Apex Legends Season 11: Escape is going live on Nov. 2, so Respawn is pushing the trailer rollout into overdrive at this point. And if you’re a longtime Apex fan, you know the drill. This trailer gives us a detailed look at what new Legend, Ash, will be bringing to Apex Legends in terms of abilities and skills.

Ash’s Passive Ability, Marked for Death, allows her to see Deathboxes on the map and interact with them to locate the attacking team that created those boxes. Her Tactical is an Arc Snare that tethers and traps enemies who get too close to it. And finally, her Ultimate creates a one-way portal by cutting through space.

Ash is an aggressive Legend who focuses more on attacking, strategic repositioning, and hunting down targets than anything else.

You can check out the trailer below to see all of Ash’s abilities as they appear in Apex Legends Season 11: Escape.

World of Warcraft Classic's Season of Mastery will bring a number of changes to the original version of Blizzard's landmark MMORPG, and players won't have to wait long to experience it. New seasonal servers for the game will be going live November 16, Blizzard has announced.

The servers will share the same game client as regular WoW Classic, but with players having the ability to choose to create a character on a Season of Mastery server. Character name reservations will start on November 11 for players with game time on their account or an active WoW subscription.

During Ubisoft’s quarterly financial conference call for investors and analysts, CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frédérick Duguet talked about the next fiscal year and beyond.

The executives were asked if there is room for a fourth AAA game on top of Avatar: Frontier of Pandora, Skull & Bones, & Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

The reply was that there are “Other Exciting Premium Games” expected to come in the fiscal year, which spans the period between April 2022 and March 2023. It’s worth mentioning that Ubisoft defines “premium” non-free to play AAA games.

While not explicitly, Duguet seemed to hint that none of these will be an Assassin’s Creed game in response to another question, mentioning that Ubisoft will be focusing on delivering a “big year two” for Valhalla, with the biggest post-launch program ever for the franchise.

Incidentally, we also heard that Skull & Bones is considered “very promising” and has just passed an important milestone in development. On the other hand, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope should be much bigger than Kingdom Battle due to the fact that the installed base of the Switch is much higher now.

The Pyro-element characters in Genshin Impact are known to be high-damage dealers, but Hu Tao is an anomaly among them. She’s an ideal damage dealer for those who don’t mind her risky playstyle. More importantly, she’s only available through gacha pulls for a very limited window of time, which are called “banners”…

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Apex Legends' next season, Escape, kicks off next week, and it introduces the new playable character Ash. She's a simulacrum (read: human brain in robot body) that you might recognise as the evil pilot from Titanfall 2's Into The Abyss level, or as the overseer of Apex Legends' 3v3 Arenas mode. Now she's descending into the Apex games herself, and having taken her for a spin already, I reckon she has some delightfully aggressive abilities that Wraith players in particular are going to enjoy.

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Resident Evil Village has been out for less than six months, having released on May 7 earlier this year, but it’s already shipped a whopping 5 million units. 

This news comes by way of a press release from Capcom, which reports steady growth of Resident Evil franchise sales overall thanks to a multifaceted expansion of the series. This alludes to the off-controller Resident Evil things happening such as Netflix’s Resident Evil Infinite Darkness anime series and the upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City movie.

“Capcom remains firmly committed to satisfying the expectations of all stakeholders by leveraging its industry-leading game development capabilities,” the press release reads. 

Earlier today, a brand-new trailer for Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 7 was released on the Gran Turismo TV YouTube Channel. The trailer comes in just over a minute long and features some gameplay along with narration by Kazunori Yamauchi.

The main focus of the trailer was all about the experience of being a racer. Besides creating the Gran Turismo franchise, Yamauchi is also an accomplished racer, so his words carry an immense amount of legitimacy along with them.

In the trailer, Yamauchi talked about the different aspects and experiences of being a racer like the feeling of your front tires slipping as you understeer around a curve, assembling a team and car, or even something as simple as hearing the other racer’s cars around you.

It was also revealed that the sensation of your tires slipping while understeering will be simulated by the haptic feedback in the DualSense controller. This feature will be exclusive to the PS5 version of Gran Turismo 7 since the PS4’s DualShock 4 is incapable of producing such feedback.

At the end of the trailer, Yamauchi says, “Gran Turismo is a game in which there’s an awful lot to learn. You learn about cars, about their mechanisms, about driving. The more you know, the more enjoyable the game becomes.” This statement is very much true for the Gran Turismo series as a whole.

You can experience the DualSense controller’s haptics in the PS5 version of Gran Turismo 7 when it hits store shelves on March 4, 2022. The game will also be released for PS4 on the same date. Pre-orders are currently available for both platform versions.

And don’t forget to check out the full Gran Turismo 7 Racer trailer with Kazunori Yamauchi down below.

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Missed out on the Resident Evil Village CE goodies? Now's your chance to get that Chris Redfield figure!

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Looking for up-to-date and accurate CAR SMG stats for Apex Legends? The CAR is Season 11's addition to the Apex Legends weapons arsenal, and it's got a very impressive array of stats to show off. But what's truly unique about the CAR is its ability to use both Heavy and Light Ammo, and toggle between them at the touch of a button.

Keep reading for an in-depth look at the CAR SMG in Apex Legends, along with detailed stats covering everything from damage profiles and shots to kill to reload times and attachment slots.

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Beach map! Beach map! Beach map! Apex Legends' next season, Escape, is right around the corner, and it's bringing a tropical island to fight on. It's also bringing a the new Legend Ash, the CAR SMG and more, but most importantly: beach map! I had a chance to play a little of Respawn's battle royale in this new arena, and it is delightful. Named Stormpoint, it's the FPS's fourth map, and not only is it lovely to look at, but it's full of cool locations to explore and dangerous wildlife to dodge.

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Want to know about Ash's abilities in Apex Legends? The upcoming addition to the Apex Legends roster will arrive next week, along with a brand new map, the new CAR SMG, and a host of weapon and Legend balance changes. Ash is turning a lot of heads thanks both to her complex and fascinating backstory and to her powerful and versatile array of abilities.

Below we'll walk you through how each of Ash's abilities work in detail, so you can get off to a great start with her once Season 11 drops. We'll also detail Ash's backstory for those who need to know every last detail about this dangerous new Legend.

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Apex Legends Season 11: Escape is going live on Nov. 2and it’s bringing a number of new additions and changes that you’ll want to learn more about before jumping into some matches. The update is adding a new gun from Titanfall, a huge new map, a deadly new Legend, and more. Here’s everything you need to know.

New Legend: Ash

Everything New in Apex Legends Season 11

Dr. Ashleigh Reid became a simulacrum — an artificial body controlled by a human brain — after a near-fatal incident in a lab. She’s now simply known as Ash, and Titanfall 2 fans will remember her as a boss from that game’s campaign.

Apex Legends Season 11: Escape is right around the corner and it’s adding another Titanfall gun, a huge tropical map, a ruthless new Legend, and more. I recently got the opportunity to attend a hands-on preview event for the new season, so here are my first impressions of what’s being added to the game on Nov. 2.

The last time a new map got added was back in Season 7: Ascension, and this new one, Storm Point, will shake up the game in significant ways just like Olympus did. Storm Point is presented as a tropical getaway at first, but of course, that wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining as what really awaits the Legends in this hostile new environment.

This huge island is the largest map to date, as it’s 15% larger than World’s Edge. And with all that space comes aggressive wildlife, new map traversal options, 17 notable POIs, and the return of Tridents to help get from place to place as efficiently as possible.

One of the most interesting things about Storm Point is how varied the environments are. It’s all cohesive even though you could be on the beach one minute, then a dense jungle or mountainside the next. And if you’re not careful, you’ll end up in a spider or prowler nest.

UPDATE 28/10/21: Sony has now made PlayStation Plus' November additions official, with the recent leak once again proving to be correct - albeit with a couple of PSVR omissions.

Starting next Tuesday, 2nd November, PlayStation Plus members will be able to download Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (PS4), Knockout City (PS4 and PS5), First Class Trouble (PS4 and PS5), and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (PSVR) as part of their subscription.

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Ubisoft has delayed its Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake for a third time, with the developer explaining in its financial report today that the game has been pushed to the next fiscal year. It was supposed to be launching this fiscal year, before March 2022. No concrete date has yet been announced.

An update shared from the development team itself simply reassures fans that progress is still being made and that the game is still being worked on, but there’s nothing offered in terms of reason as to why the delay has occurred.

An update from the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake development team: pic.twitter.com/z9sFaBwz9N

— Prince of Persia (@princeofpersia) October 28, 2021

This is the second time the team has issued a vague statement in response to delaying the game. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake was delayed back in February without any real reason disclosed as to why. It was first delayed from December to March 2021, supposedly due to COVID-19 stay-at-home measures.

It’s worth noting that its initial reveal in 2019 wasn’t well-received, with the game’s graphical improvements looking somewhat lackluster. The YouTube like/dislike ratio is overwhelmingly negative.

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Good news for Japanese PC fans.

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Preview season for the newest Magic: The Gathering set, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, begins today. Wizards of the Coast just wrapped a stream showing off all the basics of the upcoming expansion, the second set taking place on the plane of Innistrad this year. What’s happening in Crimson Vow? What mechanics can players expect? Is there anything exciting for card collectors? Look no further! You can find all of those answers below.

The Lore of Crimson Vow

In a recently unprecedented move, WOTC is releasing a fifth standard legal set this year and a sequel of sorts to the previous one, Midnight Hunt. Innistrad’s horror setting and tropes are very much a favorite of Magic players. Instead of making a quick visit to the plane, we get two full expansions; each centered on the world’s more popular tribes: Werewolves, and now a focus on Vampires in Crimson Vow.

Continuing the story from Midnight Hunt, where the humans failed in preventing the plane from being plunged into the eternal night, Vampires are ready to thrive in the neverending darkness. One head of a vampire clan, Olivia Volderan, has taken an artifact known as the Moonsilver Key, a component needed to restore day to the plane. Of course, being a nightwalker, Olivia would instead use the key to gain power and influence among the vampire clans.

If you’re thinking about proposing to a special someone in your life who happens to be a big Pokemon fan and want the best way to say “I choose you,” then you’re in luck: a Japanese company called U-Treasure sells beautiful, Pokemon-themed engagement rings, and they just introduced a brand new design featuring Pikachu.

Based on a previous design in their collection, the Pikachu Solitaire Ring has been upgraded to be able to host a larger diamond (between 1. and 1.999ct) and features both a male and female Pikachu on the setting.

The two Pikachu on this band have different tails to show their genders: the female Pikachu has a heart-shaped tail, and the male Pikachu has a flat tail.

You can actually buy this Pikachu Solitaire ring from U-Treasure, but of course, as it is meant to be an engagement ring it’ll come at a high cost: the prices range from 93,500 yen (approximately $825 USD) to 125,400 yen (approximately $1,106 USD) for just the band itself, depending on the type of metal you choose. And before you ask, yes, they ship overseas.

If you’d like a rough idea of what you may end up spending, an example is provided with the band in platinum and 18k yellow gold setting holding a 1.032ct diamond. It costs a whopping 1,169,400 yen (approximately $10,320 USD). This ring can be purchased right here.

Of course, you could go higher since the biggest diamond the ring can hold is just south of 2ct.

The ring comes with a custom engraving option and also arrives in a cute Master Ball case so that you can perfectly propose by saying “I choose you.”

Here are pictures of this beautiful piece of jewelry as well as the Master Ball case:

Metroid Dread launched to largely positive reviews earlier this month. The conclusion of Samus' decades-long battle against the Metroids maintains the classic side-scrolling exploration and the modern additions of developer MercurySteam, such as the melee counter. However, it has one prominent, frightening new feature: E.M.M.I's, nigh-unstoppable robots that Samus must regularly evade, adding a terrifying wrinkle to the formula. If you'd rather sample the game before committing hard-earned dollars, a demo for Metroid Dread is now available.

You can download the demo on the Switch eShop, or use the browser version to install it remotely. Nintendo hasn't clarify how big of a slice the trial takes from the main game, but one would imagine it will let players face off with an E.M.M.I. and sample Samus' new cloaking and/or magnetic grapple abilities. 

Today Ubisoft announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2021-22, related to the period ended on Sept. 30, 2021.

Below you can find a summary of the publisher’s results during the quarter. According to ubisoft, net bookings (which is a metric similar to sales, albeit not completely identical) were “well above target.”

The press release included the traditional comment by Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot.

“The industry is thriving and quickly evolving, offering us new challenges and opportunities. Players have a deeper impact on the worlds they are engaging with, and technological breakthroughs are opening up promising new avenues. Against this favorable backdrop, we continue to invest to bring our biggest franchises and new brands to a significantly wider audience.

Rockstar Games recently revealed Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, which launches digitally next month and hits store shelves in December. Alongside this high-profile return to the franchise’s past, though, the developer is presumably still working on its future. Now, according to comments made…

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Yet another Tales of Arise sales milestone's been passed just under 50 days after the JRPG's launch.

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In our talks with Saints Row developer Volition for our most recent cover story, it quickly became apparent that it sees customization as a non-negotiable element of the core Saints Row experience. Ever since the first game came out in 2006, players have customized their character's appearance. Those customization options have only expanded throughout the series' history, growing beyond simply being able to choose how your character looks and sounds.

"Customization is one of the definitive things that Saints Row is known for," chief creative officer at Volition Jim Boone says. "Not just the characters, but even the vehicles. And in Saints Row IV, we introduced weapon customization. It’s extremely woven into the DNA to the degree where I feel like if you don’t have customization, it’s hard to say that you’re a full Saints Row game."

Volition has taken everything to the next level, giving players the power to tweak standard options like eye color and skin tone, add prosthetics to the main character, and even censor your protagonist’s nude body with things like emojis. "We’ve achieved dreams," art director Frank Marquart says. "There were things that we really tried and we could not do on previous titles that we can now do in this game."

Daniel Mullins says he's not sure that "horror" is the most accurate way to describe his gruesome new card battler Inscryption. He immediately follows this up by telling me a friend of his had nightmares because of the menacing figure you play cards against, so yeah, maybe it's a bit horror-like. But I kind of understand his point.

At the start, Inscryption is like a hostage situation, where you're forced to play a card-based roguelike against a sinister games master. Then, just as you start getting the hang of things, the game evolves into something way more complex. If you've played Mullins' other games you'll know his work can go to some weird, meta places. I won't say more above the cut, because I'd hate to spoil it. But for those of you who've already played, read on for more detail on how Mullins created an excellently unsettling world.

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Does the stuff your infant chews on not look like a video game controller? Are you a gamer parent concerned that your child may want to go outside instead of sitting in front of the television all day? BabyGlitch has your back with its new line of baby gamer gear, featuring small scale replicas of Nintendo,…

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Square Enix is celebrating Tomb Raider's 25th Anniversary this week with a bunch of announcements, including ports of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris for Nintendo Switch in 2022.

Speaking of portable gaming, three original English-language Lara Croft voice actors will join Keeley Hawes in Tomb Raider Reloaded when the mobile game launches next year. Players will be able to choose classic voices such as Shelley Blond (Tomb Raider), Judith Gibbins (Tomb Raider 2 and 3), Jonell Elliott (The Last Revelation, Chronicles, The Angel of Darkness), or Keeley Hawes (Legend, Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Underworld).

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Ubisoft Annecy’s Riders Republic is out, huzzah! Now you can throw yourself down a mountain with what is essentially a jet-pack tied to your back from the comfort of your own home. You can smarmily cruise down a snowy mountain backward on skis, or ‘shred the gnar‘ on your board as the cool kids would say. You can even shred multiple gnars with your friends… I don’t know what I’m saying at this point. All I do know is that alongside all of these wonderful things that Riders Republic lets you experience from the safety of your living room, it can also ruin your life… and by life, I mean your Xbox account’s Gamerscore.

Am I being melodramatic? Not really. Any other achievement hunters out there will feel my pain here… I hope. Let me get to the point. Riders Republic has a grand total of 34 achievements that add up to 1000 glorious Gamerscore. That’s actually a relatively low amount of achievements for a AAA title by today’s standards. “Winner winner,” I thought to myself rather smugly this morning. “Easy G’s.”

Well, those “easy G’s” (wow, I really do sound like an asshat most of the time) come in the most infuriating of forms. Let us explore this nightmare together:

‘…Vici – Finish First in the Invitational – 70G’ Standard par for the course in the world of achievements. A relatively high-level, late-game experience with a big old chunk of Gamerscore as your reward. 50G or even 100G would have been even sweeter, but we’re not going to complain too much here.

Today Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the games that will be granted to PlayStation Plus subscribers in November 2021 at no additional cost.

We’re getting Knockout City, First Class Trouble, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, The Persistence, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Standard Edition, and Until You Fall.

All games will be available on November 2 and you guessed it, three of them are for PlayStation VR.

If you’re unfamiliar with any of them, here’s an official description for each.

Knockout City | PS5 & PS4

Team up and duke it out with rival crews in style as you settle the score with epic dodgeball battles online*. Brace yourself for outrageous fun and intense competition in an all-new take on team-based multiplayer games. Customize your character and form a crew with friends to start your Knockout City takeover. Knock out opponents with trick shots and coordinated teamwork while dodging and catching balls flying across the map. No ball? No problem! You can literally ball up, roll into a teammate’s hands, and become the ultimate weapon.

First Class Trouble | PS5 &PS4

First Class Trouble is a social deduction party game where six people play together online* aboard a luxury space cruiser. At the start of each game, four players will be randomly selected to be Residents, cooperatively trying to shut down a rogue A.I. at the heart of the ship. The other two players will be Personoids, who will lie, deceive, and do whatever it takes to stop them! Teamwork is the key to survival, but who can you trust?

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning | PS4

Even though its unique blend of turn-based strategy and high-octane first-person gun-’em-up action came out last month on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, developer Ratloop Games Canada has dropped a fresh accolades trailer for its multiplayer shooter Lemnis Gate.

Go ahead and feast your eyes on the new footage down below:

Currently, Lemnis Gate sits at a ‘generally favorable’ 77 critical score on review aggregator Metacritic for the PC version of the title. Indeed, not only was Lemnis Gate well-received by gaming press, but many outlets described the experience as super innovative and ahead of its time, too.

Developer FYQD-Studio and Playism announced the release date of the upcoming “lightning-fast fusion of FPS and action” Bright Memory: Infinite.

For now, we know only when the game is coming to PC (via Steam and GoG), and it’s on November 11, 2021. An Xbox Series X|S version is still planned and “coming soon” according to the press release.

The PC version will launch with support for Nvidia DLSS and Reflex out of the box.

You can check out the trailer below.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, which is coming in 2021 for PC and Xbox Series X|S. You can read an official description below via Steam.

“Bright Memory: Infinite is an all-new lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by FYQD-Studio. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks.

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