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Kingdom Hearts III director Tetsuya Nomura has announced that he’s reconsidering whether or not to do simultaneous worldwide releases for his future games. This decision comes as a result of Kingdom Hearts III leaking outside Japan, an incident that Nomura does not wish to see happen again with other titles.

In an interview with Famitsu, which was translated by Siliconera, Nomura confirms that only four copies of Kingdom Hearts III leaked prior to the game’s official release. “That being said,” he continued, “the only thing that really disappointed me about everything is that it brought sad thoughts to people who were looking forward to Kingdom Hearts III. The risk is higher with simultaneous worldwide releases, and because of this incident I can’t help but reconsider what I’ll do for my next games, including simultaneous worldwide releases of physical copies at the very least.”

Kingdom Hearts III is already out in Japan, but the game releases for the rest of the world next week. The practice of two release dates is not unheard of, with many past Japanese developed games releasing in their native country just prior to a worldwide release. However, if a title’s release dates are close together–like how it is for Kingdom Hearts III–then the game typically ships out to worldwide distributors all at once. In these instances, miscommunication can cause international copies to leak before they’re supposed to officially release. In order to avoid that, some developers release their games staggered, with different launch dates that are separated by anywhere from several weeks to a few months.

If you’re on the fence about picking up Kingdom Hearts III, consider reading our review. Tamoor Hussain gave the game an 8/10, calling the game “enjoyable, if uneven” and promoting its combat and diverse worlds while criticizing how its preoccupation with fan service occasionally bogs down the story and lore.

Kingdom Hearts III releases worldwide on January 29 for Xbox One and PS4.

Bethesda has a number of new features in the works for Fallout 76 this year, including a more competitive type of PvP mode. The developer has shared some new details about this mode in its latest blog post, along with an early glimpse at what’s coming in the game’s next update.

Dubbed Survival, the new mode was devised to offer players a much more challenging PvP experience. “Since the launch of Fallout 76, we’ve received lots of feedback from some of our more competitive players who requested greater challenge, fewer restrictions, and more incentives when it comes to PVP combat,” Bethesda wrote. “With this in mind, we began developing Survival mode, which will bring a new way for you to engage in even more demanding, high-stakes, and deadly adventures in Fallout 76.”

When Survival launches in beta later this year, players will be able to choose between it or Adventure mode–the standard Fallout 76 experience–when they boot up the game. Both modes will feature the same quests, events, and story, but Survival eschews the restrictions that previously governed PvP encounters. All players outside of your teammates will automatically be flagged as hostile, and you won’t need to retaliate against another player to initiate a battle.

There will also be some steep penalties and rewards in this mode. Bethesda says it will continue to tweak these rules based on player feedback, but when Survival first launches, players won’t be able to use the “seek revenge” respawn option; instead, they’ll only be able to respawn at their CAMP or Vault 76. If you kill another player, you’ll receive twice as many Caps, and there’s a chance they’ll drop their Aid alongside their junk.

Bethesda is planning to roll out the Survival beta in March. In the meantime, the developer has another patch coming at the end of January. This one will fix another “massive round” of bugs and make a handful of gameplay and quality-of-life tweaks, like the addition of a “(Known)” tag for recipes and plans that you’ve already learned. You can read more on Bethesda’s website.

Overwatch has kicked off its Lunar New Year 2019 event, marking the Year of the Pig. It brought the usual spate of nifty new skins and the return of a favorite game mode, while at the same time introducing a set of balance changes. As detailed in the latest patch notes, these mark some significant changes to particular characters.

First, though not tied to any changes, armor will now reduce damage to 3 instead of 5, capping at half. Blizzard notes that this will mostly impact heroes who fire in bursts. As an example the studio cites Soldier 76’s Heavy Pulse Rifle, which will do 16 damage per shot instead of 14. It says that armor was just “a bit too strong overall, especially when heroes were being healed quickly and often.”

Meanwhile, two characters have had their abilities slightly tweaked to nerf them. The armor from Brigitte’s Rally has been capped at a maximum duration of 30 seconds. D. Va’s Defense Matrix cooldown has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds. In both cases, the change is aimed at giving opponents a chance to respond around the triggering of the abilities.

The one character to have gotten a buff was Reaper, whose passive life steal ability has gotten a big boost from 30% to 50% of damage dealt. “This change allows him to keep the pressure up while he’s dishing damage to his enemies,” Blizzard notes. “The added life steal is particularly effective against tanks, as they tend to do less damage than other heroes, and also take more damage from his Hellfire Shotguns due to their larger hit volumes.”

These changes come along with a wide array of bug fixes. The Lunar New Year event brought back the capture the flag mode and older Lunar New Year cosmetics, along with a bunch of new skins for this year. Those include the Legendary skins Lu Bu Reaper, Huang Zhong Hanzo, Guan Yu Reinhardt, Zhang Fei Torbjorn, Zhuge Liang Zenyatta, and Hong Gildong Tracer, plus the Epic skins Sanye Orisa and General Brigitte.

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Season 7 of Fortnite may be winding down, but a lot has been happening in the lead up to Season 8 of Epic’s popular battle royale game. On top of the ongoing Ice Storm event, which introduced its own set of daily tasks to complete, Epic has now rolled out Week 8’s challenges across all platforms, the trickiest of which has players searching between a hatch, giant rocky lady, and a precarious flatbed. Per usual, completing these tasks will reward you with Battle Stars, which in turn will level your Battle Pass up and unlock Season 7 cosmetics and rewards.

Getting your hands on this season’s new items is a good incentive to complete as many challenges as you can, but if you manage to finish all of the tasks from a given week, you’ll also complete a Snowfall Challenge. Doing so will unlock another bonus: a special loading screen that features a subtle clue pointing you to a free Battle Star or Banner–depending on how many weekly sets of challenges you’ve completed–hiding somewhere around the island.

If you’ve finished eight weeks’ worth of challenges, you’ll receive the loading screen pictured below. This one depicts the Ice King, who recently emerged from the mysterious icy sphere above Polar Peak and blanketed the entire map with snow, standing atop a tower overlooking the island. If you look closely just beneath the Ice King’s right leg, you’ll see a set of coordinates–A8, B8, A9, and B9–etched into the tower.

The spot where the coordinates meet is where you’ll find the secret Banner. A quick look at the map reveals that the area in question is a snowy field just south of Frosty Flights. Make your way to the location and the Banner will appear. Collect it as you would any other item, finish the match, and you’ll be able to use the Banner as a new profile icon. You can see its exact location on the map below.

Of course, the usual caveats apply when it comes to this free Banner. The item will only appear in the game if you’ve completed the requisite number of weekly challenges and unlocked the special loading screen above; you won’t simply be able to go to the right area and find it unless you’ve first put in the necessary work.

Only a few weeks remain in Season 7 of Fortnite, which means there’s only a little time left to complete any remaining challenges from this season. If you need some assistance, we’ve put together helpful tips on the trickier tasks in our complete Season 7 challenges guide. You can also use the links below to see where all of this season’s other free Battle Stars and Banners are hiding.

Fortnite Season 7 Snowfall Challenge Guides

Asobo Studio has released the first video in a web series to promote its upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence. At the end of the video, Asobo announces that A Plague Tale will release on May 14.

The video also details the backstories for its protagonists, as well as how their journey will change them. As the name of the game implies, the core theme of A Plague Tale is innocence, and the game’s young heroes will face the loss of theirs as they overcome numerous hardships, such as the act of needing to kill other people. In order to make this theme come through the game, Asobo made sure to recruit actors that closely matched the age of the characters they voiced, and tried to incorporate phrases and words that a teenager and child might use as opposed to an adult.

A Plague Tale is a puzzle survival game that has you control Amicia, a teenage noblewoman, as she and her younger brother, Hugo, try to survive 14th century France–a time when the Black Death was sweeping across Europe. How far Amicia is willing to go to both survive and protect Hugo is up to you, with the noble girl able to use her trusty sling to knock out enemies or kill them in gruesome ways. One of the more horrifying means of dispatching enemies is using fire to redirect plague rats at them, as the hungry mass of rodents will eat anything, whether it’s alive or dead.

Asobo Studio’s A Plague Tale is one of the big new games coming out that we think you should look out for. The developer behind the game has been responsible for contributing to a wide variety of titles, including the Xbox 360 port of The Crew and the creation of both the world and enemies in ReCore.

A Plague Tale: Innocence is scheduled to release for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.