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Legendary and Square Enix will produce a live-action adaptation of Life Is Strange
Legendary Entertainment has been bitten hard by the video game adaptation bug. Warcraft opened in theaters earlier this Summer, and more recently, the studio signed a deal with The Pokemon Company to produce a movie based on Detective Pikachu.
Now, they’ve set their sights on Dontnod’s Life Is Strange.
Square Enix has announced they’re teaming up with Legendary Digital Studios and DJ2 Entertainment to produce a live-action webseries based on Life Is Strange. Like the game, the adaptation will follow teenage photographer Max Caulfield as she learns to deal with her newly-discovered time travel powers in the face of apocalyptic visions.
In other coincidentally recent Life Is Strange news, Square Enix and Dontnod re-released the game’s first episode as a free download last week.
“Life is Strange is one of those rare properties that combines incredibly developed characters and storylines with deeply engaging gameplay,” said Greg Siegel, the Senior Vice President of Development and Production for Legendary Digital Studios. “It lends itself perfectly to live-action imaginings. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Square Enix, Dontnod Entertainment, and DJ2 to bring the world of Arcadia Bay to life in an exciting new way.”
The search is currently on for a screenwriter, so hopefully we’ll learn more about Life Is Strange’s live-action adaptation soon.
Daily Scoop: July 28, 2016 – Last day for Giga Game Bundle
You only have a few hours left to snag the Giga Game Bundle at Story Bundle. Pay what you want for Surviving the Game Industry: A Wasteland Guide, How to Talk about Videogames, Playing at the World, and A Psychogeography of Games. Pay $12 or more to also unlock Boss Fight Books: Spelunky, GameMaker Language, So You Want to Play Go?, and HG101 Presents: Taito Arcade Classics.
Hit up the Humble Store for more sales! Kero Blaster is $4.99, Guilty Gear Isuka is $1.49, and Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox is $7.99, among others.
Over at Steam, you can play Ark: Survival Evolved for free for the next two days. If you like it, you can pick it up in early access for just $14.99. The Daily Deal is ADR1FT, which is on sale for $9.99.
Hit the jump to see the lovely t-shirts we can buy today! (more…)
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Darksiders: Warmastered Edition officially announced for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Wii U
The apocalypse is being remastered once more… Nordic Games announced today that Darksiders will be re-released for the PC, PS4, Wii U, and Xbox One as Darksiders: Warmastered Edition.
In Darksiders, players saddle up as the first Horseman, War, and roam scorched Earth in search of the shadowy cabal that kickstarted the end of the world. The Warmastered Edition takes the original game and polishes it using improved graphical rendering to present its revelation in 60FPS (30 FPS on the Wii U) with 1080p visuals, better shadow quality, doubled resolution on all textures, and new post-processing effects. Basically, it’ll be a much prettier apocalypse.
The Darksiders: Warmastered Edition is expected to be available this Fall, though Nordic Games would only say that its release date is “Coming Soon.”
Former Burnout developers at Three Fields reveal they’re working on a racing game
Several founding members of Criterion, including Creative Director Alex Ward, split away from the Burnout developer in 2014 to form Three Fields Entertainment. Since then, the small company released their debut game, Dangerous Golf, and pledged to continue working on new titles “in a healthy and sustainable way.”
That brings us to yesterday, which is when Ward revealed the team is returning to their racing roots using the most low-key announcement I’ve ever seen:
Work has begun on a driving game.
— Alex Ward (@CrashedAlex) July 27, 2016
Will this new game look to Burnout for inspiration? It’s too early to know for sure, but if the indoor destruction found in Dangerous Golf is any indication, I’m going to say “probably.”
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Tagged Danger Zone
Xbox Store Today: We Happy Few, Hyper Light Drifter, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1+2, more
Xbox One Game Preview fans will definitely want to pay attention to today’s Xbox Games Store update, which includes the official early release of Compulsion’s We Happy Few, a drug-fuelled trip through the 1960s in a retrofuturistic city in England.
Speaking of “retro,” Heart Machine unleashed their overhead action RPG Hyper Light Drifter on the Xbox One. The “Zeldalike” features a unique graphical style, along with “enemies [that] are vicious and numerous” and “hazards [that] will easily crush your frail body.” Slightly less retro is Activision’s Xbox One re-release of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, a pair of action RPGs that were originally released for the Xbox 360. Both games are available separately or in a two-game bundle.
Finally this week, Telltale continues Minecraft: Story Mode with the seventh episode, Access Denied. It’s available to download for both the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
You can find more information on all of these (and a few other new releases) after the break. (more…)
Daily Scoop: July 27, 2016 – Gotta catch more of these t-shirts!
We are almost done with Stranger Things, and I’m devastated over it. But the good news is, we also started Hyper Light Drifter on the PS4, and really enjoyed the co-op mode! I wasn’t expecting it to be so smooth.
As always, there are lots of sales happening at the Humble Store right now. Rampage Knights is $5.39, Total War: Warhammer: Call of the Beastmen is $17.09, and Life Is Strange is $14.99, among others.
The Daily Deal at Steam is Space Run Galaxy, which is on sale for $13.39. They have lots of other specials as well – Life Is Strange – Episode 1 is free, Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition is $22.49 in the THQ Classics package, and early access to From the Depths is $3.99.
There are so many shirts today – 11 total – and only one isn’t Pokemon-related! Hit the jump to see them all! (more…)
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Hello Games encourages players to “Fight,” “Trade,” “Survive” in No Man’s Sky
Hello Games recently released the final three videos in their Four Pillars of No Man’s Sky series.
“Video 2: Fight” gives the promise of “epic space battles” with lots of explosions and color in the sky, and a battle for survival when you’re planetside. In “Video 3: Trade,” players can “gather natural resources” that you can then travel the galaxy to buy and sell. “Every trade tells a story,” the trailer boasts. And “Video 4: Survive” shows the “hostile environments” and “deadly lifeforms” that will keep you on your toes. Watch out for those rads – I mean, that radiation!
No Man’s Sky will be out on August 9th for the PlayStation 4 and August 12th on PC. Hit the jump to see the three videos. (more…)
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1992 Dream Team and 2016 USA Basketball team will take the court in NBA 2K17
2K Games wants fans to go for the gold this Fall as they’ve announced plans to add the 2016 USA Basketball Men’s National Team that’ll compete in this Summer’s Olympics and the 1992 “Dream Team” to NBA 2K17:
Comprised of NBA Hall of Famers, including Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone and David Robinson, the 1992 “Dream Team” is universally considered one of, if not the greatest, team ever assembled in basketball history. Fans will be able to pit that roster against this year’s athletes on the USAB Men’s National Team, which includes NBA 2K17 cover athlete Paul George and Team 2K athletes Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler, and Kyrie Irving.
The 2016 USA Basketball Men’s National Team will be included in the main game and available to everyone who purchases NBA 2K17, but the 1992 “Dream Team” will only be available as bonus content for fans who pre-order.
2K Games also confirmed that Mike Krzyzewski, Coach K to friends and fans, will appear on the sidelines coaching the 2016 USA Basketball Men’s National Team. Krzyzewski stepped into a motion capture booth for his NBA 2K debut and he’ll also appear in a revamped Tutorial Mode that focuses on “teaching fundamental basketball strategies including pick and roll execution, proper defensive positioning, ball movement, boxing out, court awareness, and more.”
NBA 2K17 will be released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on September 20. However, everyone who pre-orders will receive access to a special “Tip-Off Edition” that’ll be released on September 16.