Level-5 president Hino revealed more on Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes today, including the game's protagonist, who will be a manager.
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In a recent interview with video game magazine Game Informer, Apex Legends general manager Dusty Welch and game director Chad Grenier touched on which Legends are played the most and how characters evolve over time.
Like most games with a hero or character pool, players drifted towards different Legends more in each season, but Wraith and Pathfinder were consistently high picks across the board. In the interview, Welch and Grenier spoke about which Legends were the most popular.
“Caustic has been from a pro player or tournament standpoint. He’s been an interesting player favorite, especially when they get into the final areas,” said Welch.
Continue Reading at GameSpotScalebound, which was poised to be a major Xbox console exclusive from Platinum Games, was sadly cancelled back in 2017. Rumors persist to this day that the game will eventually be re-revealed, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that it is not happening, and that he regrets how things played out with the title.
In an interview for IGN's Unlocked podcast, when asked about the huge passion fans still have for Scalebound, Spencer clarifies that the game is not coming, and seems sad about the situation around its announcement and cancellation. "Yeah, it's a tough one," he says. "Because I have a ton of respect for Platnium, (director Hideki Kamiya), the team...and I have feel no ill-will. And we talk to those guys, there's no animosity between the teams."
Spencer says that he wishes he had held back on the game's reveal. "We tried to go do something, and it didn't work," he says. "And I regret that we were as public about what we tried to go do." He cites the also-cancelled Fable Legends as another example of a time when a game was shown off too early, and says that he learned a lot from both projects. "I did some learning around Fable Legends, I did some learning around Scalebound, about being public about things before I kind of know that we've got a real believable plan in something I've felt in my hands.," he says.
Continue Reading at GameSpotGaming giant Activision has emerged victorious in a lawsuit brought against it by the makers of Humvee vehicles who claimed the publisher was infringing on their trademark.
A New York judge has dismissed the lawsuit from General Motors, bringing an end to this case. The lawsuit dates back to 2017 when GM sued Activision for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising, among other things. Activision responded (via The Verge) by saying it had the protection of the First Amendment to use the image of real-world military equipment in its franchise.
Activision's lawyers said GM was acting in bad faith by trying to use a trademark to control the creative use of a US military vehicle paid for by American taxpayers and used in every war and conflict for decades.
Continue Reading at GameSpotFinal Fantasy VII Remake is nearly upon us, and the latest installment of the Inside Final Fantasy VII Remake video series is here to prime us for the game's battles. While episode 1 was a general introduction and episode 2 focused on story, the third episode of this documentary series, embedded below, dives deep into the new combat system for the remake.
The reworked combat system came about because action is "the mainstream style right now," according to director and concept designer Tetsuya Nomura. However, the numbers and stats that fly off enemies during combat were maintained because "they make Final Fantasy what it is."
The battle system has been designed with the thought that this is how it would work if it was designed for the first time today, but the developers report that it was difficult to decide just how action-focused it would be, and whether things like reflexes would be important. Classic Mode, which automates a lot of the fighting and lets players focus on making choices through menus, was included because a lot of fans online were worried about not being able to play because they are not good at more action-heavy games.
Continue Reading at GameSpotDeveloper MiHoYo released two new trailers of its upcoming Open-World Action RPG Genshin Impact.
The trailers focus on a brand new character, Fischl, princess of Verurteilung and “ruler of the ashen darkness.”
Watching the video you’ll probably notice that she fits a very specific anime trope, the character affected by Chuunibyou, or Eighth-Grader Syndrome.
You’ll notice pretty much all the symptoms, including the theatrical moves, and the “evil eye,” with a bit of oujosama laugh sprinkled on top.
Apparently, her real name is Amy, but don’t call her like that, unless you’re her dad.
You can check both videos out below.
If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can read about the story below.
Animal Crossing is keeping people busy with finding eggs, catching cherry blossom petals, collecting recipes, and crafting stuff.
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April Fool's Day 2020 has been and gone, and as usual many studios have gotten in on it with fake announcements. But one prank in particular seemed very cruel, because the game announced looked both very good and extremely plausible--Ducktales: Quackshot, from Monster Boy developer FDG Entertainment. But there's a reason why it looked so professional--it was the result of a real pitch made to Disney.
Surprise! We're happy to announce our new game project #DuckTales QuackShots together with our #MonsterBoyGame development partner Game Atelier! pic.twitter.com/iQfmnwLcPH
— FDG Entertainment (@FDG_Games) April 1, 2020
In a follow-up tweet, in which the studio announced that the game was just a prank, FDG Entertainment clarified that while the game was not happening, it was not for lack of trying. "We worked hard on a legit pitch to Disney but unfortunately never got the license," the tweet reads. "It would've been a shame to bury the material so it became this years #AprilFools. Maybe someday Disney will reconsider?"
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After the huge release of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord early access recently, the developers have been working hard to fix some of the issues that have arisen post launch. Since the early access launch, the developers have released three patches, with bug fixes as the main focus of each one.
Players have been reporting losing their save files and encountering various bugs in the game since launch, but the developers are confident that they will be able to work their way through each thread and find a solution for these problems.
Mount & Blade II is a realistic medieval RPG, where players lead a small army of soldiers to complete quests and fight against other small armies, growing renown with each fight until they eventually become a lord or even king. Bannerlord takes place 210 years after the events of Warband, the DLC pack from 2008, with the focus shifting to the historical Migration Period, a period of time that place not long after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Continue Reading at GameSpotIn a lengthy interview with IGN, Phil Spencer, the executive vice president of Gaming at Microsoft, discussed the release and lineup for the launch of the upcoming Xbox Series X. Set to release later this year, Spencer is confident in the next generation of the Xbox making it out on time, despite the setbacks caused by the ongoing pandemic around the world.
At this point we know that the day one launch lineup consists solely of Halo Infinite, Xbox’s flagship franchise. When asked about the launch lineup, Spencer skated around the topic, not really confirming anything new, but instead outlining his own beliefs on how Microsoft will be handling the launch. “For the momentum of the platform, it’s not about any one day, it’s about a sustained stream of great games coming from our first party and our third party partners,” he said.
Spencer went on to comment on how he thought the Xbox One had too many games released on the launch day. "It doesn’t really help somebody to have eight games launched on one day, and I think you can pace those out,” he said.
Continue Reading at GameSpotActivision's Call of Duty Mobile is a juggernaut. With more than 150 million installs worldwide, the game's big success has helped mobile become Activision's biggest platform by revenue.
The game, which is developed by Tencent's TiMi Studios in China, recently hit a milestone in Australia: 1 million installs. Chris Plummer, Activision's vice president of mobile, spoke to GameSpot about this achievement and a lot more about the mobile game in a new interview.
Plummer tells GameSpot that Call of Duty Mobile is resonating globally, but for the Australia audience specifically, he had a message to share: "Personally, I want to thank the Australian fans. You were part of our beta program and really helped us in the lead up to launch."
Continue Reading at GameSpotDespite a much-needed break between games, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 is still in
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I played Mass Effect 3‘s multiplayer mode for hundreds of hours. With my beloved Krogan, Klom, and my vastly overpowered Crusader shotgun, I would charge around the maps I’d come to know like the back of Klom’s helmet, blasting and headbutting my way through Reapers and Geth and Collectors and whatever else the game threw at me. It was glorious.
I can’t quite say that Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s multiplayer improved upon its predecessor in every way. But in every way that mattered, it was more of the same. And therefore it, too, is glorious.
The first laptops with Intel Comet Lake H processors and Nvidia RTX Super graphics cards are on the way soon, and we've already gone hands on with a few of them thanks to a recent Asus press event. The star of the show there was the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15, a hyper-modern machine that is the best argument for dual-screen laptops we've seen to date.
Like the Asus Zenbook Pro Duo, a dual-screen laptop released last year, the laptop's 14-inch secondary display sits beneath the main 15-inch screen, offering about the same width and nearly half the height with a resolution of 3840x1100. Unlike that machine though, the secondary screen automatically angles upwards as the lid of the laptop is opened, ensuring that you're not looking at the screen off-axis and allowing a 28.5mm air intake to be exposed.
The mechanism here is robust too; the touch screen didn't shift a millimetre under even the harshest of taps and worked silently even on the pre-production machine we had access to. The transformation is fascinating to watch, the sort of thing you'll want to do just for the joy of it, and that's a rarity on laptops these days.
Intel unveiled its 10th-generation Comet Lake H-series mobile processors today, unlocking a new tier of high performance parts for gaming and creation-focused laptops. These are the highest-clocked CPUs we've ever seen from Intel, with the flagship eight-core, sixteen-thread Core i9-10980HK processor turboing all the way up to 5.3GHz - a 300MHz jump over the previous generation equivalent.
This frequency focus is also reflected in the rest of the new processor family too, with all three Core i7 SKUs in Comet Lake H capable of boosting to 5GHz or higher. Even the most affordable chips see a sizeable gen-on-gen clockspeed increase, with the two Core i5 models in the family hitting the same frequencies as last generation's Core i7 models. It's an interesting approach to mobile processor design, where high frequencies are normally eschewed for reasons of efficiency, but it could result in some uniquely performant gaming laptops.
Before we take a closer look at what distinguishes these 10th-generation processors from their predecessors - and there are some new features to discuss - let's take a look at the full lineup:
There are two games that live side-by-side in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. One is an all-time action classic, thrilling and tense and more than a little ridiculous in its recounting of the heroics of war; the other, meanwhile, is a fierce and surprisingly cutting anti-war critique. The result, certainly when I first played it back in 2009, is oil and water. They don't mix, at least on the surface, and for many that means neither half of the game really lands. The parable is obscured by the action, the action is obscured by the parable, and you're left with a nagging sense that this is supposed to mean something, between the lines of the Hoorahs and the Tango Downs, but it's unclear exactly what.
I have struggled to pin down why I love it, some fond nostalgia-tinged memories of multiplayer aside. I've always known Modern Warfare 2 to be a mess - a beautiful mess, but still a mess - that's unquestionably fun and smarter than it looks, but still lacking the requisite nuance to land its point. It took the added sheen of quite stunning photorealism, brought to it by Beenox's surprise remaster - and, more likely, just another replay of the story anyway - to really figure it out. The impact, now, of emerging midway through the game to a smashed Washington Monument and a White House ablaze, or of breaking free from the Gulag, or creeping through waves of snow, is honestly extraordinary. But on top of that the game's narrative tricks seem to come into sharper focus, too. The story's major beats just hitting a little harder, the brilliance shining a little brighter.
One of the greatest bits of environmental storytelling in all of gaming can be found in Red Dead Redemption 2, in a valley beneath a railway bridge. There, seemingly without explanation, is a gorilla.
The Asus ROG Zephryus Duo is unlike any other gaming laptop I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the first wave of dual-screen gaming laptops coming out over the course of this year, and it’s both baffling and beautiful in equal measure. It’s beautiful because the engineering on its secondary 14.1in display is just so damn gorgeous. Seriously, I made a GIF of its sturdy, rock solid hinge and everything and it still gets my heart racing even now, three weeks after I got to see an early sample of it in the flesh.
The thing is, though, who in their right mind is going to spend £3000 on this Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake / Nvidia RTX 2080 Super laptop when it launches this July just to get its fancy second screen? It all depends on whether Asus can make good on their promise to get some of today’s top developers on the case to make special custom game features for it.
Intel have lifted the lid on their H-series of 10th Gen Comet Lake laptop CPUs today, and gee whiz they’re nippy. With top clock speeds reaching all the way up to 5.3GHz in some cases, Intel are quite rightly calling these “the world’s fastest mobile processors”. It’s not just the really high-end CPUs that have super high frequency speeds, either. Of the six new CPUs being announced today, four of Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake H-series line-up will have clock speeds that break the 5.0GHz speed barrier. That’s pretty darn fast for a laptop CPU, and should mean even better gaming performance when you’re on the move. Here’s everything you need to know.
MSI has revealed its upcoming slate of gaming laptops, which all come equipped with 10th-gen Intel Core processors and Nvidia RTX Super graphics cards. The new laptops include the GS66 Stealth, GE66 Raider, and Creator 17. The company states that these laptops were made with gamers and content creators in mind, with specs that can easily handle tasks like gaming and rendering high-quality video.
The GS66 Stealth is available now for pre-order, while the GE66 Raider and Creator 17 laptops will launch online on April 15. Each laptop comes with a TN display with the option to switch out for an IPS-level panel, which provides brighter and better colours.
Starting at $1,599; available for pre-order now
Continue Reading at GameSpotA new character for Genshin Impact was recently introduced with Fischl who is a big-time chuunibyou princess.
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Sony has set up a $100m COVID-19 relief fund.
The fund is designed to support those around the world affected by the coronavirus.
According to the World Health Organisation, the number of infections globally will reach a million within days, and there is growing concern in several countries about supplies of protection equipment for medical workers.
When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 first came out in Japan back in December 2009, players were not happy with the subtitles in the game’s most infamous scene.
I met Arwa during a siege. She was a spearwoman of the Aserai. A fighty southerner who had been taken prisoner on four separate occasions, but still loved to go to war. She made me feel dizzy, a real knock-out. Or maybe that was the Imperial mace that cracked me across the skull. It’s hard to say what mystery ailments arise from love, when you’re storming the battlements and slashing inaccurately at the air in front of your foe. They’ll tell you Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is a medieval war game. But it’s not. It’s a dating sim.
Activision have won their legal battle with the makers of Humvees over Call Of: Duty Modern Warfare games using lookalike warcars without permission. AM General and Activision’s lawyers have been sniping back and forth since 2016, and on Tuesday a judge finally called the case in a summary judgement. The ruling basically says that CoD using Humvees has “artistic relevance” and any harm AM General suffers is minor weighed up against free speech. Case closed, back in your car.
How Squeaky Wheel co-founder Ryan Sumo helped scale his studio's game Academic: School Simulator to $1 million in gross Steam revenue. ...
CD Projekt Red is updating Gwent: The Witcher Card Game with an all-new progression system called Journey, which adds customization options for leader skins, as well as story beats and quests for whoever is in focus. First up is Geralt, and his various new looks are on display in today’s launch trailer.
As you’ll see, over the next three months, every match won sees players progress under the new Journey leveling system, which replaces the crown rewards system of before. Its first tier is free for everyone; premium tiers are purchased separately, which immidiately unlock Geralt as a leader skin for the first time.
Leveling up offers new perks, allowing players to customize Geralt’s appearance; there are 50 unique ornaments to unlock on your way to level 100. This includes a new ornament type called Coins, which are equipped separately.
Animated border combos are also a new feature, as are the new story quests that focus on a different character each cycle.
For the full overview, check out today’s Journey launch trailer below.
Elsewhere in the world of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, its anticipated arrival on Android mobile devices arrived last month.
Scalebound, the Xbox One console exclusive once in development at Platinum Games, was cancelled three years ago - but in the past year, rumours have persisted of a revival.
One wild piece of speculation floating round the internet of late suggested it could even see a new lease of life for Nintendo Switch. And while there was never any evidence of this, Microsoft has at last set the record straight.
Speaking to IGN, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said Microsoft was "not working on it" and that it was "something we've all moved past", while admitting regrets over how the game's development unfolded.
A judge has ruled Call of Duty can depict Humvees without a licence.
In 2017, AM General LLC, the company behind the Humvee, sued Activision over the appearance of the famous military vehicle in Call of Duty.
The Humvee has appeared in most of the Modern Warfare games. In one mission in the recently-remastered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you man a Humvee gunner during a drive through an Afghanistan town.
