October 2018 – Page 99

GTA Online Brings Back an Updated Sumo Mode

This week, GTA Online is pitting players head to head. Well, I suppose more literally it would be hood to hood. Or hood to trunk. Or Trunk to side? Anyways, the point is that Rockstar is bringing back the year-two adversary mode Sumo.

The original mode featured a variety of sedans, muscle cars and off-road vehicles vying for control of terrain – usually a small island or the roof of a skyscraper – and would end either when all of a teams opponents had been knocked off, or someone could no longer fit inside the shinking final circle. Sumo Remix, on the other hand, has its own custom stunt arenas and a constantly-changing, ever-shrinking safe zone. While the original was a free-for-all demolition derby that eventually came down to a shrinking circle, Sumo Remix has everyone scrambling to get inside a new safe zone every 30 seconds.Each safe zone gets progressively smaller, so you’ll need to fight aggressively as a team to ensure you get a spot inside the zone and keep your opponents out. Parts of the map will occasionally disappear as well, so you’ll need to use caution when traveling between the zones.

New Tycoon Game Has You Grow and Sell Weed

Publisher Devolver Digital has announced a Tycoon game that has you growing and selling marijuana.

Weedcraft Inc is developed by Vile Monarch, the team behind Crush Your Enemies and the insult simulator Oh…Sir! and will have players carefully managing their resources to cultivate their own unique strains of weed to unleash upon the market.

Selling weed in America comes with its own unique challenges, and Weedcraft Inc looks to explore that by giving players the ability to try to impact legislation to make their business more viable or simply try to pay off the police.

This new Tycoon game promises to explore many different facets of weed culture. As a marijuana mogul, you’ll explore the world of weed from your typical recreational user to those desperate for medicinal cannabis and all the legal and financial aspects that go along with them.

What We Want From This “New Era” of Marvel Games

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Hulu’s Into the Dark: Exclusive Trailer Debut for ‘The Body’

Just in time for the Halloween season, Hulu is partnering with Blumhouse Television to bring an all-new horror anthology series to life. Over the next year, Into the Dark will debut “12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday,” featuring Blumhouse’s “signature genre/thriller spin on the story,” according to Hulu.

The series’ first outing, titled “The Body,” is set to premiere on Friday, October 5. Per Hulu, The Body centers on “a sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society who finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume.”

Here’s Red Dead Redemption 2 in First-Person

Update: Rockstar Games has released the second official gameplay trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, and it showcases the game’s first-person mode.

Check out the trailer below to see the mode in action.

Original story follows.

Rockstar has revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 will follow in GTA V’s footsteps by allowing you to play the entire game from a first-person perspective.

Shown off in our hands-on with the game, first-person mode can be turned on and off at any time (on the PS4, this is done by clicking the trackpad to cycle through the camera modes until you get to first-person), and applies to the entire game, barring cutscenes. The feature will be available at launch.

Why Do We Love the Character Venom?

With director Ruben Fleischer and star Tom Hardy’s much-anticipated Venom movie about to hit theaters, some of us are on pins and needles in anticipation. This character is important to fans. But why exactly do we love him so much?

Venom, to offer a brief primer for the uninitiated, is a Spider-Man villain invented in 1988 that serves, essentially, as Spider-Man’s evil twin. Venom is the alter-ego of Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter and rival of Peter Parker who had fused with an alien symbiote (visualized as a blob of living, shape-shifting intelligent tar that once served as Spider-Man’s costume) that wrapped around his body and implanted a dark voice in his head telling him to commit acts of violence and, occasionally, cannibalism. Venom, looking like a nightmare version of Spider-Man – complete with a gaping be-fanged mouth and giant lolling tongue – started his career terrorizing the populace, but eventually became a dark antihero – a lethal protector – starring in his own comics and, as of this month, his own movie.

Titans to Premiere on Netflix Internationally

Though DC Universe will debut its first original series, Titans, in the United States, Netflix has acquired the international streaming rights for fans overseas who don’t have access to DC’s digital subscription service.

As reported by Variety, Netflix will be home to Titans everywhere but the United States and China, the later of which doesn’t have official access to Netflix at all. Though Titans is scheduled to hit the DC Universe streaming service on October 12, the international premiere date for Titans on Netflix has yet to be announced.

Though DC Universe launched in the US on September 15, and has been announced for a Canadian release in the future, it appears Canada will be one of the many countries that will enjoy Titans on Netflix, at least for now.

Goodbye Dragon Bones: Daredevil Season 3 Will Be More ‘Grounded and Real’

Netflix and Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 debuts on October 19, but when Matt Murdock returns, it will be in a more grounded and realistic version of the Marvel Universe.

After fighting zombie ninjas, looking for dragon bones, and dealing with an evil, formerly dead girlfriend, series star Charlie Cox promises that Daredevil is going back to basics in the new season. I visited the set of the show while it was shooting in Brooklyn last spring, so read on for all the details Cox and showrunner Erik Oleson revealed about Season 3, including whether or not the episodes are really based on the classic story “Born Again,” the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, pulling back from the more comic-booky elements of Season 2 and The Defenders, and more.

Black Mirror: Season 5 Release Month and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Episode Announced

The fifth season of the Emmy-winning anthology series Black Mirror will reportedly premiere in December of 2018 and will bring with it an episode that will allow viewers to choose how events in the story play out.

As reported by Bloomberg, Netflix is “developing a slate of specials that will let viewers choose the next storyline in a TV episode or movie,” and the first new project appears to be an episode of Black Mirror, a show that delves deep into the wonder and danger of technology.

Netflix has already released a choose-your-own-adventure style children’s program called Puss in Book that allows viewers to, for example, “choose whether the pugilistic feline fights a god or a tree.”