Month: December 2020

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Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, which is due to release on December 11, has received a final trailer ahead of release. The trailer below shows off the game’s narrative focus in its campaign, and gives some insight into what multiplayer will look like, too. You’ll be able to fire bazookas, cut down rope bridges, and experience everything in virtual reality. The game comes from Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment.

The trailer also shows how the game will integrate real-life interviews with veterans to give players a sense of the real conflicts and people that inspired the game.

This trailer was teased ahead of the ceremony, and welcomes back the Medal of Honor series after a long absence. The most recent game before this one was 2012’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

If you want to play the new Medal of Honor, make sure you clear some space–the storage requirements are intimidatingly huge.

The Game Awards 2020 ended with one more announcement just before the final award, and it was a big one. The show finished with a teaser trailer for the next Mass Effect.

The teaser was vague, consisting mostly of overviews of planets and galaxies against radio chatter that’s tough to make out, but definitely includes some key Mass Effect tidbits, including the sound of a Reaper attack ship. It sounds as if it’s going through the history of human space travel, including real-life history. We had only one detailed view of a person, a being on a seemingly isolated area of a planet. It ended with the promise that “Mass Effect Will Continue,” though it did not give a title or release details.

Fans have speculated that the person picking up the N7 armor fragment in the trailer is none other than Liara T’Soni, one of the original Mass Effect party members and a popular character in her own right. She’s accompanied by a few characters in the background, who are hard to make out but appear to be a Salarian, a Krogan, and a Drell.

A close listen to the audio might hide more hints. The chatter seems to go through Mass Effect historical events, like the First Contact War and humanity joining the Citadel. There are also snatches that could be from Mass Effect games themselves–it’s possible to pick up what sounds like Shepard, voiced by Mark Meer, calling out over the radio during the Battle of the Citadel at the end of Mass Effect. After that, a voice says, “Is anyone receiving this? I’ve lost contact.” Though distorted, it sounds a lot like Liara. There’s more dialogue, which suggests more hints, but it’s tough to make out beyond that, unfortunately.

In a set of follow-up tweets, BioWare project director Michael Gamble said he’s excited to start showing fans their vision for the next Mass Effect. He also suggested the trailer has plenty of secrets to unpack for the devoted fan community that will likely spend the next days scouring it.

On that note, fans are already speculating that the game treats Mass Effect 3’s “destruction” ending as canon. We won’t share further details for fear of spoilers.

This is one of two Mass Effect projects currently in development. The other, a remastered version of the original trilogy, is coming next spring. That was announced on November 7, aka N7 Day.

The ever-evolving library of games available to Xbox Game Pass continues to get new games, and the next batch was announced during The Game Awards 2020.

The list is headlined by Bethesda’s enduringly popular RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is heading to the catalog on December 15. Meanwhile, Among Us will come to Game Pass “soon” on PC, where it’s normally a paid title (unlike the free-to-play mobile version). A new Among Us map was revealed at The Game Awards, too.

Also coming to Game Pass in the near future is the entire mainline Kiryu Yakuza saga. The Yakuza Remastered Collection (containing Yakuza 3, 4, and 5) will be available on Game Pass beginning January 28, 2021. After that, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life will release on Game Pass on March 25, 2021. All of the Yakuza games will also make their debut on PC alongside Xbox.

Other new games coming to Game Pass include Neoverse, Killer Queen Black, The Medium, and Cyber Shadow. All of these will be available on Xbox, while everything but Neoverse and Skyrim will be available on PC.

Just this week, Xbox Game Pass added several new games, including Call of the Sea. Other December additions have consisted of Control, Haven, and, on PC, Doom Eternal. Meanwhile, Microsoft has confirmed plans for xCloud streaming, available through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, to be available on iOS devices and Windows 10 PCs next spring.

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Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, which was expected in early 2021, has been delayed. The game will still debut in 2021, but later in the year than expected, publisher Riot Forge has announced. On the plus side, we got a new look at Ruined King with a trailer at The Game Awards 2020.

The game, a single-player roleplaying title, will feature many League of Legends characters and lore. In an announcement on Twitter, the publisher said that the game needs to be delayed for the same reason many games have been delayed lately–2020 has been hard.

“This year has presented a number of challenges for all of us that have been outside our control,” the announcement reads. Because of this, the game will not meet its “early 2021” release goal, and will arrive later next year.

“We’re excited for you to experience the fantastic adventure (developer) Airship Syndicate has created with Ruined King, and we want to ensure we support their vision and give you an awesome game,” it continues.

To tide us over, a new trailer was released during The Game Awards 2020. You can watch it below.

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is coming to PC and consoles, including Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and Xbox One.

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During The Game Awards 2020, the next expansion (or major content update) for the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online, titled Gates of Oblivion, was revealed through a teaser trailer. Those who played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion may recognize parts of the teaser such as the visions going through the Oblivion gates, the series’ version of hell, and Oblivion’s iconic mark.

The teaser indicates that the new content will be available in 2021, and more information is coming soon with a global full reveal event on January 21 at 5 PM EST. You can watch the teaser trailer below.

After developer Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media was acquired by Microsoft, it was confirmed that ESO would continue to receive support on PS4 for the time being.

The most recent Elder Scrolls Online DLC, Markarth, released in November. It added a new zone to explore, more challenging bosses, and a new solo arena.