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PS4 ID Changes Finally Coming This Week, Sony Confirms
Sony has confirmed the much-requested PSN ID change feature will arrive very soon for PS4 users. Players in North America can change their IDs from today, April 10, while those in Europe can do so from tomorrow, April 11.
“We’re excited to announce that the online ID change feature on PSN is officially launching to all PlayStation 4 owners later today,” Sony’s social media director, Sid Shuman, stated on the PlayStation Blog. “You’ll also be able to change your online ID via a web browser, and that feature will also be available starting today.”
Shuman goes on to state that ID changes can only be done through a web browser or your PS4–so PS3 and PS Vita users are out of luck. As was previously confirmed, the first change is free, but any subsequent changes to your PSN ID will cost $10 / £8, or $5 / £4 for PS Plus subscribers.
There are no limits on how many times you can change your ID, and you can always revert back to any previous version of your ID for free by contacting PlayStation support. Nobody else can take your old IDs, even after you change, and if you choose to you can display your old ID next to your new one on your profile for up to 30 days, in order to help your friends notice the change. Child accounts cannot change their online ID, Sony says.
Sony warns not all PS4 games will support ID changes: any title published on or after April 1, 2018 should display your new ID in-game, but the platform holder has discovered one instance “where a [recent] game did not fully support the feature.” A full list of games that support PSN ID changes can be found on the PlayStation website, showing that many hundreds of titles fully support name changes, while a handful of games have “critical issues” and a few more have “known issues which we did not consider critical to the gameplay experience.”
PS4 users might also be interested in April 2019’s PS Plus games, The Surge and Conan Exiles. Both titles are available at no extra cost for PS Plus subscribers right now, but they’ll go back to their original price at the end of the month.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-id-changes-finally-coming-this-week-sony-confi/1100-6466148/
Sea Of Thieves’ Anniversary Update Is Huge–Here Are All The Details
Sea of Thieves has been out for just over a year, and while many enjoyed the pirate game, others felt it just didn’t have enough content. Developer Rare is further attempting to address that feedback with the game’s Anniversary Update, comprising a new narrative-driven questline called Tall Tales: Shores of Gold and an entire new PvP mode named The Arena.
The Arena is a competitive mode for five teams of four set in smaller, distinct areas. At the beginning of each 24-minute match, every team receives the same set of treasure maps. You must proceed to one of the X marks in order to retrieve chests, which can then be cashed in for Silver at a number of special ships.
Of course, other teams are competing for the same chests to cash in, so you might find you run in to some resistance on your travels. Killing other players or sinking their ships nets you a small amount of Silver, and respawns are active. Particular to The Arena is a new damage model for ships, which can now have their wheel, masts, and anchor destroyed–though these can be repaired with wood in the same way you would fix a hull.
Tall Tales, meanwhile, is a new questline for people who wanted more direction in Sea of Thieves’ classic adventure mode. It’s set in the game’s usual shared world–which will also gain a new island that Rare says is its biggest island yet–and will see you complete a number of puzzles and riddles in the search for treasure. The mode includes new enemy types, items enchanted with new abilities, and a new faction that will buy fish and meat off you after you utilise new fishing and cooking mechanics. Sea of Thieves’ Anniversary update will be released for free on April 30.
Rare’s pirate game launched in March 2018 and was awarded a 6/10 in our Sea of Thieves review. “There may come a time when Sea of Thieves is able to entice me back, and I imagine that will be with a mix of new mission types and hopefully the promise of rewards that allow for new types of interactions, if not improve my character’s capabilities,” wrote Peter Brown. “For now, it’s a somewhat hollow game that can be fun for a handful of hours when played with friends, and something worth trying out if you happen to be an Xbox Game Pass subscriber. Even though it’s hard to wholeheartedly recommend, I like enough of what I see to hold out hope that things will eventually improve as the game continues to be patched and updated with new content.”
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sea-of-thieves-anniversary-update-is-huge-here-are/1100-6466120/
New Black Ops 4 Blackout Map Alcatraz Now Available On Xbox One And PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s battle royale mode Blackout added a new map, Alcatraz, on PS4 earlier this month, and now it’s also available for Xbox One and PC.
Black Ops 4’s version of the island prison off San Francisco is a close-quarters map that sees players fighting among buildings and watchtowers and inside through cells and tight corridors. In addition to being smaller than the standard map, it’s changes how you drop into the map, and it features zombies throughout. Additionally, like Apex Legends, you’re able to respawn on Alcatraz. You can see it in action in the video embedded above.
Blackout is currently free on all platforms until the end of the month. Normally, you’d have to own the full Black Ops 4 to play it, but that’s not the case during this promotional period.
In other news, an update for Black Ops 4 added a new Infected game mode on PS4, while there have been some updates to weapon balance and more. Go to Reddit to see a full rundown of the changes made to the game with its April 9 patch.
2019’s Call of Duty game is rumoured to be Modern Warfare 4 from developer Infinity Ward, though nothing is confirmed at this stage. Activision typically announces new Call of Duty games in late April or May, so it should be soon that we know more. What we do know for sure is that the game will have a traditional campaign after Black Ops 4 left it out.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-black-ops-4-blackout-map-alcatraz-now-availabl/1100-6466147/
