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Many fans rejoiced when news of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Field of View, or FOV, slider spread across the community. The ongoing debate among Warzone and Modern Warfare fans as to the fairness of differing FOVs based on platforms went on for months, and the simple solution that the game’s community came up with was to either make it consistent or adjustable. Treyarch, the developer of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, decided to do just that and make it adjustable....

What do you get when you cross every single cool thing about Star Wars with itself? Since Return of the Jedi followed up the first two Star Wars films — A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back — Lucasfilm has been obsessed with figuring out ways to remix and call back to what came before. The Original Trilogy closer brought back the Death Star. Revenge of the Sith gave us a Darth Vader origin....

EA’s E3 2017 press conference featured Star Wars Battlefront 2 in a big way but fans sorely missed Visceral’s untitled Star Wars game. Many are eager to know why the game skipped the event, with the game’s development team delivering the answers. Asked about the game’s absence by Star Wars ’expert’ Lucas Spiegel, the game’s creative director Amy Hennig explained that it won’t be at E3 2017 because it’s Star Wars Battlefront 2’s “year....

The Nintendo Switch just keeps breaking new ground. First, they sell over 5 million consoles in 4 months, a rate not seen since the Wii’s release back in 2006. Second, they announce, in a first for Nintendo, cross platform compatible multiplayer titles Rocket League and Minecraft will be coming to the Switch. Now, Pokémon is coming in 2018… or later. We already knew that Pokémon would eventually come to the Switch from the Nintendo event at E3 this year, we just didn’t know when....

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lead developer, Damien Monnier, has joined Techland and will be working on the Dying Light developer’s new open-world RPG game. Last year, CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt earned the well-deserved Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2015. The open-world RPG experienced stellar sales worldwide and helped strengthen CD Projekt Red’s standing in the gaming industry. So when lead designer for The Witcher 3, Damien Monnier, left CD Projekt Red last month, many gamers were anxious to learn where he would land....

Wolfenstein: Youngblood has some very big shoes to fill. The most recent entries in the Wolfenstein series have breathed fresh life into the Nazi-slaying franchise with stylish violence, hilarious quips, and immersive world-building. Rather than stick with the familiar, Youngblood is a spin-off from the main story that heads in a new direction both in terms of narrative and the gameplay loop. The result is a mostly successful experiment that only stumbles in a few of its attempts....

As I prepare to scoot out of town for the weekend to visit my mom, this will be an ever so brief recount of a story from some recent meanderings in Azeroth. I had a wonderful experience the other night when I was in Orgimmar. A player made a call in the Trade channel for a port to Stonnard. In doing so, she offered to pay 50 gold for the port....

Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. World of Warcraft‘s Dragonflight expansion looks to restore a little lost glory to the most successful MMORPG series ever. While it remains to be seen if the expansion will live up to the hype, you won’t be able to start your own Dragonflight adventure until the expansion is properly released....

There will never be a better time to “jump in” to the Xbox ecosystem than this Holiday, because Xbox All Access will be available to 12 countries around the world – just in time for the Series S and X release in November. Xbox All Access is a monthly subscription service that lets you get the system, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Xbox Live Gold for at minimum $24.99 US a month....

Yesterday, the official Twitter account of the Xbox Game Pass teased its subscribers that a new game coming to the online streaming service will be revealed today. As promised, the Xbox Game Pass announced that it will be adding Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky to the service. As announced on Xbox Wire, subscribers of the Xbox Game Pass will be able to stream No Man’s Sky this coming June. To the uninitiated, No Man’s Sky was first released in 2016 for the PC and PS4, before heading to the Xbox One in July 2018....

In a statement to VGC, Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox Series S will not support versions of backward compatible games enhanced by the Xbox One X. “Xbox Series S was designed to be the most affordable next-generation console and play next-generation games at 1440P at 60fps,” says a Microsoft representative. “To deliver the highest quality backwards compatible experience consistent with the developer’s original intent, the Xbox Series S runs the Xbox One S version of backward compatible games while applying improved texture filtering, higher and more consistent frame rates, faster load times, and Auto HDR....

E3 season has been long and drawn out in 2020 thanks to the pandemic, which in a way has been good for gaming fans. Rather than one blowout week jam-packed with news that’s easy to miss, the slow-burn approach has been a bit confusing but far more manageable. Like many other publishers and gaming companies, Microsoft has also been producing their own presentations for Xbox Series X. Although there’s been some missteps, games like Halo Infinite and Fable have driven the hype for the next Xbox console....

Ever since Bethesda released mod support for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and Fallout 4 on PS4 and Xbox One, it has opened up a whole new world for console players. Now with the release of next-gen consoles, fans have more of a reason to return to these popular Bethesda titles which are now capable of running at 60FPS and 4K resolution on Xbox Series X. Backward compatibility has been a well-received user-friendly feature on both PS5 and Xbox Series X this generation, especially on the latter....

Xbox has been developing itself rapidly as a platform, after often being compared to Sony’s massive range of critically-acclaimed exclusive titles last generation. While this new console generation is still in its infancy, it seems as if Xbox is determined to address the complaint of fans with one big studio acquisition and partnership after the other. Fans may be forgiven to think that the acquisition of Bethesda’s parent company, ZeniMax Media, in addition to the already 15 Xbox Game Studios has filled the company’s pool for exclusives enough for the foreseeable future....

Firaxis Games announces that Pavonis Interactive will be releasing Long War 2 for XCOM 2, a follow up to the original XCOM’s most popular modification. When Firaxis revived the dormant XCOM series 4 years ago, fans new and old rushed to the turn-based tactical title in droves. It didn’t take long for fans to begin creating unofficial modifications for the title, and soon after a collection of fan-made content was curated, one mod stood out over all the rest: The Long War Mod....

Although PS5 players are still waiting for Yakuza: Like a Dragon to drop in 2021, the majority of fans have likely at least started the game by now. This has given a fair amount of time for players to get accustomed to the latest protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, and with any luck they like him, as he doesn’t seem likely to be departing the role anytime soon. Following the events of Yakuza 6, the game series has changed direction, moving to an RPG format and shaking up the core cast of playable characters....

It looks like Facebook-megaproducer Zynga may be readying themselves to attempt a spiritual successor to FarmVille. The company is currently working on a title which looks to be under the ’temporary’ name of Big Harvest. Whether the name will eventually by changed to, say, Farmville 2, remains a mystery for now. Regardless of titling, it’s safe to say that Big Harvest is big news for any follower of either Zynga or Facebook games....

What Does Analytics of Things Mean? Analytics of Things is the term used to describe the analysis of the data generated by the Internet of Things devices. In other words, analytics of the Internet of Things is Analytics of Things. Analytics of Things is required so as to make the connected devices smart and to give the devices the ability to make intelligent decisions. Techopedia Explains Analytics of Things Analytics of Things is still evolving and needs significant time and effort for achieving real business value....

What Does AWS Elastic Beanstalk Mean? AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application deployment tool that helps developers to deploy applications on AWS. This service helps make application deployment quicker and more efficient, and it takes a lot of the guesswork out of deploying applications in the AWS environment. Techopedia Explains AWS Elastic Beanstalk As a major vendor, AWS is a popular place to deploy applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk takes a definition of an application based on its desired state and dependencies and deploys based on that model....

This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 5 The vampires get back to their official duties on What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 5 “The Chamber of Judgement.” Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) are poised to take the throne at the center of the judicial altar in the subbasement office of the Vampiric Council....