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Microsoft Turns Spartan Locke Armor into Halo 5: Guardians DLC
Halo 5: Guardians, the next title in Microsoft’s flagship Xbox series is set to launch this holiday season. Now that they’ve announced the release date Microsoft and developer 343 Industries can kick their marketing for Halo 5 into full gear. They’ve already kicked off a new audio series and released two trailers. This week a third trailer released focused on new character Spartan Locke’s armor. The Spartan Locke armor caught fans attention the first time it was revealed. This week’s trailer let fans know how they can get their hands on that armor.
The trailer shows Spartan Locke performing what might be the biggest ground pound in history jumping out of a pelican drop ship hovering over a city. After that the trailer is filled with non-stop action all of it showing off the Spartan Locke armor set. As Halo’s newest Spartan works through a horde of Covenant enemies an announcer pops up to say:
“Sometimes you’re the predator sometimes you’re the prey. When hunting season starts make sure you have the right gear”
So what is all this flashy display of the Spartan Locke armor about? The end of the trailer gives that away, gamers can pick up that fantastic new Spartan Locke armor set in-game. If they pre-order Halo 5: Guardians from Gamestop that is. The new trailer actually comes from Gamestop to promote the first of what will probably be many pieces of pre-order DLC. A move that will probably come as a shock to fans since no gameplay footage of Halo 5 has even been released before DLC was announced.
It’s a bold move for Microsoft to make when E3 is right around the corner; where they’ve promised huge new details about Halo 5. Many would say that waiting until after details, especially gameplay, was released at E3 to announce the Spartan Locke armor DLC would have been a better choice. Halo fans are still reeling after the rocky release of the Master Chief Collection, that’s being fixed by 343 seven months after release. Only time will tell how the Spartan Locke armor announcement will affect gamers opinion of Halo 5.
One player found an unusual way to roam Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s New York City as Venom again. However, intentionally crashing your game during a story segment requires nerves of steel, so we wouldn’t recommend it. Possible Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 spoilers!
UnderTheHood788 explained their method, which involves reaching a cutscene that switches players to Peter. They unplugged their PS5 when the screen blanked while switching to fidelity mode. As the game renders slower, fidelity mode was used. Players get Don’t Be Scared, a mission without an objective, after reloading the last save.
UnderTheHood788 advises, “Wait a bit and go to an unidentified target mission or talon drone mission to become Venom. Reload and become Venom, committing crimes against hunters, the flame, thugs, and even symbiotes. Bases are possible.”
If you like causing carnage, get a move on—Insomniac will spoil the fun in the next update. This indirect approach—what do you think?
On December 7, Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora hits PS5. Fans can expect new creatures, characters, and storylines that are influencing other Avatar projects as part of James Cameron’s canon.
Massive Entertainment director Magnus Jansén told IGN that the game’s new Western Frontier region—from plants to Na’vi clans—is now Avatar lore: “The Western Frontier is no less a part of the world of Avatar than what’s in the movies.” Jansén says one of their creations is in an Avatar exhibition, but most excitingly, “there is already some talk about maybe using some of the stuff that we did in the upcoming movies.”
Jon Landau, producer of the Avatar films, said: “I think clans are a perfect thing to someday try to weave into the movies. However, new environments follow. Go and say, “Okay, let’s explore what you did in the video game in the movie.” Frontiers of Pandora introduces the Aranahe, Zeswa, and Kame’tire Na’vi clans.
In addition, Lightstorm VP of franchise development Joshua Izzo teased: “I can say that there are going to be some future sequel elements in Frontiers of Pandora that will pay off when the movie comes out when Avatar 3 comes out in 2025. Because of ’25, careful Avatar fans may want to revisit certain things.
CD Projekt’s live-action Cyberpunk 2077 won’t arrive until 2025. In the company’s latest earnings call, the PM project was only mentioned as not expected in 2024.
During a call with IGN, chief commercial officer Michał Nowakowski stated that the company will continue to promote the game and develop the Cyberpunk IP through activities beyond the game.
Nowakowski said, “We’re not really discussing specifics here, but one of the obvious things that we have announced, not happening next year, but going to be developed or moved in the direction next year, is the project we have announced with Anonymous Content.”
Anonymous Content, which produced Crime & Punishment, True Detective, and Mr. Robot, seems like a good fit to bring Night City’s mean streets to life. We don’t know if the project will be a TV show, movie, game adaptation, or standalone story.
Would you attend a live-action Cyberpunk event? Would you like it in what form? Jackie and V lost six months. With Johny Silverhand, Behind the Music?
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