A trailer for the Milla Jovovich-led Monster Hunter movie leaked online last night during the Shanghai International Film Festival. Jovovich makes an appearance during the 30-second teaser, which shows her standing in the bones of a long-dead leviathan, caked by sand in a dusty desert. You can watch the trailer below: Subscribe to the VG247 newsletter Get all the best bits of VG247 delivered to your inbox every Friday! Enable JavaScript to sign up to our newsletter The film went into production in September 2018. Paul W. S. Anderson, who directed 1995’s Mortal Kombat and wrote 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse is directing Monster Hunter. … [Read more...] about The first trailer for the Monster Hunter movie leaks online
Zach-Like comes to Steam free with loads of game-like extras
Zach-like, the book about Zachlikes by Zach Barth, creator of the genre, is now free albeit notably less papery now. Zachtronics’s previously Kickstarter-exclusive book was a collection of design documents from the creator of Spacechem, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory and many more, showing just how he engineers his puzzles. Now anyone can read a digital version for free, and it comes bundled with a pile of his early browser games, unreleased prototypes, and even a card game if you’ve got printer ink to burn. Grab it free on Steam. I feel smarter just having it on my PC. While less of a coffee table conversation piece, I think I prefer this version of the book, because it gives us a much broader history of one of the more influential (but lesser known) people in games. Accompanied by a very DOS-styled launcher, it includes two versions of the book (one better for tablets, one for wide monitors), as well as almost all of his older games projects. From the early game jam … [Read more...] about Zach-Like comes to Steam free with loads of game-like extras
Cadence of Hyrule beginner’s guide
Cadence of Hyrule is one of the few Legend of Zelda spin-off ideas that is nearly as good as its source material. But if you haven’t played the game that its rhythm action is based on, Crypt of the NecroDancer, you might find yourself stumbling through this adventure. Whether you’re struggling to keep a beat or are having trouble learning Cadence’s unique style of combat, here are several tips to help you bop your way around Hyrule successfully. FOUR ON THE FLOOR To maneuver and fight your way through this rhythm-focused version of Hyrule, you’ll need to move to the beat of the music to accomplish anything. Thankfully, you won’t need to keep up with any complex rhythmic patterns like you would in Dance Dance Revolution. Instead, everything in Cadence of Hyrule is grounded in a “four on the floor” rhythm. Simply put, you can move and attack on every “beat” of the current song playing. Listen to any dance song and nod your head to … [Read more...] about Cadence of Hyrule beginner’s guide
Premature Evaluation: Levelhead
Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the few bona fide, mega-brain geniuses working in games. Inspired by the time he watched a plumber die of a concussion near a tortoise, the Nintendo luminary invented Mario in his toolshed in Kyoto, using nothing more than a couple of AAA batteries and a soldering iron. He’s also an undisputed master of instructive level design. Whenever you see a door that’s slightly more illuminated than the other doors in the room, subtly indicating that this is the only door in the corridor that your character can open, you can trace a line of inspiration all the way back to Miyamoto. Whenever you see a broken ladder in the corner of an abandoned orphanage, implicitly prompting you to look upwards into the rafters to see a scary ghost, give thanks to our lord and saviour, inventor of goombas and jumping, the most beautiful mind in games, Miyamoto. Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros is regarded as a benchmark in teaching the uninitiated player the rules and … [Read more...] about Premature Evaluation: Levelhead
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne beta coming this month on PS4
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne will launch on PS4 and Xbox One on September 6, and on PC later this winter. As Capcom announced today, PS4 users will get a chance to play the expansion early through an upcoming round of betas. The first Monster Hunter World: Iceborne beta will only be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers, but all PS4 users will get a chance this month. The first beta starts this Friday, June 21 at 3 am PT / 6 am ET / 11 am BST and runs through Monday, June 24 at the same time. A second beta will run from Friday, June 28 through Monday, July 1 at the same time, and again, this beta will be available to all PS4 players. Both betas will feature the same three quests and monsters: the classic intro monster Great Jagras, and two newcomers in the form of Banbaro and Tigrex. Banbaro is a brand-new brute wyvern coming in Iceborne, while the flying wyvern Tigrex has appeared in several Monster Hunter games but is just now coming to World. You'll also get to try … [Read more...] about Monster Hunter World: Iceborne beta coming this month on PS4