News | New Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch fixes several bugs
Ubisoft released a new patch for Assassin's Creed Valhalla yesterday.
Patch 1.10 fixes several bugs in the game. There were a number of bugs that prevented quests from being completed, for example, because an NPC did not go where it should go.
Furthermore, the balance of the game has also been adjusted. The strength of enemies can now be up to 51 points below that of the player, and when one is stronger than bosses in the game, the power of bosses is adjusted to the level of the player. Finally, the patch already adds support for the upcoming Settlement expansion and an upcoming limited Christmas event called Yule Season. Details on these elements have yet to be announced. Ubisoft has summarized the content of the patch on its website.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is set in the ninth century and features Norway and England as playable locations. Valhalla introduces new features, including the ability to build your own settlements and gain power and influence. Also, players can now use a different weapon in each hand. It is also possible to play as a female character, just like in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The game is out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. A free upgrade for Xbox Series X, Series S and PlayStation 5 is also available.
News | Dogs are coming to Sea of Thieves
An upcoming update to Sea of Thieves will add dogs to the game.
The update is due for release in September and will allow players to take dogs as pets. Like previous pets such as cats, parrots and monkeys, players can give attention to dogs by, for example, petting them.
Sea of Thieves is from Rare, the makers of games like Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie and Kinect Sports and has been available for several years. In the game, players form a pirate crew together with friends or strangers. You have to work together to pilot a pirate ship, search islands for treasure and fend off other pirates and monsters.
đ¶ Woof woof! Just announced at #gamescom2020, good boys and girls of various breeds will be able to join you on the Sea of Thieves for scritches and hugs with our next content update! Please act surprised. pic.twitter.com/ZGOhBRkYBh
— Sea of Thieves (@SeaOfThieves) August 28, 2020
Sea of Thieves is available on Xbox One and PC.
News | Cyberpunk 2077 gets free downloadable content
Upon release, free downloadable content will come to the highly anticipated action RPG Cyberpunk 2077.
CD Projekt Red has announced this via the game’s official Twitter channel. A fan there asked if Cyberpunk 2077, like The Witcher 3, will get free downloadable content. CD Projekt responded with a humorous gif that answers the question positively.
More details are not yet available on the free dlc. The Witcher 3 has received a total of sixteen free expansions, including new clothing and missions. The game also received two paid expansions with a lot of new missions, areas and content.
@CyberpunkGame Will the game have Free dlc like your big brother @witchergame?
— JohanH (@NachoFireX) August 22, 2020
The game will be released on November 19 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game will be playable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X via backward compatibility when consoles launch, but details of a next-gen update will follow later.
Column | Exclusive deals on consoles makes perfect sense
Exclusive content in multiplatform games is in serious controversy this week. The superhero Spider-Man is only coming to the PS4 and PS5 versions of Marvel's Avengers. Companies try to attract consumers with these kinds of deals, but it backfires for fanatic gamers. Well, at first glance.
In addition to the fact that players will be able to hang around with Spider-Man sometime after the release of Marvel’s Avengers only on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, there is apparently other exclusive content for the game coming to those systems. For example, exclusive challenges will come to the PlayStation versions of the game, as well as all kinds of cosmetic items. Although PC, Xbox and PlayStation gamers pay the same amount of money for the game, the latter will soon be able to get more value from their purchase.
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Marvelâs Avengers is now under attack, many gamers are screaming murder and fire but of course it’s by no means the only game where this is happening. Each generation, Activision chooses a platform holder who will receive exclusive marketing rights for Call of Duty. That platform will also receive beta and downloadable content for the games much earlier. This generation draws the longest straw from Sony, the previous generation was Microsoft. Exclusive content for Warzone on PlayStation 4 was also announced this week, but there was significantly less fuss about it.
If you think that only Sony is guilty of this, then you are very wrong. Microsoft is just as involved, even though they have been carefully trying to build a reputation as a consumer-friendly company in recent years. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and The Medium, for example, are temporarily exclusively coming to Xbox Series X. You can bet that these games would also have appeared on PlayStation 5 if Microsoft hadn’t thrown a bag of buck on the table. More similar to the Spider-Man debacle is the upcoming multiplayer update for Tetris Effect, which should not be released on Sony’s consoles until next year. Microsoft does not wash its hands in innocence.
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And it is not crazy either: bringing temporarily exclusive content to your platform is a proven way to make your system more attractive to the consumer. Is your favorite series Call of Duty? Chances are you played the series on the PlayStation 4 this generation. Love Marvel and Spider-Man in particular? Then you want to buy Marvel’s Avengers on a Sony console. If the PC-like shooters and horror games that initially only appear on Xbox Series X appeal to you, it will be tempting to buy Microsoft’s new system.
These exclusive deals are also a nice extra for developers of games. The gaming industry is a killer and it remains to be seen how well or badly your game sells. If a company like Microsoft or Sony already pays out part of the development costs in advance in order to arrange temporary exclusivity, the chances are that your studio will continue to exist in the coming years. That means making a new game and – more importantly – making money so you can feed your family and pay off your mortgage. It will be a shock to those developers that a small group of gamers complain about it on a forum – getting a living is more important!
As mentioned, we can scream murder and fire on the internet, but apparently we don’t mind too much. We really talk with our money. If those exclusive deals hadn’t worked, or even hurt the sale of a game, they’d long since died out. But it works, so they persist. It’s not rocket science.
Is there a solution, a way to get rid of those annoying exclusive deals? Not really. We could all agree globally to penalize publishers for this type of practice and stop buying the games where this happens. However, not only is it extremely unlikely that we will get anyone to boycott a game, we also punish many developers who have nothing to do with the closed deal and who have poured blood, sweat and tears into a game for years.
So we have to learn to live with it. If possible, you have all the platforms in house, but otherwise I hope the game you are looking forward to will appear completely on your system of your choice. In a perfect world, console farmers like Sony and Microsoft would stop making these kinds of deals on their own. They would realize that the market is big enough for both of them, that the quality of the various games, including of course their internally developed exclusive titles, is such that they no longer need exclusive deals. The company that dares to do this is the really tough one.
News | Microsoft customized Game Pass logo
Microsoft has changed the Xbox Game Pass logo, with the name 'Xbox' being dropped.
On Twitter, the logo has been changed from ‘Xbox Game Pass’ to ‘Game Pass’. As a result, the name of the service is now the same on PC and Xbox consoles. However, the Xbox logo is visible in the Game Pass logo.
The change is in line with Microsoft’s current strategy, with a strong emphasis on Game Pass. Players are free to play Xbox games on both Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC – the platform seems to be of minor importance as long as one takes out a Game Pass subscription.
There have been rumors for a while that Xbox Live Gold will also change or possibly even expire. Whether that means that online gaming will become free on Xbox consoles, or whether it will become part of Game Pass, is not yet known.
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News | Warhammer 40k: Darktide revealed
Warhammer 40k: Darktide was revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase.
The game should be released sometime next year. Darktide is coming to Xbox consoles and PC first, which means the game will likely end up on PlayStation consoles eventually too.
The first person shooter lets players blast into the Warhammer world while scanning the area with a flashlight.
The game, like all other games featured on the Xbox Games Showcase, comes straight to Xbox Game Pass.
News | Xbox Series X logo may have been revealed
Xbox has applied for a trademark for the Xbox Series X logo. It's not yet certain whether this is the official logo.
Microsoft filed a trademark application for the Xbox Series X in mid-April, including a logo for the new console. The logo consists of a stylized X and the word âSeriesâ. Reddit users first discovered the trademark application.
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The application also included a huge list for which this logo could be used, including on game consoles, controllers, posters, bags, mugs and clothing. Microsoft has written down a large amount of products so that they can use the logo for different purposes. This logo may appear on the packaging of the next-gen Xbox. However, it is not certain that this will be the final logo. Companies often submit multiple versions of logos that are not used.
News | Next-gen Xbox console is called Xbox Series X
During The Game Awards, Microsoft showed its new console called Xbox Series X. A new game was also shown for the console.
The console was previously known as Project Scarlett. Phil Spencer from Xbox was present on stage to say that the console will be released around the holidays of 2020.
Then a new game for the console was shown, called Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. The images were produced entirely with Series X hardware. The game is just like the original developed by Ninja Theory, now part of Microsoft.
News | Use the Creature Core system in Darksiders Genesis
THQ Nordic has released a new trailer for Darksiders Genesis which focuses on combat.
Darksiders Genesis is a spin-off in the Darksiders series and can be compared to Diablo, which plays from a top down perspective. According to the publisher, the game includes “intense combat, exploration, puzzles, epic boss fights and serpent holes from heaven to earth. In Genesis they play as Strife, a new Horseman of the Apocalypse. This character must save humanity from the “inevitable destruction” by saving Lucifer.
Darksiders Genesis will be released on December 5 for PC and Google Stages, and on February 14, 2020 for consoles.
News | Life is Strange studio Dontnod announces Tell Me Why
Dontnod Entertainment has announced their new game Tell Me Why during the Inside Xbox live stream tonight.
The adventure game from the studio behind Life is Strange revolves around twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan who use their band to solve the mysteries surrounding a complex childhood. During the game, players discover the different memories of the twins.
Tell Me Why will be released in the summer of 2020 on PC (via Windows 10 and Steam) and Xbox One. The game also comes to Xbox Game Pass.