Mistress of Blade Coming to Black Desert on Xbox One
A small and hidden village of the Oeki Clan that resides alongside the banks of the Turina river gives birth to the newest class in Black Desert, Kunoichi. Trained at a very young age to master the use of a shortsword, kunais, and the hidden arts of Ninjutsu, Kunoichi has the ability to swiftly and silently dispose of her enemies.
Kunoichi’s skill set includes: Flash Slash (vanishes and reappears to inflict multiple hits on target); Kuno Stab (deadly stabs using her Kunai); Ninjutsu: Shadow Explosion (explosive frontal damage knocking back targets); Tragic Blade (counterattack).
Our veteran adventurers can now also utilize the scarecrow training dummy. This new feature allows for adventurers to train their classes through the use of training dummies within major towns to grow stronger within the world of Black Desert.
With new content available for both beginner and veteran adventurers, start your next Black Desertjourney with the Mistress of Blades, Kunoichi, now available on Xbox One.
Google expects 120 games to hit Stadia this year, including some exclusives
Google has shared a bit of a roadmap on what features will arrive on Stadia this year, including a ballpark estimate on how many games will launch for the cloud based game platform within the next 12 months.
At the current moment, Google says it has eyes on 120 games scheduled for a Stadia launch during 2020, with some exclusives among the bunch as well.
There’s currently only one Stadia exclusive—Gylt—out in the wild, but it will be joined at least 10 timed exclusives within the first half of the year, with more info on each due out soon.
The full post from Google highlights some of the features and improvements it’s brought to Stadia for its early waves of users, and notes that additions like 4K play on the web, additional Google Assistant functionality, support for non-Pixel phones, and wireless Stadia controller use on Web are all due to arrive on Stadia in the next three months.
All this comes around 2 months into Stadia’s launch, or the launch for those that purchased access through either the $129 Founder’s Edition or Primer Edition kits. Stadia’s more widespread launch has yet to occur, and news about when in 2020 the service plans to launch either its free Stadia Base tier or a non-bundled Stadia Pro tier to reach a wider audience is notably absent from Google’s New Years roadmap.
Tired Of Luigi’s Mansion 3’s Boss Fights? This Glitch Lets You Skip One
Halloween might have come and gone months ago, but it left behind a thrilling treat that we’ve been enjoying ever since. Luigi’s Mansion 3 was one of Switch’s very best games last year, and competition was certainly fierce. We very much enjoyed capturing each and every ghoul, but a new glitch has been discovered which enables you to skip one of the bosses entirely.
SPOILER ALERT if you’ve yet to play the game (we understand – that backlog, huh?!) and want the experience utterly preserved. Why you’d click on the article and start reading in the first place is a mystery, but here’s your last chance…
Still here? Great. A new glitch is sending speedrunners’ hearts a-flutter and enables the canny player to skip the Amadeus Wolfgeist boss entirely. Gaming Reinvented has looked into the glitch in detail, so check our their article if you fancy trying it yourself. The long and short of it is that the ghoulish pianist is guarding a Toad painting which is usually inaccessible until you beat the boss. However, by exiting through a door to the left of the stage at just the right time, you can then reload the game and it’ll think you’ve already given ol’ Wolfgang a rocking, leaving you free to rescue Toad and be on your way.
Here’s a video from reddit of the glitch in action:
The timing’s a little tricky, by all accounts, but the ability to skip a boss is big news for the speedrunning community. Of course, we recommend playing and enjoying every last minute of Luigi’s latest ghostbusting getaway, but it’s always fun to pull at loose threads now and again.
Have you run into any other glitches in Luigi’s Mansion 3? Reckon you could pull off this glitch? Share your ghoulish tales below.
Feature: So, Who’s Next For Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?
Since launch we’ve seen a steady drip feed of DLC fighters landing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The five brawlers of the Challenger Pack (plus Piranha Plant) have given the game a periodic injection of fresh blood, not to mention the excitement generated by the reveals. Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the final fighter from the Challenger Pack to get one of those sealed invites – a boon for Fire Emblem fans, although with such a wealth of representation from that series already, non-aficionados could be forgiven for feeling a little underwhelmed.
That is until you remember that more fighters are incoming, of course! Yesterday Nintendo confirmed a further six fighters are planned in a second Challenger Pack, so the speculation won’t let up until this new round of DLC wraps up in December 2021. Blimey! The ones released so far have been brilliant additions to the roster and a source of rolling hype around the game. Even people who aren’t into Smash (yes, they exist) can get behind reveals featuring gaming legends like Terry Bogard, Banjo-Kazooie and Dragon Quest’s Hero.
So who’s next, then? Speculation about upcoming fighters has been rampant since the game launched, with any tiny innocuous detail taken as a clue to power the rumour mill. With six more positions to fill, we’ve rounded up the usual suspects as well as some outsiders to weigh them up and ponder the likelihood of their joining video gaming’s greatest crossover. At the bottom there’s also a poll where you can vote for your favourites or make suggestions in the comments.
For: High recognition factor; Unlike existing characters – potential for unique style; Could be a part of a Resident Evil echo fighter pair – with Claire, maybe?; Fabulous hair.
Against: With guns, knives, blood and creeping zombie flesh, Leon and the Resident Evil series is not exactly kid-friendly (Presidential daughters excepted). Counterpoint: the Metal Gear Solid series has featured genital-based explosives and Snake’s still in Smash.
Final Smash: Chainsaw Guy lurches onto the stage and everyone except Leon loses their heads.
For: Crazy style; Already an accomplished fighter who’d fit right in; Sexy Silvia would make a great shadow fighter.
Against: Hasn’t starred in a game in a while (not necessarily a problem – kids need an education!)
Final Smash: Joe slows time and proceeds to zip around delivering blow-after-blow until time resumes and the opponent bounces around and off the screen.
For: Cool fighting possibilities with the Celestial Brush; Plenty of combat experience; The sumi-e art style would be a unique addition (imagine the stage).
Against: … nope, can’t think of anything.
Final Smash: Chibiterasu leaps out with the Celestial Brush and plants bombs that blast the opponent into the stratosphere.
For: Incredibly recognisable to millions of people; Cartoon style would fit in well; Plenty of echo fighter skins to choose from; Fortnite = still so hot right now.
Against: Guns (kinda fundamental to Fortnite) might be problematic in Smash, although there’s enough scope for silly ACME-style weapons and llamas.
Final Smash: After thanking the bus driver three or four thousand times, he finally shows his appreciation of your appreciation by dropping his vehicle from the sky directly on top of your opponent.
For: Incredibly popular and family-friendly; Unique style compared to the existing roster; Microsoft and Nintendo are BBFs right now (seriously, Ubisoft are well jealous)
Against:Another sword fighter?
Final Smash: Night falls and creepers descend on your opponent, driving them off the stage.
For: A large repertoire of killer moves; Looks great on camera; Would make an excellent addition to the Smash soundtrack vault; Wubba dubba dub, is that true?
Against: Sometimes our desire for a fighter is based solely on who we want to see in amiibo form – this may be one of those times.
Final Smash: Take your pick! Maybe the paparazzi crowd into frame and you “Pose for the fans”, blasting everyone from the stage with your powerful pecs. Alternatively, The Chorus Kids arrive and shatter your opponent using their ultrasonic voices.
For: Could create interesting mechanics for a block-filled stage, We haven’t seen Mallo on Switch… yet.
Against: Lesser-known cute character would no-doubt invoke ‘fan’ ire in certain circles.
Final Smash: A wall of blocks appear behind your opponent and Mallo pushes a button. As he’s sake on top of the blocks, everyone else is smashed off the stage towards the screen, landing with a splat and sliding down.
For: Loads of potential in a Downwell stage; Gunboots offer cool offensive moves; Would make an unlikely but brilliant team with Bayonetta; Would go down… well.
Against: A bit one-note?
Final Smash: Downwell dude removes his gunboots and puts them on his opponent. Having no experience with such footwear, they are blasted off the stage to their doom.
Master Chief
Notable game(s):Halo: Combat Evolved, the Halo series
For: Iconic gaming character; Trained in evolved combat.
Against: We’ve already had a massively surprising Microsoft crossover with B-K, although Master Chief is very different.
Final Smash: A Warthog speeds onto the stage, the Chief jumps in while it’s still moving and ploughs over the opposition to finish the fight.
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Boss Asks Players Please Not To Request Fighters
The fifth and final DLC character included in Super Smash Bros Ultimate's Fighter Pass, Byleth, has been announced, and fans are already wondering who will come to the second Fighter Pass. During the Byleth announcement, Smash Bros director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed that six more fighters will join the game by December 2021. Sakurai, who receives a lot of requests, wanted to make something clear--the six fighters have already been chosen, and there's nothing to be gained from sending him requests.
"Of course, like last time, the contents will remain unknown for now," Sakurai said, and apologized for asking fans to buy the Fighter Pass without knowing who was coming to the game. Sakurai addressed the inevitable tweets he will receive about the next lot of fighters, asking for a reprieve.
"The new additions have already been decided," Sakurai said. "Even if I receive many requests regarding potential candidates on Twitter, I'm afraid it would be very hard to consider them. But I still hope you'll look forward to it."
With this in mind, we can start speculating over who the new fighters will be. Rayman? Crash Bandicoot? Steve from Minecraft? Master Chief?
Fighters Pass Volume 2 will be available to purchase on January 28, although we won't know the first new fighter it will add until later.
After watching the reveal of Alienware’s Concept UFO gadget at CES a couple of weeks back, we couldn’t shake the feeling that we’d seen the concept somewhere before. Obviously, it’s only natural that the best aspects of any tech will eventually get incorporated into rival companies’ products, but watching the Windows 10 device presented as if it were 2015 and the very idea was totally brand new felt a little laughable. How did they keep a straight face while presenting? With the tablet’s detachable controllers, kickstand and everything else about it, calling it ‘innovative’ felt remarkable cheeky.
Still, it seems that the machine itself has won over the people who have played it, with Trusted Reviews giving it one if their Best In Show awards. Alienware has since taken to Twitter quoting the website:
While the quote itself feels odd to anyone who’s been enjoying the deluge of software hitting Switch every week, the context of the article itself makes the “limited number of games” comment make more sense. The writer is speaking in relation to the tens of thousands of PC games available across dozens of portals. In comparison, Switch’s library of 3000-ish games obviously can’t compete. Still, if there’s one thing area where we’d say Switch definitively isn’t lacking, it’s the number of games to its name.
Alienware hasn’t announced a price for its device yet, although with an 8-inch 1080p screen and a 10th generation Intel Core running things, it’ll certainly cost more than Switch, assuming it makes it out of the prototype phase. It’s a smart little (or not so little) piece of kit, certainly – especially if you’ve got a big old Steam library – and it’ll be interesting to see how it fares against Nintendo’s take on full-fledged gaming on-the-go if it does ever make it to market.
How does the Concept UFO strike you? Innovative and the inevitable next step in portable gaming or cheeky co-opting of Switch’s design? How much would you be willing to pay to play your PC library on-the-go? Feel free to discuss below.
JetBrains, the makers of programmer tools such as IntelliJ, WebStorm, CLion and Rider, as well as the programming language Kotlin have been working on a font specifically designed for code. JetBrains Mono is an open source font family consisting of 8 fonts specifically designed with reading and writing code in mind.
For the most part of our day we, as developers, look at the code. And it is no wonder that we are always on the lookout for the best font to make looking at the text on the screen easier on our eyes. However, the logic in many popular fonts does not always take into account the difference between reading through code and reading a book. Our eyes move along code in a very different way, often having to move vertically as often as they do horizontally, which is opposed to reading a book where they slide along the text always in the same direction.
Therefore, while working on JetBrains Mono we focused, among other things, on the issues that can cause eye fatigue during long sessions of working with code. We have considered things like the size and shape of letters; the amount of space between them, a balance naturally engineered in monospace fonts; unnecessary details and unclear distinctions between symbols, such as I’s and l’s for example; and programming ligatures when developing our font.
Today, we proudly present JetBrains Mono – a new open-source typeface specifically made for developers. Check out what makes JetBrains Mono unique in the big family of monospaced fonts and try it in your favorite code editor. Have a look at JetBrains Mono, your eyes will thank you for it.
More details about Mono are available here. It is the default font on all 2020 JetBrains IDEs and is available as an option in version 2019.3 and beyond of all JetBrain products. If you use another IDE you can download the zip here. Learn more about JetBrains Mono, including how to install and configure in Visual Studio Code in the video below.
We’ve got a nice meaty update for you today. Couple of interesting new premium titles, as well as a few other other interesting movements in the free-to-play world. The industry is well and truly awake now, so expect more news, updates and releases coming down the pipeline over the coming weeks.
As we noted last week, Arnold Rauers and TinyTouchTales have a new game, which was released earlier this week. Maze Machina follows similar veins to past works like Card Crawl or Card Thief, but there doesn’t appear to be the same kind of progression mechanics. Michael’s review will be with us ASAP, so keep an eye out for that.
This game attempts to answer the question “What if we made Dark Souls for mobile?”. Gritty, difficult, action-RPG are just a few words you could use to describe it. Depending on how much it actually is like Dark Souls, I’m sure you could use more vulgar words as well. It’s a pretty reasonable price for a game of this visual fidelity, and early indications suggest it works quite well on iOS devices right now. We’ll add this to the review list and get back to you ASAP. Android users, don’t despair – a port is due later this year.
If you liked Call of Duty’s mobile incarnation, it might interest you to know that another popular FPS title has made the jump the mobile as well – Warface has never really been seen a ‘true’ competitor to COD and Battlefield, but it’s been doing the ‘F2P Shooter’ thing for while now (it was first released in 2013!) and still going strong. The mobile version is called Warface: Global Operations and is available on both iOS and Android, still Free-to-Play.
Last but not least, Space Grunts 2 is now out on Android, if any of you have been waiting for the Google Play version.
App Updates & News
What would you get if you decided to merge 100-Player Battle Royale and Auto Chess? Well, according to Ubisoft, you’d get Might & Magic: Chess Royale, which is a new game coming at the end of the month. I’m personally quite a fan of Auto Chess games, although I’m not a big Battle Royale player (Fortnite is fun enough if you’ve got someone to play it with).
I don’t really understand how this can be a thing, but the press blurb claim matches won’t take longer than 10 minutes, so that addresses my main concern. We’ll find out more on January 30th.
Narcos is a Netflix you may or may not have seen by now (not really my thing, but I know it’s fairly popular) following the family-friendly saga of the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia in the late 80’s. It had a surprisingly decent (if tragically flawed) turn-based strategy spin-off game on PC and Console and now it’s getting a mobile spin-off in the form of… an Idle Clicker game. Yeah. Check out this bad boy.
You might also be excited to know that Playdek’s latest board game port, Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? will be entering early access on Steam at the end of February. No word on a mobile version yet but we know Playdek will want to bring it mobile eventually, so it’s good to see progress being made.
In terms of individual app updates, there’s a few:
Star Traders: Frontiers continues to be Best Traders.
Santorini got a minor update
Call of Duty: Mobile’s Third Season has started
DOTA Underlords got a new balance/tweak patch
Black Desert Mobile has got a new World Boss, as well as the Node War PvP mode we’ve spoken about before
App Sales
It appears to be another week where there’s nothing really to shout about in terms of sales, so I thought I’d take a moment to clarify how I go about populating this section.
Games go on sale all the time, but I tend to stick to the ones we’ve covered, or at least more obviously within our ball-park. Sometimes though you see the same games go on sale repeatedly, and they’re not always the best price. For example Klarus Victoria (Predynastic Egypt etc.) have all their games on sale again, but it’s the same price they always discount to.
Icewind Dale is also half price again, but that’s not the best price it’s been and there’s a couple others like this. We’ve covered all these games before and I do try to monitor whether a price is “good” price, as highly subjective as that concept it.
That being said, Beholder’s latest sale is the best price it’s ever been at $1.99, down from it’s previous typical sales price of $2.99. Maybe there are some of you who don’t own it yet who would like to, but again the older a game is the less relevant I feel it is at times in terms of discounts.
Seen anything else you like? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments!
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Limited time offer announced: 3 months of Xbox Game Pass for PC for $1
I know you’re here for the games and we have some gems on the way! They’re hauntingly beautiful, challenging, and are coming soon to Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta).
You might need more than a few days to dig into these games, plus all the others you want to play in our library. Lucky for you, if you haven’t tried Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta) yet, we just launched our best deal yet for PC: Get your first 3 months for just $1! Discover your next favorite game with unlimited access to over 100 high-quality PC titles. You’ll always have something new to play with games added all the time. This deal won’t last forever, so join today and tell your friends – this is an easy way to get them to jump in and play with you!
But let’s get to the part that you really want to know about: Here’s the latest info on the games coming at you for the next few weeks!
Children of Morta (ID@Xbox) A story-driven action RPG about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. With a unique mix of action-adventure, RPG, rogue-lite, and hack and slash, you’ll develop not only individual characters but also the entire family as they stand against an encroaching darkness.
Gris (ID@Xbox) A serene and evocative experience, free of danger, frustration or death. Explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score where light puzzles, platforming sequences, and optional skill-based challenges will reveal themselves as the story unfolds, allowing Gris to see her world in a different way, unlocking new paths to explore using her new abilities.
A Plague Tale: Innocence From Asobo Studio, follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history in this acclaimed action adventure game. Hunted by Inquisition soldiers and surrounded by unstoppable swarms of rats, they will struggle to survive against overwhelming odds and fight to find purpose in this brutal, unforgiving world.
Reminder to install the mobile app so you can remotely install games to your PC from anywhere – use that time to watch speed runs, character builds, or build your perfect playlist for these haunting games. Lastly, for more news on games, memes, and whatever shower thoughts we have about games, check out our Twitter. Happy gaming!
The Fedora CoreOS team is pleased to announce that Fedora CoreOS is now available for general use. Here are some more details about this exciting delivery.
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It’s the successor to both Fedora Atomic Host and CoreOS Container Linux and is part of our effort to explore new ways of assembling and updating an OS. Fedora CoreOS combines the provisioning tools and automatic update model of Container Linux with the packaging technology, OCI support, and SELinux security of Atomic Host. For more on the Fedora CoreOS philosophy, goals, and design, see the announcement of the preview release.
Some highlights of the current Fedora CoreOS release:
To try out the new release, head over to the download page to get OS images or cloud image IDs. Then use the quick start guide to get a machine running quickly.
In general, the Fedora Project does not make any guarantees around stability. While Fedora CoreOS strives for a high level of stability, this can be challenging to achieve in the rapidly evolving Linux and container ecosystems. We’ve found that the incremental, exploratory, forward-looking development required for Fedora CoreOS — which is also a cornerstone of the Fedora Project as a whole — is difficult to reconcile with the iron-clad stability guarantee that ideally exists when automatically updating systems.
We’ll continue to do our best not to break existing systems over time, and to give users the tools to manage the impact of any regressions. Nevertheless, automatic updates may produce regressions or breaking changes for some use cases. You should make your own decisions about where and how to run Fedora CoreOS based on your risk tolerance, operational needs, and experience with the OS. We will continue to announce any major planned or unplanned breakage to the coreos-status mailing list, along with recommended mitigations.
How do I migrate from CoreOS Container Linux?
Container Linux machines cannot be migrated in place to Fedora CoreOS. We recommend writing a new Fedora CoreOS Config to provision Fedora CoreOS machines. Fedora CoreOS Configs are similar to Container Linux Configs, and must be passed through the Fedora CoreOS Config Transpiler to produce an Ignition config for provisioning a Fedora CoreOS machine.
Whether you’re currently provisioning your Container Linux machines using a Container Linux Config, handwritten Ignition config, or cloud-config, you’ll need to adjust your configs for differences between Container Linux and Fedora CoreOS. For example, on Fedora CoreOS network configuration is performed with NetworkManager key files instead of systemd-networkd, and time synchronization is performed by chrony rather than systemd-timesyncd. Initial migration documentation will be available soon and a skeleton list of differences between the two OSes is available in this issue.
CoreOS Container Linux will be maintained for a few more months, and then will be declared end-of-life. We’ll announce the exact end-of-life date later this month.
How do I migrate from Fedora Atomic Host?
Fedora Atomic Host has already reached end-of-life, and you should migrate to Fedora CoreOS as soon as possible. We do not recommend in-place migration of Atomic Host machines to Fedora CoreOS. Instead, we recommend writing a Fedora CoreOS Config and using it to provision new Fedora CoreOS machines. As with CoreOS Container Linux, you’ll need to adjust your existing cloud-configs for differences between Fedora Atomic Host and Fedora CoreOS.
Welcome to Fedora CoreOS. Deploy it, launch your apps, and let us know what you think!
