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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, but it has admitted it “did not hit the mark” in season one.In a recent blog post (spotted by IGN) the team wrote that while “The anti-cheat systems performed well during the Black Ops 6 launch window […] we did not hit the mark for the integration of RICOCHET Anti-Cheat at the launch of Season 01 – particularly for Ranked Play.”Over 19,000 alleged cheaters were banned in the first week of ranked play alone. These players were apparently using aim-assist bots and tools that allowed them to see through walls and abuse the in-game map.

Call Of Duty has shared the patch notes for Black Ops 6’s upcoming season three – and it includes a long-requested feature to stop cheats.Black Ops 6 season three goes live tomorrow (April 3). The update will see new multiplayer maps, game modes and story expansions added to the game, alongside some bug fixes, new weapons and additions to Zombies.

PC edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 will be launching early next year.Developers have confirmed Grand Theft Auto 6 will be launching later this year for both Xbox and PlayStation consoles.A PC version hasn’t been officially announced yet but typically there’s a delay of several months for Rockstar titles. Grand Theft Auto 5 was originally released in September 2013 while the PC version came in April 2015.

Mariah Carey, and this year Fortnite is actually doing it.As reported by Forbes, a giant blue iceberg has been spotted in the middle of Fortnite‘s Chapter 6 Season 1 map, and it contains none other than singer Mariah Carey. Carey’s Fortnite debut is coming soon, although details on when exactly the ice will thaw aren’t known.When Carey does eventually come out of the iceberg, she’ll be a non-player character that people can interact with, located between Brutal Boxcarts, Foxy Floodgate, and Seaport City.The iceberg is part of Fortnite‘s winter event, Winterfest 2024.

Borderlands 4, has implied that there will be fewer fart jokes in Borderlands 4.As reported by PC Gamer, Winkler responded to a fan on X (formerly Twitter) and gave some details about what players can expect in the upcoming looter shooter.“So far every trailer has dropped a more serious/dark vibe. Are we up for dark humor instead of fart jokes this time around? Please say yes,” tweeted RealAlIturralde.“Not at liberty to talk much about the content of Borderlands 4, but I remain firm in my criticism of Borderlands 3‘s overabundance of toilet humor,” Winkler replied.

Sonic 3, Idris Elba expressed his desire to star in a Cyberpunk 2077 film alongside Keanu Reeves.Speaking to Screen Rant, Elba was asked about if he would be interested in reprising his role as Soloman Reed from the Phantom Liberty DLC. He replied, ”Oh, man, that’s a great question.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is giving players a chance to play the game for free for a week from December 13 to December 20.The free trial of the game won’t include everything, but players will be able to exeperience a range of activities in the new shooter. As reported by VGC, the Racket, Hacienda, Nuketown Holiday, Extraction, Hideout and Heirloom multiplayer maps will be playable, as well as Team Deathmatch, Hardpoint, Domination, Kill Confirmed, Kill Order and Prop Hunt game modes.Players can also try out the Zombies mode, with Liberty Falls and Terminus maps both available in standard and directed mode.

Juice WRLD song is going to be unveiled during a Fortnite concert November 30 at 7pm GMT.The upcoming concert will feature Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice, Eminem, and the late Juice WRLD. The rapper, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, passed away in 2019 after an accidental overdose.The previously unheard Juice WRLD song debuting during the concert has been named ‘Empty Out Your Pockets’, and, as reported by GameRant, a music video is expected shortly after the show.

Deadmau5 has collaborated with mobile game World of Tanks Blitz to unveil his new song ‘Familiars’.‘Familiars’ will be available on digital service providers later this week (November 29) but the music video for the euphoric club banger is out now. It features Deadmau5 putting on his mau5head and becoming a digital avatar before jumping into his customised tank and careening through a city landscape.World of Tanks Blitz is a free-to-play action shooter where players join teams of seven and take part in battles with other tanks.As well as working together on the new track, World Of Tanks Blitz is also set to host the ‘Deadmau5 In The House’ event.

Hitman, a popular assassination sandbox game, “will begin removing all content featuring [Conor] McGregor” following a civil rape case in which a jury determined the MMA fighter must pay £206,000 to a woman who claims he raped her.McGregor’s voice and likeness is present in Hitman as a character called The Disruptor. He was one of the elusive targets, which are characters who appear in a time-sensitive mission in the game and are harder to find and kill due to the limited information the game gives players about their wereabouts.As reported by PC Gamer, Previous celebrities to feature as elusive targets include Sean Bean and Gary Busey.Hitman is a game in which players take on the role of an assassin, Agent 47, and traverse levels looking for creative ways to take out their targets.In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately.

Microsoft‘s Windows 11 version 24H2 has basically killed several Ubisoft games.As reported by VGC, Microsoft has acknowledged that the update affects five Ubisoft games: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws.These are all major Ubisoft open-world games, so there’s a chance you already have one. Microsoft’s support page notes “These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has sold copies in Vatican City, with fans wondering if The Pope has been playing the fantasy role-playing game.The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with just 764 residents living there. Each citizen has to be considered to be influential or significant within Catholicism to live there and residents include religious leader Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church.It’s perhaps why Larian’s director of publishing Michael Douse found it so funny that according to their data, two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold in the country while another resident has it on their wishlist. “Sold two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 in The Vatican, with one wishlist.

Call Of Duty fans are annoyed that Black Ops 6 is already introducing animal outfits to the game.Black Ops 6 launched last month with developers trying to make the first-person shooter as realistic as possible. Composer Jack Walls listened to a lot of early ‘90s music for the score, level designers watched a whole lot of action movies from that era and the whole thing is inspired by real world events that were taking place at the end of the first Gulf War.Developers even recruited former British Special Forces Soldiers to make sure a charity skin was as authentic as it could be.

Fortnite OG mode will become a permanent addition to the battle royale game from next month.Last November, Fortnite launched the nostalgia-inducing OG game mode, which featured a number of classic maps, characters and weapons from the first season. The launch led to “the biggest day in Fortnite’s history” with over 44 million players logging on to play at the start of the month-long event.Fortnite OG was removed in December but is now set to make a permanent return. “OG is coming BACK and is here to stay,” read the surprise announcement.

Persona 5 jazz cover is up for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals at the Grammys, but it has to beat John Legend and Willow Smith to get it.The 8-Bit Big Band is up for a Grammy for their cover of ‘Last Surprise’, Persona 5‘s main battle theme, so it’s a song people hear often during a playthrough.As reported by PC Gamer, this isn’t the first time The 8-Bit Big Band has been nominated for a Grammy, having previously won Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for their cover of ‘Meta Knight’s Revenge’ from Kirby Super Star.The band tweeted, “WOW WE JUST GOT OUR 2nd GRAMMY NOMINATION!! So thrilled to be nominated along side my harmonic bro in crime @Button__Masher for our co-arrangement of “Last Surprise” from Persona 5 composed by the incredible @s_megarock aka Shoji Meguro!! LONG LIVE VIDEO GAME MUSIC!!!”Ther Persona series is known for its jazzy soundtracks, and Persona 5 has been nominated for music awards before. The cover makes the song even jazzier and the video accomapanies it with some 8-bit sound effects and graphics from the game.The 8-Bit Band is up against some stiff competition.

Silent Hill 2 Remakehas been out for just under a month, and one fan beleives they’ve proven a decades old fan theory.For those unfamiliar, Silent Hill 2 takes protagonist James Sunderland into a creepy town that torments him at every turn. The game has several endings and developer Masahiro Ito has claimed they’re all canon.As spotted by VG247, one Redditor believes they’ve discovered a hidden message within the remake’s photos.

Grand Theft Auto 6 has said the long-awaited game will “blow people away”.Grand Theft Auto 6 is the follow-up to 2013’s Grand Theft Auto 5 and was finally confirmed last year with a record-breaking trailer soundtracked by Tom Petty‘s ‘Love Is A Long Road’.However, developers haven’t released any more information about the game. In a new interview though a former Rockstar game designer, who had been working on GTA 6 before leaving the studio in 2022, has said it’ll be worth the wait.“Obviously, I was privy to a lot of new things [like] content, story and stuff, so I’d just love to know how that’s evolved and how it’s come out the other end,” Ben Hinchliffe told the GTAVIoclock podcast (via Dexerto).“You only have to look at how every game Rockstar has done has evolved in some way.

League Of Legends world championship took place over the weekend with Linkin Park performing as part of the opening ceremony.The 2024 League Of Legends world championship saw Korea’s T1 take on China’s Bilibili Gaming at London’s O2 Arena, with T1 eventually crowned for the fifth time.Before the arena battle game head-to-head kicked off though, League Of Legends put on an impressive opening ceremony. The 12-minute performance started with Ashnikko performing Arcane anthem ‘Paint The Town Blue’ live for the very first time before Forts and Tiffany Aris took to the stage for the dramatic ‘Still Here’ which featured appearances from both League Of Legends teams.Linkin Park then took over for ‘Heavy Is The Crown’.

Fortnite has confirmed collaborations with Eminem, Ice Spice, Juice WRLD and Snoop Dogg will be launched as part of their remixed season two.The latest chapter of Fortnite features a “reimagined island with weekly location and loot drops inspired by the best of early chapter two gameplay and some of the greatest music icons in history.”Right now, Fortnite’s The Agency compound has been transformed into The Doggpound, in honour of Snoop Dogg. Players can claim Snoop’s drum gun mythic if they can defeat him, and he will also “join you as an ally”.

Black Ops 6 was the biggest Call of Duty release ever”.On the earnings call, Nadella said the launch “set a record for day one players, as well as Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day. And unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60% year-over-year”.Black Ops 6 already saw success on Steam, and thanks to this earnings call we now know how well it did on other platforms.Black Ops 6 is the first Call of Duty game to launch day one on Game Pass.

Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida has spoken about the backlash to the character of Wuk Lamat and the transphobic abuse their voice actor Sena Bryer received.Wuk Lamat was introduced at the end of the Endwalker expansion and became a central figure in Dawntrail, but her expressive personality divided the fanbase. The character was voiced by Sena Bryer, who received abuse for her work.