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Halo Infinite will launch this November following a one-year delay, but players have already gotten a taste of how the sci-fi shooter will play thanks to technical tests being run by 343 Industries. In these technical tests, not only was PvP showcased, but also the advanced AI that governs the bots that fill lobbies when not enough flesh and blood fans are online. Bots in FPS games have been around for decades, but programming them to be anywhere more intelligent than the NPC opponents you’d fight in a single player campaign remained an insurmountable challenge....

Sony officially confirmed the upcoming PlayStation Plus rebrand, which is scheduled to arrive as soon as June 2022, and it’s something. But, before we dive deep into what the consensus is on the new all-new PlayStation Plus, let’s talk more about what was announced first. According to the official blog post, the rebranded PlayStation Plus is a three-tier service that merges PS Plus and PS Now, amongst other things. The leakers were pretty spot on with the details of the new subscription, down to what Sony has to offer....

One of the biggest examples of Sony backtracking is on its earlier announcement to close down the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita digital storefronts. In case you missed it, earlier this year Sony announced that it was going to close down the digital storefronts for its legacy consoles, the PS3, PS Vita, and PSP. Then a few weeks later, Sony changed its mind. While Sony did confirm that it was still going to push through the closure of the PSP digital storefront, it seemed to have learned enough not to make its extensive PS3 and Vita library inaccessible just yet....

According to the official announcement, Rainbow Six Mobile will bring the core gameplay of 2015’s Rainbow Six Siege to mobile devices, including everything from the destructible environments and all the thingamajigs that players get to use to push ahead into the defending team and vice versa. However, Rainbow Six Mobile is not a 1:1 adaptation of Rainbow Six Siege, as Ubisoft had to make compromises. For example, matches in R6 Mobile are shorter, from first-to-four to best-of-three-rounds, with Ubisoft adjusting the HUD for better compatibility on mobile devices....

Resident Evil is one of the most popular games in the horror genre, and Capcom is looking to expand the available platforms for one of its most loved franchises. During Nintendo Direct, in collaboration with Capcom, Nintendo announced that the recent installments of the Resident Evil franchise are coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. The games will be available for Switch via the cloud service. The most notable games coming to Switch include Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 2 remake, Resident Evil 3 remake, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard....

What Do The Reviews Say of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart isn’t scheduled to release until June 11. However, the “interdimensional adventure” that was specifically designed to make use of the PlayStation 5’s proprietary SSD technology to allow players to transport seamlessly from one location to another has been drawing rave reviews from a lot of publications. Before anything else though, let’s talk about Rift Apart first....

Earlier this year, Valve announced the Steam Deck, a portable gaming PC that could play a lot more games than the Switch at their native settings - games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. However, another contender might be in the works and it’s one that you probably never expected. Is Microsoft working on a handheld Xbox console? According to Windows Central, Microsoft “has been dabbling with Xbox handheld prototypes for some time now....

The unfortunate turn of events started last week when Santa Monica Studio and Sony sent review copies to a lucky few. The earlier leaks of God of War: Ragnarok didn’t reveal much of the game’s plot. However, the more recent footage and photos are much more telling of the game’s plot. This time, it’s not the reviewers who are the source of the leaks. According to reports, a retailer in the United States had “accidentally” released a handful of copies of God of War: Ragnarok before November 9....

Sony Japan Studio released the cult classic JRPG just as it prepared to close the lifecycle of the PS1 and focus on the newly-introduced follow-up, PS2. The Legend of Dragoon wasn’t the biggest hit among audiences or critics at launch. But, the game’s popularity grew over the years to the point that fans have been asking for a sequel or at least a remake or remaster for modern consoles. A little over two decades later and this might be happening soon....

Pierre Dandumont uploaded a video online showing him running Mac OS 9.2 on a Wii. It’s in French, so you’ll have to use Google Translate to understand. But, Dandumont does an excellent job of explaining the process. As expected, the workaround isn’t straightforward nor is it convenient at all. Dandumont achieved the “impossible” by running a Linux-based OS on the Wii’s PowerPC chip. As it’s a close relative to the PowerPC processors used in the Mac G3s way back then, the Wii theoretically could run a Mac-on Linux....

Over the years, hardcore gamers have taken to the Nurburgring to challenge themselves. For example, Drew Hanslow drove 200 laps around the Nurburgring in 27 hours last year to raise money for the charity, Speed of Sight. Another YouTuber, Super GT, did a similar thing a while back as well. But, while these players often had a goal in mind, ‘firefox_gaming’ doesn’t. The Redditor went 200 laps around the 24-hour layout of Nurburgring....

According to the German website, Games Wirtschaft, the console manufacturer is joining Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive, and Activision Blizzard, as companies that will not attend the event. But, don’t worry. While Gamescom’s organizers have not published a full list of attendees yet, they are claiming that 250 companies will appear this year, including Bandai Namco as well as THQ Nordic. Gamescom 2022 will be a hybrid week-long event with in-person as well as online proceedings....

How much bigger can No Way Home still get? Now running in its third weekend, No Way Home has already earned a staggering $1.16 billion at the global box office. Naturally, the numbers have slowed down quite a bit for MCU’s latest hit. After a massive opening weekend, No Way Home became the first and only Hollywood film to ever breach the $1 billion mark during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now on its third week, it has surpassed Spider-Man: Far From Home to bag top Sony Pictures’ long and storied history of filmmaking....

3.15 is fairly big as far as Star Citizen’s alpha updates go, enough to warrant its own name - Deadly Consequences. This alludes to two of the biggest features that have been added in the latest version, those being hospitals with expanded medical gameplay features, and really, really big bombs. Alongside the addition of major and distinct hospital facilities at Orison, New Babbage and Grim HEX that can be used for respawning after deadly encounters or the purchase of life insurance, smaller local clinics have been added to space stations for a quick heal....

Square Enix’s Triangle Strategy was originally released exclusively for Nintendo Switch earlier this year. The game is similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, also published by Square Enix. Triangle Strategy is developed by Artdink under a talented team led by Tomoya Asano. The same team is also responsible for popular recent releases such as the Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent and Bravely Default series. Like the Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default, the new HD-2D game garnered many positive reviews, and it was only right for it to be released for PC players as well....

Take-Two Interactive CEO, Strauss Zelnick, is a fan of the buyout. Zelnick even went as far as to call Microsoft as an “ally” in an interview with The Wrap. According to Zelnick, a “more powerful” Microsoft is good for the entire industry. Zelnick is also open to the competition, saying it’s ultimately up to the consumer to decide. Zelnick adds that gamers will “show up” if there’s a good title, regardless of who makes it....

Although the Polish video game developer has released dozens of games over the years, it has stuck to just one IP since 2015 - Dying Light. After releasing Dying Light 2 to mixed but expected critical reviews, Techland is now working on its first IP for years and it’s actually pretty good. The Polish studio confirmed that it’s working on an “unannounced AAA Open World Action-RPG in a fantasy setting,” which sounds a lot like Dying Light but with magic and swords....

Case in point, The Adam Project. After working with Shawn Levy with last year’s Free Guy, which got a sequel almost immediately after hitting theaters, the two teamed up again for a Netflix-exclusive sci-fi adventure film, The Adam Project. Although the expectations were almost always high with Reynolds, as well as the 13 going 30 on-screen couple, Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo, in tow, The Adam Project is blowing past all expectations....

The first of a series of spinoffs from Star Wars: The Mandalorian, many longtime fans of the saga are anxiously looking forward to the show. While Boba Fett is a staple of the galaxy far, far away, the bounty hunter has had very little appearances or use outside of Expanded Universe (now called Legends) continuity. What does the new teaser for The Book of Boba Fett revealed prior to its launch?...

Having said that, the DCEU just made headlines for all the wrong reasons this week after Ezra Miller, the lead actor for the upcoming Flash film, was arrested in Hilo, Hawaii for disorderly conduct and harassment, with a couple also reportedly filing a restraining order against Miller for breaking and entering. Shortly after the rest of the world got wind of the separate incidents, Rolling Stone reported that Miller’s future in the DCEU is in jeopardy....