Month: February 2019

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Ubisoft has announced that New Game Plus is coming to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The mode is scheduled to release before the end of February, but an exact date hasn’t been revealed yet.

The announcement was made via a tweet on Assassin’s Creed’s Twitter account. The tweet is fairly vague, so any information on how New Game Plus might work–such as whether you’ll be able to restart as the protagonist you didn’t play as or whether you’ll keep all your ship lieutenants you recruited through story missions–has not been revealed. However, another follow-up tweet revealed that more information about New Game Plus will be coming next week.

Next month, the remastered edition of Assassin’s Creed III launches for Xbox One, PS4, and PC on March 29. The game includes a remastered version of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD as well, and includes all the DLC for both–such as the three-part Tyranny of King Washington expansion. Both titles will feature 4K HDR support, and on PC, Xbox One X, and PS4 Pro, the games will play with “higher resolution textures, a new graphics engine, and several other graphical enhancements.” You can buy this collection standalone, but it also comes included in the season pass for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

The third and final episode of the first major story expansion for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, titled The First Blade, is also scheduled to release in the coming months. The First Blade continued Kassandra/Alexios’ story, telling of how they met Darius, the first known individual to wield the Assassin’s iconic hidden blade. The second episode of The First Blade, called Shadow Heritage, drew controversy when it ended with Kassandra/Alexios forced into a heterosexual relationship with Darius’ child.

In our Assassin’s Creed Odyssey review, Alessandro Fillari gave the game an 8/10, writing, “While its large-scale campaign–clocking in at over 50 hours–can occasionally be tiresome, and some features don’t quite make the impact they should, Odyssey makes great strides in its massive and dynamic world, and it’s a joy to venture out and leave your mark on its ever-changing setting.”

The 61 Annual Grammy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 10 on CBS. But what if you want to watch through one of your gaming consoles? Whether you’ve cut the cord or you just want to watch in between gaming rounds, you can watch the award show right from your dashboard.

Both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have the CBS All Access app, which will be streaming the Grammy Awards live. A CBS All Access subscription costs $6 per month, or $10 for the commercial-free option. If you’d just like to check out the service and use it to watch the Grammys, you can sign up for a one-week free trial to gain access to the award show along with all of the other content. Keep in mind that charges will start automatically once the free trial ends, unless you manually cancel.

If you’d rather watch on Nintendo Switch, you’ll need the Hulu app instead. CBS isn’t carried in the standard Hulu line-up, but it is carried with the highest-tier Live TV package–ordinarily priced at $45 per month. Like CBS All Access, though, you can sign up for a free trial to test the service and watch the Grammys. Charges will apply automatically after the free trial ends.

The Grammy Awards will be hosted by Alicia Keys, no stranger to the awards with fifteen Grammys herself. She’ll be the first woman to host the event in more than a decade. The show will also include musical performances by Camila Cabello with Ricky Martin, Arturo Sandoval, Young Thug and J Balvin, Dolly Parton, and more. The show will begin at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET.

The Grammys will air air on CBS, the parent company of GameSpot.

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Outside of the holidays, it’s rare to find deals on Nintendo Switch hardware, but Nintendo has announced a new bundle that serves as a good entry point if you’re interested in picking the console up. The bundle goes on sale starting February 15 and includes a system with neon red and blue Joy-Cons, as well as $35 credit for its digital storefront, the Eshop.

The bundle will be available at retailers around the US and costs $300, the standard price of a Switch console. While the bonus credit can be put toward any Eshop purchase, the storefront is home to a preponderance of great–and fairly cheap–indie games, such as Golf Story, Celeste, and the recently released Advance Wars-like strategy game Wargroove.

The credit can also be used to purchase DLC, which many of Switch’s must-have titles have received. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s expansion pass costs $20, as does Splatoon 2‘s single-player focused Octo Expansion. If you pick up Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, its fighters pass runs for $25 and will give you access to five of its planned DLC characters, including Persona 5’s Joker.

If you’re unsure of what to purchase with the Eshop credit, we’ve put together a gallery of the best Nintendo Switch games for $20 or less to help you decide what’s worth downloading.

Nintendo has a number of exclusive games lined up for Switch this year. The adorable platformer Yoshi’s Crafted World launches on March 29, while Fire Emblem: Three Houses arrives this spring. Luigi’s Mansion 3, an Animal Crossing Switch game, and a “core” Pokemon RPG are also slated to release in 2019, although Nintendo has yet to announce release dates for those games.

Activision has revealed the PC system requirements fo From Software’s upcoming Souls-like game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice via the title’s Steam page. The minimum and recommended requirements aren’t all that different from what you needed for Dark Souls III, so if you played From Software’s 2016 Souls game on PC, you should be fine.

The minimum requirements for Sekiro are slightly higher than what they were for Dark Souls III though. For Sekiro, you need either an Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD FX-6300 processor that’s paired with 4 GB of RAM and either a Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU. You’ll have to bump up your system’s specs to run the game on its recommended settings, obviously, but the Steam page does not reveal the difference in targeted resolution and framerate between the two.

Below, we’ve outlined the full list of both the minimum and recommended PC system requirements.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice PC System Requirements

Minimum

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 8 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 | AMD FX-6300
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 | AMD Radeon HD 7950
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 11 Compatible

Recommended

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 8 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K | AMD Ryzen 5 1400
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 570
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 25 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 11 Compatible

Sekiro is a very different take on the challenging but fair formula that From Software has developed through Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls series, and Bloodborne. The game changes how combat works–opting for a system that focuses more on guard breaks–and also implementing both parkour and stealth mechanics. Because of the new approach to combat, boss battles will play out very differently in Sekiro as well. Sekiro’s protagonist, known as The Wolf, will also speak, and journey through a Japanese drama that utilizes flashbacks to flesh out the game’s cast of characters. There won’t be online multiplayer in Sekiro either, but this means the game will support a pause function.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice launches on March 22, and it’s coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

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