Genshin Impact has, in terms of both spending and impact, been one of the biggest games of 2020. The title, which took top honors in Google Play and Apple’s game of the year lists, has reportedly brought in a huge amount of money every day since its release.
According to SensorTower, which tracks mobile spending and engagement, their stats suggest that Genshin Impact has brought in $393 million since it launched on September 28. which averages out to over $6 million every single day. Despite releasing late in the year, it’s reportedly the second-highest grossing mobile game of the year, behind Honor of Kings ($467 million).
$120 million of this revenue is said to have come from China, and $98 million of it from Japan. It’s worth noting that these numbers are based on SensorTower’s estimates, rather than hard figures released by developer miHoYo, so they might not be the exact numbers.
These figures only account for the mobile versions of the game, too–the PC and PS4/PS5 iterations of Genshin Impact have likely been very profitable, too.
Genshin Impact is a gacha game, so it makes its money from microtransactions. If you haven’t played yet and you’re worried about the game’s monetization model, you can read GameSpot’s full breakdown of how it works.
Genshin Impact earned a 7/10 in GameSpot’s review. “While there’s a lot to do, having several chunks of Genshin Impact gated off until you’ve reached a higher rank is an obnoxious restriction for an open-world game to have–and once you finally do see what lies in those unexplored areas, it’s often a bit underwhelming,” wrote reviewer Heidi Kemps.
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Watching movies in 2020 is, simply put, weird. Here in the US, the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic means that theaters have, with few exceptions, stayed empty. Theater chains like AMC are hurting. That means we’re doing most of our watching at home on services like Google Play. Despite the shift, Google’s best-seller list is a mix of this year and last year’s releases similar to last year’s list.
Where the weirdness of 2020 starts to come in is that Trolls World Tour was released exclusively as a premium video on demand rental, while Sonic the Hedgehog and Bloodshot both found themselves moving to the same model shortly after their releases due to the pandemic. The Invisible Man fell victim to the same thing, though it did well in drive-in theaters as the weather warmed up.
The list shakes out with six movies from 2020 and nine from 2019. The 2019 list featured eight 2019 films, six 2018 films and, somehow, one 2017 film. What will be really interesting to see is what this same list looks like next year. Assuming things start to return to normalcy throughout the year, studios have tons of movies–at least 56–waiting in the hopper for a theatrical release. We’ll have to wait and see if cinemas return to normal next year, and what impact that will have on stories like Google Play.
The PlayStation 5 has finally arrived, ushering in the next generation of gaming from Sony. The console is selling very well, and stock has sold through at most retailers. As such, this video we’re about to share might be difficult to watch for those who remain in the hunt for a next-gen system.
Someone has acquired a PS5 only to place it into one of those machines that destroys everything. It is a terrifying video, with the cracking and crunching sounds standing out as particularly painful to hear as the console gets literally shred to pieces. Have a look:
So who’s trying to get the shredded parts and build a PS5? 🤦♂️(Via u/cheeseinmya**) pic.twitter.com/8ie9qlSsVf
Sony has promised that more PS5 units will be available for purchase later this year, so if you’ve been shut out thus far, there is still hope. You can follow GameSpot’s PS5 ordering page to stay up to date on how to get a console for yourself when they become available.
As 2020 comes to an end, stores and outlets are starting to release their game of the year lists. Both Google Play and the Apple App Store have weighed in and announced the game of the year on their platforms, and the same game has taken top honors for both storefronts–Genshin Impact.
Google Play has given the game top honors, citing the game’s size and enjoyable combat as factors “Genshin Impact blew us away with its sheer scale and ambition,” the description reads. “Combat is fast and fluid, with each fight a spectacle to behold. Quite simply, this is the best game we’ve played this year.”
Apple did not delve into their reasoning, but also selected the game as the year’s best. Several other games were honored in their app awards, too. Legends of Runeterra was declared the year’s best iPad game, Disco Elysium took the Mac award, Dandara Trials of Fear claimed the Apple TV top spot, and Sneaky Sasquatch was declared the best game of 2020 on the Apple Arcade service.
The entertainment industry may have ground to a halt in 2020, but there’s plenty to look forward to in 2021 and beyond.
2020 was a year full of delays and postponements across most entertainment, and TV was no exception. It felt as though everything from superheroes to sci-fi was put on hold or shoved into the indefinite future thanks to production shutdowns and schedule shuffles. It’s not all doom and gloom, however–with any luck, 2020’s misfortune will make for a jam-packed 2021 with all the projects we were looking forward to watching this year settling into their new time slots in the near future.
Unfortunately, one of the byproducts of 2020’s massive upheaval is a lot of “to be determined” premiere dates, even into next year. And while we’d love to give you some guarantee that everything on this list will absolutely, positively be hitting small screens in 2021, we’re not oracles. That said, we’ve done our best to keep our ears to the ground and or eyes on the horizon in terms of tracking productions picking back up and filming progressing through the pandemic uncertainty. Rest assured, we’re looking forward to shows like Lord of the Rings, Y, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as much as you are.
The good news is that there are a handful of up-and-comers who have locked in their premiere dates, like WandaVision, the MCU’s first streaming TV show, heading to Disney+ on January 15 and Cobra Kai Season 3, which is set to hit Netflix on January 8.
Check out those and more here in our breakdown of 2021’s most anticipated shows to look forward to.
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Cobra Kai Season 3
Netflix, January 8, 2021
The first two seasons of the Karate Kid spin-off Cobra Kai screened on YouTube Premium, but for Season 3, the show is moving over to Netflix. This is great news for fans of the continuing adventures of Daniel and Johnny, 30 years after the original hit ‘80s movies. And fans of the films who haven’t had the chance to see Seasons 1 and 2 will also be able to catch up on those on Netflix too.
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Wandavision
Disney+, January 15
With The Falcon and the Winter Soldier delayed until next year, WandaVision will be the first MCU show to hit Disney+. We’ve known for some time that it wouldn’t be a standard superhero show, and the recent trailer revealed just how strange it promises to be. Vision (Paul Bettany) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) are now living in suburbia, trying to maintain “normal” lives, and much of the trailer suggests this will be presented in a classic sitcom format. But as MCU fans know, Vision was killed in Infinity War–something the trailer alludes to–and things are definitely not what they seem.
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Lord of the Rings
Amazon Prime Video, TBD
Peter Jackon’s Lord of the Rings films elevated fantasy as a pop culture genre and cemented Tolkien’s seminal series as essential for new generations. Those movies may be decades old, but they hold up just as well now, so it’s a good thing that Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show isn’t a reboot or re-telling of the same story. Instead, it’s set thousands of years earlier. The cast and talent involved are largely unproven, but then, so were the creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones at one point, so we’re looking forward to this one nonetheless.
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The Wheel of Time
Amazon, TBD
If Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show is a disappointment, the streaming service will have a backup: the upcoming Wheel of Time adaptation. We don’t know much about the series, an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s 14-book fantasy epic. Last we heard, they were still announcing casting choices. But we’re hopeful we might see the show in 2021.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (live-action)
Netflix, TBD
Netflix is working on a live-action adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. This isn’t the first time such a thing has been attempted, but there’s a good chance this will be better than the loathed 2010 movie (low bar, we know). That said, the cartoon’s original creators cast some doubt on that notion recently. Time will tell, and we’re hoping to see this show in 2021.
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The Witcher Season 2
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Cassian Andor show
Disney+, TBD
Rogue One’s Cassian Andor may have met a tragic fate at the end of his debut movie, but that won’t stop him from getting his own spin-off series on Disney+. The untitled project is returning Diego Luna to the role of Cassian, the resistance spy who helped secure the plans for the original Death Star at the cost of his own life. Though not much is known about the show, it can be safely assumed to be set some time before the events of Rogue One, and is confirmed to be a spy thriller in tone and genre, in keeping with Andor’s character. Alan Tyduk is returning to voice Cassian’s droid pal K-2SO, and Genevieve O’Reilly is returning as Mon Mothma as well. A premiere date has yet to be announced for the project.
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Parasite show
HBO, TBD
We learned in early 2020 that HBO has a Parasite series in the works, and we’re still hoping to see it in 2021. The show will relate in some way to the lauded 2019 Bong Joon-Ho film of the same name, though at the time of the series’ announcement, it was unclear whether it’s an English-language remake, a continuation of the movie’s story, or something else.
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The Expanse Season 6
Amazon, likely 2021
Amazon announced that The Expanse will return for a sixth–and final–season before Season 5 had even begun streaming on the Prime Video service. We don’t know much about it yet, as we’ll have to wait and see what happens in Season 5. But given what a good home Amazon has been for the series (after rescuing it following its cancellation by Syfy), we’re expecting more greatness. If production goes smoothly and Amazon sticks to a consistent release schedule, we’re expecting The Expanse to release in late 2021.
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Clarice
CBS, TBD
Cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter got his own TV show a few years ago, and now it’s the turn of his Silence of the Lambs nemesis, FBI Agent Clarice Starling. Clarice stars Rebecca Breeds (Pretty Little Liars) in the title role, and the show is set six months after the events of Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal showed that there was plenty of mileage left in that character, so with any luck this new look at Starling should prove to be a successful new addition to the roster of great crime TV shows. It also stars Kal Penn (Designated Survivor), Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead), and Nick Sandow (Orange is the New Black).
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Y
FX, TBD
Y: The Last Man is one of Vertigo’s most beloved comic books. The series followed a man (Yorick) and his monkey (Ampersand), who were the last two males on the planet after a disease wiped out everything with a Y chromosome. Getting this comic adapted has been a bumpy ride, though. It was a TV show, then a movie, then a TV show once again. Most recently, Eliza Clark (The Killing) has taken over as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Comic creators Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra spoke about the show at NYCC 2019 saying this will be the series comic fans deserve. Let’s hope FX does this amazing comic justice.
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AHS Season 10
AMC, TBD
It’s almost nine years since the hugely popular anthology show American Horror Story premiered, and the series doesn’t show signs of finishing any time soon. In January, it was renewed for another three seasons, and Season 10 will arrive this year. The only image we’ve seen from the new season so far is this poster, which suggests an aquatic horror theme. The cast this time includes Home Alone star Macauley Culkin, as well as Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, and Angelica Ross. And fans will be excited to learn that series favorites Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are also returning.
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I Think You Should Leave Season 2
Netflix, TBD
Tim Robinson’s sketch show I Think You Should Leave was bizarre, easily one of the weirdest sketch comedy series in years. Robinson’s unique brand of humor is absurdist and pushes the envelope for how far it’s willing to go to deliver its comedy. While we don’t know a lot about the upcoming season, series co-creator Zach Kanin told Variety that The Lonely Island will be involved.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
CBS All-Access, TBD
For many viewers, the best thing about Star Trek Discovery Season 2 was the addition of Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike. Mount wasn’t the first actor to play Pike, but his charming, charismatic performance made him an immediate fan favorite, and there were demands for him to get his own show almost as soon as that season ended. In May 2020, it was confirmed that this is happening, and Mount, Ethan Peck (as Spock), and Rebecca Romijn (as Number One) will return for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The new show will be set a decade before the original Star Trek series, and will follow the trio on adventures around the galaxy in the Enterprise.
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Falcon and Winter Soldier
Disney+, 2021
Disney+ may not pump out the quantity of original content that Netflix does, but it does have the most-hyped shows and movies, primarily from the worlds of Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was set to debut in August 2020, but will now arrive in 2021. Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan return to play their respective roles, and they’ll be joined by Daniel Brühl reprising his role of Zemo from Captain America: Civil War.
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Batwoman Season 2
The CW, TBD
There’s a pretty big change in the second season of The CW’s Batwoman. Ruby Rose played the hero in Season 1, but she has now quit the series and the role of Kate Kane wasn’t recast. Instead, a new character is taking on the Batwoman mantle. Ryan Wilder has been created specifically for the show, and will be played by Javicia Leslie, best known for her roles on CBS’s God Friended Me and BET’s The Family Business. Wilder is described as “likable, messy, a little goofy and untamed,” and while we won’t know what villains or adventures she will get involved in, it’s exciting to see what Leslie will bring to the role.
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MODOK
Hulu, TBD
We got a first look at Hulu’s upcoming Marvel TV show, MODOK, at 2020’s New York Comic-Con, where we learned that it was going to be a Robot Chicken-like stop-motion animation extravaganza featuring one of the Marvel Universe’s weirdest villains. MODOK is, essentially, a floating head with baby limbs whose only real mission is to prove his intellectual superiority while also ruling the world. In this show, however, he’s also a family man–which is sure to make for some truly absurd hijinks for everyone involved. Currently MODOK has no release date on the schedule, but is set to hit Hulu some time in 2021.
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What If…?
Disney+, TBD
Since the 1970’s, Marvel ‘s “What If…?” comics series has theorized about what would happen if key events in Marvel history had turned out differently. What if the Avengers didn’t exist? What if Captain America became President? What if Uncle Ben didn’t die? Marvel will be applying this concept to the MCU in their upcoming animated series on Disney+ of the same name. Featuring vocal performances from the original film actors, “What If…” will feature cosmic historian The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) as the series’ narrator. The first episode will ask: What if Peggy Carter took the Super Soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers? Sounds intriguing.
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Loki
Disney+, TBD
Thanos killed Loki in Avengers: Infinity War. But then, Avengers: Endgame gave the God of Mischief an out, when he stole the Tesseract after the Battle of New York and escaped custody. Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role as Loki, who exists in a new, alternate timeline that’s unburdened by the events of Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok. Expect lots of Easter Eggs and additional subversions of established events.
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Law & Order: Organized Crime
NBC, TBD
Originally scheduled for Fall 2020, the latest iteration of Law & Order is expected to debut later this year. Starring a returning Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler, who we haven’t seen since Season 11 of Law & Order: SVU, the show will deal with Stabler’s personal life and his new role as head of the NYPD’s organized crime unit. In other words, it’s Law & Order; some iteration of it has been on the air for the past three decades. You know what to expect at this point.
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House of the Dragon
Has enough time passed since the Game of Thrones series finale for the public to embrace another Westeros adventure? We’ll find out when House of the Dragon debuts on HBO. The show will trace the history of the Targaryen family–specifically, it’ll focus on King Viserys I (Paddy Considine)–who ruled Westeros two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones–and his children, who fought for the throne in a bloody civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. Unfortunately, we’re not expecting to see it until 2022.
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Halo show
Showtime, TBD
Production on the Halo TV show began in 2019, but was subsequently shut down in 2020 due to COVID. 343 Industries’ Kiki Wolfkill gave an update over the summer, and we’re still hoping to see the series in 2021.
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Cowboy Bebop (live-action)
Netflix, TBD
There have been some really unfortunate live-action anime adaptations in recent years, from Ghost in the Shell to Death Note. However, we can’t help but look forward to seeing a new take on one of our favorites, Cowboy Bebop. While casting news has emerged as recently as November, there’s no release date yet for Netflix’s live-action adaptation, but we have high hopes that it might stream in 2021.
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The runtime for the upcoming superhero movie sequel Wonder Woman 1984 has been revealed, and it’s longer than the first one. The movie clocks in at 2 hours and 31 minutes, according to listings on cinema pages. This compares to 2 hours and 21 minutes for the 2017 film.
Director Patty Jenkins explained to Collider that her first cut of Wonder Woman 1984 was longer, coming in at 2 hours and 45 minutes before it was cut down in the editing process.
Comparing to other DC movies, Wonder Woman 1984’s 151 minutes is one minute shorter than the theatrical edit of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. For further comparison, Joker (122 minutes), Suicide Squad (123 minutes), Shazam (132 minutes), and Aquaman (142 minutes) were all shorter.
Looking outside DC, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame was a behemoth of a film, running for 3 hours and 2 minutes. The supersized length was driven by the fact that it was the culmination of a numerous storylines dating back more than a decade.
Wonder Woman 1984 will be available on HBO Max in the United States on Christmas Day, so viewers will be able to pause the film to reload on snacks or use the bathroom. The movie will also play in cinemas, but whether or not you feel comfortable with that is another question.
Wonder Woman 1984 brings back Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, with new cast members joining such as Kristen Wiig (Cheetah) and Pedro Pascal (Maxwell Lord).
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Fall Guys looks set to get another major crossover costume, and this time it’s one of gaming’s biggest heroes. The game’s official Twitter account has released a sneak peek, and it looks very familiar.
Unless we’re very much mistaken, it looks like Doomguy. Publisher Devolver Digital, by the way, seems to agree. The framing of the figure is very close to keyart from 2016’s Doom, used as the cover image for some iterations of the game, too.
The tweet suggests that we’ll know “soon”, so we don’t expect a long wait for confirmation and a look at the costume. To add further fuel to the fire, the official Doom Twitter account has more-or-less confirmed that it’s a Doom costume.
While some replies to the tweet have suggested that the costume could be Iron Man, our money is firmly on Doomguy–Fortnite seems to be the place for Marvel crossovers right now.
NHL 21 is making some changes to the matchmaking experience that should result in a better time for players. A new update is coming soon that adds a “Max Average Ping” setting that players can use to restrict the maximum ping for an online match.
In a blog post, EA Sports said one of the loudest pieces of feedback it has received since launch is that players are willing to wait a longer period of time to find a match if that match has a good connection. This is particularly important in competitive modes.
With the new Max Average Ping setting, players should get a better experience because they can define what ping they are OK with. The ping range is between 20 ms and 100 ms. Players can also select “Any” if they don’t care about ping.
“Your Max Average Ping will not restrict you from finding a match on your most optimal server. For example, if you receive ~25ms Ping to your closest server, but set your Max Average Ping to 20ms, you will still be able to find matches on the server that gives ~25ms,” EA said.
This update also addresses what EA calls “match dodging.” Players who found a match but one with a poor connection rating would understandably leave before the game starts. But with the new Max Average Ping setting, players should know what they’re getting into from the start.
“With this change, HUT Rivals and HUT Champions games will now count towards your record once a matchup with your opponent is found. Players who quit out of a game at any point after a Matchup is made and the Loading screen begins will receive a loss,” EA said.
NHL 21 launched in October for PS4 and Xbox One. The game is playable on PS5 and Xbox Series X through backwards compatibility, and players might experience improvements in terms of frame rates and load times, but EA is not creating a bespoke version of NHL 21 for the next-gen systems.
Immortals Fenyx Rising imbues you with the powers of the gods. To that end, it has a few different kinds of upgrades, each with its own path and method of leveling up.
Under the Abilities menu, you’ll find both Skills and Godly Powers. Skills enhance your standard combat and traversal abilities, while Godly Powers are more significant, flashier finishers with cooldowns. Both are purchased at the Hall of the Gods with Coins of Charon, but Godly Powers cost significantly more Coins. Be sure to visit the Hall of the Gods to upgrade your abilities before taking on major new quests, because you can’t upgrade your character on the fly–it’s only available at that single location.
Another type of upgrade is Blessings, which has its own section on the menu. These unlock as you progress through the story and finish the quests of the four gods: Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, and Hephaistos. Each god has three powers to grant you which will unlock in sequence. The story paths for each get more difficult, so it’s probably best to complete each of their first quest phases, then each of the second. But since you can do them in any order, you are able to claim certain Blessings first to help you with the others.
If you’re just starting out, you’ll want to know what to prioritize your hard-earned Coins of Charon on, or which gods to visit first.
Best Abilities to Purchase First
In Immortals, you’ll be traveling through the open world a lot. A lot. Fast-travel points are relatively sparse, and quest points are usually separated by several hundred or even thousands of meters. For this reason, we highly recommend prioritizing traversal abilities first. Glide Boost makes your flight ability much faster, while Climb Leap makes it that much easier to scale the many vertical surfaces you’ll find. You can safely neglect the Swim Dash ability, though–with Glide Dash you won’t need it and swimming doesn’t come up very often.
Another nice quality-of-life upgrade is Telekinesis Gathering. Rather than having to pick a set of crafting materials one by one, a single button press will scoop them all up. It’s a real time-saver.
With those secured, most of the remaining abilities are all about combat. Many of the bigger baddies you’ll meet in Immortals are damage sponges and will be much easier to take down if you stagger them before wailing away. That makes investments in axe abilities like Axe Smash, Power Spin Finisher, and Axe Cleave especially useful. Each of those will give your axe attacks more stun damage, building up the stagger gauge faster.
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To help evade enemy attacks, consider purchasing Enhanced Dodge and Air Dodge. The first lets you dodge up to five times, which will let you duck and shuffle out of the way quickly for some of the bigger boss monsters that pursue you aggressively. The second, as you may expect, lets you dodge in mid-air. That’s especially useful as you may be leaping a lot to build stagger with your Axe Cleave ability.
We recommend saving the sword upgrades for later since those are mostly useful for mopping up smaller enemies quicker. It’s certainly convenient to make short work of them, but they’re not difficult in the first place, so it’s better to prioritize the others first.
In your Godly Powers menu, you’ll have to be more sparing with your upgrades since they generally cost almost twice as much as the other abilities. For starters, you may want to invest in Herakles’s Leap to close gaps, especially with airborne enemies that can be hard to reach any other way. Precision Control is also a good idea since it will help you steer your arrows with more precision for both puzzles and scoring headshots.
Blessings of the Gods
As mentioned, Blessings are granted by story progress as you help the four gods with their own quests to restore their powers. They can be tackled in any order, but knowing what each has to offer may help you plan your path through the game.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite’s Embrace: Refills all Health chunks when Health is depleted in combat. 20 minute cooldown.
Aphrodite’s Kiss: Being hit once does not reset the Combo Meter.
Aphrodite’s Rapture: Ignores damage from the first hit taken after using any Buff Potions.
Ares
Ares’s Command: Combo Meter lasts twice as long before resetting.
Ares’s Prowess: The Wings of Daidalos is replenished after an Axe or Sword Air Combo finisher.
Ares’s Fury: Combo Meter gains a fourth combo stage after 84 hits.
Athena
Athena’s Guidance: Arrows refill twice as fast.
Athena’s Draw: Bow shots can be charged even further to increase damage to 50.
Athena’s Strike: Athena’s Draw strikes up to 3 enemies with lightning on hit. Lightning deals an extra 25% damage.
Hephaistos
Hephaistos’s Spark: Perfectly timed dodges create a spark that inflicts 44 damage to nearby enemies.
Hephaistos’s Ingenuity: Perfectly timed parries create a fiery shockwave that inflicts 88 damage, 132 stun, and knocks back nearby enemies.
Hephaistos’s Focus: Finishers gain an additional hit that deals 10% damage and has extra reach.
By far the most useful ability, especially early in the game, is the first from Aphrodite, Aphrodite’s Embrace. The one-time full revival will bail you out of tricky battles and blunt the impact of powerful attacks you didn’t see coming. It has a lengthy cooldown, but usually, you won’t be getting into fierce battles often enough that it won’t reset. Aphrodite is the closest god on the map when you exit the starting area, so this seems aimed at being one of the first abilities you find.
Another useful starting Blessing is the first from Hephaistos, called Hephaistos’s Spark. You’ll be dodging a lot, especially in the early game when you haven’t built your upgrades around pulling off longer chains of combos. Giving you a small bit of bonus damage for a perfect dodge will help you learn the timing faster.
The least useful of the four is likely Athena’s first Blessing, Athena’s Guidance. Enemies in Immortals tend to close the gap on you, so arrows are pretty limited in their utility in general. You have a stock of six that refresh on a timer by default, and Athena helps them refresh faster. But the chances of going through six and needing more quickly is relatively low. Even Ares’ first Blessing, Ares’s Command, which helps you build more combo meter to gather more upgrade materials, is better on the whole.
Keep in mind that Blessings unlock sequentially. That means you can’t unlock Ares’s Prowess before unlocking Ares’s Command, for example. Those unlocks will come naturally as you complete favors for the gods, which makes up the bulk of the single-player story in Immortals.
FIFA 21 released for PS4 and Xbox One earlier this year, and players picking the game up those versions have been told they’ll be able to upgrade to the next-gen version within the same console family. Now, the update is live ahead of the December 4 release date that was initially promised, meaning that you can experience next-gen FIFA earlier than expected.
As Press Start has noted, multiple players have found themselves able to download the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game right now. While you cannot buy this version of the game yet, the free upgrade is available, and players can test out how the game looks and runs when it’s using the full grunt of new systems.
If you want to buy the next-gen versions of the game, they’ll cost $70–it’s cheaper to buy a previous-gen version and then get the free update. The PS4/Xbox One version of FIFA 21 was good enough to earn an 8/10 in GameSpot’s review.
