Epic Games fears that Apple will destroy their Unreal Engine

Epic Games claims that the consequences of Apple's policy towards Fortnite will be felt by other manufacturers who develop mobile games on Unreal Engine.

Fortnite has been removed from Apple's App Store and with this move, iOS users themselves are at a loss because the future of that game on that platform is uncertain. But, as they are suing the court from Epic Games, the whole situation is uncertain with all the games for iOS and Mac that use Epic's Unreal Engine. And there are a lot of them.

Namely, according to Epic, Apple will deny them access to development tools for iOS and Mac operating systems on the 28th of this month. For now, there would be no consequences, but as soon as these systems undergo a slightly larger upgrade, there is a fear that Unreal Engine will no longer be compatible with these systems. And therefore not a bunch of games for Apple devices.

In Epic Games, they say that Apple is taking revenge on them, which will indirectly force developers not to use Unreal Engine, but some other driver. This is an additional argument in the lawsuit that the Apple team is behaving oppressively, and they are certainly trying to attract developers who use Unreal Engine in their games.

For now, it is unlikely that this multi-billion dollar dispute between the two companies will be resolved in the near future.

Hitman is shutting down multiplayer servers, but there will be new modes as well

IO Interactive has revealed what awaits us in Hitman 3 in terms of game modes. At the same time, the shutdown of Hitman's multiplayer was announced.

Hitman 2 has for the first time introduced competitive multiplayer in the Hitman series through so-called Ghost Mode. In the same, two players could compete in eliminating targets and sabotage each other's work. The mod was innovative, but it doesn't seem to have met with much interest from players. It has therefore been announced that the servers for Ghost Mode will be shut down on the 31st of this month. This means that Ghost Mode will not be in Hitman 3 either.

Fortunately, all other mods are still in the plans for Hitman 3. In addition to the main campaign, the Elusive Targets mode will return, with some novelties that we will learn more about later in the year. There will also be an Escalations mode with additional weight settings, such as restrictions on disguise, etc. The Contracts mode will still be the same, with its own set of rules and tasks that can be shared among players and scored on the top ladder.

Finally, Sniper Assassin mode will be played again, but only in single-player mode. Servers for cooperative gaming of the same mode in Hitman 2 will be shut down before the release of Hitman 3.

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends brings cooperative samurai this fall

Samurai adventures on Tsushima will continue this fall with the possibility of cooperative playing for two or four samurai while Jin Sakai will take a well-deserved vacation.

Like Jin Sakai when he surprises his opponent from an ambush, so we received the announcement for Ghost of Tsushima: Legends - a free upgrade that will expand this samurai hit with cooperative multiplayer. When exactly? Nothing is known more precisely than the information that it should be sometime during the fall.

Legends will thus retire Jin and present four legendary samurai who will differ by class: Samurai, Hunter, Ronin and Assassin. Cooperative play will be for two or four players with the emphasis on fighting and action instead of exploring the open world.

The two legends will be able to go through a series of cooperative missions together with an action, each of which will be more difficult, and will be based on the fights from the singleplayer campaign with the addition of a touch of magic. On the other hand, the four legends will have to survive together waves of opponents, including supernatural enemies called Oni.

Also, after the upgrade comes out, raids are planned that will take the players into a whole new environment so that the new ones can challenge brutal and terrifying enemies. It should also be noted that playing Legends will require a PS Plus with the fact that we have to be patient for more details about the classes and other content that come a little later.

No joke, Fortnite will be available for PS5 and XSX for 30 euros

Fortnite will get another physical release called Fortnite: The Last Laugh Bundle, this time for both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles.

Objectively speaking, it makes no sense to own Fortnite on an optical disc, i.e. in a box. It’s a game that is upgraded every now and then and what’s on disk can’t work anyway without downloading updates from the internet. The only value of a physical release is that it stands prominently on a shelf. A single edition could serve this purpose as well. But Fortnite has several and will have another by the end of the year.

After the Deep Freeze release, the following will be called Fortnite: The Last Laugh Bundle and will have characters from the DC universe on the cover: the Joker and Poison Ivy, along with Midas Rex. And those characters in that release will be able to be used within the game itself, with their specific equipment.

The Last Laugh package will cost 30 euros, and it also includes 1000 V-Bucks. It will be available from November 17 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, but for the first time on new consoles - PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Well, it can not be said that someone is denied the opportunity to otherwise free Fortnite be the first game he buys for the new generation of consoles.

By the way, this will be the first physical release of Fortnite since the game came out of beta or early access - and it happened recently. All the physical releases that came earlier were actually sold as "unfinished games".

We will be able to try out NBA 2K21 next week

2K Sports announced that NBA 2K21 will get a demo version for existing platforms, as early as next Monday.

Korona has not disrupted virtual sports, so simulations of basketball, football, golf, hockey and other sports arrive on a regular schedule. This means that demo versions will arrive soon, and NBA 2K21 will be among the first to demonstrate its new season. Demo of this game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch will be available from August 24, ie from next Monday.

For some reason, the demo of the PC version is not mentioned, which is suspicious because the PC version will be in the range of the one for PS4 and XBO. Therefore, in this demo version, we will not get a display of a completely new generation of NBA 2K series, which will be reserved for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, at a price of 70 euros.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered comes out next Friday the 13th.

 

The 2010 Remaster Need for Speed: Hot Pursuita, which has not yet been officially confirmed, has a release date - also unconfirmed.

About two months ago, we heard a rumor that Electronic Arts would launch a 2010 remaster of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. This has not yet been officially confirmed, but the release date has already leaked through the British Amazon: November 13, 2020. This information has been removed more or less quickly, which also gives a kind of confirmation to the rumor itself.

It would make sense for NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered to be launched in the eleventh month. First of all, games from the Need for Speed series generally always come out in that period - of the last seven editions, only the mobile NFS No Limits was not launched in November. Secondly, Electronic Arts has nothing planned for the 11th month at the moment, and that is atypical for that company, especially in the month when we expect the arrival of new consoles.

Call of Duty: Warzone has glitch from nightmares, repairs are underway

Take a look at some weird graphics bugs happening to some Call of Duty: Warzone players and be warned - it could happen to you too because there is no solution yet.

Call of Duty: Warzone is currently suffering from insane graphic glitch that turns normal weapons into monster structures from nightmares. This doesn’t show up every time and to everyone, but the game is very popular so many players have already shared footage on the internet showing how their weapons turn into those weird polygonal horrors that take up half the screen.

The whole thing reminds me of the young days of overclocking the graphics card core - that's exactly what games looked like when I overdid it.

Call of Duty: Warzone is currently suffering from insane graphic glitch that turns normal weapons into monster structures from nightmares. This doesn’t show up every time and to everyone, but the game is very popular so many players have already shared footage on the internet showing how their weapons turn into those weird polygonal horrors that take up half the screen.

Fortnite can no longer be downloaded on mobile phones

Epic Games has started a war with Apple and Google, and they have decided to kick the popular Fortnite out of their app stores.

As of last night, Fortnite can no longer be downloaded in Android and iOS versions via the official Play Store and AppStore stores. If you already have it installed on your mobile phones, it doesn't mean anything to you until the new season comes, but all new installations have been temporarily suspended. We say temporary, but the real question is who will seek justice in this situation - and when.

Namely, the downloads and installations of Fortnite for mobile phones were not stopped by the game manufacturer, Epic Games, but by Google and Apple. They did so after Epic Games defiantly decided to insert a workaround to sell content within Fortnite, without the approval of Google and Apple.

The reason they did this is that Google and Apple collect 30% of the amount of each transaction in all apps located on the Play Store and AppStore. Epic Games, for its part, has decided to attract a mass of users of the popular Fortnite by making content 30% cheaper for customers by selling content directly. But Google and Apple by no means want to distribute apps from which they don’t take a commission, so Fortnite was very quickly removed from the distribution.

In Epic Games, they can afford such acrobatics because they have one of the most popular games in the world. But from Apple’s perspective, they aren’t important enough to be given certain benefits, such as paying a smaller commission, as was done in the case of Amazon.

Epic Games responded to these moves by Google and Apple by filing lawsuits, calling those companies anti-consumer and monopolistic practices. The #FreeFortnite campaign has also been launched, in which Epic Games calls on Fortnite players to fight Google and Apple. Not coincidentally, they promote it with a parody of an advertisement by which Apple once promoted its product.