Destiny weekly reset for August 1 – Nightfall, Crucible, Challenge of Elders, featured raid changes detailed

This week’s reset represents one more chance to earn Destiny 1 rewards before the Destiny 2 launch.

The weekly server reset has taken place in Destiny, and with it came the usual assortment of strikes, Prison of Elder changes, a new featured raid and more.

The final Iron Banner event in Destiny starts later today, too. Control is the mode of choice this time around.

Find the rest of what’s new below:

Weekly Nightfall

The Abomination Heist is the weekly strike with Solar Burn, and modifiers Specialist, Ironclad, Exposure, and Daybreak.

Specialist grants bonus damage when using special weapons. Ironclad increase the number of enemies with shields. Exposure increase your shields but they do not replenish. Daybreak greatly increases ability recharge rate.

Heroic playlist modifiers

Fresh Troops, Airborne, Catapult.

Crucible playlist

Doubles.

Challenge of Elders

Ironclad, Juggler, Super Kill Bonus.

• Round 1: Noru’usk, Servant of Oryx (Cabal)
• Round 2: Overmind Minotaur (Vex)
• Round 3: Seditious Mind (Vex)

Weekly featured raid

King’s Fall, the original raid to feature challenges, is this week’s featured raid. If you haven’t been there in a while, you can take a quick refresher course. This will also you tell you what loot you can expect to find there.

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Mass Effect: Andromeda developer BioWare Montreal merges with EA Motive

The team at BioWare Montreal, the studio behind Mass Effect: Andromeda, has joined Motive Studios.

Motive is EA’s newest studio, headed up by industry veteran Jade Raymond. It’s currently co-developing Amy Hennig’s Star Wars title alongside Visceral games, in addition to making the single-player campaign for Star Wars: Battlefront 2.

The confirmation comes after a report back in May suggested that EA is downsizing the Andromeda team following the game’s poor reception. Andromeda was the studio’s first and only game as a lead studio.

“With multiple major projects in development in Montreal, we are merging BioWare Montreal with Motive Studios,” EA said in a statement to Tech Raptor.

“This is an ongoing process, but there are many exciting roles and opportunities for everyone on the team.”

Last week, Mass Effect trilogy producer and longtime face of BioWare, Casey Hudson, return to lead the studio after former general manager Aaryn Flynn departed. Hudson will now be in charge of both remaining BioWare studios at Edmonton, and Austin.

BioWare Edmonton is currently working on Anthem, a projects that’s been in the pipeline since the studio shipped Mass Effect 3. BioWare Austin, on the other hand, is still the main studio supporting Knights of the Old Republic, while also giving Edmonton a hand with Anthem.

Very little is known about Motive’s new IP, outside of it being an action adventure in the same vein as Assassin’s Creed.

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Battlefield 1 Revolution Edition leaks online, includes main game and season pass

EA is close to revealing a Battlefield 1 bundle called Revolution, if this Amazon France page is to beleived.

The product page has since been removed, but it did show promo art for the bundle, content details, as well as a release date.

According to the site, Battlefield 1 Revolution Edition includes the main game, and the Premium season pass. It was listed for an August 22 release on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, priced €60.

The main art, as you can see, includes elements from the upcoming DLC In the Name of the Tsar. DICE has yet to officially reveal a release date for the add-on, but this could indicate that it too will be out on the same day.

EA previously said that gamescom would bring us new details about the expansion, so this could be where we hear the official release date. If you don’t like waiting, there are currently three maps from the DLC available to play in the game’s CTE.

Just recently, DICE dropped Albion, a massive-scale map. All DLC weapons are also playable in the CTE, though not all of them are finished.

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PS4 sales fall slightly in Sony’s first quarter of FY 2017

Sony has published its earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017.

The April 1 – June 30 period saw a bit of a disappointing outcome as far as PS4 sales are concerned, compared to the same period last year.

3.3 million units were shipped in this quarter, compared to 3.5 million in FY 2016. Sony attributed this to price drops and the absence of a “highly profitable first-party title” in the period, which could be a reference to Uncharted 4. Horizon Zero Dawn’s release date puts it outside this period.

This brings the total number of PS4 units shipped to 63.3 million.

The drop in units shipped also affects the forecast for the rest of the fiscal year, as Sony now expects to ship 18 million units by the end of it, compared to the 20 million it’s shipped the previous year.

Though PS4 sales were down, the Games & Network division saw a 5.4% increase in sales compared to the same quarter last year. This was due to PlayStation VR, and digital game sales through the store.

Though it was a generally profitable quarter for the company, Sony still did not mention PlayStation VR and PS4 Pro sales data in any of its releases today.

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Resident Evil producer nabs The Long Dark film rights, here’s a live action trailer to get you in the mood

The Long Dark releases this week, and by amazing coincidence, we have some videos about it.

The Long Dark is a crowd-funded survival game set in the frozen north of Canada in the wake of a geomagnetic apocalypse, from a team with some impressive credits to their names.

It raised over $250,000 on Kickstarter back in 2013 and sold 250,000 units in the first four months of its early access release despite being feature incomplete, building to 1.3 million sales over the next few years.

Now with its narrative campaign in place alongside the survival sandbox, The Long Dark releases in full this week for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and developer Hinterland has produced not one but two trailers to mark the occasion.

The Make it Right – Wintermute release trailer is pretty good but for the purposes of leading into the second half of the article let’s check out the live action one, Elegy, instead.

If that made you wonder about the possibility of a movie based on The Long Dark, you’re in luck. The Hollywood Reporter has word Jeremy Bolt, the producer behind Resident Evil and most of Paul W. S. Anderson’s films, is on board to develop just that.

Apparently Bolt reached out to Hinterland after becoming a fan of the survival sim, but creative director Ralph van Lierop has always intended for The Long Dark to “span multiple mediums, exploiting the storytelling potential of each form”.

“Partnering with Jeremy on this project is the first step in achieving that vision of true cross-platform storytelling in the world of T​he Long Dark,” he said.

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