Shenmue 3 Is Coming To Steam, One Year After Release

Shenmue III came out on PS4 and the Epic Games Store on November 19, 2019, continuing a saga that began almost 20 years earlier on the Sega Dreamcast. Now, a year after that, players who have been waiting for the game to release on Steam will finally be able to play it.

The game, which was exclusive to Epic for a year, will come to Steam on November 19, 2020. Shenmue III’s rollout onto PC was pretty messy, with some Kickstarter backers claiming refunds instead of taking codes for Epic or waiting a year.

This means that players who backed the game’s Kickstarter and then opted to accept a Steam code instead of an Epic code will be able to play the game soon. In a new update, Ys Net reports that codes for the game and in-game rewards will be available just before release. “Applicable backers will be able to claim their codes through the ‘Downloads and Download Codes’ section of your survey,” the update says.

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The Best Black Friday Deals Today (55″ OLED TV for $899, AirPods, Calvin and Hobbes)

For the first time ever, an OLED TV has reached a price that’s within mortal reach. Best Buy has a 55″ OLED TV for $899.99. You absolutely will not find a better, less expensive OLED deal that this one. That’s not all that’s new this week. The Apple Airpods Pro have dropped yet again to a new price low. The Apple Watch SE discount has been extended to all colors. And the super popular Calvin and Hobbes hardcover box set has dropped in price only the second time this year (it’s almost sold out). Check these deals out and the rest of the top ten Black Friday deals below.

#1: Vizio 55″ 4K OLED Smartcast TV for $899.99

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This is a HUGE discount on a recently released 2020 OLED TV. It’s a full $500 cheaper than LG’s 55″ OLED TV and the lowest price we’ve ever seen for any OLED TV. OLEDs have the best image quality out of any TV, and if price has been the only thing that’s shied you away, this will change your mind.

#2: Apple AirPods Pro Noise Cancelling Earphones for $194.99

This is the lowest price we’ve seen for the excellent active noise cancelling variant of the AirPods, so if you’ve somehow held out this long, now might be your time.

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AEW Planning Console Wrestling Game, and Wrestling Management Game

Fans of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) have reason to celebrate as there are multiple AEW games in development.

As reported by HeelByNature, AEW’s Tony Khan confirmed that an AEW console game is in the works alongside another that will let players take the role of a general manager.

“We’re making multiple games, we’re working on more than one game” Khan stated. “We’re going to cater to different platforms, we’re going to cater to different kinds of games, and different interests. We’ll put a title out that’s a console game, that is best in class, we’re really excited about it, there’s some’s [sp] big surprises to come in 2020, I just can’t say that enough, there’s still time in 2020.”

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In August 2020, AEW quietly launched a Facebook page named All Elite GM that was quickly changed to AEW Games. The following month, AEW filed the trademarks for both All Elite Wrestling General Manager and Elite GM. These were “filed for use in game software, including mobile phones, handheld computers, and mobile gaming devices.”

“We’re going to put something out that’s for those people like myself, who love putting wrestling cards together,” Khan said of the GM game. “It will allow somebody to do the job I do, be the General Manager of AEW, handbook cards.”

These comments were made prior to the launch of AEW Games on November 10, 2020, at 6pm ET on YouTube.

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While it may be a little bit until you can play a AEW wrestling game, WWE 2K Battlegrounds recently released and features some of the most iconic wrestlers of all-time battling it out in an arcade-style game.

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare/Warzone Patch Notes Released (November 9)

A new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the battle royale game Warzone is coming very soon, and it sounds like it will make some welcome changes. [Update: the patch is now live, and you can see the patch notes below]

Starting off, the update shrinks the file size of Modern Warfare and Warzone by around 25GB on each platform, Infinity Ward’s Paul Haile said on Twitter. Players will be able to download high-resolution textures, but these will be optional. And on PC, a new option is being added that gives you the ability to stream high-resolution assets dynamically, Haile said.

In addition to these changes, the update for Modern Warfare and Warzone includes the first upgrades for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Haile did not share any details on these improvements, however, but this should all become clear very soon.

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Why Call Of Duty: Black Ops Is Introducing “Synchronized” XP With Warzone And Modern Warfare

The Call of Duty franchise is in a unique position currently with multiple games in the franchise–Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare–continuing to perform very well, and a third, Black Ops Cold War, scheduled for release very soon (and this is to say nothing of Call of Duty Mobile which is hugely popular, too). Due in part to the gigantic success of the free-to-play battle royale game Warzone, Activision is introducing a new “synchronized” levelling system where XP and levels apply to all three games.

We recently had the chance to speak with Black Ops Cold War lead designer Tony Flame about this new approach where earning XP in one game applies to all three, and he shed some light on why and how Black Ops will become baked into Warzone.

“Warzone is a 2020 game. It’s not even a year old; it’s barely half a year old. And people are still really highly engaged with it,” Flame said. “So we didn’t want to be splitting players with a game that wasn’t even a year old and has a lot of steam. So we decided to double down on Warzone and make our battle royale experience for Cold War within Warzone. So you’re going to have Cold War guns, you’re going to have a Cold War story.”

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: How To Find The Yellow Longship

In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, protagonist Eivor will be tasked with securing alliances with the existing rulers of ninth century England. After building your settlement at the start of the game, you’ll have the choice of first aligning with Grantebridgescire (kicking off “The Song of Soma” story arc) or Ledecestrescire (kicking off “The Sons of Ragnar” story arc). The former includes a multi-part mystery investigation where you have to oust a traitor, and one of the clues you need to find–a yellow longship–is a bit tricky to locate.

It’s worth noting that you can technically deduce and/or guess the correct answer to the traitor’s identity without finding all of (or any) of the hints. However, collecting all of the evidence certainly helps make the decision easier, especially the yellow-painted longship, as it is the most important clue to find, recontextualizing many of the other pieces of evidence.

Full warning: the rest of this article assumes that you have at least reached Chapter 5, Part 1 of The Song of Soma, titled The Stench of Treachery. We won’t tell you the answer to who the traitor is, but we need to discuss the mission and the area it takes place in to point out the location of the longship.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Dev Talks PS5/Xbox Series X Improvements

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is the first entry in the series coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and it will make use of the power of those next-generation consoles, including the PS5’s DualSense controller.

Speaking to GameSpot, lead game designer Tony Flame said players on PS5 and Xbox Series X can expect better graphics and smoother frame rates. He also stressed that, because there is cross-gen, cross-platform multiplayer, the studio has spent extra time making sure the game doesn’t give players on more powerful machines an advantage.

“In general, with next-gen, we had to make sure that across the board, people would have a fair experience, no matter what platform they’re on,” Flame said. “So the graphics are going to be a higher fidelity–kind of like on PC. If you have a better graphics card it will run at a higher resolution, it can run higher frame rate. But we’re paying extra care this time because of cross-platform play, that there is no inbalances due to any particular setting; that any setting that’s available on one platform that could give a gameplay advantage is available on another, like the FOV slider, for example.”

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