NBA 2K23 introduced a new concept called Takeover, which gives players an opportunity to add new players to their clubs each week via in-game Agenda challenges. To kick off November, 2K dropped in “Tiny” Nate Archibald as the first Takeover player of the month. While he’s not going to be the best point guard you can earn in 2K given his small stature, his challenges aren’t too tough. Let’s take a look at how to get him into your squad....
Netflix wants to improve its movie and TV show recommendations, and for this, it has introduced a new rating system. This involves “Two Thumbs Up,” which will be an indication that you really loved a movie or a TV series you just watched as opposed to a mere liking it. Here are the details to know. The Two Thumbs Up button on Netflix will be an additional option, which will be placed next to the single thumbs up and thumbs down options, already available on the streaming platform....
Neversoft, the development studio behind the Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk games, is now working on the Call of Duty franchise. The company has begun advertising on their website, where they are looking for developers to join their team supporting the Call of Duty franchise. “That’s what we do,” reads the statement on Neversoft’s website. “We have molded our team into a crack squad of eager developers ready to push the First Person Action genre in support of Activision’s Call of Duty franchise....
DC has really been knocking it out of the park with their live action offerings in recent years, but their once strong animated department has been incredibly lacking. However, that may finally be changing as a previously rumored Justice League animated series has now been officially confirmed. With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice debuting next March and Justice League after that, it would make sense to take advantage of that timing with a new series, which is what it sounds like they are doing with a new Justice League series....
Midnight Suns pits a team of Marvel comic book characters against Lilith, the mother of demons. Players will put together a custom character for the various battles, but they’ll fight alongside plenty of recognizable faces too. A handful of those heroes are getting some time in the spotlight through animated prequel shorts, and it’s a good thing that it’s a spotlight and not sunlight — the latest character to be featured is Blade....
Every year, Microsoft and Sony hold their annual Holiday Sale. This sale typically starts right before the Winter Solstice and runs until the end of the first week of January. These dates are significant due to either return holiday presents or receiving gift cards or cash; this means an influx of cash/credit that can be used on those that’d like to score themselves a few games. Unlike previous years, the 2020 to 2021 sale is a bit different....
Patience will be your best friend on this one One-Hand Freeze will really test your patience as a photographer, like many other requests in New Pokémon Snap. Usually, you need to either interact with the environment or the Pokémon around you, with your tools like Fluffruits and Illumina Balls. In contrast to those, for the One-Hand Freeze request you just need to wait. Wait, and hope that what you want to happen, will indeed happen....
The next Resident Evil showcase has been announced, and it’s scheduled for next week. With just under a month to go until Resident Evil Village launches, this could be the final pre-release showcase. The last Resident Evil showcase was packed with gameplay, and new features were revealed that gave us some idea of how Resident Evil Village will play out. Capcom’s next showcase will feature a new trailer for Resident Evil Village, and some new gameplay footage for fans to sink their teeth into on April 15....
Since its launch back in 2016, Pokemon Go became one of the most popular games in the market. As the game heavily uses AR tech to show the cute monsters in the real world, Niantic, the Pokemon Go developers, acquired a computer vision and machine learning company, Matrix Hill to develop the technology. Now, the company has released the result of that acquisition in the game recently that provides a more life-like experience to the players....
Murdering people for charity. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting ready to host the 2018 PUBG Global Invitational where 20 teams will compete for a masssive $2 million prize pool. This tournament should draw plenty of viewers on Twitch, but the most popular streamers will also be competing in another event during the competition that will raise money for charity. The PGI Charity Showdown will take some of the most well-known streamers and PUBG personalities and have the square off to earn money for charity with $1 million going to the charity of their choice....
According to Shpeshal Nick of Xbox Era, Paramount Pictures has signed a deal with Epic Games to bring at least, and presumably many more, of its properties to Fortnite. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will reportedly be the first of Paramount’s IPs to get the Fortnite treatment. Paramount has many other properties that could be an excellent fit for Epic’s phenomenally popular free-to-play battle royale. Transformers, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible… the list goes on and on....
Normally E3 is the place where game companies make big announcements for huge games and new consoles. Nintendo it seems will be announcing the first NX news in Fall 2016 instead. CEO for Nintendo Canada, Pierre-Paul Trepanier, was interviewed by French website La Presse. Mr Trepanier gave an approximate time frame as to when the first news about the Nintendo NX will drop our way. He said: “We decided to focus on Zelda (at E3)....
The Nintendo Wii U will not have a universal achievement system like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 at launch. This news comes down from Scribblenauts Unlimited developer, Jeremiah Slaczka, who wrote a post on NeoGaf about the situation. He did note that developers could take advantage of their own achievement systems in game, but there’s no global score, as made popular by current generation consoles. For Scribblenauts Unlimited, Slaczka explained that his team took advantage of this option, by making its own in-game system or checklist of global things to spawn and do....
Explore the galaxy as one unified community in this new game mode. No Man’s Sky has dropped another large update – Expeditions – and it makes co-op play the centerpiece of the starfaring adventure. Alongside the titular new game mode is an updated HUD, community Milestones, and Seasons. Explore the galaxy as a singular community with a shared purpose in No Man’s Sky Expeditions. No Man’s Sky Expeditions introduces a new game mode where everyone starts out together on the same planet....
Omori, a cult indie hit of 2021, is getting a physical release for console later this year. Fangamer, the company known for helping other popular indie titles, like Undertale and Stardew Valley, get the physical treatment is helping make this a reality. Omori was originally released on PC via Steam back in December of 2020 becoming a darling in the indie community. Developed by OMOCAT, Omori is a psychological horror RPG with several different art styles as well as a great soundtrack....
The PS4 has been very well received by gamers. Sales have been going well, with it outselling the competition by a factor of three to one at some points. Sales have been so good that even Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida admits to not understanding how it is selling as well as it is. While it doesn’t answer all of the questions, a new Nielson report that was obtained by Re/Code does explain a little bit of what is going on....
It now seems to be a trend of removing in-box chargers, started by Apple and eventually followed by Samsung. Even Xiaomi stopped selling in-box chargers with the Mi 11 series and the recently launched Redmi Note 11 SE in India. And the new brand to hop onto this bandwagon is Oppo as the company has confirmed it will take this step next year. Oppo’s Billy Zhang, at the recent European launch of the Reno 8 series, has confirmed that some of its products won’t come with an in-box power adaptor, starting next year....
The Online Pass is becoming more and more frequent in games these days. The recently released Mortal Kombat features one such pass. It’s inclusion in Mortal Kombat is a minor annoyance for people that buy the game new, but for those that buy pre-owned, you cannot access the game’s multiplayer features without ponying up some extra cash. Ed Boon thinks that not only was the online pass in Mortal Kombat, the right move for his game, but the right move for all games....
MultiVersus allows you to play as characters from Looney Toons, DC, Scooby Doo, Adventure Time, and more. The Bruiser class is one of the easiest to learn, and Shaggy is an excellent choice for anyone looking to scrap. This may leave you wondering what Perks to choose and how to play Shaggy in MultiVersus. How to play Shaggy in MultiVersus Shaggy is a Bruiser class and features the most vanilla and easy-to-learn moveset of the roster....
On October 29, Take-Two unveiled its plans for WNBA content in NBA 2K21. Among those announcements was the launch of The W, which will give players a chance to hit the court as a WNBA player. Users will be able to experience what it is like to be a WNBA player both on and off the court, and players will be able to customize the look and the attributes of each avatar....
