A YouTuber’s pet betta fish accidentally stumbled into a rock duplication glitch in Pokémon Sapphire that doesn’t appear to have been previously reported.
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Seraphine is coming to Summoner’s Rift with League’s next Ultimate skin
According to GamesIndustry.biz sources, Ni no Kuni and Yo-Kai Watch developer Level-5 has been phasing out its North American studios since Summer 2019. The Level-5 International America and Level-5 Abby studios were hit with substantial layoffs last year.
In July 2019, Level-5 International America closed its design department and, earlier this year, Level-5 Abby COO Yukari Hayakawa was said to have stepped down from the company. As of right now, Level-5 has not publicly announced any future North American releases, which begs the question: Have North American operations stopped completely?
Personally, I don't have much experience with Level 5's Yo-Kai Watch series, but the two Ni no Kuni games were heart-warming Studio Ghibli-informed experiences with great characters and solid combat. While nothing has been confirmed, I'm hoping that Level-5 still plans to release their games in the West.
[Source: GamesIndustry.biz]
While Epic and Apple’s legal battle over app stores isn’t due in court until next year, one important matter is settled for now: Epic will get the keep the Apple developer accounts which let them update and maintain Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS. Apple had threatened to disable those too, not just the accounts Epic use for Fortnite, until a judge approved Epic’s appeal for a temporary restraining order. That’s now settled for longer thanks to a preliminary injunction issued on Friday. But the judge also held firm in her decision not to force Apple to let Fortnite back on iThings. Everyone’s a winner, everyone’s a loser.
It was when I drank baby milk with a bunch of half-naked yakuza in diapers that I really knew I was back in a Yakuza game. I noted an edge of disbelief in my voice as my laughter echoed across the room. But mixed in with my cackle was genuine warmth, too. It was good to be back.
As a long time fan of Sega’s action adventure beat ‘em up series, I was lucky enough to give Yakuza: Like A Dragon a whirl for a few hours of preview, and it made me grin like a happy baby throughout – like those diaper-wearing yakuza, I suppose. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the series it’ll likely elicit a similar reaction, because you don’t need to be clued in on any previous happenings to enjoy it. Like A Dragon does retain all the best quirks from its past, and builds on them, too. But make no mistake: it isn’t afraid to tear the foundations down and start anew.
The next batch of My Hero One's Justice 2 costumes will let the kids relax in their casual, weekend clothing.
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Sonic, despite being a destroyer of chili dogs, keeps a pretty trim figure. He gets the cardio in, putting in enough Miles to warrant as many cheat days as he needs.
That's why it's moderately disturbing to see Sonic within the framework of a rotund Bean. Gaze upon this weirdness:
OK, so with the Steam Game Festival - Autumn Edition now running (until October 13th), I thought it was worth peeking into changes for this edition and how it†s being received on †the Internet†so far. Plus more news! ...
In this 2020 GDC Summer AMA, Revelation Interactive's Carl Varnado leads a discussion on representation in games and discusses how developers can create safe spaces for people who make games. ...
In the land of subscription game libraries, the Xbox Game Pass for PC is a pretty great deal, but keeping track of what’s in or out of the library at any one time can be a bit of a headache. You don’t want to go buying that brand new game if you’ve already got it by way of your monthly fee, right? Or not on accident, anyway. Here’s a handy little browser extension that will warn you when you’re looking at a game on Steam that’s already in the Game Pass for PC.
Today Square Enix released a another trailer of its mobile JRPG Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent.
We get to see the story and boss fight focused on August, one of the three main villains featured in the game.
These villains will be featured in three stories which will lead our characters to face off against those who have mastered “wealth,” “fame,” and “power.” August is specifically the master of fame.
You can check out the trailer below. You can also check out the full-size artwork for August himself.
Third-person MOBA Smite has had some really wacky crossovers in the past, including an Avatar: The Last Airbender battle pass. Now, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are coming over in the same fashion, with the pizza-loving shelled heroes becoming skins for classic Smite characters.
Osiris gets a Leonardo skin, Sun Wukong can become Donatello, Loki becomes Raphael, and Mercury shows off a Michelangelo skin. What about Splinter and Shredder?
We've got word that Shredder is mobilizing the Foot Clan on the Battleground, so Master Splinter is joining the fight too! These rivals will be available in the all new Radical Chest! pic.twitter.com/K67hca5fcf
— SMITE (@SMITEGame) October 12, 2020
The battle pass featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is scheduled to land in November! Check out the trailer below.
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Kojima Productions has announced a new Figma figure of their Ludens mascot, alongside a white version of the Ludens rubber duck. Yes, like the kind sung about in Sesame Street that goes in bathtubs. Let’s get quackin’ on giving you more information. (Nope, don’t feel even a little shamed for making that joke.)
If you have played Death Stranding you have surely seen the Kojima Productions logo. You know, the one with the weird knight helmet with the skull inside? That’s the one.
The Ludens figure isn’t a brand new figure, but instead redresses the usually white mascot in black. This figure will run you $120. There don’t seem to be any purchase restrictions or stock limitation. If you’re really feeling the look of this one, the white one is certainly also in stock (there is a handy color selector as if you are simply buying a pair of shoes).
League of Legends K-pop group K/DA is coming in force as a wave of content targeted at LoL, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runterra.
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Today Ubisoft released a new trailer of the upcoming open-world game Watch Dogs Legion.
The trailer, titled “Reclaim Your Future” showcases many of the characters that you’ll be able to recruit in the game, or better, a small part of them considering that you can recruit basically the whole city.
You can check it out below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Watch Dogs Legion, it releases for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 29, for Xbox Series X and Series S on November 10, and for PS5 on November 12.
You can read an official description below.
In the near future, London is facing its downfall: the people are being oppressed by an all-seeing surveillance state, private militaries control the streets, and a powerful crime syndicate is preying on the vulnerable. The fate of London lies with you, and your ability to recruit a resistance and fight back.
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It looks like Level-5, developer of Yo-Kai Watch and Ni No Kuni, has basically shut down its North American operations, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz.
According to multiple sources informed on the matter, both Level-5 International America and its subsidiary office Level-5 Abby started shuttering last year, including laying off the majority of each office's staff. The actual numbers on how many folks were impacted and how many remain are still unclear, but sources estimate about ten employees were laid off from Abby and a similar amount were let go from International America.
Though sources say there was no explicit reason given for the layoffs, those connected to Abby reported that employees were given "every indication" that the studio would be shutting down, with a few employees lingering to finish up essential functions while the company wrapped its consolidation between the Japan office and Dentsu, an international branding and advertisement company.
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Fight consultant Sifu Kisu explains the tireless work that went into the show’s choreography
is a turn-based RPG all about a rag-tag group of pals discovering the secrets of their school for witches and wizards, and it’s out right now. So often games make us play as the legendary hero or the most popular kid in school, but not Ikenfell. This has you play as her sister, after the most popular kid goes missing.
If you love Disney as much as most people do, then chances are you have encountered a special Prince who tugs at your heart. We all know and love the Disney Princesses, but perhaps some consideration should be given to which Disney Prince is your soulmate.
We’ve gone ahead and made a quiz that will let you know which one of those handsome boys you’d be most compatible with!
Take the quiz below to find out which Disney Prince is your soulmate– you might even end up matched with your favorite!
Wondering what you can play on your #PS5 at launch? Let's go through the list of all the games announced so far!
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Six weeks after the release of Crusader Kings 3, and there are already over 1200 mods, tweaks, and more to download. Paradox’s grand soap opera is as much fun to fix as it is to play, it seems.
A lot of the more extensive mods are still heavily in development, so I’ve steered clear of most total conversions (aside from one that I couldn’t not highlight) and stuck to more general upgrades and rules for your kings and queens.
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It's been years since Assassin's Creed gave its heroes a home. For all the hours I spent as Kassandra, her brief stab at a quiet life left an odd taste, and there was nothing cosy about the cold stones of Atlantis. Valhalla's village settlement, however, offers something very different. For new heroine Eivor, it's a growing community of houses and people, shops and services, friends, families, lovers. It is a base for the game's Ancient Britain-set campaign, a hub for travel to distant shores, a graveyard to bury the dead. And while its walls may be built from the same stones as BioWare's Skyhold, it lies on earlier foundations set down by Connor's Homestead and Ezio's beloved Monteriggioni.
"It's really tricky to show the settlement as it's the core of the game," David Bolle tells me. He's a level designer at Ubisoft Montreal, and has worked on Eivor's Ravensthorpe from the project's start. "It is the centrepiece - everything folds back into here, including a lot of narrative and big story turning points." Over the course of an hour-long presentation, I don't see these story spoilers. But I do get to watch Ravensthorpe grow in fast-forward, as Bolle zips through its evolution, tents turning into timber frame buildings, a cluster of houses in a forest clearing into a bustling little community.
Ahead of Assassin's Creed Valhalla's release, I had the opportunity to check out how settlement building will work in the game. Though Ubisoft has described the establishment of a new home for Eivor's people as a major motivation for the character, there's been little shown about this aspect of Valhalla so far. I was a bit surprised to see just how much the settlement factors into Valhalla's gameplay loop, serving as a place you'll regularly visit and invest in throughout the campaign. It feels like an improvement to how home bases have worked in Assassin's Creed in the past, largely for how it pulls you into Eivor's life beyond their mission.
"It was really important when we designed [the settlement] that it felt exactly like when you come back home after a long journey away--you work in some other places, other regions, other countries, and you come back to your family and some element has changed," explained David Bolle, level designer on the settlement feature.
In a video presentation, Bolle showed me how Eivor's settlement evolves over the course of the game. Some of the changes are caused by you; for example, spending resources to build shops will, in turn, welcome settlers to set up camp in the area and join your community. Other times, the changes happen without you. For instance, you may return after a lengthy campaign mission only to find some traders have set up shop or that some of the people have elected to improve the architecture of certain structures and make the place feel more like a permanent residence for its people.
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Amazon Games is shutting down Crucible's servers on November 9. The free-to-play hero shooter has been out for a little under 6 months. Despite its three, vastly different multiplayer modes and extensive cast, Crucible had difficulties finding success as well as a large-scale, dedicated playerbase. Amazon Games promises that players who have purchased Crucible microtransactions will, ultimately, be refunded.
We enjoyed Crucible's moment-to-moment engagements for the most part, but felt that many of its highlights weren't very memorable. Amazon Games' Crucible was slated to be a substantial first foray into game development. With this sudden cancellation, it's hard to speculate what Amazon Games' plans are for the future.
[Source: Forbes]
Nintendo and Puma are teaming up once more for a new collection celebrating all things Super Mario 3D All-Stars on Nintendo Switch. With 35 years of glorious Mario in our lives, Nintendo is offering a different way for fans to share that mustachio'd love.
With a clothing line thanks to a collaboration Black Millk Clothing, the partnership with Puma completes that fandom look. The shoe line will include Nintendo-fied versions of the RS-Fast, Clyde, and Future Rider kicks.
The Future Rider addition will be a rendition of the Super Mario 64 experience that debuted back in 1996.
The Clyde shoes will celebrate Super Mario Sunshine, a GameCube favorite, this is another game that players can enjoy on the Nintendo Switch.
RS-Fast is taking on the world of Super Mario Galaxy, rounding out the new line. The RS-Line has seen previous Super Mario collaborations in the past, making the Super Mario Galaxy the latest in that particular lineup.
The legal battle between Apple and Epic Games over the former's decision to remove Fortnite from the App Store could have "serious ramifications for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft." ...
New Releases highlights some of the hottest video games launching each week, and this episode as a double-dose of trilogies: Torchlight 3 and Cook Serve Delicious 3 both launch soon. You can also drive a mini RC car in Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit or pilot a hover car in Cloudpunk. Finally, hockey fans can get their fix with NHL 21.
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Once called Torchlight Frontiers, Torchlight 3 is leaving early access for its full release. You can choose from four different classes and explore randomly generated dungeons, where you'll battle bad guys and collect all sorts of loot. Look for a Switch version later this year, too.
Continue Reading at GameSpotMarvel's Spider-Man developer Insomniac has uploaded a new teaser for its upcoming PS4 and PS5 game Miles Morales: Spider-Man. In the sneak peek, which highlights sections from the game's in-universe newspaper The Daily Bugle, Miles has already made a public appearance as the latest Spider-Man, although his first few outings have shown off his inexperience.
"When Spidey's partner first descended, the new Wall-Crawler's webs were messy, his one-liners were cheesy, and his swinging wasn't that graceful," the one entry reads. "Since then, he's been seen training on rooftops and in alleys all across town with his mentor."
That line and a quick teaser video suggest that the original Spider-Man will still have a large part to play in Miles' crime-fighting career. The video also showed off an alternative costume for Miles, in which his trademark black spider-suit is covered up by a hoodie and baggy shorts, similar to the outfit he wore in the animated film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Continue Reading at GameSpotA new Street Fighter Fighting EX Layer costume is coming! People can get the Karin Hokuto costume this month.
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The first time was the charm and the second time was also the charm, so there's no need to go back to the well a third time. At least not yet.
Moon Studios, who's best-known for Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, isn't doing the 2D metroidvania thing again for its third game. Late last year, we learned through a job listing that Moon's next game will be a next-gen 3D action RPG that's inspired by the likes of Zelda and Diablo. Now, the developer is starting to talk about it just a little bit.
In an interview with The Gamer, Ori lead artist Daniel van Leeuwen says "The new project we're working on is a very different project to what Ori is. So for sure we'll be able to use a lot of things that we weren't able to use in Ori, just because it's a 3D environment. And we're aiming for a few years out so yes, we are looking at a lot of these next-gen techniques."
He continued "I think at Moon we just want to make something that stands out from the crowd, to really drive a strong artistic feeling, and for that we'll have to utilize a lot of techniques that we haven’t before."
The Outer Worlds 2 looks to be in development, at least according to a recent rumor by industry insider Daniel Ahmad. With the Peril on Gorgon DLC out now for players to enjoy, this Fallout New Vegas 2 in space take could have an even brighter future ahead.
On the cusp of the announcement that The Outer Worlds will be launching on Steam soon, Ahmad took to social media to share that "a new entry in the franchise is being explored, currently in pre-production."
Last I heard a new entry in the franchise is being explored, currently in pre-production.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) October 11, 2020
Could change into something else ofc, but this is the current status. https://t.co/OGvfHjycNu
It's important to note that there are many games in the ideation stage, and not all of them make it off of the cutting room floor. While intriguing to see that Obsidian is reportedly looking into more Outer Worlds, a lot can change during the pre-production phase.
From game logic to game AI, discussing the design of a tightly integrated BT library. ...
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is almost here and to keep that hype at full speed, Insomniac Games just released the first part of a new Daily Bugle series. Forget about getting us pictures of Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, the NEW Spider-Man is where it's at now.
"From Spider-Man to Spider-Men," the new Bugle series kicks off with questions about the new face of heroics:
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I can't really keep track of all the battle royale seasons at this point, but in any case, we're now at Season 9 for PUBG - and you can expect some real fireworks in this one as it introduces volcanic map Paramo.
Paramo is described by PUBG Corp as the game's "first dynamic map", and the latest teaser trailer finally gives us an extended look at its landscapes, although exactly what dynamic means is still up for debate. Some speculate the map will be procedurally generated for each match, which makes sense in the context of the trailer and PUBG Corp's description of a "dynamic landscape [that] will keep you guessing each drop". Others think it may be closer to Karakin's Black Zones, which flatten everything in their path - including buildings. A slightly wackier theory, as explained by PlayerIGN, predicts Paramo's hook is actually time travel. Either way, it's volcanic and dynamic.
PUBG Corp started teasing the map in late September by sending a bunch of stone tablets to influencers, and later followed up with a lore video hinting Paramo is actually the location of the fountain of youth. There have also been several hints pertaining to helicopters being added in the new season, in both a letter accompanying the tablets, a dev tweet and several teaser videos, so it seems likely the vehicles could be introduced as part of Season 9.
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