Also, Minecraft So Microsoft keeps the hits coming with its Game Pass service, and the Xbox Game Pass November offerings...
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All physical and online facilities related to Gundam Cafe will close by March 2022.
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Click here to watch embedded media Update, 11/01/21: Roblox is finally online again after it went down for roughly three days this past weekend.
The company announced the news in a blog post released yesterday, and in it, it cites a 'subtle bug' as the cause for the outage. It didn't reveal too much about how this bug caused three days of downtime, but a post-mortem will be released once the company's internal analysis is complete.
"This was an especially difficult outage in that it involved a combination of several factors," the blog post reads. "A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load. This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenter. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deploy."
Roblox says the difficulty in diagnosing the bug is why recovery took longer "than any of us would have liked." Upon identifying the root cause of the bug, it was able to "resolve the issue through performance tuning, re-configuration, and scaling back of some load."
The game is now online again.
UPDATE 01/11/21: Resident Evil's Nemesis now also has a blight costume in Dead by Daylight.
That means not only do both Nemesis and Pyramid Head have Blighted Sets as part of the Hallowed Curse Collection, it also brings these two iconic horror franchises together. Both costumes are available now from the in-game store.
Nintendo's trailer for its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack hasn't gone over too well with fans, with the video now holding the record for the most dislikes ever on the company's YouTube channel. The expansion pack trailer's stats which were spotted by VGC--which reveals the tiers and prices necessary to play N64 and Sega games--has almost 120,000 dislikes at the time of writing and a mere 17,000 likes, with a total count of 1.15 million views.
The last time that Nintendo uploaded a video that was so negatively received was in 2015 with its E3 trailer for Metroid: Federation Force, which received over 97,000 thumbs down from 1.5 million views.
Fans have criticized Nintendo's pricing for the individual and family membership packages of the Expansion Pack tier, which costs $50 and $80 respectively for a 12-month subscription. The emulated games on offer lack several features, audio delay is commonplace, and there have even been reports of graphical lag during online sessions.
This year's Black Friday sale officially kicks off on Friday 26 November and we're expecting to see plenty of discounts on Logitech gaming peripherals. Last year saw some very impressive discounts on best-selling headsets, mice, keyboards and accessories and we can expect to see more deals getting announced as we draw closer to this year's sale.
While there's still a couple of weeks to wait until this year's Black Friday sale, Amazon is currently listing a decent selection of Logitech gaming peripherals at discounted prices. If you really can't wait until the end of a month to pick up a new mouse or keyboard at a discounted price, we've rounded up some of the best deals available right now.
Fortnite will not get an official release in China. After a period of testing for the past two years, it's been announced that Fortnite will not be released in an official capacity in the country.
Analyst Daniel Ahmad, who covers the video game markets for Niko Partners in China, said on Twitter that it's not true that the game is shutting down, per se, because it never officially was released. The version that was available since 2019 did not include any in-app purchase system and was more akin to a test version, Ahmad said. The game was never approved by the Chinese government, and Ahmad believes the cost of any changes it might need to make the game to appease regulators and cover associated licensing payments are not worth it.
"Fortnite never officially launched in China The game has been undergoing testing for the past 2+ years and does not include IAP This is because the game was never approved by the govt and therefore could not officially launch + monetize. Hence the shut down now," Ahmad said.
Ahmad mentioned how battle royale games in particular are "strictly regulated" in China, and games must make significant changes to be approved. As an example, PUBG for PC has not been approved for release in China. The Chinese version of PUBG Mobile is called Game For Peace, and it doesn't have any blood.
Epic Games' Chinese version of Fortnite will shut down on 15th November after almost three years.
This standalone version of Fortnite's battle royale mode was operated in the country by Tencent, and featured numerous differences in order to comply with China's strict video game guidelines.
There is still no word of a potential western release date.
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River City Goths This weekend saw Halloween celebrations at cities all over the world, including the knock-down, drag-out ‘berg of...
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One thing the Eurogamer Podcast was really good at in the past was giving our writers a way to show themselves outside of the pieces they write for the site. I think this provided an opportunity for you to get to know us, beyond the words, as people, which we are, horns and tails and hooves aside. And I didn't want to lose that with the new incarnation of the Podcast, because it's nice to show you who we are, and there aren't many opportunities for it.
That's why I want to steadily pull in members of the Eurogamer team and talk to them the same way I would any of my guests, and have them share their lives and experiences and build a picture of who they are. My guinea pig for the first of these is someone who has been - and will continue to be - front and centre of Eurogamer for years: deputy editor Martin Robinson. He celebrated his 10th anniversary here earlier this year, and we love him for his reliably contrary views and unrelenting passion for racing games.
Janina Gavankar, who played Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II, has announced that she is involved in some capacity with the new Marvel game coming from Uncharted director Amy Hennig. Posting on Twitter, Gavankar said she is excited to finally be able to talk about the project.
"THIS is what I've been lucky to be a part of," Gavankar said (via GamesRadar), sharing the blog post announcing the new game from Skydance, Hennig, and Marvel.
I can FINALLY TELL YOU THIS!
THIS is what I’ve been so lucky to be a part of. @Skydance + @amy_hennig x @Marvel = #SkydanceNewMedia
https://t.co/XTthJGzcRY
Conventions have had a rough time since the start of 2020, as the idea of being crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in a hall while a highly-infectious virus wreaks havoc across the world has seen many an event close its doors. For PAX South, those doors will remain shut for much longer as the Texas-based incarnation of the convention won't be around for the "foreseeable future."
The official PAX Twitter account uploaded a statement confirming the news, while also highlighting that the event hadn't expanded in a meaningful way since it debuted in 2015.
"While each of our other events has flourished, some of them drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees from around the world, PAX South hasn't expanded and to some extent has remained the same show that it was when we opened it in 2015," the PAX organizer ReedPop explained. "Faced with that reality, and compounded by the impact of Covid-19, we have made the difficult decision to bring PAX South to an end for the foreseeable future."
We have made the difficult decision to bring PAX South to an end for the foreseeable future. See the full statement below: pic.twitter.com/hW8J6wBzxb
Atlus has released another of its trailers showcasing the 200+ demons of its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V one by one.
This time around, the trailer focuses on the Poltergeist, inspired by the supernatural phenomenon of the same name. It debuted in the series with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei in 1987.
You can watch it in action below.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' upcoming Happy Home Paradise expansion will be the game's "first and only paid DLC", Nintendo has now clarified.
The Mario maker previously said this week's huge 2.0 update for the game would be its last major free release, marking the end of regular new content for the game. But this still left the door open for future paid offerings.
Special Final Fantasy XIV merchandise will be sold at this pop-up shop.
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Roblox is one of the most popular games in the world, and it was offline for more than 60 hours over the Halloween weekend as part of a massive outage. Roblox Corp. founder and CEO David Baszucki has now published a blog post that explains what went wrong.
Issues with Roblox started to appear on Thursday afternoon of October 28, at which time players reported having issues logging in. Baszucki said it was at this time that its teams began "working around the clock" to find the source of the issue and get the game back up and running.
But this was not easy, Baszucki said. In short, the server issues were caused by a "growth in the number of servers" for Roblox's datacenters, caused by a "subtle bug" in the game's backend.
"This was an especially difficult outage in that it involved a combination of several factors. A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load," Baszucki said. "This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenters. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deploy."
The reason it took the team multiple days to get Roblox back up and running came down to the "difficulty in diagnosing the actual bug," Baszucki said.
"Recovery took longer than any of us would have liked. Upon successfully identifying this root cause, we were able to resolve the issue through performance tuning, re-configuration, and scaling back of some load. We were able to fully restore service as of this afternoon," Baszucki said in the post, dated October 31.
Microsoft and Sega have reached a new agreement "in principal" to form a strategic alliance to use Microsoft's Azure servers to power "large-scale, global" games. Sega is just the latest gaming giant to use Microsoft's Azure network, joining Bungie (Destiny), Krafton (PUBG), and more.
Sega said the deal will help it create a "super game," which is a type of large-scale, online title that it's been seeking to create and spending lots of money on.
"With the world now more connected than ever following the widespread deployment of 5G and cloud services in recent years, consumers can more easily enjoy high-quality entertainment content at any time," Sega said. "Within this highly connected environment, the ecosystem surrounding the games industry continues to evolve and expand as more sophisticated tools and technologies become available. As such, video games continue to grow as a major medium for gamers globally, with access to a vast range of gaming experiences and communities becoming more diverse and attainable."
The deal with Microsoft, which isn't final yet and is only "proposed," helps set Sega up for success down the road, the company said.
"By working with Microsoft to anticipate such trends as they accelerate further in future, the goal is to optimize development processes and continue to bring high-quality experiences to players using Azure cloud technologies," it explained.
Sega COO Yukio Sugino said in a statement, "By considering a strategic partnership with Microsoft, we seek to further advance our game development so that our titles can be enjoyed by fans all over the world; in this regard, we aim to build an alliance that utilizes both SEGA's powerful game development capabilities and Microsoft's cutting-edge technology and development environment."
New details have emerged on Haunted Chocolatier, the next game from Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe.
The game was surprise announced last month. Now, in a new blog post, ConcernedApe has detailed its combat system.
This version of the game comes bundled with all of the released characters, and Luke.
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Seventeen people were injured on October 31 in Tokyo during an attack on a subway train. The attack has left one victim, a man in his 70s, in critical condition. A 24-year-old man, dressed as the Joker from Batman, was arrested at the scene for attempted murder.
Sega has announced plans to explore a "strategic alliance" with Xbox to produce "large-scale, global" games built using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
The Sonic maker said the agreement would form "a key part of Sega's mid to long-term strategy", which it has dubbed "Super Game". This initiative is designed to develop games "where the key focuses are 'global', 'online', 'community' and 'IP utilisation'", it said today.
Get a first look at the Endwalker Crafter and Gatherer artifact set with these new renders.
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The official site for Fortnite China has announced that on November 15 of this year, the game’s service will end for the country.
Sega will utilize the Microsoft Azure cloud platform in developing what it calls "Super Games."
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With an eye towards the future, Sega is entering into a strategic alliance with Microsoft, in a move that will enable the Tokyo-based game maker to take advantage of the tech giant’s cloud technology.
Today Avex revealed the first screenshots and the synopsis of the fifth episode of the ongoing Muv-Luv Alternative anime series.
The episode will be aired on Wednesday, November 3, and you will be able to watch it on Crunchyroll in many western countries.
Here’s what you can expect:
“November 28, 2001. Miki Tamase’s father, United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tamase, visits Yokohama base.
However, to please her father, whom she rarely sees, she had sent him a letter including a small lie. In order to save Miki, who is tormented by guilt, Takeru Shirogane puts a secret plan in motion.”
Below you can enjoy the first images of the episode.
Nintendo and LEGO have teamed up once again to offer fans three new spooky LEGO sets based on Luigi's Mansion.
These three Luigi's Mansion LEGO sets - Luigi's Mansion Lab and Poltergust Expansion Set, Luigi's Mansion Entryway Expansion Set, and Luigi's Mansion Haunt-and-Seek Expansion Set - will all be available on January 1, 2022 and will feature other such characters as King Boo, Polterpup, Bogmire, Toad, Professor E. Gadd, and Boo.
Add some frightful fun to your #LEGOSuperMario experience with these new Luigi’s Mansion sets! All three ghostly sets arrive 1/1/22! pic.twitter.com/xKAQmedLDM
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) October 31, 2021
These sets do not include LEGO Luigi or LEGO Mario, and those interactive figures will need to be purchased as part of the Starter Courses.
Genshin Impact is certainly starting to draw the attention of figure manufacturers, and a new one by Apex is now available for pre-order.
It portrays Ganyu, and it can be pre-ordered at Ami Ami for 14,800 yen, which translates approximately into $130.
She will ship approximately in February 2023, so you have plenty of time to save up.
The prototype was sculpted by Meow in 1/7 scale, which translates into 22 cm of height. The paintwork is by Luu and 180m/h.
You can check out what she looks like in the gallery below.
We may be in the tail end of 2021, but that is not stopping Bethesda from igniting the love for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim yet again for its 10th anniversary. If you were not aware, this November 11 will see the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition, which packs in new quests, equipment, and even a new game mode. If you are wondering just what are the important details about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition, read on.
There will be a bunch of new Creations for players to enjoy, which contains new questlines, weapons, armor, items and more. If you happen to already own the Special Edition of the game, you can also get these for free.
Saints & Seducers will see an additional storyline be added, complete with side quests, and features some of the largest amounts of content in a single creation. Rare Curios will add travelling Khajit caravans carrying rare imports that can help up your crafting game.
Atlus released another of its many trailers showcasing the over 200+ demons of its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V.
This time around we get to see the gameplay of Koumokuten, inspired by a Buddhist deity and part of the franchise since its debut with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II in 1990.
You can watch him in action below.
