Month: December 2020

The thriller game Martha is Dead is coming to PS5, along with the already-announced PC and Xbox versions. It’s scheduled for Q1 2021, and the announcement suggests that all three versions will hit simultaneously.

The game takes place against the backdrop of World War 2 amid the Italian countryside. A young woman, Martha, is found drowned on the shores of a lake. Her twin sister sets out to solve the murder as the war approaches closer to their home. LKA says that the story ties in history, superstition, folklore, and psychological trauma.

That all sounds pretty spooky by itself, but it’s matched by an equally shudder-inducing trailer depicting the basic plotline with marrionettes. There’s nothing creepier than marionettes. That’s just a science fact.

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Fortnite’s Marvel-filled season is over. Season 5 officially starts on December 2, and although little has been confirmed about the season as Epic Games wants to surprise everyone, but we do have a few clues about what’s in store for the future of Fortnite. Here’s what we know about when Fortnite Season 5 starts and what to expect from the upcoming update.

When Does Fortnite Season 5 Start?

Fortnite’s Galactus event has taken place, and it concludes with a countdown revealing the start time for Season 5: 9 PM PT on December 1 / 12 AM ET on December 2. Server maintenance is scheduled to take place then, though, meaning you won’t be able to jump right into the game. That maintenance should take four hours, so here’s the schedule for when you can start playing Season 5:

• US West Coast: 1 AM PT
• US East Coast: 4 AM ET
• UK: 9 AM GMT
• Australia: 7 PM AET

Until then, Fortnite is currently down and unplayable.

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Twitch streamers hoping to get in on the Fortnite excitement today faced an unexpected hurdle. Epic Games announced that it had no way of preventing clips from today’s Galactus event from getting flagged by Twitch’s copyright detection systems, and it turns out it was due to the use of an AC/DC song. This led to streamers such as DrLupo temporarily cutting the game’s audio in order to avoid encountering any issues.

“For Twitch Creators streaming the Galactus event: Due to a lack of solutions similar to Lickd, we cannot prevent your VOD/clip content from getting flagged by the platform’s copyright detection systems,” a tweet from Epic Games read ahead of the event. “The general recommendation is to either mute your VoDs or turn off VODs/clips entirely to protect yourselves against any kind of claims or strikes as best as possible.”

Hypex, a notable Fortnite leaker, said in advance that the copyright issues would only come from a small segment of the event, and that proved to be true. “Fun-Fact for streamers: Not the whole event is copyrighted music, just a 20-30 seconds part, and its gonna be so obvious to notice,” they tweeted. “So I suggest you to prepare some hotkey to mute the game audio in OBS!”

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The CW’s Arrow may have wrapped earlier this year, but in true DC multiverse fashion, some of the familiar faces you got to know and love across the show’s eight seasons aren’t ready to call it quits just yet. Actor David Ramsey, who played Oliver Queen’s friend and fellow superhero John Diggle, will be returning to the shared TV universe both in front of and behind the camera according to Deadline.

Ramsey will be reprising his role as Diggle AKA Spartan in the upcoming Superman & Lois–and he’ll be joined by some familiar faces:Supergirl, The Flash, and Batwoman. Interestingly, however, he will also be playing a new role in Legends of Tomorrow, but who that role is or what it might entail is being kept under wraps.

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Breath of the Wild continues to inspire similar concepts in many games seen today. Here are several similarities we’ve seen between the two games.

History Channel’s Vikings–a historical drama inspired by the sagas of legendary hero Viking Ragnar Lothbrok–may be wrapping up after Season 6, but it’s far from the end of the partnership between the show’s creative team and the powers that be at the channel. Vikings creator Michael Hirst will be executive producing a new History Channel miniseries titled The Plague Year, according to Variety.

As the name suggests, the upcoming show takes place during one of the worst outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague–in London, during 1665. The show is described as a series of portraits of Londoners “of all stripes” as they decide whether to flee or remain in the city, learn “how [to] keep going when everything around you has fallen to pieces.” It should be just the thing to get our minds off the coronavirus when the show premieres.

A&E Studios will produce The Plague Year. In addition to Vikings, Hirst’s pedigree includes similar works of historical fiction including 1998’s Elizabeth, 2007’s Elizbeth: The Golden Age, and the Emmy Award-winning television series The Tudors. The miniseries originates from a script by writer Coleman Herbert, whose past work includes Big Love, The Killing, and Rectify. No casting information or premiere date has yet been announced.

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A new Max Raid event is now underway in Pokemon Sword and Shield. All December long, certain Ice- and Fire-type Pokemon will appear in Max Raid dens more frequently than usual across the Wild Area, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra, including Gigantamax forms of Lapras and Centiskorch.

From now until December 31, players will be more likely to encounter Weavile, Avalugg, Lapras, Turtonator, and their pre-evolved forms in Max Raid battles in both Sword and Shield. Kantonian Ponyta and Rapidash will be appearing in Raids during the event as well. These forms are rare in the Gen 8 games, making this a good chance to add them to your collection if you haven’t already.

As previously mentioned, Gigantamax Lapras and Centiskorch will also be appearing more frequently during this month’s Max Raid event. Gigantamax Pokemon are normally incredibly hard to find outside of these events (although you can teach compatible Pokemon how to Gigantamax in the Isle of Armor), so you’ll want to take advantage of their increased spawn rate if you haven’t already caught them.

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