Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla players have found a way to skirt the system in Ubisoft’s latest open-world adventure. Using a script editor, they’ve managed to add any cosmetic item they want to their inventory, including those you’d normally have to pay real-world money for. They’ve even managed to unlock as-of-yet unreleased premium items.
A user detailed how to pull the digital heist off over on Nexus Mods, as originally reported by Eurogamer. The method has players use memory scanning software to access cosmetics like the Berserker, Valkyrie, Draugr, and Huldufolk packs on PC.
Premium packs are normally purchased with an in-game currency called Helix Credits. Players will need to spend at least $20 to get enough credit to unlock one of Valhalla’s premium cosmetic packs. Some players have used this unofficial method to get around that cost.
Be wary if you decide to take this route, though. Downloading tools like this one can cause unintended harm to your game and Ubisoft could punish those who use the software with Valhalla. You also potentially open up your PC to hackers.
For those looking to spend more money on Ubisoft’s viking simulator, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s dice game, Orlog, is becoming a real-world dice game as well. Ubisoft announced that a physical version of the game would come sometime in 2021.
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Black Friday had one of the best gaming keyboard deals we’ve seen in quite a while, with an $85 discount on Razer’s BlackWidow Elite. And while that has since expired, Cyber Monday is bringing some more great keyboard deals. One of the best Cyber Monday deals features the Corsair K70 RGB Mk. 2 gaming keyboard for $100, down from its regular price of $160. This deal is only available today, November 30. If you want a great gaming keyboard, the Corsair K70 is a great choice, but supplies likely won’t last long, so you’ll want to act quickly.
The Corsair K70 RGB Mk. 2 gaming keyboard comes with light and tactile Cherry MX Brown switches, textured keycaps for FPS and MOBA players, and dedicated media controls. It also boasts three profiles that you can store customizations on–including for macros and lighting–through Corsair’s iCUE software.
Some of the K70’s other features include a Windows key lock mode to prevent you from tabbing out of games accidentally, a detachable soft-touch pad that helps with wrist support, and a USB passthrough port that you can plug USB 2.0 devices into, such as gaming headsets, mice, and more.
If you’re looking to watch the Arizona Cardinals face off against the San Francisco 49ers on December 26, you are going to need access to Amazon Prime or Twitch. Though the early and late games that day–the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs the Detroit Lions and the Miami Dolphins vs the Las Vegas Raiders, respectively–will still be broadcasted on TV the usual way, that middle game is Amazon and Twitch only. It’s a bit confusing though, since viewers should also be able to catch the game via other NFL, Yahoo Sports, 49ers, and Cardinals platforms.
Though it sounds a bit funky, this definitely is not the first time the NFL has played around with giving different platforms streaming and broadcasting rights. Previous games have streamed on Twitter and Yahoo, sometimes exclusively. Additionally, the NFL previously announced a Wild Card playoff game in January will give streaming rights to NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock, with NBCU’s Telemundo gaining control of the broadcasting rights.
Amazon has already been a streaming partner of the NFL for Thursday Night Football, with a multi-year contract allowing it to stream games concurrently with Fox’s linear television broadcasts. According to The Deadline, initial data has shown that these football streams have not done huge numbers, but since many viewers are cutting the cord and moving towards streaming this seems to be a future-proofing move on the NFL’s part.
There are multiple major rights deals with league broadcast partners coming up for renewal in 2022 and the landscape for traditional broadcasters that use linear ratings is changing rapidly with the rise of giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon in the industry. Despite the strides these companies have been taking in the world of sports streaming and broadcasting, most analysts expect that current rights holders will retain those rights, though their valuations will probably increase.
George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy movie Willow is set to get a new TV sequel, which is being produced by original director Ron Howard and is being made for Disney+. Three of the main stars of the show have now been announced.
As reported by Variety, Ellie Bamber, Cailee Spaeny, and Erin Kellyman are all in talks to play lead roles in the Willow show. Bamber previously appeared in Nocturnal Animals and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Spaeny recently starred in Devs and the horror sequel The Craft: Legacy, and Kellyman played the mercenary Enfys Nest in Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.
No details have been revealed about their characters so far, and we know nothing about the plot of the show, other than the fact it’s a sequel set many years after the movie. However, it’s been confirmed that Warwick Davis will reprise his role as the movie’s heroic main character, Willow Ufgood.
The showrunners for the Willow series will be Jonathan Kasdan, who co-wrote Solo, and Wendy Mericle, who was co-showrunner on The CW’s Arrow. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu will helm the pilot.
The movie also starred Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley, and focused on a quest to save a baby from an evil queen. It grossed $137.6 million worldwide from a reported $35 million budget. Discussions of a potential follow-up go back as far as 2005, when Lucas expressed an interest in making a Willow show. In 2018, Howard stated that there had been discussions about making a sequel.
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Fortnite’s special Marvel season is finally coming to an end this week. Galactus, the destroyer of worlds, is coming to crash the party and change the map tomorrow afternoon. Here’s how you can take part in the battle royale’s special event.
Galactus will arrive in special event servers at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET / 9 PM BST tomorrow, December 1. You’ll need to arrive early and queue up for the event by selecting it in the game mode menu. Players have missed previous events due to server capacity, so don’t expect to get in if you arrive just before the event starts.
If you won’t be able to make it into the live server, you can watch a streamer take part of the season-ending event on Twitch. Nick “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff and Ali “SypherPK” Hasan are two of many popular streamers who will be attending the event and broadcasting it on their channels. You can browse through Twitch tomorrow to find other Fortnite streamers who’ll be there as well.
Fortnite players have been trying to predict what will happen at tomorrow’s event. There are a few theories, but no one is quite sure what Galactus will do once he arrives. Players, however, will be happy to be done with Season 4’s long grind no matter what happens.
Season 5 is right around the corner and Epic Games is now offering a monthly subscription model for Fortnite. Players can purchase it and receive the new battle pass and extra V-Bucks, although they can still pay for the battle pass individually if they’d like.
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The Wonderful 101 Remastered is getting an extensive demo across all its release platforms, and it includes additional content and easy access to the Bayonetta-inspired character on all versions.
Titled the “Wonder-Sized Cadet Demo,” the free version features the entirety of the game’s prologue and all three acts of its first mission, giving you around two hours of play time to mess around with the game’s distinct combat system. Developer Platinum Games says that any progress you make in the demo will carry over to the retail version of the game should you wish to purchase it.
The demo will also give you easy access to Wonder-Bayonetta, an in-game homage to another Platinum-developed title that was previously difficult to obtain. The character will be available from the start of the demo along with other additional in-game items.
If you’ve already invested in the retail version of Wonderful 101’s remaster, then you can get the same in-game items using codes provided by Platinum Games. Using the code “UMBRANGIFT” will net you Wonder-Bayonetta and the same support items in the demo, while code “ANGELSLAYERS” will unlock both Wonder-Jeanne and Wonder-Rodin. Platinum Games has teased that it will be unlocking additional characters with similar codes in the future.
Originally released on the Wii U in 2013, Wonderful 101 still stands out with its frenetic combat and striking art style. It’s somewhat less impressive in 2020, however, with GameSpot’s Wonderful 101 Remastered review reading, “There’s a great concept and the good combat mechanics we know Platinum can achieve in there, but you’ll need a lot of patience to find them.”
Rainbow Six Siege’s latest season is about to hit, and it brings a variety of changes to the game. Titled Operation Neon Dawn, the update will add a reworked map and a new operator to the game. But in terms of immediate impact, some players might blanch at the hefty size of the patch itself, which comes in at 60 GB on PC and 35.90 GB on console. That’s in addition to the next-gen upgrade, which is 3.2 GB on Xbox Series X/S and 5.38 GB on PlayStation 5
🛠Y5S4 Maintenance🛠 The Y5S4 Operation Neon Dawn patch will be deployed tomorrow December 1st for all platforms. Platform: PC Time: 08:00 EDT / 13:00 UTC Platform: PS Time: 09:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC Platform: XB Time: 11:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC ⏲Approx’ Downtime: 1 Hour pic.twitter.com/BV9hAf8FDm
To be fair, Ubisoft notes that the large patch size is due to the consolidation of data files that will make the overall data footprint of Siege itself smaller. That said, it’s still quite big for a patch. The update will introduce a major rework of the Skyscraper map, as well as the Thai operator Aruni. Aruni uses laser gates to defend vulnerable passageways or corridors from the attackers, though those gates can be disabled by any projectile in the game.
Neon Dawn will also come with many changes aimed at improving competitive play. According to the pre-season designer’s notes, the patch focuses on scrambling what Ubisoft calls the “heavy utility meta” through measures such as removing the amount of projectiles that catcher operators like Jager can deny per round. Hibana is also receiving a configurable shot that allows her to decide how many X-Kairos to shoot, which will give her some much-needed flexibility.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild posited a completely different blueprint for the open-world genre back in 2017, and it’s taken three years for the gaming industry to take those ideas and run with them. Immortals Fenyx Rising one of the biggest games yet to deliver its own take on many of Breath of the Wild’s most interesting ideas, and now that the reviews are out, check out the roundup below to see what critics think of this mythological adventure.
Heavily indebted to Greek mythology, Immortals Fenyx Rising is an open-world adventure game coming December 3 that’s based around exploration and combat. Overall, the reviewers praise the game’s artstyle and worldbuilding, while decrying its derivative puzzle design and focus on traditional open-world activities. While some reviewers clearly enjoyed the game, they opine that the game ultimately has more in common with Ubisoft’s usual open-world games than perhaps its developer would like to admit.
Game: Immortals Fenyx Rising
Platforms: Amazon Luna, PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
Release Date: December 3
Price: $60 / £50 / $80 AUD
Below are some choice excerpts from reviews to give you the full picture of what people think about the game. Head over to GameSpot’s sister site Metacritic for more reviews of the game.
GameSpot – 7/10
“Immortals Fenyx Rising is far from perfect–but it is good. It stumbles frequently as it explores Greek myths through a new lens, its best features are borrowed, and for as large and fun as its world is, it always feels like you’re on a guided tour instead of really exploring it. But even as it lives in the shadow of better games, its puzzles, combat, and open-world loop come together often enough for me to not only see it through for a few dozen hours, but also want to keep filling out its almighty checklist, even if it lead me by the nose most of the way through.” – Suriel Vazquez [Full Review]
Eurogamer – Unscored
“I feel for Immortals a bit. Blame Covid, blame budgets, blame Ubisoft, blame the paradoxically thrifty, endlessly repurposing way the publisher makes all its huge, expansive, generous games, but Immortals never really finds its own voice until the very end. It’s a skillful, lovingly made product, but it is unmistakably a product, and the best games in this genre all feel like genuine adventures.” – Christian Donlan [Full Review]
Game Informer – 9/10
“Immortals contains all the ingredients I want from an epic, open-world adventure steeped in mythology. With empowering combat, rewarding exploration, and a story that shines a spotlight on its characters through humor, Immortals Fenyx Rising leverages its myriad inspirations to discover its own identity and deliver an outstanding open-world experience.” – Brian Shea [Full Review]
PC Gamer – 72/100
Immortals is easy to like. It has an infectious energy, a great sense of humor, and a world that is full of colour and life. I just wish the mechanical stuff underpinning everything was more fine-tuned. The unsatisfying, weightless character movement is a real letdown, because there’s no getting away from it. This is a game where you’re constantly running, flying, climbing, and riding on horseback. But its unique take on Greek mythology, memorable characters, and fun quests do their best to make up for it, even if it doesn’t always pull it off. – Andy Kelly [Full Review]
IGN – 7/10
Immortals Fenyx Rising gives us a gorgeous world to explore, filled with mythological beasts, deities, and powers to wield. Its combat is satisfying, with plenty of choice in upgrades, while its central characters, comedic tone, and storytelling are a real highlight. Seeing Fenyx’s saga through to the end, with amusing commentary from Zeus, Prometheus, and other gods along the way, is a treat. Its Achilles Heel, though, is that so much of the puzzle gameplay feels like going through the motions instead of clever challenges. In the end, I wish Immortals Fenyx Rising had tried to soar just a little higher on the wings of ambition. – Cam Shea [Full Review]
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This week marks the start to the final month of the year, and Netflix has plenty of new content planned for its subscribers. From new movies to TV shows to original programming, there is something for everyone for the week of November 29.
If you’re a fan of pocket monsters that are trapped inside balls that you command to fight for you, then Pokémon Journeys Part 3 may be right for you. The series continues the adventures of Ash as he and his best friend Pikachu travel to a new land where he will continue his journey to become the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them is his real test. To train them is his cause. And you can watch Part 3 of that journey on December 4.
Pokémon Journeys may a bit too “kiddie” for some people, but if you still want something animated, check out Season 4 of Big Mouth, which arrives on December 4. The series follows a group of adolescents going through puberty and the awkward moments that revolve around it. Also, there are hormone monsters making these kids’ lives hellacious. You can watch the latest trailer here, which introduces anxiety mosquitos.
Finally, David Fincher’s latest movie Mank debuts on December 4. The movie follows the co-writer of Citizen Kane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he struggles with director Orson Welles. Below, you’ll find everything coming to Netflix this week. For more Netflix news, check out everything coming to the streaming service in December 2020.
