Gaming
Brand New Call of Duty: Black Ops III Trailer Released
Well folks, it’s coming up to that time of year again. Earlier today, Activision and Treyarch released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming installment in the Call of Duty franchise. Dubbed “Ember”, the trailer cinematically explores the pitfalls and philosophical implications of technology’s role in human enhancement. Much like the previous Call of Duty, Treyarch are continuing the franchise along its near-future narrative. Good news for all you Advanced Warfare fans.
The three minute teaser gives various hints as to the themes of the upcoming game, displaying shady military happenings, civilian unrest and the blurring of the line between man and machine. Fair play to the folks over at Treyarch, it was a pretty cool little teaser with a lot of interesting things to think about. But, this is Call of Duty we’re talking about here; we want to see the shootbangs!
As if by half decent marketing, the teaser also… well, it teases the grandiosely named ‘world reveal’ which will be going live across the entire planet on April 26th! Hopefully here, we can have some gameplay and get a decent feel for how the latest instalment is shaping up. Who knows, maybe this year will be the year that the franchise finally decides what it wants to be. I honestly believe that there is room for a really well-made single player campaign here. With a little bit of care, Treyarch could no doubt pull off a thought provoking story mode that explores the themes discussed in the teaser.
Or, it could gloss over the single player campaign as we all expect and focus all effort on the multiplayer. Either way, let’s hope for something new and interesting with this iteration. With its last efforts, Treyarch have brought a number of new additions to the series, many of which have been discontinued and forgotten. But who knows, we’ve seen a fair amount of innovation in the Call of Duty series of late. Maybe Treyarch will add even more. We’ll find out on April 26th.
Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.
According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.
More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.
Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!
Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.
Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.
IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.
Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.
Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?
Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.
Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).
How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?
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