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Fast Travel Through the Week: September 14th Edition

by | Sep 15, 2017 | News, News Section, weekly

Fast Travel Through the Week: September 14th Edition

by | Sep 15, 2017 | News, News Section, weekly

This Weeks Headlines

Nintendo had yet another Direct event this week and they dropped quite a few bombshells in the process.Doom, Wolfenstein 2 and Skyrim are all making their way to the switch. Of course, we already knew about Skyrim, that news broke long ago, but now the game has an official Release date. Skyrim for the Switch will release on November 17 and it will feature the full game plus the Dragonborn, Dawnguard, and Hearthfire expansions. There’ll also be Zelda-themed armor exclusive to the Switch version of the game.

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus drops for the PS4, PC and Xbox One on October 27, but the newly announced Switch version of the game won’t come out until sometime in 2018. Doom on the other hand, will be arriving this Holiday season, though Nintendo refrained from giving a precise date.

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Rocket League’s Autumn update rolls out September 28 and comes with both cosmetic and practical changes. Starbase arc, Wasteland, Champions Field (Day), Mannfield (Snowy) and DFH Stadium (Day) will all have new standardized variants that will be appearing in Exhibition and Private matches, plus all Ranked Playlists, replacing their alternative counterparts.There’ll also be a seasonal arena added to the mix this update. It’s called Farmstead, it’s set on a farm and it’ll only be available for a limited amount of time.

Also on the docket is a new unlockable crate and what Psyonix is calling ‘Decryptors.’ The crate is called the ‘Accelerator Crate’ and unlocking one will give you a chance at the “Jäger 619 RS, flashy trails, new goal explosions, or animated wheels.” Decryptors are a new rare item that can be used to “unlock any crate, including the ones during limited-time events”

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League of Legends has just announced a new system to battle toxicity in Brazil. Camp Yordle will run from September 17 – September 19. It will randomly assign players into two groups and judge them collectively based off the negative reports of the individual members. If a team receives no complaints or only a few, every member receives a loot crate. This is a new turn for Riot which has tried several avenues in the past to encourage good behavior and discourage trolling, including honoring players and the Tribunal, but all of Riot’s previous attempts have met with fairly limited success. Read more…

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Indie Spotlight

Mario Kart VR

Supraball has a lot of similarities to Rocket League. Both started out very small, both use soccer as a baseline, and both are much easier to understand than most esports. Beyond that, though, the games could not be more different.

For instance, in Supraball, if you have the ball – which you can hold using your gravity gun – you can now be hurt, making passing a must master skill. As an aggressive player, I found myself immediately trying to decipher the best ways to sprint towards enemies the moment they were passed a ball and knock them unconscious. It gave Supraball a football element that I found myself loving. I could choose to be a defender, trying to knock out enemies, or I could sprint to the enemy goal, trying to use the small air jumps or putting spin on the ball to make goals.

The pacing takes some getting used to though. As the ball is being shot, it feels incredibly slow due to the field size, but once you are in the face of a defender or attacker, it has all the speed of a normal first-person shooter. It’s hard to transition quickly between these two speeds.

Read our full review of the game here.

The Coolest Thing on the Internet This Week

Mario’s Nipples

That’s right, the best thing on the internet this week is Mario’s nipples. We’ve always known that he had them, but we finally got a peak at those bad boys this week in a new trailer for Super Mario Odyssey. To be honest, we’re just surprised we saw the plumber’s nipples before we saw his crack *crickets.* The internet’s reaction has been the best part of all this. From poor censor jobs to hilarious photoshops, Mario’s nipples have been put through the ringer this week. Our favorite version of the shirtless Mario can be found below, courtesy of u/PatataSenpai.

TL;DR for the Week

  • Blizzard Says Fighting Toxic Behavior Is Slowing Down Overwatch Updates
  • Destiny 2 Clan Beats Raid In Six Hours, A World First
  • Rockstar Planning PC-Only VR Version of L.A. Noire
  •  Dragon’s Crown Is Coming To PS4
  • Nintendo Will Release Its Classic Arcade Games On Switch
  • The Last Of Us, Uncharted Director Bruce Straley Leaves Naughty Dog
  • YouTube Accepts Campo Santo’s Copyright Strike Against PewDiePie
  • Mario’s Nipples Revealed in New SFW Trailer
  • Nintendo Is Bringing Back NES Classic Edition in 2018
  • New Poké Ball-Inspired 2DS XL Coming in November
  • Okami HD Confirmed For PS4, Xbox One, PC With 4K Support
  • Samus Returns in Metroid: Samus Returns
  • Ghost Recon: Wildlands PvP Mode Gets Open Beta Next Week
  • Nintendo Switch Version Of Wonder Boy Remake Outsells All Other Platforms Combined
  • Nintendo Switch Outsold Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Again in August
  • PS4 Firmware Update 4.74 Is Live
  • Windjammers to Get Physical Release and Collector’s Edition on PS4 and PS Vita

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Don’t forget to check out some of our other weekly pieces, The LoL Weekly Preview, Recap and Highlight, as well as Something I’m Forgetting and Week in Review.

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