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Details about a Reddit user striving to improve accessibility options in Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently surfaced in a report published by Fanbyte. The Redditor in question, who goes by the handle SatisfiedRuby82, explained the rationale behind their decision to improve quality of play for visually-impaired players in a thread. “My aunt is visually impaired,” writes SatisfiedRuby82. “She loves Animal Crossing and wants visitors but is afraid of seeming rude if she doesn’t see the chats....

Flowers in Animal Crossing New Horizons come in a variety of different breeds that have different looks, and each of those breeds also have a range of initial colors. There’s even more customization than this, however - you can actually create hybrid flowers through cross pollination, where you encourage flowers to grow in such a way that they pop with new, exclusive ‘hybrid’ colors. These hyrbid colors vary from flower to flower....

When I was huddled up at 7pm on a scorching hot Friday night, the type you don’t normally find in the cold wasteland that is northern England, sipping my honey-sweetened cup of coffee, I got onto a Zoom call with Amanda. We said hello, had a little pre-emptive interview chat. It was the usual awkward smalltalk that I’m still adjusting to as a young up and comer 20 year old in the industry....

If there was any doubt about the popularity of Respawn’s well-supported FPS battle royale, that’s disappeared now. In a tweet, the official Apex Legends account celebrated the massive milestone with a short and sweet video, thanking the community for supporting the game. If you’re quick, you can spot a few new hints about what’s coming in the brief trailer, embedded below, too: at about 43 seconds in, you can see a mysterious character flying into the air as Mirage says (in a very Mirage way) “somebody got the party started....

The title was revealed during The Game Awards 2021 in December last year and instantly started creating a lot of buzz… But does Arc Raiders have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with some of the other large (and more established) shooters out there? We’re here to break it all down with X things we know about the game so far. It’s a great mix of action and shooting It’s got a big arsenal… …and even bigger enemies The game has a solid pedigree Embark Studios has a lot of talent beavering away on this game – when Soderlund left EA, he took some notable names with him, including a suite of developers who used to work at DICE, back in the day....

On Tuesday, The Information reported that Chinese conglomerate Tencent has bought an estimated 70% to 80% stake in Bohemia Interactive, the Czech Republic-based DayZ and Arma developer The report said the deal is worth $260 million, according to one person familiar with the matter, suggesting that it was part of a larger plan to expand Tencent’s reach in Europe. Now, Bohemia is saying that it’s not happening, according to a Google-translated statement made to Hospodarske Noviny....

Ubisoft has announced today that the number of active players on day one of the release of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is double that achieved by 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The publisher expects these numbers to get even bigger as more and more people pick up the game with their new PS5 or Xbox Series X/S. Though Ubisoft didn’t disclose specific player numbers, it’s not hard to see how the game attracted so many players on day one....

To stop you scrabbling around for hours trying to solve the mystery, here’s how to complete this Standing Stones puzzle. How do you solve the Standing Stones mystery in Fairy Glen in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla? As you approach Fairy Glen, use your Odin’s Vision and you will be able to see the trademark Isu markings on the stones as you have in other Standing Stones puzzles. However, rather than positioning yourself somewhere close-by to view the stones at the right angle, there’s a trick to this mystery that makes it a little different....

According to the company, the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla development team is shifting from a 4-week to a 5-week title update release cycle to allow for “more thorough testing and refinement.” With these changes in place, Ubisoft has made the decision to delay the next title update to April 27 and the Wrath of the Druids expansion to May 13 - which was supposed to release on April 29. Because creating title updates is “a complex and time-consuming situation” for the team, sometimes it takes a bit of time to address some issues....

Avalanche Studios will now be known as Avalanche Studios Group, as it’s made up of three entities: Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds and Systemic Reaction. Avalanche is the Just Cause studio, while Expansive Worlds was responsible for theHunter: Call of the Wild. Systemic Reaction developed Generation Zero. The announcement is accompanied by a Steam sale of Avalanche Studios Groups’ entire catalog of games and downloadable content, including the aforementioned titles. The teaser you see below is in the works at Systemic Reaction....

The official Twitter account for Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 posted a brief new video teasing some sort of reveal taking place on February 27. The teaser is made up of very quick cuts of behind-the-scenes footage showing music production, motion capture and photography for use in game assets, but doesn’t actually have any new gameplay footage. Depending on what this work ends up going into, the scope of Baldur’s Gate 3 does appear to be bigger than your typical CRPG....

The Battlefield 2042 beta takes place October 6-9. Players who pre-ordered the game, and EA Play members, will have the beta all to themselves on October 6 and 7. The beta opens up to everyone else October 8, and ends the following day. Pre-loading will be available on all platforms, for all players, beginning October 5 at 12am PT, 3am ET, 8am UK. The beta itself begins at those same times....

You will finally be able to get your hands on the Switch title on October 28. In this third installment of the Bayonetta series, our favorite Umbra Witch will join forces with familiar faces, the mysterious Viola, and other Bayonettas to stop Homunculi from wreaking havoc. In the game, you’ll use Bayonetta’s weapons and powerful new Demon Masquerade ability that allows you to blast, stomp, and slam enemies around using combos and demonic powers....

As such, we’ve created this guide on our best Chongyun team comp so you can best enhance Chongyun’s performance. We’ve split this article into two parts, one recommending the best DPS, support, and battery characters for players with a vast collection, and an alternative team comp for f2p players or those without many of the game’s best options. What is the best Chongyun team comp? What is the best Chongyun f2p team comp?...

Signalis Created by a Germany-based duo Rose Engine, Signalis provides an experience that somehow both submerges itself in its inspiration, and produces something fresh and juicy. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion. DNA from all of those and a deluge of horror material bleed into Signalis. The result? An indie game unlike anything I’ve seen before. Maybe it’s because I write often on live service titles as part of my job that a tight, 6-8 hour experience with no fluff, no needless exposition or grinding, was so refreshing....

Though the game doesn’t officially support modding, there’s no way a PC title this popular wasn’t going to attract a host of fan-made mods sooner rather than later. The game came out of nowhere in early February, and it’s taken a few days for the modding community to catch up, but we are now beginning to see the release of some mods that are proving popular. As ever with third-party mods, be aware that you install at your own risk....

Developer BioWare has said that it hasn’t included multiplayer in the upcoming Mass Effect Legendary Edition due to the sheer amount of work it would take to get right. Speaking to Game Informer, project director Mac Walters said that people would mostly be playing these remasters for the story elements; getting the multiplayer aspects to work would have been “too complicated.” “I had all of these analogies early on to try to help people understand what this remaster is going to be about,” Walters said....

According to a Bloomberg report, Blizzard employees have been circulating a spreadsheet internally to anonymously compare salaries. For context, Blizzard found in a survey conducted in 2019 that over half of its staff are unhappy with their salaries. Blizzard’s response to the results of the survey was implemented in July, according to Bloomberg. It came in the form of raises and readjustment of salaries for some employees. Unsatisfied with the results, Blizzard’s workers began tracking all the readjustments across the studio, to measure the increase in pay....

The survey asking players about how much they’d be willing to spend on skins and other cosmetics went out towards the end of July, and obviously fans were concerned about the idea of spending up to $45 on a single skin. Now, Blizzard has addressed the survey, telling IGN that it is “not indicative of final pricing.” “This survey is entirely intended to better understand player preferences for different types of Overwatch 2 cosmetics,” a Blizzard spokesperson told IGN....

Like Typhon Logs from the base game, and the Mancubus Statues from Blood, Love and Tentacles, these Challenge chests give you an extra pocketful of loot to waddle back to a vending machine with. There’s one in just about every area of the game, but they’re tough to find. Not only do you have to find the cache itself, but often a treasure map that gives clues to its whereabouts too....