Weekly Wrapup – Everyone’s Horny for the Tall Vampire Lady Edition

Michael Kenney January 27, 2021 19

Here are some of last week’s highlights in gaming, movies, and more:

Respawn Entertainment revealed Apex Legends‘ next playable Legend, Fuse
- The character comes to Apex Legends along with Season 8 on Feb. 2

We never want players to feel forced to repurchase content on the Epic Game Store that they bought on another PC store so they can access features in a new game.

We are working closely with IO Interactive and you will be able to access past content from earlier HITMAN games. https://t.co/1MAT1O0Nly
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) January 17, 2021

After controversy surrounding the ability for PC players to import levels from Hitman and Hitman 2 into Hitman 3 on the Epic Games Store, Epic and developer IO Interactive announced plans to work on a solution to allow player to export saves from the Steam version on PC

Amalur is expanding its borders and heading into the unkown territory of… Nintendo Switch on March 16th, 2021.

Return to the Faelands and forge your fate. Uncover the secrets of Amalur and rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war – finally on-the-go! #ReReckoning pic.twitter.com/xRpPZGafnY
— Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (@ReckoningGame) January 19, 2021

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 21

Hardly the biggest news of the day, but I’m delighted to announce that I’ve joined the incredibly-talented team at @unity3d as SVP and GM of Sports & Live Entertainment. Delighted to be reunited with so many industry friends as we work on some really cool stuff. More to come…
— Peter Moore (@PeterMooreLFC) January 20, 2021

Former Sega, Xbox, and EA executive Peter Moore is returning to the games industry as SVP and GM Sports and Live Entertainment at Unity

The Predator is coming to Fornite, as part of the game’s Chapter 2 Season 5 Battle Pass

The Terminator‘s Sarah Connor and T-800 are also coming to Fortnite as purchasable skins

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This is not indicative of the views of the team, and we deeply apologize for any frustration or harm this may have caused.
— Dead by Daylight (@DeadByBHVR) January 21, 2021

After some minor controversy regarding comments on the game’s accessibility, developer Behavior Interactive revealed multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight will get colorblind options in a future update

Capcom hosted a Resident Evil Showcase stream, revealing several tidbits regarding the upcoming Resident Evil Village and more:
- The game is arriving on May 7 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, as well as PS4 and Xbox One consoles
  - Players who buy the previous-gen versions will be able to upgrade to PS5 ad Xbox Series X/S for free
- A free demo, titled “Maiden”, is now available on PlayStation 5, with a subsequent demo becoming available later this Spring o other platforms
- A multiplayer component, titled Resident Evil Re: Verse will arrive along with Resident Evil Village
- Resident Evil 25th Anniversary Crossover event cosmetics are coming to Ubisoft’s The Division 2 in early February
Tencent has purchased a majority stake in developer Klei Entertainment, the indie studio known for survival game Don’t Starve (via Klei Entertainment)
Tony Hawk 1+2 and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy developers Vicarious Visions has reportedly been merged into Blizzard, becoming “fully dedicated” to working on Blizzard titles going forward (via Gamesindustry.biz)

To bring Xbox Live more in line with how we see the player at the center of their experience we will be removing Gold requirements for free-to-play games.

We're starting work on that immediately and will have updates in the coming months. Details: https://t.co/tWomNAwmp9
— Xbox (@Xbox) January 23, 2021

Microsoft reversed their recent decision to up the pricing of Xbox Live Gold, and will be removing the requirement of needing Xbox Live Gold in order to play any free-to-play online games
The Resident Evil 4 remake is reportedly going through some developer turmoil, with original developer M-Two getting a lesser role due to disagreements on how faithful the game should remain to the original (via VGC)

In movie/streaming news, several films have been delayed due to COVID-19, including:
- No Time to Die, the latest Daniel Craig Bond movie, has been pushed to Oct. 8
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife was pushed back to Nov. 11
- The Uncharted movie has been delayed to Feb. 11, 2022