Geralt of Rivia and Ciri from The Witcher 3 are joining the mech battle action game Daemon X Machina thanks to a new free DLC pack. There’s also no need to wait as the DLC pack is available today.
Daemon X Machina is a third-person mech action game developed by Armored Core producer Kenichiro Tsukuda. Players can customize their mech pilots in the game however they want, but with the new DLC, they’ll be able to make their characters look like the two heroes from CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher.
As the new year is on the horizon, YouTube has chronicled its best of 2019 in a video highlighting what the community has liked the most. The roundup includes the most-liked music videos, most-viewed creators, and, of course, the most-watched video games.
YouTube’s most-watched games of 2019 list has a big surprise: the biggest battle royale title, Fortnite, isn’t in the number one spot. Counting backward, Roblox is the fifth most-watched video game of 2019 on YouTube with 29.6 billion views, while mobile battle royale game Garena Free Fire took number four with 29.9 billion views. At number three is Grand Theft Auto V with 36.9 billion views, Fortnite at number two with 60.9 billion views, and taking the number one spot is Minecraft with 100.2 billion views.
YouTube also compiled the most-viewed creators of the year. The list includes big-name creators like PewDiePie and Azzyland, massive channels like Dude Perfect and MrBeast, and more.
Check the video below to see YouTube’s full year-end roundup.
YouTube isn’t the only company announcing and gearing up for the end-of-the-year lists. Apple has revealed its best games and apps of 2019, with thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of the Light taking the iPhone Game of the Year award. The 2019 Game Awards, streaming live on December 12 at 5:30 PM PT, also released its full list of nominees and the competition looks tough.
Respawn has announced that it plans on further tweaking Apex Legends‘ Peacekeeper shotgun, arguably the best firearm in the battle royale game. The Peacekeeper has been nerfed in the past–even as recently as November 2019–but the shotgun continues to remain a dominant force.
In the patch notes for Update 3.2, Respawn writes, “We’ve heard feedback loud and clear that the Peacekeeper is still feeling too powerful after latest changes. We are working to push out more tweaks to address it ASAP and will post details on timing and what those changes will be soon.”
These “latest changes” increased the rechamber time of the Peacekeeper by a tenth of a second and decreased its headshot multiplier from 1.5 to 1.25. The changes are so minor, however, that they’re almost indiscernible in the heat of combat. The Peacekeeper continues to deal out immense amounts of damage in a relatively short amount of time.
If anything, the most significant problem with the Peacekeeper is the size of the shotgun’s spread. The pellets are large enough that it’s relatively simple to land headshots even if your aim isn’t exactly lined up with a target’s head. In close quarters, consistently landing headshots can usually make a major difference in a firefight.
The Peacekeeper is also one of the guns in Apex Legends that supports the precision choke attachment, which allows you to focus its large shells into a more precise shot. This makes it easier to hit a target at mid- to long-range with the Peacekeeper–something no other shotgun can do. And since it is a shotgun, the Peacekeeper’s overall damage output from a single shot can match a few seconds of sustained fire from most submachine guns, assault rifles, and LMGs.
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Today’s spotlight deal is a new Nintendo Switch bundle from Walmart. In my opinion, it’s better than any console we saw on Black Friday, and it’s available for immediate shipping right now. Considering the fact that the Switch is one of the hottest sellers during the holiday season, this might not be the case for long.
Good things come to those who wait. For those of you who passed on the Switch deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you’re patience has been rewarded. Walmart’s exclusive holiday bundle, which includes the Switch console with the coveted Mario Red Joy-cons, $20 in eShop credit, and a red hard shell carrying case, is now available. There’s no better looking Switch available right now. Unlike the infamous Mario Kart bundle from Black Friday, this is the newer Switch model with the extra 2 hours of battery life compared to the original.
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Despite all the rumors and speculation, The Game Awards founder and host Geoff Keighley revealed that, so far, no announcements from next week’s awards have leaked online.
Keighley hosted a Reddit AMA today in anticipation of The Game Awards next week, December 12. One commenter asked if there were any leaks, in particular, Keighley was worried about coming out ahead of the show, “like what happened with Resident Evil 3.”
However, Keighley revealed that not only are there “no plans (never were) to do anything with Resident Evil 3 at the show,” but that a lot of the leaks and rumors online about next week’s announcements are false. “Nothing about our show has leaked as of this writing,” Keighley wrote.
Epic has announced the return on the popular Fortnite Winter Royale competition which will take place this holiday season. With a $15 million prize pool, the Winter Royale duos tournament will be the second highest paying competition in Fortnite history — the World Cup event last year offered $40 million in prizes.
The Winter Royale duos event will be taking a major step up from last year’s tournament, which only offered $1 million in prize money. This years tournament will take place from December 20-22, with a different kind of tournament on each day.
Riot has announced a new publishing initiative called Riot Forge, which will partner with third-party game developers to work on new games set in the League of Legends universe. Riot says “multiple titles” are already in development at Riot Forge.
One of the goals for Riot Forge is to create games set in the League of Legends universe, but are different from its flagship MOBA game on PC. The company says Riot Forge titles will be “completable game experiences” in “different genres and various platforms” that complement the live service game.
“We are humbled by our partner developers who are so passionate to work on games set in the LoL IP,” said Riot Forge head Leanne Loombe.
Amazon Prime Video‘s original series The Boys was a breath of fresh air to the superhero genre. The series followed a group of people without powers looking to take down a group of superhumans known as The Seven, who may save lives, but their abuse their powers in various ways.
A new trailer has arrived for Season 2 of the series, which arrives to Amazon sometime in 2020. You can watch the trailer for yourself below, but beware, there is a lot of blood and guts headed your way.
Season 1 spoilers of The Boys coming. At the end of Season 1, Homelander brought Butcher to a home where Butcher’s wife, Becca–who he thought had been murdered–had been living for years. It turns out that Becca had a child, and the father of that child is actually Homelander. The opening of the new trailer, with Homelander’s face covered in blood, looks as though it could be outside that very house. If so, who died? It probably wasn’t Butcher, so that leaves Becca and her super-powered son.
Aside from the ambiguous 2020 release date, not much is known about Season 2. Karl Urban, who plays Butcher on the series, posted on Instagram that filming had wrapped on November 6. Aside from Urban, The Boys stars Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, and Karen Fukuhara.
A new large-scale casino heist is coming to Grand Theft Auto Online in GTA 5 next week. The Diamond Casino Heist will be available on December 12, and Rockstar promises it’s the biggest and most complex crime to hit the game yet, featuring some differences compared to how past GTA Online heists have worked.
The announcement details the massive operation. You’ll be working with the Cheng family to infiltrate the casino. Like any good heist, you’ll have to plan your entry point from multiple options, security measures will change unpredictably, and once inside circumstances will require quick thinking and responses mid-mission. Unlike other heists, failure isn’t necessarily an end-state; if a piece of the plan goes wrong, you may have to improvise to find another way on the fly. But if absolutely everything goes sideways you can always shoot your way out. The bevy of choices promises high replay value for the heist, with scenarios unfolding wildly differently from one another.
To set the stage for your daring heist, you’ll need to set up a retro arcade business property as a front operation. In the floor below the arcade, you can practice all the skills a heist needs like hacking keypads and cracking vault doors. You can also store your equipment and getaway vehicles there, and if you’re already a business owner, you can add a Master Control Terminal to the staging area. You’ll need to own a Penthouse to start the mission, as well.
For now, the Diamond Casino & Resort website features an Easter egg teasing the upcoming event, so you may be able to glean clues from it. Or you can spend some time before the big event rewatching Ocean’s 11 and finding the best jazz soundtracks to play while you pull off your daring stunt.
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