Ubisoft has pushed two of its biggest games, Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine, out of the current fiscal year and into FY 2021-2022. That means that according to the revised fiscal calendar, we’ll see them coming sometime between April 2021 and March 2022.
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Niantic has announced another new event for Pokemon Go. The Animation Week event kicks off next Friday, November 6, and it features Pokemon and other content based on the current Pokemon anime series, Pokemon Journeys.
Throughout the Animation Week event, Pokemon that have featured prominently in the anime will appear in the wild. This includes World Cap Pikachu, which is making its debut in Pokemon Go, as well as Bulbasaur, Exeggcute, Cubone, Scyther, Dratini, and Cyndaquil. Players will also have a chance to encounter Shiny Cubone during the event.
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— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) October 26, 2020
According to Comcast’s Q3 earnings, young-buck streaming platform Peacock currently boasts nearly 22 million users since launching six months ago in April. However, as with all earning reports, there is always some chicanery to pad numbers that must be squinted at and scrutinized: 22 million is certainly a large user base, but the report does not indicate how many of those signups were for Peacock’s free, ad-supported plan and how many were for its more premium paid tiers.
Still, those numbers–and the accompanying $6.7 billion from NBCUniversal in the same quarter–are nothing to sneeze at. NBC Universal Chief Jeff Shell reportedly said in an accompanying Comcast earnings call, “The fact that we have such a deep library of family stuff, it’s kind of the opposite of Quibi.” It’s a timely bit of corporate shade aimed at the recent high-profile shuttering of an ostensible and now-ousted competitor: Quibi shut down last week.
Elsewhere in the report, the company indicated that theater closures due to COVID has resulted in a 25% revenue decline “which more than offset higher content licensing and home entertainment revenue.” Theme parks were also down, unsurprisingly, 80.9%. However, Comcast seems poised to offset these downturns due to a forward-thinking (though long embattled) new deal with AMC that was reached over the summer that allows its films to hit streaming services just 17 days after they’ve been released in theaters.
There’s currently no word on the studio’s first project nor a name for the studio, but it is being formed in Los Angeles, California, with team members being sought for roles on the studio’s first project, including senior producer, game director, and more.
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“We’ve had the immense honor of working with some of the most talented independent game creators in the world,” Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary said. “Many of us came from an internal development background and are excited to make this a part of Annapurna Interactive moving forward. We can’t wait to share more about what’s to come—anything is possible.”
Annapurna first published What Remains of Edith Finch and Gorogoa in 2017, and has continued to build up its game library since then, with published games this year including If Found, I Am Dead, and PS5 launch game The Pathless.
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For the latest on Annapurna’s portfolio, check out IGN’s review of I Am Dead, as well as our preview of The Pathless.
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Get ready if you’re a fan of The CW’s Arrow-verse, as a whole slate of new seasons is coming to the network in the upcoming months. While many of these CW productions shut down to COVID, everything is back on track. In 2021, you can expect new episodes of Batwoman, The Flash, and more.
On January 17, the new season of Batwoman arrives. Back in May, Ruby Rose left the series in her titular role. However, Javicia Leslie will now star on the show, taking over the Batwoman mantle, and she looks pretty great. One other thing we know about the new season is that serial killer Victor Zsasz will be facing Batwoman.
CW’s Black Lightning will also be returning for a new season, which kicks off on February 8. This will mark Season 4 for the hit series. And speaking of hit series, Season 7 of The Flash arrives on February 23. During DC FanDome, we got a sneak peek at the new season, and everything seems pretty dang hopeless.
Following the rocky launches of both the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 graphics cards, Nvidia decided to delay the launch of the RTX 3070 to allow for more stock to be available when the cards hit retail. As expected, however, that surplus stock didn’t last long.
The RTX 3070 went on sale today on both Nvidia’s website and numerous retailers, but it didn’t take more than five minutes for stock to be completely sold out across the lot of them. Although Nvidia hasn’t commented on the sales just yet, retailers such as Amazon and Newegg have all RTX 3070 listings reading as unavailable, with no estimate for when new stock will arrive.
It seems then that the most affordable of Nvidia’s three new cards is set to follow the fate of its two larger siblings, with eager PC players being forced to wait weeks (or potentially longer) for slow and minimal stock resupplies. It’s a hole in the market that AMD will gladly fill, with the company announcing its own trio of graphics cards set to launch in mid-November.
Despite these being the first Xbox Games With Gold for Xbox Series X and Series S, the lineup doesn’t include any next-gen titles, unlike Sony’s PlayStation Plus lineup for November. This month’s lineup on Xbox includes Xbox One titles Aragami: Shadow Edition and Swimsanity! There’s also Xbox 360 game LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and original Xbox title Full Spectrum Warrior.
Aragami will be available from November 1 to November 30 while Swimsanity will be available from November 16 to December 15. LEGO Indiana Jones will be free to download starting November 16 until November 30 and Full Spectrum Warrior will be free November 1 through November 15.
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These games represent $84.96 in value and 3000 in Gamerscore, according to Microsoft’s blog post, and will be the first games free to download with Xbox Gold on Microsoft’s next-generation consoles.
Aragami: Shadow Edition includes the original Aragami game and its prequel, Nightfall. You play as an undead assassin in both with the power to control shadows during the solo campaigns, or while teaming up with friends in cross-platform online multiplayer. Check out this trailer for a glimpse of what’s in store in Aragami: Shadow Edition.
In Swimsanity!, you and up to three other players will use a variety of weapons and powers to fight against each other to be the last Mooba standing. There’s over 150 challenges in the game’s eight modes and you can check out what awaits you by watching this Swimsanity! trailer.
On the LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures side of things, you can expect the stories of the first three Indiana Jones movies told through LEGO’s trademark brick-building style. Check out this trailer for the game and then read our LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures review to find out why we gave it an 8 out of 10.
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The final free game this month is original Xbox title Full Spectrum Warrior. In this game, you’ll experience what was originally used as a training aid for the U.S. army before it was turned into a realistic, infantry-level, urban-warfare simulator. We thought the game was great and you can find out why in our Full Spectrum Warrior review.
If you’ve got an Xbox Gold subscription active, it’s not too late to grab games from Xbox Games With Gold for October; still available are Slayaway Camp, Maid of Sker, and Costume Quest.
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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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When asked for behind-the-scenes stories, Raffel recounted the sudden way the project was brought up to him. “There was really a weird way that this unfolded. We were with Activision, and we were working on Soldier of Fortune and stuff, and then I get a call from my boss, ‘Hey! Would you wanna work on Star Wars?’ and we were like, ‘What?!'”
Code names for secret projects are incredibly common, from consoles like the Xbox One’s “Durango,” to Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’s “Blue Harvest.” These are usually vague phrases or words, but the code name for Jedi Outcast ranks high on our list of all-time bests. “We had to call it ‘Rocky’s Pizza’ as a code name until we could tell everybody in the company. We had to keep it on the down-low until it got solidified.”
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Raffel went on to discuss the team’s perception of their own work, as well as the first time Raven showed the game to LucasArts. “The id tech was very important to us… the Quake tech… We knew we had something special when we did our first prototype and everyone poured their heart and soul into it…”
“We had to show it to [LucasArts]… we had to impress them, of course. So… you landed in on a ship, an Empire ship, and there’s reflections with all of the Stormtroopers walking, and everything, and it just had the vibe of Star Wars. And they were just… we had them hooked…”
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It’s always an immense challenge for development teams to create something great. We certainly feel Jedi Outcast hits that mark, as our updated review awarded it a 9 with the “Editor’s Choice” distinction. The creation of Jedi Outcast is even more impressive, however, when one considers the relatively short amount of time the team had to make it. “We knew it was special… at the time, though, we only had 11 months to do it,” Raffel said, “We feel pretty good about the time we had, and what we got done.”
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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The massive Best Buy Black Friday 2020 ad dropped this morning, and it’s jam-packed with some of the best game deals we’ve seen all year. But in addition to all the discounts on games, controllers, and headsets, the Best Buy Black Friday ad features this year’s two biggest gaming launches: the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, which release in a couple of weeks. According to the ad, the PS5 and Series X and S will be available online only during Best Buy’s Black Friday sale, and quantities will be limited. Unfortunately, the ad does not show the PS5 Digital, so it’s unclear if that console will be available as well. No start date or time has been given, as is the case with all of Best Buy’s Black Friday deals. You can take a peek at the two ad pages that feature the consoles below.
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are never available for long on the rare occasion that we do see a restock, so whenever Best Buy presumably announces a start date and time, you’ll want to be ready at your computer with all of your Best Buy account information up to date. Usually, Best Buy will release quantities slowly rather than all at once, so you may have to keep refreshing the listing until you see the yellow button that says “Add to Cart.” Of course, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the listings as well, and you can follow us on Twitter @GameSpotDeals to be notified. Below are the following listings to bookmark–we’ve included the PS5 Digital just in case it appears.
