If you thought this was a one-time thing for 2K, think again. In an interview with Famitsu, the publisher’s chief creative Sami Thessman said the company wanted to continue releasing games on Nintendo’s hybrid platform in the future. Here’s his full comment (thanks, Oni_Dino):
I can’t tell you all about our business strategies, but what I can say is we at 2K consider our relationship with Nintendo to be extremely important. We really want to keep releasing games for Nintendo Switch moving forward.
Apart from a future NBA 2K release, it’s hard to say what other games the publisher might consider bringing to Nintendo’s latest generation of hardware. Whatever it is, though, you’ll probably have to clear up some space, as most of its releases seem to require sizable downloads and plenty of storage.
What other games from 2K’s library would you like to see on the Switch? Make a request down below.
Call Of Duty: Warzone Bunkers Guide -- Locations And Unlocking
Call of Duty: Warzone has housed a bunch of secret bunkers that have laid dormant, but now they appear to be opening and supplying vast riches in the process. The latest update has finally given players a way to open the bunkers, and we'll help you do it yourself if you're having trouble.
How To Unlock Call Of Duty: Warzone Bunkers
For the bunkers numbered 1-10, you will need a Red Access Card, found via supply crates. The cards are extremely rare, but once you find one or kill a player holding one, you can get inside all but one of the bunkers.
Bunker 1: Located on the northern end of the map near the crash site.
Bunker 2: Located to the west of the first bunker, near the dam.
Bunker 3: Located to the east of Bloc 15.
Bunker 4: Located just south of Bunker 3.
Bunker 5: Located just next to Bunker 4.
Bunker 6: Located in the western part of the map, just north of the junkyard.
Bunker 7: Located just next to Bunker 6.
Bunker 8: Located between the junkyard and kart racing track.
Bunker 9: Located in the south end of Tavorsk Park
Bunker 10: Located in the southeast end of the map in Zordaya Prison Complex
Bunker 11: Located in the northernmost section of the map, northwest of Arklov Peak Military Base.
For Bunker 11, you will need to complete a puzzle. This involves finding the phones strewn across the map and finding one that has a Russian voice on the line. This voice is in Russian and using a table provided by Reddit user StrangerRobijn, you can translate the numbers the voice says.
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Members of Team Nintendo Life have gathered together to discuss our weekend plans, and we’d love for you to join in via our poll and comment sections below. Enjoy!
Liam Doolan, news reporter
This weekend I’ll be participating in Splatoon 2‘s Splatfest – team ketchup all the way! I can’t remember the last time I played the game…it might have actually been the final Splatfest, in all honesty (I sided with team Chaos, from what I recall). Over the next few days I’ll be trying to take out some wins on behalf of Marina with a trusty sauce bottle by my side. I’m also be spending time in Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix. I finally got around to trying out the demo last weekend and about half an hour later decided to buy the whole thing. If you’ve had fun with rhythm games like Elite Beat Agents in the past, you should enjoy this one as well.
Gavin Lane, features editor
Like many other people this week, I purchased NBA 2K20 with a substantial 95% discount. And like many people this week, I woke up the following morning to a big ‘X’ in the middle of the download progress bar which signalled that my micro SD wasn’t big enough to accommodate the 2 kila-gigaplexes of memory space the game requires. Consequently, I likely won’t be playing NBA 2K20 and it’ll join the shameful pile of games I’ve bought and never even opened.
In fact, beyond a quick 15-minute visit to my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island to do my rounds, it’s possible I may not get to squeeze in any gaming this weekend. Life’s just been a tad too hectic of late. Too hectic to play Streets of Rage 4, even. Now that’s when you know you’re in dire straits!
However, if I magically get a couple of hours to myself, I’ll probably use them to revisit a couple of classics. The anniversaries ofPerfect Dark and Super Mario Galaxy 2 have come around, and I’ve got a hankering to play them both. We shall see…
PJ O’Reilly, reviewer
This weekend I’ll be getting stuck into Journey to the Savage Planet for review purposes, a game I’ve played already on PS4 and I’m very interested so see how this Switch port manages to hold up, fingers crossed it’s a solid job as the game itself really is excellent stuff. Elsewhere I’ve been enjoying my first ever playthrough of The Wonderful 101, which I’m really impressed with so far, as well as managing my newly developed addiction to Hatsune Miku. I’ve been singing Po Pi Po out loud around the house for a solid week now and it’s doing absolutely nothing good for lockdown tension levels over here. Hope you are all staying safe and have a good one!
Gonçalo Lopes, contributing writer
Physical game arrivals placed Dark Devotion and Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King on my playlist for this weekend. The eShop again does not disappoint with the likes of Arrest of a stone Buddah, Pushy and Pully in Blockland, WHAT THE GOLF? (the best golf game ever made for non-golf persons!) and I can assure you that Awesome Pea 2 lives up to it’s delightful prequel. Of course, despite 60+ days on the island, I still have Animal Crossing: New Horizons on daily rotation. I’ll need to stop by Splatoon 2 – that deja-vu splatfest won’t resolve itself.
Game of the week would have been The Wonderful 101, but guess what? I backed the game and still don’t have it on Switch. But I’m more than happy to give the award at this time to the fantastic Red Wings: Aces of the Sky. Fly true, petite rouge!
As always, thanks for reading! Make sure to leave a vote in the poll above and a comment below with your gaming choices over the next few days…
General updates -Addressed issues to further ensure an enjoyable gaming experience.
So what “issues” have been addressed, exactly? As suspected, the recently discovered duplication glitches have been patched out. This includes both the table and mailbox glitches, and a number of YouTubers have now uploaded videos demonstrating how these glitches no longer work.
Exploits without hacks…have actually been patched. That includes the mailbox exploit…the table exploit…and anything else…I think no clipping out of bounds as well – all this stuff is patched, so the economy – at least for honest playing people – is back to normal.
If you don’t want your experience to be impacted by these changes, it’s as simple as not performing the most recent update. The downside is you’ll no longer be able to play locally or online with others.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 05-24-2020, 06:04 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Don't Believe Those PS5 October Release Date Rumors, Says Sony
Following a job listing suggesting that Sony will launch the PlayStation 5 this October, the company has stated that the month was included in error. The PS5 is not confirmed for a launch in October, and the final release date--or even release window--is still unknown at this point. We'll have to wait for official word from Sony to learn when the console will launch, and with Sony saying that it plans to share details on PS5 launch games, that could come relatively soon.
The job listing was created for a position at Sony Interactive Entertainment, and hosted on a Japanese recruitment website. The line in question mentioned that the PlayStation 5 would launch in October, which was the first mention of an exact release month for Sony's next-generation console.
Japanese publication Famitsu contacted Sony for comment, who stated that the information was erroneously included by the recruitment company in question.
Earlier today, Krita just launched the first beta releases of Krita on Android and Chrome OS. Unfortunately for now it only works for Android tablets and the UI still has many desktop requirements so it may not work as expected, at least without a mouse and keyboard attached.
This beta, based on Krita 4.2.9, is the full desktop version of Krita, so it doesn’t have a special touch user interface. But it’s there, and you can play with it.
Unlike the Windows and Steam store, we don’t ask for money for Krita in the store, since it’s the only way people can install Krita on those devices, but you can buy a supporter badge from within Krita to support development.
Install
Notes
Supports: Android tablets & Chromebooks.
Currently not compatible with: Android phones.
If you have installed one of Sharaf’s builds or a build you’ve signed yourself, you need to uninstall that first, for all users!
Do to the limited number of Android tablets and the massive size of some Android phones, it’s unfortunate a phone release isn’t also available. Do keep in mind this is early access software, so expect all the bugs that come with that.
Ex-Apple designer targets HomePod with Syng ‘Cell’ speaker startup
A former Apple designer, as well as ex-Apple employees, have formed the start-up Syng, with their ‘Cell’ speaker aiming to take on the HomePod and other smart speakers with its own superior computational audio processing.
A key element of the HomePod is its adaptive audio, which is able to create an optimal audio experience for the user, regardless of its position and nearby obstacles. While impressive to most listeners of the HomePod, one team believes it can create a far better product.
The startup Syng is using a combination of design and sound quality to create a new type of speaker, according to the Financial Times. Its first product, the “Cell” speaker, will use “immersive rendering” and a novel audio format to create a “revolutionary” sound “indistinguishable from reality.”
In its pitches to investors, Syng plans to launch a range of speakers, with the initial launch scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2020. Along with expanding the speaker range, Syng also hopes to bolster revenues by licensing out its rendering technology to other speaker producers, as well as setting up its own subscription service.
So far, the startup has raised in the region of $15 million in Series A funding, and is aiming to raise more ahead of the launch.
The company is headed up by Christopher Stringer, a prominent industrial designer who left Apple after 21 years of employment. Stringer had worked on a number of Apple products, including the original iPhone and iPad, and was involved in Apple’s famous legal battle against Samsung over iPhone patents.
Stringer is named on more than 1,400 patents in the United States, and is credited for innovations pertaining to the iPhone, Apple Watch, and the HomePod. The patents list includes filings for HomePod’s spatial audio system, which is likely to have been improved upon by Stringer for the new speaker.
According to the report, Stringer moved from Silicon Valley in 2017 to set up the startup in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. The company also counts other Apple employees in its ranks, including co-founder Afrooz Family who worked for Apple for six years as an audio engineer and contributed to the HomePod.
Other employees for the firm formerly worked for Nest, Ring, Nike, Facebook, and major audio companies including Harman International and Bowers & Wilkins.
While offering a better audio experience is hoped to make Syng stand out, its fortunes remain uncertain. It is entering an already crowded market, and has to deal with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which can impact both attracting investment and the scheduling of production.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 05-23-2020, 11:39 PM - Forum: Windows
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Sea of Thieves coming to Steam on June 3
We’re delighted to announce that our ever-evolving pirate adventure Sea of Thieves will be launching on Steam on June 3, 2020. For over two years the members of our community have been sailing freely into fantastical adventure with Xbox Game Pass and on Xbox One and Windows 10, but as we go full steam ahead we look forward to onboarding a whole new community of PC players. We can’t wait to welcome these eager new pirates into the fold and watch them discover Sea of Thieves’ wide open world for themselves.
With a player base of 10 million pirates and counting and a host of exciting plans for the future, the wind is now in Sea of Thieves’ sails. Since launching on Xbox One and Windows 10 in March 2018, the game has been on a hugely eventful journey. From the arrival of its first free new adventures in The Hungering Deep to the enormous Anniversary Update that introduced Tall Tales and The Arena, and then on to the introduction of more regular monthly content releases in 2019 – most recently with Ships of Fortune in April – it’s evolved into the definitive pirate adventure – growing stronger with each slew of additions and ways to play.
With this in mind and to celebrate everything it means to be sailing our seas in 2020, we’ve created a brand new Sea of Thieves showcase trailer, which you can watch above or on YouTube here.
Set to the track ‘New Legends’ by rock band Gold Coin, this new trailer is designed to take you on a tour of some of Sea of Thieves’ most unique and awe-inspiring moments. Anything can happen in a session on the seas: you can fight immense Megalodon battles, tangle with a Kraken, raid a Skeleton Fort, chase down other unsuspecting player ships to steal their loot (or fall prey to another crew with the same idea), or change gears to take on fast-paced PvP gameplay at its purest in The Arena. If you’ve got the skill and the mettle to overcome these challenges, you might even reach the heights of Pirate Legend – unlocking exclusive cosmetics, locations and quests reserved for only the best of buccaneers.
When it launches on Steam with a price tag of $39.99 USD/£34.99 GBP/€39.99 EUR, Sea of Thieves will be opening up the virtual pirate life to more players than ever before by sailing into brand new territories. Sea of Thieves is the biggest new Xbox IP of this generation, and we’re proud to be forging on through uncharted territory with a wave of new Steam players incoming and even more feature-packed updates on the horizon! For more details and answers to your burning questions, check out our Steam FAQ on the Sea of Thieves community page on Steam.
New to Sea of Thieves? Join the fun with our Maiden Voyage, a narrative-driven tutorial experience separate from Adventure and Arena modes. New Sea of Thieves players will begin their travels within this scenario, which provides guidance and information to fledgling sailors. Learn more about Sea of Thieves at www.xbox.com/seaofthieves, or join the ongoing adventure at www.seaofthieves.com where you can embark on an epic journey with one of gaming’s most welcoming communities!
Reminder: Splatoon 2’s “Bonus One-Off” Splatfest Is Now Live
Update (Fri 22nd May, 2020 23:00 BST): The mayo v ketchup Splatfest is now live! Tell us which side you’re on in our poll.
Original Story (Thu 21st May, 2020 01:45 BST): If you’ve got a spare moment this weekend, you might want to boot up your copy of Splatoon 2, as Nintendo is hosting a “bonus one-off” Splatfest event from 22nd May until 25th May. Marina has a chance to redeem herself following her loss to Pearl and Team Chaos last July. This time around it is Team Mayo verse Team Ketchup:
In preparation, you can now boot up the game and select the team you’ll be siding with. The last time this battle played out was in August 2017 and Team Mayo took out the victory. Keep in mind, this is a one-time event, so if you’d like to relive Splatoon 2’s Splatfest for perhaps one last time, now is the chance.
Which team will you be fighting for – Team Mayo or Team Ketchup? Leave a comment down below.
