Weekend Box Office Wrap: April 1st 2012

Additionally, Riot is working to make the gameplay as smooth and rewarding as possible: there is supposed to be less than 30-millisecond ping for at least 70% of players globally, upsampling all player movements to 128 FPS - even if they're lagging in reality - and anti-cheat technology that includes a fog of war (omitting player locations until they're within the line of sight), along with the League of Legends anti-tamper system, plus a new cheat detection tool called Vangu


Valorant piqued the interest of FPS enthusiasts around the world after its' initial announcement during League of Legend's 10th Anniversary Livestream. The game is a 5v5 class-based first-person shooter taking influence from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's strategy-based warfare , coupled with Overwatch 's class-based abilities. Today's official gameplay trailer for valorant Competitive guide|https://valorantfocus.com/ depicted flashy ability animations, high-end textures, and fine visual quality. The trailer has players excited to dive in, but whether a new game is playable for all computers is always a conc

Rise of the Rakghouls , the first major game update for Star Wars: The Old Republic , released today. Mere hours after the update went live, players discovered an exploit in Ilum that allows Valor to be gained at a massively accelerated r


While exploits and glitches can hardly be considered strangers to massively multiplayer online role playing games, the situation with Rise of the Rakghouls is particularly unfortunate. The update, announced just last week, was originally slated to release January 17th, but got delayed at the last minute so that additional testing could be completed. Nevertheless, an exploit got through, and it's a big


Ranters, what do you think about the Valor exploit in the Rise of the Rakghouls expansion? Given what you've seen so far, will BioWare be able to deliver on all the promises it's made for Star Wars: The Old Republic ? Share your take on the situation in the comments be


Sam Worthington’s second clash with the titans debuted to disappointing results in second place. **Wrath of the Titans ** should see out the weekend with $34.2 million, a far cry from the $61 million that Clash of the Titans banked in 2010 - that film went on to gross $163 million at the domestic box office and another $330 million in foreign markets. Jonathan Liebesman called the shots on the $150 million sequel, with most reviews ( read ours ) indicating that it is an improvement on its predecessor. Domestically the film won’t hit the heights of its predecessor, but it should score the bulk of its green around the world - it has already done over $112 million globa


There's definitely an immediacy and immersive feel to the Act of Valor footage shown so far, what with the heavy amounts of handheld camerawork, first person POV shots, and the up-close-and-personal structure of the film in general. McCoy and Waugh are highly-experienced stunt coordinators whose skills in that area have clearly served them well with their directorial debut, allowing for some gritty explosive set pieces and terse battle sequences alike. Fortunately, it doesn't look like they've gone too overboard with the "shaky cam" or excessive editing as well - though, we won't know for certain until the actual movie is relea


**The Hunger Games ** held off competition from Sam Worthington and Julia Roberts and retained the top spot at the box office . The Jennifer Lawrence starrer grossed $61.1 million over the weekend, a number that ups its cume to a fantastic $251 million. The production budget for the film is a reported $78 million, so this is a major success for Lionsgate, especially considering that The Hunger Games has crossed $364 million worldw


Deadline is reporting that the film project - we'll refer to it as **Act of Valor 2 ** for brevity's sake - will be another "R-Rated gritty actioner," albeit this time the focus will be on elite SWAT officers rather than Navy SEALs. The intention seems to be for the followup installment to emulate the model used to construct the original Act of Valor movie. That is, a fictionalized account of a dangerous operation - carried out by a highly-effective task force - will be used to illustrate the harsh realities of that lifestyle; that is, by recreating actual firefight scenarios and anecdotal details with as much accuracy as possible (while still delivering an engaging viewing experien


All things considered, this may not have been the most opportune time for The Old Republic Game Director James Ohlen to state in a Design Notes blog post that, "This first Game Update will show everyone how serious we are about expanding Star Wars: The Old Republic


There's a twist to the classic tactical shooter experience: players will be able to choose from a set of agents all with their own unique skills and abilities - not unlike League of Legends - that hail from real-world locations and cultures. The abilities will not only change the way of shooting as the most basic principle; they will also provide strategic advantages, as well as tactical support. The game will be based on an attackers vs defenders style, set on a near-future Earth, with unique tactical opportunities enabled by each character's skill