Category: Gameinformer

The Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. (Break It Early Test Application) allowed players to carry their progress into the game which was set to release tomorrow (but had a stealth launch). Unfortunately, not every achievement makes that transfer. Luckily, Bethesda VP Pete Hines took to twitter to explain how to gain achievements and trophies after launch.

The essential problem that beta achievements don’t official register. In order to collect those trophies, you have to replay certain sections with a new character. All progress, like experience and weapons, will carry over to the launched game. 

Fallout 76 is out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. A large day-one patch addresses the problems players ran into during the beta. We spent three hours exploring the B.E.T.A. for Bethesda’s online multiplayer. Here is what the world looks like in action. 

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Bethesda Softworks’ open-world multiplayer experiment, Fallout 76, was set to go live at midnight tonight, but the game is already live and players around the world are diving into its post-apocalyptic world.

We’ve tested a standard retail disc and were able to play, and a number of Twitch streamers are also showing off their playthrough. Online stores still list Fallout 76 for pre-order, but if you got your copy early somehow (as some people on Twitter have reported) then you should be able to start playing today. 

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Each year, Geoff Keighley puts on The Game Awards, a celebration of the best games of the year and a look forward at the exciting things to come. This year’s show is on Thursday, December 6 at 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT.

Today Keighley announced nominees across 30 categories, and below are many of those nominees:

Game of the Year

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Celeste
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Monster Hunter: World
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Ongoing Game – Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time.

• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky
• Overwatch
• Rainbow Six Siege

Best Game Direction – Awarded to a game studio for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

• Hazelight Studio / EA – A Way Out
• Quantic Dream / SIEDetroit: Become Human
• Sony Santa Monica / SIE – God of War
• Insomniac Games / SIE – Spider-Man
• Rockstar Games – Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Narrative – For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.

• Detroit: Become Human
• God of War
• Life is Strange 2: Episode 1
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Art Direction – For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• God of War
• Octopath Traveler
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Best Score/Music

• Celeste
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
• Octopath Traveler
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Audio Design

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Forza Horizon 4
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Performance

• Bryan Dechart as Connor, Detroit: Become Human
• Christopher Judge as Kratos, God of War
• Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption II
• Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker, Spider-Man

Games for Impact – For a thought provoking game with a profound pro-social meaning or message.

• 11-11 Memories Retold
• Celeste
• Florence
• Life is Strange 2: Episode 1
• The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories

Best Independent Game

• Celeste
• Dead Cells
• Into the Breach
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• The Messenger
• Best Mobile Game

For the best game playable on a dedicated mobile device

• Donut County
• Florence
• Fortnite
• PUBG Mobile
• Reigns: Game of Thrones

Best VR/AR Game

• Astro Bot Rescue Mission
• Beat Saber
• Firewall Zero Hour
• Moss
• Tetris Effect

Best Action Game

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Dead Cells
• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Far Cry 5
• Mega Man 11

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Best Role Playing Game

• Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
• Monster Hunter: World
• Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
• Octopath Traveler
• Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Best Fighting Game

• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
• Dragon Ball FighterZ
• Soul Calibur VI
• Street Fighter V Arcade

Best Family Game

• Mario Tennis Aces
• Nintendo Labo
• Overcooked 2
• Starlink: Battle for Atlas
• Super Mario Party

Best Strategy Game

• The Banner Saga 3
• Battletech
• Frostpunk
• Into the Breach
• Valkyria Chronicles 4

Best Sports/Racing Game

• FIFA 19
• Forza Horizon 4
• Mario Tennis Aces
• NBA 2K19
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2019

Best Multiplayer Game

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Fortnite
• Monster Hunter: World
• Sea of Thieves

Best Student Game – Awarded the best student project created at the high school or college level.

• Combat 2018
• Dash Quasar
• JERA
• LIFF
• RE: Charge

Best Debut Indie Game

• Donut County
• Florence
• Moss
• The Messenger
• Yoku’s Island Express

Best Esports Game

• CSGO
• DOTA2
• Fortnite
• League of Legends
• Overwatch

Best Esports Player

• Dominique “SonicFox” McLean
• Echo Fox
• Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi
• Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao
• Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
• Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang

Best Esports Team

• Astralis – CS:GO
• Cloud9 – LOL
• Fnatic – LOL
• London Spitfire – OWL
• OG – DOTA2

Best Esports Coach

• Bok “Reapered” Han-gyu – Cloud9
• Cristian “ppasarel” Bănăseanu – OG
• Danny “zonic” Sørensen – Astralis
• Dylan Falco – Fnatic
• Jakob “YamatoCannon” Mebdi – Team Vitality
• Janko “YNk” Paunovic – MiBR

Best Esports Event

• ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
• EVO 2018
• League of Legends World Championship
• Overwatch League Grand Finals
• The International 2018

Best Esports Host

• Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
• Alex “Machine” Richardson
• Anders Blume
• Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere
• Paul “RedEye” Chaloner

Best Esports Moment

• C9 Comeback Win In Triple OT vs FAZE
• G2 Beating RNG
• KT vs IG Base Race
• OG’s Massive Upset of LGD
• SonicFox Side Switch Against Go1 in DBZ

Content Creator of the Year

• Dr. Lupo
• Myth
• Ninja
• Pokimane
• Willyrex

You can vote on your picks in each category on The Game Awards website.

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to the PlayStation 4 next month, confirming earlier reports that the PC and Xbox One game was coming to Sony’s console.

The game is coming December 7, and it includes a pair of in-game items from Uncharted and The Last of Us. You can see them at the tail end of the announcement trailer, below.

The game is available in several incarnations. The Looter’s Edition sells for $30, and it includes the base game. For $50, players get the Survivor’s Edition, which includes the base game, 2,300 G-Coins, 20,000 BPs, and the Survivor Pass: Vikendi, which unlocks additional in-game rewards. Those who spring for the $60 Champion’s Edition get everything from the Survivor’s Edition, but 6,000 G-Coins instead of 2,300.

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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice, a board game adaptation of the Ezio-era Assassin’s Creeds, will begin its Kickstarter campaign November 13. The 1-4 player game combines cooperative and tactical gameplay, and comes with miniatures of existing Assassin’s Creed characters alongside some new ones made just for the board game. The action takes place in Renaissance Italy between the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed Revelations video games.

Board games based on beloved video game franchises are nothing new and often struggle to capture audiences’ hearts. The designers at Triton Noir, an independent board game studio, hope to appeal to “both those who are in love with Assassin’s Creed and the tactical infiltration board games enthusiasts”, according to the studio’s founder, Thibaud de la Touanne. The company aims to stay faithful to the source material by working closely with the video game designers at Ubisoft, while introducing their own unique touches. These new elements include characters, events, and surprises yet to be revealed. 

After months of work and with a license deal with Ubisoft Montreal, Triton Noir has been developing Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice with the fans in mind. Thibaud de la Touanne, founder of Triton Noir, is working together with Manuel Rozoy, co-author of the game, and Fabrice Lamidey, story designer. If all of those names sound familiar, it might be because they have all worked for Ubisoft and each have successful board games under their belt.  

Triton Noir recently took a prototype of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice to at SPIEL’18, an annual four-day board game trade fair, along with a behind the scenes look at making the game. The video details the working process, the studio’s close ties to Ubisoft, and teases secret content. 

The kickstarter for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice will begin tomorrow and for enthusiastic donors, Triton Noir is offering a free Ezio mini to day one backers.

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Warner Bros. Pictures released the first trailer for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, the live-action film adaptation of the 3DS game Detective Pikachu. The story is set in Ryme City, a crowded metropolis where Pokémon and humans live together, and centers around Tim Goodman whose legendary detective father has mysteriously disappeared.

The trailer shows off the pivotal scene where Tim first meets and understands a Pikachu that has broken into his house in the middle of the night. Ryan Reynolds’ voice coming out of the well-known Pokémon sets the humorous tone for the rest of the video. 

Detective Pikachu for the 3DS received middling reviews when it came out in Europe and America back in March. Game Informer’s Ben Reeves called it “a bit too elementary” in his review. However, the game’s lukewarm reception didn’t hinder fans’ curiosity about the movie. The film maker even reveal the logo during the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Pokémon World Championships. 

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu will be coming to theaters May 11. If you’re interested in seeing more, a leak from earlier this year shows a little bit more of what is behind the curtain. 

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Echo Combat, the zero-gravity multiplayer shooter from Ready at Dawn, is releasing this week for Oculus Rift. The multiplayer shooter is a companion of sorts to the zero-gravity narrative game, Lone Echo. Getting it is a little tricky, but here are some instructions:

We played the game at E3 2018, and were impressed. Navigation in VR is always tricky, but the team at Ready at Dawn are really onto something with its zero-g movement system.

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VR website UploadVR has confirmed with multiple sources that a previous imgur asset leak indeed shows prototypes of an upcoming Valve VR headset separate from the current Vive initiative with partner company HTC.

The device may come with a Half-Life VR title that could be a prequel as well as two Knuckles motion controllers. The unnamed unit also supports a 135° field of view with “roughly the same angular resolution as the current HTC Vive.”

That Valve is striking out on with its own VR headset is not surprising given the resources the company has devoted to the technology including its SteamVR platform and upcoming titles.

[Source: UploadVR, imgur]

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