Chop, slice, dice, and stir-fry your way to the top in Tabe Oja this month.
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Seiko will produce a watch based on Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear. It will be made to order and delivered in October 2021.
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The Nintendo Switch is about a quarter away from catching the 3DS in lifetime sales.
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Combine job skills to create a well rounded party in Bravely Default II.
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The new character creator for Monster Hunter Rise is robust.
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The Xbox Series X does not feel like the kind of machine we usually get at the start of a new generation, when we’re used to clean breaks with radical new hardware that basically starts our time with a PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo device over.
Sony revealed Demon’s Souls Remake’s character creator today and it looks like you can now play the game as an actual person.
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Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today…well, you know how it’s been going. Ugh. And I’m playing Phantom Dust to try and think about something else for little stretches.
The global pandemic has meant that people are spending more time at home, playing more video games. Consequently, during the past six months, Nintendo has seen its profits jump by over 240 percent.
I’ve always been sceptical about the need for high-powered processors like AMD’s Ryzen 9s and Intel’s Core i9s in ordinary gaming PCs. It’s all very well if you use your PC for work editing videos, animating 3D models or running virtual machines and the like, as the extra processing power afforded by their considerable number of cores and threads is no doubt exceedingly useful in these sorts of cases. But if all you want is a fast CPU for gaming, they’ve rarely been better value than their cheaper Ryzen 7 / Core i7 counterparts.
When AMD first unveiled their Ryzen 5000 CPUs at the beginning of October, their new Zen 3 architecture hinted at several tantalising performance boosts, both in terms of power efficiency and overall gaming speeds. Alas, they’re also coming at much higher than expected prices, with their mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X starting at a decidedly not-mid-range £280 / $299. It had me worried.
You’re naked, in the desert, with a grubby carrier bag at your feet. “What’s inside?” reads a note taped to it, in jaunty comic sans beneath a Hearthstone logo. You are just crouching to look, when you hear rustling. Ten paces away, an emaciated, dog-eyed wreck of a man is rummaging through a bag of his own, and you are struck with the sudden, brutal understanding that one of you must die here. You search the bag for a weapon, but find only nonsense: a broken tin opener, an onion on a string, a faded novelty telephone that looks just legally distinct from Garfield. And now, your opponent is advancing. He has a half-blunted Stanley knife in his hand, and a cringe of desperate, feral hope on his face. You are going to die.
Horizon has some of the flashiest abilities we’ve seen of any Apex Legends character. With her custom spacesuit and gravity-defying abilities, she has mastered the art of repositioning both her team and the enemy team to her advantage. Learn how to use each of her abilities to win fights with our Apex Legends Horizon guide below.
Good news, US gaming mouse hunters, the excellent Logitech G502 Hero is back down to its all-time low price of just $35 over at Best Buy right now, matching the price it was over Amazon Prime Day. Voted the RPS readers’ favourite gaming mouse of all time back in 2019, the G502 is a great all-round gaming mouse for the money, offering loads of customisable buttons and different weight options. It’s not the only bit of Logitech kit on sale, either, as their brilliant G203 Lightsync mouse is also down to a ridiculous $15, and their brilliant G432 headset is also a bargain $40 as well.
If you’ve pre-ordered Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War digitally, you’ll be able to preload the game before it launches next Friday. While consoles can preload from today, for us PC folk it will begin on Tuesday the 10th at 6pm GMT (10am Pacific).
has a cute new character, a lush new map and a cool vehicle now. Oh, and it’s on Steam, too. The battle royale’s seventh season, Ascension, launched last night, dropping players on Olympus. It’s a gorgeous city in the sky with wide open spaces that are ripe for chasing down enemy squads in Apex’s first vehicle, the Trident.
As well as all this, the Season 7 update brought with it the new Legend Horizon, a Club system, and a load of changes to the way the battle pass works – not good changes, unfortunately, because now it’s even grindier than it was before.
Well, we’re here. It’s finally time for a truly new generation of consoles. The Switch sort of kicked us off, but the arrival of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, with their impressive specs, is kicking it off in earnest.
2013, when the Xbox One first released, feels like forever ago. Twinfinite did exist back then, but we were a newborn in the gaming enthusiast world. Back then –in case you need a quick history lesson– the Xbox 360 was coming off a successful run in the United States and Europe.
However, the console reveal earlier that year ruffled some feathers as fans were not happy with various anti-consumer practices that Microsoft had initially revealed were in place for the Xbox One.
Also, the fact that the Kinect was included and pushed the console’s cost up to $499.99 made it pretty unpopular too. While Microsoft would roll back many of those unpopular features, it would take a while for the Xbox One to find its footing.
Heading into the Xbox Series X’s launch, though, there’s a renewed sense of hope for Microsoft’s flagship home video game console.
The Xbox Series X is a powerful console equipped with just about everything that the vast majority of modern gamers could ask for from a technical perspective in 2020. It will be fully capable of 4K 60FPS and even 120FPS in some games and boasts impressive load times, which we’ll get to later.
Most importantly, however, clued in gamers are excited to see what comes from the fruits of Microsoft’s labors in acquiring multiple talented game studios including the famed Bethesda.
In this review, we’re going to go over the whole “Xbox Series X experience” that we were able to glean as it stands roughly a week out from launch day. Using what we were able to experience from owning and testing out the Xbox Series X, we’ll answer the question of whether or not it’s worth buying.
We’ve already gotten to check out Dirt 5 on PS4 and we absolutely loved it. However, the game will also be making its way to the PS5 this month, and Codemasters has pushed out a video explaining how it’s making use of the new PS5 hardware.
You can check out the video for yourself down below:
In it, technical director David Springate explains how they’ve developed the game specifcally for the PS5 and the brand new DualSense controller. With the adaptive triggers, players will now be able to properly feel the resistance and traction that comes with driving across a range of different terrains. It sounds simple, but certainly adds a new layer of immersion to the game.
Springate also mentions that you’ll be able to enjoy enhanced audio just by plugging in a headset into the DualSense controller. Dirt 5 features a pretty impressive soundtrack that will only sound even better once you’re all plugged in and enjoying how immersive the entire experience is.
And, of course, you can also enjoy the game at 120 frames per second along with faster load times thanks to the PS5 hardware and built-in SSD.
Dirt 5 is now available on PC and consoles, and will be available as a launch title for the PS5.
Click here to watch embedded media Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is set to bring the fan-favorite arcade racing game from 2010 to current-gen consoles, which features the franchise's famous chase-and-escape gameplay, albeit with a shinier coat of paint. Join Jeff Cork and me as we preview Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered and discuss how the game has been updated for consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One!
Looking to hit the pavement and drive back onto the highway in your favorite sports car? Be sure to check out Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered when the video game launches on November 6 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
If you enjoyed this look at EA's upcoming remastered racing game, make sure to watch our recent previews with games like Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition on PlayStation 5, Astro's Playroom, or our thoughts on the Quick Resume feature of the Xbox Series X!
Following a transformative generation where Xbox recovered from a rocky start to deliver a successful, consumer-friendly approach, the gaming team at Microsoft is back with two consoles that do everything the Xbox One currently does, but better. Blazing fast load times, superb compatibility, and a ton of power combine with various quality-of-life adjustments to improve upon the Xbox One experience in noticeable ways. While an iterative approach may not give you the “wow” factor you expect when you power on your new console for the first time, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S undeniably provide you the best way to enjoy your library of Xbox games.
Click to watch embedded media A new Monster Hunter experience is on the horizon with Rise and more than Palicos, players can have a puppers companion as well with the Palamute. A new video from the Monster Hunter: Rise team shows off exactly how the pet customization works.
The official Monster Hunter Twitter account shared the latest video to show off how the Palamute and Palico customization works in the upcoming game:
Create your paw-fect companion in #MHRise!
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It’s no secret that Microsoft was fighting an uphill battle with the Xbox One. The initial announcement of the draconian DRM strategy did not go over well, with Sony and the gaming community at large taking every opportunity to dunk on it. But over time, the console landscape shifted dramatically. Microsoft, along with Phil Spencer, completely changed the conversation.
Xbox Games with Gold provided players with permanent copies of 360 games. Microsoft extended its hand to other publishers, opening the floodgates for cross-platform play — while Sony opposed the program for another year, only relenting for certain big-ticket games. Xbox Game Pass utterly shifted the landscape of "generations," becoming the first major successful "Netflix for games" concept.
That philosophy extends to the Xbox Series X family.
[Since this is our first of the two new hardware reviews, here's a quick side note. We've made both articles fairly uniform, so you can compare and contrast them together when the PS5 review hits. You can find our Xbox Series X unboxing article here.]
Nintendo just gave us an update of their top 10 best-selling Switch game list, and it's a doozy! Although not a whole lot changed per se, the rich just keep getting richer as Nintendo continues to sell through a ton of software.
The last update was through June 30, 2020, but now we have a better idea of how several titles are selling through as of September 30, 2020 thanks to a new report this morning. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has pushed all the way up to 28.99 million units sold, a roughly 2.2 million increase since the June 30 report. It's still the crown jewel of the Switch and refuses to give up its throne.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons however is nipping at its heels, commanding a powerful 26.04 million units sold as of the end of September, a nearly four million unit increase since the last period. Smash Ultimate also sold a little over a million more units to hit 21.10 million, while Zelda sold nearly a million more, a testament to its pedigree and long word of mouth tail (my wife just started playing Breath of the Wild recently, so I've seen it first-hand!).
Pokemon Sword and Shield hit the 19 million mark with around .8 million more units sold, while Mario Odyssey peddled nearly a million more copies in that same period. Let's Go Pikachu saw one of the smallest gains with just .29 million more units, with Super Mario Party seeing gains of .16 million units, and Splatoon 2 increasing by roughly .5 million. New Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is hanging on to that number 10 spot with 8.32 million units sold, a roughly .9 million unit increase from the June 30 report.
What does this all mean? Well, first-party Nintendo games, which rarely, if ever, go down in price, are still crushing it. I wonder if we'll see another game creep up on New Super Mario Bros. in the next six months. You can find the full list below!
AMD's Ryzen 5000 processors have finally arrived - and as you'll find in our Ryzen 5800X and 5900X review, they're damn good, finally challenging Intel for the gaming performance crown thanks to better single-core performance. Now that they're out, you might be wondering where to order them - and that's where this page comes in. We've rounded up all the retailers in the US and UK that have stock of the new CPUs, so you can get in and out with a new processor as quickly as possible.
So why are these processors so hotly anticipated? In short, it's because Intel processors have held an advantage in games for a long time, especially at 1080p where the CPU is often the bottleneck of the system. Ryzen processors have offered great value thanks to their low cost of entry and excellent multi-threaded performance, especially for content creation applications like video encoding or 3D rendering, but that strength hasn't translated into games. With Ryzen 5000, that weakness seems to have finally been solved, with the new CPUs often performing as well or better than Intel processors in a range of games at 1080p.
All that is to say that these processors are expected to be in high demand, so here's what you need to know - and the web pages you should probably bookmark!
"Thank goodness you're finally getting rid of that", my flatmate said as I hunched over our TV cabinet, mid-way through the ceremonial process of changing out my Xbox One for the Series S. A little harsh on the poor old Xbox One, perhaps, but I could understand the sentiment. Demanding a large amount of horizontal space - and by this point in the generation struggling to keep up with more demanding titles - I'd begun to neglect it in favour of the bright RGB lights of PC gaming.
In its place now rests a compact white box, and an altogether different vision to what Microsoft presented at the start of the previous generation. The digital-only Xbox Series S is the smallest console Microsoft has ever produced, and probably the most affordable. Coming in at £249, it's even undercut the Nintendo Switch by £30. It's a staggeringly accessible gateway to next-gen gaming, all for £200 less than a Series X: but the question is whether you're willing to pay for it in a lower max resolution, reliance on digital downloads, and - crucially - only 364GB of usable space for games and apps. Perhaps more than anything, the Series S requires a shift in the way we consume our games, encouraging a high turnover of a few titles at a time rather than storing dozens away for a rainy day.
I'm by no means a hardware specialist (and I'll leave the in-depth performance analysis in the very capable hands of Digital Foundry), so like our Xbox Series X impressions written by Chris Tapsell, consider this more an account of what it's like to live with a Series S. And despite some concerns about storage, I will say this: the Series S has made me more excited for console gaming than I have been in a very long time.
We've loved AMD's Ryzen processors for their high core counts and excellent value, but they've had one major weakness since their first generation: worse gaming performance than Intel, due to slower single-core speeds. Each subsequent Ryzen release has narrowed the gap, but Intel has held onto the gaming crown with grim determination - until today. AMD's new Ryzen 5000 processor lineup has finally equalised with Intel when it comes to single-core performance, meaning this is the moment that Ryzen can earn our full-throated recommendation for gaming.
In this piece, we'll be reviewing the two Zen 3 chips we've received ahead of launch: the mid-range Ryzen 7 5800X and the high-end Ryzen 9 5900X. (The mainstream Ryzen 5 5600X and flagship Ryzen 9 5950X should be detailed in an upcoming review.)
Looking to upgrade your CPU? We've rounded up where to buy Ryzen 5000 in the US and UK.
I had the chance to play Brenda Romero's new gangster game Empire of Sin for five hours the other day and learnt a number of things about it.
I learnt that it's a game about moving up and down through layers. That's why it's hard to call Empire of Sin any one thing. Sometimes it looks like an RPG, sometimes it looks like XCOM, sometimes it looks like Civilization, and I'm sure at one point it even looked like Monopoly, the view zoomed so far out the buildings looked like plastic miniatures. But I can't call it any one of those things because the charm lies in Empire of Sin being all of those things.
It's a game where at one moment you can be running your team around the streets, like you would in an RPG, ticking off quests in your journal, talking to characters, playing with character builds, swapping equipment out. And then in the next moment you can be up in the clouds looking down on the neighbourhood and mapping out your turf.
Sega has sold off its arcade business due to coronavirus.
In a press release, parent company Sega Sammy Holdings Inc said it has sold the vast majority (85.1 per cent) of Sega Entertainment, its Japanese amusement business, to amusement machine company Genda.
Sega put the sale down to Covid-19, which has devastated its arcade business. Sega expects to record "extraordinary losses" from the transition.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War takes up 40GB more space on next-gen consoles, Activision has announced.
Treyarch and Raven's first-person shooter weighs in at 95GB on PlayStation 4 and 93GB on Xbox One. On PlayStation 5 it's 133GB, and on Xbox Series X and S, it's 136GB.
Activision added console players can uninstall specific game mode packs, such as for Campaign or Zombies, to reduce the overall file size.
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It’s time to talk about decapitating Owen Wilson
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Don’t worry, it’ll also work on PC and Xbox Series S
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Microsoft recaptures the magic of the Xbox 360 era
Square Enix will release Final Fantasy 7 Remake Acoustic Arrangements, an album containing acoustic medleys of the game themes.
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