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Death Stranding has one main collectible in the form of memory chips. There are 56 total memory chips available to collect. You can donate memory chips to delivery terminals around the game world to upload and view their data. Restoring your first memory chip will grant you the trophy or achievement "A Thirst for Knowledge," while restoring all 56 memory chips will grant you the "Fount of Knowledge" trophy or achievement. You can come across most memory chips while exploring the world, but some have specific requirements to spawn, and many are just plain hard to find.
Here's where to find all 56 memory chip locations in Death Stranding, plus some tips on making your hunt for them easier. Check out our updated Death Stranding review for our impressions, plus thoughts on how it runs on PC.
Memory chips are small, shiny objects that you will be able to spot by their distinct sparkle. A glowing blue memory chip icon will also mark their location both in-world and on the map. Memory chips will only show up as an icon on the map when other players have marked it. If you find one and it isn't marked on the map, do your fellow porters a favor and place a marker on it.
Continue Reading at GameSpotThatgamecompany's Sky: Children of Light is turning one, and it is celebrating with an in-game event and behind-the-scenes peeks at the game.
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Oh, to ditch Overwatch‘s crude gunfights for a night at the opera. To push culture, not payloads. Capture hearts and souls, not control points. Ah, well, the latest challenge event for Blizzard’s hero shooter might not be picking up a fiddle anything soon, but it will let you pretend you’re the sort of person who frequents the concert hall with Sigma’s Maestro Challenge – dressing up Overwatch’s gravity-defying egghead for orchestral bombast
Like Flick, the chipper C.J. is one of the many special visitors who will periodically stop by your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Whereas Flick will buy your bugs and craft bug models for you, C.J. is all about seasports, and he'll purchase any fish you're willing to sell at a higher price than you'd normally get at Nook's Cranny, making his visits a great chance to earn bells. But when exactly does C.J. show up, and how do you get fish models?
Like most other Animal Crossing special visitors, there's no telling when C.J. will appear on your island; his visits are completely random, so you'll just need to check in every day and see if he's there. On average, however, you'll see him on your island at least every other week, and when he does show up, he'll be around for a full 24 hours, from 5 AM to 5 AM.
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A controversial Call of Duty: Warzone skin saw its name and description changed by developer Infinity Ward in an update released earlier today.
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Hearthstone’s next expansion will be Scholomance Academy and it will be coming sometime this August, Blizzard revealed today. Scholomance Academy touts 135 new cards “brimming with spellbinding synergies.” Check out the trailer below.
The trailer is extremely upbeat and is giving me some Saturday morning cartoon vibes for some reason. Am I the only one?
This news is a part of the Year of the Phoenix in Hearthstone that was discussed earlier in the year which is designed to shake things up for the popular digital card game in 2020.
Here are the new features that will be added in Scholomance Academy that Blizzard was able to share as of today:
INTRODUCING DUAL-CLASS CARDS
Get the most out of our magical curriculum with Dual-Class cards—the ultimate double major! Dual-Class cards are usable by two classes, and are designed around mechanics and strategies that both classes share. Every Hearthstone class is paired with two others, for a total of 10 Dual-Class combinations and 40 dual-class cards!
NEW KEYWORD
Scholomance Academy introduces a new keyword: Spellburst, a one-time effect that triggers the next time you cast a spell.
Final Fantasy IX character designer Toshiyuki Itahana featured in part 2 of the game's 20th anniversary interview.
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On the surface, Ping Pong the Animation looks like a crudely drawn show about a low-level sport most just play for fun. It doesn’t take long to realize that this sports anime is beautiful and also layered with subtext.
Ping Pong the Animation follows two high school friends, Peco and Smile, and their journey playing the game. Each episode explores the intricacies of ping pong, explaining different strokes, styles, and tempos that anyone who has never played seriously wouldn’t have known existed.
In competitive shooters, I prefer to be above my enemies. I grew up playing Tribes, a game about jetpacks and split-second geometry calculations. In Overwatch, my favorite hero is Pharah, whose specialty is jetpack with a side of rocket launcher. Maybe I just really like jetpacks. Still, Hyper Scape is the ideal…
A patch is now live across all platforms that fixes: · Renames D-Day’s ‘Border War’ skin and bio · An exploit where players could pick up weapons they dropped before the infil sequence in #Warzone · A Rytec AMR bug where shots were hitting above the crosshairs in their scope
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Modern Warfare’s latest patch gives the skin a new name and description, but no other changes
Overwatch studio Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new challenge event that offers new cosmetic items beginning today for the next two weeks.
The Sigma’s Maestro Challenge Event offers a skin that turns the tank character Sigma into a conductor alongside an emote of him using a conductor’s baton to playfully move around clusters of rocks he ripped from the ground.
Similar to previous Challenge Events, the cosmetic items can be earned by winning matches in Quick Play, Competitive Play, and Arcade.
Winning three games rewards with the Maestro Player Icon, six games with Legendary Sigma Maestro Emote, and nine games for the Legendary Maestro Sigma Skin.
Players can also earn six sprays of various Overwatch characters playing instruments by watching up to six hours of select Twitch streamers throughout the duration of the event.
All players need to do is make sure their Blizzard Battle.net accounts are connected to Twitch to receive the drops while watching the participating streams. The full list of streamers and their dates can be found here.
The Sigma’s Maestro Challenge Event begins today, July 14 and ends in two weeks on Monday, July 27. Overwatch is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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WindowSwap is a refreshing break from lockdown
While Sucker Punch Productions' latest PlayStation 4 exclusive arrives this Friday, Snap Inc. and Sony have released a new Snapchat filter that turns you into the "Ghost" from Ghost of Tsushima.
The filter, which is available for all Snapchat users, gives you the same mask protagonist Jin Sakai wears in the many trailers showcasing him becoming the "Ghost," a stealthy assassin who forgoes the samurai code in order to retake Tsushima island from the gruesome Mongols. The mask is the same one featured in Ghost of Tsushima's Collector's Edition, which also comes with a display stand.
You can get the Ghost of Tsushima filter from the Snapcode below.
Continue Reading at GameSpotIf you’re a fan of everything PlayStation and also a fan of having cool video game memorabilia all over your home/office space, then these new PlayStation Funko Pops should totally be your next purchase.
There’s one of Kratos from God of War (2018) bearing his signature Blades of Chaos and he also glows in the dark for a reason that I do not know. If you’re more of a Soulsborne fan, then you might like this Funko Pop figure of The Hunter from FromSoftware’s Bloodborne.
And last but not least, we have a Ghost of Tsushima Jin Sakai Funko figure with blood splatter all over his sword and body to really get into that sword-slicing vibe of the upcoming open-world title.
All of these figures can only be purchased at GameStop and they’ll each run you $11.99 with orders expected to ship towards the end of August 2020.
“Are you ready for your new knitting obsession”, EA asks, knowing full well it is the height of summer. Nevertheless, the next The Sims 4‘s stuff pack is, indeed, Nifty Knitting – adding a full wool wash worth of knitted goods for your Sims to weave, wear, and (eventually) monetise, all from the comfort of their sturdy rocking chair come July 28th. Just, maybe stick to knitted vests instead of sweaters, aye? It’s still sweltering out.
Recent glimpses of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla have only served to heighten our appetite for the long-running series’ latest entry. Even as we wait to actually get to play more of the anticipated game, today we have the opportunity to hear a bit more of what the game has in store for us, with an exclusive first-listen track from Valhalla’s score.
Composer Jesper Kyd has a long history with the Assassin’s Creed franchise, including his creation of the defining musical theme of the franchise, originally crafted for Assassin’s Creed 2, and titled Ezio’s Family.
Kyd is working alongside fellow composers Sarah Schachner and Einar Selvik to bring us the musical soundscape of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. In the track premiering today, “Out of the North,” Kyd captures the mystique of the Viking fantasy at the core of the game. Listen for the gradual layering and crescendo of the piece, which sounds like the aural equivalent of sailing into a Viking village after a longboat sea voyage.
“'Out of the North’ is the main theme for Norway,” Kyd told Game Informer. “I wanted to capture the feel of the rugged and vast, open landscape filled with fjords, mountains, snow and ice, combined with a strong sense of family and community; giving you a deep sense of living as a Viking with enduring beliefs. They’re a proud people with a grand destiny, high ambitions and a firm belief in their way of life.”
The Sims 4 is about to get a little woolier, courtesy of its latest paid DLC expansion, the Nifty Knitting Stuff Pack, which comes to PC, Mac, Xbox One, and PS4 on 28th July.
The Nifty Knitting Stuff Pack is the second Stuff Pack to be built around a theme selected by the Sims 4 community (the first, the Laundry Day Stuff Pack, arrived in 2018), and, as you'd imagine, is focussed on fine art of turning a unassuming ball of yarn into a dizzying assortment of goods.
According to EA, Sims eager to embark on a life of knitting will first need to purchase a yarn basket; once suitably equipped, they'll then have to start modestly, fashioning the likes of socks and beanies, but will eventually be able to focus on increasingly elaborate projects - sweaters, baby onesies, toys, and even mailbox cosies - as their skills improve. Particularly proficient Sims can pass on their knitting know-how to others, including children.
Among the first games that'll usher in the PlayStation 5, and thus one of the first to bring on the next console generation, is Counterplay Games' Godfall. We've seen Godfall in action a few times now in trailers and videos, but some of the most intriguing tidbits about the game are things its developers have only mentioned in passing, and which haven't yet made it into trailers or gameplay videos.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Godfall is its combination of genres. Counterplay says it sees Godfall as expanding on action-RPGs and loot game genres to create something new--what it calls a "looter-slasher." GameSpot talked with Godfall director Keith Lee to find out exactly what the looter-slasher is all about, more about how Godfall will play, and what's going on in its strange fantasy world.
"The vision for making this game was how we can merge [looting with] third-person melee combat, getting really juicy, tight combat mechanics, the moment to moment flow, and that experience, because a lot of the people on our team love skill-based action combat titles," Lee explained. "Yet, also, there are people on our team, given our background having worked on Diablo and working at Blizzard, that we've always had a love for loot-driven action-RPGs. We love playing Borderlands. So really, the original premise and the concept was, can we have a game where it's somewhere in the middle, meaning that it's one part loot-driven, as well as one part skill-driven. It's more like an intrinsic mastery of the combats while the loot is more of an extrinsic reward system for you to be motivated to play the game."
Overwatch's new event, Sigma's Maestro Challenge, features a new legendary skin for the tank Hero. The event runs from July 14 to July 27 and offers rewards for players who secure enough wins during the challenge.
Like previous challenges, Sigma's Maestro is focused exclusively on Sigma, not offering other skins or cosmetics. Overwatch's larger events, like the Anniversary 2020 event, typically offer a wider variety of new item.
You can also earn up to six new sprays by watching between 2 to 6 hours of Overwatch on Twitch during the event. Alongside the challenge Blizzard has released a new soundtrack, Cities and Countries, a collection of themes from Overwatch maps and missions.
Continue Reading at GameSpotCyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red released some beautiful concept artwork and a new character render from the massively-anticipated RPG.
First and foremost, we get to take a look at Yorinobu Arasaka, youngest song of the much better known Saburo Arasaka, head of the iconic weapon manufacturing corporation.
Secondly, we take a look at another district of Night City, Santo Domingo.
Last week we asked our readers here at Twinfinite how they felt about the potential increase of all next-gen video game releases. Is $70 an acceptable price for a video game in 2020? What price sounds right for a brand-new title in this day and age?
We put up a poll on the official Twinfinite Twitter account to gather responses from our followers to find out how the majority of our audience feels on the subject of next-gen pricing. From the poll, which ended up with a whopping 491 votes, it turns out that 61% of the voters were not okay with a $70 pricetag and 38% would be okay with it.
You can see the poll here:
Some comments were left underneath the tweet as well by our more vocal community members –some comments were mixed, some were for the price, and then some were against. Here are some of the more interesting comments that were left:
The newest Trails of Cold Steel IV character trailer is here, and it stars Trails in the Sky heroes like Estelle, Joshua, and Renne.
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Hearthstone's next expansion, Scholomance Academy, is releasing in August. The new set will introduce 135 new cards including 40 new "Dual-Class" cards, a new Spellburst mechanic, and more. GameSpot spoke with game designers Chadd Nervig and Liv Breeden about the upcoming set, the new normal for how the company is approaching balance adjustments, and how an unused Demon Hunter power from Ashes of Outland helped create the new Spellburst in this set.
The last expansion [Ashes of Outland] was very grim and dark and metal. This one is a lot more lighthearted and kind of cute. When you're deciding the order of expansions, how much do you consider what came before and what's coming after to strike a balance?
Chadd Nervig: We definitely do keep that in mind. In general, Hearthstone tends to aim for whimsy and charm. Ashes of Outland was one of our darker sets, and this lightened things up. There's still, "What is Kel'thuzad doing in the basement?" There's still some darker undertones here and there.
Continue Reading at GameSpotNinjala is a new multiplayer online arena brawler game for the Nintendo Switch that’s free-to-play. Its visually charming art style, wacky characters, and enjoyable combat system sets it apart from other games in the same genre and makes it stand out on its own, which are just some of the things that I praised in my initial preview, and eventual review, of Ninjala.
And not only are the online arena modes entertaining, but there’s an entirely another side of Ninjala that flies under the radar.
Ninjala has a separate single-player campaign with tons of lore to dive into for the quirky setting of the game and there’s even an animated series on YouTube and another with 3D CGI graphics.
Essentially, Ninjala’s story is absolutely bonkers in the best way possible.
Twinfinite had the opportunity to speak to president and CEO of GungHo Online Entertainment, Kazuki Morishita, to talk about where the concept of Ninjala came from, the lore of the world, and more. You can read the entire Q&A down below:
Features Editor Greysun Morales: Ninjala’s story and its world are centered around the characters being able to harness the power of Ninja Gum. Why was gum chosen as the source of power? Where did that idea come from?
Kazuki Morishita: When we create games, we try to start with the concept and theme of the game first, rather than starting from the world setting or story. Originally I thought of the idea after seeing some children playing pretend chambara (sword fighting) with some tree branches.
Ready to rock with some heroes, JRPG style? The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV arrives on PlayStation 4 October 27. Looking to play on PC or Switch? You'll have to wait for early 2021. While we've seen quite a few trailers, snippets, and other media focusing on Trails IV, today we've got a new peek into some of the characters.
As you can imagine, you may not be able to tell a whole lot about the elaborate characters that Trails is known for in a two-minute trailer, but hey - at least it's kind of cool in an anime way. You can check out the trailer below, and be sure to take a peek at our exclusive interview with Nihon Falcom president and producer Toshihiro Kondo here.
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Several prominent members of the gaming community have come together to organize a new text-based hotline aimed at providing emotional support to the industry, especially those that feel isolated by abuse and harassment.
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Today Sony Interactive Entertainment released a brand new trailer of the upcoming samurai open-world game by Sucker Punch Productions Ghost of Tsushima.
The trailer focuses on combat, showcasing the difference between the samurai and ghost fighting styles. We also see different combat stances and the ability to block arrows like a complete badass.
You can check it out below.
Ghost of Tsushima has recently been slightly rescheduled to release on July 17, 2020. It’s almost here and you can already read our enthusiastic review.
Theological battle arena Smite‘s gone all Nickelodeon on us today. Those Avatar: The Last Airbender skins Hi-Rez Studios announced last month have arrived, packed inside their own bespoke battle-pass added to the god-smashing MOBA today. They might not be full characters in their own right – instead, possessing three of Smite’s existing mythical warriors – but if you’ve ever wanted to batter Zeus as a child-like cartoon demigod, now’s your chance.
It's the 25th annual QuakeCon, and this one will be a little different. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupting game conventions and pretty much every other aspect of life, events have gotten creative in the digital and streaming spaces this year to bring content alive. QuakeCon is taking that approach this August 7-9, as the event moves to the online space. This year, the event is QuakeCon at Home. So what's on deck?
A long, giant stream! Full of influencers, surprises, Bethesda community team members and more. Traditionally, we're treated to at least some tidbits and nibbles of news from the Bethesda universe during this convention, and hopefully this year is no different!
Esports tournaments! Charities! Among many great charities to supports, one of them will be a special Animal Charity associated with some adorable new shirts for sale (100% of proceeds to charity). You can check those shirts out below (Yo, I want that Catodemon. Meeee-OW!).
Other special merch celebrating the QuakeCon at Home will also be available for purchase. Hopefully we get to see a cool glimpse of what's to come in the Bethesda world!
Find out more details on QuakeCon at Home on the official site.
Robotics;Notes Localization Producer Toshihiro Beppu and Localization Editor Matthew Edwards talked about preparing Elite and DaSH's English versions.
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It's been a while since Overwatch players have had a major update in the form of a new hero or map, but Blizzard is still trying to keep the experience fresh through limited-time mini-events that reward skins, emotes, sprays, and more. The newest one, Sigma's Maestro Challenge, coincides with the release of a new Overwatch soundtrack on streaming services and digital music services.
Much like other character-specific challenge events, all you have to do to obtain the ultimate prize (in this case, Sigma's Legendary Maestro skin), is win nine games before the challenge concludes. You unlock other rewards along the way: Three wins nets you a player icon, six wins gives you Sigma's Maestro emote, and nine wins finally rewards you with the Legendary Maestro skin for the eccentric astrophysicist.
If you're looking to add some sprays to your collection, you can link your Blizzard account to your Twitch account and watch sponsored streams to earn instrument-based sprays for Sigma, Moira, Symmetra, Lucio, Mei, and Orisa.
Click here to watch embedded mediaSigma's Maestro Challenge begins today and runs until July 27. The aforementioned new Overwatch soundtrack is titled Overwatch: Cities & Countries and is available now on Apple Music, iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, and YouTube.
Remember that crazy announcement a while back when we found out that third-person MOBA Smite was getting characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra? Yeah, that's a thing that happened, it wasn't just a dream. Today, the long-awaited battle pass is live.
Before you get too excited, it's time to reiterate that these awesome characters are only skins and not actually new characters with signature abilities. That said, you can get crazy with Aang, Zuko, and Korra skins on Smite characters Merlin, Skadi, and Susano. Check out more in this hot new trailer!
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One of the coolest new weapons to come to Destiny 2 in the Season of Arrivals is the Falling Guillotine, a huge blade that looks like Cloud Strife's Buster Sword and can be spun in a circle like you're imitating Link from The Legend of Zelda. Falling Guillotine does a ton of damage to enemies and is a favorite for eliminating big boss-type creatures at the moment--and it seems part of what made it so good was a bug in how it dished out damage. Destiny 2's latest update does away with the bug, but thankfully, Falling Guillotine seems relatively unscathed.
Bungie outlined the details of its new Destiny 2 patch, Update 2.9.1, on its website, and the patch fixes a whole bunch of bugs. One of them was the fact that "Vortex Frame swords" like Falling Guillotine weren't seeing their Heavy attacks ending properly--so they were dishing out more damage than they should have.
That bug has been squashed, along with a bunch of others. The good news is, despite what should effectively be a nerf to Falling Guillotine, the sword is still fully capable of ravaging enemies, including the champions who appear during the Contact event. That's a favorite way to use the sword right now, and it still works beautifully.
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