News Snatch: Grand Theft Auto V, Project CARS & Bear Simulator

Hello everyone, welcome to your not quite regular round up of all the news and bobbins that never made it to it’s own post. Pity these poor scraps of news, they tried hard but failed to grab the attention of the rest of the staff.

First up is a terrible attempt to tie a game to Halloween, we present to you the “Scary night time racing” trailer for Project CARS.

The latest free content update from EA Sports UFC is now available for download worldwide on Playstation 4 and Xbox One and contains a new set of gameplay updates, plus the addition of three new fighters:

• Michael Chiesa – Lightweight Division
• Diego Sanchez – Lightweight Division
• Hector Lombard – Welterweight Division

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will now release across Europe on November 28th, a whole week earlier than its originally planned December 5th launch. It will then chart at number seven before vanishing off the top forty the week after. Probably.

The Sims 4 now has swimming pool DLC, because reasons.

“Bethesda” have registered a trademark for a video game called “Fallout: Shadow of Boston” in Germany. Except they have not and it’s an obvious hoax.

Some of the benefits for The Dark Below DLC for Destiny will be available for free to everyone as part of a game update. The perks include some new weapons and armour, new daily bounties and the very welcome addition of five extra bounty slots.

It’s only been out a day or so but Sledgehammer are working on improvements for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare including MP chat icon size and placement, the kill confirmed score limit and 2XP messaging, whatever that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBgaRffgl8

YouTube now supports 60fps uploads for all users, while previously only a select few could create videos at that speed. This is great news for all those games that run at 60fps like, Mortal Kombat and, uhm… Bloodborne? Actually no, that has been confirmed as 1080p30, which has been set “considering its game designs.”

Yes it’s back, the feature that points out the bloody obvious that everyone else reports as news. Which it isn’t. Ever.

EA Access members get to play Dragon Age: Inquisition five days early!

That is a headline that was published in the last few days, one that states something that has been known since EA Access was announced. The headline refers to a key feature of EA Access, you get to play their new games five days early, albeit for just six hours.

So why was that headline news? Because EA have a great PR department and some people will post any press release they get.

The first person mode for Grand Theft Auto V didn’t do much for me to be honest, but the game has now gone from a “maybe” to an “OMG MUST HAVE NOW” for me.

The reason? The light bar on the PS4 controller will flash blue and red when you are being chased by the police and radio chatter comes out of the Dualshock speaker! How awesome is that?

Gizmodo also report another PS4 specific tweak, “swipes of the touch panel change weapon (up/down) and radio station (left/right)”

As for the first person mode, “We’ve always been in interested in it, but it’s never really been an option for us,” GTAV animation director Rob Nelson told IGN. “I don’t think we could’ve put it in the [last-gen version] because we were too busy making the game. We were too busy working on our third-person controls and the missions.”

A trailer for The Hungry Horde, coming to PS Vita today.

Editor Blair asked me to write a feature on my experience with the Evolve Alpha, but rejected my submission. I’m not sure why, perhaps you can give me some tips? This is what I submitted:

Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Game crashes. Load game. Press X. Select no preference. Watch red ring spin. Ooh it’s finally loading! Oh bugger, the connection timed out. Game crashes. Delete Evolve Alpha.

It looks like Driveclub will be getting races set in Japan, as spotted by a very keen eyed NeoGaffer. You have to be very precise, but if you pause the video above between 15.07 and 15.08, when the panels zoom out you will see the text “Japan” appear from behind the obscured white panel.

And Finally, it’s the mash up we’ve all been waiting for: Bear Simulator meets Lost.