Why Warzone Battle Royale Is A Big Move For Call Of Duty And Gaming Overall
With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s standalone free-to-play spin-off, Warzone, Activision is pushing deeper into the battle royale space, and the impact for the publisher could be massive. Not only that, but if successful, Warzone could potentially have implications for the entire video game industry.
Battle royale is not a fad. It started strong with PUBG, which paved the way for making battle royale games a household name and a viable business category for developers to pursue, and the genre has only grown in size and popularity since. Fortnite built upon that success and elevated the genre to incredible new heights inside of gaming and out. Apex Legends helped the category grow even further with its unique innovations and refined gameplay and gunplay.
For its part, Activision was already in the battle royale business prior to Warzone thanks to Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode, but that was just a baby step. Blackout was locked behind the paywall of having to already own Black Ops 4–despite the fact that, it was arguably the game’s major selling point. But with Warzone, Activision is opening up Call of Duty for everyone. It’s a very big deal because, up until this point, the Call of Duty franchise (on console, at least) relied on the annual $60 releases. Warzone subverts that tried-and-true model with a new take.
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A New Spider-Man Spin-Off Movie Is Coming, But It’s Not Part Of The MCU
A new Spider-Man spin-off movie is coming, but it’s not going to be part of the MCU. According The Wrap, Sony has hired Amazing Spider-Man 2 writer Roberto Orci to write a new spin-off. There is no word on which character the movie will focus on, however.
The key thing to know here is that this movie will be part of Sony’s own Spider-Man universe, and not the MCU. Sony’s Spidey universe also includes Venom and Morbius, among others.
Orci is a Hollywood veteran. He co-created the TV shows Fringe and the Hawaii Five-O reboot, while he also wrote the new Star Trek movies and Mission: Impossible III.
Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies Promises More Variety Alongside Android Release
Teamfight Tactics, an Auto Chess spin-off from League of Legends, is having a huge month. Along with making a full debut on Android, Riot is shaking things up in the next big patch, Galaxies.
Similar to the previous re-haul, Rise of the Elements, Galaxies is replacing everything. The new set will include all-new champions, traits, skins, boards, Little Legends, and whole new mechanics. These changes have been made with the previous sets in mind, as the developers are looking to learn from each change and make every game feel a little bit different.
Each game will take place in a different galaxy and feature a randomized set of rules. These rules can be as small as changing the number of items players can buy initially, up to allowing players to purchase four-star champions on round one. How these small or big changes will affect the gameplay is completely random, with no two games playing out the same way. Players will have to decide how to play based on the rulesets and galaxy boards they are presented with at the start of each game.
Why Warzone Battle Royale Is A Big Move For Call Of Duty
Nioh 2 Yokai Power Guide: Explaining Yokai Shift, Spirit Cores, Guardian Spirits, And More
Yokai powers are the most significant new addition to combat in Nioh 2. As a half-Yokai human known as a Shiftling, you can leverage your supernatural abilities in a couple of ways to give you an edge during the game’s toughest battles. But all of this may be confusing to you early on. After all, Nioh 2 isn’t shy about throwing a ton of tutorials your way the moment you begin.
Below we break down the essential things you need to know about Yokai powers in Nioh 2, including details about Yokai Shift forms, Spirit Cores, and Guardian Spirits. For more Nioh 2 tips, be sure to read our essential beginner’s guide. Also, be on the lookout for our Nioh 2 review in the coming days.
Yokai Shift
As to be expected, your primary Yokai ability is to turn into one! Known as the Yokai Shift, this form grants you devastating power for a limited time. It’s similar to Nioh 1’s Living Weapon form but is greatly expanded. There are three Yokai Shift forms in total–Brute, Feral, and Phantom–and the form you can become depends on the Guardian Spirit you equip.
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Buying This Nintendo Switch Game Will Net You Four Other Games For Free
A new game focused on learning other languages, Trancelation, releases for Switch on March 13. It’s an arcade-style title that gamifies the learning process, and publisher Baltoro Games has given early adopters a few incentives to purchase the game.
Nintendo Life is reporting that if you grab the game on Switch before March 16, you’ll be able to download an extra four games for free. They’re not the most high-profile games on the system, but they’ll be yours to keep. The four games up for grabs at Freecell Solitaire Deluxe, Pizza Bar Tycoon, 2048 Battles, and Flowlines VS.
While Trancelation carries an RRP of $10, it will be discounted by 30% at launch, costing $7. So that’s $7 for five games–we haven’t reviewed any of them, but if you want to bulk out your Switch collection, it could be a good deal.
Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Review – Light On Your Feet
Ori and the Blind Forest was a delight in 2015–a tough-as-nails combination of a metroidvania structure and Meat Boy-like demands with a surprising amount of heartfelt heft. Five years later, Moon Studios’ followup, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, is every bit as graceful and lovely as its predecessor, even if some of the emotional beats and exploration feel a little less novel the second time around.
Will of the Wisps picks up almost immediately where Blind Forest left off, with Ori’s patchwork family unit welcoming a new member, the owlet Ku. The family is happy and loving, but Ku wants to fly and Ori wants to help her. Soon the two are swept off in a gale to a new forest deep with rot, which begins the adventure in earnest.
Because this setting is disconnected from the one in Blind Forest, the geography is new, yet familiar. The painterly imagery is comforting, especially in the opening hours as you explore similar biomes. They’re beautifully rendered again, but a little samey if you’ve played the first game. After a while, Will of the Wisps opens up to more varied locales, like an almost pitch-black spider’s den or a windswept desert. The theme throughout the story is the encroachment of the Decay, a creeping evil that overtook this neighboring forest after its own magical life tree withered. But if it’s meant to be ugly, you wouldn’t know it from many of the lush backgrounds–especially in the case of a vibrant underwater section. Ori is often swallowed up by these sweeping environments, emphasizing just how small the little forest spirit is compared to their massive surroundings.