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  Brawlhalla: How to Find Your Legend

  • Created by: Major 0
  • Published: 09-14-2022, 10:42 AM

  Brawlhalla: How to Find Your Legend

  
  How does your experience in a fighting game start? Sure, a beginner should understand some simple mechanics with a basic tutorial. And then, everyone faces an exciting moment of choosing a character. In Brawlhalla it’s not the easiest decision.
  
  The game has 56+ Legends in its roster. With such a choice, it’s easy to get confused. Still, this step is immensely important. With the right character, you enjoy the fighting matches more and get overall better results. The difficulty...

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  EA Announces Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-13-2022, 05:01 PM
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  EA Announces Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat

  EA AntiCheat will launch with FIFA 23.
  
  Electronic Arts just announced their own anti-cheat solution. Starting with the PC release of FIFA 23, EA will include their kernel-level anti-cheat called EA AntiCheat (EAAC). This is an anti-cheat that EA has developed in house through the company's Game Security & Anti-Cheat team.
  
  EA did provide a brief FAQ as part of today's announcement. In short, EA says that EAAC will not be implemented into all of their games. They are...

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  Capcom Reveals Cloud Versions of Recent Resident Evil Titles for Switch

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-13-2022, 04:22 PM
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  Capcom Reveals Cloud Versions of Recent Resident Evil Titles for Switch

  Get scared through the power of the cloud.
  
  During today's Nintendo Direct, Capcom revealed cloud versions for four recent Resident Evil titles. The first will be Resident Evil Village Cloud and it will vape cloud its way onto the Switch on October 28, 2022. The Winters' Expansion will be out on December 2, 2022 for Switch.
  
  After Village will be cloud releases for Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7 biohazard. Those games are still in development for the...

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  EA Teams Up with Koei Tecmo for New Hunting Game

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 06:56 PM
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  EA Teams Up with Koei Tecmo for New Hunting Game

  It will be a hunting game set in a fantasy feudal Japan.
  
  Electronic Arts and Koei Tecmo announced a partnership that will see the latter creating "the next great hunting game" for the former. Koei Tecmo's Omega Force studio will lead development of this new game and it will be published under the EA Originals label.
  
  Omega Force is the same team behind the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors games. All we know about this new game is that it will involve hunting...

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  Bonnie Ross Leaves 343 Industries After 15 Years

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 06:37 PM
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  Bonnie Ross Leaves 343 Industries After 15 Years

  Ross will be replaced by Pierre Hintze as the new studio lead.
  
  Bonnie Ross announced her retirement today, citing "a family medical issue" as the main reason for her departure. Ross has been the lead at 343 Industries and the Halo franchise for the past 15 years, having worked at Microsoft and Xbox for 28 years.
  
  In her Twitter post, Ross says she originally intended to leave following the Winter update's release for Halo Infinite. She also says that she is "incredibly...

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  Ubisoft Devs Don't Want to Work on Assassin's Creed Codename Red Due to Lead's Abuse Allegations

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 06:21 PM
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  Ubisoft Devs Don't Want to Work on Assassin's Creed Codename Red Due to Lead's Abuse Allegations

  And now for more bad news about Ubisoft.
  
  Ubisoft recently revealed a bunch of new Assassin's Creed games they are working on for the foreseeable future. One of those games is called "Codename Red" and it is an Assassin's Creed game that fans have been begging for, for several years now. It's set to take place in Japan and you're going to play as a cool ninja. Sounds great!... There's just a bit of an issue.
  
  It seems as though several Ubisoft developers do not...

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  NewsBits: Ubisoft Forward 2022 Edition

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 05:52 PM
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  NewsBits: Ubisoft Forward 2022 Edition

  Another showcase means it's time for a new dose of NewsBits.
  
  What's that smell? It's kind of musky with a hint of gamer sweat. That's right, it's a NewsBits. Today's latest NewsBits is all about that Ubisoft Forward stream that took place over the past weekend. Ubisoft showed off a bunch of games that are either getting fresh content or are entirely new.
  
  We already offered up a look at all of the Assassin's Creed stuff that Ubisoft is working on, so let's now take a look...

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  Ubisoft Says Assassin's Creed Mirage Won't Have Gambling or Loot Boxes

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 04:17 PM
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  Ubisoft Says Assassin's Creed Mirage Won't Have Gambling or Loot Boxes

  The 18+ Adults Only rating was allegedly a mistake.
  
  This past weekend, Ubisoft held their latest Ubisoft Forward stream. During the stream, the company showed off some new updates and upcoming titles like Just Dance, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Skull and Bones, Riders' Republic, various bits about The Division, Mythic Quest Season 3, various mobile games, and more. We will have a separate post about those titles, and more, going up shortly.
  
  By far, the largest portion...

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  Nintendo Direct Announced for September 13

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-12-2022, 01:53 PM
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  Nintendo Direct Announced for September 13

  40 minutes of content is planned for tomorrow's event.
  
  Nintendo announces that a new Nintendo Direct will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13. The announcement, made through Twitter, says that the Direct will begin at 10AM (ET) and will feature "40 minutes of information" that will be "mostly" focused on new Switch games that are slated to release this Winter.
  
  The Direct will be held through Nintendo's YouTube channel (also embedded below)....

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  Everything Shown at the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase 2022

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-09-2022, 04:47 PM
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  Everything Shown at the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase 2022

  A show so underwhelming, no single announcement is worthy of its own post.
  
  If you missed out on the first-ever Disney and Marvel Games Showcase at D23 2022, you really didn't miss much of anything. I mean it. That show was boring. We were given some updated looks at already announced games, some mobile stuff, a new visual novel Tron game, and some early mockups for a game that is so far away from being released it doesn't even have a title yet.
  
  Let's start things off with...

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  RGG Summit Stream Announced by Sega

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-09-2022, 03:07 PM
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  RGG Summit Stream Announced by Sega

  We may get our first official look at Yakuza 8.
  
  Sega announces that Yakuza series developer, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, will host its RGG Summit stream on September 14. This stream may be the first time we get an official look at Yakuza 8 after a sneak peek was provided by an MMA fighter in July.
  
  The stream is set to take place at 12PM (ET) on September 14. While hopes are high that an official reveal of Yakuza 8 will be provided, neither Sega nor Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have...

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  Ubisoft Begins Multi-Year Plan to Diversify Studios

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-09-2022, 01:56 PM
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  Ubisoft Begins Multi-Year Plan to Diversify Studios

  The company has launched a 5-year plan to improve diversity.
  
  Ubisoft says, via a new blog post, how they are planning to improve their workplace culture. One of the ways in which they hope to get this done is through a five-year plan that they call Project Rise.
  
  The production studio says that they are looking to diversify their staff by increasing the number of employees coming from different backgrounds. In particular, Ubisoft says they will focus on gender equality,...

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  Cyberpunk 2077 Getting 'Complete Overhaul' to Police System

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-08-2022, 06:24 PM
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  Cyberpunk 2077 Getting 'Complete Overhaul' to Police System

  Finally!
  
  There have been some rather significant reveals and releases this week for Cyberpunk 2077. First was the release of Patch 1.6 (Edgerunners) update for Cyberpunk 2077, which added in new content based off of the upcoming Netflix animated show. Then we got our first look at the Phantom Liberty expansion coming next year. After that, we learned that new content support for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Cyberpunk were coming to an end.
  
  Today, we see word...

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  AGDQ 2023 Goes Digital Only Because Florida is an Anti-Trans Hellhole

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-08-2022, 05:30 PM
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  AGDQ 2023 Goes Digital Only Because Florida is an Anti-Trans Hellhole

  It's Florida vs Texas in a race to the bottom.
  
  The speedrunning charity marathon, Games Done Quick, says that their next major event will be online-only. The organizers for Games Done Quick say that Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2023 will not be held as an in-person event in Florida as originally planned. The main reasons for this move to being online are two-fold: Florida's "continued disregard for COVID-19's dangers and an increased aggression towards LGBTQ+ individuals."...

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  AMD Announces FSR 2.1 with Fixes for Ghosting

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 09-08-2022, 04:31 PM
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  AMD Announces FSR 2.1 with Fixes for Ghosting

  FSR 2.1 is already implemented in Farming Simulator 2022.
  
  Earlier this year, AMD announced the release of their upscaling technology FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2). This technology allows for PC users with either AMD or Nvidia GPUs to make use of the upscaling technology that promises to deliver better performance with minimal quality loss when compared to playing games at native resolutions.
  
  As of today, AMD says that there are 45 games that either already have...

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