Today
on Headline RePLAY: Massive PlayStation
All-Stars Battle Royale leaks, Ubisoft plugs a security exploit in their PC
games and gender in Minecraft.
A
wave of PlayStation All-Stars Battle
Royale leaks have flooded the internet, purportedly extracted from game
data from the recently-released beta, which includes unrevealed characters,
stages, items and more.
The data
reveals unannounced characters like Dante (Devil
May Cry), Evil Cole/Zeke/Nix (inFAMOUS),
Sackboy (LittleBigPlanet), Spike (Ape Escape), Sir Daniel Fortesque (MediEvil), Sam (Metal Gear Rising) and Nariko (Heavenly
Sword) to name a few.
For
a complete list on the leaks, check out the compilation via the source link or
the NeoGAF forums.
Of
course, Sony declined to comment on the leaks stating how it doesn’t comment on
rumors or speculation.
|Source:
IGN
A
massive security flaw recently uncovered in Ubisoft’s PC games’ “uPLay” application
prompted the publisher to release a fix to address the issue.
The
exploit specifically lies in the browser plugin that uPlay installs rather than
the application itself, which comes with any installation of Ubisoft PC games. A
list of Ubisoft games that are affected can be found via the source link below.
While
Ubisoft has not publicly acknowledged the security flaw, uPlay has been updated
to version 2.04, which states: “Fix addressing browser plugin. Plugin now only
able to open uPLay application.”
|Source:
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Markus
“notch” Persson is not the lead developer for Minecraft anymore, but he reveals that the popular sandbox game’s
protagonists are genderless despite being referred to simply as “Minecraft Guy.”
“If
it wasn’t for the fact that that the default Minecraft character is referred to as “Minecraft Guy” and that I once jokingly answered “Steve?” when
asked what his name was, Minecraft
would be a game where gender isn’t a gameplay element,” said notch.
notch
went on to explain how the main character model is to just represent a “Human Being,”
neither male or female. “The blocky shape gives it a bit of a traditional
masculine look,” notch noted, “but adding a separate female mesh would just
make it worse by having one specific model for female Human Beings and male
ones.
“That
would force players to make a decision about gender in a game where gender
doesn’t even exist.”
In
regards to mobs and animals, notch explains that they are genderless, and they
exhibit the “most prominent traits of both genders.” “Cows have horns and
udders (even if I’ve later learned that there are some cows where the females
do have horns),” he said, “and chicken/duck/whatevers have heads that look like
roosters, but still lay eggs. For breeding, any animal can breed with any other
animal of the same species.”
“Also,
as a fun side fact, it means every character and animal in Minecraft are homosexual because there’s only one gender to choose
from,” notch added. “Take THAT, homophobes!”
|Source:
notch
