Month: August 2020

Microsoft has announced a new series of “Designed for Xbox” mobile gaming controllers compatible with its cloud streaming service xCloud. These controllers are available for pre-order today from either the Microsoft Store or other retailers worldwide.

The Razer Kishi Controller

The first is the $100 Razer Kishi, a compact, collapsible controller compatible with “most Android smartphones.” It features a dedicated Xbox button, an array of face and bumper buttons, clickable analog sticks, a D-pad, and a low-latency USB-C connection. The Razer Kishi also packages pass-through charging so you can play and charge simultaneously. The “Designed for Xbox” version of this controller includes a 14-day free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate trial. The Razer Kishi controller is available for purchase right now.

PowerA’s Bluetooth Controllers

PowerA has also partnered with Microsoft for the “Designed for Xbox” series, introducing the new MOGA XP5-X Plus Bluetooth Controller. This $70 accessory looks just like an Xbox One controller and comes equipped with Bluetooth-enabled technology, a detachable phone clip, and mappable “Advanced Gaming Buttons,” as well as an integrated 3000mAh rechargeable Power Bank. The MOGA XP5-X Plus Bluetooth Controller will be available on September 15, the same day xCloud is set to launch. xCloud will also be available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers on Android starting September 15.

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Microsoft recently announced its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription will begin including xCloud streaming integration. Now the company has given more details, including a release date and some of the lineup we can expect. You’ll be able to stream onto your Android devices starting September 15–iOS support won’t be available right at launch.

An Xbox Wire post from corporate VP Kareem Choudhry states that Game Pass Ultimate members will get streaming access to more than 100 games. The company hasn’t announced a full list but has shared more than 30 of the games that will compose the initial streaming lineup. Those include some big names like Gears 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and the recently launched Grounded. You can check out all the announced games so far below.

This is being called a beta launch across 22 countries, to ensure stability as it scales up from there. Those markets include several countries in North America and Europe, as well as South Korea. You can check out the list of supported markets below as well.

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Wonder Woman 1984 may be coming soon (or at least, we think it is), but director Patty Jenkins is already looking ahead to a third film. In an interview with German magazine Geek, quoted by Twitter account @DCMovieNews2, Jenkins has said that three Wonder Woman films may be it for her.

“WW84 gave me a chance to do a lot of things that I couldn’t accommodate in the first movie,” Jenkins told Geek. “I was so happy to tell the Wonder Woman origin story. It was almost her birth, but we really haven’t seen what she is capable of. It is exciting for me to show her at the peak of her strength. But it is also very important that she fights an internal struggle: she is a Goddess and tries to help humanity. She is not only someone who fights evil, she tries to show bad people how to improve. It’s an interesting dilemma.”

While nothing is set in stone yet about a third movie, it’s heartening for Wonder Woman fans to hear Jenkins has a strong plan for the character’s arc across the trilogy.

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Diablo Immortal, the mobile revealed at BlizzCon 2018 to considerable controversy, has debuted some new footage. The new trailer shows off six of the game’s classes, and how the combat in this spin-off is shaping up.

We get a quick look at the Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer, and Wizard classes, which seem likely to return in this game.

The new footage, which was uploaded to the Chinese Diablo Immortal website, is direct from Chinese gaming convention ChinaJoy. As pointed out by Polygon, it also shows off Baal, the villain from Diablo II. It seems like they will be returning.

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On July 15, a Twitter hack targeting some of the platform’s most high-profile users caused chaos on the site, with Twitter temporarily restricting verified users from posting at all. The hack had users like Bill Gates, Kanye West, and Obama tweeting out a bitcoin scam to millions of followers.

Now, a 17-year-old Florida teenager has been arrested over the hack, and a New York Times profile has delved into his history of hacks and online scams. Friends told the New York Times that Graham Ivan Clark started playing Minecraft at age 10 to escape an unhappy home life, and soon became adept at scamming other players.

Like many young gamers, Clark dabbled with YouTube, building an audience playing Minecraft in PVP-oriented servers. He reportedly used the username Open, or OpenHCF. The Times report tracked down a number of players who had been scammed by someone with the same username–usually offering to sell a username or a rare cape and then blocking the user once money had been sent.

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Bloomberg says a PlayStation official – who remained anonymous, as the plan isn’t public – explained that Sony “tentatively” plans to make its next announcement in August.

It’s not clear when that announcement will take place, nor what it will be. That said, it feels likely that the announcement would centre around the console’s price and release date, which the remain the major unknowns around PS5 (and its competitor Xbox Series X).

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That would fit into Sony’s recent statement saying preorders for the console won’t come as a surprise – meaning it’s feasible that this next announcement will serve as the early warning for preorders opening.

Worldwide Head of Marketing Eric Lempel previously said “I think it’s safe to say…we’ll let you know when preorder will happen. It’s not going to happen with a minute’s notice. We’re going to at some point let you know when you can preorder PlayStation 5. So, please, don’t feel like you have to go run out and line up anywhere until you receive official notice on how that will work.”

When preorders do arrive, it seems as though Sony may be limiting orders to one per household. Here’s everything we know about PS5 preorders right now.

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Whatever this announcement is, we know it won’t be a part of August 6’s State of Play, which will focus on upcoming third-party published PS4 and PS VR games, with check-ins on PS5 games announced at the PS5 reveal showcase, but will feature “no big PS5 announcements.”

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