Nintendo Direct – Super Nintendo World December 18, 2020

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Miyamoto.

Is it dusty in here?

Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios Japan February 2021.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Now Running Natively on Xbox Series X/S December 18, 2020

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection had a rocky start when it first released on the Xbox One console back in 2014. Over time, more games were added to the collection as DLC, and eventually the entire collection would receive an incredible PC release. Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach and Halo 4 are currently offered in the bundle. That includes five of the greatest games of all time (and Halo 4). Now, I’m happy to announce Microsoft just remastered the collection to run natively on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles. Here’s the trailer:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is out now for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Control PS5 Gameplay Teaser December 18, 2020

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Remedy promised that their latest game, Control, would be brought to the next generation consoles with native support when they became available. Today, we’ve gotten our first actual gameplay footage of the game running natively on the PS5 console. Just look at the glorious Ray-Tracing.

Control is out now for PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch. It is coming as a digital purchase for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S February 2021 and a retail purchase March 2021.

Bravely Default II Final Demo Released December 17, 2020

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Square Enix and Nintendo have just released the newest (and final) demo for the highly anticipated RPG, Bravely Default II. You can download it on your Nintendo Switch right now off the Nintendo eShop. My Nintendo members who download the demo before the game’s release in February will get free Platinum points added to their account.

Bravely Default II is coming February 2021 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo Announces December 2020 NES and SNES Games for Switch December 16, 2020

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Nintendo has just revealed the new NES and SNES games that will be coming to the Nintendo Switch Virtual Console. Take a look:

I’m sure most people are going to be excited about Donkey Kong Country 3, but games like Nightshade look cool too. You’ll need to be subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online to play these games, and that costs $20US a year.

iOS 14.3 Released December 15, 2020

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Apple has released an incremental update for almost all of their smart devices tonight. The new update, version 14.3, includes support for the iPhone 12’s new RAW file extensions, support for the new wireless AirPod headphones, all alongside bug fixes and security improvements.

The new update should weigh in at around 500MB.

Cyberpunk 2077 1.04 Patch Released December 12, 2020

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An enormous patch has just been released on all platforms currently supporting Cyberpunk 2077. Here are the patch notes:

Quests

• Fixed an issue with completing the final objective in Gig: Freedom of the Press.
• Fixed an issue with starting conversation with Johnny at the end in Life During Wartime.
• Corrected a rare issue with NPCs no longer calling V if A Like Supreme quest was abandoned mid-way.
• Fixed an issue with Nix not going into his default state in Spellbound and KOLD MIRAGE.
• Fixed issues blocking progress in I Fought The Law if the quest area is left.
• Fixed inability to find Delamain in Epistrophy.
• Fixed issues related to remaining in the second phase of the quest after finishing Pacifica fight with Ozob if played after Finals.
• Fixed an issue with Nomads no longer present if V leaves the quest area mid-combat in With a Little Help from My Friends/Queen of the Highway.
• Adjusted mappings and re-enabled quest tracker in M’ap Tann Pèlen/I Walk the Line/Transmission.
• Fixed constraints on freedom to get up and sit down if neither blueline condition is met in Violence.
• Fixed issues with time and space resulting from leaving the quest area or abandoning the quest inFollowing the River.
• Fixed an issue with conversation with Johnny not starting after leaving the hotel in Tapeworm.
• Fixed an issue with quest being blocked upon leaving the quest area before climbing the hill in Following the River.
• Fixed the objective “Go into booth 9” not completing if the room’s entered too fast in Automatic Love.
• Fixed Jackie’s issues with sitting still in The Ripperdoc.
• Other quest fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed the preview in weapon crafting.

Visual

• Reduced vehicle appearance pop-in.
• Speeded up switching first person perspective to third person perspective in a vehicle.
• Fixed issues with animations missing from important quest NPCs during cinematics.

Performance & Stability

• Improved stability, including various crash fixes.

Miscellaneous

• Modified the flashing effect on braindances to reduce the risk of inducing epileptic symptoms. The effect has been smoothed out and the flashes reduced in frequency and magnitude.
• Removed copyrighted songs incorrectly present in the game with “Disable Copyrighted Music” feature toggled on.

PC-specific

• Switching language to default in the in-game settings now correctly sets it to the language of your Steam client.

Console-specific

• Improved reflections quality on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 to eliminate the smudge effect.
• Fixed “The Wasteland” achievement being stuck on 97% after completing all relevant missions in The Badlands on Xbox.
• Fixed an issue with missing PT-BR VO for Xbox players in Americas.

We were holding off reporting on this until the patch was released on all platforms. The patch did release yesterday for PC and PS4, but the Xbox One version didn’t release until a few hours ago. Hopefully this update cleans up the game’s poor visual quality on console. Personally, we’ve had nothing but issues with the game’s visuals on Xbox One X, but the Stadia version looks great.

Cyberpunk 2077 is out now on PC, Stadia, PS4 and Xbox One. It is also compatible with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

The Game Awards 2020 is About to Begin December 10, 2020

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Tonight’s the night of The Game Awards 2020 and they’re going to be broadcasting it on multiple sites across the web! Since its inception, we can rely on this organization to provide gamers with the chance to reward game developers for making the best games of each year. There will likely be new game reveals (a new Super Smash Bros DLC character will be revealed) and musical numbers (Eddie Vedder).

. The feed is live, preshow is expected to start in about 15 minutes with the main show ready 30 minutes after the preshow! If you can’t find the feed, don’t worry. We’ll be providing you the YouTube 4K link below!

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Just the Facts Trailer December 9, 2020

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J Jonah is back with an all-new episode of Just the Facts based entirely on the newest game of the Spider-Man series. Just the Facts was an ongoing trailer series for Marvel’s Spider-Man that led up to the release of the earlier game. Now that Miles Morales is out, Insomniac released a new one and the best part is this time Jonah is not alone.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales is out now on PS4 and PS5.