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The Blizzard team said that after 10 years since the release of StarCraft 2, they are drawing the line and stop producing new content for the game.
StarCraft 2 is already ten years old and Blizzard believes it’s time to turn to the future of that SF series. With that in mind, they announced that they will no longer do additional content for the deuce. So, there will no longer be new War Chest, Commander and similar accessories that can be purchased later.
Of course, this doesn’t mean the end of Blizzard’s support for StarCraft 2 in general. The game will still receive corrections in the balance of that current season. Blizzard says they are aware that some players will not like it, but they believe that the move will be useful for the entire StarCraft series.
"We know some players have been looking forward to the content we're moving away from now, but the good news is that it will set us free so we can think about what's next, not just for StarCraft 2, but for the StarCraft universe as a whole." - they said from Blizzard.
The CD Project RED has revealed what classes of vehicles we can expect in the upcoming futuristic escapade called Cyberpunk 2077.
Shooting, talking and hacking will be the basic mechanics of Cyberpunk 2077, but they will all be connected by another activity - driving. The game will be driven from a first- or third-person perspective, that is, with a view from the cabin or outside. Six different classes of vehicles will be driven, in order: economy class, trucks, executive vehicles, sports cars, motorcycles and hypercars.
In addition to them, there will be one special category in the game, and that is Johnny Silverhand’s 100-year-old vehicle, the Porsche 911 Turbo.
Vehicles in Cyberpunk 2077 will be available in two ways: by purchase and theft. The purchased vehicles will be available to the player permanently, and he will be able to summon them at any time while on the street. Summoning vehicles works similarly to Witcher 3, but the CD Project promises that Cyberpunk vehicles will not appear on the roof like Roach's horse in the previous game.
It was also confirmed that there will be organized racing in the game, and the in-game car designer told players that one should definitely not go into those races without a weapon in the passenger seat.
One of the nice things about vehicles will be that the same vehicle models will differ in appearance depending on where you find them. For example, vehicles in the richer neighborhood will be new, but the same model in the poorer neighborhood will be modified and some parts of the cabin will be ripped out or replaced with "used".
CD Projekt RED also paid special attention to the sound of the vehicles themselves, which they recorded on real cars. As they say, even though it is a futuristic game, the vehicles themselves will not sound futuristic but rough, powerful and adrenaline-fueled.
The Arch motorcycle, developed by CD Projekt in collaboration with Keanu Reeves, a passionate motorcycle enthusiast, also has a special story.
Destiny 2 will receive free upgrades for ninth-generation consoles, but not immediately upon their launch but in December this year.
Destiny 2 will be playable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S consoles as soon as those consoles go on sale; but as a game for PS4 and XBO. Upgrade to the so-called. the next-gen version will come a month later - on December 8 this year for all three consoles, Bungie said.
The Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will spin the next-gen version of Destiny 2 in 4K resolution and 60 frames per second. On the Xbox Series S console, the game will go in 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second.
In addition to higher resolution and better performance, players can expect faster downloads and the ability to specify the Field of View option, similar to the PC version. All next-gen versions will have support for cross-gen multiplayer, meaning PS5 players will be able to play with PS4 players, and XS players with XBO players.
PC requests for their upcoming game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla have been released from Ubisoft. It is recommended that you install the game on a fast disk.
Ubisoft always does a particularly detailed job when PC gamers need to be told what hardware specifications they are looking for for their games. It is standard custom for games to have a minimum and recommended list of requirements, but Ubisoft goes a few steps further and comes with as many as 6-7 different configurations depending on the settings, target resolution and performance.
So it is with the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, a game that doesn’t support raytracing, but is still part of a series known for being extremely demanding primarily because of the Anvil engine that relies heavily on processors. And then there’s the ambition of the games in depicting a detailed world with a bunch of characters.
As AC Valhalla is based on an old mover, the game itself will not be terribly demanding. It will minimally require the oldest and weakest Ryzen processor and the fourth generation i5 processor, and will also be able to play on six-year-old graphics cards.
However, Ubisoft does not specify a configuration that could run the game in 4K resolution and 60 fps at maximum graphics quality settings. That's probably the RTX 3090. What would we do if the game had raytracing effects…
Basically, another curiosity is that SSDs are now everywhere listed under recommended, although not actually mandatory. And yes, the game will now make full use of DirectX 12, meaning it will only be able to run on Windows 10 operating systems, unlike the two-year-old Odyssey which still ran on Windows 7 and 8.
Here are all six configuration requirements:
Minimum for Low settings at 1080p at 30 fps:
CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 - 3.1 Ghz / i5-4460 - 3.2 Ghz
GPU: AMD R9 380 - 4GB / GeForce GTX 960 4GB
RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
Disk: 50 GB HDD (SSD recommended)
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Recommended for High settings at 1080p at 30 fps:
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 - 3.2 Ghz / i7-4790 - 3.6 Ghz
GPU: AMD RX 570 - 8GB / GeForce GTX 1060 - 6GB
RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
Disk: 50 GB SSD
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Recommended for High settings at 1080p at 60 fps:
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 - 3.0 Ghz / i7-6700 - 3.4 Ghz
GPU: AMD Vega 64 - 8GB / GeForce GTX 1080- 8GB
RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
Disk: 50 GB SSD
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Recommended for Very High settings at 1440p at 30 fps:
The new Spider-Man will have an unexpected helper in its bag. It will be a yellow cat that will also work to eliminate New York villains.
One of the better jokes in The Simpsons was Homer's pig, which he once called "Spider-Pig." Pig is not part of the canon of the Spider-Man series itself, but that's why the next Spider-Man game will have Spider-Cat… or cat! However, the cat will also be called Spider-Man, not Spider-Cat.
This dagger cat will follow Miles Morales in a backpack and will jump out of it when it needs to hit opponents. He will also wear a Spider-Man mask, which is hilarious. Miles will meet the cat on a side quest, but her owner will then allow the cat to live its superhero life in Miles ’bag.
I can already see that some players will grumble about introducing the cat to the action game because how realistic is that !? And then again - is Spider-Man realistic?
The new Pac-Man game appeared on mobile platforms, but was not well received at the start.
You can play Pac-Man Geo, an interesting combination of the cult game and Google Maps, on your mobile phones recently. In this game, Pac-Man levels are designed according to the actual streets of towns and villages taken from Google maps. The game is free and available on iOS and Android devices.
However, before you run it, know that by downloading the 70 megabyte app you only get the ability to play the tutorial. If you want full functionality, you will need to download 3.1 GB of data. It’s not scary, but the game servers are in trouble right now and many users are complaining that their game isn’t working at all. So it’s no surprise that Pac-Man Geo started with a pretty poor 2.9 rating on the Google Play Store.
If you thought Ubisoft could no longer complicate the story of the Assassin’s Creed series, they have now decided that there will be two versions of the same canon.
All Assassin’s Creed series games to date have had male and female characters in lead or at least important roles at the same time. The upcoming game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will break that tradition because there will be a male and female version of the same character, Eivor, but of course - not at the same time. The player must choose one or the other, with the proviso that the gender of the character can change whenever he wants. But that's not all.
If you don’t want to choose one or the other, you’ll be able to let the game choose for you. In that case, part of the game will be played with the male version of Eivor, and part with the female, and the game will randomly choose when to play with whom. Even in this game mode the player will be free to change the gender of the character whenever he wants.
What will not change is the fact that the female and male versions of Eivor will be canon at the same time… although these characters do not exist separately at the same time. Maybe a little confusing for the complete story of the series itself, but hey - who else follows it other than Ubisoft?
Game Informer magazine brings a video of the gameplay from the introductory part of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the battle with Rhin.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man, Father Parker questioned an angry Rhino and put him in custody. However, a few months later, the big rhino is back on the streets. This time, Miles Morales has the duty to stop him, and Rhino will be his first boss opponent.
Miles ’clash with Rhino will be more direct and closer than Peter’s so don’t think the same tactics from the first game will apply against the same opponent. The fight will take place in several different rooms, and although we have two Spider-Man in the introductory announcement, it seems that the job of arranging Rhino will fall exclusively on the back of young Morales.
Although Apex Legends is a completely free game, it will soon be available in a special edition with all nine unlocked characters.
I’m sure Electronic Arts makes good money selling cosmetics for Apex Legends, but EA wouldn’t be EA if they didn’t want to charge something else. They announced Apex Legends: Champion Edition, a special edition of a free game that will be paid for, primarily because of the exclusive costumes for the characters, but also the possibility to unlock all the additional legends immediately, whether you are a brand new player or an existing one.
For 40 euros, the Champion Edition brings nine unlocked characters to the seventh season, namely Mirage, Octane, Wattson, Crypto, Revenant, Loba, Rampart and Caustic. The package also includes exclusive skins for Wraith, Crypt, Flatline, Stentinel, Revenant and others.
Apex Legends: Champion Edition will be available digitally and physically on disk for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms.
The Hungarian NeoCore Games brings King Arthur back to life - but not in the true sense of the word. The new king is actually a kind of zombie.
Before developing games about Van Helsing’s incredible adventures, they worked on tactical games based on Arthurian legends on the Hungarian Neocore Games team. They plan to return to them as early as the beginning of 2021, but in a slightly different edition. The just-announced King Arthur: Knight’s Tale will once again be a tactical dark-hearted RPG, but in the same we won’t lead the title king but his mortal enemy Sir Mordred.
Both knights return to life after the massacre, and Mordred receives an order from the Virgin of the Lake to kill Arthur - once more. Morded thus gathers a team for the fight, and it is up to the player to face the (im) moral choices and their significant consequences on the story.
We will have more than 30 heroes in five classes to choose from. The fight will take place on moves, similar to XCOM games, and the quests will be chosen at an impromptu round table. Roguelike elements of the game will be manifested in the fact that the characters can die permanently, that is, that there is no return for them if you do not watch them.
The game has been announced for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. It should first come to life on Steam in early 2021, and later on other platforms. It will cost 40 euros, and you can support its development on Kickstarter, where you can get the game for ten euros less.
Gearbox Software has announced that all Borderlands 3 owners will be able to upgrade their copy of the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox One consoles right on the first day of sales of those consoles.
Borderlands 3 will be one of those games that can be upgraded for free to PS5 and XS versions if you have it on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One consoles. We already knew this, and it has now been announced that these upgrades will be available as soon as the new consoles appear, meaning Nov. 10 in the Xbox Series S and X, and Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 in the PlayStation 5 , depending on the markets. In our country, it is November 19th.
Borderlands 3 will run at PS5 and XSX at 60 frames per second at 4K resolution. They probably don't mean native 4K resolution but upscaling with 1440p, but still - and that's impressive because for comparison the new RTX 3080 graphics card in 4K resolution spins this game at 69 fps, and costs more than the consoles themselves without counting the rest configurations.
Borderlands 3 was previously an inferior version on the PC in the context that it did not offer the option of split-screen multiplayer as on consoles, and now that gap will deepen further. Namely, on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the split-screen option will be expanded - from two players to as many as four players who will be able to play the game on one screen at the same time.
Gearbox Software says that the transition to new consoles for existing players will be free. Namely, all recorded positions will be saved, and when upgrading to the next-gen versions, all additional content purchased by players in the PS4 and XBO versions will still be valid.
After Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PC exceeded 225 gigabytes of disk space, the game’s creators decided to listen to fans and separate the SP campaign and multiplayer.
Earlier this month, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare got who knows what already update that boosted the already bulky installation of the game. On the PC, the game has reached 225 gigabytes, which means that it is no longer possible to install it on an SSD with a capacity of 250 gigabytes (the actual size of 232 GB, and some free space needs to be set aside for the update process).
On consoles, the situation is also critical, but there players can at least remove mods they don't need, such as a single-player campaign. On the PC, Modern Warfare is part of one big package, but it seems that Infinity Ward still decided to listen to the fans and from tomorrow on the PC will allow the removal of the single-player campaign, among other things.
So if you play Warzone, you will only be able to leave Warzone. If you play other multiplayer modes - you will be able to leave just that. Therefore, although the game will not be technically any smaller than usual, at least there will be an option to free up disk space by removing certain parts of it.
Rockstar Games bought the studio responsible for the development of Crackdown 2 and renamed it Rockstar Dundee.
Rockstar Games now includes a total of ten separate studios, the most recent of which is Rockstar Dundee. Behind that name is the former Ruffian Games development team, best known for the Xbox 360 exclusive Crackdown 2, which Rockstar bought out in early October, after a year of collaboration on the development of unnamed games.
There are two reasons why Rockstar chose this team. First of all - they have experience working on open world games, which Rockstar Games prefers. Secondly, the studio is located in Scotland, near the main and home studio Rockstar North, at a distance of only 60 kilometers.
This is the first studio Rockstar has bought since 2008, and the second new studio they have added to their family in the last 16 years.
The new map in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be slightly different from the previous ones and will ask players to adjust and manage from match to match.
Next week, October 21st, the ninth season of the popular battle royale game PUBG will start, and the first announcements for it promise something different… and by that we don’t mean differently like the dinosaurs from the seventh season. Namely, the main novelty of the 9th season will be the new map in the city of Paramo, which they are announcing as the first dynamic map in PUBG.
The map is marked by an active volcano and it will determine its condition - from match to match. Players will thus have to adapt to the situation on the field where visibility and passability may be different after each jump from the plane. In addition, there will be a large helicopter on the map carrying the loot and which players will be able to crash.
Action MOBA Smite will get totally unexpected guests next month. Namely, Ninja Turtles come into play.
So-called crossovers can be extremely popular and attract new audiences with games. Fortnite has a doctorate on this because virtually all the more popular characters from John Wick through Deadpool to Wolverine have appeared in that game. Seeing this trend, the team behind the game SMITE decided to take the opportunity and bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Ninja Turtles into their game.
Namely, the development team of Hi-Rez Studios has an existing collaboration with the company Nickelodeon, which holds the rights to "turtles", so the arrival of the green four in Smite is more than meaningful addition of these characters to the game where different deities and mythological creatures clash. This is confirmed by the fact that the Ninja Turtles in Smite will actually be skins for the existing characters: Osiris, Loki, Mercury and Sun Wukong.
Still, each turtle will have two costumes and the indispensable emote “Cowabunga!”. In addition to them, Splinter and Shredder will also appear in the game, which can be purchased separately.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will give players the opportunity to build a settlement as in the second and third parts of the series.
One of the best parts of Assassin’s Creed 2 was the renovation of Villa Monteriggioni for me. After the third part, the Assassins had "homes" on several occasions - the last time in the Syndicate, but there was a lack of upgrades and visual changes. Fortunately, the “base” upgrade returns to Valhalla where the player will take care of a settlement in Norway called Ravensthorpe.
With the arrival of the main character Eivor in Ravensthorpe, the expansion of the same begins through the establishment of a shop for a blacksmith. The settlement serves as a base of operations run by assistant Randvi, and from there the player will choose his assassinations. It will be possible to build a stable in the settlement where horses will be trained, a tattoo parlor, barracks, etc.
Ravensthorpe will be able to be upgraded to a total of six levels. Upgrades will most often be paid for with materials collected during raids and other activities in the UK. At later levels, hunting and fishing lodges, a cartographic office, a museum, a shipyard, etc. are unlocked. There will of course be Baba Valka's hut where Eivor will taste various cocktails that take him / her to another dimension, closer to the Nordic deities.
All in all, Ravensthorpe will serve as a resting place from looting and conquest across Britain. Ubisoft claims that they wanted to arouse the player's feeling of returning home and will prepare a number of motivations to return there, including Viking dates that will take place there.
Tests of the first game that supports 120 fps performance on the Xbox Series X console have shown the brutal reality - that it comes with a huge compromise.
Does this look like a picture from the game for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X upstairs? Probably not, but it is - it's a DiRT 5 on the Xbox Series X console, in 120 frames per second performance mode. Nothing more detailed / beautiful will look on the PlayStation 5 either, let's face it.
Namely, journalists who got the Xbox Series X for testing these days were given the opportunity to play DiRT 5 as the first game to support gaming at 120 frames per second. And while the game does reach such a high framerate, there are many impressions that the price is too high for that. Namely, DiRT 5 is significantly inferior to this setting.
And not only does it lower the resolution of certain segments below 1080p, but it also excludes important things from the complete presentation. If you want to play DiRT 5 in 120 fps on the console, say goodbye to the audience, ie models of people next to the track - because there is no such thing in 120 fps mode. Don’t even expect visible vegetation in the mountains in the distance, embrace a poorer display of vehicle models, forget about the ambient oclusion of shadows beneath buildings, and prepare for frequent popping textures. Yes, the disk can load them quickly, but the processor obviously saves them to run the game with better performance.
Of course, this is just the first example of a game at 120 fps, and it's a game that hasn't even been completed yet. However, hardly anyone will be really surprised by the first results. The fact that the console theoretically supports something does not mean that it is capable of the same without certain limitations. If nothing else, those who have tried the DiRT 5 at 120 fps claim that the feel of the gameplay is better than the look of the game. And the more positive side of the story is that there was no significant drop in performance in 12o fps mode - no matter how uglier the game looked.
Ubisoft has released as many as six recommended configurations for playing Watch Dogs Legion on PC. Check which one will suit your conditions.
UPDATE (October 12): Ubisoft today updated the requirements for the PC version of the Watch Dogs Legion. The changes aren’t big, but there are. For example, instead of the GTX 960, the game now requires a minimum of GTX 970. For 1440p resolution, it will require the penultimate generation of Core-i7 processors, but there are also cases where the requirements are mitigated. For example, RTX 2070 will no longer be needed for raytracing effects at 1080p resolution - RTX 2060 will suffice.
Another category of requirements has also been added - 144op raytracing, allowing the Watch Dogs Legion now to have seven different configurations depending on graphics settings and resolution. Here are all seven below:
As every year, Overwatch will traditionally get a new outfit on the occasion of the upcoming Halloween
There are fewer and fewer sunny days and this is an indication that we are entering a gloomy autumn season, and as part of it, the traditional Halloween Terror will be held in Overwatch. This time-limited event will begin tomorrow, Oct. 13, and run through Nov. 3.
As usual, all Overwatch heroes will get their new Halloween costumes. Sigma thus becomes the haunted spirit of the captain, and Winston begins to act like a werewolf. A detailed schedule of events will be revealed upon the launch of the event, but it is already clear that survival will once again be a major theme and activity in Halloween Terror 2020.
Ubisoft has agreed to work with Reebok to result in official footwear for the Assassins and Vikings.
What you see in the picture above is the fall-winter fashion collection of 873, worn by Eivor, the bearded Viking and the occasional Assassin. Somehow we doubt these shoes will be worn again in the 21st century, but you never know with fashion. What we do know is that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will have official footwear.
It will be produced by Reebok as part of a promotion for the game itself and that's all we know. We don’t know if those shoes will be in the form of sneakers, boots, shoes, Viking slippers. But let us inform you about that as well. Discovery is "soon", anyway.
Valorant's third "act" will start next week when a new map arrives, while a new agent, Australian Skye, arrives at the end of the month.
Strong women are in trend! Riot Games has revealed a new, second additional character for its competitive shooter Valorant. It will be Skye, an Australian who brings with her a real little zoo.
Skye can thus summon an eagle that he is able to guide to the enemy to blind him. In addition to the eagle, he can also summon the Tasmanian tiger, which disables the enemy when touched. In addition, she has the power of Regrowth to treat comrades nearby, and the ultimate attack is called Seekers, which summons three helpers to find her closest enemies and obscure their view of the action.
Skye will appear in Valorant on the 27th of this month, but before her on the 13th of October a new battle pass will come into play together with an additional map. The map will be called Icebox, and you can get a first look at it in the video below.
Development studio Sucker Punch Productions has confirmed that their hit Ghost of Tsushima will harness the power of the PlayStation 5 console at 60 frames per second.
Ghost of Tsushima will run on the PlayStation 5 console, as well as 3999 other games. But even better news is that the game won’t need any remastered 80-euro edition to run at 60 frames per second. This will be possible with the standard PS4 version with the help of the Game Boost option on the PlayStation 5.
Ghost of Tsushima also had a better performance option on the PlayStation 4 Pro console model, which sacrificed resolution for more stable performance. However, even with this Performance mode, it was not possible to reach a smooth 60 frames per second.
Fortunately, the Sucker Punch Productions development team has confirmed that they will be working on recorded positions from the PS4 version of the game on the PlayStation 5. They also said that the downloads will be super fast, which we believe in because it is one of the few newer games that loads quite quickly on the PlayStation 4.
Sony has finally revealed some more details about the backward compatibility of PS4 games on the PlayStation 5 console. The situation is good - only 10 games will not work.
As it was recently said, 99% of PlayStation 4 games will be able to be played on PlayStation 5. In fact, the percentage is even higher as it has now been revealed that more than 4,000 PS4 games will be supported and only ten titles will not work. And it was announced which ten games it was. And you probably haven’t even heard of most of them. PlayStation 4 games that will not work on PlayStation 5 are as follows:
DWVR
Afro Samurai 2 Revenge of Kuma Volume One
TT Isle of Man - Ride on the Edge 2
Just Deal With It!
Shadow Complex Remastered
Robinson: The Journey
We Sing
Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
Shadwen
Joe’s Diner
So probably headlines that no one will shed a tear for.
Sony has also clarified how PS4 games will run on the PS5 console. Some will benefit from the Game Boost option provided by the console (similar to the PlayStation 4 Pro model) which means it will run at a higher resolution or at a more stable number of frames per second. Admittedly, there is no list of games that will profit from it.
Some PS4 games on the PS5 console will not be able to use certain functionalities as on the PlayStation 4 and some will experience performance errors or unexpected behavior (crash, etc.). It has not been said how big the sample of games is. Games for the PlayStation VR will be playable on the PS5 console, but users will need a special adapter for the PlayStation camera - which Sony will distribute in the package with the PS5 console itself.
The PS5 console, In-Game Live from PlayStation and PS4 Second Screen applications will not work on the PS5 console. There will also be no menu that opens with the Share button. But there will be the option to record gameplay just as it existed on the PlayStation 4.
From the PlayStation 4 console, you will be able to transfer installed games to the PlayStation 5 via a wi-fi network or using a removable disk. Games for the PlayStation 4 will be able to run on the PS5 console and via a removable disk, without the need to install them on the disk in the console itself.
Several players have managed to launch Call of Duty: Warzone through private matches, a feature eagerly awaited.
Many CoD: Warzone players have been calling for the introduction of private match options for months. The creators of the game have not yet made such a thing possible, but it seems that they are working on it and that this functionality is practically ready. Namely, two users via glitch in the sixth season of Warzone allegedly managed to start a private match of mini battle royale format with 24 players.
According to unofficial information, in private matches of Warzone it is possible to adjust the rules of the game, for example whether tactical sprinting is allowed, how fast the hoop is approaching the middle, how much energy the players have and the like. It is also mentioned that in private matches there is no XP collection or advancement to unlock weapon upgrades, which was to be expected.
So, it is likely that private matches will arrive in Warzone, but when exactly - it is still unknown.
We won't play the sci-fi shooter Outriders this fall, but in the second month of next year.
The new third-person shooter from the creators of Painkiller and Bulletstorm will still leave its fierce shooting for 2021. Outriders were supposed to play back this summer, so the game's release was postponed to the fall, and as we welcomed the fall without a specific release date for this game, it became clear that Square Enix would postpone it for the second time. Now for 2. 2. 2021.
But there is also comforting news. With the announcement of the postponement came the confirmation that Outriders will be one of those games that will enable a free upgrade from PS4 to PS5 and from XBO to XSX / S consoles. In addition, full cross-play has been promised for all platforms, including PC, which will come in handy as Outriders is intended for cooperative gaming.
Legendary action hero John Rambo will stop by Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath to make order with his machine gun.
Some will say that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate causes the greatest uncertainty and excitement when it comes to announcing guest fighters. But I personally think no other fighting game is close to Mortal Kombat 11 and their roster of visiting fighters at the moment. Now watch this lineup: Joker, Spawn, Terminator, Robocop. Only Van Damme and Bruce Willis are still missing because another legendary character from the eighties - John Rambo - has just joined the series.
Rambo will be an additional fighter in the second content package for Mortal Kombat 11 and MK 11 Aftermath. Besides him, there are also famous characters from the series: Rain and Mileena. Unlike Terminator, whose voice in the game is an imitation of Schwarzenegger's, Rambo will sound original in MK11 because the voice will be lent to him by actor Sylvester Stallone.
Mortal Kombat 11 will also get its Ultimate Edition version which will include MK 11 itself, Aftermath expansion and Kombat Pack 1 and 2. The Ultimate Edition will appear on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC and Stadia platforms.
Versions for the new consoles will have dynamic 4K resolution and improved graphics. In case you have Mortal Kombat 11 or the new Ultimate release for PS4 and XBO, you are entitled to a free upgrade for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S.
Another Night City Wire presentation of Cyberpunk 2077 has been announced in which we will find out details about the vehicles within that game.
So far, the CD Project team has presented weapons, gangs and the city of Cyberpunk 2077 itself, and transport methods will soon be next. It has been announced that the next episode of Night City Wire will be broadcast on October 15 at 6 pm and will focus on the look, sound and specifications of the various vehicles in which V will be able to sit in the game.
What we know for now is that the cars in Cyberpunk 2077 will be able to be driven from the first and third person. They will also be able to shoot. In addition to cars, motorcycles will also be available. So far, about 40 models of vehicles have been spotted through various videos and screenshots, and it is clear that they will play a significant role in the gameplay itself.
The creators of the Assasin’s Creed series set out to explain a 13-year-long and broad story before the release of a new game, AC Valhalle.
Even the biggest fans of the Assassin’s Creed series find it hard to tell the story of the same. At first, this was still feasible while the plot focused on a smaller number of characters, but over time the whole thing got so diluted that it became difficult to grasp who was there, when and why. Of course, all this is explained in books, a separate wikipedia and in some internal AC bible used in Ubisoft, but for someone who is only now showing interest in the series, Ubisoft has prepared a series of materials, the so-called "Lore Guide" in the form of short video summaries of the action, issues, characters, etc.
The first such material focused on the Assassins themselves, their fraternity and role in history. Even if you know all about it, it’s interesting to hear and see how Ubisoft simplifies that story. For example, this video only mentions the order of the Assassins, but not the character who preceded it all and was the first to use the practices that the Assassins later inherited. Fortunately, they have time for jokes about the invention of coffee.
The following video will focus on opponents of the Order of Assassin, the famous Templars. It is to be expected that the new materials will be released in the next 30 days, until the release of the new adventure of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Mafia: Definitive Edition received its first update that complemented the game with new visual options and additional content.
The first update for Mafia: Definitive Edition has arrived and fixes a few things that some players have complained about, including me in the review. For starters, the interface in the game itself can be customized at will. This means that it is possible to turn off the task marker, mini-map, GPS and enemy position. Minimal HUD mode has also been introduced, with which you can hide the vehicle speedometer, description of the current task, etc.
Then Noir Mode was added which is nothing but a black and white filter. It is possible to turn it on or off at any time. Free Ride mode got some extensions, which were missing compared to the original, and depend on which vehicle is being driven in which place. The details of that upgrade, however, were left as a surprise to the players.
As for the fixes, the omission to blacken the screen in the middle of the cutscene was fixed, which is good news because it was very irritating, at least to me.
Make sure you can run the upcoming FPS hit Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War in the PC platform version.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is coming out next month, but in two weeks the game will be tested on all platforms, including the PC. The game’s creators have therefore released a framework of hardware requirements for the beta test on the PC. Although these are not final requirements, which means that for the full version of the game they can be more or less demanding, major deviations should not be for one very simple reason - these are very similar requirements as for the existing Modern Warfare from 2019.
In minimal requirements, Cold War has jumped in the context of the processor, so now it is looking for a Core i5 instead of a Core i3 (although quite an old i5). The rest is more or less the same, with 45 GB of free disk space only for beta - the full version of the game will be much bulkier. As for the recommended requirements, the amount of memory has jumped, so instead of 12 gigs, 16 GB is recommended.
Here is the COD request: BLOPS CW beta on PC:
Minimum configuration:
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K or competing AMD
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB / GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon HD 7950
RAM: 8 GB
HDD: 45 GB
Recommended configuration:
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770k or AMD equivalent
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB / GTX 1660 Super 6GB or AMD Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
It looks like the Xbox Series consoles will get new game packages from the Dishonored, Wolfenstein and Prey series.
The U.S. Video Game Age Rating Board says two collections of games belonging to Bethesda will appear on the Xbox Series S and X consoles. These are Dishonored & Prey: The Arkane Collection and Wolfenstein Alt History Collection.
The first collection will include four games: the first Dishonored, then Dishonored 2 and the expansion of Death of the Outsider; and Prey which has nothing to do with Dishonored except in the fact that it was made by the same Arkane development studio. The Wolfenstein collection will also feature four titles: Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Old Blood, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Youngblood.
Both collections are likely to sell for $ 60 or $ 70. It remains unclear whether they will be specifically optimized for Xbox Series consoles, or whether they will bring any graphics improvements or whether the consoles themselves will improve those games as backward-compatible titles for the Xbox One. In case there are graphic upgrades, all existing owners of the mentioned games on Xbox will also receive them, because they said in Bethesda that they want to give free upgrades of old games to the next-gen. After all, they are now under Microsoft, so I probably can't even change my mind about it.
In addition to the protagonist of the first Watch Dogs game, the Legion will later be joined by Wrench from the deuce, but also a member of the Assassin fraternity.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs series have had some tiny links so far and have been suggested several times to take place in the same universe. That connection will be further deepened as there will be a character in the Watch Dogs Legion who belongs to the Brotherhood of Assassin. Her name will be Darcy, she will be a woman, she will wear a distinctive hood and use a hidden blade. And that's all we know for now.
In addition to Darcy, the Watch Dogs Legion will subsequently visit the already discovered Aiden Pearce from the first Watch Dogs, but also the masked outlaw Wrench from Watch Dogs 2. The fourth additional character will be Mina who possesses a unique skill of controlling other people's minds. All of these additional characters will be part of Season Pass content that will be available for purchase separately or will be available in the more expensive edition of the Watch Dogs Legion.
But the game will also get some free upgrades. From December 3, three multiplayer modes will be activated in the Legion. The first is the open world mode for cooperative play in a group of 2-4 players. It is worth noting that this is not a mode for cooperatively running a campaign but for executing multiplayer challenges. Spiderbot Arena is a PvP mode in which eight players will wage war by controlling spiderbot drones. Finally, there’s the old Invasion mode that allows you to appear in someone’s game as an NPC and steal their data, and someone can do the same to you.
2K Games has shown the first concrete footage from the NBA 2K21 for the PlayStation 5 console. It looks nice, but is it "that your jaw falls off" as they announce?
Igor's mail made me laugh a good hour ago. He says that the first display of the next-gen gameplay from NBA 2K21 arrives today at 4 pm, but be careful - they describe it as "jaw-dropping", so be sure that your lower jaw has support. And here, that trailer arrived, to the fear and trembling of all jaws.
The NBA 2K21 in the PlayStation 5 version looks nice. High-resolution textures are used by basketball players and surrounding players, there are a lot of people on the field and of course - sweaty bodies are sweaty, more than ever before! So, it looks nice, but that's just part of the story - it remains to be seen if we have made any progress in the game in gameplay, mods, etc.
Activision reminds Call of Duty fans that they will be able to try out the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War this month.
As previously announced, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have several tests before its release in November. As usual, players on the PlayStation 4 platform will have the advantage of trying out the game because Activision and Sony have an agreed partnership, but it is worth noting that everyone will get a chance to play the game at least once.
The schedule is as follows:
8 - 9. 10 - on PlayStation 4 beta test for preorder audience
10 - 12.10 - Open testing for all players on PlayStation 4
15 - 16. 10 - on XBO and PC beta test for preorder, PS4 open beta
17 - 19.10 - open testing for all platforms, with cross-play
As can be seen in the next trailer, Team Deathmatch, Domination, Kill Confirmed and VIP Escort modes will be available in beta.
The coronavirus pandemic has a devastating impact on the film industry, so film studies are delaying the release of big movie hits.
While the video game industry is functioning surprisingly well during a pandemic, and is making more money than ever before, the film industry is in disarray. The best example of this is the recent summer hit Tenet, which was extremely expensive to shoot, and due to the relatively low response of viewers to the cinema, the film failed to make a profit even two months later.
Thanks to the example of Tenet, more and more studios are postponing the premieres of their films for some better times. Recently, the 25th James Bond film was postponed to the spring of 2021, and now the postponement has hit the most anticipated film of the year - Dune, directed by Dennis Villeneuve. Instead of December 18 this year, Dune will go to the cinema only on October 1, 2021.
Warner Bros. has confirmed an avalanche of other delays after Dune. Among them is The Batman, which was scheduled just for the day Dune is now arriving. New Batman adventures will thus have to wait until 2022. The films The Flash and Shazam 2 will also be delayed.
But there is an exception. Matrix 4 has not moved into some distant future but quite the opposite - it will come before it was announced. Instead of 2022, Matrix 4 will hit theaters on December 22, 2021. If not all theaters fail by then, all movie screenings will move to Fortnite.
The rumors have been officially confirmed - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit from 2010 will get a remaster edition next month.
What has been rumored for the last three months will come true - the 2010 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit will get its remaster. Today, Electronic Arts finally announced Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
As this is a remaster, one should not expect too much. The graphics will be slightly improved with sharper textures and more effects, but it is still visible that this is a game of the now pre-previous generation. However, one thing will get better - multiplayer will be shared among all platforms so players from all four platforms will fight for the best times.
The remastered edition will also feature all the DLC content for Hot Pursuit with over 30 additional challenges versus the old release.
NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered will be released on November 6, 2020 for PC, PS4 and XBO, and on November 13 for Nintendo Switch. The Switch version will go at 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second. The PS4 / XBO consoles will go up to 4K resolution at 30 fps, or 60 fps for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X models.
Ghost of Tshusima will receive an update to version 1.1 next week, which includes New Game + mode and a cooperative add-on called Legends.
Before launching new games and a new generation of PlayStation, Sony plans to upgrade one of the better games of 2020 next week - Ghost of Tsushimu. Namely, it was announced that on October 16, this game gets its big update of version 1.1, and as part of it comes the cooperative mode Legends for 2-4 players.
In Legends, which will be free for all Ghost of Tsushima owners, we will be able to play missions with a story in pairs (two players) and a survival mode in four, as well as a raid (also 4 players). Each player will play a specific class of samurai, and the powers of the fighters, as well as their opponents, will be closely tied to the elements of fantasy.
In addition to Legends mode, update 1.1 also brings a New Game + option for those who want to embark on the transition again. In this mode, the game starts after the tutorial section, and Jin is unlocked with all the skills from the previous transition. There will also be a new horse and additional items in the game. A new type of flower will also be available: Ghost Flower, which will be able to be changed for specific colors of armor and equipment.
One of the nice new things will be quickly putting on armor sets, which means players will be able to change multiple armor sets faster without having to change each piece of armor individually.
One of the first games for the PlayStation 5 console will also be the "always online" title, so you will have to be connected to the Internet even if you play the game yourself.
The upcoming action game Godfall has already raised a lot of dust - first because of its graphics and desire to emphasize that it is a "next-gen exclusive", and then the price at which it will be sold. Namely, Godfall arrives on PC (Epic Games Store) and PlayStation 5 and will graphically be the same game on both platforms. But the PC version will cost € 60, while the PlayStation 5 version will cost € 80 (+ PS Plus subscription).
Regardless of those prices, it was recently revealed that the game will be one of those that require players to be connected to the internet in order to play. It would not be disputable if it was about the so-called a live service game or some sort of MMO. But it is controversial because Godfall is not a game by service model and can be played without other players, just not without the internet.
Many were bothered by such a decision, so they expressed their dissatisfaction on various online platforms. And while some argue that this is not a problem because our consoles are connected to the internet all the time today anyway, others point out that this could mean death to the game if the developer one day decides to shut down servers and not allow offline gaming. And such a risk is by no means in favor of a game that costs 80+ euros.
Three years after the initial announcement, the makers of the Payday 3 game have confirmed that it is still being worked on and have revealed which driver they will use.
The third part of the successful Payday series was announced back in 2017. That was before Starbreeze got into financial trouble, so last year they said they couldn't guarantee that Payday 3 would come out, but if things match up, we might play it in 2022 or 2023.
Now, through the official Twitter profile for Payday 2, they have confirmed that the game is officially in the design phase and that it will use Unreal Engine. It is not known which versions, but it is possible that this is the latest release since they are aimed at the future.
In any case, the release of this engine information is not entirely accidental when it comes to Starbreeze. They had the aforementioned troubles precisely because they were developing their own mover for the game Overkill’s The Walking Dead, which proved to be an expensive, complicated and ultimately a failed project. By using Unreal Engine they have the finished thing at their disposal so we know at least that the technical part should not be a stumbling block for Payday 3.
Japanese journalists published their impressions of the PlayStation 5 console and its controller and revealed several new details that we did not know until now.
I don’t know how cool it is for the Japanese to post new information about the PlayStation 5 on Sundays, of all days, but it happened yesterday. Several Japanese publications were given an exclusive opportunity to hang out with Sony's new console and were the first in the world to share their impressions of it.
Surprisingly, we didn’t learn much that wasn’t already known before. Perhaps the most important information is the one that everyone agrees on - the console is very quiet in operation. Huge, but quiet. This is significant because the PlayStation 4 (Pro) can sometimes sound like a vacuum cleaner on a loudspeaker.
Other new information is related to the Dualsense controller. Namely, it has been confirmed that a small light, ie a lamp, will light up under the touchpad space. It will also be an indicator of the (ordinal) number of controllers according to the number of lights, up to a maximum of four. So if the player is playing alone, one light in the middle will light up on the controller. In case multiple controllers are connected to the console at the same time, in order to play something in the local multiplayer, two lights will light up on the controller for the second controller in a row, three for the third and four for the fourth. Nice thing, especially since the light is subtle and not as conspicuous as on the PlayStation 4 controller.
One big change for the controller has also been confirmed, but it doesn’t involve us but the Japanese. Namely, after 25 years of PlayStation, in Japan, the O key will no longer be used for acceptance in menus, and X for cancellation. With us, of course, it is the other way around, and so it will now be for all markets, to the shock and disbelief of the Japanese.
Journalists and influencers were not allowed to record the interface of the console itself or use the Share button so this still remains unknown - almost a month before the launch of the console. On the examples of the games Godfall and Astro’s Playroom they managed to see the loading speed of the game after the game overs in them and that part justified the hype - it really loads pretty fast. Although - it's just two games and downloads within the game. I'm more interested in launching the game from the menu in 2 seconds - they haven't shown it yet.
