With 22 studios under its roof, Microsoft has a lot in the works for its Xbox Series consoles. To help keep track of it all, this video goes over every franchise Xbox Games Studios has cooking in the kitchen.After unveiling and rolling out Ubisoft Connect–the combination of the Ubisoft Club and Uplay services–the company has detailed some of the games that support cross-generational play.
Ubisoft said that For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege feature cross-gen support, meaning anyone who owns these games can play together on the same console family. Cross-gen won’t work if you’re playing on PlayStation 5 and your friend is playing on PC or Xbox One. Ubisoft confirmed that more details on cross-gen play will be revealed “in the near future.”
The company also said that Rainbow Six Siege will support cross-progression between current- and next-gen consoles as long as players are transferring their data between the same console family. It’s possible to carry data over from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series S / Series X but not between PlayStation and Xbox consoles. The same sort of cross-progression support (and restrictions) are also be applied to For Honor.
Newegg is once again hosting its annual Black November sale, which promises Black Friday deals throughout the entire month. This sale is entering its 12th year in a row, but for the first time ever, Newegg is guaranteeing its customers the lowest price with its Black Friday Price Protection promotion. The Black November sale kicks off at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET on November 1 and runs until December, with a special gaming sale running from November 4-8.
Black November starts with a three-day kick-off sale that Newegg says will feature some of its most aggressive deals across PC gaming, smart home, hardware components, and more. After that, we’ll see the debut of Newegg’s Black November Gaming Edition sale, which starts on November 4 and runs through November 8. This sale will focus solely on PC gaming components and storage as well as pre-built gaming PC desktops and gaming laptops.
November 9 marks the start of Newegg’s two-week Black Friday Start Early sale, which will consist of early Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. During this period, new deals will be revealed daily. Finally, Newegg ends the month with its week-long Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which will discount products in all of the categories across its site.
Chappelle’s Show will be hitting Netflix in the US according to a tweet by the streaming platform. Aside from that major headline news, no information on the expected timeline of release for the Comedy Central sketch show’s three seasons has yet been released.
The best news you’ve heard all year: Chappelle’s Show is coming to Netflix US pic.twitter.com/yMOOaf3BDA
— Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) October 30, 2020
Chappelle abruptly and infamously departed the show in 2005 and retreated from the spotlight for a lengthy sabbatical from show business. While he has popped up infrequently in the years since, it’s on Netflix where he has made his presence most steadily and frequently known in recent years–although his re-emergences have typically been something of a surprise like this announcement.
For example, earlier this year, through Netflix and YouTube, Chappelle released 8:46, a stand-up special filmed a mere 12 days after George Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minnesota. Its title refers to the amount of time a Minnesota police officer had his knee on the neck of Floyd before dying. Prior to this year’s special, Chappelle has also released five specials in similar sudden fashions–with 2017’s Equanimity and The Bird Revelation (specials packed with “scorching new material, self-reflection, and tough love” intended as companion pieces) and 2019’s Sticks & Stones (which locks horns with “gun culture, the opioid crisis, and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals”) being among the standouts.
In early October, there were numerous reports that WWE would be taking ownership and control of wrestlers’ Twitch accounts. On October 29, Saraya Knight, also known as Paige, opened up about the situation as others announced they are no longer streaming.
Over the course of an almost 10-hour stream, Saraya spoke out about the situation. PWUnlimited posted numerous clips cut together featuring the WWE superstar–and former wrestler–who is visibly upset with WWE’s control over its contractors’ personal lives. Below is one of the four videos PWUnlimited posted.
Paige on Twitch after finding out while she is live that some in the company have had to suspend their Twitch accounts today. FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/neNlVoyzkf
PART 1 pic.twitter.com/86jFd7niWM— PWUnlimited (@PWUnlimited) October 30, 2020
“I’ve honestly have got to the point. I cannot deal with this company anymore,” Saraya explained during the stream. “I broke my f***ing neck twice for this company… They don’t realize that this community isn’t just about f***ing subs dude. We build such a wonderful community, a wonderful f***ing family where this is an escape for a lot of people, including myself. I can’t wrestle anymore. I was worked so hard in WWE that I can’t wrestle anymore. My neck is f***ed. My whole f***ing dreams got taken away from me, dude, and I had to have something that fulfilled that huge f***ing void that I lost with wrestling…
Burnham and the Discovery crew are reunited and travel to Earth in search of clues about the Federation. Greg and Chastity break down the plot and references from “People of Earth”.IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey sat down with Raffel to discuss Raven Software’s broad history in the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, along with discussions on Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Hexen, Heretic, Soldier of Fortune, and more.
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Soldier of Fortune is a military shooter based on the popular real-world magazine of the same name and was built on the Quake 2 engine. It was perhaps most notable for the GHOUL tech that allowed individual limb dismemberment for the first time in games, a mechanic which would go on to become relatively common in the shooter genre, and even become a central pillar of games like Dead Space. It was also used to create realistic lightsaber damage and limb severing in Raven’s later game, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
Before beginning the discussion in earnest, Raffel revealed the motivation for the creation of the GHOUL system. “Let me just be clear: there was no goal to make this… to just make it super violent. The goal was, and this came from my brother, Steve… He’s like ‘Let’s just make it as realistic as possible.’ So that was the goal. And what is the most realistic thing? Instead of just shooting a body and having it just drop and fade away, we wanted to make it as realistic as possible, not for the sake of violence, but just for the sake of reality.”
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Raffel also commented on the first time he saw the tech in action. “I still remember the day, though, when we got the GHOUL system in. Of course, we saw the shooting of the limbs… but when a body falls down and you can still shoot it, and it’s still reactive… that felt really real. It brought a realism to me that I never saw in a game before.”
To craft the system, Raven brought in a consultant, who ended up being critical to the game’s evolution. “We actually had a consultant from Soldier of Fortune [magazine], John Mullins, who was great. He was like, ‘You don’t really know combat until you smell what’s going on, and hear it, and feel it. So, that kind of inspired us, a bit.” As the team at Raven continued to work with Mullins to create the game, they were impressed and eventually decided to make him the main character.
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“That was a fun project, and I sometimes wish we would have continued it, and… evolved it… into a higher-brow situation… We definitely had the action… The weapons felt great. The multiplayer was a lot of fun. We had so much fun working on that game. It’s always a good indicator for us when we’re making games when you, yourself, are playing and you can’t stop. Heretic was like that. Soldier of Fortune was definitely like that.”
For more interviews with the best, brightest, most fascinating minds in the games industry, check out be sure to check out every episode of IGN Unfiltered, which includes talks with The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley, Master Chief co-creator Marcus Lehto, 343’s Bonnie Ross, Valve’s Robin Walker & Chris Remo, Respawn’s Stig Asmussen, and so many more.
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