Capcom will be showing Resident Evil Village at Tokyo Games Show this month, NVIDIA has announced its new line of 30 series of GPUs: the 3090, 3080, and 3070, and PS5 devs talk about the console’s SSD.It is now September, and neither Microsoft nor Sony have announced the release dates or prices for their next-generation consoles which are due to launch in just a few months.
Understandably, fans want to know when they can buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X and what they should expect to pay for them. However, those details remain a mystery, and now Microsoft has acknowledged the long wait.
Xbox UK marketing lead Samuel Bateman said on Twitter, “I understand everyone is excited to know and people want to plan purchases etc. We’ll let you all know when we’re ready.”
If you’re playing Pokemon Go on an older mobile device, you might find yourself needing to update soon. In October, the game will cease support for multiple kinds of device and operating systems, locking some players out of the game.
On Twitter, the official Pokemon Go account has announced an end to support for devices running Android 5, iOS 10, and iOS 11 in October. If you’re running iOS 12 onwards, you will be okay–unless you’re on certain older iPhone models.
Support for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6, currently the oldest iPhones supported by Pokemon Go, will also be discontinued in October. An exact date has not been set, but an update will render the app unusable on these phones at that time.
We breakdown the info on Nvidia’s new Ampere-based RTX 30 series cards into what you need to know and if they are worth the upgrade.Path of Exile’s next expansion has been announced, and it’s coming very soon. The “Heist” expansion for Grinding Gear’s action-RPG will launch September 18 on PC before coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for its console release on September 23.
Path of Exile: Heist allows players to hire thieves to help them steal artifacts that will help fund your crew as you plan an even more elaborate “Grand Heist.” So basically, it’s Ocean’s 11 meets an isometric RPG.
The expansion adds the Heist challenge league and nine more skills and support gems, while curses, steel skills, and spells have been revamped. The Grand Heists, as they’re called, give players the ability to earn special weapon and body armor enchantments, trinkets, new gems, and other items.
After about seven hours with Marvel’s Avengers, I have one big observation: The beta really should have started with Kamala Khan.
Ms. Marvel is the heart and soul of Crystal Dynamics’ take on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and the introductory level that kicks off the game’s story establishes her as the nerdy, hilarious, over-the-top fangirl that anchors the entire experience. The Avengers end up disbanded after a huge accident that remakes the world, but it’s Kamala’s experiences–finding her identity, searching for community, struggling with adults in her life letting her down or failing to understand her–that are grounding Marvel’s Avengers.
It all starts with an opening mission that focuses less on punching bad guys and more on what makes the Avengers heroic as people. A number of times now, we’ve seen the A-Day mission, in which you play as each Avenger as they fight an army of bad guys who want to do terrorism. It’s a quick snapshot of how each character handles before the game moves into its real story, in which you play Kamala trying to find and reassemble the Avengers to fight off the totalitarian threat of the villainous organization AIM. But it’s Kamala’s introduction with her father, wandering around the pre-attack A-Day celebration, that centers Marvel’s Avengers. She’s a kid who meets her heroes, who finds them caring (if awkward), and who takes from them all the best lessons to grow, after a five-year time skip, into a hero in her own right.
Marvel’s Avengers has found its way into the hands of players who have early access, and many are now working their way through the campaign. The game is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X, but PC players can already get a massively improved visual performance out of the game–as long as they download the high-resolution texture pack, which is tucked away in the game’s Steam properties tab.
As TheGamer notes, to access this resolution pack, which weighs in at 26.7 GB, you’ll need to right-click on the game from your Steam library and select “properties”. From here, navigate to the DLC tab in the top-right, and click the “install” box.
Of course, you’ll need a more powerful PC (and a 4K monitor) to make the most of these textures. Check out the game’s recommended specs, which you’ll need to make the high-resolution pack worthwhile.
TheGamer reports that these textures “make a huge difference,” so if your computer can handle them it’s worth the download. If you’re interested in a new PC to play Avengers check out this deal, which comes with a copy of the game.
GameSpot is currently working on its review of Marvel’s Avengers. The game’s first DLC character has been revealed, and it’s Kate Bishop.
Greg and Meg break down the plot and references in Episode 3, “Holy Ghost”.