Rainbow Six Siege got a new mod, robots took over the game

The upcoming time-limited event arrives in the game and will remain in it for most of the eighth month. Futuristic 5v5 fights have become the main theme of fashion in which there is no preparatory phase.

Ubisoft has announced that a new mod is coming to Rainbow Six Siege. M.U.T.E Protocol, as its official name implies, will throw players into the futuristic world of the aforementioned title. The matches will be played on the Tower map, which, like the operatives, will be futuristically rearranged.

This mode will be available from August 4 to 17 and brings several changes compared to the classic game. Just like in the previous mods, there will be no preparation stages here, so the rounds in the matches will start immediately. This means that there is no preparation for attack or defense, but tactics for victory will have to be worked out on the move. Also, human operatives will be replaced by their robotic versions because the action takes place in the future of cyberpunk themes.

The attacker's goal will be to hack a server on a map that defensive players keep. To make things better and more interesting, both teams will have the ability to transform and teleport. At certain moments, the attackers will be able to jump in, that is, turn into their own drones and thus sneak up on their opponents. Defensive players will be able to teleport using cameras to be deployed on the map.

All these changes, related to the appearance of the operatives, their weapons and other things, will be able to be unlocked in a separate form. Cosmetic supplements on selected operatives will be available during the stated time period of the latest Rainbow Six Siege mode.

Sad news: the PS4 controller will not be able to be used for PlayStation 5 games

Sony has released news that future PlayStation 5 owners didn’t want to hear. The current DualShock 4 controller will be semi-functional on the new console.

Sony has just released new information about the compatibility of the PlayStation 4 peripherals on the PlayStation 5 and things are, except for one "little thing", quite positive. In short, all gaming control plugins running on the PS4 will also be supported for the PS5. This includes steering wheels, arcade controllers and the like. All headphones / headsets that can be connected via USB or a 3.5mm slot will also work. The ancient PlayStation 3 era Move controllers will also work.

But there is a rather big "but". Namely, it was revealed that the DualShock 4 controller (this one for PlayStation 4) on PlayStation 5 will only be able to be used for games from PlayStation 4. For PS5 versions of games, only the new DualSense controller will be used.

And it’s a slap in the face to PlayStation fans.

Namely, technically speaking in the context of controls, nothing with DualShock 4 would be impossible in games for the PlayStation 5. If we ignore blowing into the microphone. That is, DualSense has no more keys than DualShock 4, there is no other key or anything like that. In other words, at the hardware level, it would be entirely possible to use it for PlayStation 5 games as well. However, Sony has decided to block this possibility from the software side. Because they want PS5 games to be experienced only with the new vibrations of the DualSense controller.

I say it’s a slap in the face because the official controllers for PlayStation consoles aren’t cheap, and the various tricks with vibrations and triggers won’t have any impact on gameplay. This would make the whole idea of ​​cross-play fall into the water because then it would not make sense for players with PS4 and PS5 consoles to play together if one has an advantage over the other because of the controller. And this is how players are deprived of local multiplayer with PS4 controllers due to some vibrations.

For example, imagine a scenario that you want to play Fifu 21 on a PS5 with a friend who has a PS4. In case you both have a game, you can play it together - each from his own house. But if you want to play it on the new PS5 console, you can only play the PS4 version, because if the PS4 version is upgraded on the PS5 console then you lose the ability to play with DualShock 4.

By comparison, on the Xbox Series X the old controllers will work just like the new one, and the new one will work on the old console.

Among other important information, it is worth mentioning that the PlayStation VR / PlayStation camera will not work with the PlayStation 5 right out of the box. That is, the PSVR and camera will only work with an additional adapter that Sony will share with all PlayStation VR owners. How exactly - is not yet known. I guess we will have to take pictures of our VR devices with fresh newspapers and send them as proof to get the necessary adapter.

Spider-Man will reportedly join the Avengers game, but only on the PlayStation

According to one store, Marvel’s Avengers owners for the PlayStation 4 and 5 will have a special advantage over others.

The British online store Base.com stirred the spirits with the announcement for the game Marvel’s Avengers, which states that the character of Spider-Man will be exclusive for the owners of the PlayStation 4 version. This information was later withdrawn, and neither Sony Interactive Entertainment nor Square Enix have yet announced it. But chances are high that it is true.

Namely, Sony and Square Enix have a marketing agreement for Marvel’s Avengers. For players on PlayStation platforms, this will guarantee some benefits, among which are for now the priority approach to beta testing, ie a longer period of trying out the game. Sony, on the other hand, has a separate deal with Spider-Man with Marvel, which is why Marvel’s excellent 2018 Spider-Man game has yet to end up on platforms other than the PlayStation 4.

In case this rumor is true, Spider-Man will be one of the additional characters in Marvel’s Avengers who will later join the Avengers lineup. Upon release, only Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow and Kamala Khan will be among the playable. They will later be joined by Hawkeye and three other characters.

The Halo collection will be played on the Xbox using a mouse and keyboard

343 Industries has announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will get cross-play support, as well as keyboard and mouse game control on Xbox consoles.

Strange things are happening with the Halo series. It was recently announced that Halo Infinite will have a free multiplayer component, and now 343 Industries promises that older Halo games on Xbox consoles will be able to be played with a mouse and keyboard.

Mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One consoles is nothing new - it has been available since 2018, but on a very small number of games, among which only Warframe stands out. Adding that support to the Halo series would be Microsoft’s first move of its kind.

This will also pave the way for merging multiplayer between PC versions and console versions. Cross-play in the Halo collection will work according to the control method, which means that only those who use the same control scheme will play against PC players who use a mouse and keyboard on consoles.

This support has been announced for 2020, which means that it could very easily be realized on the Xbox Series X console as well. It doesn’t seem to us that Halo Infinite will have the same freedom in controls upon release, but it’s clearly not ruled out that this Microsoft hit could one day be played on the console without a gamepad.

Check out what the career mode in UFC 4 will look like

The EA Sports development studio has demonstrated to us what the main career mode will look like in the upcoming UFC 4 fighting game.

One of the big changes in the upcoming UFC 4 will be that the game unlike the previous parts will not have Ultimate Team mode. EA Sports explained that the team aspect doesn't make much sense in a sport like MMA where each fighter fights individually. That’s why this year they’ve put the focus back on a career mode in which we’ll experience the rise of our fighter from a total amateur to a UFC star.

Along the way, the players will be assisted by coach Davis, with whom all training sessions in the game will be interactive and will have a kind of story. The central part of the career will be a system called Fighter Evolution, which will monitor the progress of the fighter according to the chosen style of fighting (eg boxer, wrestler, jiu-jitsu master, etc.). With the help of so-called Evolution points will be purchased for special moves and upgrades for the character.

The system of relations between fighters, fans and sponsors is also new. Through social platforms we will be able to challenge our rivals, and fighters with whom we have a good relationship we will be able to invite to a sparring match to learn some of their moves. But injuries will need to be looked out for as some will be able to greatly shorten a fighter’s career.

UFC 4 is coming out Aug. 14 for P layStation 4 and Xbox One.

Xbox Game Pass will no longer be "Xbox"

Microsoft will in future call its Xbox Game Pass subscription service only Game Pass to make it easier to have the service available on multiple devices.

The name Xbox has long referred not to a specific console or device brand but to a gaming ecosystem. The Xbox is a gaming device, but also a platform within Windows 10. The Xbox was also a platform label for the Game Pass subscription service, but it seems that it is now becoming a separate thing and will in future be called only the Game Pass in the case of consoles and Game Pass for PC in the case of personal computers.

This small change in the name, however, does not mean that Microsoft totally renounces the Xbox brand as part of the Game Pass because the Xbox logo will still be present next to the Game Pass name. Only no one will read it like an Xbox Game Pass anymore but just a Game Pass. And to be honest - that's what most users have called this subscription service before.

This should also remove potential ambiguities about what the Game Pass represents. Some PC players are still unaware that the (Xbox) Game Pass is available on that platform as well, not just on Xbox consoles. Also, in the future, Game Pass will be available on mobile devices via streaming, so removing the Xbox from the name makes sense.

After all, we all like shorter names. There is a reason why Netflix is ​​just Netflix and not Netflix Movie & TV Streaming Service.

15.5 million photos have already been taken at the Ghost of Tsushima

Sony has shared statistics from the first 10 days of playing Ghost of Tsushime that confirm two things - players love duels and photography.

Ghost of Tsushima is a game where practically anyone can take a beautiful photo. It is not surprising, therefore, that players very often use the built-in Photo Mode of that game, and the statistics from the first five days give us a concrete insight into that. Sucker Punch Productions revealed that by July 28, about 15 and a half million photos had been taken using the game's photo mode.

The activity that is more common in Ghost of Tsushima than photography is samurai duels. There were 156.4 million of them in the first ten days, of which 57.5 million were in 1 vs. 1 format. Players have spent 810 years on horseback so far, played the flute 28 million times and written 14.2 million haiku. The handcuffs were scratched 8.8 million times and 17 million bamboos were cut down.

The fourth season of Tekken 7 has been announced, bringing useful changes

The three-year-old Tekken 7 will experience another season with additional content and at least one new character.

Tekken 7 is now three years old if we count the console version and five years if we count the arcade version. Although it is not a deep age in the tobacco genre, fans were already eagerly awaiting the announcement of the new game. Because if we are guided by previous experience, each generation of consoles had at least two games of the Tekken series, while Tekken 7 was the only example in the era of the eighth generation of consoles.

Today, however, we learn that Tekken 7 intends to be present on the scene for some time to come. Bandai Namco has announced the fourth season of additional content for that game, and it will bring several useful changes and additions. For starters, all fighters will get new attacks making the fights as unpredictable as at the start while everything was new.

Furthermore, Tekken Prowess, a new points system that determines the rank of players, is introduced. The details behind it are not yet known, but it is stated that online multiplayer will be improved, so when finding an opponent, you will now see his percentage of exits from matches, ie the stability of the Internet connection.

Finally, at the end of the video announcing the fourth season, it was indicated that Kunimitsu from the original Tekken could soon join the fighters.