Category: Game

Watch Baymax be adorable on the daily A TV series based on the Disney film Big Hero 6 will premiere in 2017, the company announced ahead of its television upfront presentation Wednesday.

Big Hero 6: The Series will air on cable channel Disney XD, according to Variety, and will again star characters like Baymax, the adorable inflatable robot. Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, who created Disney Channel favorite Kim Possible, will executive produce.
Big Hero 6 hit theaters in 2014. The film is based upon a Marvel Comics miniseries by the same name, which had two separate runs: the first in 1998 and another in 2008. Disney’s adaptation differs from the comic book version, however; it offers a new take on the original cast of characters and resets the story in the fictional San Fransokyo.
Big Hero 6 went on to win an Oscar for Best Animated Features at the 85th Annual Academy Awards. A theatrical sequel hasn’t been announced, although characters from the film will appear in the Disney-Square Enix co-production Kingdom Hearts 3.

According to Philip Kollar from Polygon – Full Click here to read more

And a special edition with an RC drone tank Homefront: The Revolution will be available in a special package called the Goliath Edition, a bundle that includes the game’s DLC season pass and a real-life radio-controlled “Goliath" drone tank, publisher Deep Silver announced today.
The Goliath Edition will cost $159, a Deep Silver representative told Polygon. It comes with the game’s Expansion Pass, which covers "major single player expansions," according to a press release from Deep Silver. The spokesperson declined to specify the price of the season pass on its own, saying instead that Deep Silver will reveal that information — as well as details of the expansions themselves — "at a later date."
Homefront: The Revolution’s Goliath Edition gets its name from the armored vehicle that headlines the package: a six-wheel replica of a tank used by the Korean People’s Army, the game’s main antagonist group. The real-life version also features working lights. Here’s what else is included in the Goliath Edition, which will be available only in North America and will have a "strictly limited" production run:

a copy of the game in a Steelbook case
a 32-page art book
the Revolutionary Spirit Pack, which is a bundle of skins and weapons for your character in the game’s co-op Resistance Mode

Dambuster Studios, the developer of Homefront: The Revolution, is promising to deliver 12 months’ worth of post-release content for Resistance Mode — including new missions, challenges and equipment — for free. And Dambuster is planning to maintain a team "for at least a year after release" that’s dedicated to developing single-player content, all of which will be covered by the Expansion Pass, according to game director Hasit Zala.
Deep Silver also announced a long list of pre-order bonuses for Homefront: The Revolution. All pre-order customers will receive the Revolutionary Spirit Pack, and anybody who pre-orders a digital copy will also receive the Liberty Pack. The Guerrilla Care Package and Combat Stimulant Pack will be available at GameStop; Amazon will offer the Wing Skull Pack; and Best Buy pre-order customers will get the game in a Steelbook case.
Homefront: The Revolution is set for release May 17 in North America on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Mac and Linux versions are also in development. You can see an image of the Goliath Edition above, and six minutes of multiplayer footage below.

Some lucky eBay buyer’s pockets got a whole lot lighter A new and sealed copy of the first Harvest Moon game for Super Nintendo has sold for $3,783.33 on eBay. That’s the highest price fetched for a vintage game on publisher Natsume’s eBay store, which sells a mix of mint condition releases and current plush toys.
Natsume listed the item for auction one week ago; the winning bid was placed just 17 seconds before the period ended. The game had not been involved in a bidding war prior to this last minute offer; the highest offer on the eBay listing prior to its conclusion was for $1,225, placed one day into the auction.
Harvest Moon is one of several mint-condition older games Natsume has unloaded from its “vault" onto eBay. The company established the practice back in December and has since sold sealed copies of a variety of older, cult classic releases at astounding prices.
At the end of December, one buyer paid $1,691.66 for an untouched copy of Pocky & Rocky for SNES. In January, Natsume sold a copy of Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals, another ’90s SNES game, for $806.
In an interview with Tiny Cartridge, a Natsume community manager named CeeCee explained that the company had "kept copies around of games for a variety of reasons."
"Review copies before digital distribution was a thing, warranty needs, etc," she said. "Over time, these copies slowly added up until we had a fairly extensive collection of classic titles, just not in large numbers for any singular game."
Harvest Moon is a fan favorite series — one which Natsume continues to retain the license to in North America. Yet the developer of the Harvest Moon, or Bokujo Monogatari, series is Marvelous Entertainment. Marvelous and co-publisher XSEED formed Marvelous USA in 2014, a new publishing imprint in the U.S.
Marvelous USA now holds the rights to publishing all Harvest Moon releases, but Natsume still owns the Harvest Moon name in the U.S. This discrepancy means that all future games called Harvest Moon in the West are actually Natsume originals, not the games by Marvelous that fans recognize.
Marvelous USA now releases the Japanese Harvest Moon games under different titles in the U.S. The latest game in Marvelous’ Bokujo Monogatari series launched in the West in 2015; it went by the name Story of Seasons stateside. Last month, Natsume released Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories for mobile devices and Windows PC.
Fans looking for a Harvest Moon-style game have been flocking to Stardew Valley, an indie game in the vein of the farming RPG series that’s recently found success on Steam. For more on that game, check out our overview below.
Update: Graham Markay, Natsume’s vice president of operations at Natsume, told Polygon that the popularity of Harvest Moon and other classic games on eBay has been "a surprise."
"Our goal was to offer some extra inventory of titles we had to our fans and grow our eBay store," he said. "It was never about the money…but that is a nice surprise."

As a relatively new League of Legends player, sometimes watching the North America League of Legends Championship Series can be quite disheartening. These players and teams are, by and large, incredible, and it’s hard to imagine ever having a fraction of that skill.
Other times, I find solace in the fact that even the pros have bad games. Sometimes, hilariously awful bad games.
Such was the case this past weekend, when the NA LCS’ two lowest-ranked teams faced off in a match where they made virtually every mistake they could. The two teams were Renegades, who headed into the fight with only a single win and 12 losses to their name for the season so far, and Team Dignitas, who had a just slightly better four win/nine loss record.
The game begins with some incredibly awkward lane-swapping, as Renegades take a top lane turret and Team Diginitas take a bottom lane turret. It’s not an abnormal thing to see in a pro League of Legends game, but it’s handled sloppy. How sloppy? By four minutes and 35 seconds into the match, there have been four deaths … and none of them were caused by an opposing team member.
Team Dignitas somehow loses two champions to their poorly timed tower push. Meanwhile, Renegades, rather than taking advantage of that poor play from their opponents, manages to lose two champions while trying to fight the Rift Herald enemy. It’s a situation that’s so hard to believe, that even the casters are left speechless.
I won’t spoil any more of the match, but you can watch it for yourself in the video above. If you’ve ever felt bad about your own abilities at League of Legends, this should help. Be sure to stick around for a post-game interview where Renegades ADC Freeze explains how the team dealt with their rough early game mistakes.
And if you struggle all the time, be sure to check out this great video on how to avoid getting angry while playing.

We’ll all find out what happens together The sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones begins April 24, but critics will have to watch the shows live in order to write their thoughts and recaps. No early versions of the episodes will be sent to media.
“We’re not sending out press copies this year, anywhere in the world," HBO programming president Michael Lombardo told Entertainment Weekly. "There will be no copies for review."
This is a surprising move for a show of this size and following, but it shouldn’t be that shocking: The first four episodes of season five were leaked last year, and Game of Thrones continues to be one of the most pirated shows on television.
Piracy is only part of the issue, however, as the fear of content being spoiled may have something to do with this decision. The show has now mostly surpassed the timeline of the books, while also deviating from the written storyline. One of the twists in the next book can’t happen on the show at all, due to some characters being alive in the book who have died on the show.
"But that doesn’t narrow it down that much because at this point there are like 15 characters who are dead on the show who are still alive in the books," he said in an interview with IGN.
The lack of review screeners doesn’t just decrease the risk of piracy, but also means that fans and critics alike will experience every twist and surprise at the same time; no one will be able to spoil a plot twist due to publishing a story early or saying too much in a headline.

Naughty Dog’s action-adventure pushed back one more time Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will be released worldwide on May 10, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog today. That’s a two-week delay from the PlayStation 4 game’s previous launch date.
Shawn Layden, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, chalked up the brief delay to the need for more manufacturing time.
“As you know, Naughty Dog is wrapping up production on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End with the game on track to go gold and into production later this month," Layden said. "In an effort to meet the considerable worldwide demand, and to ensure that all gamers worldwide have the opportunity to play the game on day one, we have chosen to postpone the launch of the game by two weeks to allow for extra manufacturing time."
Uncharted 4 has been pushed back multiple times. The game was once planned for release at the end of 2015.
Naughty Dog will hold an open multiplayer stress test for the game this weekend.

Visit Sullust like a Sullustan Outer Rim, the first batch of paid downloadable content for Star Wars Battlefront, will bring Greedo and Nien Nunb to the shooter as playable heroes, Electronic Arts confirmed on the game’s official website today.
Greedo first appeared in Episode IV – A New Hope, but his existence in the Star Wars cinematic universe was short-lived. He was murdered in cold blood by Han Solo in a Mos Eisley cantina. Nien Nunb, a Sullustan, co-piloted the Millennium Falcon with Lando Calrissian in Return of the Jedi.
Battlefront players will also get new locations in which to fight, namely a smelting factory on the planet Sullust and Jabba the Hutt’s Tattooine palace, which consists of the gangster’s throne room and sail barge garage. Outer Rim will also usher in a new gameplay mode, Extraction. Here’s EA’s description of the new mode:

Rebel forces have entered some of the most dangerous places in the Outer Rim in order to extract a valuable shipment of resources. Now they must bring the shipment to their transport ship before time runs out. The Empire has arrived to stop them from reaching the extraction point.

Finally, players will get access to new weapons — the Relby V-10 rifle and DT-12 blaster pistol — as well as new cards with Outer Rim, namely the Scatter Gun, Dioxis Grenade, and Adrenaline Stim Star Cards.
Outer Rim will be available in March. New downloadable content focusing on Bespin and the Death Star will be released as DLC for Star Wars Battlefront later this year. Those add-ons are part of Battlefront’s $49.99 season pass.

A pithy podcast about the biggest, most interesting gaming, entertainment and pop culture news
Links to subscribe to Minimap in iTunes, your podcast player of choice or to download an MP3 are all a click away, tucked inside the buttons below today’s episode.

Here’s what we’re covering in your daily audio tour through the world of video games, related technologies and pop culture like comics, movies and TV.
THE BIG STORIES

Next PS4 update will let you play your games on Windows PC or Mac
Dark Souls 3: everything we know from playing the first four hours
Phil Spencer signals Xbox One hardware upgrades
Quantum Break looks like primetime TV rolled up inside a big action game
No Disney Infinity 4.0 this year, but continued support for 3.0

THE BEST OF THE REST

Rock Band 4 crowdfunding campaign hopes to bring the game to PC
New Captain America: Civil War photos show off Iron Man’s team

BECOME A MINIMAPPER
We’d love to count you as a daily Minimap listener. You can subscribe to the podcast wherever you like with these links:

iTunes
RSS for your podcast player of choice
SoundCloud
Polygon

PewDiePie may be taking home a gold statue What do Fargo, Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul and Scare PewDiePie have in common? They could all be nominated for an Emmy Award this year.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today that it is expanding categories and creating new ones to allow more opportunities for online creators to have their short series awarded by peers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As part of the ongoing change to keep the annual award show up to date with modern times, the academy is introducing short-form categories that will examine and include content from YouTube Red, Crackle, Adult Swim and more.
Within this new category, awards will be handed out for best acting performance in a short-form original series, best short-form original series comedy or drama, and best short-form original series reality or non-fiction. To be eligible to compete, the original series must have aired a minimum of six episodes, with each episode being 15 minutes or less in length.
Much like the technical and craft categories, the awards for this new section won’t be handed out during the televised Emmys event. Instead, a separate ceremony will be held to honor the nominees and winners, with highlights being announced during the televised main event.
It was only just recently that the Emmys started accepting submissions for original programming from streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. In the past few years, however, streaming services have proven to be worthwhile contenders, sweeping up at last year’s award ceremony.
The Emmy Awards will take place later this year. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel is expected to host.