Mario Kart Tour Hits A Huge Milestone In One Week

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It’s been one week since Mario Kart Tour arrived on iOS and Android devices, and despite its aggressive microtransactions, it’s already proving to be a big hit for Nintendo. The game amassed a record-breaking 10.1 million downloads on launch day, and now that number has climbed to 90 million, mobile analytics tracker Sensor Tower reports.

According to Sensor Tower, that makes Mario Kart Tour Nintendo’s fastest mobile game launch to date. By comparison, the previous game to hold that distinction, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, hit 14 million downloads in its first week, while Super Mario Run garnered 13 million (although unlike the other two titles, players had to spend $10 to unlock everything beyond Super Mario Run’s first three levels).

Sensor Tower shares some other interesting data on how Mario Kart Tour is faring. Thus far, it seems the game is more popular on Android than iOS devices, accounting for nearly 60% of its downloads. However, iOS owners have spent far more money on the game; more than 75% of its gross revenue comes from the App Store. The US leads in terms of downloads and revenue.

According to Sensor Tower, Mario Kart Tour has grossed more than $12 million in its first week on the market. However, Nintendo’s most successful mobile game is still far and away Fire Emblem Heroes. Since it launched back in early 2017, the title has generated more than $618 million. Pocket Camp currently sits at second with $111 million in revenue, while Dragalia Lost is close behind at $106 million.

Mario Kart Tour’s first Tour event is still live, and it offers a chance to unlock two special characters: Pauline and Musician Mario. While there isn’t multiplayer in Mario Kart Tour yet, Nintendo says the feature will be coming in the future. For more on the game, be sure to check out our Mario Kart Tour impressions.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mario-kart-tour-hits-a-huge-milestone-in-one-week/1100-6470301/

Best Deal On PS Plus For PS4: Get One Year For $45

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If you’re a PS4 owner who likes playing games online, you’re probably familiar with PlayStation Plus, Sony’s premium membership that grants access to not online multiplayer but also free monthly games and exclusive discounts. PS Plus sells for $60 a year and doesn’t often waver from that price point outside of major sales like Prime Day and Black Friday–but if you’re looking to renew or extend your subscription at a discount, you can currently find a 12-month membership for just $45 at Newegg.

To snag the discount, add the PS Plus membership to your cart and apply promo code EMCUTTW35 during checkout. You’ll see $15 slashed off the price, dropping your cost to $45. Once you check out, you’ll receive the PS Plus code via email to redeem in the PlayStation Store.

See deal at Newegg

The nice thing about PS Plus memberships is that they stack, so even if you’ve got some time left on your current membership, you can extend your subscription at a discount when you find deals like this one.

Right now, you can claim October’s free PS4 games if you have a current PlayStation Plus membership. This month, you can claim The Last of Us Remastered, which is the perfect opportunity to either replay or experience this acclaimed adventure for the first time as we get closer to The Last of Us Part 2‘s release in February. You can also grab sports game MLB The Show 19 for free anytime in October.

Check out more of the best PS4 deals for October 2019, including PSN’s current Games of a Generation sale, which has Red Dead Redemption 2 for $36, Battlefield V for $24, Monster Hunter World for $20, and more.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/best-deal-on-ps-plus-for-ps4-get-one-year-for-45/1100-6470302/

Borderlands 3 Patch Notes: Character Balance, Stability Improvements, And More

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Borderlands 3 is continuing to update frequently, both with performance improvements and character balance. Today Gearbox is planning a one-two punch of both, pairing a patch and a hot fix across all platforms by 3 PM PT.

The patch focuses largely on performance and stability, while the hot fix makes some adjustments to FL4K and Moze and rebalances some enemy encounters. Both are coming at roughly the same time, though, so you’ll feel the effects of everything at once. FL4K got mostly buffs with adjustments to their Rakk Attack and Barbaric Yawp abilities, and a slight nerf to their Leave No Trace ability. Moze gets a nerf to her Means of Destruction ability to avoid infinite grenades builds.

“Our goal is to make sure all three Action Skills for each Vault Hunter are viable, but we have noticed some skills have been outperforming others,” Gearbox says in the patch notes. “To encourage more build diversity, we made some adjustments to FL4K and Moze this week.”

Other changes adjust the balance of three key boss fights: Gigamind, Katagawa Ball, and Billy the Anointed. In each case, they’ve been made a little weaker and easier to handle. You can see the full patch notes below.

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Borderlands 3 Patch / Hot Fix Notes (Oct 3)

Stability

  • Addressed a reported issue where an infinite loop could occur when hitting the Guardian Rank experience ceiling

General Fixes and Improvements

  • The Hollow Point Guardian Rank skill no longer damages allies
  • Hollow Point Guardian Rank skill has been re-enabled
  • Addressed a reported issue where some players were unable to unlock the Ultimate Vault Hunter achievement on Xbox
  • Addressed a reported issue where mouse functionality may have been lost when hot joining a friend’s session on PC
  • Addressed a reported issue where some players’ inventory would not be saved in their bank

Vault Hunter Adjustments

FL4K

Rakk Attack! is great for constant damage output, especially when paired with Anointed gear. The base skill still seems to be lacking, so Rakk Attack! now has a guaranteed status effect on any enemy that it damages. Leave No Trace was returning much more ammo than intended, and we have added a re-trigger delay to keep its ammo return within expectation. Barbaric Yawp has an increased bonus, as we didn’t feel that the amount of investment had an equal payoff. In addition, we felt that FL4K’s pets were demanding too much attention, which was interfering with players trying to stand still for any length of time, so we disabled the ability for them to move you around.

  • Rakk Attack! status effect chance as been increased to 100%.
  • Leave No Trace now has a re-trigger delay of 2 seconds
  • Barbaric Yawp stat bonus increased by 100%
  • Pets no longer push around player characters
  • “Touch Pet” prompt is now a lower priority and should no longer interfere with looting or vending machines

Moze

Infinite Grenades is not an intentional build for Moze—even if it is hilarious. To lower the power (and spam) of this build, a re-trigger delay has been added to the grenade portion of Means of Destruction.

  • Means of Destruction now has a re-trigger delay of 2 seconds

Miscellaneous Changes

  • Adjusted the balance of Gigamind, Katagawa Ball, and Billy the Anointed

These three boss fights had concerns with their health and shields that made their combat loops more difficult than we intended. Gigamind had a little too much health, so that was reduced slightly. Katagawa Ball will no longer regenerate its shields; we found that while players contended with the adds during the fight, it would unfairly regenerate its shield, negating the players’ progress. Finally, Billy had 25% of his health removed; we agree that this fight often dragged on needlessly. We will be monitoring each of these bosses and may make further adjustments in the future.

  • Bloated Rakks no longer spawn so many Rakklesnakes

This change should make the Cistern of Slaughter in particular much more fun.

  • Adjusted the cooldown values when they are displayed for Zane’s skills
  • Amara’s Glamour will now turn enemies on each other, as described in the Action Skill
  • Modified the loot spawn for Sera of Supremacy
  • Spiderant Emperors occasionally wouldn’t drill back out of the ground, which created a potential progression blocker in the Proving Ground of Survival; we have adjusted this and the issue has been addressed
  • Resolved an issue that could have prevented enemies from spawning while in Devil’s Razor
  • Lavender Crawly’s physics were adjusted to prevent them exiting the world like a popped balloon
  • Further safe guarded Apollo from being launched out of world as well
  • The Rampager will no longer enter an idle at state at inappropriate times
  • Saurian Slingers attacks were addressed
  • Guardians now use all their attacks in Playthrough 2
  • Guardian Wraiths now reliably use all their ranged attacks
  • NPCs in the Slaughter maps were reported to sometimes attempt to automatically revive players in the arena. Going forward they will no longer attempt to revive players
  • Minimized the glow effect when opening Eridian ammo chests, can more easily see the ammo inside when opened

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/borderlands-3-patch-notes-character-balance-stabil/1100-6470300/

Grand Theft Auto 5 Streaming Only On PS Now, At Least For Now

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Sony recently made big moves to make its long-running PlayStation Now service more competitive against services like Xbox Game Pass, and that includes making deals with publishers. Rockstar will reportedly only allow Sony to stream Grand Theft Auto 5, at least for the time being.

Wired reports that while Rockstar hasn’t struck a formal exclusivity arrangement with Sony, SIE CEO Jim Ryan says the game will only stream on PS Now “to the best of my knowledge.” The quasi-exclusivity reportedly stems partly from Take-Two being reluctant to launch its own subscription service like EA and Ubisoft. Paired with a recent big update to GTA Online, Rockstar was up for negotiating.

“I’d prefer not to disclose the terms, but let’s say it’s a good deal for Rockstar,” said Ryan.

Whatever the deal, it appears targeted only at streaming services. That potentially cuts out impending competitors like Google Stadia, which launches next month, and Microsoft’s xCloud, which is beginning public testing this month. But since it’s not officially an exclusive, Rockstar could potentially still take it elsewhere.

Rockstar was officially confirmed as a partner for Google Stadia, but without any announced games. It was one of only three developers, alongside EA and Capcom, that were included in a footnote saying that they would “announce content at their discretion.” Rockstar has not announced any Stadia games or if they’ll be available at launch, but the revelation that PS Now may be the sole streaming platform for GTA 5 appears to narrow down the list of possibilities.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-5-streaming-only-on-ps-now-at-lea/1100-6470299/

Mosaic Is Like Your Worst Day Turned Up To Eleven

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Mosaic is a game where you can’t find anything to eat in the fridge, you can’t afford to pay your bills, and there’s nothing good on TV. It’s also a game where you need to decide whether to flush the talking goldfish that magically appeared in your sink or bring it to work with you. That’s the main takeaway I got from the 40-odd minute demo I played ahead of Mosaic’s yet-to-be-determined release date.

The vibe of Krillbite’s latest adventure is that of your absolute worst day turned up to eleven. The environment is cold and empty, the characters are expressionless, your job is crappy, and your company regularly sends you stats on how badly you’re performing compared to your colleagues. No one will make eye contact with you in the elevator and there’s nothing about you or your life that appears to set you apart from anybody else in your corporate dystopia.

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You begin the game underwater, surfacing from a dream-like world into your sterile, drab apartment. You have three texts on your phone when you wake up–your loving mom asking if you’re coming home for your dad’s birthday, a friend cutting you off because of your lack of effort in the friendship, and a stupid mobile game that serves as a perfect microcosm for the rest of your life; infinitely repeating a dull and seemingly pointless task in order to do more of said task for no real reward. The act of playing the game, entitled Blip Blop, is a relatable parallel for your character, an average commuter unsatisfied with his job which entails crossing off gibberish milestones through repetitive tasks in order to feed some ominous and ambiguous larger scheme.

There’s a palpable sense of loneliness, isolation, and despondency. But it’s this tone that makes you curious enough to act out, since to stick to the status quo would be, quite frankly, depressing. There’s no other incentive to do so, and, as with the real world, it’s easy to turn right when you hit the sidewalk and follow the expressionless parade of workers down the big grey street past the big grey cars to your big grey building to do your stunningly dull grey work tasks. But what if you went left? What if instead of walking toward the elevator when leaving your apartment, you walked toward the window to take a look outside? It’s in these entirely optional moments that Mosaic shines. Literally shines.

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Peering out the window invites a saturated rainbow to weave above your head and clicking on it when it appears makes all sorts of things happen, from being enveloped by an imagined sunset to saving a cat from a tree and having it purr with gratitude in your arms. These moments are easy enough to miss, but finding one makes you yearn for more as it’s the singular escape from your otherwise bleak reality. Perhaps Krillbite is sending a larger message here, or perhaps the heights of luminosity are being used to contrast just how dark the underbelly of Mosaic’s dystopia gets. There are glimpses of this darkness through cryptic static and coded messages that invade your screen, but unraveling the mysteries of what, why, and how will presumably only become clearer when the full game arrives.

Our experience so far insinuated that the path to your everyday grind is paved with nothing out of the ordinary, but the road less traveled. The possibilities of what could be waiting in that direction are something else entirely, and Mosaic expects you to discover them.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mosaic-is-like-your-worst-day-turned-up-to-eleven/1100-6470292/

Mosaic Is Like Your Worst Day Turned Up To Eleven

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Mosaic is a game where you can’t find anything to eat in the fridge, you can’t afford to pay your bills, and there’s nothing good on TV. It’s also a game where you need to decide whether to flush the talking goldfish that magically appeared in your sink or bring it to work with you. That’s the main takeaway I got from the 40-odd minute demo I played ahead of Mosaic’s yet-to-be-determined release date.

The vibe of Krillbite’s latest adventure is that of your absolute worst day turned up to eleven. The environment is cold and empty, the characters are expressionless, your job is crappy, and your company regularly sends you stats on how badly you’re performing compared to your colleagues. No one will make eye contact with you in the elevator and there’s nothing about you or your life that appears to set you apart from anybody else in your corporate dystopia.

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You begin the game underwater, surfacing from a dream-like world into your sterile, drab apartment. You have three texts on your phone when you wake up–your loving mom asking if you’re coming home for your dad’s birthday, a friend cutting you off because of your lack of effort in the friendship, and a stupid mobile game that serves as a perfect microcosm for the rest of your life; infinitely repeating a dull and seemingly pointless task in order to do more of said task for no real reward. The act of playing the game, entitled Blip Blop, is a relatable parallel for your character, an average commuter unsatisfied with his job which entails crossing off gibberish milestones through repetitive tasks in order to feed some ominous and ambiguous larger scheme.

There’s a palpable sense of loneliness, isolation, and despondency. But it’s this tone that makes you curious enough to act out, since to stick to the status quo would be, quite frankly, depressing. There’s no other incentive to do so, and, as with the real world, it’s easy to turn right when you hit the sidewalk and follow the expressionless parade of workers down the big grey street past the big grey cars to your big grey building to do your stunningly dull grey work tasks. But what if you went left? What if instead of walking toward the elevator when leaving your apartment, you walked toward the window to take a look outside? It’s in these entirely optional moments that Mosaic shines. Literally shines.

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Peering out the window invites a saturated rainbow to weave above your head and clicking on it when it appears makes all sorts of things happen, from being enveloped by an imagined sunset to saving a cat from a tree and having it purr with gratitude in your arms. These moments are easy enough to miss, but finding one makes you yearn for more as it’s the singular escape from your otherwise bleak reality. Perhaps Krillbite is sending a larger message here, or perhaps the heights of luminosity are being used to contrast just how dark the underbelly of Mosaic’s dystopia gets. There are glimpses of this darkness through cryptic static and coded messages that invade your screen, but unraveling the mysteries of what, why, and how will presumably only become clearer when the full game arrives.

Our experience so far insinuated that the path to your everyday grind is paved with nothing out of the ordinary, but the road less traveled. The possibilities of what could be waiting in that direction are something else entirely, and Mosaic expects you to discover them.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mosaic-is-like-your-worst-day-turned-up-to-eleven/1100-6470292/

SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays new screenshots detail Situation Tour mode and Historic Moments

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SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays new screenshots detail Situation Tour mode and Historic Moments

Relive the stories of popular Gundam alternate universes.

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PAX Aus Schedule: Watch All The Action At GameSpot Theatre Here!

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Australia is home to a lot of things. Cute mammals. Deadly insects. Good coffee. It also has the honor of being the only country outside of the USA to host a PAX. This year, PAX Aus is happening again in Melbourne, Victoria from October 11-13. And, for the fourth year running, GameSpot’s Australian team (with some help from our friends at CNET) are hosting the GameSpot Theatre!

GameSpot Theatre at PAX Aus 2019 will be full of weird and wonderful stuff. This year, we have the fine folks from CD Projekt RED stopping by to show off Cyberpunk 2077, as well as the team from Sledgehammer Games giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The GameSpot staff will appear to argue about very important things like which Bioware love interest is the best (with Dragon Age Lead Writer David Gaider!), and which Fire Emblem: Three Houses character would survive a battle royale, and which Pokemon we would “Pet”, Marry, or Kill.

Below you can find the PAX Aus schedule for GameSpot Theatre. If you’re in Melbourne, come on down! If you’re not in Melbourne, bookmark the heck out of this page and come back to check out our livestream! All the panels will also be published separately when PAX Aus ends.

All times are in Australian Eastern Time. Find US and UK time conversions here.

Developers from Sledgehammer Games will be giving us a behind-the-scenes look at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on October 11

Friday, October 11

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Super Mario Maker 2: The Speed Fun Run

Nintendo has built an exclusive PAX Aus 2019 Super Mario Maker 2 course to test out your skills! Come along and watch the GameSpot crew succeed (or not) and then give it a go for yourself!

Featuring Jess McDonell [GameSpot] and Dan Crowd [Formerly of GameSpot, but we’re bringing him back for this one]

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Creating Call of Duty’s Signature “Big Moments”

From taking down the mighty Golden Gate Bridge and drop podding into Seoul in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to recreating Operations Neptune and Cobra in Call of Duty: WWII, creating the signature “Big Moments” in a video game is no easy task. Join the Art Direction leadership of Sledgehammer Games to take a deep dive into the planning and execution of some of their biggest game moments from concept art and storyboarding, to lighting vfx and polish.

Featuring Joseph Salud [Art Director, Sledgehammer Games], Sandy Lin-Chiang [Associate Art Director, Sledgehammer Games], Gareth Richards [VFX Art Lead, Sledgehammer Games], Josh Caratelli [Software Engineer, Sledgehammer Games]

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Fire Emblem Three Houses Battle Royale: There Can Only Be One Teacher’s Pet

There are a lot of students at Garreg Mach Monastery, and not all of them are going to make it out of this time jump alive. With your help, we’re going to pit individual students from Fire Emblem: Three Houses against each other in a battle to argue over who, in fact, is the actual best boy or girl. It’s going to be an unpredictable battle, and a lot of feelings are going to be hurt. But one thing’s for sure: Lorenz ain’t going to win.

Featuring Edmond Tran [GameSpot], Jess McDonell [GameSpot], Ginny Woo [Prima Games]

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Behind the Scenes of Call of Duty with Sledgehammer Audio

How do you go about reinventing the audio experience for a well-established game like Call of Duty? How do you make the audio sound fresh, next-gen and state of the art in the 14th installment of a franchise? Members of the Sledgehammer Games Audio Team will take attendees behind the scenes of Call of Duty to discuss and challenge proven, yet potentially outdated, development practices. Attendees will walk away with innovative, but more importantly, replicable development techniques for field recording, room calibration, audio production, and mixing designed to benefit both the big-budget AAA franchises and the small indie teams alike.

Featuring David Swenson [Sr. Audio Director, Sledgehammer Games – Activision], Michael Caisley [Expert Sound Designer, Sledgehammer Games – Activision]

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Horse Beats Train: The Great Legend Of Zelda Debate

The Legend of Zelda series is over 30 years old, and in that time we’ve seen some wild stuff. Demon trains. Hats that look like birds. Tingle. If you ask me all of these things are great, but we all know that Zelda fans can never agree on anything. Join us as we argue over the series’ best and worst weapons, outfits, sidekicks, antagonists, powers, and more—and get ready to tell us how wrong we are.

Featuring Edmond Tran [GameSpot], Mark Serrels [CNET], Shona Johnson [Zelda Universe], Ginny Woo [Prima Games], Olivia Haines [Game Developer and Artist]

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Wrestlevania 2K20: Giving Wrestlers The Power Rating They Deserve

You know how in every wrestling game, each wrestler has a power rating? Well, they’re all wrong. It’s time to give wrestlers the correct power ratings they deserve.

Featuring Daniel Van Boom [CNET], Mark Serrels [CNET], Jackson Ryan [CNET], Joab Gilroy [Red Bull]

On October 12, we argue over the best Bioware love interests with Dragon Age Origins lead writer David Gaider, which won’t be awkward at all

Saturday, October 12

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Peeking Behind the Curtain with Summerfall Studios

Join Summerfall Studios’ David Gaider and Liam Esler as they explore their rich history with narrative games and what that have in store in their future.

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Are We The Baddies?

Everyone loves a hero. They are good, they are brave, and they ALWAYS triumph over evil. But do we only believe this because history is written by the victors? What if the good guys were actually the bad guys? Their time is over- we see through their do-gooder facade. It’s time to find the Worst Good Guy.

Featuring Nicole Archer [CNET], Kelsey Gamble [Bethesda], Joab Gilroy [Red Bull], Amanda Yeo [Mashable]

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dolphin Tub: Pitch Us Your Excellent/Terrible Game Ideas!

Think you have a great idea for a video game? Come pitch it to a panel of professional critics, developers, and marketing people to see whether you need to drop everything you’re doing in your life immediately to run off with the video game circus.

Featuring Joab Gilroy [Red Bull], Edmond Tran [GameSpot], Jess McDonell [GameSpot], Jessica Jazic [Gameloft], Grahme Struthers [Devolver Digital]

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Fakin’ It Part II: The Reviewerning

Your favorite panel from PAX Aus 2017 is back, with a twist! Professional game reviewers attempt to trash universally beloved, and here’s the twist: one of the panelists actually hates it. Can you pick which panelist is a godforsaken heathen? 10/10 games, 10/10 hilarity (review-in-progress score).

Featuring Jess McDonell [GameSpot], Joab Gilroy [Red Bull], Dan Van Boom [CNET], Nic Healey [ABC Radio], Angharad Yeo [Good Game: Spawn Point]

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Falling For Bioware: Love Interest Battle Royale

Ship up or shape out! Or something! Everybody who has ever played a Mass Effect or Dragon Age game will undoubtedly have their favorite romance option, but what happens when you can only pick one? We pit Thedas heartthrobs directly against lovers from outer space in a bangin’ bracket to determine the singular best Bioware love interest of all time.

Featuring Jess McDonell [GameSpot], Nicole Archer [CNET], Ginny Woo [Prima Games], Nic Healey [ABC Radio], David Gaider [Summerfall Studios]

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Extra Life: Games as a Service And What Keeps Them Growing

With the launch of Overwatch on the Switch, we try to unpack what kind of magic brings people back to persistent games. Between community, expansion packs, and special events, what is the key to giving games like Overwatch, Final Fantasy XIV, Destiny 2, Monster Hunter World, and Fortnite longevity?

Featuring Edmond Tran [GameSpot], Rich Lambert [Zenimax Online Studios], Dean Woodward [League of Geeks], Domino Jack [Overwatch Streamer/Caster], Tamsin Wood [Destiny Content Creator]

CD Projekt RED are giving us a look at Cyberpunk 2077 on the last day of PAX Aus. We can’t wait.

Sunday, October 12

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | “Pet”, Marry, Kill: Pokémon Edition

There’s one thing we can all agree on—there are too many damn Pokémon. You know it, we know it, Nintendo and Game Freak know it. So what better way to spend an hour of PAX killing off a good chunk of the 800+ strong Pokédex and making sure we celebrate our favourites in our own, uh, special way?

Featuring Daniel Van Boom [CNET], Edmond Tran [GameSpot], Nicole Archer [CNET], Leah Williams [Kotaku Australia], Jackson Ryan [CNET], Dan Crowd [Professional Petter]

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | CD Projekt Red Presents Cyberpunk 2077

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2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | We Rate Video Game Dogs, Again

DOGS.

Featuring Mark Serrels [CNET], Nicole Archer [CNET], Angharad Yeo [Good Game: Spawn Point], Amanda Yeo [Mashable], Steph “Hex” Bendixsen

3:30PM – 4:30 PM | Press X to SCIENCE!

How do scientists use games as a laboratory for human behavior? Do video games really cause addiction? What if the way we play and develop video games could fight global inequality, or even climate change! We live in a scary, post-truth world and games often provide a safe space for us to escape to. But can games be a powerful tool to fight the tide of “alternative facts”.

Featuring Tim Young [Astrophysicist, Guerrilla Astronomy], Megan Pusey [PhD Candidate, Murdoch University], Phill English [Resource Scientist, [redacted]]

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | GameSpot’s Infamous Trivia Hour Mark III

Answer questions about games! Win cool stuff! It’s just that easy! Come hang out with us for an hour of video game trivia intended to get cool merch directly into your paws.

Featuring Jess McDonell [GameSpot], Eddie Makuch [GameSpot], Nicole Archer [CNET]

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pax-aus-schedule-watch-all-the-action-at-gamespot-/1100-6470267/

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Coming To PAX Aus

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One of 2020’s most anticipated games, Cyberpunk 2077, will be shown publicly for the first time in Australia at PAX Australia later this month in Melbourne.

Attendees can watch live presentations of the much-anticipated role-playing game each day of the show–October 11, 12, and 13. The presentations run for 45 minutes each. The first two presentations take place in the Main Theatre, while the third is being held at GameSpot’s own theatre on Sunday, October 13 at 12:30 PM local time.

Here is the schedule of presentations for Cyberpunk 2077 at PAX Aus:

  • Friday, October 11 — 1 PM | Main Theatre
  • Saturday, October 12 — 3 PM | Main Theatre
  • Sunday, October 13 — 12:30 PM | GameSpot Theatre

In addition to the live presentations, Cyberpunk 2077 will have a place at the Xbox booth featuring more video presentations along with a cosplay competition. Fans can dress up in their favorite Cyberpunk cosplay for a shot at winning a $5000 prize.

Cyberpunk 2077 posters and t-shirts will also be available at the Xbox booth, along with signing opportunities.

PAX Aus 2019 runs October 11-13 in Melbourne, Victoria. Keep checking back with GameSpot for lots more on the show in the days and week to come.

As for Cyberpunk 2077, the next game from the creators of The Witcher series launches in April 2020 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-is-coming-to-pax-aus/1100-6470295/

Destiny 2 Servers Will Be Offline On October 3; Here’s Exactly When And For How Long

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Destiny 2 will be offline on October 3 as developer Bungie performs maintenance on the multiplayer game’s servers. The downtime will commence at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET / 3 PM GMT, and during this time the game will be unplayable, while some functionality on Destiny’s connected experiences across web, mobile, and third-party apps may be interrupted.

The downtime is expected to run for 30 minutes, wrapping up at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM GMT. While the servers are expected to be back online at that time, players might experience a server queue. This is nothing out of the ordinary, as many online games implement server queues at various times to help ease the strain of server load.

Destiny 2’s big new expansion, Shadowkeep, and the New Light free-to-play version of the game, released on October 1. The rollout wasn’t entirely smooth, as Bungie was forced to bring down the game’s servers for several hours to perform “emergency maintenance.”

Despite the hiccups, Destiny 2 was able to reach more than 200,000 peak concurrent players on launch day. The game continues to be extremely popular. Steam’s public statistics page shows the game reached 226,000 concurrent players on October 2, making it one of the most popular games on the whole of Steam.

For lots more on Destiny 2, check out GameSpot’s recent stories below:

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2-servers-will-be-offline-on-october-3-her/1100-6470294/