Do not be daunted by the upcoming PokéMOBA, my friends. Though Pokémon Unite shares some of the basic concepts of multiplayer battle games like DOTA and League of Legends, it’s nowhere near as complex. Heck, you don’t even have to worry about Pokémon type differences. Just pick a partner and go to town.
While Fortnite may be known for its competitive Battle Royale mode, the game’s creative mode is actually quite in-depth as well, allowing players to create some pretty impressive maps to play in. In fact, one dedicated user showed just how insanely detailed you can get while in Creative Mode, creating an entire cyberpunk-themed city.
Posted to the Gaming Subreddit, user FiveWalnut8586 revealed their creation, which you can see down below.
The creator goes on to explain that it took them two weeks, aka a fortnite, to create this large world, stating it took them more than 50 hours or so of work to finish. They were even kind enough to offer the creative world code for their map so that everyone could experience it for themselves.
A more in-depth look was provided by another user, who used the world code and recorded the video that is posted down below.
The idea of taking a road trip has always appealed to me. Not the kind where you just hop in your own car and go out for the day. I mean embarking on public transport, hitchhiking, and essentially any means of transportation possible to reach some distant location. There’s an err of mystery, intrigue and unpredictability about it all that just scratches my itch for adventure. Alas, as I’ve grown older, the prospect of taking a road trip has become less and less tenable, as bills and other commitments tie me down to a home and city. Enter Road 96, a CYOA game of sorts that takes you on an epic road trip adventure.
The premise here is simple: you must hitchhike your way to freedom from your country by any means possible. From what I could gather from the radio chatter and conversations with characters, the country was in political unrest due to Tyrak the current president who has made crossing the border illegal.
As such, the journey which you take is a perilous and risky one. One which means you’ll have to choose when to be a good Samaritan and help a fellow escapee, and when to keep your head down and avoid drawing attention.
In order to escape, you’ll be meeting a colorful cast of characters and in my hands-on preview playthrough, I first met Stan and Mitch. 181 miles from the border, and in a motorbike cart accompanied by the rather eccentric and dim-witted duo, we made some casual conversation… including what was in the bag behind me, though the bank notes peeking out the top of the bag, flailing in the wind answered that question.
Update: While the original eBay offer has now expired, the discount on the LG BX at RGB Direct is still available.
Original story: The LG BX OLED has been reduced to one of the lowest prices we've seen so far. The excellent gaming TV is now £864.
The BX is an older model of the LG C1 and CX OLEDs that now sit atop Digital Foundry's list of the best TVs for gaming. Nevertheless, the BX is still an excellent choice for 4K gaming at 120Hz on PS5 and Xbox Series X, especially when it comes at such a considerable discount compared to the two newer TVs.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will see its final DLC character released later this year, series director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed.
In a video showing off DLC character Kazuya Mishima, out tomorrow, 29th June, Sakurai said the final character to be released as part of Fighters Pass Vol. 2 will be Ultimate's last.
"Up until now, we've created all sorts of fighters and stages," Sakurai said.
Another week, another weekly - specifically, DF Direct Weekly - the discussion show that sees the Digital Foundry team down tools for a couple of hours on a Thursday morning to discuss the latest gaming tech news. However, perhaps predictably, there wasn't actually much in the way of new things to talk about in the wake of this year's 'E3' - but regardless, somehow we still managed to produce the longest Direct we've made yet!
Heading up the list of topics this week is AMD's FSR - FidelityFX Super Resolution. It's been interesting to see the reaction to AMD's smart upscaler, but what is it really? How does it fit into the timeline of image reconstruction techniques we've seen deployed in full force, pretty much since PlayStation 4 Pro shipped in November 2016? If it's not comparable to the existing temporal super-sampling techniques, what does it add to the mix of reconstruction and upscaling techniques already out there?
In the week of Sonic's 30th anniversary, the team share their earliest and most memorable Sonic moments, there's discussion on the status of Intellivision Amico, plus we revisit the problems of the PAL era of gaming - as it seems that the recent Alex Kidd remake seems to have been based on a PAL version of the original game... and 50Hz content displayed on a 60Hz screen just doesn't really work. Beyond that, we talk about our recent and upcoming projects - including a look at Lego Builders and Nvidia's revised DLSS 2.2.
Finally, it seems, Warcraft fans who have wondered just what Blizzard is doing with supervillain Sylvanas Windrunner will get some answers.
This week, Blizzard launches World of Warcraft Shadowlands update 9.1, dubbed Chains of Domination, and with it adds a brand new raid that ends with a boss fight against Warcraft's most divisive character: the Banshee Queen herself.
Sylvanas has been the subject of much debate for some time now, with players wondering whether she's set for a redemption arc. Sylvanas, let's remember, murdered loads of innocent Night Elves, shacked up with the mysterious Jailer, and helped to imprison King Anduin in the depths of the Maw.
In 2020, Chris Avellone, a notable writer within the gaming space, was removed from Dying Light 2 when sexual misconduct allegations became public from a few different sources. After addressing the allegations soon after they came out, Avellone went publicly silent regarding the accusations until recently. In a new statement, Avellone addressed the claims against him and bared that he is seeking legal retribution against those that accused him for libel and loss of work.
Avellone took to his Medium blog to address previous allegations with an entry entitled "Ending Silence." "Last year, a woman named Karissa made accusations against me, and so did her close friend, Kelly," began his statement. "The accusations were surprising. They concerned our first meeting almost 9 years ago and they were untrue."
He went on to say that he "spent the last year" pouring over what happened and convinced himself those that came forward did so out of a "misguided sense of self-righteousness." He then mentioned that he has since tried to allow the voices surrounding this conversation to be heard, as this was around the time when there was a growing "Me Too" movement surrounding Ubisoft and the work culture there. However, upon reflection, he felt that "in keeping silent, I was wrong."
We got our first look at the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie earlier this month with some nifty on-set images and now we've got possible new casting news, as well. Allegedly joining the all-star cast that includes Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Pine, and Huge Grant is none other than Doctor Strange himself, Benedict Cumberbatch. At least according to a new report.
In a new report from The Sun, Cumberbatch is the latest star to be signed up for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie following previous work he's done with Wizards of the Coast for an animated D&D short. This is unconfirmed at this time, though we have reached out for comments. The Sun reports that the D&D casting is local to Cumberbatch due to his residence in the UK, though ComicBook points out that this could be misconstrued for his work on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Good news! Devil May Cry's Dante is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Bad news! The arrival in the Mii Costume form pretty much kills any hope we had that he would be arriving in the roster as a fully playable fighter and not in his current Mii form. Alas, the world is cruel and unkind, but we do have to admit that he looks kind of cute as a chibi Mii character. Dante will be arriving in the Nintendo fighting game alongside Shantae, Tales of Symphonia's Lloyd, and Skyrim's Dovahkiin.
Smash director Masahiro Sakurai presented a closer look at Tekken's Kazuya before his arrival in the game as a playable fighter to kick off a new week. The live stream event ended on the latest Mii costume reveal. It's a long-standing joke in the Smash community that the Mii section of any Smash presentation is the kiss of death. If something arrives in Smash as a Mii, that's a confirmation that the character in its accurate portrayal is Dead On Arrival when it comes to roster addition possibilities. So, with the confirmation of the latest Mii costumes, we both pay homage to Dante and say "fare thee well" at the same time:
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Surreal Metroid-y platformer Grime has polished up all those creepy caves and creatures and gotten ready for release day. After crawling out of the bones of the earth, your black hole-headed protagonist proceeds to suck up other rocky baddies, equip them as weapons, and use them against even bigger boss boulder folks. You can catch a bit of its grim and grimey world down here in the new trailer which reveals it's August 2nd launch date.
Square Enix’s historical re-enactment (remaster) of their 1999 RPG Legend of Mana has been released. It was actually released last week, so though we’re a little bit late with letting you know, there are a lot of good vibes and happy thoughts out there for the Mana series. Besides, I told a friend it was out and he was surprised that he’d missed its release, and was delighted he could play it, so now I’m telling you.
On September 18, 2010, Minecraft version 1.1.1 was released with a bug that could lead to a grey screen. It was live for a period of only 3 hours and 25 minutes before version 1.1.2 was released, fixing the bug. For most people, that’s fine, the game now works and we can move on. But there’s a group of Minecraft cataloguers called Omniarchive who are trying to preserve every byte that ever passed through Mojang’s game, and version 1.1.1 proved to be an elusive target. It had been missing for over a decade.
That was until an Omniarchive member discovered a tweet celebrating the launch of a new Minecraft update within the timeframe they knew it was live. They got in touch with the tweet author, Luna, asking her to check for a backup of that specific version of the game. Could it be possible that they’d kept that file for this length of time?
The surprise announcement last week that Windows 11 would support Android apps was tempered by fact that Microsoft is using the Amazon app store to deliver them. Thankfully, you won’t be tied to the Amazon store. A Microsoft engineer has confirmed that you can ‘sideload’ apps in Windows 11, meaning you can install games and more from anywhere.
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At the very end of the Kazuya Super Smash Bros Ultimate presentation, Sakurai confirmed Challenger Pack 11 would be the last DLC character.
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The next SMT V character to be revealed is Turdak. Watch the demon use a Gram Slice against some Agathions.
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There's a new video looking at the Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles Adventure Mode, and the trailer focuses on the series' Asakusa arc.
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The NieR Re[in]carnation English global release will appear at the end of July 2021. Also, all pre-registration rewards were earned.
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Bidoof, the beaver Pokémon, is here to ruin your Thursday
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Nintendo announced that Tekken’s Kazuya will go live in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tomorrow, June 29. One more character will be announced sometime in the future as part of Fighters Pass Vol. 2, but it will be the last added to the game, director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed today.
Famous games writer Chris Avellone, whose credits include Planescape: Torment and Fallout: New Vegas, broke his silence on sexual misconduct allegations made against him in 2020. In a series of blog posts on Medium, the game developer also revealed that he recently filed a libel lawsuit in California court against…
CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński declared that Cyberpunk 2077 had finally reached a “satisfying” level of performance and stability at a WSE Innovation Day conference on June 23. All it took was six months of updates after the game was released.
Today Square Enix reached out with a press release to announce the western release date of the new NieR mobile game NieR Re[in]carnation.
The game will be launching in North America and Europe on July 28 for iOS and Android and pre-registrations are available through the AppStore and Google Play right now.
They’ve actually been open for a while and previous goals have been met, so additional ones have been announced, as you can see in the image below. 400,000 pre-registrations have already been achieved.
It’s safe to say that Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, a new Souls-like action title that uses the original Final Fantasy as a motif, didn’t make the best first impression upon its reveal.
The game’s reveal trailer was an awkward disaster people couldn’t look away from, putting its generic and edgy protagonist front and center alongside his angsty obsession with chaos. To its credit, it did give the new title plenty of publicity; albeit for the wrong reasons, and through a stream of memes at the game’s expense.
Muddying the reveal further was the demo released alongside it. Launching in a broken state, it wasn’t even playable for the first few days after it was supposed to be available.
Needless to say, this all didn’t inspire confidence in the current state of the full product. And yet, after finally getting the demo up and running, I was happily surprised to find that there is something to this new take on the Final Fantasy mythos.
Tekken’s Kazuya Mishima was revealed to be the next DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate during Nintendo’s E3 Direct just a few weeks ago. Today, Masahiro Sakurai has provided us with the usual breakdown that comes with new characters. He goes through Tekken’s history, Kazuya’s moveset, and more in this new Smash Ultimate video.
Kazuya has many of his signature moves from Tekken (with altered names for their use in Smash), including Devil Blaster, Electrics, and even a Rage Drive move. Some of his Tekken inputs can also be used, just like with the other fighting game characters on the roster like Ryu, Ken, and Terry. He also comes with a new stage and songs from the Tekken soundtracks.
Additionally, Mii Fighter costumes are coming to the game as well. This time, you can dress up your Mii as Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia, Dante from Devil May Cry, Shantae, and the Dragonborn from Skyrim.
You can check out everything mentioned above and more in Kazuya’s Smash Ultimate breakdown video below:
Today Sega had another reveal in store for the upcoming action game Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles, known in Japan as Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hinokami Keppu Tan.
This time around, we get to take a look at the Adventure Mode, which is pretty much what it says on the tin. Specifically, we take a look at the Asakusa arc of the story.
You can watch it below.
In case you missed it so far, here’s what the game offers:
Today we also get the announcement of editions available for the game in the west.
Between the success of the games and the first season of Netflix’s adaptation, The Witcher franchise is fast becoming a cornerstone of nerd culture. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that publishers CD Project Red and Netflix have teamed up to produce WitcherCon, a celebratory virtual event that is set to become an annual showcase of everything Witcher moving forward. And today, the full schedule of the inaugural event has been revealed.
Click to watch embedded media Pokémon as a series has about as many spin-off titles in its library as it does actual creatures in the Pokédex at this point. From the fan-favorite gems of the Pokémon Pinball titles to the recent entries of Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Smile, Pikachu, Charizard, and more have had plenty of opportunities to get out of their Poké Balls and entertain audiences in new, often bizarre ways.
In keeping with that tradition, Pokémon Unite is next up to try and spin the classic series out of its RPG roots and is throwing those classic creatures in the MOBA arena with all the lane combat one could hope for. Fans will be able to pick from a plethora of Pokés to form a team set on taking out NPC characters and humans alike to gain orbs to score at enemy-controlled points and win the round. But does just throwing Greninja into a new game genre equal success?
Click here to watch embedded media Break out those mobile calendars because the pre-registration period for Nier Reincarnation will eventually come to an end, meaning that players in North America, Europe, and Korea will finally get a chance to experience the first mobile game in the franchise. Better yet, now that 300,00 pre-registrations have been reached, milestones and rewards will be dished out. However, 600,00 is still the highest tier, so make sure you hop onto the Nier Reincarnation bandwagon sooner rather than later because the launch day has finally been revealed in a press release today.
We have no idea when we are getting Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2, or even how many parts there will be in total, but we do have a new look at what could potentially be on the horizon thanks to a new blog post over on the Square Enix website. In the most recent post, Final Fantasy VII Remake co-director Motomu Toriyama opened up a little bit more about the first part of the revisitation of a fan favorite, including about how we almost got a Cloud pole-dancing sequence. In the same post, however, Toriyama mentioned that Part 2 could possibly go in some pretty creative directions, something that could surprise die-hard original fans.
For those that have played the Remake, you may remember how the Honeybee Inn sequence took a very different turn than in the original. They took a scene that many loved in the original and, in my personal opinion, made it significantly better. That entire sequence was beloved by many for its humor, its action, and it's levity that it provided without using the drag community as a punchline. It was pretty cool and according to Toriyama, it is just once instance in which the Remake will add something new, something the team hopes fans enjoy.
For a little over 30 minutes, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Director Masahiro Sakurai presented to brawler fans all over the world from his comfy studio desk. The next fighter coming to Ultimate is none other than Tekken’s Kazuya, and Sakurai was ready to reveal the character’s combos with new gameplay footage. You can watch the full presentation below.
The presentation started off by showing off what Kazuya will bring to the table and ended, unfortunately, with the confirmation that Dante will never be added to the Ultimate roster outside of a Mii costume. For those excited to see Kazuya in action, check him out in the video that went live earlier today on June 28.
Mr. Sakurai Presents “Kazuya”https://t.co/X5kgfDK9pn
Marvel's Avengers recently gave a longer look at its upcoming War For Wakanda expansion coming in August, but Square Enix have now updated their roadmap with additional plans for July's update. Mega Hives are going multiplayer and players will now be able to suit up as the same hero in multiplayer as well. No more quarreling over Thor's hammer, then.
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