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EA announced some big organizational changes today. Jade Raymond, the head of EA Motive, the studio focused on Star War properties, is leaving her position.

During Raymond’s time, Battlefront II was released, but we knew the studio was also working on multiple projects, including an open-world Star Wars game, a new action-adventure IP, and a mysterious project. Raymond joined back in 2015 to head a multi-purpose studio, which would create its own IP and provide support for other EA projects. Raymond previously worked at Ubisoft as producer on the Assassin’s Creed series and executive producer on both Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. We do not know Raymond’s plans at this time for her next venture.

We do, however, know Samantha Ryan will be taking Raymond’s place. Ryan has an impressive resume, previously working as president of Monolith and as SVP of product and development at Warner Bros. Ryan has been helping lead other teams at EA, from BioWare to Maxis. 

EA issued the following statement to Game Informer: 

EA Motive has seen its share of ups and downs, announcing the closure of Visceral Games and putting an end to its single-player, linear Star Wars game. The project is currently being revamped to go in a more open-world direction.

A few months ago when we talked to Raymond, she discussed some road bumps with Motive’s new IP. Raymond noted some people who joined the project early on already left and the game still hadn’t left the conceptual phase. 

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In a “State of Development” post, Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced that the game’s Save the World mode (which to this point has cost money) will not become free to play this year as was originally planned.

The delay is happening because Epic wants to keep working on the mode, including “a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling” before it makes the change.

In other Save the World mode news, the hero system is being updated – upping the number of hero slots from three to six – and more customizable loadouts are also being worked on. Epic says it have more details on these changes in the future.

Finally, the State of Development blog post discusses an investment refund feature, this year’s Fortnitemares event (where you can get Brainiac Jonesy and Skull Ranger Ramirez for free), and discounts on Founder’s packs. Click on the source link below for more info.

[Source: Epic Games]

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Bandai Namco has revealed Kane, the villain of their upcoming manga crossover game Jump Force. Kane, who is not from an existing series and has been made specifically for the game, seems to be responsible for the melding of worlds that is bringing all the Jump characters together with each other and into the real world.

Designed by Akira Toriyama, Kane certainly looks like a lot of Toriyama’s other designs amalgamated together, such as Dragon Ball Z’s Cell and Dragon Ball Super’s Hit fused together. While Bandai Namco has said that not every character in the game will be a playable fighter, specifically pointing to the tease of Death Note’s Light and Ryuk at the game’s reveal, it does seem like Kane definitely fights from the screenshots.

Jump Force releases on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2019.

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Epic is never one to miss a good opportunity to encourage people to play Fortnite and Halloween is one of the best things to get people to enjoy new cosmetics. As such, the official Fortnite Twitter account has been posting teases of new content with the hashtag of Fortnitemares.

The first tweet seems to show off a new skin or character with zombie-like skin. The most recent tweet shows the infamous Fortnite cube chained up and glowing. Users on Twitter have pointed out that the pictures so far seem to be connected by the patterns in the corner, as well, suggested that something will happen after four pictures get posted. Judging by the schedule so far, that means we’re halfway through and it will be another few days until it finishes.

While it might be a little late for a big event, it seems likely something is going down in Fortnite Battle Royale to coincide with the end of October. Fortnite Battle Royale is available on pretty much everything everywhere.

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