The CEO of PUBG Corporation, would like to see PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made into a movie someday. Not only that, Chang Han Kim told Inven Global that he can imagine a whole cross-media universe of Battlegrounds.
“We want to take part in diverse industries including Esports, movies, drama, cartoons, animation, and more. In fact, we received a couple of love calls from a number of developers in Hollywood and Netflix.”
It may sound silly to think about a movie or multiple-part series based on the basically plot-free Battlegrounds, but that never stopped Hollywood when enough money is on the line. If they can turn Battleship or emojis into movies, why not a rip off of Battle Royale?
Online multiplayer free roam is coming to Need for Speed Payback. Ghost Games and Electronic Arts confirmed the popular request is being worked on now, with an expected release later this year for all players. Currently, multiplayer free roam is only possible during lobby waits while queuing up for races. The coming update will allow players to take their arcade rides onto the streets of Fortune Valley and act like YouTube stars without being yanked out of their tomfoolery to play an actual match.
The World Health Organization has included “gaming disorder” in a draft of its 11th International Classification of Diseases, which will be published next year. According to the new guideline, gaming disorder is characterized by persistent or recurring gaming, online or off, that takes precedence over other interests and daily activities. Like regularly foregoing sleep to stay up until, oh, let’s say, a quarter to three in the morning to hit one more turn on Civilization IV.
The WHO’s guidelines are used by member countries to classify and diagnose medical conditions. Many private and government organizations take the WHO’s guidelines into account when drawing up their health care budgets.
The Mirai Botnet crippled major hubs of the internet in October 2016 with a series of distributed denial of service attacks deployed at a speed and volume that security experts had never seen before. The big innovation was using infected “internet of things” devices that consumers and manufacturers routinely fail to secure like home surveillance cameras or web-enabled kitchen appliances.
According to the Justice Department, it was all done in the service of Minecraft. There’s stiff competition in the world of pay-to-play Minecraft servers, and three young hackers, short on morality but long on innovation, turned their skills towards the business of securing Minecraft hosts. What better way to do that than invent the world’s most powerful botnet and unleash it against competing security and server providers? Okay, it may not have turned out the way the creators wanted, but for an upside, it taught the FBI how much money Minecraft can generate.
You can now unlock a Dealer companion in Hand of Fate 2. The Dealer’s Apprentice is a free update for the game that will allow you to add the Dealer to your combat strength in the action levels. While his ranged attacks aren’t as effective as his reputation suggests, he makes up for any martial deficiencies with quips galore. Plus, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that everything you’re suffering through adds to his misery.
Apple has updated their App Store rules to require the publication of loot box odds in games. Apparently taking a page from China’s regulations for gaming, the App Store guidelines now includes the following:
Apps offering “loot boxes” or other mechanisms that provide randomized virtual items for purchase must disclose the odds of receiving each type of item to customers prior to purchase.
Publishing loot box odds is a good idea regardless of your stance on whether or not the revenue model is gambling or harmful to children. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Ark: Survival Evolved is now an Xbox Play Anywhere title. The dino-taming survival game has launched on the Windows Store with Xbox cross-play compatibility and is part of the Play Anywhere program. Players that own a digital copy on their Xbox One can also play the game on Windows 10, and vice versa, for free. That’s two times the janky grinding and wood chopping for one price!
You can find a gun in Grand Theft Auto V’s GTA Online mode right now that can be unlocked for use in Red Dead Redemption 2. The golden Double-Action Revolver is up for grabs somewhere in the countryside of Los Santos. Players interested in the bounty need only answer the new message on the in-game smartphone and begin a multi-part scavenger hunt. Once you have the revolver, if you want to see it in Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One or PlayStation 4, you need to complete the headshot challenge. After all that, you’ll have your gun in the upcoming game, assuming the game releases while you’re still alive.
That’s the Predator in Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. The Predator special event kicks off today and runs through early January. Like the Day of Skulls or El Yeti events, the Predator missions feature some light scavenger hunting and a battle with a boss enemy, in this case, the movie monster with the dreadlocks. Track and kill the baddie in solo or co-op modes and you’ll unlock a nifty mask with Predator-vision. If you want to hunt in style, there will also be a DLC pack to purchase that will give players movie-themed weapons, cosmetic bits, and the deadly wrist-blades. Sorry, match-up fans. There’s no sign of the xenomorphs from Aliens yet.
The Krampus is here! Running until January 9th, Killing Floor 2 is running a free Krampus Christmas Seasonal Update featuring the yuletide terror of zombie elves, killer snowmen, and the new Abomination boss monster as the Krampus. Players will also get the chance to explore the Krampus Lair map, which is a bit like Santa’s workshop with chainsaws and blood. You’ll yearn for the days when fruitcake or socks were the worst gifts you could expect under the tree.
Spiderling Studios has added multiplayer to Besiege. The Multiverse Update features multiplayer with your Steam friends and a basic level editor. You can now invite eight of your buddies into cooperative or versus arenas for some medieval explosions and eviscerations.
Besiege launched on PC as an early access game in January 2015.
There may soon be a porn-filled version of Road Redemption. Nutaku, a Canadian publisher that specializes in online and mobile erotic gaming, is negotiating with mainstream independent game developers to make special builds of their titles featuring adult sexual content. Speaking to PC Gamer, Mark Antoon of Nutaku said the company has a $10 million initiative to fund these sexy-time variants of existing games. In Road Redemption’s case they are working with Pixel Dash Studios and EQ-Games to create a slightly different single player campaign featuring pornographic scenes between missions.
If you’re curious about their catalog, note that there are two Nutaku sites. The original Nutaku.net site is very much not safe for work. The Nutaku.com site established in 2015 is an “all-ages” site that still leans towards titillation and the kind of imagery that focuses on scantily clad women.
That’s the teaser for Bridge Constructor Portal coming from Headup Games. It’s a fully licensed standalone Portal game that mixes the engineering and physics puzzles of a normal bridge constructor title with GLaDOS and turrets. It is appropriate then that the teaser leaked a bit early ahead of The Game Awards since Portal is all about making the best of a bad situation.
Bridge Constructor Portal launches on December 20th for Steam, iOS, and Android devices. Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions will follow in 2018.
Redhook has announced the next DLC for Darkest Dungeon. The Color of Madness will bring an alien infestation to the game. Have no worries about goofy science fiction little green men ruining the bleak nihilism of Darkest Dungeon. The expansion obviously takes its inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space. A dreadful comet crashes in the farmlands near Hamlet and unleashes a dark and terrible corruption on the land, like a neverending stream of monsters with leaderboards.
Survive as long as you can stomach, and compare your highest kill count with friends and rivals alike!
If you, like a lot of tween fans, love the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise, get on Steam and download the latest game now. It’s free. There’s no microtransactions or loot boxes. And it might be the last Five Nights game for a long time. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is a surprise release from creator Scott Cawthon that is a lot more than it appears to be in screenshots. The innocuous-sounding low-res game holds some secrets for aficionados of the series.
In June, the developer confessed that he was contemplating a break from Five Nights. Assuring everyone that he wasn’t kidding, Cawthon hinted at working on other projects like a VR title or even “a pizzeria tycoon game” for the fans.
