Nioh 2 publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja have detailed the PC-specific features in the upcoming Nioh 2 Complete Edition, which will be released on February 5.
PC players (Nioh 2 Complete Edition will be available on Steam) can expect support for 4K resolution, ultra-widescreen, HDR, 144hz (including the option for locked 60fps or 120fps), customizable key bindings, and gamepads.
You can see them in action in the trailer above, and check out a bunch of screenshots in the gallery below.
Those who buy Nioh 2 Complete Edition in its first three weeks of release will also receive the bonus pieces of armor “Sohaya Deserter Garb” and “Ornate Gold Armor.” Check those armor sets out below:
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The Marvel drought is over. With no MCU movies released since 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe has reopened with its first TV show on the Disney+ streaming service. WandaVision picks up some time after Avengers: Endgame and finds the characters of Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living their lives in a sitcom world, with different episodes highlighting different eras of the genre.
In the three episodes provided for review, the show recreates the feeling of sitcoms from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s on the surface, while something more sinister is brewing underneath. WandaVision wants you to relish in these classic eras of TV, while also asking why the characters are there, how it happened, how it connects to the larger Marvel universe, and–most importantly–how long it will be before the characters themselves figure out what is happening.
After redefining what superhero franchises are over the last 12 years, Marvel Studios is stepping into something of a new genre of storytelling with WandaVision. Taking two of the MCU’s heroes, who happen to also be locked in a tragic love story, and dropping them into a vintage comedy is a risky move. Thankfully, though, it works like a charm.
Capcom has invited fans to sign up for a closed beta test for an upcoming Resident Evil multiplayer game, a title that apparently has not been announced yet. Or perhaps this is all related to Resident Evil Village and Capcom is intentionally keeping that a secret for now.
Coinciding with the announcement of the Resident Evil Showcase, Capcom has launched a website that mentions a closed beta test for a game that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Resident Evil. The beta test will run on PS4 and Xbox One, though people with a PS5 or Xbox Series X|S who are accepted into the beta can play via backwards compatibility.
More details about the beta test will be shared during the Resident Evil showcase on January 21. Nowhere on the page is the name Resident Evil Village mentioned, though the landing page includes “Village” as a directory.
Third-person shooter Outriders is still a few months away, but we now have a better idea of all the options it’ll include when it launches in April. Developer People Can Fly outlined the game’s PC specs in a new video, while also pointing out a bunch of additional customization options for the PC version, including the ability to unlock its frame rate and adjust your field of view.
First and foremost is the rundown of what you’ll need to run Outriders when it launches on April 1. For the low end, running the game at 720p resolution and 60fps, you’ll need at least an Nvidia GeForce GTX 750TI or AMD Radeon R9 270x graphics card, an Intel i5-3470 or AMD FX-8350 CPU, and 8GB of RAM. To hit the recommended specs for 1080p resolution and 60fps, you’ll want at least a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 480 8GB graphics card, an i7-7700 or Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, and 16GB of RAM. You’ll also need 70GB of storage space to install the game.
Samsung has announced a new set of Galaxy Buds Pro wireless earbuds for discerning audiophiles.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro is going head to head with the Apple AirPods Pro with features like active noise canceling, clear microphones, and of course, quality audio.
Each earbud features an 11-millimeter woofer for deeper bass and a 6.5- millimeter tweeter for richer treble. Thanks to its intelligent ANC capabilities you can reduce background noise by up to 99%. Alternatively for times when you need to hear the environment around you, switching on Ambient Sound mode amplifies nearby sounds by more than 20 decibels.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro also features three microphones and a Voice Pickup Unit (VPU) on each earbud to ensure you’re heard as clearly as possible. One of the outside microphones is dedicated to cutting out background noises with its high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) rating.
Even the earbuds shape is designed to fit flat in the users’ earlobe to reduce wind contact, plus there’s Wind Shield technology built into the earbuds.
There’s a new Auto Switch feature that allows the earbuds to easily switch between playing audio from a Samsung phone or tablet. For instance, you could be watching a video on your Samsung Android tablet, quickly answer a phone call from your smartphone, and then switch back to hearing the tablet audio.
You can expect 5 hours of playback from each earbud with ANC turned on and there’s an additional 13 hours in the wireless charging case. Without ANC, users can enjoy 8 hours of playback with 20 hours in reserve on the case.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro comes in three colors: Phantom Black, Phantom Silver, and Phantom Violet. They’re available starting now from Samsung for $199 and will be available from retailers starting on January 15th.
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It’s still too early to say how important a role Monica Rambeau will play in WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first streaming show, which debuts January 15. According to Teyonah Parris, the actress portraying the grown-up version of Rambeau on the series, the reveal of who her character is will unfold slowly across the season’s nine episodes. But comics readers know Monica already, and the fact that she’s a key figure in the story that kicks off the MCU’s Phase 4 is a big deal because it signals the opportunity for redemption for one of the most badly mishandled characters in recent comics history.
Movie fans first met Monica as the precocious young daughter (played by Akira Akbar) of Carol Danvers’ friend Maria Rambeau in 2018’s Captain Marvel. But the character’s comic-book roots date back nearly 40 years.
Monica Rambeau’s first appearance was in 1982’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16. A co-creation of Roger Stern and John Romita, Jr., she was the second hero to take on the Captain Marvel name. The first, the Kree warrior Mar-Vell, had died in The Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel the same year as Rambeau’s debut. Her power set was massive; she had control of and could transform into any form of electromagnetic energy. She could traverse the globe in less than two seconds. But we quickly learned something else about her: Monica Rambeau had attitude.
Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) in a poster for WandaVision.
After her first mission, she immediately signed up with the Avengers, moving from trainee to full-time member and eventually team leader. Rambeau made history as the team’s first-ever female black Avenger. She was part of the team during Stern’s five-year stint on the book, allowing for a consistent development of her character, and was equal parts empathetic, sarcastic and tough. In one memorable moment in Avengers #229, she tore into the demoralized team and inspired them to action during the “Trial of Hank Pym” storyline. She stood her ground against her more difficult teammates such as the Sub-Mariner and Hercules, and had enough self-control not to blast Doctor Druid into oblivion as he worked to undermine her position as team Chairwoman.
She more than justified Captain America’s faith in her potential, and became particularly close to him. In the aftermath of the classic “Masters of Evil” tale, when Zemo and a team of villains had occupied Avengers Mansion, it was Monica who was there to offer moral support to an emotionally spent Steve Rogers. It was no surprise that he would be the one to nominate her to be team leader.
Monica takes charge in Avengers #229.
Captain Marvel No More
Captain Marvel was an essential member of the Avengers through the back half of the 1980s, until issue #294 when a battle with the sea creature the Leviathan essentially left her powerless. Rambeau regained some of her powers in her first solo adventure, Giant-Size Captain Marvel, written by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie and drawn by Mark “Doc” Bright, but she was nowhere near as powerful as she was before. Inexplicably, she wouldn’t return to full-time status with any version of the Avengers for years. In 1994, McDuffie and co-writer Dwight D. Coye partnered with Bright again on another CM one-shot, which had her fighting the Sons of the Serpent in a story that tackled racism in unflinching fashion. But two years later, Monica Rambeau hit rock bottom.
She gave up the Captain Marvel moniker to Mar-Vell’s son Genis and adopted the name Photon, a name so incredibly generic that future writers would have Rambeau’s teammates make fun of it. As if that indignity wasn’t bad enough, nearly a decade later Genis would drop the family name and adopt a new one – Photon. That meant she had to adopt another name that was only slightly better – Pulsar. Once again, one of Marvel’s most important female characters of the modern age had been slighted.
By the time she reappeared in the short-lived but fondly remembered Warren Ellis/Stuart Immonen series Nextwave, which was practically an in-continuity sendup of Marvel’s own superhero universe, she was just going by Monica. She continued her sporadic appearances throughout the 2000s, including as part of the 2009 mini-series Marvel Divas along with Hellcat, the Black Cat and Firestar. Aside from that, Rambeau remained largely sidelined until 2013, when writer Al Ewing brought her back into the Avengers fold.
In the first issue of The Mighty Avengers (Vol. 2), Ewing wrote about discovering the Avengers as a kid during Captain Marvel’s time as leader. His affection for the character came across loud and clear in the book. Ewing not only reconnected her with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for the first time in two decades, but penciler Greg Land also updated her original costume for the 21st century. She also had a new code-name: Spectrum. (Carol Danvers had claimed the Captain Marvel moniker by then.)
Monica Rambeau in WandaVision, Captain Marvel 2, and Beyond
Monica Rambeau’s identity crisis has defined much of her fictional lifespan, and it seems like that will continue to some degree in WandaVision. In one of the trailers, Wanda asks Monica who she is, and the character replies, “I don’t know…”
Rambeau confronts Carol Danvers over claiming the Marvel name.
When we first met her back in that 1982 Amazing Spider-Man annual, she was a harbor patrol officer in New Orleans frustrated over her inability to break the glass ceiling. When she first gained her powers, she worried about living up to the legacy of a revered fallen hero. The various name changes over the years only compounded that sense that she didn’t know exactly who she was. Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick addressed this in one memorable scene in issue #7 of her landmark Captain Marvel series where Rambeau confronted Danvers over claiming the Marvel name and not even calling her to let her know. It’s a meta moment that seems to point out just how little respect this amazing character, once one of Marvel’s most prominent Black female heroes, has received over the years. Fortunately, Ewing’s fondness for Rambeau remains strong. He included Spectrum in another Avengers book, No Road Home, in 2019.
Beyond WandaVision, Parris will return as the character in Captain Marvel 2, reuniting the adult Monica with Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers. Bringing the marvelous ladies of the MCU together, the film will also feature Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel (who is getting her own Disney+ series).
Will Monica have superpowers by the time she shows up in Captain Marvel 2? Does she already have them in WandaVision? Will she take on the name Captain Marvel, or Spectrum, or perhaps Photon, which was her mom’s call sign as a pilot in the first CM movie? We have a lot of questions right now, and the sky is the limit for where the character can go next.
And now that she’s in play in adult form in the MCU, it would also seem to point to a brighter comics future for one of the most powerful and interesting heroes in the Marvel canon. After the way she was mishandled for so long, that would be the very least that Monica Rambeau deserves.
Returnal is set to release exclusively for PS5 on March 19 (see it on Amazon). You don’t have to wait until then to lock in a copy for yourself, assuming you’re lucky enough to have a PlayStation 5. It’s available in two editions, and you can preorder it right now at a variety of retailers.
The standard edition of Returnal comes with the game itself and any applicable preorder bonuses (see below).
Returnal is a third-person shooter that kicks off when an astronaut crash lands on a strange alien planet that’s home to spooky, ferocious creatures. When these monstrosities inevitably kill her, she wakes up again right before crashing on the same planet–only now the surroundings have changed. It’s effectively a big-budget roguelike game, with procedurally generated environments, a full story, and new weapons and items available each run.
As a PS5 exclusive, Returnal takes advantage of the console’s special features, like fast loading and 3D audio. The weapons will also take make use of the DualSense’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, so each one should feel unique. The game is made by Housemarque, the developer behind PlayStation gems like Resogun and Alienation.
If you want a few in-game extras to go along with Returnal, you can pick up the digital deluxe edition from the PlayStation Store for $10 more. Here’s what it comes with:
Electropylon Driver weapon
Hollowseeker weapon
1 Reflex Stimulant consumable
1 Pulsating Mass artefact
1 Adrenaline Booster
Digital soundtrack
2 in-game suits for Selene
Returnal Preorder Bonus
Preorder the digital version of Returnal from the PlayStation Store, and you’ll receive two in-game suits for Selene:
