That doesn’t look like Mariah… This week sees the bell ring on the annual fighting game tournament, Red Bull Kumite,...
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The Meijer Black Friday 2021 ad is out, and it shows a PlayStation Plus deal and discounts on Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox games.
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Secretlab, the most well-known gaming chair manufacturer, is releasing a pint-sized premium gaming chair designed for kids and pets (yes, your dog can have their own gaming chair). The Secretlab Titan XXS was originally announced as an April Fool's joke earlier this year, but the company decided to turn it into a real product. The Titan XXS is described as a 1:2 collectible, and it's available to preorder now ahead of its holiday release.
The Titan XXS features has essentially the same design as Secretlab's new Titan Evo chair that released earlier this year. It comes with an adjustable seat base and armrests as well as locking casters. It's available in three different color schemes: Black NEO Hybrid Leatherette, Plush Pink SoftWeave Plus, and Forst Blue SoftWeave Plus. The leatherette model costs $299, while the pair of SoftWeave models are up for grabs for $319 each.
Since dropping the first official trailer in late September, Netflix has tweeted a few side-by-side comparisons of Cowboy Bebop, showing how the upcoming live-action adaptation compares to the original anime series. One takeaway of mine? It looks promising. The other takeaway? It really needs some color.
Disney+ has just revealed a brand new trailer for their upcoming original series The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder, which shows the beloved early 2000s family return with some 2022 flavor. In the video below, you can see that the show looks a lot more modern while also still adhering to the look, feel, and comedic style that was home to the original series.
An official description for the revival series that details how it will blend the themes of the original to fit the modern-day can be seen below:
A contiuation of the acclaimed series, “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” follows the adventures and misadvenutres of newly 14-year-old Penny Proud and her Proud FAmily as they navigate modern life with hilarity and heart.
The 2020s bring new career highs for mom Trudy, wilder dreams for Dad Oscar and new challenges for Penny, including a socially woke neighbor who think she has a lot to teach her, bullying social media influencers who want to cancel her and her own teenage hormones.
Assassin's Creed narrative director Darby McDevitt is returning to Ubisoft to once again work on the popular series. Following a report from VGC about his return, McDevitt confirmed the news personally on Twitter.
"It's true! As I pondered my career over the past year, I focused on my desire to explore new ideas and unknown frontiers. Much to my delight, this is reflected in my return to Ubisoft to work on AC. I’m excited to continue my journey. Stay tuned!" McDevitt wrote. In another tweet, the writer said, "I have never been more excited about the places we're going and the stories I get to tell with this crew."
McDevitt didn't elaborate any more than that, but he returns to Ubisoft presumably to work on the ambitious Assassin's Creed Infinity project. Recently, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said Infinity--or whatever the game's final name is--will offer everything that fans love about the Assassin's Creed franchise and it won't be free-to-play.
"It's not going to be a free-to-play [game]," Guillemot said. "This game is going to have a lot of narrative elements in it. It's going to be very innovative game, but it will have what players already have in all the other Assassin's Creed games, all the elements that they love... right from the start. So it's going to be a huge game. But with lots of elements that already exist in the games that we published in the past."
A report said the game won't be released until 2024 at the soonest.
People will soon see Rowlets in Pokemon Unite, as Decidueye will be the next playable Pokemon in the game. Its license will appear next week.
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“PLAYVOW” Want another Magic: Arena free pack? Well, the new set is here! And like clockwork, another “play” code is...
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If you’ve ever lost in a round of Fortnite right at the end and feel the need to scream and implode into fire, good news: there’s a skin now available in Fortnite for you.
It’s the Dark Phoenix skin, and X-Men fans will recognize her as the Phoenix seen throughout the Dark Phoenix Saga, a run of comics that ran in 1980. You might also recognize Dark Phoenix from the 2019 X-Men movie of the same name. Regardless, if you’re a fan of the more explosive variant of Jean Grey, this skin is for you.
"I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am Phoenix!"
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) November 12, 2021
Dark Phoenix has arrived on the Island. Grab the Phoenix Force set now in the Shop. pic.twitter.com/E4b4hsnTII
As you can see in the tweet above, the skin and accompanying items are now available for purchase in the Fortnite Item Shop. Her set features the outfit, the Phoenix Force back bling, and the Rising Phoenix Emote. You’ll also receive the Wrath of the Phoenix Loading Screen with the set as well, according to Epic Games.
Earlier today, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan posted on the official PlayStation blog celebrating the anniversary of the PS5 release date. In the post, he goes over all of the great things that the console has accomplished over its first year, while also detailing what fans can expect from the future.
Included in that news was the fact that there are currently over 25 PS5 games are either currently in development at PlayStation Studios, While he didn’t go into depth about those games, we do at least know a few of them included God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Ryan ended the blog post by thanking fans for their support:
You’ve made PS5 the biggest console launch in history, and I truly can’t thank you enough for your support and dedication this past year.
I also want to thank everyone in the community for your patience. We continue to see historic demand for PS5 and we understand the inventory constraints remain a source of frustration for many of our customers. Rest assured that we are laser-focused on doing everything in our power to ship as many units as possible, it’s something we work on every day across the company and remains my top priority. Again, we appreciate your patience as we navigate through these unprecedented global challenges.
There’s plenty of great things to come for PS5 in the future, and I look forward to sharing more of these extraordinary moments with you. Thank you again for being part of the PlayStation community and celebrating this milestone with us.
During the Final Fantasy XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE LXVII, a level reset came up. Now, Square Enix offered additional details to potentially alleviate concerns and prepare people for the change. It explains why there will be a mid-level EXP reset in FFXIV to start. It also explained that working to hit the next level would help with that. It also addressed what values FFXIV downscaling will hit. First, the FFXIV mid-level EXP reset is due to the new value scale. Due to how many people play and how many data sets there are, there has to be an […]
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Long-term Assassin's Creed scribe Darby McDevitt has confirmed he will return to Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed franchise.
McDevitt surprised fans by announcing his departure from the company back in March to explore other opportunities - becoming one of several high profile departures from the embattled publisher this year.
In October, Ken Pillonel, a robotics engineering student, uploaded a video showing how he created the very first iPhone with a USB-C port. A month later, Pillonel has sold the modified iPhone X on eBay for over $86,000.
The auction started out at $1, but as the ten-day auction progressed, that number quickly soared from the thousands to hundreds of thousands. At one point on the final day of bidding, someone placed a bid of around $100,000 before retracting it. The winning bid came in as a sum of $86,001, beating the previous highest bidder by a dollar just minutes before the auction ended.
Although the modified iPhone can support USB-C charging and data transfers when connected, Pillonel forewarned anyone who won the bid that they should not use the world's first USB-C iPhone as their primary smartphone. To ensure you do not risk breaking the device, Pillonel also warned the buyer not to update or open the phone up and take it apart.
If you are bummed about not having a shot at owning the first USB-C iPhone, there is some luck. Earlier this month, Pillonel open-sourced his work on the project on Github. Containing information such as technical details as well as created the customized PCB design he used to create the USB-C port on the iPhone.
Update, 11/12/2021, 10:47 a.m. EST:
In a rare moment of financial openness, if you will, Nintendo has released some official numbers regarding its October sales of Switch consoles, Metroid Dread, and more.
In a new interview with The Washington Post, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser revealed that the company sold 711,000 Switch consoles in the U.S. in October. Of those 711,000, Bowser says 314,000 of them were the recently-released OLED model. He also revealed that many of the Switch units sold were bought by people that already owned one and they were upgrading to the OLED or buying another for someone else.
On the Metroid Dread front, 854,000 copies were sold in October, and Bowser says this is the best Metroid launch in series history.
The original story about the NPD numbers for last month continues below...
Original Story, 11/12/2021, 10:31 a.m. EST:
Nintendo had a really great October if U.S. sales numbers are anything to go off of.
Bandai Namco announced the same milestone for both games simultaneously.
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It’s hard to believe, but a year ago to the date, Sony officially released the PlayStation 5 (well, in the States; globally it came out on November 19). Despite serious supply issues, an estimated 13 million players have been able to get their hands on one. And they’ve used these coveted next-gen consoles to play—cue…
October was Black History Month in the UK. But looking at Twitch, you may not have realised that.
The streaming platform is pushing for more diversity and inclusion, and is making a conscious effort to support minority celebrations - be that Pride, women's history, or Black History Month. But as a US corporation, too often UK streamers are left behind.
The NPD Group’s monthly report tracking spending across the US video game industry is out for October, which illustrates another month of year-on-year growth over the same period as has been the case throughout 2021. In October, sales were led by Far Cry 6, Back 4 Blood, and Metroid Dread on the software side, while Nintendo Switch and Sony’s PlayStation 5 were the month’s most lucrative hardware platforms.
As usual, The NPD Groups’ Mat Piscatella broke down the company’s findings over on Twitter. Below you can find a round-up of his Tweets with the accompanying graphics to highlight each segment’s performance.
Genshin Impact’s 2.3 update is going live on Nov. 24, so miHoYo has just released a new trailer alongside plenty of details on what to expect. Version 2.3 is bringing new characters, a rerun banner, a new world boss, and new events.
Version 2.3 is titled Shadows Amidst Snowstorms and that accurately describes the game’s return to the Dragonspine region where a new storyline involving Albedo and Eula will begin. And, of course, those two characters are the ones available in reruns.
The new characters being added are Geo users Arataki Itto and Gorou. Itto is a five-star claymore wielder, while Gorou is a four-star bow user. They should both come in handy when going up against the new Golden Wolflord world boss located on Inazuma’s Tsurumi Island.
Today Atlus and Sega released Shin Megami Tensei V in the west, and they’re celebrating with a launch trailer.
We get to see the game in all its glory, including both gameplay and story cutscenes.
You can watch it below, alongside a bunch of launch screenshots.
When the Genshin Impact 2.3 update appears, it will kick things off with Albedo and Eula rerun banners.
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It’s now being held in late January 2022 So we recently got word of the FFXIV Endwalker delay that would push...
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MiHoYo officially announced Itto and Gorou will share a Genshin Impact banner, and the developer revealed their voice actors too.
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The Tales series returned in flashy fashion this September with Tales of Arise, the 17th mainline title and one that breathed some life into the long-running action-RPG franchise. That’s a proper Tales game, replete with an anime opening and fast gameplay and all the good stuff series fans love. The new mobile release …
The Elden Ring Closed Network Test has begun, and with it comes multiplayer in both cooperative and PvP competitive forms. Summoning and invasions has been a significant part of previous FromSoftware games, and that remains true for Elden Ring. If you’re familiar with the systems used in Dark Souls and Bloodborne then you’ll quickly get to grips with Elden Ring’s methods, but for those who aren’t, allow us to break down how multiplayer works in Elden Ring.
After selecting your character and taking your first steps into Elden Ring’s open world, the game will alert you to the ability to play in multiplayer. Getting together with friends, randomers, or enemies all starts In the options menu, where you can select a bespoke multiplayer menu from which you choose exactly how you will play.
For many people, co-operative play will be how they want to experience Elden Ring. This is done using a summoning system; one player is able to draw a sign on the ground, and another is able to use this sign to summon the drawer into their world. While not immediately clear, this does assign each player a rough role; the person offering help, and the person seeking it.
If you want to offer your aid to another player, you must use an item called the Tarnished’s Furled Finger. This will draw a gold summoning sign on the ground, which can be seen by other players in their own world. When another player activates your sign, you will be summoned to them.
MiHoYo revealed the Genshin Impact 2.3 release date, and it will show up just ahead of Thanksgiving. There's also a new trailer for it.
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Ubisoft has announced that its Executive Director of Far Cry, Dan Hay, will be leaving the studio this week. Hay is reported to have been working on a live-service Far Cry game before his departure.
Ubisoft has announced that Hay will be ending his tenure at the studio this week - having worked there for over a decade. As shared by GamesBeat, a statement from the company confirmed his departure. "After more than 10 years at Ubisoft, Dan Hay has announced that he will be pursuing a new chapter in his professional life and he will be leaving on November 12," reads the statement's opening line.
Ubisoft went on to confirm in its statement that Hay had not yet announced where he would be working next before thanking the Far Cry Exec for his many contributions over the years. The studio then concluded by revealing that the brand team would be led by Ubisoft Montreal Producer Sandra Warren on an interim basis, who will work alongside a highly capable team of producers and directors.
Lead Story Designer Natsuko Ishikawa has shared some insight regarding the lyrics of "Endwalker - Footfalls."
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For 300 Platinum Points With the excitement of Shin Megami Tensei V launching on Switch this week, it’s easy to forget...
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It has three full Zelda games, a clock, and a minigame In case you forgot, the Zelda Game & Watch device...
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As the PlayStation 5 celebrates the first year since its launch today, Sony has told fans that there are currently more than 25 different exclusive games in development across the publisher's first-party studios.
As part of a celebratory update post on the PlayStation Blog, Sony spoke about the jam-packed year it's experienced since launching its latest flagship console. "A busy year indeed, and we are just getting started with PS5," said Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan in the post.
"The imaginative game creators and publishing partners we work with have launched more than 360 games on PS5. Additionally, there are currently more than 25 games in development for PS5 at PlayStation Studios."
While some of those games won't be available to play for some while yet - we're looking at you Spider-Man 2 - there are still plenty for PlayStation fans to get excited about. Next year alone the publisher will see the launch of a number of exclusive blockbuster titles, including the likes of Guerilla Games' Horizon Forbidden West, Polyphony's Gran Turismo 7, and Santa Monica Studio's God of War Ragnarok. However, that leaves a huge number of exclusives still to be announced.
Update: The Rockstar Games Launcher is now working. However, GTA Trilogy remains unavailable on PC due to issues with data files that were "unintentionally included" in the Definitive Edition.
The Rockstar Games Launcher is now online, but GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is unavailable to play or purchase as we remove files unintentionally included in these versions. We're sorry for the disruption and hope to have correct ones up soon. https://t.co/NiMNXUKCVh
— Rockstar Support (@RockstarSupport) November 13, 2021
"The Rockstar Games Launcher is now back online. However, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition will remain unavailable to play or purchase as we work to remove some data files that were unintentionally included in the new versions of these games," Rockstar wrote. "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and we hope to have the correct versions of the games up and running for everyone as soon as possible."The nature of these files remains unclear, but one journalist speculated that it might be related to licensed music tracks.
The unintentional data isn't Hot Coffee. It looks to be that licensed music tracks which they no longer have the rights to use weren't properly removed and were found in the game files. Potential big headache for Rockstar.
Something has gone very, very wrong since yesterday’s launch of GTA Trilogy on PC. As of last night, all mention of a PC version has been removed from Rockstar’s own site, and the Rockstar Games Launcher app has gone completely offline. Anyone who bought the remastered collection before it vanished is currently unable…
A total of five Pokeball replicas will be available to purchase.
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Dice has revealed its post-launch plans for the first year of Battlefield 2042 and there’s a lot of content on the way for the multiplayer-only title.
Battlefield 2042 is out now for those with access to its early access period, and the full title will be out for most on November 19. As you jump into the game, you’ll be treated to a sizeable amount of maps, specialists, weapons, and more, but according to a new blog post from Dice, this is just the beginning. In its first year, you can expect multiple seasons and accompanying battle passes, new specialists, and possibly some new maps.
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