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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Famous Instant-Kill Hidden Blade Is A Bit Different This Time Around

As seen in the cinematic reveal trailer for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, protagonist Eivor uses a conspicuous version of the hidden blade. In fact, this blade is quite a bit less hidden, and is instead on proud display when charging into combat against dangerous Templar enemies . Ubisoft decided to remove the "hidden" aspect of the hidden blade in order to better fit the tone of Valhalla and Eivor's culture. However, it will still keep with the majority of the series' games in that it will cause instant death. This function

A Single Nintendo Switch Game Card Could Hold Every N64 Game Ever Made, Report Shows

When a new console generation is released, usually the changes are incremental--enough to be impressive, but never truly mind-blowing. That's why sometimes you have to compare a modern console to its retro counterpart to understand how much games have really grown--sometimes literally. Redditor CorsairVI decided to run the math on this experiment, as picked up by Go Nintendo. With the Nintendo 64's signature rounded cartridges holding a maximum of 64MB each, CorsairVI worked out absolute maximum size of the Nintendo 64's international library of 388 titles to be 24.83GB. However

Activision Blizzard Defends Bobby Kotick’s Salary As Shareholder Calls For Changes To His Pay

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is one of the highest-paid executives not only in video games, but across the entire entertainment media industry. He made more than $30 million in 2019. One of the company's shareholders, The CtW Investment Group, is now calling on other stakeholders to vote against a measure that gives the company freedom to pay Kotick high rates. [Update: Activision Blizzard has responded with a statement, which you can see below] In a filing with the United States government, The CtW Investment Groups' director Dieter Waizenegger called

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning Is Getting A Re-Release This Year, First Images And Details Leaked

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the 2012 RPG from controversial former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's ill-fated development studio and published by EA, is making a comeback of sorts. New rights-owner THQ Nordic is re-releasing the game in August with Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. German studio Kaiko is said to be handling the re-release. The product description on Xbox.com states Re-Reckoning will release on August 11. All the DLC from the original game--including Teeth of Naros and Legend of Dead Kel--is included with the re-release. The game also promises "improved

E3 2020 Replacement Event Schedule: PS5, Ubisoft, And All The Confirmed Events So Far

Like many other live events scheduled to take place this year, E3 2020 has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This marks the first time in the expo's 20-plus-year history that a physical event will not take place in June, but there will still be plenty of gaming news and announcements to look forward to over the next few months. In fact, with companies spreading their announcements out over a longer stretch of time, you won't have to race to catch everything in a week's time and can

Rainbow Six Siege Roster Update

As our Rainbow Six Siege team begins preparations for their Six Invitational campaign in Montreal, we wish to announce a change to our roster. Effective immediately, we are moving Pascal ‘Cryn’ Alouane to our bench and welcoming Ferenc ‘SirBoss’ Mérész to the team as a stand-in, as he joins us on loan from now until the end of the Six Invitational. With a storied roster like ours that has enjoyed such great success in Rainbow Six Siege, there are incredibly high expectations set by the players themselves, and our support and