Sony is still planning to launch its PlayStation 5 this year, but supply may be constrained. The company is reportedly planning to produce fewer launch units of its new console than it had for the PlayStation 4.
Bloomberg reports that an expected high price at launch will result in lower demand, leading to a decrease in production. As a result, the company is only planning to make 5-6 million units by March 2021. This is as compared to the PS4 launch in 2013, when Sony sold 7.5 million units in the same period. Competition may be driving the decision to go forward with limited supply, as the sources said that if Microsoft doesn’t delay Xbox Series X, Sony won’t delay PS5.
Sony has previously said that the launch shouldn’t be impacted by the coronavirus. That’s supported by this report, which states that production itself hasn’t been impacted. That said, one factor weighing on Sony’s price decision is said to be the scarcity of components, and coronavirus could still have unforeseen impacts on production. The pandemic has already prevented engineers from flying to China to direct assembly plants, and like much of the industry Sony expects game production to be impacted. We may have already seen a sign of that with the delay of PS4’s The Last of Us 2.
One aspect that has already been impacted is promotion, which has reportedly undergone big changes in light of the pandemic. That includes the reveal of the DualSense, which Sony revealed in a post on the PlayStation Blog. Since the controller has been shared with developers, Sony couldn’t put off the reveal due to the threat of leaks.
The company reportedly plans to use the PS4 to segue users into its PlayStation Network services until PS5 supply is more plentiful. It’s also considering price cuts for the PS4 models around the launch of the PS5, to encourage adoption and drive up PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now membership.
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It’s not uncommon to see Borderlands 3 for $30 on PS4 and Xbox One, which is a great deal for one of the most popular first-person shooters of 2019. But Best Buy’s current Deal of the Day is better than great. If you haven’t picked up Borderlands 3 yet, you can grab a PS4 or Xbox One copy from Best Buy for just $15 with free shipping. The deal expires at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET, and it’s possible stock will run out before then–so you better hurry if interested.
Best Buy is also selling Borderlands 3’s Super Deluxe Edition for more than 50% off at $42 (normally $100). The Super Deluxe Edition comes with a collectible steelbook case, the season pass containing four campaign expansions, and a bunch of additional digital goodies. Shipping time will vary depending on where you live, but I’m seeing free next-day shipping for both the standard and Super Deluxe Editions.
In GameSpot’s 8/10 Borderlands 3 review, critic Jordan Ramée praised the compelling story, unique new classes of characters, and arsenal of weapons at your disposal. “Borderlands 3 has a few stumbling blocks when it comes to bosses, but these fights are overshadowed by the game’s rewarding gunplay and over-the-top humor. The game’s character-driven narrative acts as a satisfying finale for the loot-shooter franchise, and the new mechanics and features–especially the reworked skill trees and weapon manufacturer effects–give you plenty of agency in how you want to play through it,” Ramée wrote.
Bob Odenkirk, who has enjoyed a long career in TV and is currently starring on AMC’s Better Call Saul, has started his own production company. It’s called Cal-Gold Pictures, and the company is partnering with Sony Pictures Television for its first projects.
That move makes sense, as Sony Pictures Television produces Better Call Saul and its sister show Breaking Bad, with Odenkirk in starring roles on both as the crooked lawyer Saul Goodman.
Odenkirk brought on former Comedy Central vice president Ian Friedman to run the TV division of Cal-Gold Pictures.
Leveraging his trademark sardonic humor, Odenkirk said in a statement to Variety that he looks forward to working on projects with Sony that stall for ages.
“I started in this grand charade called showbizness as a writer, it’s my default mode, so whenever I’m not onscreen you will find me in ‘development hell,'” he said. “It’s wonderful to finally have partners as good-natured and experienced as Sony and Ian to share hell with.”
Sony Pictures Television boss Jeff Frost said he’s thrilled to work with Odenkirk and Friedman, and he looks forward to taking “creativity to new heights” with their future projects.
A veteran of comedy, Odenkirk wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show in the ’80s and ’90s, before becoming a writer on Conan O’Brien’s late night TV show on NBC. Odenkirk also starred alongside David Cross on HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David.
A sixth season of Better Call Saul is on the way, but sadly, it will be the last. This should free up time and space for Odenkirk to pursue other projects, like his new production label.
Odenkirk auditioned for the role of Michael Scott on NBC’s The Office, a part that ultimately went to Steve Carell (though Odenkirk did eventually get a wonderful cameo as a different boss).
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Actress and singer Selena Gomez has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Chinese development company Guangzhou Feidong Software Technology Co. and MutantBox Interactive Limited for their mobile game, Clothes Forever – Styling Game, for stealing her likeness.
The entire premise of the game is that the player goes on virtual shopping sprees with celebrities, but at least one of the celebrities featured in the game didn’t actually give permission for their public image to be used.
Gomez isn’t the only celebrity you can go shopping with, with the Apple App Store page touting that players can “Interact with the most beautiful models and celebrities; the likes of Kardashian, Gigi, Beyonce, Taylor, and more will be dropping by and asking for YOUR fashion advice!”
According to Gomez’s lawsuit, she claims that one of the characters is obviously based on her and that she never agreed for the company to use her likeness.
“Defendants never requested, consulted, or informed Gomez regarding the use of any of her publicity rights in connection with the Game,” the lawsuit states. “Nor, if asked, would Gomez have consented to such use for the Game, which apparently relies on the unsavory practice of luring its users to make in-game purchases in amounts as much as $99.99 to fund imaginary spending in the Game and unlock features.”
This isn’t the first time a mobile game has been sued for using assets without permission, with Bethesda suing the Westworld mobile game in 2019 due to the game being a blatant rip off of their own game, Fallout Shelter.
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Desperados III will mark the return of the series that hasn’t been seen since 2006 when it launches later this year. Fans of the series will be able to pick up a Collector’s Edition of the stealth tactics game that will come with some nifty bonuses, including a music box and five interchangeable figurines to affix to it.
The Collector’s Edition, pictured below, comes with the following bonus items:
Five 6-inch figurines
A music box, playing a piece of the soundtrack
Official Artbook
Official Soundtrack on CD
The Desperados III Season Pass including three new missions, coming in 2020
Eight Postcards
The game itself
A large premium box
The game is not available to pre-order yet, but this edition is listed at GameStop for $120.
We haven’t seen a whole lot of Desperados III since its 2018 announcement, but fans of the series should expect the game this year on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Recently, scalpers have taken to buying up all the Switches in stores and selling them for upwards of $600 each, almost 200% the retail price. In response to both the scalpers and difficulty in finding a Switch in-store, Reddit user Sarbaaz37 has not only built their own Switch out of parts, but has also written a complete guide on how you can too.
The total cost for the build comes in just short of $200, not including assembly costs if you plan to try it yourself. As it turns out a Switch can be made with just 22 parts, all of which are fairly cheap, aside from the logic motherboard.
Guilty Gear Strive is coming to PS4, PC, and arcades this year, and Arc System Works wants to make sure that people can jump in and start getting good on day one. The game, which will soon run a closed beta, has unveiled some strategies for six of its characters with a series of “Starter Guide” videos.
The videos, below, show how to pull off each character’s special moves, and explain their uses in a fight. Some basic combos are also shown off.
If you’re in the Guilty Gear Strive beta, knowing these techniques in advance will give you an edge and let you rack up some wins.
Sol Badguy
Ky Kiske
May
Axl Low
Chipp Zanuff
Potempkin
Give these videos a watch and you’ll be well on your way to coming to grips with this technical fighter.
These are the six characters coming to the beta, but two others have been confirmed for the full game–Millia Rage and Zato-1.
We’re here to continue guiding you through Midgar in Final Fantasy 7 Remake with another installment of our spoiler-free walkthrough. We’re venturing into the Sector 7 Train Graveyard in Chapter 11, a section of the game that includes some especially useful weapons to find, but which are some of the easiest in the game to miss. Keep reading below for all the details.
Enter the train graveyard and pass through the first train car. You’ll exit out into a large area with a few enemies to kill. Go straight across to the east and pass through another train car, then head south behind a cargo container to find a chest with a Mythril Rod weapon for Aerith.
You’ll work your way through multiple additional trains and yards up ahead. When you reach the north end of the area, before crossing a bridge made out of scrap, slip between two train cars down a path to the west, where you’ll find an HP Up Materia.
Ahead is the Maintenance Facility. Once you can move through the train car on the west side, take the stairs up, but ignore the sign that directs you through the door. Instead, cross to the east and take the stairs down. You’ll find a treasure chest that contains a Gothic Bangle armor.
Keep moving until you get into the building on the west side of the area on the second floor. Head south and turn back east to find another door you can open, which leads to a chest with two mega-potions. At the north end of this side, take the stairs down, then turn back north for another chest with an ether.
Cross to the far side of the area and take the stairs back up. Check the blocked bridge just south of the staircase for a chest with 1,000 gil inside. Heading through the building south of you leads to another chest, which contains a Moogle Medal. Head up the stairs toward the central building when you’re done to buy the Let the Battles Begin Music Disc from the vending machine.
Ghoul Boss Fight
Beating the Ghoul requires you to keep an eye on it, because only certain attacks will work at certain times against the big ghost. When it’s solid, you can hit it with melee strikes, but magic will be pretty ineffective. When the Ghoul becomes ghostly and lit in red, melee attacks lose their potency, so switch to magic–landing any big spells will seriously drive up the Ghoul’s stagger bar, with Fire being the most effective. You’ll want to outfit Aerith with some strong spells, but scatter a few good materia to Tifa and Cloud as well, so they can also help out when the Ghoul shifts forms.
The Ghoul primarily likes to use its Telekinesis attack to suck up objects from around the room and chuck them at you. When that happens, duck behind any other debris you can for cover. You’ll also want to watch out for the Ghoul’s slash attacks. When the Ghoul is corporeal, its slashes leave a blue line on the ground that’ll explode to deal big damage to your team, so be sure to dodge clear. When the Ghoul is ghostly, it can turn invisible to ambush your team with slash attacks, so watch for the red light that indicates where the ghost is.
The Ghoul likes to use a big scream attack that can stun your teammates if you’re too close, and it has additional attacks that can afflict characters with silence. Switch quickly to attack the ghost if it stuns one of your group to interrupt its follow-ups, and keep Echo Mist on hand in case you get silenced.
Do damage when you can with your melee team, but the time to capitalize is when the Ghoul is in ghost form and you can have a big effect on its stagger gauge. Hit the Ghoul with a couple of big spells and it should get pressured; close the distance with Cloud and Tifa and use moves like Focused Strike and Focused Thrust to try to stagger it.
Once you hurt the Ghoul enough, you’ll get into the second phase of the fight, in which the ghost will add additional attacks, with blue flames crossing through the room and more area attacks around itself that you’ll need to dodge away from, like Balefire. You should also watch out for the Ghoul to pick up all the objects in the room and swirl them around in the air; when that happens, stop attacking and get well clear.
The Ghoul will pick up a party member and hold them up in the air. However, this Ghoul is a lie! When this happens, remove your lock-on and look to the other side of the room to attack the real Ghoul. Wail on him enough, and he’ll be forced to free your party member.
The Ghoul isn’t too tough, so maintain spell pressure when it goes ghostly to put him back in the grave where he belongs.
The Trainyard
When you finally lower the train car with the crane, head through the first car and turn left to exit. You can fight through some Lesser Drakes here to reach a chest with three echo mists inside.
Continue outside and activate the turntable. Smash the crates for a moogle medal, then cross the turntable and head to the right to find a chest with a hi-potion inside.
Further up, you’ll use train engines to push other cars out of the way. The second time you do, check to the right of the engine to find a chest with 2 mega-potions.
Boss Fight: Eligor
First and foremost: Bring Steal Materia to this fight. Eligor carries the Bladed Staff weapon for Aerith, and you can only get it if you steal it off him. Steal attempts seem most effective when the boss is staggered, but keep up the attempts throughout the fight until you get your prize.
Eligor is a ghostly chariot who is particularly weak against Ice magic, but Fire and Lightning are also pretty effective at pressuring the boss and pushing its stagger meter, and you’ll want to stock Wind spells for later as well. Physical attacks, on the other hand, are tough to land against Eligor. The boss is highly mobile, which can be troublesome for Ice spells, since they take a moment to detonate, but Thunder spells can make up the difference in a pinch with their guaranteed hits. Watch Eligor’s movements so you can hit him with spells when he’s stationary. Aerith is the obvious choice for spell-slinging, but extra Ice Materia on Cloud and Tifa can help spread out that burden.
You’ll still want to bring melee attacks against the boss, they’re just tougher to land than usual. The wheels of Eligor’s chariot will bounce Cloud’s blade, so you generally want to circle around the back of the boss and hit it from there–since most of Eligor’s attacks go straight out in front of it, its back is also the safest place to be. You’ll be most effective if you can hit Eligor with magic, but barring that, your melee fighters should work to stay behind Eligor and hit him as constantly as they can manage. Boost Tifa with Unbridled Strength and pummel him with Cloud’s Deadly Dodge and Punisher Mode attacks.
In the first phase of the fight, Eligor is mostly a problem because he’ll try to run you over with Trample. It’s a move that can send you flying and do a lot of damage, but you can guard your way through it. That’s the advisable course, since it’s very tough to effectively dodge the huge chariot as it comes barreling toward you. The Sweeping Gaze attack is also a problem, but easily avoided: when you see Eligor getting ready to use it, disengage and move well back to keep out of its range.
Magic is great for staggering Eligor, allowing you to pummel it and move on to the second stage of the fight, which sees Eligor taking to the air a whole lot more, which often will put him out of range of physical melee attacks. Aerith’s regular attacks can help maintain damage when this happens, but you’ll probably want to use Pray and Healing Wind to top off your party’s HP while you’re not in direct danger. This is also when you want to use Wind magic, because if you can hit Eligor with Wind while it’s flying, you’ll give it a ton of stagger. And while melee attacks are tough, if you can get a jumping attack off and hit the boss, you can knock it out of the air, as well.
While Eligor is up there, he’ll use a Piercing Gaze laser attack that will stun your characters, then start throwing electric javelins at you. Dodge away and hide behind the cargo container in the room until it’s destroyed. If you can get around the side of or behind Eligor while it’s doing the javelin attack, hit it with Wind or melee strikes to get it out of the air.
The final phase of the fight highlights Eligor’s final weakness: his chariot’s wheels. Unfortunately, he’ll be moving very fast the whole time while swinging a blade, so you’ll want to try to stay in the center of the arena to avoid getting cut apart. Use magic on the wheels and be careful of the javelins that’ll occasionally fall out of the sky just above you. You’ll also want to be wary of the Wind of Gehenna attack–heal whoever gets pulled into it, or risk them getting knocked out in one big hit.
Go to town on the wheels while keeping your team healthy, and you should eventually stagger Eligor and finish it off. This party ain’t afraid of no ghosts!
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The latest update for League of Legends seeks to bring some new changes to the jungle position, evening out the weakness of the junglers in early game and nerfing the late game power these positions tend to bring. For a full rundown on 10.8, check out the developer’s blog.
Riot is seeking to restructure the jungle position, changing up the aggressive tactics that some junglers use during the start of the matches, instead offering bigger rewards for farming in early game. Extra sustain is also being added to allow those who fall to low health in the jungle, keeping a jungler alive in a tough position.
According to the developers, “Junglers are appropriately influential as a role, but we want to reduce the perception that they have to have an aggressive early presence to be effective. Instead, we’re giving them opportunities for more personal power through proper farming as the game progresses.”
“We also want to make sure the jungle is accessible to players who can’t kite perfectly or who don’t have proper setups for the cutthroat role, so we’re giving some extra sustain to people who fall critically low in the jungle, helping them stay alive when the going gets rough,” the post explains.
Jungle camp XP is being bumped up to 1.35x more at levels 9+, allowing for an additional 10-13 XP per camp. A range of jungle items have also been buffed:
Hunter’s Machete Unique Passive – Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Hunter’s Talisman Unique Passive – Tooth: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Skirmisher’s Sabre Unique Passive – Tooth/Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Stalker’s Blade Unique Passive – Tooth/Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
As always, some champions are being re-balanced to fit the current meta:
Aphelios
Aphelios will now receive 2/4/6/8/10/12 lethality instead of 3/6/9/12/15/18 percent bonus armor penetration.
Nerf: Weapon active’s base damage and cooldowns now scale over 13 levels, instead of 9. This is the same for moonshot, onslaught, binding eclipse, duskwave, and sentry.
Ash
Evelynn
Kalista
Master Yi
Orianna
Ryze
Buff: Ryze’s base stats have been increased. Health (575), armor (22), and attack damage (56) have all gone up by a small increment.
Buff: Ryze’s Overlord bonus movement speed has been increased to 28/32/36/40/44% when consuming 2 runes.
Seena
Sett
Soraka
Tristana
Urgot
Bugfix: The bug that caused Ugrot’s Disdain extra movement speed dash not occuring has been fixed.
Bugfix: Urgot now properly has a total CC duration of 1.5 seconds, including stun duration and time elapsed when enemy champion is flung, as intended from patch 10.6.
Buff: Urgot’s Fear Beyond Death cooldown has been decreased to 100/85/70 seconds.
Varus
Xayah
A number of bug fixes will be addressed in this update, along with some new skins being added to the in-game Riot Store.
