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Thousands of PS4s Being Used As a FIFA Ultimate Team Bot Farm Seized by Ukrainian Police

Thousands of PS4s from a supposed cryptocurrency farm in Ukraine that were seized last week were actually being used to grind FIFA Ultimate Team for various accounts that would then be sold on the black market.

As reported by Eurogamer, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced last week that they had shut down a cryptocurrency mining farm that contained 3800 PS4s. However, this mining farm’s main function was not trying to get cryptocurrency but instead was building valuable FIFA Ultimate Team accounts.

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An investigation by Ukraine business newspaper Delo revealed the truth of this operation – that these PS4s were being controlled by PCs running bots to constantly farm Ultimate Team for profit.

The SBU noted that they did also find 500 video cards, 50 processors, draft documentation on electricity consumption, notebooks, phones, flash drives and more, hinting that while there may have been some cryptocurrency mining, this farm was still mostly about FIFA.

While players can unlock high-value cards via real-world money loot boxes in FIFA Ultimate Team, players can also play enough of the game to earn in-game currency to bid on the exact cards you want. There is also a way to buy FIFA Ultimate Team coins on the black market, but EA has warned that buying or selling FIFA Ultimate Team coins could result in a ban.

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These PS4s would just constantly be playing games and racking up this in-game currency. Once enough was earned, the accounts would be loaded up with the best and most valuable players cards before being put on the black market at a high price.

In other FIFA news, EA recently revealed FIFA 22 will be arriving on all platforms on October 1, 2021, and will feature Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe as its cover star. However, its next-gen upgrade comes at a hefty cost and FIFA 22’s PC version won’t include next gen improvements like Hyper Motion Technology.

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Warframe: Cross Play, Cross Save, and a Mobile Version Announced Alongside New War Reveal

Not only did Warframe fans get their first look at the next-gen New War expansion, developer Digital Extremes also revealed that cross play, cross save, and a mobile version are all coming in the future.

Revealed at TennoCon 2021, Warframe’s New War expansion got a 30-minute live gameplay demo that “shocked audiences by showing Corpus Engineer Veso, Grineer Soldier Kahl-175, and even fan-favorite Dax warrior Teshin — all playable in a Quest for the first-time ever.”

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This new story expansion is set to be released on all platforms in 2021 and it will provide long-awaited answers to questions that began during The Second Dream cinematic quest.

While no date was give, it was also announced that cross save, cross play, and simultaneous Warframe updates across all platforms are all in the works.

“Community is incredibly important to us and opening up Cross Play and Cross Save is just one of many more efforts we’ll take on to bring more players together including extending Warframe’s fast, fluid, action combat experience to other global gaming platforms,” said Sheldon Carter, Chief Operating Officer at DE. “We are at the very beginning of the next-generation of Warframe. We are eight years young and have the benefit of beginning our second console generation with a major game expansion that will also mark a new chapter of more story-based content our players have been asking for.”

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The Warframe team also surprised fans by revealed a mobile version of Warframe is on the way, although very few details were given on that project.

If you are on the fence about whether or not to jump into Warframe, we recently wrote an op-ed on why it’s the perfect time to suit up for the game that features space travel, parkour, and space pets.

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Warframe’s The New War Expansion Introduces New Playable Characters–Cross-Play Also Announced

At TennoCon 2021, developer Digital Extremes finally revealed more info about Warframe’s The New War story expansion, which was first teased back in 2019. Coming later this year, The New War is a new cinematic story quest focusing on the Tenno and other factions entering a new phase of conflict that was will stretch across the entire star system. This new story expansion will also signal the next phase for the free-to-play action RPG, which will see cross-play for all versions of the game coming at a later date.

During the TennoCon 2021 live stream, we saw over 30 minutes of extended gameplay for The New War expansion. This cinematic quest line sees the Tenno–the faction of Space Ninjas–work with allies from other factions to face off against the artificial life-forms known as the Sentients, who have invaded Cestus on the Planes of Eidolon. According to the developers, The New War will be the longest story quest the game has seen yet. In a similar vein to previous cinematic quests like The Sacrifice and The Second Dream, The New War will take you on different missions with set-piece encounters and bespoke story beats that will reveal new lore about Warframe’s key characters and factions. This new expansion will also set the stage for coming with the following expansions and live events.

The extended gameplay reveal from TennoCon 2021 started off with a bang, showing off the scale of the Sentient invasion. In a surprise twist, we then cut to gameplay for characters other than our familiar Tenno. While your adventures throughout Warframe have focused on the Tenno, The New War will mark the first time players take on an active role as side characters for story missions. In the gameplay we saw during the stream, The New War will feature missions letting you control the sword-wielding Teshin of the Conclave faction, Kahl-175 of the Grineer, and the Corpus engineer Veso. These standalone missions will focus on each character’s particular loadout and skills, making them stand apart from the slate of Frames you’ve become well accustomed to over the years. However, The New War will still focus on the Tenno and their actions during this quest.

As a long-time Warframe player, it’s interesting to see the game take some time away from our core slate of Frames to focus on other side characters. While two of the original characters we will play in The New War follow closely with the standard Grineer and Corpus soldier archetypes we’ve seen often, Teshin looks to be the most unique to play as. He doesn’t have the maneuverability of the usual frames, but he does make up for it with other gadgets like a grappling hook, which makes playing as him look fun. I’m interested in seeing how each of the new characters’ story paths will change, and if they’ll meet up at some point during The New War expansion.

Another big reveal that came out from TennoCon 2021 was that not only is that cross-play and cross-save are in the works, but also a mobile version of Warframe is on the way as well. During a live playthrough, the developers played a game of Warframe set in the open-world map on the Planes of Eidolon with PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and a mobile device. According to developers, this has been a “dream” feature for the game that they have wanted for some time. Cross-save, cross-play, and mobile are still in active development, and the devs stated that more info and details would come later this year.

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In a press release, Digital Extremes Chief Operating Officer Sheldon Carter stated The New War and the addition of cross-play will mark the beginning of the next-generation experience of Warframe, laying the groundwork for what’s to come in the future.

“Community is incredibly important to us. Opening up cross-play and cross-save is just one of many more efforts we’ll take on to bring more players together, including extending Warframe’s fast, fluid, action combat experience to other global gaming platforms,” said Carter. “We are at the very beginning of the next generation of Warframe. We are eight years young and have the benefit of beginning our second console generation with a major game expansion that will also mark a new chapter of more story-based content our players have been asking for.”

Along with the updates on cross-play and The New War, we also saw a slate of other updates coming to Warframe, including more customization options to use for your clan hideouts, along with more info on the new premium Frame, Nidus Prime. Players who watched the live reveal on Twitch and within the in-game relays also got a chance to earn rewards, including access to Loki Prime and new cosmetic items.

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Warframe New War Gameplay Demo | Tennocon 2021

At TennoCon 2021, we got our first look at Warframe’s next major expansion, The New War. Coming later this year, this new cinematic quest will see the Tenno will face off against the growing force of the Sentients, who have now invaded Earth.

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In this extended gameplay reveal, we see the full invasion of Cestus, Earth’s major human settlement, showing off the scale of the Sentient invasion. But in a surprise twist, we then cut to gameplay for characters other than our familiar Tenno. While your adventures throughout Warframe have focused on the Tenno, The New War will mark the first time players take on an active role as side characters for story missions. In the gameplay we saw during the stream, The New War will feature missions letting you control the sword-wielding Teshin of the Conclave faction, Kahl-175 of the Grineer, and the Corpus engineer Veso. These standalone missions will focus on each character’s particular loadout and skills, making them stand apart from the slate of Frames you’ve become well accustomed to over the years. However, The New War will still focus on the Tenno and their actions during this questline.

Daily Deals: Grab 60 Days of FFXIV Game Time For $5 Off

This Saturday of deals has brought with it a great one if you’re an MMO fan. Newegg currently has a deal where you can grab 60 Days of Final Fantasy XIV game time for $5 off. Grab a few, stock up on time and prepare yourself for the Endwalker expansion that’s coming out later this year. If that’s not your cup of tea, there’s a nice little sale on D&D related items at GameStop, and Best Buy has some fun Animal Crossing socks and plushies on sale as well.

Daily Deals for July 17th 2021

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Did Marvel’s Black Widow Introduce The First MCU Mutant?

When Marvel’s Black Widow hit theaters and Disney+ last week, it snuck in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first mutant in the form of Ursa Major, member of Russian mutant team the Winter Guard–at least if actor Olivier Richters’ Instagram post is accurate (via Uproxx).

After Natasha Romanoff’s peaceful, if false, life in Ohio is upset so that she and her adoptive sister can be trained as an assassins, their mission-father Alexei Shostakov ends up in a Russian gulag where we find him effortlessly arm-wrestling (and maiming) a giant man he refers to as Ursa.

The post features Richters flexing alongside a gallery of comic book shots of Ursa Major, who has the ability to turn into a bear. In the comics, Ursa Major is a mutant like the X-Men, New Mutants, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

“Marvel’s Black Widow is out. After two years, I can finally tell who my character is as stated on the IMDB: Ursa Major,” Richters wrote in the post. “The first mutant (X-Men) to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. … Ursa is part of the Winter Guard, noted for being ‘Russia’s answer to the Avengers.’ His power transforms him into an incredible bear, transcending The Hulk in size. Ursa appears many times in the comics fightning [sic] Wolverine and The Hulk. When production on set told me who I really was in Black Widow I let some tears in my hotel room, because my movie dream became true: being a official comic super Hero. I can only hope Marvel will bring back Ursa in full form.”

Richters appears to have edited the post slightly to remove the words “the first” and the X-Men parenthetical.

While this post officially confirms Richter’s role as Ursa Major in the MCU, whether or not he’s a mutant is a lot more complicated. Until Disney acquired Fox’s library of movies and television shows and the related rights 2018, the licensing rights to the X-Men and mutants belonged to Fox and were out of Marvel’s hands, forcing Marvel Studios to focus on then-less-popular characters like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor.

With the X-Men back in Marvel’s house, mutants can join the MCU anytime. This seems, however, like something Marvel would want to do with more fanfare. Further, Marvel Studios has used mutants before–Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, are mutants in the Marvel comics. Wanda is one of the most powerful mutants, too, with the ability to manipulate reality itself. For the MCU, however, she received her powers through experiments by Hydra using the Infinity stones that would later populate Thanos’ golden glove.

Quicksilver even appeared in both the MCU (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron) and in Fox’s X-Men series (played by Evan Peters in X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men Apocalypse, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix). WandaVision played with this duality in one of the most hotly-debated Marvel cameos yet.

In other words, while Ursa Major is historically a mutant, it’s impossible to say just yet whether or not the X-Gene is flowing through his veins.

The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil Throw Kicks In She-Hulk Training Video

Jameela Jamil, best known for her turn as Tahani Al Jamil on NBC’s The Good Place, officially confirmed her entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a tweet and Tik Tok post showing off her combat training regimen.

“I’ve peaked in silliness,” Jamil wrote in the post. “I’m so excited!” Jamil, set to play the role of She-Hulk antagonist Titania, tagged the post with hashtags for Marvel, the MCU, and She-Hulk specifically. The video shows Jamil, masked and throwing a roundhouse kick. “I can’t believe I get to say this… Fighting my way through the MCU, coming to you in 2022!” reads the video, which then finishes off with a photo from Jamil of herself as a toddler striking an action pose. Jamil replied to a few responses, saying that her favorite Marvel stories are anything with Loki, though she also likes Drax, Groot, and Rocket as well. Jamil suffers from Ehlers-Danlos Sydrome, a disorder that affects connective tissue, and said in the thread that the She-Hulk team is “being amazing,” and that she plans to talk about it next year.

Disney first announced the She-Hulk show in August 2019 as part of D23. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) will play the part of She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters, cousin of Bruce Banner. In the comics, a blood transfusion from Banner imbues her with the same gamma-irradiated powers as her cousin. In the comics, Jennifer has full control over her powers, while Banner usually doesn’t. With Banner having merged Hulk and Banner in the MCU, this dynamic could shift for She-Hulk.

Walters is a lawyer specializing in super-powered beings, and the show is reportedly set to be a half-hour courtroom comedy, but with Jamil’s training videos we’re betting that case proceedings won’t go entirely peacefully. Titania is a frequent rival of She-Hulk, imbued with super strength. The comics have her getting her powers from Doctor Doom on a composite planet called Battleworld–we’re betting they’ll go with a more straight-forward but thematically similar approach for the character in the show.

Mark Ruffalo and Tim Roth will reprise their roles as Bruce Banner/Hulk and Abomination for the show. Roth’s Abomination was spotted in the latest trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings, so we’re getting all the gamma-irradiated Marvel characters we can handle. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has suggested that the show will have all kinds of cameos, so cross your fingers for your favorite Marvel characters to show up. With that said, the Marvel shows so far–WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, have focused primarily on their main characters and shied away from high-profile cameos.

Marvel Studios has not yet set a release date for the show, but as Jamil’s tweet suggests, we’re expecting it sometime in 2022. In the meantime, we can look forward to Marvel’s What If…? in August and Hawkeye, which Black Widow teased a connection for, later this year.