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After a series of abuse allegations rocked the company, Ubisoft has found itself back in hot water. French journalists Erwan Cario and Marius Chapuis have once again exposed abusive practices at the publisher - and this time, it’s from one of their most prolific employees. Michel Ancel, creator of both Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil, is being accused of volatile and hateful behavior in the workplace. Cario and Chapuis’ article (translated on ResetEra) characterizes the developer as an unstable, angry boss who verbally and psychologically harasses his team during crunch....

Players across the world have had the newest gaming hardware on their holiday gift lists this year, from the PS5, to the Xbox Series X/S, and for PC gaming, few can top the Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series of graphics cards. One player’s mother has decided to give the gift of massive framerates and ray tracing promised by Next-Gen tech in spirit with a birthday cake that is about as close as some players have managed to get to the new piece of tech this year....

GameStop’s Executive Vice President Frank Hamlin considers it important for the next generation of consoles, both Microsoft’s Project Scarlett and Sony’s PlayStation 5, to retain disc drives for players to have a choice about how they acquire their games. The statement comes not long after Microsoft released its first all-digital Xbox One S model, which functionally is identical to other consoles within the Xbox family, but has no disc drive and relies on its users solely purchasing games by digital download....

GameStop Ireland has been informing some customers who pre-ordered a PS5 that they might not get the console until 2021. The PS5 pre-order process was a mess, and that’s putting it mildly. Sony assured gamers over the summer that it would not spring pre-orders for the console on people unexpectedly. Not only is that exactly what happened, but most retailers launched their pre-order process the night before Sony said they would go live....

In order to gain access to the Jade Chamber and meet up with Ningguang in Genshin Impact, you’ll need a special treat. A Sugar-Frosted Slime is the price to enter, and it’s a delicious-looking treat that one fan decided to create in real life. In the Equilibrium storyline from the Archon Quests, your Traveler will be tasked with finding another member of the Liyue Qixing, Keqing. After your rendevous, Keqing will instruct you on how to get in, but Paimon also raises the flag on another requirement, you need a customary gift to greet those at the Jade Chamber....

Our quick take Google Nest Cam (Indoor, Wired) - 4.5 / 5 Compact design Tabletop positioned or wall-mounted with two screws Dimensions: 98.5 x 64 x 56.9mm / Weight: 93g Operating temperature: 0 to 40°C 45% recycled materials Easy setup Requires Google Home app Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz/5GHz) 3m (10ft) power cable with USB-A connector Google Home tips and tricks Smart features Activity zones Two-way Talk and Listen Person/animal/vehicle motion detection 3hr event history (without a subscription) Familiar Face alerts, 30- or 60-day event history (with subscription) Great performance 2MP sensor, up to 1080p (1920 x 1080) at 30fps 135-degree field of view, 16:9 aspect ratio Night Vision, high dynamic range (HDR) 6x digital zoom...

In an effort to get more people excited about the streaming platform, Google held a Stadia Connect to announce plenty of new games, features, and partnerships coming to the platform. Stadia is partnering with Harmonix, Uppercut Games, and Supermassive Games to create titles with Stadia in mind. Stadia has been holding Connects throughout the year to bring excitement and attention to the streaming platform. Despite its best efforts, the feeling is still very lukewarm towards Stadia and everything it offers....

GoPro Hero6 Black: Overview and video samples GoPro Hero6 Black: Design Waterproof to 10m (33 feet) Two screens: one front, one back GoPro Hero 6 Black: GP1 processor, Photo and Video 4K at 60fps/1080p at 240fps HEVC video codec New algorithm for stabilsation RAW and HDR photos 4K Wide - 60, 50, 30, 25, 24 fps 4K SuperView - 30, 25, 24 fps 4K (4:3) Wide - 30, 25, 24 fps 2....

Final Fantasy 14’s director, Naoki Yoshida, details fixes coming in the game’s upcoming patch that will rebalance the difficulty after player complaints. Following gamer backlash after the increase in difficulty with the release of Heavensward, it looks like the next patch for Final Fantasy 14 will rebalance the game. Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida announced the update coming in patch 3.2 in a message to the community with details about the upcoming changes....

The folks from Square Enix are known to introduce memorable characters in their Final Fantasy franchise. Moreover, as Final Fantasy 7 remains one of the most critically-acclaimed games in the series, it’s no wonder it has its roster of unique characters. Additionally, aside from mainstays Cloud, Sephiroth, and Aerith, fans have AVALANCHE leader Barret to admire. In the game’s story, Barret is the one-armed badass heading AVALANCHE against Shinra Electric Company....

Just like with Final Fantasy XVl, rumors on the internet anticipated Final Fantasy Remake’s release. Most players were expecting a modern upgrade of the original 1997 game. However, when Square announced FF7 would be split into separate games, fans were flabbergasted and didn’t know what to expect. Word on the online street said players will being able to acquire Sephiroth’s Masamune, have Reno & Rude join the party, and have the ability to revive Aerith....

Yuffie Kisaragi is one of the characters that fans often think of when remembering characters from Final Fantasy 7. This is likely due to her prominent role in other Final Fantasy related material such as Final Fantasy 7’s Advent Children movie and the Kingdom Hearts games. While Yuffie is a party member in the original Final Fantasy 7, fans who haven’t played the original may not know that she was in fact an optional party member....

The Final Fantasy series is essentially a video game equivalent of a tabletop role-playing game. In fact, the first game in the series needed to be edited for its Western release, as people were worried about a lawsuit from the creators of Dungeons & Dungeons. The Final Fantasy games were heavily inspired by tabletop RPGs and as such, follow similar rules. These rules can be bent and broken as much as the player wants, without having to deal with an ornery Dungeon Master packing up his books and storming out of the room....

The Final Fantasy VII Remake is brimming with nostalgia. Nothing tickles fans’ fond memories more than seeing beloved characters brought to life on current generation of consoles with a fidelity that surpasses even Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. The conversation around the legendary PlayStation RPG never stopped, but the remake has people talking about it even more and showing their love the only way the internet knows how — through memes....

The miqo’te of Final Fantasy XIV are one of the most popular races in the MMO game. Basically, they are cat people. They are split into two categories: Keepers of the Sun and Keepers of the Moon. Originally, players could only play as female miqo’te. That changed once A Realm Reborn was launched. Now male miqo’te are everywhere and players cannot imagine an Eorzea without them! With how popular a race they are, there is a lot of fan art....

On Wednesday, Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell surprised the gaming world by proclaiming that his studio was developing a stand-alone console. Slightly Mad Studios is mostly known for developing Project CARS, prompting mixed reactions to the ambitious announcement. Today, Bell’s fairly new Twitter account has published concept images of what the proposed Mad Box console will look like. Bell claims that the Mad Box console will be “the most powerful console ever built”, being quite capable of playing VR games at 180 FPS and other titles at 4K....

Tetris is getting a new make up palette. That sounds absurd at first, like if you heard there were Halo-flavoured Pringles, or the Polish prime minister was being added to Tekken 7, or that Bryce Dallas Howard was directing the next Star Wars video game. However, just like all of those, the more you think about it, the more you realise what amazing ideas they are. The first two are completely true, by the way, while the third one isn’t - but definitely should be....

For over 20 years, Adobe Flash has offered creators the ability to share artwork and independent games freely online, sometimes in the best forms that they could be made available. So, it’s a real blow to the online creative community that Adobe will be shutting the media player down just before stepping into 2021, with many Flash games getting backed up to try saving two decades of internet history. In response to this removal former Flash game dev Jonas Richner conducted short interviews with more than 20 different content creators who had either gotten their start or continue using Adobe’s media player....

While Fortnite’s Season 5 Week 8 challenges are fairly diverse, there is a recurring theme that appears across them. More specifically, there is an emphasis on vehicles and farms in several of the new Fortnite challenges, and there is one task in particular that requires players to engage with both of these things. The challenge being referred to here is the one that instructs fans to deliver a truck to Sunflower’s Farm, and this guide is here to assist with that endeavor....

A new set of Fortnite challenges is scheduled to go live this Thursday, October 29, and one of them will instruct players to catch Fish at Heart Lake. While this task may seem straightforward enough, some fans may have questions about exactly where they can find the location referenced in the challenge description. For those players that need more information on Heart Lake for this Fortnite Season 4 Week 10 challenge, full details can be found in this guide....