Month: January 2021

YouTube has announced it’s rolling out a new feature: The ability to create short clips from a longer video. The announcement was made under the banner of its Live & Gaming departments, suggesting the company looks at this as a way to enhance its gameplay streaming and VOD community.

The feature is just in a limited alpha testing phase right now, among a small group of channels with access to the feature. Those tools are also only available on desktop and Android devices for the time being, and iOS devices are said to be coming soon. Content creators are not able to request access to this for their channels during the testing phase.

With clips, you can create a 5-60 second segment of anyone’s content, and then share that clip. Content creators who have been given the ability to create clips will see a clip icon underneath a video, and once clipped it will play from the original video on loop. YouTube created a sample video to show off the feature in action, and it’s inviting feedback via the replies or the standard report feedback form.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone have had their multiplayer playlists updated on all platforms, co-developers Raven Software and Treyarch Studios outlined on Twitter.

Black Ops Cold War has several new playlist additions. There’s the Snipers Only moshpit and a 24/7 version of the new Sanatorium map, as well as 24/7 versions of Crossroads Strike, Nuketown, and Raid. Gunfight, Face Off, and Prop Hunt are also available this week.

On top of these multiplayer playlist updates, Treyarch announced that Season One: Reloaded continues on February 4. It will bring about the new “Firebase Z” Zombies map, in addition to Express, 40-player Endurance, extra Prop Hunt maps, and more unannounced content.

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Tony Hawk is an extreme sports legend whose name is synonymous with skateboarding. At 52 years old, he’s still got it. Hawk recently landed a 720 at a local skatepark, but it was not easy.

In a video posted to Twitter, the Birdman battles hard to land the trick. He falls again and again and again, but each time he gets back up and he eventually nails the trick. It’s an impressive feat and it speaks to Hawk’s passion and character that he is still trying so hard after so many years.

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Pokemon Go developer Niantic has outlined a variety of events happening in the game in February. In addition to February’s Community Day and Kanto Tour, the studio will be hosting a Lunar New Year event, new Pokemon Spotlight Hours, and more next month. You can see all the biggest events happening in Pokemon Go in February 2021 below.

February Research Breakthrough Encounter: Snorlax

Niantic is rolling out a new batch of Field Research tasks and rewards starting February 1. In addition, a new Research Breakthrough encounter will be available. Each time you achieve a Research Breakthrough in February, you’ll earn a chance to catch the Sleeping Pokemon Snorlax.

Legendary And Mega Raid Bosses

A variety of Legendary Pokemon are returning to five-star Raid Battles in February. You can see the full Legendary Raid schedule below:

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“Okay, so that’s the Crow, and he’s the guy who killed Cayde-6, and it’s a really big deal that he’s back and that we’re working with him–because we murdered him,” I explained, somewhat breathless, over the Discord voice chat filled with four of my oldest friends. “You really should play Forsaken before this.”

Nobody said anything for a few long moments as I thought about what other story elements of Destiny 2 might be relevant to the mission we were about to run. As I thought about it, two things dawned on me. First, that anything I could tell them about Destiny would be relevant because their introduction to the story and the world was so thin. Second, that they probably didn’t care.

When Bungie released Beyond Light, the latest expansion to Destiny 2, it added new content to the game while removing a whole lot of old content. Several major in-game destinations were “vaulted,” ostensibly because Destiny 2’s install size was getting too big and because those areas of the game were getting too little attention, both from the developers and from players. But because of that, tons of old missions are now gone from Destiny 2–like the vanilla campaign that introduces you to the world and its characters.

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Square Enix has announced a forthcoming War Table video broadcast where the developers of Marvel’s Avengers will provide new insight on the Hawkeye – Future Imperfect expansion that adds the arrow-slinging hero to the game and more.

This broadcast, which is taking place on February 16, will also feature updates on what the developer is planning for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The next-gen updates were originally planned to release in 2020 but were later delayed to 2021.

The video presentation will be pre-recorded and released on February 16; it won’t be livestreamed. GameSpot will report back with all the details as they’re announced.

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Samsung’s SSDs are among the best on the market, and right now, you can snag a couple of its most popular NVMe SSDs at a nice discount. At the moment, a 250GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD is $48 and a 500GB Samsung 980 Pro SSD is $112 at Amazon. That’s a fair discount from their regular prices of $70 and $150, respectively. This mini sale is only happening today, though, and stock is limited, so if you’re interested, you’ll want to take advantage of these deals as soon as possible.

250GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD

$48 (was $70)

The Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD features a read speed of 3,500MBps, making it an excellent drive for those with PCIe NVMe Gen3 motherboards. While its size is small, it would be perfect for a boot drive, making a huge difference in your start-up speed and general use.

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500GB Samsung 980 Pro SSD

$112 (was $150)

The Samsung 980 Pro SSD is a Gen4 NVMe SSD, which means if you want to take full advantage of its high read speed of 6,900MBps, you’ll need a motherboard that supports Gen4. This drive is one of the fastest on the market right now and will serve you well as storage for games you want to run and load fast.

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Tesla has revealed a refresh to its Model S electric sports car that features an on-board GPU that rivals both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

The Models S is getting the first refresh the line has seen since its inception in 2012, which mostly includes improvements to things you’d expect to find in a car: updated interior and exterior designs, a better powertrain, and greater mileage. What is both very new and very out of place is the Tesla Arcade, which now features 10 teraflops of processing performance for gaming.

Games have been included with Tesla models in the past, most notably Cuphead, but this is in another ballpark. The promotional images show off a carousel that features games like The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, and more. Tesla founder Elon Musk also tweeted saying that the new Model S will support Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red also benefitted from Musk’s tweets recently, seeing a massive share price hike.

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