Disgaea RPG will release on PC through Steam Early Access.
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And they never did shape it like an ‘X’ As part of yesterday’s Microsoft Xbox 20th anniversary celebrations, the industry...
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Halo Infinite's multiplayer was released early yesterday and Xbox Game Studios' decision to launch it on Steam alongside the Xbox PC App seems to have worked out very well already.
As per SteamDB, the game has seen a huge influx of players within the first day since its release. Across the period, Halo Infinite's peak number of concurrent players eclipsed the quarter of a million mark at 272,856 - instantly ranking it at 22nd in the platform's all-time peak player count rankings.
This places the game above the likes of Payday 2 and Rust, and just below Skyrim and Destiny 2. Given the game reached this peak on a Monday, it's entirely possible it will climb those charts this week.
Although statistics surrounding the Steam version of Halo Infinite are impressive enough on their own, the game's release on the platform was made all the more significant as a number of other platforms running the game experienced launch issues in the hour after announcement.
Many of the players attempting to access the game on the Xbox PC App yesterday experienced problems where the game wouldn't appear to launch properly. This seemed to be down to an issue with an update not appearing for download. While the Xbox PC App had a preinstall size of 200MB, the Steam version instead had a file size of around 26GB and was allowing players to run the game as intended.
An announcement trailer was shared, highlighting the Japanese dub.
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Several visuals homages to previous Final Fantasy XIV expansions appear in the full music video.
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Forza Horizon 5 has been lauded for its technical excellence and Playground Games' commitment to inclusivity, but fans have found some non-Anglo-Saxon or European names are being blocked by the game's world filter.
Today, Microsoft told Eurogamer it was working on a fix.
Naruto Shippuden cosmetics are arriving in Fortnite right now, and they look awesome. Believe it!
The new collaboration between Epic's Fortnite and the latter half of the Naruto saga, Shippuden is bringing plenty of goodies from the Hidden Leaf Village. Not only is Naruto now playable in the battle royale, but he's brought along the rest of Team 7: Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and their badass teacher Kakashi Hatake. Sakura and Naruto each come with alternate costumes based on their adult Boruto selves, while Kakashi fans can use his Anbu Black Ops outfit.
This great ninja takeover doesn't stop at just skins. First, the battlebus will see a Naruto-themed makeover. New items are being added like a pickaxe modeled after Sasuke's Sword of Kusanagi, and a new Paper Shuriken Bomb weapon. Maybe the coolest addition is a new glider based on Naruto's nine-tailed beast Karuma.
Today's bumper Fortnite update 18.40 has arrived and the game's hugely-anticipated Naruto crossover is now in full swing - with the promise of Fortnite's dreaded Brute mechs returning on the horizon.
This update is the last for Fortnite this season - that we can say for sure. But it may also be the last for Fortnite this Chapter - for the game's whole Island map.
Halo Infinite's head of creative, Joseph Staten has clarified why the early release of the game's multiplayer mode is being treated as a beta until the full game's official release date on December 8. 343 has also extended the multiplayer mode's first season Battle Pass until May 2, 2022.
On the Halo Waypoint blog Staten explained that the surprise launch of the game was being treated as a beta – meaning you could potentially run into bugs, see changes, and more – because the team expects an even larger influx of players next month and wants to be able to prepare.
"Our previous Multiplayer Technical Previews went a long way to battle-testing our services and infrastructure," wrote Staten. "But as we prepare for a significant increase in the number of players jumping into Halo Infinite on launch day, December 8th, we want to ensure all our systems are good-to-go. While you may experience some bumps and bugs during this beta period, it does mark the official start of Halo Infinite Season 1, with all day-one maps and modes enabled as well as the full Season 1 Battle Pass."
While those past Technical Previews didn't allow participants to keep their progression, Staten made clear that that was not the case for the beta: "All the Battle Pass and customization items you earn or purchase during the beta will stay with you after December 8th."
All four members of the Team 7 Crew are now in Fortnite.
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Companies around the world are worried about chip shortages. But in Japan, if you like convenience store fried chicken, add another worry to your list. Family Mart is running low on its delicious Famichiki.
Activision has warned Call of Duty cheaters that bans may now apply "franchise wide".
In a blog post penned by "Team RICOCHET", the new team set up by Activision to deliver anti-cheat to the Call of Duty games, a change to the company's security enforcement policy specifically for the recently-released Call of Duty: Vanguard was highlighted:
Microsoft's latest batch of Xbox backwards compatible games really will be the program's final update.
76 additional titles joined the back compat program yesterday in celebration of Xbox's 20th anniversary - including big names such as the Max Payne trilogy, Nier and TimeSplitters 2.
The milestone was reached just one day before the battle royale's official launch.
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343 has extended Halo Infinite Season 1 to May 2022.
Season 1 kicked off last night after 343 released Halo Infinite's multiplayer weeks ahead of the game's official 8th December street date. This means the full Season 1 battle pass is online.
Over the past week or so, several Dead By Daylight streamers have taken to Twitter to report that they’ve been getting DDoS attacked. Some cases have gotten so serious to the point where streamers have been SWAT-ed, causing the authorities to show up at their place to conduct a search and march them out of their own houses.
However, while this has been going on for the past few days, developer Behaviour Interactive has only now responded to these cases on Twitter to state that they’re currently conducting an internal investigation and checking trends for them. You can check out the tweet for yourself down below:
Considering that it’s taken so long for the devs to respond, some streamers are understandable unhappy about the situation. For now, those who are actively playing and streaming the game online are advised to use a VPN to protect themselves from potential DDoS attacks while Behaviour looks into the issue.
While he may not be the most talkative character, his Nendoroid can still be pretty emotive.
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In 2019, there was a global manhunt for the manager of manga piracy site Manga-Mura. The manager, a Japanese citizen named Romi Hoshino, was arrested in Manila on copyright violation charges. In June 2021, he was found guilty, sentenced, and fined. If you thought that was the end of Japan’s piracy crackdown, you were…
UPDATE 16/11/21: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has now responded publicly to the recent DDoS attacks.
"We take these reports extremely seriously," said the developer in a Twitter thread. "We're actively monitoring the situation internally and with our partners to gather as much information as possible and identify trends.
World’s End Club is an exciting collaboration project between Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi and Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka. By all accounts, it should’ve been a smash hit as it was primed to be yet another exciting visual novel with the death game premise from the two biggest death game experts in the games industry. It had its highs, but was ultimately held back by questionable design decisions.
Still, the game’s been released on mobile platforms and the Switch, and it’ll be releasing on PC via Steam at the end of the month as well.
The Steam page is now live, and the game is set to be released on Nov. 30. World’s End Club tells the story of a bunch of “oddball” kids from Japan who one day find themselves in a theme park under the sea. They’re then forced to play a game to try to escape with their lives.
World’s End Club is now available on the Nintendo Switch, and will be out on Steam on Nov. 30.
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If you're of a certain vintage and inclination - and sorry to make assumptions, but given you're currently reading Eurogamer I reckon it's likely you are - you'll be familiar with an infamous review of Doom way back in 1994 that ended up asking what if you could talk to the monsters. It's an idle thought that's since passed into legend, oft-mocked and even held up as some vague prophecy, but I've only just realised it's not really that strange a notion. Maybe the mysterious reviewer behind this particular Edge legend was just really into Shin Megami Tensei, the long-running RPG series in which, yes, you absolutely can talk to the monsters.
There's a slim chance that's the case, seeing as this is a series whose genesis can be traced back to 1987, and one that stands as a grandee of the RPG genre alongside the likes of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy - even if it's never quite had the global appeal of either. Partly that's thanks to the sporadic nature of mainline releases - Shin Megami Tensei 5, which is out on Switch this week, comes some eight years after the fourth installment, which itself has a clean ten-year gap to 2003's Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne. Partly it's because Shin Megami Tensei's various spin-offs have overtaken the mainline series in terms of popularity - the Persona games easily eclipse the series from which they span off in terms of profile, which has in turn set some awkward expectations for newcomers to a core Shin Megami Tensei title.
I'm doing a drawing course at the moment, on Monday evenings - I don't know why you need to know that - and I'm really enjoying it. It's fascinating how much about art I don't know. Every week, I learn something that blows my mind a little bit.
We had this wonderful lesson on contour drawing, for example - I think that's what you call it. It's where you look at someone, or something, and you try and replicate it without taking your pencil off of the paper.
A five-minute long overview trailer for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which release later this week, was unveiled today on Nintendo’s official YouTube channel. The overview trailer highlights some of the main gameplay features that you can expect in these remakes.
The trailer starts off with showing how the beginning of the game will go: you travel to a lake near your town with your childhood friend, where you’ll pick out your very own starter Pokemon. After choosing between Turtwig, Chimchar, and Piplup, Professor Rowan will recruit you to complete the Pokedex of the Sinnoh region.
We see the diversity of the Sinnoh region and its mountain ranges, grassy fields, lakes, and snowy trails. We also get a glimpse of many of the Pokemon we’ll encounter on the journey, such as Bidoof and Drifloon, as well as a few shots of our Pokemon running behind us in the overworld.
The overview trailer goes on to explain that some trainers may team up with you throughout your journey, and that it’s your goal to challenge each town’s gym leader to receive badges and become the strongest trainer in Sinnoh.
The Grand Underground is explained in depth. It’s a vast world beneath the Sinnoh region where you can dig for fossils and Pokemon statues. You’ll be able to build a secret base with these items. There will also be Pokemon hideaways, which are a brand new feature not present in the original releases, where you can find rare Pokemon that can’t be caught anywhere else in the game.
I’ve reviewed a lot of video game adaptations as part of my board game coverage for Kotaku. As you’d expect, since this is first and foremost a video game website. Some of those adaptations have been OK, some have been pretty good, but I haven’t played any quite like Company of Heroes before.
The good news first: EA’s classic Skate 2 is one of the over 70 games coming to the Xbox Series X/S’s backwards compatibility list. The bad news? It’s going to be missing its online multiplayer shortly afterwards, because EA is turning off the game’s servers next month.
Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject.
Call of Duty is ramping up its anti-cheat effort in a big way when its kernel-level anti-cheat, Ricochet, in December and with it is updating its permanent ban policy to include all Call of Duty games past and future. That’s right, if you earn a permanent suspension now, you may be barred from playing future games in the series.
In a new Call of Duty blog post, the Ricochet anti-cheat team announced it is getting ready to deliver the kernel-level driver alongside the Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific update in December. As part of a policy update, the team announced that permanent suspensions will be more severe.
Earlier today, Star Fox received a patch that allows the 1993 Super Nintendo classic to perform as if it was taking advantage of an advanced accelerator chip, boosting its framerate from the single digits to something nearing a more modern game.
In a blog post published last week, innocuously titled Ricochet Anti-Cheat Progress Report, the Call of Duty team slipped in some drastic news about how their anti-cheat system is going to work.
New World just can’t catch a break. It wasn’t too long ago that players had discovered a gold dupe exploit that came with the server transfer features, and that resulted in Amazon Game Studios shutting down the entire economy indefinitely. Players couldn’t buy or sell items on the trading post, couldn’t pay taxes, and companies couldn’t keep up with town upgrades as they continued getting pummeled with wars and invasions.
Just when it seemed like the game was slowly recovering from that mess, yet another duplication exploit has been discovered. This time, players are able to duplicate furniture and other items, allowing them to completely bypass the process of having to farm materials to craft them.
In response, Amazon has halted the entire economy again. So yeah, no more trading post functions, no more player trades, no more sending gold to your company or other players, and no more taxes for upkeep. It’s rough. These features will go back online once the exploit has been patched out.
New World is now available on PC.
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Other games include the Max Payne series and Dead or Alive.
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During the tech test of Halo Infinite that took place this summer, players took to the various maps to get their first taste of 343 Industries' upcoming free-to-play multiplayer. While many came away impressed by the ways Halo Infinite's multiplayer feels true to the series' renowned roots, nearly as many players were blown away by how impressive the A.I. bots were in battle.
Plus, the Worldslayer expansion is coming in 2022 Today, Outriders developer People Can Fly announced a big update arriving on Nov. 16, or...
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When I nail an MV-38 Condor transport hovering in the lens flare-filled sky with my rocket launcher, Battlefield 2042 is awesome. When my squad bursts onto the climate-torn scene in a massive tank, ramming through debris and blowing up abandoned office buildings, it’s a thrill to return to DICE’s militarized…
It’s not always easy to predict which shows will instantly become appointment television. A dark fantasy series based on a half-completed run of novels? Yup! A profane but sardonically humorous soap inspired partially by Rupert Murdoch? Okay, sure! How about an animated prequel for a multiplayer game with more than …
Both games are scheduled to be released this Friday, November 19, 2021.
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Since its inception, Xbox Game Pass skeptics have wondered whether Microsoft's popular subscription program is too good to be true. With Xbox generally reluctant to share hard numbers, observers have speculated that the service is being treated as a loss leader in order to build up as many subscriptions as possible.
But during a press blitz intended to promote today's Xbox's 20th anniversary celebration, Xbox Executive Vice President Phil Spencer said that isn't the case, even with subscriber growth beginning to slow. Instead, he said the service is "very, very sustainable" and is "continuing to grow."
"I know there's a lot of people that like to write [that] we're burning cash right now for some future pot of gold at the end," Spencer told Axios in a new interview. "No. Game Pass is very, very sustainable right now as it sits. And it continues to grow."
Spencer's comments follow in the wake of Forza Horizon 5's successful launch, which was available as a Day 1 release to Game Pass subscribers. With more than 8 million players since launch, Forza Horizon 5 is the biggest Xbox Game Studios launch so far.
In 2006, quadriplegic video game tester and streamer Randy Fitzgerald helped create “NOM4D,” a button layout for Call of Duty designed for disabled players. At the time, he says, he was told he’d be credited by name in the game, but that didn’t happen. All CoD titles since then have omitted his name too, but kept the…
