Vince McMahon has no new ideas left. RAW is currently a sinking ship, with ratings setting record-lows week after week. Admittedly, in the middle of a pandemic, but the show is at an all-time low. McMahon clearly has no idea what to do. This week on RAW the company introduced a new concept, RAW Underground, which consisted of Shane McMahon hosting a “fight club” in a warehouse somewhere, using a ring with no ropes....
I genuinely thought E3 was over, but as it turns out the show must go on, and after what was said to be the best conference of the season (not enough respect for Nintendo, in my opinion) Xbox now has an extended conference stream to go live today, one that will show us much more of the titles they announced, including Forza Horizon 5. Phil Spencer and Todd Howard have already showed us a lot from Bethesda’s acclaimed studios, like Arkane and Id Software, but there’s even more due to come - though you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up for more from Starfield or The Elder Scrolls 6....
Oftentimes, especially in the world of software, attempting to fix a problem can unveil new and unexpected problems. It’s something that Battlefield 4 developers DICE know all to well, and isn’t uncommon for many video games. The latest Xbox One update, for example, was meant to add a few oft-requested features to Microsoft’s next-gen console — controller battery management, storage space customization, among other things — but alongside those additions came a new bug....
There has been some discussion about the confusion surrounding the names of the new Xbox consoles. Sony has kept things consistent with the PlayStation numbering scheme, but Microsoft is as bad as Square Enix naming Kingdom Hearts spin-offs when it comes to console titles. The Xbox One X is a more powerful version of the Xbox One, and it’s certainly a capable enough machine to run the best of Game Pass, but it’s not as powerful as the Xbox Series X....
Xbox revealed Fall Guys is coming to Game Pass, but Devolver has claimed that isn’t the case. Fall Guys made a big splash on the video game scene when it launched in August of 2020. It became the most downloaded PS Plus game of all time, and also did big numbers on Steam. The only problem is at this moment in time, those are the only two platforms on which Fall Guys can be played....
Microsoft is preparing for a big month for Xbox. Later this month, Microsoft will hold its biggest event for the upcoming Xbox Series X console yet, during which, first and third-party games for the Xbox Series X will be showcased, many of which are next-gen titles that have never been revealed. To help punctuate the late-July Xbox hype, Microsoft has announced the start of its Summer Games Fest demo even, kicking off on July 21....
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is the conclusion to the Kiryu saga and offers more of the same compelling storyline, interesting characters, and brilliant humor as its predecessors did. A common staple of the Yakuza games are substories, essentially optional side-quests that players can choose to undertake for some added plotlines. In Yakuza 6, there are 51 substories in total spread out across both Kamurocho and Onomichi. Some substories will be triggered automatically when arriving at set locations, whereas others require you to actually interact with a target or NPC to initiate them....
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has managed to be a longstanding gaming series with numerous iterations. With changing gameplay and historical focuses, each Assassin’s Creed game has had a unique release strategy and this has led to several impressive cinematic trailers for the titles. A YouTuber has now transformed a trailer for Assassin’s Creed Revelations by using LEGO to recreate its carefully choreographed scenes. The Assassin’s Creed games allow players to experience important events in the lives of assassin’s in different locations and periods....
According to Zack Snyder, Injustice: Gods Among Us was a source of inspiration during the Knightmare sequence in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While this might be news to those who do not keep up with video games and comics, the parallels were clear to others since the beginning. The game was created by NetherRealm Studios, the same team that develops the Mortal Kombat series of games. Injustice: Gods Among Us had a fascinating take on the reality of the world, which was set in the prime DC universe with characters transported to an alternate earth where the main events of the story take place....
Following the poorly-received Justice League movie, fans have been clamoring for the release of the so-called Snyder Cut version of the film. HBO Max is answering the call and releasing the Justice League Snyder Cut at some point in 2021. And as it turns out, the Justice League Snyder Cut will include characters who weren’t featured in the theatrically-released Justice League movie. This includes DC villain Darkseid, who is arguably one of the most formidable villains in all of DC Comics....
What Does AdaBoost Mean? AdaBoost is a type of algorithm that uses an ensemble learning approach to weight various inputs. It was designed by Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire in the early 21st century. It has now become somewhat of a go-to method for different kinds of boosting in machine learning paradigms. Techopedia Explains AdaBoost Experts talk about AdaBoost as one of the best weighted combinations of classifiers – and one that is sensitive to noise, and conducive to certain machine learning results....
What Does Altair BASIC Mean? Altair BASIC is an interpreter for the BASIC language meant to run on the MITS Altair 8800. It was the first ever product of Microsoft, and was distributed by MITS itself under a contract. It also marked the beginning of the Microsoft BASIC product line. It was written in assembly language using an Intel 8080 emulator running on a PDP-10 machine. Techopedia Explains Altair BASIC Altair BASIC is essentially the beginning of Microsoft....
What Does Esports Mean? The term “esports” covers significant ground in terms of the digital world and the technologies being developed on consumer markets. Generally, esports can be applied to any type of digital game that is competitive, regardless of specific format and theme. The industry of esports is getting a lot of attention as a growth industry, with many of the key innovations of the last ten years being applied to gaming in general and esports in particular....
What Does I, For One, Welcome Our (X) Overlords Mean? The phrase “I for one welcome our (X) overlords” is a type of social slang that is used to refer to impending changes and future relationships between various parties. Although the use of the term “overlords” has been around for a while, many attribute the birth of the somewhat satirical phrase to an episode of The Simpsons in the 1990s....
What Does Structured Prediction Mean? Structured prediction is a particular discipline applied to machine learning in which machine learning techniques predict structured objects. Typically, the structured prediction makes use of supervised machine learning programs with labels that can apply in order to produce outcomes. Techopedia Explains Structured Prediction One of the simplest and easiest ways to talk about structured prediction is that it uses training problems to solve a classification task....
Traditionally, EA has held a somewhat neglectful stance regarding the Nintendo Switch. Simply put, it seemed as though the company believed it largely wasn’t a console worth investing in. Yet, with the announcement that battle royale Apex Legends will be coming to Switch, the floodgates have opened for EA games and ports for Switch. It’s just a matter of what’s to come. The Mass Effect trilogy Many have been clamoring for the sci-fi classic’s return in one form or another....
Fans are buzzing about potential Final Fantasy XVI stories with recent details released. Final Fantasy VII Remake is still fresh on many a gamer’s mind. And Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is now available on Nintendo Switch. This all adds up to tons of people thinking about nothing but Final Fantasy lately. With many people staying indoors more, this makes revisiting older games all the more fun and easy to do....
After the release of WWE 2K20, fans have their apprehensions about the next game. It bodes well that the company announced it was skipped WWE 2K21 to focus on what improvements it could make, but regardless of how that goes, a new WWE 2K title for the end of next year seems likely. These gameplay improvements and new additions have to be the focus, but of course, there’s going to be other design choices for the game as well....
After weeks of waiting and beta tests gone awry, Ninjala has finally hit the Nintendo Switch. The exclusive title looks like it aims to capture the fusion of wacky visuals and deep gameplay that made Splatoon a hit. The twist, however, is that Ninjala is a product of the post-Fortnite world. As such, it uses a free-to-play with cosmetic microtransactions model. It’s fairly standard in how it practices this - players can both gamble for limited skins and buy cool looks outright....
Sony is finally ready to talk about what it has in store for its next-generation console, the PlayStation 5. After stringing gamers along with some bafflingly inept marketing, the house of Uncharted is going to unveil the first footage of games running on the PS5 hardware next week. Will we finally get a release date announcement out of this conference? That one is actually hard to say. The most recent comparison we can draw from is how Sony handled the launch of the PS4....
