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With the third season of Call of Duty: Warzone now underway, players have much to get through before the arrival of Operation Monarch in May, when Godzilla and King Kong will face off against each other in Caldera. However, before all that mayhem, there are some new and significant changes being made to the game for season three, and the latest patch notes for Call of Duty: Warzone reveal what players need to know.
There is the return of fan-favorite Iron Trials game mode for the new map, and there is a new Gulag as well as a new location called the Dig Site being added to Caldera. Of course, a new battle pass has been activated for players to chase, alongside two new Vanguard weapons in the form of the M1916 marksman rifle and the Nikita AVT assault rifle. A new Operator has also arrived in the form of Mateo Hernandez. Players who purchased the battle pass will get this new addition with two Legendary Operator Skins, the all-black Chingon outfit and the blue and orange Madcap skin.
The biggest change might just be the adjustments Raven Software has made to sniper rifles with this new Call of Duty: Warzone patch for season three. Several sniper rifles have had their effective one-shot-kill range reduced, but the likes of the HDR and 3-Line Rifle can still get the job done.
As for the playlist that will go live in the coming weeks, the first week will see Quads in Iron Trials, a 50 vs 50 Clash, Battle Royale in the Solos, Duos, Trios, and Quads variety, as well as Resurgence for the same variations. The upcoming weeks are also detailed in the infographic below:
Today Atlus released another daily trailer of its upcoming JRPG Soul Hackers 2, showing one of its demons.
This time around we take a look at Archangel, which has been part of the Shin Megami Tensei series basically forever. It also appeared in the latest game of the series, Shin Megami Tensei V.
As usual, the trailer also includes the daily horoscope with a ranking of signs from the luckiest to the unluckiest. Scorpio is at the top, while Virgo is at the bottom of the fortune ranking.
Soul Hackers 2 releases for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Windows Store) on August 26, just one day after the Japanese launch on August 25.
Today Nihon Falcom announced that its recent JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki is going to be released for PS5.
The game, originally released only for PS4 in September 2021, will make the jump to the newer PlayStation console in Japan on July 18, 2022.
The PS5 version will be rendered at 4K resolution and will run at 60 FPS. It will also include a high-speed mode that lets you set the speed individually for turn-based and action battles. An “Archive” mode will introduce the story of the previous games of the series and the glossary.
The game will also come with 33 DLC out of the box that were initially sold separately.
Save data transfer from the PS4 version will be available, and an upgrade option to the PS5 version priced at 110 yen (about $1) will also be provided.
Below you can check out a trailer, the first screenshots, and the DLC.
Developer MiHoYo has definitely been on a bit of a roll, especially since the release of 2020’s Genshin Impact. They’re looking to keep that momentum going as well, as they’ve just announced the second closed beta test for their upcoming game, Honkai: Star Rail.
Honkai: Star Rail is the fourth installment in the Honkai series, and will feature a beautiful open-world for players to explore. You can check out the new trailer down below:
It’s hard not to draw comparisons to Genshin Impact, and Star Rail is a pretty exciting release as series fans will likely be excited to see how this entry elevates the series after Genshin’s success. The closed beta signups are now open on the game’s official website, and the actual date and schedule of the beta test will be revealed later.
Honkai: Star Rail will be made available for PC and mobile devices.
Today D3 Publisher announced that its JRPG and dating sim hybrid Maglam Lord is coming to PC.
The game will release on Steam on May 30, 2022, and the listing is already available for your wishlisting purposes.
Maglam Lord was originally released for PS4 and Nintendo Switch back in 2021, with a western release for the same platforms earlier this year.
It was developed by Summon Night 5 studio Felistella for PS4 and Nintendo Switch, while the scenario and the world view are by Summon Night series writer Kei Miyakozuki.
The character design and illustration are by lack, who is known for having worked on Fate/Grand Order (for instance, the art for Izou Okada).
The soundtrack is by Puresound, which worked on the Summon Night and Metal Max series.
The main theme is by Chiaki Fujita of Sing Like Talking, who previously worked on the theme of Summon Night 2.
Here is how the publisher describes the game officially:
MAGLAM LORD is a vibrant action JRPG straight from the depths of hell!
Boasting exploration, real-time combat, weapon crafting and relationship building.
MAGLAM LORD is an unexpected combination that truly has no equal.-Create your own weapons and fight!
Simple and refreshing hack and slash action-RPG!!
Experience the high speed action battle by simple game play!
Defeat the furious monsters and collect materials to create your own new weapons!
Until last year, the idea of having a 'forever game' never really clicked with me. I'm too old and thin-skinned to enjoy the competitive nature of most online FPS games, and rallying together a regular squad of buddies to tackle the world of games as a service always seemed too much like hard work. Heck, even the allure of daily challenges in some of my favourite single-player games has never quite hooked me in the same way I've seen them take hold in friends and family. But with Dorfromantik, the chill, pastoral village builder from Toukana Interactive, I finally understand the journey towards that mythic 'forever' status.
I should come right out and say I don't know much about Roblox at all, even if it's one of the most popular game platforms in the world. But then I'm not really in its target demographic of kids under 16. From what I've gleaned, it has easy-to-learn tools that allows anyone to make a game, whether that's something of the very basic, derivative, and janky kind, or something approaching professional quality. I'm also aware of People Make Games' investigations into the platform's questionable and exploitative practices, that's enough to convince me I shouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
On the other hand, I do like Sonic the Hedgehog. So when a new game launches on Roblox that's not only starring the Blue Blur and friends but is officially licensed by Sega, then that's more than enough to raise some cautious curiosity, especially when said platform is free and accessible to anyone with a smartphone or web browser. Roblox may already be home to various other Sonic fan games, but besides being an official release, Sonic Speed Simulator is also the work of Gamefam, the first professional company to treat Roblox as a proper game development platform. The developer is also no stranger to partnerships, having collaborated with Mattel to create an open-world racing game based on Hot Wheels in 2020.
A comfortable gaming headset with great sound is pretty much an essential part of your gaming set up these days. When you're settling in for a long evening of gaming, you don't want constant distractions like needing to adjust the headband and ear cups because they're too tight, or slipping due to sweat. A breathable, comfortable and durable headset is a great investment and will offer better immersion - plus you don't need to turn the volume down during your late-night gaming sessions.
Whether you're exploring the Lands Between in Elden Ring, or trying to keep a win-streak going in CS:GO, you'll also need a gaming headset that offers rich, clear sound. One brand that combines comfort and great audio quality is Sennheiser. Their affordable GSP range combines Sennheiser's famous audio quality with ultra durable and comfortable designs.
And right now at Currys, you can shop a wide selection of cheap Sennheiser gaming headsets. One stand-out deal is on the EPOS GSP 370 Wireless 7.1 gaming headset, with surround-sound and 100 hour battery life. It's currently reduced by £60, down to £119.
Combine the peg-pinging action of Peggle with the roguelikelike dungeon crawling of Slay The Spire and you get Peglin, a delightful game which launched into early access on Monday. Off your cute wee peglin goes on an adventure, battling baddies and claiming treasures, but damage is dealt by pling-plonging orbs down Peggle/pachinko boards and you have a bag of different orbs instead of cards. I like it, and it has a demo you can try for yourself.
Sony has revealed the PlayStation Plus games for May 2022 are FIFA 22 (PS5 & PS4), Tribes of Midgard (PS5 & PS4), and Curse of the Dead Gods (PS4).
Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, all three games will be made available at no extra cost to all PlayStation Plus subscribers on May 3.
FIFA 22 is the latest entry in EA's football series, which is now almost 'officially' the best football game on the market thanks to the pretty disastrous launch and subsequent updates to Konami's eFootball 2022.
Back to the freebie though, in IGN's 7/10 review, we said: "Microtransactions still loom large, but small iterative changes and the horsepower of new-gen consoles combine to make FIFA 22 feel like a worthwhile upgrade without needing anything revolutionary or terribly exciting from EA’s side."
Tribes of Midgard is a co-op survival game based on Norse mythology, and it's up to the player (or players) to resist the incoming invasion of Giants during Ragnarok. We also gave this one a 7/10 review, saying: "Tribes of Midgard is a hectic, exciting, Norse-flavoured action RPG that is best faced with a shield wall full of friends."
Nobody asked Zetamasterx to devote a year and a half of their life to capturing Legendary Pokémon with slightly different colour variants to their regular counterparts, but once they started, it became an obsession. For the vast majority of trainers, capturing a Legendary at all is triumph enough – but there are a select few who strive for a prize much, much rarer than that.
In the Pokémon community, these toiling prospectors are known as shiny hunters – a narrow demographic of players who regularly invest hundreds, if not thousands of hours into honing their trade long after the rest of the fanbase have moved onto the inevitable next generation. What this entails is simple: In Gen 8, the most recent generation of mainline Pokémon games, every ‘mon has a 1/4,096 chance to be a different colour to the rest of its species. These odds can be increased to almost 1/100, but even those chances make it a slow process.
If you haven’t already guessed, the objective of shiny hunting is to locate and catch these extremely rare Pokémon. That’s not taking into account that Legendary Pokémon are far rarer than almost any other, meaning shiny versions are very hard to come by.
Zetamasterx collected every single shiny Legendary available in Gen 8.
A group of game testers working with BioWare on its new Dragon Age game are seeking to unionise.
The group, which is part of a contacted game services company named Keywords Studios, were recently told by that company they would need to return to office working full-time, five days a week, beginning in May (thanks, Kotaku).
In-office working - "embedded" within a developer - is one of the services which Keywords offers, and over the years the company has worked with BioWare and others to offer development support in this way.
Rainbow Six Siege has a new limited-time event that lets you live out your samurai fantasies.
Called Rengoku, the event lasts until 17th May and takes place in a modified version of the Skyscraper map.
Players battle it out in a 5v5 capture point game mode that's similar to Domination in other shooters like Call of Duty, except the capture points move every two minutes. The first team to reach 300 points wins.
Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of Xbox in Scotland with a new partnership with Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers and Lochcarron of Scotland. The end results - Xbox's very own tartan, which is now on a controller (although I also spotted a rather dashing pair of trews, as well).
"The pattern, using the brand's iconic colours, has been endorsed by the Scottish Tartans Authority and entered into The Scottish Register of Tartans," Xbox shared yesterday. "The landmark pattern and limited-edition controllers commemorate the history of Xbox with a contemporary design created by Edinburgh-based tartan designer Gordon Nicolson, makers of the Scotland National Football Team Tartan."
Check out a video showing the making of Xbox's new tartan below, as well as a closer look at a very smartly dressed controller (which appears to be a true Scotsman, as no underwear lies between the controller and its tartan cladding - cheeky).
Reggie Fils-Aimé says he's a believer in blockchain and so-called play-to-own technology.
Speaking at last month's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé was asked what role blockchain, crypto and play-to-earn technology had in the future of gaming (thanks, Nintendo Life).
He appeared to be quite enthusiastic about the idea: "So I'm a believer in blockchain, I think it's a really compelling technology. I'm also a believer in the concept of 'play to own' within video games, and I say this as a player where I may have invested 50 hours, 100 hours, or 300 hours in a game, and when I'm ready to move on to something else, wouldn't it be great to monetise what I've built?"
An Elden Ring player met Jesus in-game.
Reddit user Mar_Reddit shared a video of the holy encounter (thanks Kotaku), where he invaded another player's game only to discover dedicated role-players posing as Jesus and Satan awaiting him in the Rapture pose.
While he thought it was a trap, he moves closer to discover their true identities and share an Erdtree heal incantation like a prayer.
Nintendo has issued a safety warning for the upcoming Nintendo Switch Sports, telling parents to accompany their children when playing the game.
The advice, posted by Nintendo's Japanese customer support Twitter account (thanks, Nintendo Life), warns that children should take care not to accidentally hit each other while playing.
Anyone playing the game should stand a good distance from their TV, the advice continued, so you do not hit the Joy-Con controller on the screen.