New Mad Max-Inspired ‘Full Throttle’ Pistol Whip Update Available Now

Pistol Whip launched a brand new update today — the ‘Full Throttle’ update — with new modifiers and an additional free scene.

Cloudhead Games’ rhythm shooter Pistol Whip was one of the breakout VR titles of 2019. Since release, Cloudhead have continued to provide free content updates and listened to community feedback, adding modifiers and new levels (or ‘scenes’ as they call them) to the game across the last few months.

This new update, available now, introduces a new ‘Full Throttle’ scene and some new modifiers to the game. The Full Throttle scene is a Mad Max-inspired level laden with big monster trucks shooting across the level, as you can see in the teaser below. Cloudhead says the scene is the game’s hardest yet.

There are two new modifiers as well — Scavenger and One-and-Done. Scavenger is a drastic modifier that changes the game significantly, forcing you to pistol whip an enemy in order to reload. One-and-Done is, as the name suggests, a modifier that gets rid of armored enemies, meaning every enemy goes down with just one shot.

The update also includes new customization options such as wraps, metals and sounds, as well as a new Tac Ops pistol collection. Cloudhead noted that the update also “improves music synchronization across the board, and introduces new level design features to further empower future content updates.”

Cloudhead will continue to provide monthly updates for Pistol Whip until at least the Summer, while the Full Throttle update is available right now.

We’ll update this post with a full song playthrough as soon as we can.

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The Year in Review – 2015

The first thing I need to do is this: THANK YOU READERS!!!

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I really can’t say enough how amazing this year was for me and it’s all because of you.  It’s really strange to sit in a room for hours and days at a time, pounding away at a keyboard, wondering if anyone will care.  To have that many people not only purchase my books, but to review them, share them, and generally be a cheerleader for them, I’m really blessed.

I’m a fan of lists, so I’m going to hit you with a few lists of my favorite things of the year, mostly in order though I didn’t think to hard about it (and I realize that some are not from 2015, but it was the year I finally got to them).

Movies

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  1. Mad Max: Fury Road
  2. The Martian
  3. Ex Machina
  4. Pitch Perfect 2
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  6. Avengers

Music

  1. Steven Wilson – Hand Cannot Erase
  2. Puscifer – Money Shot
  3. Silversun Pickups – Better Nature
  4. Robert DeLong – In the Cards
  5. War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream

Books / Novellas

  1. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  2. The Martian – Andy Weir
  3. Sorcerer of the Wildeeps – Kai Ashante Wilson
  4. The Grace of Kings – Ken Liu
  5. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi (yeah, I’m a little late on this one)

TV Shows

  1. Jessica Jones
  2. Sense8
  3. Orphan Black
  4. Vikings
  5. Game of Thrones

So that was some of the entertainment I enjoyed this year.   Highlights from my own career and a few personal items are as follows (in no particular order):

  1. My story “The Trouble with Virgins” came out in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  2. Hit #3 overall on the free downloads for Fires of Alexandria in July (over 70k+ total)
  3. Published six books in the Dashkova Memoirs
  4. Sold over 10,000 books
  5. Met and hung out with tons of writers and fans at Worldcon in Spokane in August
  6. Joined Codex
  7. Joined SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America)
  8. Spent an amazing week in Paris with my wife and kids
  9. Released the Women of the Apocalypse Bundle with a bunch of wonderful authors
  10. Ran my first half-marathon with my wife

Again, thank you for making it such a wonderful year.  I hope yours was as good as mine and here’s hoping that 2016 is even better!