The week is almost over, and we can go back to those easy weekends. There isn’t much, but here’s the news.
- Dark Souls Remaster Released Early
- Battlefield 5 Loot Boxes
Early Remaster
The highly-anticipated Dark Souls: Remastered is due to release Friday, May 25. For reasons we can only speculate, the game appeared on Steam last night around 7 PM EST for purchase, download, and play. Namco Bandai has not made a statement about why this has occurred currently, though I speculate that it’s in relation to how Steam handles world-wide releases. Those who preordered a Steam code on Amazon should have already been given their code. The console versions, physical or otherwise, is still releasing online and in stores on Friday, as originally planned.
Battlefield 5 Loot Boxes
EA DICE released their first trailer for the upcoming first-person shooter, Battlefield 5. The game is returning to it’s WWII roots, though with a slightly more exaggerated perspective. An EA spokesperson told Polygon that there will be no randomized loot boxes, nor will cosmetic items for real-world money options. Unrelated to that, the internet has been making a stink about the presence of an on-screen character, a female soldier with a claw-like prosthetic arm. I don’t know if it’s just trolls or some heavy sexism.
That’s all for today. Tune in tomorrow for the last news of the weekdays. Otherwise, have a great day!