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Amazon MMO New World Shares How Crafting Will Work

New World, Amazon's upcoming MMO, has revealed more details about how its crafting system will work. According to a post on the game's official website, crafting will allow players to not only decorate houses but to acquire powerful items. This information comes hot on the heels of an announcement from Amazon about how character progression will operate in the game's setting of Aeturnum. While New World's release has been delayed to later this year, it looks like other announcements about the title's mechanics are planned for the interim to keep

Naughty Dog details the extensive accessibility in ‘The Last of Us Part II’

Naughty Dog declared that The Last of Us Part II would be one of the most accessible games yet in a recent interview with The Verge, but it’s now clear exactly how far the studio was willing to go to make sure people could play. The developer has detailed all 60 (!) of the settings you can change, and some of them go well beyond what you’d anticipate. There are options for people with little to no sight or hearing, such as a high-contrast mode (shown above) or audio and

This Week in Apps: Protests impact app stores, FTC fines app developer, kids’ app trends

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Mini-Views Featuring ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted’, Today’s New Releases, and the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 1st, 2020. Wow, June? We’re already just about halfway through this year? Time flies when everything is awful, I suppose. At least the games have been good, and they should continue to be good for the foreseeable future. In today’s article, we’ve got Mini-Views of the latest Five Nights at Freddy’s game and the aerial dogfighter Red Wings. There are summaries of all the new releases that hit since we last checked in, and of course the list of

How to Survive and Thrive as a Space Empire in Stellaris: Console Edition

Hello everybody, Daniel Moregård here from Paradox Interactive to offer some tips for navigating the latest update for Stellaris: Console Edition – 2.2 “Le Guin”. Stellaris: Console Edition is the first grand strategy game on consoles and it’s free to play this weekend! As such, you might be thinking, what’s a grand strategy game? What is Stellaris? What is the meaning of life?? Who am I?!? It’s okay – you’re reading a blog post and it’s here to help with at least some of those questions. “Grand strategy” is a

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Arrest of a Stone Buddha’, ‘What The Golf?’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 21st, 2020. As we approach the end of the month, we’re seeing more releases arriving. There are a lot of new games to check out today, and that’s how we’ll be spending most of our time here. There are also the usual lists of sales information, and that’s about the lot. Let’s check it out! New Releases Arrest of a Stone Buddha ($14.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! One of the coolest surprises of last year was The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

Amazon Games’ Crucible Is All About Your Play Style, Not Your Character’s Role

You'd be forgiven if the name "Crucible" doesn't ring any bells. The team-based shooter was among the three PC games Amazon Game Studios revealed at TwitchCon four years ago--and there's been barely a rumbling about it since. Even then, the game's description was a pretty vague mix of multiplayer shooter ideas and battle royale features.Though nobody's heard much about Crucible for the last four years, Amazon's Seattle-based development studio Relentless has been hard at work on the shooter in all that time. And whatever Crucible started out as, it has

Top New Video Games Out On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Month – May 2020

A new month is here, which means New Releases is taking a wide look at the biggest games May has to offer. There's a lot of variety, as the vocaloid crowd can get down with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix, and Platinum Games fans can relive a cult-classic action game with The Wonderful 101: Remastered. That's not the only re-release on the horizon, either: both Star Wars Episode I: Racer and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition also launch in May. Last but not least, Minecraft Dungeons is ready to be

Strike Wanted Escapee locations – Destiny 2

Where to find all of the Wanted Escapees hiding out in Strikes in Destiny 2. The Wanted targets aren't just limited to Lost Sectors and patrols, some also appear in Destiny 2's Strikes. For players looking to complete all the Triumphs, finding the location of the Strike Wanted escapees is time-consuming, especially if you don’t know where to look. Wanted Escapee locations There are a total of 18 Wanted Escapees to find in Strikes in Destiny 2. These are similar to Spider’s Wanted bounties, except Spider won’t direct you to

Let’s talk about This Week at Bungie: April 30, 2020

Greetings, Guardians. It’s Thursday, which means another This Week at Bungie is landing in our laps to discuss the state of the game we all love. Today, and hopefully every week going forward, I’m going to do my best to read between the lines and sift through the public relations coating that Bungie’s weekly post has. This week we’ll be focusing on Guardian Games and the seasonal model since that’s what Bungie has opted to discuss. Guardian Games shenanigans? Bungie took a lot of time to discuss how the scoring