While Sucker Punch Productions' latest PlayStation 4 exclusive arrives this Friday, Snap Inc. and Sony have released a new Snapchat filter that turns you into the "Ghost" from Ghost of Tsushima.The filter, which is available for all Snapchat users, gives you the same mask protagonist Jin Sakai wears in the many trailers showcasing him becoming the "Ghost," a stealthy assassin who forgoes the samurai code in order to retake Tsushima island from the gruesome Mongols. The mask is the same one featured in Ghost of Tsushima's Collector's Edition, which also comes with a display stand.You can get the Ghost of Tsushima filter from the Snapcode below.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Like Flick, the chipper C.J. is one of the many special visitors who will periodically stop by your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Whereas Flick will buy your bugs and craft bug models for you, C.J. is all about seasports, and he'll purchase any fish you're willing to sell at a higher price than you'd normally get at Nook's Cranny, making his visits a great chance to earn bells. But when exactly does C.J. show up, and how do you get fish models?When Does C.J. Show Up?Like most other Animal Crossing special visitors, there's no telling when C.J. will appear on your island; his visits are completely random, so you'll just need to check in every day and see if he's there. On average, however, you'll see him on your island at least every other week, and when he does show up, he'll be around for a full 24 hours, from 5 AM to 5 AM.C.J. during the Fishing Tourney Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Death Stranding has one main collectible in the form of memory chips. There are 56 total memory chips available to collect. You can donate memory chips to delivery terminals around the game world to upload and view their data. Restoring your first memory chip will grant you the trophy or achievement "A Thirst for Knowledge," while restoring all 56 memory chips will grant you the "Fount of Knowledge" trophy or achievement. You can come across most memory chips while exploring the world, but some have specific requirements to spawn, and many are just plain hard to find.Here's where to find all 56 memory chip locations in Death Stranding, plus some tips on making your hunt for them easier. Check out our updated Death Stranding review for our impressions, plus thoughts on how it runs on PC.How To Find Memory ChipsMemory chips are small, shiny objects that you will be able to spot by their distinct sparkle. A glowing blue memory chip icon will also mark their location both in-world and on the map. Memory chips will only show up as an icon on the map when other players have marked it. If you find one and it isn't marked on the map, do your fellow porters a favor and place a marker on it.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA Sports is revealing the Madden NFL 21 player ratings this week through ESPN, and that continued on Tuesday with the announcement of the game's next 99-rated player and more.Joining Patrick Mahomes in the elusive 99-club is none other than the 24-year-old running back/receiver Christian McCaffrey from the Carolina Panthers.McCaffrey also earned a 99 rating in Madden NFL 20, but it took 10 games for the Madden ratings adjusters to boost his rating to the highest level in the game. This year, he's a 99 out of the gate and will have to perform well on the field to retain that rating.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

This past weekend's Call of Duty League event was a huge success in terms of viewership numbers. Activision announced that the New York Subliners Home Series reached the highest viewership of the entire season for YouTube, with around 115,000 people watching at its peak.The number doesn't count other viewership sources, so the total number of viewers is likely higher. Whatever the case, 115,000 surpasses the previous record of 113,000 peak viewers from the Atlanta Home Series.The Call of Duty League rolls on this weekend with the London Royal Ravens Home Series, which will air on YouTube over the July 17-19 weekend. The final series in the regular season, the Toronto Home Series, will follow on July 24-26.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Sims 4 has detailed its next piece of DLC, and its focused on knitting. The Sims 4: Nifty Knitting is a new Stuff Pack, which Sims fans were able to vote on back in March 2019. The DLC will arrive for PC, PS4, and Xbox One on July 28.The trailer below shows off how many items your Sims will be able to knit, but it goes deeper than that. You'll be able to design your knitting studio, and you can buy and sell your creations for Simoleons through Plopsy, an in-game marketplace.The pack will also contain new items and hairstyles, and the knitting skill you'll unlock can be taught to multiple Sims to eventually unlock new styles.EA has also hinted at an appearance from Yarny, the star of Unravel, in this game. He does not pop up in the trailer, so we're not sure what his cameo will look like. Nifty Knitting follows the recent Eco Lifestyle pack, which launched in June. July will be a big month for The Sims 4, with a competitive reality show, The Sims Spark'd, also set to debut this month. Competitors will be aiming to create the most inventive Sims 4 characters and scenarios across four episodes. Info from Gamespot.com

After some less-than-optimal news earlier this year regarding the impact of COVID-19, the developers of Dragon Age writer David Gaider's new game have shared an update on how Chorus: An Adventure Musical is shaping up. Summerfall Studios' Liam Esler wrote in an update to the game's crowdfunding page that the team remains "very heads down" as it works on "early production" elements of the game."The difficult thing with early production is there's not a lot that we can show, as a lot of it is preparatory, or so early we don't feel is ready to be made public," Esler said. "We also want to be very careful not to share any spoilers!"Chorus--which is not to be confused by the other game called Chorus from Deep Silver--is "moving along pretty well," Esler said. The COVID-19 pandemic has "caused some delays," he explained, but he remarked that he's proud of the team for making up some of the lost time.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Dragon's Dogma, the Capcom RPG that launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 before eventually coming (as the upgraded Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen) to PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch, is releasing an anime adaptation soon. The anime, which was announced by Netflix in March 2019, is coming to Netflix on September 17.Netflix has announced the release date alongside a first-look poster and a single sentence of description. "Only the Arisen can face the Dragon and defeat the apocalypse," the announcement tweet reads.You can see the poster, which presumably shows off the anime's art style, below. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA Sports has published its latest "Gridiron Notes" blog post for Madden NFL 21, this time covering what's new in terms of offensive and defensive playbooks, and improvements to AI. Additionally, EA is promising more substantial regular updates to this year's game.Starting with the new playbooks, the Live Playbooks feature from Madden 20 is coming to Madden 21 with a 2.0 version. Like last year, Live Playbooks are updates to the playbooks to reflect what happens in the real NFL, and EA is promising more substantial updates this year."For Madden NFL 21 we are increasing the amount of content we are delivering via Title Updates. As this feature evolves, it will increasingly become the way we add new playbook content to the game," EA said. "We are already in the process of working on new playbook content that will bring even more variety and authenticity to our playbooks."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Deathloop, the upcoming PlayStation 5 and PC title from Arkane, is going to be a violent experience. You'll play as Colt, who is being hunted by and has to take down multiple assassins, and naturally you're going to kill a lot of people. As such, a lot of the game's art and marketing so far has featured weapons and people wielding them.However, the latest concept art shown off on the game's Twitter account is much calmer, and focuses on some of the interior designs the team has worked up for the game. Nice staircases? The game has them. A music feature wall with a guitar and records affixed to it? Very chic. And look at those planter boxes!It's a shame you'll likely get blood on those polished floors.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Games for Change has announced the 2020 awards recipients following a virtual ceremony. The big winner was Media Molecule, but the socially conscious-focused awards gave accolades to games across several categories. This marks the 17th year for the awards, which honors game developers who strive to make a social impact through immersive media.Media Molecule's Dreams was awarded Game of the Year along with the Most Innovative award. Sky: Children of Light was the second-most awarded game, taking home both the People's Choice award and Best Gameplay. It earned the popular award with more than 14,000 votes. Games for Change says this year's awards received more than 14 times as many votes as prior years.Other award winners included Sea of Solitude (Most Significant Impact), Best Learning Game (Rabbids Coding), Resilience (Best Student Game), and The Holy City (Best XR For Change). The ceremony also honored Gordon Bellamy with the Vanguard Award for his work creating inclusive LGBTQ+ spaces in the gaming community, and Humble Bundle with the inaugural G4C Giving Award. Microsoft was given the Industry Leadership award.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

If a youthful obsession with Japanese samurai cinema and an audiobook version of Musashi have taught me anything, it's that if you want to be a great swordfighter, having a connection to nature is important. Skill with a weapon isn't purely driven by physical strength and technique, but also by the acuity that comes from observing trees, mountains, and rivers. Something like that.While I can only make guesses as to how inspirational the rural areas of feudal Japan would have been, the scenic island portrayed in Ghost of Tsushima, an open-world 13th-century samurai epic, is one that often stirs something inside me. Beyond being a game centred around flashy sword fights and the journey of Jin Sakai to becoming a proto-ninja, Ghost of Tsushima invites you to lose yourself deeply in its grasslands, forests, and mountains. And though the tasks you're given often aren't as brilliant as the colour of the leaves, there's certainly something wonderfully humbling about just riding your horse through this beautiful environment and taking it all in. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You gotta respect a game that tells you exactly what it is upfront. Within minutes of starting Superhot: Mind Control Delete, you're told, in those now infamous subliminal text cards that pop up from time to time in the previous games, that yes, this game will give you more. No story. No closure. No long-winded explanation of what happened in the last two games. Just more senseless shooting, and then it'll be over. And to Superhot Team's credit, they deliver on their promises. This is, definitely, a lot more Superhot. But it's also a few other things that aren't nearly as welcome.Mind Control Delete is still fundamentally following the same mantra as the other two games: Time Moves When You Do. It's still a first-person shooter that places you in sparse, stark white, and self-contained little killzones, against a small group of keen-to-kill goons made out of, seemingly, fragile red glass. Your job is to John Wick your way out of whatever wild scenario you've been placed in, using objects in your environment to your advantage. There are guns, but with very limited ammo. So, when you don't have a gun, grab a sword. If you don't have a sword, grab a knife. If you don't have a knife, grab a book, a pen, or a teacup. Even with a relatively limited moveset, the time mechanics at play turn what would be a breathless massacre at full speed into a sort of kinetic chess game, allowing you the ability to plot every maneuver down to the millisecond. While gunplay is certainly your bread and butter in Superhot, there's a maniacal glee that comes with taking out a guy wielding a katana by throwing a typewriter at him in Superhot that makes it truly special. That winning formula is still very much in full effect here in Mind Control Delete, but a few new ingredients have been added to the concoction: rogue-lite elements. And while the formula hasn't been ruined in the least, the effectiveness has been lessened a tiny bit.For starters, the game's levels, which were once all unique, impeccably staged setpieces, are now relegated to around a dozen or so themed rooms--such as lab, disco, prison, or casino--with enemy/item placement and your own start point randomized each time. There's more variety to be had than one might think in that randomization. The environments are elaborate and full of tiny, devilish design elements for you to mount for a better vantage, mail slot-sized holes to shoot through, or daredevil jumps to make out of windows to stomp an enemy from above. Even despite the minimalist aesthetic, these are still impeccably designed, functional places that still evoke the tense feeling of getting into a shootout in a place clearly meant for public use. The environments follow real world placements for everyday objects, which means using them to your advantage--using an open car door to evade a bullet, grabbing the handle off a slot machine to use as a weapon, or getting behind a DJ booth to take cover behind a speaker. Suspension of disbelief in the sparseness of it all tends to vanish in the moment. There are vast, glorious opportunities for you to surprise your enemies, or vice versa, and it takes hours to get to a point where things start to wear thin.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

New Releases highlights some of the hottest games coming soon, and this week has a double dose of invaded kingdoms with PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima and Nintendo Switch exclusive Paper Mario: The Origami King. The multiplatform crowd can try out Rocket Arena, and Death Stranding's PC port is here. Finally, those looking for a more zen experience can tend to their farms with Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town.Death Stranding -- July 14Available on: PCOur Death Stranding review is quite positive, and now PC gamers can experience Hideo Kojima's latest outing for themselves. It's the same story of deliveryman Sam Bridges trekking across a shattered United States, with a healthy dose of Kojima's signature story beats and zany cutscenes. The PC version also includes a new photo mode and crossover content with the Half-Life series, plus support for higher framerates and ultrawide monitors.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Disney+ has ordered the next Lucasfilm animated series, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with a premiere set for 2021. The series comes on the heels of the series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which wrapped up it's seven-season run on May 4, 2020.According to a press release, the series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of the Bad Batch "each possess a singular exceptional skill which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com