with this photo Urban said quote that’s a picture wrap for me and
Johnny Cage on Mortal Kombat 2 massive thanks to our Incredible Crew Cass and phenomenal stunt team hands down the most action-packed fun I’ve ever had on a film can’t wait for you all to see it and looking at the photo he definitely does resemble his video game counterpart
A whole lot more Carl Urban is set to start as famous movie star Johnny Cage along with huki Sonata reprising his role as scorpion in the first movie now producer Todd Garner also dropped a bariz of teaser images of other characters set to show up in the sequel
Like this one here and this is supposedly Quan a villain who longtime fans of the Mortal Kombat series were surprised to see now we ain’t seeing much of him though it’s just a hand but we do have him confirmed for the sequel along with Jade Katana shiao khah and
Sindelle now we don’t know when the movie will be released just yet but with principal photography being done it could be either late this year or sometime 2025 we’ll keep you posted as news breaks X-Men first Class director Matthew vaugh thinks Deadpool and Wolverine can save the MCU and speaking
On bro Bible’s post credit podcast he said quote the few Snippets that I know about Deadpool versus Wolverine or Wolverine versus Deadpool I’m sure that argument between Ryan and Hugh is happening as we speak are unbelievable able that’s going to be the jot the Marvel universe is about to have a jot
Of them and it’s going to bring that body back to life I think Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are about to save the whole Marvel Universe now with Deadpool 3 the only Marvel Cinematic Universe movie set to release this year on July 26th here’s hoping it’ll be the
Redemption Marvel fans have been looking forward to after an abysmal 2023 full of MCU related projects that were just shy of hitting the mark at the box office Madam web Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man adjacent superhero flick hits theaters in about 2 weeks and I know a lot of us
Are skeptical if it’ll be any good and apparently that includes its star Dakota Johnson in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly Johnson discussed the challenges of acting in front of a blue screen saying quote there’s fake explosions going off and someone’s going explosion and you act like there’s an
Explosion that to me was absolutely psychotic I was like I don’t know if this is going to be good at all I hope that I did an okay job the actress does have faith in director SJ Clarkson though and went on to appraise her saying quote she works so hard and she
Has not taken her eyes off this movie since we started not all the effects in the film are digital and in the interview Johnson also discusses doing some stunt driving work apparently driving an ambulance and also a taxi during the course of the film is that
Accurate to what Madame Webb does in the comics does she just drive like a bunch of different vehicles I don’t I don’t know I feel like probably no anyway as much fun as it is to dunk on bad trailers it takes a ridiculous stupid painful amount of work to make a movie
And with a few notable exceptions it’s pretty safe to assume that nobody sets out to make a bad movie I think I think the underlying issue with Madden Webb is that nobody asked for a Madden Webb movie and I doubt anybody actually wanted to make a Madden Webb movie as
Far as I can tell this movie exists solely because Sony is trying to squeeze as much money out of the Marvel character as it has the rights to maybe it’ll be a pleasant surprise and do something interesting or maybe it’ll be a complete train wreck that becomes a
Cult classic we’ll have to wait and find out when Madame Webb hits theaters February 14th Valentine’s Day Ooh La La how romantic now another news Marvel has reportedly found a replacement for stevenh yin’s character in the upcoming Thunderbolts movie according to the Hollywood reporter actor LS Pullman is
Apparently the Studio’s Top Choice in stepping into the role Wy believed to be the century now you might remember Pullman from Top Gun Maverick so it makes sense that he’d be the Studio’s Top Choice huh now there’s no confirmation on this news as neither Marvel nor Pullman’s reps have commented
On this news but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if he shows up when Thunderbolts hits theaters July 25th 20125 shifting cinematic superhero universes James gun provided a little non update about Superman Legacy specifically that Batman will not appear in it on threads a fan tagged the
Director at a post asking quote why can’t Batman appear in Superman Legacy and can we see Batman in some other production before his film to which gun replied well he can’t appear in Superman Legacy because he’s not in the script take this with a grain assault I guess
Because things could always change and even so if Batman was going to show up do you really think that gun would just like spoil it there having bats pop up and a post-credit stinger would definitely get people excited about the new DCU but it’s also totally fine with
Me if gun is more concerned with making one movie than setting up the next three a trend that the MCU and the DCU seem to kind of run into the ground the first place we know for sure we’re going to see The Dark Knight pop up in the DCU is
In the Brave and the Bold The Flash and it chapters 1 and two director Andy musti is currently attached to the project and it’s supposedly going to draw from Grant Morrison’s Batman run exploring the father-son relationship of Batman and Robin otherwise we don’t really know much about this bear in mind
It is a completely unrelated project to the Matt reev sequel to The Batman which exists in its own elor’s pocket Dimension or whatever in any case super man Legacy hits theaters July 11th of next year and it hasn’t even begun filming yet but we will keep you posted
When we find out more James gun has cast his Supergirl in actor Millie Alto now she’s best known for portraying princess rera Targaryen in HBO’s Game of thron spin-off House of the Dragon now while it’s up in question if Supergirl will appear in the upcoming Superman movie Superman Legacy it has been mentioned
She’ll appear in a DC based project before soaring high in her solo film Supergirl woman of tomorrow now James gun had nothing but positive words when talking about the new casting stating that he first became aware of the actress in House of the Dragon but was blown away by her varied auditions and
Screen tests for the role of Supergirl and there’s no release date just yet for the Supergirl movie but with Superman Legacy slided for a 2025 release schedule expected to follow in the years to come music Mula forell Williams is having his life tow through Legos in a
New movie called piece by piece the Focus Features movie directed by Morgan Neville will document the come up of a young nerd will to become an influential nerd creating n launching the illustrious career of the Neptunes and introducing the world to farell Williams and it’ll all be creatively towed
Through Lego pieces a foral even took to Instagram to post this really cool poster with a statement quote who would have thought that playing with Legos as a kid would evolve into a movie about my life it’s proof that any one else can do it too now piece by piece hits theaters
October 11th now other news Kurt Russell spoke with GQ about why he didn’t take on the role of snake in kima’s Metal Gear Solid series a role he was apparently offered for Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater when asked about the obvious influence of snake pliskin from
Escape From New York he had this to say I come from a different era I wasn’t interested in expanding financially off of something that we had created or that I had created in terms of a character then I get business people sure or we could we
Could do this with that we could do this with that or we could do this with that you know and then I look at it that’s not written by John that that’s not that doesn’t smell right John’s not here to do this with why why am I I’m not going to do that
Let’s go do something new let’s go do something fresh let’s go create another iconic character rather than saying what can we bleed off of this iconic character and you know you don’t look at them as iconic characters I mean they they refer to them is that if they
Become that you’re just doing a day you’re on a day-to-day running it having a good time and trying to trying to make it work and little did he know that gojima snake would go on to be just as iconic in his own Medium as the character who inspired him but honestly
It’s all for the better as we were blessed with the vocals of David hater for several years and he’s honestly the goated snake VA we might have to date speaking of reimaginings of flying superheroes who crash landed on Earth as baby we got another glimpse of Goku’s
New adventures in a new trailer for Dragon Ball da da premieres this fall and will tell an all new story that sees Goku and basically the entire Dragon Ball cast transformed into small children for some reason this already happened to Goku once in Dragon Ball GT but this time it’s happening to
Everybody which is a very very silly premise and one that seems to kind of hearken back to Classic Dragon Ball the new trailer shows the Pint siiz San wolfing down a bunch of exotic food like black cheeseburgers and a fried lizard and then beating up a bunch of much
Larger demonic looking bad guys so you know Goku stuff you can check out the full trailer for yourself but aside from a glimpse of the new visuals it doesn’t really give any more context I know a lot of fans were hoping to see a continuation of Dragon Ball super but
I’m really stoked to get something as totally goofy as daa and Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama is more closely involved with this than he has been with any of the recent projects that dropped sometime this fall if you want to hear my full thoughts I wrote a big long
Video all about that when the first trailer showed up so go check that out if if you’re curious I’m Nick and that was your weekly fix we’ll be back next week with more the biggest gaming and entertainment news but until then check out IGN rewards it gets you access to a
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