Ubisoft has announced that it will be adding offline modes for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. The company announced this along with its Year 2 plans for The Crew Motorfest.”…Ubisoft Ivory Tower committed to long-term access for both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest, ensuring that both games will be playable for many years to come, including in an offline mode coming in the future,” Ubisoft said in a statement.Motorfest’s Year 2 starts on November 6 with Season 5 and players will get access to the entire map of Maui for free. There are three Seasons in Year 2, which will have Made in Japan Volume 2 and sees the return of neon-filled races, events, and locations.Year 2 will also add The Chase Squad, which is the game’s PvE content. Players can hunt down racing rivals across the game’s islands. Those who own the Gold and Ultimate Editions of the game will receive access to The Chase Squad as part of the Year 2 pass, as well as unlock 20 additional vehicles.The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest receiving offline support is crucial because the online servers for the first Crew game were shut down back in March after 10 years of support. The Crew is now rendered completely unplayable …
Author: Daniel Preston
As a film set between the events of Alien and Aliens, Alien: Romulus features callbacks to the past and future events in the franchise. To pull off one of those callbacks, director Fede Alvarez had to use a mixture of A.I., animatronics, and CGI to digitally resurrect an actor from the past in a new role. Now, Alvarez is defending his choice to do so.Warning: the following contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. If you haven’t seen the movie or don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now.Relatively early in the film, Romulus introduces a new synthetic android, Rook, who has the face and voice of the late Alien actor Ian Holm, who passed away in 2020. In the first film, Holm portrayed a different synthetic named Ash. While speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Alvarez said that he got the approval of his idea from Holm’s widow, Sophie de Stempel, and from Ridley Scott, who directed Alien and knew Holm throughout his life.”We knew we were going to create an animatronic,” recalled Alvarez. “And that later we were going to do CGI enhancements in the mouth and in the eyes depending on the shots. Then the question arose, ‘What face does it have? Who is it?’ … The on…