Month: October 2024

Black Ops 6 arrives on October 25, and tons of new information was revealed for multiplayer and Warzone during Activision’s Call of Duty: Next event on August 28, including live gameplay featuring Treyarch’s new omnimovement system. GameSpot was able to attend the event and speak with Treyarch about the changes in development for the new shared engine and how it enabled the studio to create Call of Duty’s new advanced movement.The last Treyarch game was 2020’s Black Ops Cold War, which was a Call of Duty that was created on a shorter development cycle and required a pivot to work-from-home conditions during the pandemic. Now, Treyarch is back in the action again with an extended four-year development cycle for Black Ops 6, and it is the studio’s first game on Call of Duty’s new shared engine, which was introduced with 2022’s Modern Warfare 2 reboot.

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Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in a recent interview commented on the fact that he passed on acquiring games like Destiny and Guitar Hero for Xbox. The CEO went on to say he’s made “some of the worst game-choice decisions” but that he ultimately has no regrets.His comments came as part of an interview at PAX West titled “Story Time with Phil Spencer,” where the head of Xbox discussed some of his favorite games from over the years, one of which is Destiny. Spencer said he has mixed emotions and stories around Destiny. The shooter didn’t initially click for him when he first played it, despite having a close relationship with developer Bungie, he said. He once shared a floor at Microsoft with Bungie founders Alex Seropian and Jason Jones and “learned a ton from just being around Bungie,” Spencer said.He said Microsoft did receive a pitch from Bungie to publish Destiny, but Xbox ultimately decided not to sign-on. It would take the game’s House of Wolves expansion for Spencer to come around on Destiny.”It’s a game that I’ll always love and a team I’ll always have a ton of affinity for,” Spencer said.Guitar Hero was another major franchise Spencer said he initially had doubt…

Content warning: This article mentions self-harm.Longtime players of EA Sports games may recall how the publisher’s famous slogan, “It’s in the game,” is actually a shortened version of the full sentiment one would hear upon booting up any of its many sports games across several decades: “If it’s in the game, it’s in the game.” This simple phrase worked well for a long time as a way to tout authenticity. If you’re seeing it on the field (or rink, court, et al), you can bet it’ll be in the video game simulation. That was the promise anyway.But it worked. The soundbyte is iconic; I can still hear it in my head even as EA dropped the first half of that slogan years ago, and today, the Madden team’s North Star is, arguably more than ever, authenticity. It’s a word that comes up constantly whenever I speak to members of the EA Orlando (formerly Tiburon) team. But this year’s NFL season is set to introduce a stark contrast between what’s in the game and what’s in the game: Guardian Caps.Invented in 2010, Guardian Caps represent the latest in player-safety equipment. These bulky, quilt-like coverings go over a player’s traditional helmet and are meant to protect…

PC gaming with an ultrawide monitor just hits differently, especially when you’ve got the right game that supports a massive horizontal extension of its visuals, Over at Amazon, you can get started with a dive into that world with this Labor Day deal on the Sceptre 34-inch ultrawide monitor. This is a limited-time deal, so once all stock is sold, it’s over, but you can save over 20% on the gaming monitor and get it for just $220.

See at Amazon For this 34-inch ultrawide monitor, you’re getting a curved screen with a Wide Quad HD resolution–3440 x 1440–a 165Hz refresh rate, and a 1MS response time. It also has AMD FreeSync to help prevent screen tears, two HDMI ports that support up to 100Hz, and two DisplayPorts that support up to 165Hz. Customer reviews are pretty solid, as with more than 6,000 impressions so far, the monitor has a 4.5/5 rating.

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Bandai Namco has announced that the MMO Blue Protocol will be ending service in Japan, and that the international release via Amazon Games has been canceled.Blue Protocol will be shut down on January 18, 2025 in Japan. “As a result, we have also canceled our plans to release a Western version of the game in collaboration with Amazon Games,” Bandai Namco said in a statement. “We have enjoyed a strong relationship with Amazon Games throughout the development of Blue Protocol, and both of our teams are disappointed that we will not be able to deliver the game to players around the world.”Bandai also added that while it been preparing for the game’s launch, it ultimately concluded that it would be difficult to provide a satisfactory experience. Blue Protocol was supposed to release worldwide simultaneously in 2023, but only the Japanese version launched. The Western version, to be published by Amazon Games, was delayed to 2024. Earlier this year, Bandai reported a 21 billion yen loss due to an underperforming game, which may have been Blue Protocol.Amazon Games has been synonymous with the MMORPG genre as of late, with games such as Lost Ark and New World. It’s also publishing another …

After much speculation and numerous reports, Activision has confirmed that fan-favorite map Verdansk will be returning to Call of Duty: Warzone in 2025. The announcement was made as part of the Call of Duty: Next presentation, though details are still scarce.Call of Duty: Next confirmed that Verdansk would be returning in Spring 2025, in part to celebrate Warzone’s five-year anniversary. As the map that Call of Duty’s battle-royale spin-off Warzone launched with in 2020, Verdansk is beloved by many players, and its return has been highly requested in the years since.

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