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February 2, 2016
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Satirizes The Film’s Trailer
Posted on February 2, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards
How do you spoof the trailer for one of the highest grossing films of all time? Excellent lighting? A colorful script ripe with satire? How about building your cast entirely out of Lego people? Travelers Tales returns to A Galaxy Far Far Away with Lego Star Wats: The Force Awakens for Xbox One and Xbox 360.
The game promises to allow players to experience the story of The Force Awakens through the unique lens of Lego combined with the humor that Travelers Tales have provided in previous Lego Star Wars entries.
No word on a price point or whether or not the game will be released on competing consoles. The Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions have been dated for June 28, 2016 as per the recently released reveal trailer.
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Rainbow Six: Siege Operation Black Ice Released With New Trailer
Posted on February 2, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards
Ubisoft have released a brand new in-game trailer to celebrate the release of Operation Black Ice, the first major expansion to last December’s Rainbow Six: Siege. Along with the new trailer they also updated their official site to outline all of the content that is about to go live in Operation Black Ice.
Here is just a brief rundown of some of the additions:
- Brand new map that takes place in Artic Canada – Yacht
- Two new operators from the JTF2 (Joint Task Force) – Buck and Frost
- Spectator mode available on game modes.
- New Weapon Skins
- Various balance changes to existing content
It is pretty cool to see Canadian special forces represented in the game, complete with our own map! Trust me – even if parts of our country get really cold in the winter, our whole country isn’t some tundra arctic wasteland. Watch the video in the embedded player below or head on over to the official Operation Black Ice website for a list of all the changes.
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New Format Announced for Blizzard CCG Hearthstone
Posted on February 2, 2016 by Broken Joysticks
Hearthstone lead designer Ben Brode has taken to youtube to announce a new format for Hearthstone. The format is called Standard, and will encompass all card sets released in the most recent two years. At the start of each year, card sets older than two years will rotate out of the game as the first expansion of the year gets added. Cards from the basic and expert sets are excepted from this rotation and will stay in Standard forever. Since these shifts will be an annual thing, Blizzard is tying them to what it calls “The Hearthstone Zodiac”, dubbing this first year of standard “The year of the Kraken”. Players will still be able to play in a format with all cards available, which was the only format available up until this point. This format has now been redubbed “Wild”. Check out the announcement video below the jump.Read More
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AMD Announces New Processors & Motherboards To Exist Alongside Current Offerings
Posted on February 2, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced new entries in its existing line of “A Series” APUs and “Athlon” brand processors that will co-exist alongside existing offerings. They have also announced that they will begin producing motherboards for their current AM3+/FMS2+ socket types that will feature more modern connectivity options such as USB 3.1 with the C-type connector.
In terms of new processor AMD will roll out the A10-7860K, the A6-7470K and the Athlon X4 845. The A10 is currently AMD’s most powerful all-in-one APU providing Radeon graphics processing and a multi-core processor on one dye. The new A10 APU will run at a boosted speed of 4.0GHZ, had 8 GPU cores and has a reduced power footprint over previous versions – 65W down from 95W.
The Athlon X4 845 will run at 3.8GHZ boosted / 3.5 GHZ stock and also boasts a lower consumption compared to other Athlon X4 models – coming in at just 65W.
Both the A10-7860K and the Athlon X4 845 will be compatible with the new Wraith Cooler that AMD unveiled at CES this past month. The Wraith Cooler will replace the existing stock cooler on several of the company’s chipsets including the Athlon X4 870K, A8-7670 and other processors.
New motherboards will manufactured by ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock.
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3 New Tracks Join Rock Band 4’s Line Up Today
Posted on February 2, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards
Harmonix has announced that they will be making available three new tracks on both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. “Get Lucky” from Daft Punk, “Heartbreak Song” from Kelly Clarkson and Outcast’s “Hey Ya!” all join the optional downloadable content available for Rock Band 4.
New Tracks Launching Today On PS4 and Xbox One Include:
- Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Heartbeat Song”
- Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
In addition to today’s new tracks Harmonix has released a bit of a brief tease for fans – a list of upcoming artists who will be added to the game via DLC this month. They include:
- Bruno Mars
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Generation X
- J. Geils Band
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
- masaya matsuura
- Motörhead
- Orleans
- Royal Blood
- Zac Brown Band
Finally, lest you think that Harmonix has simply been adding paid content to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace, fear not. This month’s free content update include various exploit fixes and minor features, new gear for your avatar & more. Here are some quick patch notes provided by Harmonix:
- Scores earned via Play a Show mode now post to the leaderboards;
- New Rock Shop items include Raz’s helmet from Double Fine’sPsychonauts as well as a Whispering Rock t-shirt;
- Puts the end to several scoring exploits, including the Band Overdrive issue;
- Several fixes that improve scoring issues with the Freestyle Guitar Solo system;
- Audio mix adjustments which result in a more “full” and “live” mix, as well as several minor bug updates.
We reviewed the base game last October on the PlayStation 4. In general we thought that it was a pretty solid set list worthy of your time.
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