Olivia Sinclair

As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, Embark Studios–which was co-founded by Battlefield veteran Patrick Soderlund–revealed a new trailer for the PvPvE third-person shooter Arc Raiders and also confirmed a key detail about its pricing plan.Arc Raiders was announced as a free-to-play game, but it is now shifting to a premium model and will cost $40 at launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. A public technical test will be available October 24-27 on Steam. Regarding the price change, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said, “It became increasingly clear to us during development that a premium model is a better fit for the experience we’re building with Arc Raiders.”The developer added: “This shift allows us to focus on what truly matters for this game–creating a…

At D23 recently, Disney officially announced the title of the third Avatar movie–Avatar: Fire and Ash. But what is the significance of that title? Director James Cameron said in an interview that it took a while to find the right name for the film, and in the end, he hopes the title conveys that the film is focused on anger and violence, as well as the aftermath of that being grief and loss.”It took a long time to come up with a title that I felt resonated with what’s in the film,” Cameron told Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t think I could say too much about it until you actually see the film and you see what it means, but if you think of fire as hatred, anger, violence, that sort of thing, and ash is the aftermath. So what’s the aftermath? Grief, loss, right? And then what does that cause…

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Creature from the Black Lagoon, a film that introduced one of the few Universal Monsters who hasn’t been endlessly remade. But the Gill-man may finally be getting a chance for a comeback, with reports that horror veteran James Wan is in negotiations to direct and produce a new Creature from the Black Lagoon remake.Via Deadline, Wan’s take on Creature from the Black Lagoon will be “a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror while paying respect to the original classic.” In the 1954 original, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning played the Gill-man, a creature of unknown origin who ran afoul of an expedition in the Amazon. The creature also displayed a very obvious infatuation with a young woman named Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams), who did …

After just a week on the market, Sony has decided to remove Concord from sale and will take the game’s servers offline. The move comes after the game failed to find an audience, with a reported 25,000 sales and very low player numbers.Game director Ryan Ellis said, “While many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended.”Concord is no longer available to buy and the servers will go offline on September 6. Ellis said the team will “explore options” for how to “better reach our players,” which sounds like the game could return in some form down the road.Sony is refunding people who bought Concord. Those who bought the game on PS5 will get an automatic refund to their payment meth…