The famed bounty hunter Boba Fett is coming to Fortnite in just a little over a month. 

This news comes by way of the official Fortnite Twitter account, which announced the news as part of Disney Plus Day last week. Perhaps an early Christmas present for those that celebrate the holiday, Boba Fett will be added to Fortnite (presumably as a purchasable skin in the Item Shop) on December 24. 

It’s excellent timing, too, because Disney’s upcoming Disney Plus show about the bounty hunter, The Book of Boba Fett, launches five days later on December 29. 

Boba Fett will be making his arrival on the Island December 24, 2021 at 7pm ET! #DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/cj9iC6WRBZ

MiHoYo, creator of Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact, announced it is opening a branch in Canada that will work on its next new game.

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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has discussed the high-profile delay of Halo Infinite.

343's upcoming first-person shooter was announced as coming out alongside the Xbox Series X and S last Christmas.

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Oddworld: Soulstorm arrived in a rough state when it first launched for PlayStation consoles and PC back in April this year. Now the game's back, wrapped up in shiny Enhanced Edition branding, for relaunch on 30th November.

This will be the first time Oddworld: Soulstorm is available on both Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. It's the direct sequel to 2014's Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty and a re-imagining of second series entry, 1998's Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus.

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This spiritual plane ain’t big enough for both of us As promised by the anime-lovin’ studio, Arc System Works has...

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The final episodes will begin airing in Japan starting in mid-January.

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Over 6 million people played Forza Horizon 5 in its launch week, according to Xbox marketing head and general manager Aaaron Greenberg. 

Greenberg revealed this massive launch week number for Playground Studios' latest open-world driving game on Twitter and he said the numbers are still growing. This news comes after Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed last week that Horizon 5 had the biggest launch of any Xbox Game Studios game ever, hitting over 4.5 million players on launch day. 

You all are amazing, not only did we set the record for biggest Xbox Game Studios’ launch ever, but now over 6 million players and growing, still in our launch week! 🤯💚 #ForzaHorizon5 https://t.co/kiTB3eGknp

— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) November 11, 2021

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Forza Horizon 5 was officially released yesterday, both as a game you can purchase and a title available on Xbox Game Pass. For those that purchased special editions of Horizon 5, it’s been playable since last Friday. 

Tales of Luminaria fails to impress, and strays too far from the beaten path.

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It’s been a few years in the making, and the live adaptation of the much-beloved anime series Cowboy Bebop is finally premiering on Netflix this week. This marks a great opportunity for newcomers to finally see what all the hype is about, and for longtime fans to revisit the original anime to refresh their memories before starting the new series.

If you consider yourself a true fan of the original anime, it’s time to put that claim to the test. We’ve put together a short trivia quiz spanning the entirety of the anime series to see just how well you know the show, and whether you’ve been paying attention to the little details. Do be warned that this quiz contains spoilers for the entire series, so if you haven’t watched the anime yet, make sure to check that out before giving this a go.

Without further ado, here’s our Cowboy Bebop trivia quiz:

Roll7, the indie developer behind the beloved OlliOlli series, is now part of the Take-Two empire.

The BAFTA award-winning London-based studio has been acquired by Private Division, Take-Two's indie publishing label which is behind Kerbal Space Program and its sequel, and has handled games such as Hades, The Outer Worlds and Disintegration.

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Update, 11/15/21: 

Rockstar’s new remastered trilogy of Grand Theft Auto III, San Andreas, and Vice City, collectively known as Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, is playable once more on PC. It’s also available for purchase again. 

This comes after the PC version of the trilogy was unplayable and not available for purchase beginning November 12 as Rockstar’s launcher, which must be used to play the trilogy on PC, went offline. The launcher (and subsequent ability to play the game and purchase it on PC) was brought back online yesterday. 

Rockstar announced this by way of a tweet yesterday and, in the same tweet, the company says it sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience and that it is “working to improve and update overall performance as we move forward.” 

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is again available through the Rockstar Games Launcher for play and purchase. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to improve and update overall performance as we move forward: https://t.co/hAfEKqYS3o

— Rockstar Support (@RockstarSupport) November 15, 2021

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This comes directly from the development team [Update: Square Enix has provided a full text breakdown of the Final Fantasy XIV...

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Busted [Update: Rockstar’s PC release Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has now returned to the Rockstar...

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Big budget VR releases may have been few and far between recently, but here in VR Corner, I've been living the dream thanks to the wonderful work of talented modders such as KITT and Praydog.

These utter champs have been putting AAA software houses to shame by showing us just how good certain flat releases could look, if only their developers took a bit of extra time to add VR modes to their games.

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This 30cm plush is big enough to use as a couch cushion.

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The Netflix series settles for superficiality

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Level-5 provided an explanation as to why service for the title has been terminated.

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The tide of accessibility in games is turning. Ground-breaking releases like The Last of Us Part 2, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Forza Horizon 5, recently, show us what can be accomplished when you think about accessibility in the right way. They show us that by consulting the right people and by factoring accessibility deep into the foundations of your game, you can invite and enable more people to enjoy it than ever before.

It's tempting to think this just happened, that game developers woke up one day and decided accessibility was something they needed to improve. But of course they didn't. Behind the realisation was a push. A push from a community who needed better access to the entertainment and escapism games provide.

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Same-sex marriage is now available in the Japanese version of Rune Factory 5 through the most recent update patch.

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A 34-year-old resident of Tokyo’s Shibuya has been arrested on suspicion of violating Japanese copyright law after selling unlicensed Demon Slayer cakes.

According to Kyodo News, the women sold the cakes through Instagram, with customers submitting their desired images to be turned into frosting, cream, and sugar. The…

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Modders have begun work on the GTA Trilogy - despite ongoing concern about potential takedowns from Take-Two.

GTA Trilogy's disastrous launch came after a concerted campaign from Take-Two to scrub the internet of mods related to GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. Take-Two even sued some of the people who reverse-engineered GTA code.

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Nintendo of America's Doug Bowser has commented that they've been making "continuous improvements" to Joy-Con controllers.

Drift has been a major issue for Switch players since launch. Bowser was interviewed by The Verge on the success of the OLED model.

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The mysterious Star Wars project currently in the works at Quantic Dream is reportedly set during the franchise's new High Republic era.

The Star Wars game is still to be officially announced by Disney or Quantic Dream, the controversial French studio behind Heavy Rain and Detroit.

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This new CGI artwork provides a more detailed look at Zenos' Reaper attire.

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Arc System Works has released a brief video showing off Guilty Gear Strive's next DLC character, Happy Chaos.

The video, below, shows Happy Chaos in action. It looks like his pistol plays a significant role in his moveset - and note how he shoots the timer in the user interface if the round runs down.

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Gaming charity Special Effect has launched its 10th Eye Gaze game, for players who use eye-tracking controls.

It's live now on eyegazegames.com, Special Effect's site for eye-tracking titles, after being funded by last year's Jingle Jam 2020 charity drive spearheaded by Yogscast.

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While it would have added some variety to aerial combat, Sakurai states he did not want to overcomplicate combat.

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In honor of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s release, Twitter user Uma decided to create a paper diorama version of Twinleaf Town, the first town players encounter in the game.

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Battlefield is used to a bit of chaos - it's at the series' core, after all, with manic moments in its sandbox what makes it stand out from other shooters - but the disarray of Battlefield 2042's first weekend in the wilds has been hugely frustrating. Since Battlefield 2042 went live on Friday, I've endured hard crashes, server problems and whole nights where the whole thing is simply unplayable. This is another Battlefield that's launching in a sorry state, and it's up there with Battlefield 4's infamously sorry start. From my own experience on Xbox Series X, it's considerably worse.

A lot of that frustration stems from setting aside Friday night to get stuck into DICE's new shooter only to spend the whole evening butting up against a data persistent error that was, shall we say, persistent - across a whole night it was impossible to get into a single match of the All-Out Warfare that's the core of this new Battlefield experience, and only the classic matches and rulesets of Portal offered any joy.

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Rockstar has made the PC version of GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition available to play again.

The developer blocked customers from playing or buying the PC version soon after it came out to "remove files unintentionally included".

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The Ramp, the tiny toylike skateboarding sim that Malindy wrote about so beautifully a few months back, may be the most gorgeous game of 2021. Not only does it have a truly stellar commitment to the colour yoke, its patchy concrete and sun-stained woods form shapes that are enduringly lovely to look at. An empty swimming pool here becomes a perfect place for pulling off jumps and grinds, but it's also a sort of inverted Henry Moore sculpture. Add in the perfect sound effects - the grainy spin of wheels, the clack of a board connecting with a hard surface - and you have something truly special.

Now The Ramp has made the move from PC to iOS, and I'm tempted to say this is the most perfect version of the game. The simple controls - two buttons and a slider - means that the game furniture doesn't have to get in the way too much, and there's also something great about playing a game so transfixed by movement on a touchscreen. It's weird that there's no haptic feedback - at least I don't think there is. It's hard to tell because I seem to feel the sounds and the animations through my fingers here. The Ramp casts a spell.

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Saying that New World has been a bit of a hot mess since launch would be an understatement. The development team has had to deal with gold exploits, server transfers, and a general sense of bugginess within the game itself. With the latest dev blog, however, the team seems to be committed to addressing all of the problems currently in the game.

First off, New World is still slowly recovering from the economic meltdown that came with the latest gold duplication exploit. The exploit resulted in the devs shutting down the economy entirely, with no way to pay taxes or sell and buy items at the trading post. As a result, town upgrades came to a halt, especially as wars and invasions continued.

Since then, the economy has slowly bounced back, and the team is looking towards other features and issues. One of the big headliners here is server merges, where low population servers might come together to form a larger one as the player base slowly dwindles from its launch numbers.

Amazon is quick to point out that they still need to do extensive testing on this, but it’s definitely a promising sign for the longevity of the game and its dedicated player base.

Other issues were also touched upon, such as war declaration issues, how the luck stat is calculated, and whether there will be incentives for players to join less dominant factions. You can check out the full blog post here.

New World is now available on PC.

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Today the Japanese airline ANA announced a collaboration with the world-famous Demon Slayer (known as Kimetsu no Yaiba in Japan) franchise.

The collaboration will start small on December 1, 2021 with the use of Demon Slayer paper cups and distribution of illustrated Menko cards to children on domestic flights.

Things will pick up at the end of January 2022 with the launch of a special livery painted on the Boeing 767-300 ER witt tail number JA616A, which you can see portrayed in the gallery.

Today Bandai Namco announced with a press release that the recent launch of Super Robot Wars 30 has pushed the series beyond a sales milestone.

The whole franchise has passed 19 million units shipped (physically and digitally) worldwide since its debut in 1991 across 90 SKUs.

Being a crossover franchise bringing together many mecha series, it has hosted over 274 different IPs in its history. This is the largest number of IPs ever included in a JRPG series.

Super Robot Wars 30 launched on October 28 for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC, even if the west received only the PC version. That being said, you can still import it from South East Asia if you prefer playing on consoles with English subtitles.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can read the official description below and check out the latest trailer in English.

“30 years on, the battle for our world’s future continues.

Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.

Players follow characters through adventure and battle. Take control of giant robots on a battle map, commanding them to defeat their enemies.

The battle switches between ally and enemy phases. Once the player has moved and attacked with their robots, the enemy takes their turn. When all enemies have been defeated, the game proceeds to an Intermission.

Today Aniplex and Sega announced the new playable characters that will be added to the recently-released game Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles.

We learn that they are Susamaru and Yahaba. The two demons will become playable in the versus mode with a free update coming between the end of November and the beginning of December following the previous update that added Rui and Akaza.

A third pair will be added with another update down the line.

You can check out a few screenshots below, alongside character art.