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The Elder Scrolls VI not coming to PlayStation, court documents show

Derek Strickland | Sep 18, 2023 12:10 PM CDT

Bethesda's next Elder Scrolls RPG will skip PlayStation, new court documents from Microsoft indicate.

The Elder Scrolls VI not coming to PlayStation, court documents show

Microsoft apparently has no plans to release The Elder Scrolls VI on PlayStation consoles and may keep the massively-anticipated RPG exclusive to Xbox and PC. The latest evidence of TESVI's exclusivity is found in a recently uploaded court document in the FTC v Microsoft case (23-cv-02880).

In the document, Microsoft's legal counsel submits a table (PX0027-004) with upcoming first-party Xbox games. The table is meant to illustrate how Microsoft handled games on a post-acquisition basis and that the company did not instantly make specific titles exclusive to Xbox after buyouts. To prove a point, Microsoft's lawyers focus on ZeniMax games, and The Elder Scrolls VI is listed on the table with a "expected 2026 or later" release timing and an apparent confirmation that the upcoming RPG will not be on PlayStation.

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Leaked Activision emails reveal details about the Nintendo Switch 2

Jak Connor | Sep 18, 2023 10:20 AM CDT

The past couple of weeks we are starting to see rumors swirl about the Nintendo Switch 2, with many of these rumors pointing toward a massive performance upgrade.

Leaked Activision emails reveal details about the Nintendo Switch 2

The rumors came from select developers that were reportedly pulled into a private room by Nintendo employees and showcased the hardware that will be running the Nintendo Switch 2. The developers suggested that Nintendo's highly anticipated console will come with massive performance upgrades, which will put it much closer to the performance of Microsoft and Sony's consoles.

The jump in performance can be attributed to the rumored adoption of a NVIDIA Ampere GPU, which pushed select titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to 4K at 60FPS. This wild purported leap in performance has now been backed up by internal Activision emails that have been made public by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Starfield modders have already removed some of the most annoying aspects of the game

Jak Connor | Sep 18, 2023 2:22 AM CDT

Starfield is already getting attention from the modding community despite the game not having the official mod tools released.

Starfield modders have already removed some of the most annoying aspects of the game

Starfield has been out for a little over two weeks now, and despite the lack of official modding tools, modders are rolling out mods in various forms, with one being the implementation of Stormtroopers. Now, we are starting to see mods surface that fix some of the most annoying aspects in Starfield. For instance, players have always wanted to be able to create a ship without size limitations. Vanilla Starfield ship construction is limited to 40 meters long and wide, which isn't enough if a player wants to build any large ship from Star Wars.

Thanks to NexusMods user AccursedPrism, players can now enjoy Starfield ship creation without a size limit, as the new mod overrides the default limitation of 40 meters and adds the following options - 60 meters, 80 meters, and 4/5 kilometers. The sizes below 100 meters are considered to be "safe", which indicates minimal or hardly any performance issues or in-game bugs. However, 4/5 kilometers will likely have a massive impact on performance/cause bugs. Check out this mod here.

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Nexus Mods removes the Starfield mod that got rid of player pronouns and stands by decision

Kosta Andreadis | Sep 18, 2023 12:32 AM CDT

As with many large-scale AAA game releases, there's a very vocal contingent that looks at all aspects of a release to see if there's anything "woke" going on - elements that promote or otherwise cater to a diversity of players. With the release of Starfield earlier in the month, the Steam forums for the game were briefly overtaken by conversation and toxic commentary about the game including an option to select a pronoun for your character.

Nexus Mods removes the Starfield mod that got rid of player pronouns and stands by decision

In what amounts to maybe 15 seconds of screen time (text) for a game with well over 200 hours of content, the decision to let players choose from He/Him, She/Her, or They/Them was too much to handle - or a bridge too far. This is for a game set hundreds of years in the future, where They/Them makes a lot of sense to include, simply from a setting perspective.

As the discourse on the wokeness of Starfield has died down, and that YouTuber rant on the subject has become a meme, one of the most popular modding sites on the planet - NexusMods - has decided to remove a mod that removed the option to select pronouns in the game.

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Unity seems willing to compromise on controversial runtime fees

Derek Strickland | Sep 17, 2023 7:31 PM CDT

The Unity controversy continues as the games company issues a new statement on its controversial new runtime fees.

Unity seems willing to compromise on controversial runtime fees

Outside of the back-to-back hit game releases, 2023 has been a strange year for gaming. We've seen the United States government take on Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision merger, the closure of Saints Row developer Volition, and we've also seen thousands of game developers being laid off despite companies reporting billion-dollar earnings. Now Unity has made one of the most controversial business decisions in the entire history of the industry and alienated practically its entire customer base.

In a quest to finally become profitable, Unity made a radical new policy: Game devs and distributors would be charged money on a per-install basis for specific popular games. The move was universally hated, and led to Unity issued several PR responses. The firm even evacuated its offices due to a death threat. While the heat is still very much on Unity, the company has now released another statement on the runtime fees.

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Starfield is available to stream in 4K via NVIDIA GeForce NOW, supporting Steam and Game Pass

Kosta Andreadis | Sep 17, 2023 6:56 PM CDT

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW is widely considered one of the best cloud gaming platforms in terms of latency, visual fidelity, and overall experience - it takes the games you own across platforms like Steam. It gives you the ability to stream them without the need for high-end PC hardware.

Starfield is available to stream in 4K via NVIDIA GeForce NOW, supporting Steam and Game Pass

And it's the latter that has made the GeForce NOW Ultimate for USD 19.99 a month tier impressive because it gives you access to GeForce RTX 4080 hardware to stream and run games with DLSS 3 technology, NVIDIA Reflex, real-time ray-tracing, and all in 4K. The visual fidelity for cloud gaming doesn't get any better.

And with that, NVIDIA has confirmed that Starfield is available to play - as part of the service move to include Xbox Game Pass and first-party Xbox titles as part of its line-up of supported games. Starfield on GeForce NOW running on a GeForce RTX 4080 can push higher than 60fps performance using the Ultra spec with AMD's FSR 2 upscaling. And with free trials for both GeForce NOW and PC Game Pass available, you can jump in to try it out for yourself.

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Grand Theft Auto V officially turns 10 years old

Derek Strickland | Sep 17, 2023 6:04 PM CDT

It might be hard to believe, but Grand Theft Auto V turns 10 years old today.

Grand Theft Auto V officially turns 10 years old

There's really nothing quite like Grand Theft Auto V. It really is a best-selling titan. Despite the fact that it was released at the tail-end of the Xbox 360 generation, the game still managed to sell over 11 million copies in 24 hours and make over $1 billion in sales within three days after launch. The game has gone on to make over 8x that in the last decade.

While Rockstar is celebrating GTA V's 10-year anniversary with new Grand Theft Auto Online content, we decided to take a look at the various milestones that Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive have achieved through GTA V's continued support.

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Top Star Wars game director leaves EA, puts Jedi trilogy in question

Derek Strickland | Sep 17, 2023 4:31 PM CDT

After nearly 10 years and two best-selling Star Wars games under his belt, sources tell Bloomberg that game director Stig Asmussen has left Respawn Entertainment.

Top Star Wars game director leaves EA, puts Jedi trilogy in question

As game director of two Jedi games, Fallen Order and Survivor, Stig Asmussen helped change how EA treats the Star Wars franchise. Both games have been big hits, selling millions of copies and reaching tens of millions of people. The live service-driven publisher was shown that singleplayer games without microtransactions can still achieve explosive success.

Now after helping further the legacy of Star Wars media, Stig is apparently leaving Respawn, the developers behind the Star Wars duo. "After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck," an EA rep told Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.

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None of the new Final Fantasy 7 games support cross-save, direct progress does not carry over

Derek Strickland | Sep 17, 2023 3:43 PM CDT

Square Enix re-confirms that all of the new Final Fantasy 7 games are standalone experiences and clarifies what that means for player progress.

None of the new Final Fantasy 7 games support cross-save, direct progress does not carry over

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is on the horizon and gamers are eager to continue Cloud's new re-imagined journey. There's just one issue: Save files from Final Fantasy 7 Remake are not compatible with Rebirth. Square Enix actually has a good reason for this, saying that each individual game in the new FF7 trilogy are not only sold as standalone games, but they also have unique features and systems. For example, Rebirth uses a new synergy-based combat system.

Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of FF7 Rebirth, told the PlayStation Blog that progress like levels, items, abilities, etc. will not carry over between each individual game in the trilogy. So that means progress from Rebirth won't carry over into the next game, either.

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PlayStation 5 max external SSD capacity boosted to 8TB

Derek Strickland | Sep 17, 2023 1:02 PM CDT

Sony has effectively doubled the PlayStation 5's additional storage with a new update.

PlayStation 5 max external SSD capacity boosted to 8TB

The latest PS5 update unlocks some great new features for the console. Users can now expand their PS5's M.2 SSD storage beyond 4TB with the beta firmware update boosting total max M.2 capacity to 8TB.

The standard SSD compatibility rules still apply after the update--any M.2 SSD you put into a PS5 needs to hit a speed threshold of 5.5GB/sec and at least 250GB in capacity. The good news is that the PS5 supports a bunch of M.2 form factors including 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280, and 22110. Our own PS5 temperature testing shows that consumers should consider adding a heatsink to their SSDs to help deal with the PS5's heat management. The PS5 can get a bit toasty when pushing 4K.

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