It’s a big week for TV! By which I mean, to me, there’s a lot of bangers this week.
21.03.2024 - 13:33 / gameranx.com
Midori has shared new rumors of a few of Sega’s upcoming remakes of their classic games.
This information was collected and shared on reddit by user kuro_snow. We’ll run them down one by one below:
The next Streets of Rage game is apparently being made by Komi Games. A mobile port is coming, alongside PC and console versions. Komi Games is best known for making 3D arena fighting game Mighty Fight Federation. So there’s a real chance this brawler franchise is itself going 3D for the first time soon.
The next Virtua Fighter game will be officially announced later this year. Midori also previously revealed that Sega was working on this title, and that it will be the first full sequel after Virtua Fighter 5.
Both Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi are being built on Unreal Engine 5. If this rumor is true, Sega may want to reconsider. Unreal may be a popular game engine, but it is not particularly well suited to racing, either with cars or humans.
Assetto Corsa Competizione is likely the most prominent racing game to use Unreal, most other developers make their own game engines from scratch. The other big racer, Rocket League, is owned by Epic, the developers of Unreal itself.
In any case, Midori shared a screenshot of Jet Set Radio on Unreal, to prove that Sega was using the engine. And here’s where we get to something interesting.
Our source was able to confirm that Midori said the game is still in development, but that’s not all she said. Quoting Midori herself in reply to another comment:
“Both JSR games are in Unreal Engine.
And both started development in 2021 but development plan changed in 2022.”
So we now know that Sega worked on two Jet Set Radio games. It sounds like one was supposed to be the remake, and the other could have been an entirely new sequel. As of right now, we aren’t sure which one Sega is working on now.
This is complicated by how the ambiguity on whether Jet Set Radio Future, released on Xbox in 2004, is itself a full sequel, or should be considered a remake of the first game. Perhaps this upcoming title will once again be open to interpretation on if it reimagines the original game the first time, or should be considered a different time in the same continuity.
Lastly, Midori says she is unsure if the rumored Fortnite collab with Persona is happening. The sentiment within Sega is Fortnite competes too closely with their own live service offerings.
Fortnite is definitely huge competition for nearly every other video game out there. But it’s precisely because it has a stranglehold on a certain generation of gamers that other game companies should work with them, and get their own characters and IPs exposed to those gamers.
That’s a lot to think about when it comes to Sega’s games, but
It’s a big week for TV! By which I mean, to me, there’s a lot of bangers this week.
After three years in development, Tomas Salas’ city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles is available now on consoles and PC. It’s well worth checking out in no small part due to its aesthetic and exploration aspects, but there’s more to come. Salas has provided a roadmap for the title, with the first update, “Trade, Tribute and Spoils”, coming towards the end of April.
The latest update for Helldivers 2 is here, and it ought to shake up the game in a fairly significant way. The big news is that the level cap is increasing from 50 all the way to 150. Meanwhile, Arrowhead Studios have also added a couple of new planetary hazards (blizzards and sandstorms), rebalanced a long list of weapons, tweaked the specifics of how certain missions work, and more.
Helldivers 2 releases a new and bigger update for players which brings new gameplay elements, balancing to missions and weapons, as well as general adjustments and quality of life tweaks. The live service shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios continues to evolve since its launch back in February. Helldivers 2 has managed to achieve this through a combination of new updates and a dynamic world that is constantly in flux thanks to the push and pull of the players and enemy factions across the map.
It’s April Fools’ Day, but this post is no joke: There is a lot of new TV to watch this week. In a lot of ways it’s a showdown of tense situations — “tense,” here, being used to cover things like Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott, in the new adaptation) trying to con his way into high society, American Horror Story: Delicate’s Anna (Emma Roberts) attempting to figure what’s a real haunting and what’s in her head, Mark (Steven Yeun) trying to live up to the title of Invincible while he protects his family, or Larry David (Larry David) just trying to make it through the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm alive.
Alongside Helltide changes and The Pit of Artificers, Diablo 4 is also getting some new items and Legendary Aspects with the Season 4 PTR. There’s Tyrael’s Might, a new Unique Chest Armor for all classes, which allows all Skills to unleash a “divine barrage” when at full life and Yen’s Blessing, Unique Boots that have a 20 to 30 percent chance to “cast a Non-Mobility, Non-Ultimate Skill” that’s on cooldown once every 12 seconds.
On April 8, a solar eclipse will be visible across most of North America, varying in degree depending on location, according to NASA. Residents within the path of totality, extending from Texas to Maine, will observe a total eclipse, while those outside this band will witness a partial eclipse. To engage the public, NASA is organizing in-person events, providing opportunities to experience NASA science, and offering online streaming options.
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Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular games in the world, with a strong competitive scene, and like any competitive game, players want every possible advantage they can get. One of the best ways to improve your chances of winning is to tweak the game’s settings so it runs at higher frame rates, lowering your input lag and helping you to react faster.
Just yesterday, 3 asteroids passed Earth by a close margin. While none of them were considered “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids”, the biggest of them was 150 feet wide, making it almost as big as an aircraft. Such close approaches by celestial objects such as asteroids and comets serve as a reminder of the dangerous potential they possess and the need to continuously monitor their trajectories. NASA, with the help of its advanced ground and space-based satellites, has shed light on three asteroids that are expected to pass Earth today, March 28.
Gran Turismo players! Look forward to many new exciting updates this month including the return of the legendary Toyota GT-One (TS020) ‘99 to Gran Turismo! New GT Cafe Menu, 3 new World Circuits, and limited timed GT Auto Livery Editor will surely keep you racing this month.
The Pokemon-style RPG Cassette Beasts is getting a major new update, adding online multiplayer and a host of other interesting features later this year. UK-based developer Bytten Studio and prolific indie publisher Raw Fury released Cassette Beasts on Windows and Linux computers last April, with a wider launch on Xbox systems and the Nintendo Switch the following month. Just like Pokemon, Cassette Beasts tasks players with collecting different elementally empowered creatures, although these monsters are stored within old-fashioned audio cassette tapes and summoned using a handheld cassette player.