Both Richard Ian Cox and David Kaye will return in Yashahime as Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, respectively.
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is one of this year’s big [cms-block], utilising ray traced reflections to bring the wet, rainy streets of London to life. It’s also one of the growing number of games to support Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech – and based on my initial testing of the game’s ray tracing effects on PC, you’re definitely going to need it if you want to admire the UK’s dystopian capital in all its reflective glory, even if you managed to bag yourself one of Nvidia’s newly-released [cms-block] cards.
Genshin Impact has been out for around a month now and it's pretty insane the positive buzz the game has for being a free-to-play gacha game. Despite the inherent dangers of gambling your money away on in-game content, the game beneath the gacha mechanics is really good. I am an unapologetic sucker for games with grinding mechanics, and Genshin Impact has grinding in spades.
Click here to watch embedded media Upstart publisher Ziggurat Interactive will release enhanced editions of the first two BloodRayne games to Steam and GOG on November 20. Dubbed the Terminal Cuts, these definitive editions of the beloved action series boast new graphical and performance spit shines to get them up to speed for a modern era.
The improved versions of BloodRayne 1 and BloodRayne 2 support higher resolutions up to 4K and feature upscaled cinematics, improved lighting and rendering, and modern controller support. Both games will be sold separately though the price is unknown at this time.
If you've been excitedly anticipating the previously revealed remasters of developer Terminal Reality's so-so (but still, seemingly, fondly remembered) BloodRayne series, you're in luck; enhanced editions of BloodRayne 1 and 2 will be making their way to PC on 20th November.
The original BloodRayne launched back in 2002, introducing the world to half-vampire (and clothing deficient) femme fatale Rayne, as she embarked on a campy, globe-trotting adventure - very much in the third-person shooter mould - to obliterate supernatural forces. And also nazis.
A similarly styled sequel followed in 2004, and the series was revived in 2011, albeit this time as a side-scrolling action platformer, known as BloodRayne Betrayal. Uwe Boll also turned the games into a trilogy of "movies", but the less said about those the better.
Developer Gun Media has today announced that three years after the game first launched, Friday the 13th’s servers are shutting down for good later in November.
Thankfully for the players, the Database Servers will remain online, which means peer-to-peer functionality and player progression will continue on.
A forum post from lead community developer Matt Shotcha explains:
All things must come to an end, eventually. And while that statement might sound ominous, there is a lot to cover and a lot of news to highlight, so please read on.
Dedicated Servers for Friday the 13th: The Game will be decommissioned in the upcoming patch, set to roll out this month, November 2020. What this means is that the game will revert back to peer to peer matchmaking for Quick Play lobbies. The Database Servers, however, will stay active and continue to house all player progression and unlocks, so users can continue to play Friday the 13th: The Game via peer to peer Quick Play and Private Matches.
The patch that will go live in November will also be the final patch for Friday the 13th: The Game. The team has been hard at work completing fixes for a long list of player issues to include in that final patch, and the community can expect finalized patch notes to be released in the week prior to the patch going live.
The official forums will be archived in a locked state, so that players can still reference the information that lives on the various boards. As for the online presence of the game and official channels, we will be switching to a more minimal approach, keeping our social media channels active for any necessary announcements only.
Get ready for the future of Fire Emblem and a new Special Heroes banner with a November 3, 2020 Feh Channel.
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It must be easy to run a country when you’ve only two dimensions to work with. This week, Kingdom (that’s Kingdom: Classic and not Kingdom: New Lands or Kingdom: Two Crowns) became free to download and keep over on the Humble Store. The old king may seem stripped down compared to its successors, but it’ll let you dole out pennies across your lands without dropping real-world coin ’til this time next Monday.
Since Starfield was first announced, Bethesda have been pretty quiet on the details. The upcoming spacefaring RPG was revealed at E3 back in 2018 as their new next-gen singleplayer game. But now, Todd Howard has shared a few more titbits. For starters, Starfield’s map will be the largest of any Bethesda RPG yet thanks to procedural generation.
Friday the 13th: The Game hasn't had the easiest road following a bumpy launch but despite that, the community has grown with a heartfelt attachment to the horror franchise adaptation. That being said, all good things must come to an end and a new blog post from the dev team details what that means for the future of the title.
In the most recent blog post, the team detailed that the dedicated servers will be shutting down here soon. That being said, quick play lobbies will remain open, despite this change, as will private matches. The servers attached to player progression and in-game items will also remain active.
Dedicated Servers for Friday the 13th: The Game will be decommissioned in the upcoming patch, set to roll out this month, November 2020. What this means is that the game will revert back to peer to peer matchmaking for Quick Play lobbies. The Database Servers, however, will stay active and continue to house all player progression and unlocks, so users can continue to play Friday the 13th: The Game via peer to peer Quick Play and Private Matches.
The upcoming patch planned for November will be the final update for Friday the 13th: The Game. This patch will include a ton of fixes for in-game bugs that players have been reporting recently, all of which will be detailed in the notes for the update a week before it launches.
Today Bandai Namco released a new trailer of Dontnod Entertainment’s upcoming adventure Twin Mirror.
The trailer celebrates the opening of pre-orders on consoles, which are rolling out today for PS4 and Xbox One (The PS4 version still isn’t up at the moment of this writing, but should be soon).
You can watch it below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Twin Mirror, you can enjoy an official description below.
“Sam Higgs was done with Basswood, West Virginia, but it seems it wasn’t done with him. When the former investigative journalist returns to his hometown to say a final farewell to his best friend, it soon becomes clear that there are more chapters to be written in his troubled history.
Forced to confront his past, Sam finds himself torn between reconnecting with his loved ones and using his unique intellectual abilities to uncover the town’s dark secrets. But how do you know who to trust when you’re not even sure you can trust yourself?
The award-winning storytellers at DONTNOD invite you on another twisting adventure.
Early 2000’s third-person action-RPG franchise BloodRayne will receive enhanced versions of its first two games for PC later this month, publisher Ziggurat Interactive announced today.
The enhanced versions will be coming to Steam and GOG.com on Nov. 20, titled as BloodRayne: Terminal Cut and BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut, and owners of the original games will receive the new versions for free.
According to the press release, the Terminal Cut versions will offer these improvements:
The two games originally released in 2002 and 2004 across PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox. The games feature “Rayne, a brutal half-vampire femme fatale traveling the world to foil Nazi plans, battle supernatural threats, and uncover more about her vampiric heritage.”
I recently talked to a group of people who were unfamiliar with games, about what games are. It’s always a bit weird doing that, because the answer is often “I mean, IDK. What are ‘sports’? Now please don’t ask me if they’re art.” See also: when is a door not a door?
As ever, though, weird indie games provide the answer to most questions, if you look hard enough. In this case, I’m talking about Menu New Game+, available to fiddle with for free on Itch.io. When is a game not a game? When it’s a series of start menus for games that don’t even exist! Ha! Take that, films, you can never be as much art as that because you’re not interactive and therefore can never be quite as meta.
Shopping from Amazon this month? Your orders might be shipped in Super Mario Bros boxes.
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Lone Survivor is still my favorite game about suffering from psychosis, and as much of the world reaches month eight of government-mandated COVID-19 precautions, it's now proven to be one of the most prophetic as well.
Even under cheerier circumstances, the game was an intriguing downer, balancing quiet moments of isolation with your pet with tense, often horrific voyages into the outside world. Balancing the need to gather supplies, try (and often fail) to take care of yourself, and maybe even put an end to all the terrible things in your life made for a game with plenty of depth, despite mostly taking place in small, cramped spaces. I wasn't kidding when I said it was prophetic.
Now Lone Survivor is coming back in a new engine for Switch and PC. Lone developer Jasper Byrne is remaking it from the ground up for modern consoles, and after having talked with him a few times over the years about his thoughts and feelings about making games, I'm nothing short of shocked. I really thought he was done with this particular chapter in his life, but I guess if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that we can never be sure what our ever-changing world will inspire in us.
A title screen for Starfield during the game’s E3 2018 announcement trailer. | Image: Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks
Still no word on when Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG might launch
Pokemon is extremely popular in Japan, so much that cities install special manhole covers called “Poke-Lids” representing the pokemon associated with their prefecture.
This time around, it’s time for the northern island of Hokkaido to receive four brand new Poke-lids featuring Vulpix and Alolan Vulpix in the cities of Mikasa, Tomakomai, Kamifurano, and Kenbuchi.
Vulpix and Alolan Vulpix are the specific Pokemon associated with the Hokkaido prefecture and you can see the new manholes below, alongside a picture from the unveiling presentation with the two critters in mascot form posing in front of Sapporo City Hall.
I love listening to podcasts while I drive because I am sick in the head, so naturally I do the same thing when driving around in Watch Dogs Legion. Unfortunately, I spent my first few hours cruising the game’s London in a stolen hatchback while the same podcast reset over and over every time I got out of the car to…
Rayne will be back this month, as she'll be fighting otherworldly evil in enhanced BloodRayne Terminal Cut editions on PCs.
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Slowly but surely, we're checking off Sony-published PS4 games that will officially look and run better on PlayStation 5. Days Gone is next on the list with a confirmation from Bend Studio that the gargantuan open-world romp will reach "up to" 60 frames per second with dynamic 4K on PS5.
According to senior staff game designer Eric Jensen, you'll need the 1.70 patch – a recent 25GB download that brought stability improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes, among other things.
That's as good of a reason as any to start up a New Game+ run (when your backlog allows it, of course). For many of us who never made time for Days Gone despite seeing a pretty favorable reception from players, we'll be able to check out the game on PS5 with the day-one PlayStation Plus Collection.
This game has always felt like a big commitment to me – there's only so much room in my life for open-world gaming, and I don't like leaving games half-finished – but I still want to circle back eventually.
I hope this 60FPS trend continues. There are more games on the PS Plus list I want to hit up.
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Halloween’s over. The pumpkins are packed away, the witches hats back in the wardrobe, but that doesn’t mean the scares should end, right? This weekend, the indie spooksters working under the Haunted PS1 movement released their latest compilation, C.H.A.I.N. – a compilation of 20 wildly varied haunt ’em ups from over 20 developers, Frankenstein’d together for free into a single winding narrative anthology.
Love them or leave them, microtransactions are clearly paying off for Activision Blizzard because in a recent earnings call it was confirmed that the company netted over $1.2 billion in revenue due to this monetary feature.
Despite recent controversies and uncertainty within the Blizzard community, the previous quarter was a fruitful one for the company. With over $1.95 billion in revenue overall between July through September, $1.2 billion accounted for microtransaction sales alone. The massive surge in additional monetary value comes from many franchises, but it was Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare that netted the most.
“Our teams continue to execute our growth plans with excellence during incredibly challenging circumstances,” said Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard. “We are on a path to deliver sustained long-term growth across our fully-owned franchises. With confidence in our ability to continue to execute, we are raising our outlook for the year and remain enthusiastic for our growth prospects next year.”
Apex Legends places a lot of emphasis on its wide array of guns and attachments, but just as much on its selection of Armor and Gear. Helmets, Body Shields, Backpacks, and Knockdown Shields are essential items to find across the map; and each type of Gear gives you a distinct and significant advantage for the rest of the game. Our Apex Legends Gear and Armor guide will walk you through the stats, effects, and little-known quirks surrounding each piece of Gear you can find in a match.
Given how much Respawn like to change around their repository of Apex Legends attachments, it can be difficult to keep track of which attachments are in the game, which are gone, and which to prioritise while looting up. But fear not – our Season 7 Apex Legends attachments guide will walk you through every single attachment in Apex Legends, with up-to-date descriptions and stats on each one.
Your Apex Legends loadout should be something you’re constantly thinking about over the course of a match. Out of over 20 unique guns in Apex Legends, you can only hold two at any given time. It’s a design choice that forces you to constantly reassess your needs, and make sure you pick the right tools for the task ahead. Our Apex Legends loadout guide will walk you through some of the top loadouts that’ll allow you to kick off Season 7 with a bang.
Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment released the patch notes for the game’s upcoming Season 7 Ascension, and contains big and small changes to the battle royale title.
Already announced as coming in the giant update is Horizon, the latest character who can bend gravity to her will, and the newest map Olympus with various ways to get around including vehicles.
Players will be able to play the Olympus map immediately since it will be the only map in rotation for two weeks, then will change to Olympus and World’s Edge with King’s Canyon vaulted “for the time being.” There will also be a one-week limited-time mode that allows players to explore the new map at their leisure.
The Trident vehicle will be exclusive to the Olympus map, and is more for transportation than as a tank. It cannot explode, but damage taken will disperse between the people inside the vehicle.
The battle pass also received an overhaul with simplified progression. Each level consists of 10 stars, and players can earn stars by completing daily or weekly challenges with every 10,000 XP earning one star.
Other characters received slight changes such as Caustic’s gas no longer blurring vision but has increased damage and ammo not counting towards Loba’s Black Market ability limit. Pathfinder continues to be tinkered with with slightly chunkier hitboxes and his grappling hook’s speed increased and cooldown period slightly decreased.
Our Apex Legends guns & weapons guide will walk you through all 24 weapons in Respawn’s phenomenal battle royale one by one, along with detailed stats and opinions, and even a tier list ranking all of the best guns within their respective classes. All up to date as of Season 7! Ain’t that swell?
Capcom has been releasing a bunch of short videos introducing the world of its upcoming game Monster Hunter Rise.
This time around, we get to see the “Escuregot” (Amefuritsuburi in Japanese), which is a giant snail that can be deployed to emit a healing mist.
If you’re unfamiliar with the name, Escargot is a French dish based on snails.
You can check it out below and see if you want to pet it.
Monster Hunter Rise will release exclusively for Nintendo Switch on March 26, 2021.
We are mere days away from the arrival of the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S, which means a whole load of new games are also set to launch. While both systems are launching with plenty of games, albeit many upgraded editions of existing titles, there are also a bunch of compelling games launching for…
In late October, the New York Times podcast The Daily gathered a group of women from the Ohio suburbs to explain in their own words why they’d soured on Donald Trump. The ambiance seemed cozy. Huddled around a fire pit in a presumably ample backyard—draped in blankets, sipping on red wine—the women told a story that…
With embargoes lifted, looks at Devil May Cry 5 Vergil gameplay on PS5s are beginning to trickle in, showing off new modes and 4K footage.
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