The cooperative shooter Outriders has been postponed to 2021, but there is also good news

 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.

Rambo comes to Mortal Kombat 11 to fight Terminator and Robocop

 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.

The next presentation of Cyberpunk 2077 will focus on vehicles

 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.

Through a series of videos, Ubisoft explains the complicated story of the Assassin’s Creed series

 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 has become black and white

 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.

PC requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War have been announced, but are not final

 

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
• RAM: 16 GB
• HDD: 45 GB

The Xbox Series X and S reportedly feature Wolfenstein, Dishonored and Prey game collections

 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.

Watch Dogs will merge with Assassin’s Creed in a subsequent DLC for the Legion

 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.