Xiao unleashes his fury in the latest Genshin Impact character demonstration video.
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EA has signed a multi-year license extension with UEFA that will allow it to continue featuring flagship competitions like the UEFA Champions League in its soccer franchises. ...
EA Sports has today announced a strengthening of its partnership with UEFA, Europe’s premier football sanctioning body, as a multi-year license extension ensures exclusivity of its champion’s league competition moving forward.
In the same press release, the publisher also touted the FIFA franchise’s lifetime sales have surpassed 325 million units. Further, that FIFA 21 player numbers have already succeeded those of FIFA 20, which was itself a record-breaker.
EA now plans to expand the franchise with its mobile offerings and PC FIFA Online 4 free-to-play experience, an initiative it hopes will open the door to a further 80 million players in 15 new countries. FIFA 21 is also coming to Google Stadia later this spring, March 17.
DJ Jackson, VP, EA SPORTS Brand, weighed in with a comment on today’s announcement:
“Our vision is to create the most authentic, social and connected football experience by bringing our games to more devices, more countries and more fans around the world.
EA SPORTS continues to rapidly transform how fans consume sport, evolving football from a passive and scheduled experience to an interactive one, accessible at any time. This is the world’s game, and EA SPORTS is doing everything we can to further connect players, athletes, clubs and leagues and grow the love of football, globally.”
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Winter came to Mediatonic’s bean-filled battle royale with the launch of season 3.0 in December. Today’s Fall Guys’ season 3.5 update adds the chilling new “Snowball Survival” stage plus 40 new round remixes to keep things fresh.
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Bungie officially revealed season 13 of Destiny 2 today and it adds new strikes, armor sets, and a matchmade activity called Battlegrounds. Season of the Chosen also revisits where Destiny 2 began by bringing in the Cabal’s empress Caiatl as its main villain.
Remember all those Final Fantasy games Microsoft promised back in 2019 were coming to Xbox Game Pass? Another one is finally about to show up. Microsoft announced this morning that Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age is headed to the Netflix-style subscription service on console and PC, on February 11.
An assassin in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla shares a small but fun connection to a templar in Assassin’s Creed III, as confirmed by Ubisoft in a recent interview with Kotaku.
Well, this is where we're at. Amid all of the controversy, people showed up for Pokemon Sword and Shield. In overwhelming amounts.
According to the latest sales data from Nintendo, Pokemon Sword and Shield, billed as a duo (which is historically how Game Freak and Nintendo handle generations), have sold 20.35 million copies. That's huge! Like, right behind Zelda: Breath of the Wild in a much shorter timeframe, and "fifth biggest Switch title so far" sales.
But as ResetEra points out, it's actually kind of monumental. This makes Sword and Shield the only Pokemon set of games to cross the 20 million mark since Gold/Silver so many years ago. The only other generation to break 20 million (and soar into 31 million actually) is the very first: Red/Green/Blue.
It's really interesting, looking at the sales data throughout the series. Platinum/Emerald/Crystal are at the bottom, beaten ever so slightly by a collective of sequels: Black/White 2 and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. While 8.89 million for the latter pair isn't something to shake a stick at, I can definitely see why Game Freak might be reticent for full-on sequels in the future.
Why limit your audience when you can just sell a season pass for a game with a 20 million install base?
IR Sales Data [Nintendo via ResetEra]
One Final Fantasy game shall stand, one shall fall.
That latter game is Final Fantasy XV, which recently left the Xbox Game Pass service. But some would say that Microsoft is "trading up," as Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is about to enter center stage. Starting on February 11, FFXII will be available on Xbox Game Pass on both consoles and PC. It's a pretty nice get, alongside of Jurassic World Evolution, Stealth Inc. 2, and Wolfenstein: Youngblood (just Android, aka xCloud) on that same date.
Rewinding a bit (I had to lead with the headliner!), on February 4, Ghost of a Tale will hit on PC, as well as Project Winter and Falconeer on PC, console, and Android. Note that Falconeer just launched as a premiere game on the Xbox One X/S (and PC), so it hitting Game Pass already is a good deal for folks who were curious.
You can gaze at the full list below!
You might remember, back in 2015, several reports emerged that Netflix was working with Nintendo to produce a live-action Legend of Zelda series. Mere weeks later, it seemed as if this exciting project was nothing more than wishful thinking. Well, in today's hot gossip, it is being reported that the Zelda series was indeed in the works, but Nintendo canceled the project after its existence was leaked to the press.
The intriguing new tidbit comes from U.S. comedian Adam Conover, dating back to a time when Conover worked with viral website CollegeHumor. According to Conover, the CollegeHumor team were working on a series of StarFox skits that featured stop-motion animation - a play on Wes Anderson's 2009 movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. These skits had Nintendo's backing, with Shigeru Miyamoto himself visiting the CollegeHumor office.
But speaking on podcast TheSerfTimes yesterday, (as noted by superrerogatory), Conover recounted how, out of the blue, the plug was abruptly pulled on the StarFox project. You can hear Conover's story for yourself at 39:00 in the video below.
Destiny 2 will kick off its 13th season next week on 9th February. Named by Bungie today as the Season of the Chosen, it'll run until 11th May.
It brings a new three-player matchmade activity called Battlegrounds, where you'll fight the chosen warriors of Cabul empress Caiatl, as part of the game's latest ongoing plotline.
It also brings some old Strikes back to the game, set in the original Destiny 1 location of Old Russia. The Devil's Lair, probably the first Destiny Strike you ever played, and Fallen SABER, the one from Taken King where you have to kill the giant robot roomba, become available next week.
Microsoft has announced a raft of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in February 2021.
The headline is Final Fantasy 12, the Japanese role-playing some (incorrectly) consider to be the best in Square Enix's long-running series. It hits Xbox Game Pass on console and PC on 11th February.
This version is Final Fantasy 12 The Zodiac Age, the HD remaster that released on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in the late 2010s.
Following the discovery of a save file exploit, CD Projekt Red has told players to "use caution" when downloading files of unknown origin for use in Cyberpunk 2077.
In a statement to Eurogamer, CDPR explained a little about the nature of the vulnerability:
"A group of community members reached out to us to bring up an issue with the external DLL files the game uses. This issue can be potentially used as part of a remote code execution on PCs. We appreciate their input and are working on fixing this as soon as possible. In the meantime, we advise everyone to refrain from using files obtained from unknown sources. Anyone who plans to use mods or custom saves for Cyberpunk 2077 should use caution until we release the aforementioned fix."
The Champions League will be exclusive to EA's FIFA series for years to come.
EA announced it had signed an extension to its multi-year UEFA club competition licence, which means the Champions League and Europa League will remain exclusive to the FIFA series.
EA nabbed the Champions League licence from football rival PES back in 2018 after Konami's 10-year deal with UEFA came to an end.
The PlayStation 2020 Wrap-Up site is here and this time, you can get PS4 and PS5-related stats.
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The Fire Emblem Heroes 4th Anniversary update is on the way and... we're finally getting playable summoners?
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Bandai will celebrate Super Robot Wars 30th anniversary by releasing an HG plamodel of the Cybaster in June 2021.
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For many of us, we are stuck in the dredges of winter. What makes that cold a little more palatable is a nice, hot drink, cozy blankets, and a humongous Kirby plushie.
Kirby is a gift to this world. A gift that we may not deserve, but we've been blessed with anyway. This adorable little Nintendo monster has had a lot of merch through the years, but a large than life plushie to cozy up to at the end of a hard day? That's just beautiful:
大人気ゲーム『星のカービィ』シリーズの主人公、カービィが、80cmの超ビックサイズのぬいぐるみに。まんまるフォルムの大きな”もちふわ”カービィと、おうちでプププなリラックスタイムを過ごせる夢のようなアイテムです。https://t.co/73T0btqKtM#カービィ pic.twitter.com/4FPsICbx5P
Season 13 is almost here in Destiny 2: Beyond Light, and Bungie just showed off a brand new trailer to highlight what's next for Guardians. Called Season of the Chosen, the latest period for the space shooter brings with it a new Strike (and a few returning favorites), new gear, and the seasonal Battleground activity that pits Guardians against hordes of Cabal.
Destiny 2: Beyond Light giveth and it has taketh away, but the new season is all about bringing in new reasons to grind. With the Pyramids and Xivu Arath destabilizing the system, it's up to the leader of the Cabal (and Calus' daughter) to reset that balance. To achieve that balance, Empress Caiatl is looking to strike an alliance with Guardians. Unfortunately, her demands are a little too steep for our pal Zavala and negotiations quickly spiral out of control. From there, her expanding war council is at a unique precipice, one where Guardians themselves become the tip of the spear.
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Destiny 2’s next season, Season of the Chosen, has now been (officially) revealed. Although the GameInformer leak took the wind out of the sails a bit, the lore heavily hinted at much of the content anyway which was confirmed in a new trailer this morning.
The Cabal Empress Caiatl, the new main leader of the Cabal, offers an “alliance” of sorts, which sounds more like she wishes to use Guardians as a tool against the darkness. She asks Zavala to bow and he declines. This sets off either a war, or a challenge of some kind, it’s not entirely clear.
Check it out for yourself below.
There’s a new exotic shown, Ticuu’s Divination, which is a solar bow weapon that can charge solar arrows that can track enemies. This is presumed to be the seasonal exotic weapon that season pass holders will receive at level 1.
It seems like it could be deadly in PvP. It’s not crazy enough in there right now so some homing arrow bows should really spice things up.
The return of Fallen SABER and Sepiks Prime strikes on the Cosmodrome were shown. These two have been rumored and are now confirmed. In addition, there’s a new strike called Proving Grounds which will unlock later in the season.
Riot Games has finally addressed a major issue with Valorant’s gunplay that fans have long been asking for. Patch 2.02 will nerf the accuracy of rifles while crouch-walking, walking, and running, which will (hopefully) reduce the chances of being randomly decapitated by strafing enemies.
It’s a change that is designed to bring Valorant more in-line with other tactical-shooter such as Counter-Strike, in which the higher skill ceiling punishes players for “running and gunning” as opposed to learning how to accurately shoot.
Elsewhere, Patch 2.02 also makes some very welcome changes to Valorant’s Competitive mode. Namely, an improved Rank Rating convergence to ensure players are channelled toward their Rank at a faster and fairer rate.
So what does that mean, exactly? Well, since Patch 2.0 and the overhaul to Valorant’s Competitive system, many players have found themselves stuck at a given rank due to the small disparity between the RR you receive when winning and losing. From now on, more RR will be awarded for wins, and less will be taken for losses.
Moving forward, Riot has also promised that measures will be taken to ensure individual performances will also count for RR boosts — hopefully, for losses as well as wins.
Today Square Enix launched update 5.45 for its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.
The update brings a new large-scale battle within the Bozjan Southern Front, and quite a bit more content.
You fan find a batch of screenshots and a feature list below.
Microsoft revealed several games coming to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service for PC, console, and Android in the first half of February.
The highlights for this batch of games include Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age, an HD remaster of the 2006 role-playing game with improved graphics, performance, and other quality of life features not found in the original game.
Another highlight is Jurassic World Evolution, allowing players to build their own dinosaur theme park. The full list of Xbox Game Pass games being added:
Microsoft announced another 13 games received dedicated touch screen controls for several Xbox Game Pass games such as Donut County, Enter the Gungeon, The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season, and more. The company also announced four games leaving the service in the middle of February:
Creative Assembly has been teasing Total War: Warhammer fans with what appears to be the coming of the third game of the series.
More trailers have been released likely indicating that the full reveal may be coming tomorrow.
On top of that, it appears that the constellations showcased in the trailers may be pointing toward the forces of Chaos and Kislev, even if there is room for interpretation.
Both new teasers are once more set at the Celestial College in Altdorf, within the dome of the Grand Astrolabe used to predict the future of the Empire.
Ultimately, we’ll have to see what happened tomorrow, but you can check out the new trailers below.
While Yakuza: Like a Dragon may already be available on the Xbox Series X and PS4 right now, the latest entry in Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s long-running series is coming to PS5 early next month.
This is big news for all Mass Effect fans but even bigger news for me, personally, as I won’t have to wait long to protect Garrus Vakarian from certain doom. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is out on May 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
