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Firewatch, five years old this month, released at the height of the mid-2010s narrative game boom. Where many other narrative games posited their choices as clear, divergent forks in the road though, Firewatch took a more subtle approach to decision making. Throughout the course of the game, the choices you make range in stature, but rarely offer a Sliding Doors moment commonly associated with the narrative game cliffhanger. So much so that many players didn’t even realise they were making choices at all....

Ubisoft has confirmed that its 2017 multiplayer brawler For Honor will be receiving a free next-gen upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series S|X. Speaking to the For Honor community on Twitch, the company confirmed that current owners of the game will be able to download the compatible next-gen version this December when the next-gen port launches. If you happen to be going with the Series S, the upgrade won’t be dramatically different....

This week’s Fortnite challenges put a heavy emphasis on the various bodies of water that are scattered across the game’s map as well as the vehicles that are used to traverse them. For instance, one new task instructs players to blow up Fishing Holes at Sharky Shell, Sweaty Sands, or Flopper Pond, and doing this is made all the easier with the assistance of a Motorboat. For those players that are looking for details on the fastest way to complete this Fortnite challenge, those can be found in what follows....

While skins may get most of the attention when it comes to Fortnite’s cosmetics, there’s no denying that the game’s emotes are popular as well. Epic Games continues to add new emotes to Fortnite for fans to purchase with V-Bucks, with the newest one seemingly inspired by controversial UFC star Conor McGregor. The new “Boneless” emote in Fortnite appears to be based on the unique way Conor McGregor walks in the Octagon, though with more exaggerated motions....

When Epic Games announced the winner of its Boogiedown contest for Fortnite, most members of the community cried foul of the choice. The dance chosen was plenty creative, but the hype surrounding a completely different dance had most figuring that Orange Shirt kid was going to take the prize and the emote. Thankfully, Epic Games has made amends by introducing Orange Justice, a new emote that features Orange Shirt Kid’s signature dance....

Fortnite’s most recent globe-shaped vehicle addition has been increasingly popular. The Baller allows Fortnite players to roll, rappel, and swing around the battle royale map with speed and ease. But that freedom of movement, that perhaps-too-inspired design, has also proven to be The Baller’s downfall. Epic Games has, unfortunately, had to temporarily disable The Baller in Fortnite as of Monday morning. According to Epic, The Baller is causing a stability issue within Fortnite....

There’s no doubt that Epic Games has plenty of changes planned for Fortnite Battle Royale’s forthcoming eighth season. For instance, the studio recently declared its intentions to put the X-4 Stormwing Plane in the the Vault once the free-to-play title’s next major cycle of content begins. Other than certain item tweaks, though, there’s no telling exactly what kind of overall aesthetic changes could be coming to the game. However, should a recent image be an indication of what’s to come, then Fortnite Season 8 may have a pirate theme....

2020’s novel Coronavirus has been the center of attention for the last several months as it continues to plague the world, canceling events and endangering millions of lives. The newest gaming event to be canceled is the Fortnite World Cup 2020. COVID-19 has spread worldwide, making whole communities ill and taking lives. So it’s not a surprise that tons of events all over have been canceled, including many gaming events, like EVO 2020 and TwitchCon....

Turn 10 Studios has released a statement banning the use of the Confederate flag in any of the Forza games. Previously, players were able to use the Confederate flag as a decal on cars. It was often used to recreate the popular General Lee car from The Dukes of Hazzard, which infamously displayed the Confederate flag on the top. The ban stems from the removal of many symbols with racist undertones in a time of social justice reform....

With the conversation around the future of backwards compatibility with the PS5 reaching an all time high, a modder has found a PS1 emulator in a very unlikely place. Unlike Microsoft and their upcoming Series X, Sony has been very quiet on the subject of backwards compatibility with the upcoming console. It hasn’t been since the first edition of the PS3 that a Sony machine was backwards compatible at all, and while PSNow offers an alternative solution, it is restricted by price and streaming....

The games industry is in an interesting place this week, as Microsoft’s Bethesda acquisition seems like it will shake the industry’s foundation. With that, plus a lot of other news to chew on, Cameron and Anthony have plenty to discuss in Game Rant Arcade Episode 13. First up, Marvel’s Avengers is making some controversial changes, raising the leveling requirements and possibly bottlenecking progression. So far, Avengers has had a rough time, underperforming financially and struggling to maintain a meaningful gameplay loop....

In late February, the Game Developers Conference, abbreviated as GDC, was canceled in response to numerous outbreaks of COVID-19, more popularly known as the Coronavirus. Today, however, it was announced that GDC will be rescheduled as a smaller, three-day event called GDC Summer, which will take place in August. More specifically, GDC Summer will take place from August 4th to August 6th, instead of its original dates of March 16th through the 20th....

The Electro Hypostasis is one of the elemental bosses in Genshin Impact. Harnessing the power of lightning, the Electro Hypostasis can be a tough fight. Let’s take a look at where to find it, which characters to use, and how to defeat the Electro Hypostasis. Location The Electro Hypostasis is located in Cape Oath, near the Eagle’s Gate domain. You can see its exact location in the Traveler Guide book, as well as directly on the map after you have discovered it....

The upcoming free-to-play, open-world title Genshin Impact may be one of the biggest titles to drop this month, thanks to its highly animated style and outside inspirations. However, thanks to a new statement from miHoYo may mean that while Genshin Impact was announced for PS4 with Mobile and PC versions also releasing at the same time, the title may be making its way to a next-gen console as well. In an interview with Game Rant, miHoYo commented on the prospect of porting Genshin Impact over to new consoles after the initial Mobile, PC, and PS4 release....

The Genshin Impact 2.0 update will not be adding ray-tracing, according to technical director Zhenzhong Yi. One of the biggest selling points of next-gen hardware is ray-tracing. To put it simply, ray-tracing is the realistic rendering of light to simulate how it actually works in our world. You can see it in effect with Spider-Man PS5 by looking at glass windows on buildings where you’ll get an accurate, real-time reflection of the wallcrawler and the surrounding environment....

The Geo Traveler hasn’t been held in particularly high regard by the Genshin Impact community, as they’ve struggled to find a place sometimes in stronger party compositions. However, let this be a lesson on being careful about who you make fun of in high school because one sharp redditor has discovered that the Geo Traveler is really a beast. Genshin Impact’s world slowly scales up to match the pace of your main party....

Singing Crickets are an interesting collectible in Ghost Of Tsushima. Each one can teach the player a different tune on their flute allowing them to change the weather with a song. It’s also important for a number of different trophies. Finding them is relatively easy if the player’s character is wearing the Traveler’s Attire and has beaten the game. But for those wanting to find them before this moment, it’s important to know the general location of these musical crickets....

About a couple of months ago, Sony Interactive Entertainment provided good news for God of War fans who had already beaten the game and were craving more out of the action-adventure epic by confirming that the PlayStation 4 exclusive would be getting a New Game Plus mode. Now, the companies have officially confirmed when players should expect to see the feature make its way into the latest chapter of Kratos and Atreus’ story by revealing the New Game Plus patch will come on August 20, 2018....

How to access Android easter eggs How Google’s emergency text-to-speech feature works on Pixel phones How to find the Friends easter eggs on Google search Turn up your device’s volume. Go to Google.com. Search the name of a character on Friends. On the right, on desktop, you’ll see a little illustration. It’s near the top on mobile. Click the illustration. For some, you have to several times. The full list of Google’s Friends easter eggs Phoebe Buffay: Guitar Ross Geller: Couch Joey Tribbiani: Pizza slice Chandler Bing: Recliner Rachel Green: The Rachel haircut Monica Geller: Wash bucket

Games Workshop’s tabletop Blackstone Fortress is coming to an end as the final expansion Ascension is now available to pre-order. Blackstone Fortress is a board game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and is a member of the Warhammer Quest range that is often seen as the spiritual successors to GWs Hero Quest and Space Crusade games of the 1980s. Originally released in 2018, the game has received three expansions and a round-up of the year in the form of an Annual in 2019....