Some Need for Speed remaster will be announced on Monday

 The countdown has begun until the announcement of the new Need for Speed. Which could be some old Need for Speed ​​in a new guise.

Yesterday, the official Need for Speed ​​profile on Twitter launched a campaign announcing the announcement of a new game. The pictures from the NFS Heat highlighted the number 510 and then it turned out that the countdown started on the official website of Electronic Arts until the date of October 5, when the announcement of the new NFS was apparently scheduled.

With the proviso that it will probably not be a new Need for Speed ​​but a remaster of an older one. It is already widely rumored that the remaster will receive the 2010 NFS Hot Pursuit, which is a kind of remake of the 1998 NFS 3: Hot Pursuit game, so this announcement is to be expected. 5-10 is also the police code for vehicles that exceed the allowed speed, so it makes sense to use it like this in the announcement of the remaster, where the focus is on speed and the police.

According to unofficial information, the Hot Pursuit remaster is being developed by the same team that made Burnout Paradise Remastered. The game is in development for PS4, XBO and Nintendo Switch, and possibly for PC. It should come out on November 13 this year.

James Bond has no time for the corona, postponed to 2021

 Universal has decided to move the premiere of a new James Bond film, No Time To Die, to 2021 for the second time.

No Time To Die, the 25th film in the James Bond series, was among the first major projects to postpone its premiere in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. At the time, the film was somewhat optimistically postponed to November 12, but the situation with the pandemic has not calmed down in the meantime - moreover, it is even worse than before. It was therefore decided that No Time To Die would still have its premiere.

More precisely, it will appear in cinemas on April 2, 2021, almost a year later than originally planned. And although the delay will probably in some ways prevent the film from making more money, with this date it will share the weekend with another big hit - the ninth Fast & Furious. It will be interesting to see with what results Bond will come out of that race.

The Rogue Company shooter became free to play

 The new shooter of the Paladins creators is now in open beta testing, which means that all interested players can play it for free.

For two months, the Rogue Company shooter has been in closed testing for a fee, and as of yesterday, it has opened its doors to all interested players. So, Rogue Company can now be played for free on the PC (Epic Games Store) PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch console. The game contains microtransactions, but they are related exclusively to cosmetic items.

By entering the open beta, the game got a new map called Lockdown and an additional Rogue class in the character of Dahlia. This should be just the beginning for Rogue Company, but it remains to be seen how long the game will actually last in a crowded market. So far, they say it has been played by about two million players. If nothing else, it certainly has the advantage of having shared multiplayer and advanced among all available platforms.

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit brings racing to the living room

 One of the more original games this year will be Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit which is played using the Nintendo Switch console screen, but actually takes place directly on the ground of the room in which it is played.

Nintendo will launch a new Mario Kart in mid-October, but it's not exactly the Mario Kart you'd expect. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is partly a video game and partly a remote-controlled physical car race. The game uses augmented reality technology and comes in a package with one card and four passes that form a track.

Namely, the player places four passages in an arbitrary place and designs different types of tracks by driving cars through them. As the ride takes place in real space, Nintendo recommends that the space be at least 3 × 3.6 meters. Once the track is designed, Maria or Luigi are joined by virtual opponents and the race can begin. The rules of the competition are the same as in the classic Mario Card, so throwing bananas is not forbidden - as long as they are virtual, not real banana peels.

The game itself will have a Grand Prix mode with eight cups and 24 different races. During the race, it is important to collect coins to upgrade the vehicle, and avoid virtually created obstacles. In addition to the Grand Prix, Mario Kart Live brings Custom Race mode, Time Trials and Mirror Mode in which all Grand Prix races are driven in the opposite direction.

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit will be sold in two versions - with Mario card or Luigi card, from October 16 this year, at a price of 99.99 euros for one package.

The release of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has been postponed

 We will play the eighth big expansion of World of Warcraft in 2020, just not in the tenth month as previously promised by Blizzard.

The team from Blizzard said that the eighth expansion for World of Warcraft, called Shadowlands, needs a little more time "in the oven" than planned. Therefore, the previously announced release date, which was October 27, is no longer valid. The release of the expansion has been postponed - it is not yet known for what date, but it is still planned for 2020.

There are two main "culprits" for this delay. The now well-known excuse is the coronavirus pandemic, or the slow work of Blizzard employees at home. Another reason lies in the fact that Shadowlands needs balancing in the context of endgame activity. But the campaign is complete, the zones have been designed so preparations for the expansion will already begin in the form of a so-called pre-patch that will be distributed to all players from the 13th of this month.

From next Tuesday, all Apex Legends players will be able to play together on different platforms

 The promised support for cross-platform gaming in Apex Legends comes next Tuesday, but that doesn’t include shared advancements across all platforms.

From October 6, Apex Legends will have shared multiplayer on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms. Cross-play will be turned on in Apex by default, but players will be able to turn it off if for some reason they don’t want to play against players from the other two platforms, or team up with them. Each player will have an icon indicating on which platform he is playing the game.

It is important to note that players who play Apex Legends on a PC using a mouse and keyboard will generally not be connected along with players on the gamepad. However, if you manually assemble a team, i.e. you invite someone to your team who plays with a mouse-keyboard combination, then your team will automatically connect to matches where everyone is playing with a mouse and keyboard.

Respawn Entertainment notes that cross-play support does not mean cross-progression support. That is, although everyone can now play together, it does not mean that you can transfer the progress made on the PC to the console or vice versa. That will still have to wait.

By the way, in addition to cross-play in Apex Legends comes a new limited mode called Flashpoint in which there are no items to treat but players restore energy in massive zones on the map. In addition, the circle is constantly decreasing in this mode.

Spider-Man: Remastered on the PS5 has fewer effects than on the PS4 to be able to go at 60 fps

 Spider-Man: Remastered brings several graphics improvements, but if you play it in the so-called. Performance mode, in some respects will look weaker than on the PS4 console.

Remember when the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man raised the alarm that some puddles of the game weren’t as pronounced as in the gameplay shown at E3? That’s nothing compared to the controversy surrounding Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. After it was revealed that it will not be possible to buy it any other way than for 80 euros, and that the recorded positions from the original will not work in the remaster, the news of the change of actor Peter Parker arrived, and now a direct comparison of graphics.

As gameplay from the so-called Performance mode was released yesterday, at 60 frames per second, graphic detectives went to make comparisons and concluded that Spider-Man sacrificed some details and effects visible in the PlayStation 4 version of the game for a smooth 60 frames per second. Pro. In particular, these are some of the shades and textures that the PS5 version omits to keep the performance more fluid.

And while it's a bit of a disappointment, especially if we keep in mind the price of 80 euros, the support for raytracing effects that the remaster brings is still more visible and impressive than the absence of some details from the PS4 version. In addition, we've only seen a mode that favors faster performance with less image blur, which doesn't mean the remaster in 30 fps mode won't have even more detail and - God forbid - significantly more puddles. Because there is no next-gene without puddles.

Unheard of: Fans of Assassin’s Creed think Ubisoft is recycling its games

 The appearance of one character in the new Assassin’s Creed game has prompted fans of the series to discuss recycling models and materials in Ubisoft games.

Up left is Kassandra, the heroine of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - you probably already know her. To the left is Randi, a member of the Vikings in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The two are not related and are separated by several centuries, but for some reason the women wear identical hairstyles, which bothered some fans, so on Twitter and Reddit they accuse the Ubisoft Montreal team of laziness.

Ubisoft did not comment on the accusations of "copy-paste Kassandra", but some fans defended it, claiming that it was possible that the similarity was not accidental but intentional and that Kassandra may have reincarnated in the Viking era. Which wouldn’t actually be weird because after all, it’s a series where nothing is true and everything is allowed.

But chances are this is neither the first nor the last time the Ubisoft team has used the materials and models they have used in previous games. In fact, it’s not at all strange that recycling happens within the same series when we’ve seen several different Ubisoft series borrow ideas from each other.