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The Roblox Corporation has announced that in supporting the World Health Organization’s coronavirus (COVID-19) Solidarity Response Fund, the studio is bringing the One World: Together At Home benefit relief concert to the massively multiplayer online game Roblox this weekend.

The studio shared a blog post specifying that the remote musical concert will be held inside Roblox on Saturday, April 18 from 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 6 PM GMT all the way to 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET / 2 AM GMT. The concert will be split into two parts, with the second being replayed on Sunday, April 19 from 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT to 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 7 PM GMT. The event space is open now and is available to players across mobile devices, PC, and Xbox One.

One World: Together At Home Roblox Concert Times

• Event Space Opens: Friday, April 17 at 12 PM PT
• World Premiere, Part One: Saturday, April 18 from 11 AM – 5 PM PT
• World Premiere, Part Two: Saturday, April 18 from 5 – 7 PM PT
• World Premiere, Part Two (Replay): Sunday, April 19 from 10 AM – 12 PM PT

One World: Together At Home is a music concert hosted by Global Citizen and curated by Lady Gaga. It will feature performances by artists such as Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, Common, Elton John, Jack Black, Kesha, Lizzo, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Usher, and many more.

The concert will also be co-hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert, and will stream on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, and a bunch of TV networks like ABC, NBC, and more.

Paul Haddad, the original English voice actor for Leon S. Kennedy in Capcom’s Resident Evil 2, has died at the age of 56.

Invader Studios, the team behind the upcoming Resident Evil-inspired Daymare 1998, confirmed Haddad’s death on Twitter, as the actor had been set to appear in the upcoming horror game, which is set to be released at the end of April.

“Paul Haddad, our dear friend and an icon among the RE community, has passed away recently. We’ve been truly honored to have the chance to meet and work with such a great man and a brilliant professional that He was. Rest in Peace Paul… You will live forever in our hearts,” the tweet reads, accompanied by a tribute video to the actor featuring his voice work for Daymare.

Paul Haddad, our dear friend and an icon among the RE community, has passed away recently. We’ve been truly honored to have the chance to meet and work with such a great man and a brilliant professional that He was.

Rest in Peace Paul… You will live forever in our hearts. pic.twitter.com/o6gkMqX7SI

— Invader Studios™ (@InvaderDevs) April 17, 2020

Nick Apostolides, who voiced Leon in 2019’s Resident Evil 2 Remake, has also posted a tribute to Haddad’s memory.

While Haddad did not appear in many other video games, he appeared in a host of other television shows and movies throughout his career, including work as Quicksilver in the original X-Men: The Animated Series and Mr. Fox from the children’s animated show Franklin.

Haddad did not go on to voice Leon in subsequent Resident Evil installments, but the character of course has become one of the most iconic from the franchise following that first appearance, most recently appearing in the Resident Evil 2 Remake.

Microsoft recently started putting out teasers for something related to Cyberpunk 2077, possibly including specialized hardware, with a full reveal to come on Monday, April 20. The company appears to have inadvertently jumped the gun, however, putting the trailer up early on its official Xbox YouTube channel.

The trailer shows off the limited edition Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X bundle. It includes custom paneling and a cyberpunk stylized paintjob, glow-in-the-dark graffiti, an LED light, and laser etching. It’s said to be coming June 2020. The trailer is marked as unlisted, but it’s viewable as of the time of writing.

The trailer also shows off the special edition controller. That had been previously leaked, thanks to an Amazon listing that briefly went live for pre-orders. The controller was slated for release on May 4.

The Xbox teasers consisted of a short teaser video on Twitter, and a “glitch” on the official Xbox site. That teaser showed an image that appeared to be a silhouette of an Xbox console and controller.

Cyberpunk was pushed from its spring release date to to September 17. CD Projekt Red hopes that by that point, retail stores willl reopen. The studio has been open that it expects to release versions for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 as well, sometime after their launch.

Apex Legends‘ Season 4: Assimilation is scheduled to end on May 5 and Respawn has possibly already started hinting at what’s coming in Season 5 with small in-game map changes. The latest map change includes an Easter egg to Titanfall 2‘s most infamous level–which makes sense, since Respawn said Apex Legends Season 5 would have a “pleasant surprise” for Titanfall fans.

If you go to The Dome on World’s Edge, you can now discover a mysterious datapad in one of the main buildings. If you look at it before picking it up, you’ll notice it grants access to something having to do with the ARES Division. Picking it up briefly flashes a message across the screen, which reads that there are more sub-level rooms to discover and the entry point seems to be Singh Labs. Reddit user HIRUZENandENMA was the first to find the datapad and reveal the full message–their post is embedded below.

So how does this tie back into Titanfall? The Archaeological RESearch Division (ARES) is a part of the IMC, first encountered in-game during Titanfall 2’s memorable Effect And Cause level, which takes place on the planet Typhon. ARES was attempting to fix the Fold Weapon, an alien technology that could bend time and space, in order to use it as a planet killer. You destroy it in Titanfall 2, but Apex Legends has long since hinted that people have continued the work that ARES started.

Back when the Singh Labs were added to Kings Canyon during the Voidwalker event and Crypto first appeared in-game, there was a laptop that you could interact with that revealed that, before she was Wraith, senior research science pilot Renee Blasey was experimenting with finding a way to fold space time in order to travel between dimensions. Thanks to the Voidwalker animated short, we know Wraith is originally from Typhon–she could have a connection to ARES, and that connection could be the driving force behind what’s coming in Season 5.

Wraith wouldn’t be the first legend to discover she has a bone to pick with the IMC. Crypto was framed by The Syndicate, a company revealed in hacked emails to have ties to Hammond Robotics, which was once (like ARES) a part of the IMC. And Revenant hates Hammond Robotics for forcing him to be their immortal slave, going so far as killing the company’s sponsored champion, Forge, on live television.

The Final Fantasy 7 Remake makes some changes to the original, mainly by filling in subtle character details and story gaps. One of the bigger changes is to the villainous Sephiroth, who appears much earlier than he did in the original. In an interview on the Square Enix blog, producer Yoshinori Kitase explained the rationale behind the change.

“The way we handled Sephiroth in the original Final Fantasy VII was to hide him–hold him back,” Kitase said. “You may not know this, but I was inspired by the movie Jaws which took a similar approach of teasing this powerful presence, but never fully showing you the shark until later in the story. We wanted to build him up as this really big, powerful character in people’s minds. By only referring to him indirectly, it created this feeling of fear and oppression–so when he makes his first appearance, it’s a big deal.”

But, Kitase explained, Sephiroth has become too well-known nowadays. His iconic status means using that same approach of holding him back isn’t as effective as a storytelling mechanic.

The other reason, he said, was a function of the multi-part saga. Since this is just the first entry of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, he wanted to make sure to lay some narrative groundwork.

“Sephiroth is this massively overarching presence that looms over the whole Final Fantasy VII saga,” he said. “We wanted to make sure that aspect of him was present in this first game in the project–that’s why we have introduced him much earlier in the story now.”

The earlier introduction of Sephiroth may also play into the ending and setting the stage for the second part. For a thorough look at the ending and what it might mean for the future, read up on our (very spoiler-filled) FF7 ending explained.

All four seasons of Farscape are currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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When we think of iconic sci-fi franchises that paved the way for shows such as The Expanse or Killjoys, you typically hear names like Star Trek, Firefly, Stargate SG1, and Ronald D. Moore’s reimagining of Battlestar Galactica. And while those titles were pivotal in shaping the way we think of how modern spacefaring stories should be told, there’s one particular title that often gets lost in the mix. Farscape, running from 1999-2003, successfully blended the campiness often associated with the genre, while also incorporating some of the thematically darker, more character-driven stories that have become commonplace. If you find yourself cooped up at home and in need of a fantastic space adventure, Farscape will scratch that itch.

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Farscape was created by Rockne S. O’Bannon (seaQuest DSV, Defiance) and produced by the Jim Henson Company, whose Creature Shop was responsible for many of the puppets used throughout the series. The story centers on astronaut John Crichton after his experimental spacecraft — Farscape I — is propelled to a different part of the universe via a wormhole. There, Crichton hitches a ride with a band of criminal misfits aboard a living Leviathan ship named Moya. For much of the series, Moya and its crew are on the run from a militaristic force known as the Peacekeepers.

While many of the TV shows out today run for eight or 10 episodes per season, Farscape followed the older model of 22-24 hour-long episodes. But even with these extended seasons, Farscape excelled at blending episodic and serialized narratives together so there were very few filler episodes throughout its four-season run. At the macro level, the story is about Crichton trying to get back to Earth so he can be reunited with his family. However, some of the series’ most memorable moments exist in the quieter, more character-driven storylines.

Take Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black), for example, a former Peacekeeper soldier who joins Moya’s crew. Since birth, Aeryn was trained to be a soldier, displaying very little empathy for anyone or anything. But as the series progresses, little by little, Crichton’s hopeful optimism begins to change the way she views the universe and its diverse inhabitants. Her arc is reminiscent of Finn’s from the most recent Star War trilogy, where we finally get to see a villainous stormtrooper as an actual person instead of just a mindless masked drone with zero personality.

The other members of Moya’s crew are equally delightful, from a helium-farting amphibious aristocrat named Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy) to a blue-skinned female priestess named Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan (Virginia Hey) to their Peacekeeper pursuers like Scorpius and Bialar Crais, every character has a unique personality and backstory.

After you’ve devoured all 88 episodes and you find yourself asking, “Shouldn’t there be more?”, well, you’re absolutely correct. Sadly, the series was cancelled midway through the fourth season after the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) found itself with new management that didn’t want to spend the money on a fifth and final season. Thankfully, co-producer Brian Henson acquired the rights to the franchise and partnered with O’Bannon to create a mini-series, titled Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004), which wrapped up the story for the fans. Since then, there have been graphic novels from BOOM! Studios, and even rumblings of a Farscape feature film.

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Streets of Rage 4, the long-awaited return for Sega’s iconic beat-em-up series, is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on April 30. You’ll be able to pick it up for $25 or via Xbox Game Pass.

Along with announcing the release date, developers Dotemu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush Games also unveiled a new trailer showing off Streets of Rage 4’s Battle Mode. The legacy mode–which is returning from Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3–lets you fight against friends in eight disparate arenas. Battle Mode is available for up to four players locally or two players online, whether you want to compete in a free-for-all brawl or partner up for some team-based action.

It’s been 25 years since the franchise’s last mainline entry. We got hands-on with the game back in 2018 and found it to be a nostalgic return to form for the classic series. Axel, Blaze, and Adam return along with a cast of new fighters and a striking hand-drawn art style. Olivier Derivière also delivers an original soundtrack, including contributions from series composers Yūzō Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima.