Apex Legends is injecting more storytelling into its battle royale experience. Respawn has announced a new event called Apex Chronicles. Described as a "bite-sized" story event, Chronicles are meant to add more story elements into Apex Legends through challenges and "experiences."The first Apex Chronicle is called Old Ways, New Dawn, and it's scheduled for release on September 29. This is notable because it's among the first times that story content is experienced by completing objectives during a normal match. The White RavenThis first event is themed around Bloodhound and it involves a special mission. "The journey follows Bloodhound as they try to save an injured prowler and deal with the guilt over their crumbling home world and past failures," Respawn said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Many of Destiny 2's past changes have focused on Stasis powers, but Bungie is now turning its attention to Void subclasses. These will get significantly changed in the upcoming Witch Queen expansion to bring them more in line with Stasis, and GameSpot recently had the chance to speak with game director Joe Blackburn to get a few more details on what the subclass overhaul will entail.Back in August, when Bungie first revealed The Witch Queen, it also announced that the expansion will include Void 3.0. This update will be a big rework of how Void subclasses currently operate, giving players the ability to apply three negative effects to enemies and three positive effects to teammates. It will also be overhauled to increase customization through the use of Aspects and Fragments.Blackburn assuaged concerns that long-time players might have about these changes, saying that veterans won't have to completely re-earn their subclass abilities. "If they're a regular Destiny player, if they've put their time in, [they will find] that there's going to be a ton of aspects and fragments, all the supers you'd expect to be there," he explained.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Netflix's South Korean drama Squid Game, a gory drama-thriller series where "hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games" with deadly high stakes for incredible prizes, is reportedly poised to overtake Bridgerton as the streaming service's most-watched show. This news was self-reported by Netflix and further covered by Variety, who also notes that Squid Game has become the first K-Drama to rate as Netflix's top show in the United States.Released on September 17, within 48 hours it had entered the top 10 shows globally. On September 21, it took the top spot. "We did not see that coming, in terms of its global popularity," Ted Sarandos, Netflix's co-CEO and chief content officer, told Variety.By way of comparison, Bridgerton, the period drama about England's Regency era, debuted on Christmas Day last year and by January it was proclaimed (again by Netflix) to be its "biggest show ever." Even without numbers giving a grounded sense of the success, think of it this way: As production on Season 2 was just getting started in April, it was already picked up for Seasons 3 and 4. Squid Game is reported to be pacing to outperform that kind of viewership.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Overwatch has a new map, taking players to scenic Italy to battle it out in free-for-all or team deathmatches.Called Malevento, it is the second map based in futuristic Italy, with the first being the Escort map Rialto. Malevento is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Overwatch received cross-platform play earlier this year.Originally set to debut weeks ago, the map's launch was delayed following a state of California lawsuit alleging widespread harassment and discrimination towards women at Activision Blizzard. The company is also currently being investigated by the SEC and recently reached a $18 million settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in regards to allegedly failing to address employee sexual harassment claims as well for discriminating against pregnant employees.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite Season 8 got off to a slow start in the eyes of many players, thanks largely to a faulty seasonal XP system that offered too few challenges for too little XP. Epic fielded complaints from players for weeks and promised a fix. Now that it's here, it's plain to see things are much improved. XP is now more generously awarded to players completing challenges.Prior to the Fortnite 18.10 patch, players were kept from leveling up their battle pass quickly thanks to a dearth of both challenges and XP per each challenge. Today's patch addresses both of those complaints. For starters, the daily XP gains have increased from 17,000 XP per challenge to 30,000, and each player can unlock three dailies at this nearly doubled rate.Fortnite players will enjoy much better XP rewards thanks to the 18.10 patch.NPC quests have also vastly improved. The old system would award a growing number of XP with each subsequent quest in a character's five-part questline, totaling 80,000 XP by the end of any questline. Now each challenge offers the same number of XP at each stop along the way--30,000 a piece-- totaling 150,000 XP for completing a questline the first time through.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Xbox series of consoles happen to have a few features similar to that of computers, including a cache that the hardware can dig into when it needs quick access to storage. If the cache ever gets full, it can mean reduced efficiency, performance, and speed on a console, slowing down operations to a noticeable degree. The good news is that you can clear your cache, with several methods available for doing so.Clearing your cache will remove temporary data from your gaming activity, while leaving downloaded games, apps, and entertainment untouched, so you don't have to worry about accidentally deleting that data. Here's how it all works.How To Clear Xbox Series X|S And Xbox One CacheHow to clear game cache on Xbox: Option 1The first option is the easiest: A cold restart. Unplug your Xbox console, and leave it like this for at least two minutes before you reinsert the plug. While the console is in this powered down state, press and hold the power button several times.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Nintendo Switch is an impressive hybrid handheld and home console, but internal storage is one of its weak points. The original Switch and the Switch Lite model only have 32 GB of internal storage, while this year's new OLED model doubles up and offers 64 GB of space to house your digital game purchases. That's a decent amount of space for small games, but you'll quickly find yourself running out of room when you start installing more demanding titles.There's three solutions to this problem: Buy the physical version of games whenever possible, or invest in a microSD card that has sufficient storage capacity. The third fix is more drastic though, as you can free up space by simply deleting games and save data, freeing up some room on your Switch for new purchases. If that's the only option available to you, here's how you can do it.How to delete Nintendo Switch gamesOn the Switch home screen or All Software menu, highlight the game you want to delete and press the + button on the right-hand controller. This also applies to the Switch Pro controller.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty Season 6 is starting on October 7, and Treyarch's blog post revealed the details for Black Ops Cold War's final Zombies map that arrives with the launch of the new season. The map is called Forsaken, and this round-based Zombies experience will conclude the Cold War storyline of the CIA Requiem research team's efforts to stop the Omega Group, who are responsible for all the Dark Aether portals and zombie outbreaks.Requiem and Omega Group are now both fighting to extract Sergeant Kazimir Zykov from the Dark Aether. Both teams believe this Soviet soldier who closed the portal at Die Maschine's Projekt Endstation will be the key to dealing with the Forsaken, a powerful force that exists in the Dark Aether.Chrysalax Schematics for potential new Wonder WeaponFor players who haven't been collecting the in-game Zombies intel, YouTuber MrDalekJD has a great breakdown of some of the game's story intel, but Season 5's story suggests that Requiem and Omega Group have two different plans for dealing with the Forsaken. Requiem seem to be trying to stop the creature from crossing over, but Omega Group sounds like they are trying to capture and harness the powers of the Dark Aether creature for nefarious purposes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

One of the best features of the Nintendo Switch is that you can get a AAA gaming experience and access to hundreds of incredible indie games no matter where you are. Thanks to its portable nature and Nintendo's rich handheld legacy, you're able to start a game of Pokemon or Smash Bros. when you're on a park bench, a bus, or even in an airplane.There are going to be times when you want to sit down at home and play games on your television set though, and that's where the Switch shows its strength as a home console.Going from portable to docked is easy, and we've got a handy guide to show you how to do it. It's worth noting that this guide is only for the regular Switch model and the new Switch OLED Model, as the Switch lite is strictly a handheld gaming device.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Even though the Nintendo Switch is a hybrid console, there's no harm in owning multiple versions of the device, especially with the upcoming OLED model on the horizon. If you do already own more than one Nintendo Switch and you have the same profile logged into them, it's worth noting that the first system to do so will be designated as your primary Switch console.While your primary console can access all downloaded games without needing to go through DRM checks, your secondary Switch will need to be connected to the Internet in order to access those titles.For those Nintendo fans planning to add to their gaming console library with a second Switch such as the OLED or Switch Lite and don't want to go through the hassle of finding a Wi-Fi spot to connect to just for a quick gaming session, changing your primary console thankfully isn't a chore. Here's how it works.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Red Dead Online has sorely been in need of some new content, and while this week's update doesn't introduce anything as big as the Blood Money update did this summer, it's at least something. Starting today, players can participate in three new Telegram missions, although they're not like any others that have been released so far. Of course, players can also just make more money this week by trading in either furs or moonshine.This week's Red Dead Online update was announced via the Rockstar Newswire, but the most important details can be found below.Hardcore solo missionsRed Dead Online's new telegram missions turn up the difficultyThe three telegram missions introduced in this week's Red Dead Online update aren't just brand-new; they're potentially some of the game's hardest content. Players that take on any of these hardcore telegram missions won't be able to see enemies on their minimap and won't have any aim assist.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

With numerous expansions, seasons, and campaigns, Destiny 2 can be daunting for new players. While Bungie has put in features to try to solve this problem, like the free-to-play New Light campaign, it's something that the developer still struggles with. In an interview with GameSpot, game director Joe Blackburn and general manager Justin Truman talked about how Bungie is thinking about onboarding in the upcoming Witch Queen expansion.In essence, Blackburn and Truman explained that Bungie consistently rethinks the array of content available in Destiny 2 and how it's presented when players come into the game. This gets difficult when launching an expansion, as the new content is the first thing the player will likely jump into after finishing New Light, but Bungie thinks that the story of The Witch Queen makes a logical jumping-off point.Blackburn stated, "So we really want to start attacking all of our systems that are sprawled out in the complexity and find out, 'Okay, this is the stuff that's working for us. What's the stuff that feels like corruption now? How can we get rid of that?'... And then that the really good thing for us with our big beats is that that question becomes really easy to answer when you start talking about the Witch Queen. And that we really think about that a lot as the Witch Queen as a great place to come back into Destiny or get into it because if you're into it for the first time, it's like, 'Okay, I should do this thing.' And then you're going to get dumped into the first mission of the Witch Queen."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apex Legends Mobile is currently being tested in Mexico, Columbia, and Peru, and new images from the mobile version of Respawn's free-to-play battle royale are making console and PC players envious.Included in Apex Legends Mobile are detailed stat breakdowns for each of the game's weapons. The stats page for each weapon includes information on recoil, rate of fire, reload speeds, damage distribution models, effective range, and more. It's a lot of great information to have at one's fingertips, which is exactly why Apex Legends players on console and PC on the game's subreddit are wishing a similar feature would come to the core version of the game.Woah the the Mobile game gives super detailed stats of everything including recoil patterns and different damage on body parts from apexlegendsIt's currently unclear if weapons in the mobile game are balanced identically to that of its console and PC counterpart, but regardless, having more in-game information about how Apex Legends' weapons perform wouldn't be a bad thing.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Warzone is already a frustrating experience with so many cheaters, but players are also fed up with teammates who quit matches early. Warzone duos, trios, or quads matches with random players can quickly devolve into a solo experience, and players are asking developer Raven Software to add a penalty for those quitters.Warzone player Binarycold's Reddit post about frustration with random quitters sparked quite a conversation, as many other players left comments of similar frustrations. Random players don't often stick around and spectate the match long enough to give their teammates a chance to bring them back.Warzone with strangers from CODWarzoneWarzone's standard battle royale mode offers three different ways for players to rejoin the match. Players can fight for a second chance in Verdansk with the Gulag, where "dead" players go to face off in a 1v1 match to see who will earn the opportunity to drop back into the fight. There are also Buy Stations that allow teammates to revive their fallen squadmates for $4,500. Lastly, there's even a chance of a random Warzone event called a Jailbreak that returns all spectating players back to the match.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Netflix announced it has acquired Night School Studio, the developer behind Oxenfree, Afterparty, and Next Stop Nowhere."Night School wants to stretch our narrative and design aspirations across distinctive, original games with heart. Netflix gives film, TV, and now game makers an unprecedented canvas to create and deliver excellent entertainment to millions of people," wrote Sean Krankel, co-founder and studio director in a statement. The developer is the first game studio bought by Netflix, which earlier this year announced its plans to expand into the video games industry.In the statement, Krankel wrote that Netflix has a track record for supporting diverse storytellers, which felt like a natural fit for Night School Studio. "The Netflix team has shown the utmost care for protecting our studio culture and creative vision. We’ll keep making Oxenfree II. We’ll keep cooking up new game worlds," he wrote.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com