Dead Rising 4, the Xbox One launch title featuring the return of zombie-slaying protagonist Frank West, is finally making its long-awaited appearance on PlayStation. At E3 2016, Dead Rising 4 was announced as a one-year exclusive console title, and now Capcom has confirmed the upcoming game for PS4 (with a bunch of extras thrown in) in December. Dubbed Frank’s Big Package, the PS4 release includes the full game, along with the post-launch difficulty patches and Street Fighter costumes.
A new mode called “Capcom Heroes” is also added in, which lets you tap into your inner Mega Man and splatter zombie brains with more than a dozen different classic Capcom characters, all with their unique abilities and special weapons.
As you can see in the video, the Big Package includes all the downloads, costumes, and weapons released so far for the Xbox One and PC versions, including the goofy mini-golf game and the “Frank Rising” chapter:
If you currently own Dead Rising 4 for Xbox One or PC, you’ll get the Capcom Heroes as a free download when Frank’s Big Package is released at the end of the year.
Partly inspired by the films of George Romero, the Dead Rising games follow the adventures of intrepid photojournalist Frank West facing swarms of shambling zombies. One of the hallmarks of the series is the ability to create unusual new deadly weapons to kill zombies in creative ways.
Remastered versions of the early games in the series finally appeared on PS4 last year, after more than a decade as Xbox exclusives. The first Dead Rising was an Xbox 360 launch game and a big hit for Microsoft back in 2006. Since then, it’s spawned several sequels, a Wii port, a mobile phone version, and even a couple of live-action movies. However, Dead Rising 4 departs somewhat from the tried and true formula of the earlier games. Although it does feature the return of Frank West, there are no countdown timers for the stages and the save system is much more forgiving.
Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package will be available for PlayStation 4 on December 5, 2017.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.