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There’s a lot of discourse today - so, you know, it’s just another Tuesday in the gaming industry. However, this particular discourse is even spicier than usual. It’s a breaking point, of sorts - the logical conclusion to Cyberpunk 2077’s exhaustive (and exhausting) marketing campaign. Regardless of where you fall on the game, I think we can all agree that the advertising was… terrible, right? From “DiD yOu JuSt AsSuMe My GeNdEr” bits on Twitter to, uh, everything else, CD Projekt Red’s marketing team seemed hellbent on ensuring most people (myself included) had an opinion of the game before we got our hands on it....

It’s a new week which means there are new challenges to complete in Fortnite and this week has a particular challenge associated with a place on the map that isn’t a named location. Even if Rapid’s Rest isn’t labeled on the game’s map, it’s pretty easy to find and players most likely have been there plenty of times and don’t even realize it. Of the Week 7 Challenges for Season 3 in Chapter 2 of Fortnite, only one challenge asks players to visit an unnamed location on the map....

Apex Legends’ War Games event is well underway now, and we’ve already dived into the game to try the Second Chance game mode, which sees you respawning once per game for free. But a lot of people are still asking a big question: who is Mad Maggie? You can hear Mad Maggie’s voice as you start up the game, and she’s also the announcer in-game during the War Games event. She is very threatening and imposing, but the game doesn’t actually give you very much information about her....

Digimon got something of a reputation as a Pokémon knockoff. However, the two series were actually quite different for a lot of reasons. For one, Pokémon wasn’t all that plot-heavy. There was the overall concept in place of Ash trying to become the very best, but the series has always had more of an adventure of the week style to it. Digimon had a continuing plot that at times would become quite dark and adult, placing its characters in real danger....

Thought it has been years since production stopped on the Nintendo Wii U, the console and its games have been well remembered. Every once in a while, the Wii U even ends up trending on Twitter for various reasons. One game studio liked the Wii U so much that it made a holiday-themed game available for the Wii U eShop, but just released it this January. Ultra Dolphin Revolution is an indie game developer that specializes in retro-styled games for Nintendo consoles....

Xbox appears to have teased that Disney Plus will be returning to Game Pass Ultimate as a perk this month via a rather inventive tweet. Xbox continues to juice up Game Pass this gen as it does its level best to have the Series X|S legitimately compete with the PS5. Just when you think the service can’t possibly get any better, Xbox swoops in and adds something new. This month, it seems subscribers will once again be getting a 30-day hit of Disney Plus....

Xbox has managed to keep a lot of its players happy with its extensive catalog of games that are available through its Game Pass service. While the Xbox Game Pass has added games recently it seems that a number of games will be leaving its roster in the near future. In fact, seven games have been listed as “Leaving Soon” and although they may not be the biggest titles, players may want to try them before they are no longer freely available for pass subscribers....

Earlier this month, the analysis firm of IHS revealed that given the parts contained within the PS4, the console likely cost Sony about $381 to manufacture. Factoring in packaging and other expenditures, that meant Sony was taking a loss on each console. Not to be outdone, IHS has now gotten their hands on Microsoft’s Xbox One, which released this past Friday in North America and several other territories, and provided a detail breakdown of that console....

During Microsoft’s press conference at Gamescom 2015 earlier this week, the tech firm mostly played it safe by focusing on the Xbox One’s upcoming exclusive titles, as Xbox boss Phil Spencer had previously claimed they would. However, by dropping some surprises, like their new Chatpad coming in November, the company definitely managed to raise some eyebrows. On top of the mini-QWERTY keyboard’s announcement, Microsoft also revealed, to much excitement, the long-rumored inclusion of the next-gen console getting free TV DVR in 2016....

It may feel like it just began, but the current console lifecycle is drawing to a close. Xbox gave a super high level sneak peak at what is coming next during E3 2018, and, as predicted, E3 2019 brought a much more substantial reveal of Scarlet. Now that the new hardware has been officially revealed, we also know its actual name. Say goodbye to Scarlet and hello to Project Scarlett....

The best song of 2020 has finally graced us mere mortals, as the full version of Kero Kero Bonito’s “It’s Bugsnax!” is now available for fans to enjoy. Bugsnax made its debut during the PlayStation 5 reveal, and it quickly took the world by storm. Part of the reason behind its popularity was the incredibly catchy song performed by Kero Kero Bonito. The music group released a full version of the song on streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube; lyrics for the song can be found in the description of the YouTube version....

YouTuber ZHC spent $70,000 making a PS5 100-times the size of the regular console, and it actually works. A ten-foot-tall PS5 wasn’t anything the world was asking for. However, that hasn’t stopped ZHC from giving it to us. The YouTuber has spent the last four months creating the monster console and unveiled it on his channel. You can check out the video below during which ZHC pits himself against a team of five artists as all six of them paint the giant console....

Disco Elysium’s patch 1.2 is going live today, according to a developer from Za/um Studio. After reports that players on PS4 and PS5 were running into major bugs in The Final Cut, Za/um announced it would address the most critical in the upcoming 1.2 version. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut launched last month and was, unfortunately, met with a series of bug reports - you can find the ongoing megathread documenting issues before 1....

It is an unfortunate truth in today’s day and age that privacy is not a guarantee online. In many regions, there are no laws to prevent an ISP from selling its users’ data, such as browsing and gaming activity, to third parties. A privacy-minded user may choose to log on via a Virtual Private Network such as SurfShark VPN, which has 2-year, 3-year, and 4-year subscriptions available in the GameRant store....

What Does Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) Mean? Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) refers to the use of automated tools and various technologies to ensure the continuous monitoring of financial transactions and other types of transactional applications to reduce the costs involved for audits. CCM helps reduce business losses by using effective continuous auditing mechanisms and control monitoring of various aspects of the applications involved. It is mostly considered to be part of continuous auditing where a set of automated procedures monitor the internal controls....

What Does Logistic Regression Mean? Logistic regression is a supervised learning algorithm used in machine learning to predict the probability of a binary outcome. A binary outcome is limited to one of two possible outcomes. Examples include yes/no, 0/1 and true/false. Techopedia Explains Logistic Regression Logistic regression uses something called the Sigmoid function to map predicted predictions and their probabilities. On a graph, if the estimated probability is greater than a pre-defined acceptance threshold, then the model will predict that the instance belongs to that class....

Those excited for Horizon: Zero Dawn will be happy to know that tomorrow – Tuesday, February 28 – is the big day when this new PS4 exclusive from Guerrilla Games launches. Well, if they live in the U.S., that is, as the European release is not until a day later, on Wednesday March 1. However, people that pre-ordered Horizon: Zero Dawn who live on the West coast can already play it at 9 p....

This article contains Black Panther: Wakanda Forever spoilers. How can you do a Black Panther movie without Chadwick Boseman? The shocking news of Boseman’s death in 2020 raised many questions about the sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Realizing that there’s no replacing Boseman himself, Kevin Feige and director Ryan Coogler decided against recasting T’Challa and allowing a different character to become the Black Panther. Of the many characters in the MCU, the Black Panther may be best suited to legacy....

Warning: contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds pilot. The first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, called, aptly enough ‘Strange New Worlds’, was about as generic a Star Trek plot as you could imagine – and that proved to be a massive plus. The USS Enterprise arrived at a planet that was technologically not far off present-day Earth, inhabited by people that looked like humans with a new kind of bumpy forehead....

Certified nicest-guy-in-entertainment Keanu Reeves turns, somewhat unbelievably, 56 years old today. From limboing under literal bullets to maintaining an undying devotion to his late puppy, Reeves has enthralled audiences all over the world for the last three decades. And now, he’s about to do it all over again in Cyberpunk 2077. For those unacquainted with CD Projekt Red’s upcoming blockbuster, Reeves is set to inhabit the perennially rebellious persona of Johnny Silverhand....