November 2020

Assassin's Creed Valhalla features a dynamic world to explore, filled with all manner of danger and mystery. If you're looking to start a fight and make some coin in the process, the Thousand Eyes merchants are happy to hand out contracts that will reward players with Opals that can be used to buy rare gear and exotic cosmetics.

Many of these contracts revolve around a simple formula of being sent to assassinate an unlucky target: one who is usually near your location. A new bug around these contracts has risen up though, and it's allowing players to easily bank some Opals in the process. In the Ravensthorpe settlement that Eivor calls home, you're able to grab contracts from the head of the Thousand Eyes, Reda.

The bug that players are encountering is that the nearby training dummies being marked as the guilty culprits that Eivor needs to kill, each one having committed a particular crime that needs to be punished with a lethal injection of steel to the neck.

Today Cloud Imperium Games opened the RSI hall in Star Citizen’s Intergalactic Aerospace Expo and revealed a new ship.

The newcomer to the Star Citizen universe is a rather massive 100 meters-long gunship armed with four massive size-seven guns in two turrets above and below its rather sleek hull that feels pretty much designed to ram through enemy ships. It even comes with additional gatlings for self-defense against smaller ships and torpedoes for helping with the ripping through those bigger ones.

As all big ships, it isn’t cheap, with its cost starting at $600. That being said, it’s worth mentioning that all Star Citizen ships will be available to purchase in-game with credits you earn by playing and this isn’t flyable just yet, so no one should feel particularly compelled to spend real money on this unless their primary goal is to support the game’s development.

Below you can check out a new trailer about the reveal and a few images of the Perseus.

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Square Enix has announced a remaster of SaGa Frontier.

SaGa Frontier is a Squaresoft role-playing game that came out for the PSone in Japan in 1997 and then in North America in 1998, but was never released in Europe.

Square Enix said the remaster has updated graphics, events, cutscenes and a new protagonist called Fuse.

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During the Western European open tournament of the SoulCalibur VI Online Challenge, Bandai Namco revealed the next DLC character.

This time around the character is an old friend coming back from the shadows of SoulCalibur III, Hwang Seong-gyeong.

Interestingly, he appears masked and his identity is revealed only later in the announcement trailer, even if I doubt most fans had much doubts since the first few frames.

You can check him out in action in the trailer below.

Together with Hwang, who will be featured in DLC 13, DLC 14 will also release on the same date, December 2.

DLC 14 will be the Character Creation Set F, including new costume parts from Tekken.

A free content update coming at the same time will include the new Motien Pass Ruins stage, Seong Mi-na’s classic costume, and new episodes for Mitsurugi and Nightmare.

Fortnite’s Marvel-themed season comes to an end next week, with super villain Galactus finally arriving on the island on Tuesday afternoon. Dataminers are finding lots of references to past season events, Epic has put out some streaming rules suggesting there’ll be copyrighted music, and we really have no idea what…

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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has somehow managed to basically get better with every expansion: I don't know how Naoki "Yoshi P" Yoshida and his team do it.

While many MMOs are content with braving severe ups and downs, XIV has remained consistently mesmerizing through its lengthy (seven years running) lifetime as A Realm Reborn. It'll probably stay that way as long as Yoshida is in charge. That includes the next expansion, which could be announced on February 5, 2021 at 5:30PM PT, according to a new tweet from Square Enix.

There's a lot to unpack here.

Bandai Namco has revealed Hwang as the final SoulCalibur 6 Season Pass 2 DLC character.

Hwang arrives in SoulCalibur 6 on 2nd December alongside a free content update that adds a new stage called Motien Pass Ruins, Seong Mi-Na's classic costume parts, more Tekken CAS parts, and new Mitsurugi and Nightmare episodes.

The trailer for Hwang was shown at the end of today's EU West tournament of the SoulCalibur 6 Online Challenge (catch up on Twitch). The trailer is below:

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Dell is an absolutely solid brand in the world of PC gaming, with a huge range of high-spec gaming PCs, laptops and monitors for the discerning keyboard and mouse warrior.

This year, Dell's Black Friday event does thrifty shoppers proud once again, with heavy discounts of up to 52% slashed off their Alienware range.

Even though it isn't the cheapest name around, Dell's latest machines boast phenomenal power for churning out those sublime ray tracing effects and millions of polygons. Their Alienware boxes feature either AMD Ryzen or 10th gen Intel Core processors, with graphics courtesy of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.

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Final Fantasy 14's next major patch comes out 8th December, Square Enix has announced.

Patch 5.4, titled Futures Rewritten, starts a new chapter in the story following the finale of the Shadowbringers main scenario questline.

Of note: the patch introduces the PC and PlayStation MMO's own take on the Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy 7. Fans of that game will remember Emerald Weapon as a superboss who roamed around the bottom of the sea in the legendary JRPG. Hands-up if you couldn't resist the temptation to pilot the submarine into the thing the first time you saw it, triggering a fight, and then died? Just me?

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As someone who has followed Star Citizen since its inception, I’m often asked a very relevant question: is it actually fun and exciting to fly in the game?

After all, as a space sim based on spaceships, flying is certainly a large part of the experience.

As with anything that has to do with personal feelings like “fun,” the answer isn’t entirely cut and dry. It depends on what you’re flying, where, and even how.

The shortest (personal, of course) answer is certainly yes, flying in Star Citizen can be very fun and exciting, as you can see in the quick and dirty video below.

There aren’t many frills here, no cuts, and no fancy camera work. What you see is literally what you get in an Anvil Arrow fighter.

Now, for the longer answer.

Flying in Star Citizen can be exciting depending on a series of parameters. As I mentioned above.

Light fighters and racing ships can be very exciting to fly, especially if you’re into pushing the envelope. The flight model has gone through several iterations and lately, I find it has become really gratifying. I could go for even faster atmospheric flight, but that’d likely increase the challenge considerably, so it’s more a matter of personal taste.

Chocolate Chocobos? Get yourself a new FFXIV mount when you buy these chocolate wafers. There are even chibi stickers to collect, too.

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Guess what? SoulCalibur VI's next DLC fighter will also use swords. Hwang Seong-gyeong will rejoin the fight in December 2020.

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With the two newest Evercade releases, the oft-forgotten Atari Lynx handheld is getting its long-awaited spotlight.

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In the midst of this chaotic, late-2020 world, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the most comforting game I’ve found by far. Yakuza games have always offered wildly captivating plots, ridiculous combat systems, and endless opportunities for digital tourism, but I’m mostly finding Like a Dragon such a great source of joy…

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Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making.

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One of the great things about being Square Enix is it has such a rich and diverse history of RPGs from the NES, SNES, and PlayStation eras it can pull from when it wants to remaster a classic. Case in point, SaGa Frontier. Originally released for the PlayStation back in 1997, the seventh game in the SaGa franchise will have a chance to find a brand new audience when SaGa Frontier Remastered hits Switch, PlayStation 4, Steam, iOS, and Android next summer. 

Not only will this remaster bring the original game into the HD era, but it's also adding some features, like new cutscenes and events and a new protagonist named Fuse. It's nice to see Square Enix really giving the SaGa series a second chance. As a reminder, the first three games in the series, Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend, come to Nintendo Switch next month.

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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back on the best user-created offerings from the last week. Well, I think I speak for the rest of the community when I say "Thank You, Abby!" After four years, Abby has moved on from the site and will be pursuing other endeavors. The "Best of Giant Bomb" tribute Derek (aka @turboman) created is "must see" video content and you should definitely keep on the lookout for the final Giant Bomb newsletter authored by Abby. The newsletter in particular is incredibly sweet and even an online curmudgeon like myself cannot deny feeling a bit emotional reading over the final draft. If you wish to continue following Abby, and why wouldn't you, links to her Twitch and Twitter accounts will be provided below. With that in mind, let's jump into the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight!

An amateur video game developer has remade CD-i games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.

Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon are two action-adventure video games developed by Animation Magic and published by Philips Interactive Media for the CD-i on 10th October 1993 in North America and 25th December 1993 in Europe.

Both games are based on The Legend of Zelda franchise, but aren't considered part of the official series, and were precursors to the infamous CD-i game Zelda's Adventure. The three Zelda CD-i games are considered among the worse in The Legend of Zelda franchise.

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Azur Lane publisher Yostar is continuing to promote the crossover with the popular free-to-play PC game Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation.

This time around we get another trailer showing off all the girls from Dead or Alive included in the crossover and the available skins.

Nyotengu is a carrier, Honoka and Nagisa are turned into battleships, Monica is a light cruiser, and Marie Rose is inevitably turned into a destroyer.

You can check out the trailer below and take a look at an older one, which comes with anime style.

It’s worth mentioning that for now there is no information of a possible corresponding crossover in Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation.

If you’re unfamiliar with Azur Lane, it’s is a free-to-play mobile horizontal scrolling shooter/RPG hybrid currently available for iOS and Android.

Cyberpunk 2077 PS4-PS5 Cross-Save

1. Connect to your PlayStation Plus account and upload your saves
2. Transfer your data via LAN cable or wireless connection (WiFi)
3. Use a compatible storage device to copy and transfer your saves to the same PSN account on PlayStation 5.

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A lot of people have opinions about Genshin Impact. I know because I've read a lot of them. Now you can submit them to MiHoYo through a survey.

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The second season pass for Soulcalibur VI is about to wrap up, and it's going out in a good way. Hwang, one of the characters who first appeared in franchise precursor Soul Edge, will finally be made playable when he's added next month as the 13th piece of DLC for the game.

But that's not all. Because on December 2, the game will be getting its 14th DLC pack as well that adds some paid and free goodies to the game. If you love customizing characters, get ready for more options that include new bits from the Tekken universe, as well as a new stage and new episodes with Nightmare and Mitsurugi.

Cblogs Recap: Week 48

-Kerrik52 writes about when he first learned to like M-rated games.

-Julc3 thinks that the proliferation of scalpers means that Sony and Microsoft failed to kick-off the new generation.

-Shoggoth2588 responds to this month's Band of Bloggers prompt regarding emergent gameplay with a focus on Dark Souls II.

-TheLimoMaker reviews Prey (2017) through a dive into his Backlog.

-Snukastyle looks back at the history of the Final Fantasy series.

-Nior continues his Legacy of Kain retrospective with this blog on Soul Reaver 2.

-Rabid Walrus writes about how the job system in Final Fantasy taught him about finding a job in real life.

-EnigmaticRanger discusses how frustration can be used as a successful game mechanic.

-Black Red Gaming continues ranking the games in the Yakuza series with Yakuza 3.

Today the good folks at third-party add-on developer Gaya Simulations released a new trailer showing the upcoming Sankt Johann Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The trailer provides a good look at the small airport in Austria (ICAO LOIJ) that will be released on December 5 on Orbx Central and “slightly afterward” on the official marketplace in MIcrosoft Flight Simulator.

Alongside Zell Am See, Innsbruck, Wien, and Salzburg, which are already available, it’s another nice way to explore the beauty of Tirol and the Austrian Alps.

It’s one of my favorite locations to fly, so I’m going to keep an eye on this one.

In the meanwhile, you can check out the trailer below.

During a livestreamed event earlier this week, the developers of Microsoft Flight Simulator shared a lot of details about the future of the sim, including the next world update focusing on the United Kingdom.

Square Enix made a surprise announcement this morning with the reveal of SaGa Frontier Remastered, an updated version of the 1998 RPG on PS1. According to Square’s official Twitter post, SaGa Frontier Remastered will include “updated graphics, events, cutscenes, enhancements (and a new protagonist!)”.

While the original SaGa Frontier was not the first entry in the SaGa series, it was the first to make its way to the US under the SaGa banner. The original game was unique in that it allowed players to play as one of seven protagonists with different backgrounds and techniques. The “Free Scenario System” allowed players to tackle the story in a non-linear fashion which was a bit unorthodox at the time.

This is not the first SaGa game to receive a remaster as of late. The Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy was just announced this past August, collecting the Game Boy Final Fantasy Legend trilogy. The collection was released with a number of enhancements such as a fast-forward toggle, screen magnification, and other customization options. A remaster of Romancing SaGa 3 was announced late last year and was the first time that western players could get their hands on the game.

SaGa Frontier Remastered is set for release in 2021 on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Steam, iOS and Android.

Today Atlus hosted a livestream to celebrate the anniversary of the release of Vanillaware’s 13 Sentinel: Aegis Rim in Japan.

While some expected news like new platforms or new games, that was not in the cards today.

On the other hand, we got to take a look at some interesting merchandise.

First of all, Artfx J revealed the prototype of another figure portraying Minami Natsuno and the little robot BJ. This isn’t the same figure revealed a little while ago by FREEing.

The scale is much smaller (1/8), which means it’ll also likely be cheaper. You can check it out below.

On top of that, Mameyoi revealed a lineup of small plushies portraying the whole gang.

Spoon-bending magician Uri Geller gave Nintendo permission to use the character Kadabra on Pokémon cards today, after a 2o year legal dispute in which Geller claimed the Pokémon’s Japanese name and image were too close to his own.

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Tickets are available for one or both days. Portions of the opening segments will be streamed for free.

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The 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim anniversary live-stream has graced us with all kinds of goodies. We've prepared a full gallery and details.

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It took me just a few minutes to enter a very cool name into the contest.

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