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News of foul play has hit the Formula E esports racing scene. Daniel Abt, racing under ABT Schaeffler Audi, was disqualified after cheating allegations against him were substantiated over the weekend.

Suspicions were raised about whether or not Abt was actually the driver behind the wheel for Saturday’s Formula E Race at Home Challenge, with his competition being the first to raise the red flags. Fox Sports reported that two other racers, Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorn, echoed each other’s concerns about Abt when his performance in the Challenge appeared markedly different from previous results.

The organizers of the Formula E Race at Home Challenge investigated the allegations from Abt’s competitors and after cross-referencing IP addresses, were able to confirm that the esports racing driver had not been driving at the time in question.

Formula E’s official ruling on the matter has resulted in the withdrawal of Abt’s sixth-place position in the Formula E Challenge Grid competition. As Round 5 of the Race At Home Challenge was being held in support of UNICEF as per the tweet below, Abt has also been hit with a compulsory €10,000 donation.

The esports racing driver owned up to the cheating and responded by releasing a statement reported by The Race as follows:

“I would like to apologize to Formula E, all of the fans, my team and my fellow drivers for having called in outside help during the race on Saturday.

“I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have. I’m especially sorry about this because I know how much work has gone into this project on the part of the Formula E organization. I am aware that my offence has a bitter aftertaste, but it was never meant with any bad intention.”

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The driver assisting Abt during this debacle was Lorenz Hoerzing, another professional racing sim driver, and Hoerzing has since been banned from competing in future Formula E Challenge rounds as a consequence of what happened this past weekend. ABT Schaeffler Audi has not commented independently on Abt being disqualified after cheating.

Formula E fans who want to contribute to UNICEF’s appeal to raise money for children affected by the coronavirus can do so using this Tiltify link here. With £50,610 raised so far and counting, hopefully the next round of the Race at Home challenge will be just as fruitful when it goes ahead this week without Abt’s participation.

Cloudpunk, the neon-heavy cyberpunk taxi game from Ion Lands, is getting a first-person mode. The game, which is available now for PC and will come to Switch, PS4, and Xbox One in the future, will allow players to explore and collect fares from a new perspective soon.

This new camera option was announced and previewed on Twitter by Marko Dieckmann, studio head at Ion Lands. You can see the new first-person camera in action below.

In a follow-up tweet, Dieckmann stated that players will be able to switch between first-and-third perspective as they play, depending on their preferences. You’ll also be able to unlock the camera after this update.

The first-person camera is currently in beta, but will be added to the main game soon.

Cloudpunk scored a 7/10 in GameSpot’s review. “Cloudpunk is a game with a single core strength so powerful it alone is sufficient to make it an easy game to recommend,” reviewer David Wildgoose wrote. “Thanks to the rare beauty and rich atmosphere of its voxel-driven cityscape, Cloudpunk is a constant joy to explore.”

Call of Duty: Mobile has a battle royale mode, but it’s not quite the same as Call of Duty: Warzone. In particular, Call of Duty: Mobile doesn’t feature Warzone’s most unique and exciting features, the Gulag. It seems that’s going to change very soon. Or it could be something else entirely.

The official Call of Duty: Mobile Twitter account posted a teaser video for what is very clearly the Gulag. The tweet says it’s “coming soon.”

This alert was posted not long after the Call of Duty: Mobile test servers were updated with references to the Gulag. Additionally, entire gameplay videos have been posted on YouTube that appear to show that Gulag will be a new map in Call of Duty: Mobile.

In Warzone, players who die are sent to the Gulag where they face off in 1v1 matches for a chance to re-deploy. It remains to be seen, however, if this feature will also come to Call of Duty: Mobile or if the Gulag is only being added as a new multiplayer map.

Developer TiMi Studios updates Call of Duty: Mobile regularly, most recently adding a new class and more challenges for Season 6. With more than 150 million downloads worldwide, Call of Duty: Mobile is a juggernaut.

Suda51’s games have long been synonymous with Nintendo consoles, with each game in the No More Heroes franchise debuting first on Nintendo (including the upcoming No More Heroes III), and cult classic Killer7 originally debuting on the GameCube. As of right now, not many of games developed by his company, Grasshopper Manufacture, are available on Switch, and the eccentric designer says he would like to see that change–although it’s not all up to him.

In a Q&A session during Momocon–as reported by VG247–Suda51 (whose legal name is Goichi Suda) talked about the possibility of bringing his older games to Switch, saying that it is largely up to the publishers. Capcom is in charge of Killer7, which received an updated PC port in 2018. Killer is Dead has split rights between Capcom and Kadokawa Games, which makes things more complicated.

Suda51 singled out another game as a more likely candidate–The Silver Case, which came to PS4 and PC in 2016 (and its sequel, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, followed in 2018). According to Suda51, there has “been discussions” about bringing this game to Switch.

He also alludes to a potential remake of the 2001 PS2 game Rain, Flower, Sun, and Rain, although specific platforms were not discussed.

No More Heroes III will launch as a Switch exclusive later this year. Other Switch games from Grasshopper Manufacture include Sine Mora EX and Travis Strikes Back: No More Heroes.

Not long after one Call of Duty: Warzone squad set a new world record with 121 kills in a single game of Quads, that record has fallen.

Popular streamer Vikkstar set the record with three teammates from the FaZe Atlanta professional Call of Duty team: Cellium, aBeZy-, and priestahh. At the start of the video, Vikkstar acknowledges that the world record is actually higher, but he claims the other squad did so by creating new accounts that allowed them to matchmake with lower-skill enemies.

Vikkstar also confirmed that, for this new record, there were 136 players in the Warzone lobby–out of a possible 150. His team was able to get 138 kills because nearly half of players who are killed once are able to respawn through the Gulag system, while teammates can also buy players back. In total, there were 285 kills during the match, so his team got nearly half.

You can check out the full world record match in the video above. As you’ll see, the team spread out more than you might expect, and that’s because they were intentionally trying to set the record for most kills. You will also notice that they are extremely skilled, so you might be able to borrow some tips and strategies.

In other news, Modern Warfare and Warzone recently added a new DLC based on a real-life Medal of Honor recipient.

Starting June 1, GameSpot will be hosting Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts with the help of our friends from around the gaming world.

Overwatch’s new Workshop mode is giving fans plenty of wiggle room to mod the game. Typically, that just means altering game or physics rules, like making the ground cause damage – a “the floor is lava” mode, if you will. One fan by the username of Therister has taken things a little far, though, giving the French assassin Widowmaker actual functioning robot spider legs that can vault her into the air and stick to walls.

Check out this monstrous creation in the video below.

Overwatch Widowmaker + Spider Girl

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Creator: Therister pic.twitter.com/Qvy1jR5Q76

— Naeri X 나에리 (@OverwatchNaeri) May 24, 2020

 

Therister’s creation basically replaces Widow’s normal bipedal legs with four elongated limbs, each with a sort of purple foot that can stick onto surfaces. Normally, Widow can only shoot a grappling hook to sort of leap into the air, which helps her reach high areas, but she’s still effectively rooted onto flat horizontal surfaces like most other characters.

Not so with these new robot spider legs. The video shows off Widow reaching previously unreachable locations on the map’s architecture, climbing onto the roofs of the buildings outside the attacking team’s spawn point and others, which even flight-based characters like Pharah or Echo would have difficulty reaching. Not only that, Widowmaker can use the spider legs to make some pretty distant leaps from wall to wall and stick to the surface, allowing her a sniping position that any Overwatch League pro would probably envy. It doesn’t seem to stop her from entering the King’s Row subway station either. Nowhere is safe.

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If you want to give Therister’s creation a try, the Overwatch Workshop code is 5D4FX.

 Don’t forget to check out our updated review of Overwatch to see what we think of the game after four years of moving the payload.

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It’s Always Sunny’s Rob McElhenney, who recently unleashed a new “quarantine” episode of his Apple TV series Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, has assured fans that – yes – once Sunny returns, we’re going to see an episode that takes on the COVID-19 crisis.

In a recent chat with NME, McElhenney recalled Season 9 of Always Sunny, which had ‘The Gang Gets Quarantined.”

“Well, we actually do have an episode…where we quarantine ourselves in the bar,” he said. “I think there’s a big flu going around Philadelphia or something like that.

“When we come back, don’t worry, we will address all this in the way only Sunny can!”

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Though there’s no official word yet from FX regarding new seasons, McElhenney insists that “Sunny very much still exists.”

“We’re still in active negotiations for season 15 and 16 and we’re hoping that as soon as we get out of Mythic Quest season, we jump right into something new with Sunny.’

With Sunny now prominently in its second decade, how much more gas is in the tank? “How many years do I have on this planet? I’ll do it forever,” McElhenney said. “If people keep watching it and we keep having fun, why would we ever stop? It’s my dream job.”

In other TV news, check out everything we know about Netflix’s Umbrella Academy ahead of Season 2, Steve Carell talking about his new Netfix comedy Space Force, and more on Ruby Rose’s exit from The CW’s Batwoman.

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After almost two decades of playing Wolverine in the X-Men franchise, Hugh Jackman’s tenure as the iconic Marvel mutant came to an end in 2017’s Logan, which saw our hero perish from wounds sustained while protecting young Laura (aka “X-23”) and other mutant children from the Reavers. It’s a decision that director James Mangold, who also helmed 2013’s The Wolverine, says was logical.

Comicbook.com spoke to Mangold, ahead of its upcoming Logan Watch Party, and he explained “The process is a lot less of a committee than you’d think. It was really Hugh [Jackman] and I at first. It seemed logical, that if it were going to be his last film, that he’s either going to ride off onto the horizon or die, that you need to have some kind of curtain on his story.”

“You either have the Shane ending where he rides off on the mountain to parts unknown,” he added, “which had largely been the way his character was resolved in every preceding movie, or you’d kill him.”

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“The reason the choice was at our feet was because you needed the sense of closure,” Mangold continued. “You needed some sense of an ending if you were going to end, if you were dealing with the legacy of Hugh’s many performances and many films, and trying to set this part in some definitive way.”

Mangold’s The Wolverine wound up on our short list of Best Superhero Director’s Cuts that you can now stream, along with Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, The Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past and more.

A few weeks back, we dug up Hugh Jackman’s first filmed audition and screen test for 2000’s X-Men for a loving look back at the actor’s Weapon X legacy.

In other comic book movie news, Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League is headed to HBO Max in 2021 after Warner Bros. spends around $20-30 million to complete hotly-anticipated project.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.