‘Apex Legends: Escape’ preview – Season 11 brings PVE carnage, a major rework, and more

Ruined King: A League Of Legends Story is now available to buy, following a surprise announcement at the Riot Forge Showcase.During the Riot Forge Showcase, the publisher revealed that Ruined King: A League Of Legends Story is available to buy and play right now.The turn-based RPG is set in the League Of Legends universe and is available on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

Respawn Entertainment has addressed Apex Legends‘ expanding weapon pool system, saying it “has stuff in mind.”As reported by Eurogamer, on November 13 an Apex Legends player tweeted at the developer demanding that the studio “remove weapons for god’s sake… nobody cares about P20, Bocek or 3030 and actually helps with the loot pool distribution.”John Larson, Associate Live Balance Designer on Apex Legends, responded saying: “You take that back. I care about the Bocek.

The Pokémon Company claims that Pokémon creators aren’t quite so affected by fan criticism as other video game developers.During an interview with Axios (via VGC), Pokémon Company director of consumer marketing J.C. Smith explained how Pokémon creators have developed a resistance to fan criticism.“We have a group of creators and professionals working at the Pokémon Company that have been through a lot – seen, heard [a lot],” he said.

There seems to be a bit of a boom—well, perhaps more like a pop—of alternative comedy series hitting streaming services and networks over the past several years.

Riot Forge has announced HexTech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story, which will take the world of League Of Legends into a 2D rhythm runner-setting.Announced today (November 9), Hextech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story is a rhythm runner by Choice Provisions, which is behind the Bit.Trip series of games in the same genre.Set in the League Of Legends universe, players will control Ziggs – an existing champion in League – as he causes chaos across Piltover, which is where Riot‘s Netflix show

Apex Legends Season 11 dropped a week ago today (November 2) and the new Gravity Cannons have been causing havoc for players.The new season of Apex Legends introduced its new map Storm Point, which is the largest yet for the series.

Super Mario Odyssey, and it looks like Nintendo are thinking big.After a six months financial results meeting (spotted by VGC), questions were floated to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa and Shigeru Miyamoto, where Miyamoto was asked about his thoughts on the differences between 3D Mario and the 2D side-scrolling titles.When referring to Super Mario Bros.

Fox is out with midseason dates for its new series Monarch, The Cleaning Lady and Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer along with the returns of 9-1-1 Lone Star and I Can See Your Voice.

Nintendo has announced that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling game in the racing series.According to the publisher, the Nintendo Switch game has sold an additional 3.34 million units during the six months since September 30, 2021–as reported by VGC.Following the confirmation, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now officially sold a total of 38.74million units since its initial release in 2017, beating Mario Kart on the Wii which previously held the title of the best-selling game with 37.38million

Epic Games has announced that the League Of Legends champion, Jinx, is coming to Fortnite.In collaboration with Riot Games, Jinx’s arrival in Fortnite makes her the first League Of Legends character to be featured in a non-Riot game.Starting on November 4 at 8 PM ET / November 5 at 00:00 GMT, a range of Jinx-themed items will be available in the Fortnite Item Shop alongside the release of the champion, including:“Fortnite has executed high profile collaborations and entertainment experiences

Unpacking, the critically-acclaimed indie game, contains over 14,000 different sound effects to replicate the realism of the hundreds of different in-game objects interacting.In a Twitter thread, Sanatana Mishra, founder and designer of Witch Beam, the studio behind Unpacking, quote tweeted a video showcasing the interactions between objects in the game.

Nintendo has released a patch for Super Mario 3D All-Stars which means players can now use the Switch Online N64 controller with it.The Version 1.1.1 update adds support for the N64 controller but only in Super Mario 64.

Nintendo has released the last major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons a day early.Originally expected to launch on November 5, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been updated to offer plenty of free content in its Version 2.0.0 update. The paid DLC component – Happy Home Paradise – has not arrived yet on the system but there’s still plenty of content to sink your teeth into.That includes the return of series favourite, Brewster and his cafe The Roost.

Apex Legends ranked play deals with kills, deaths and assists when it comes to quitters.A long-awaited change to Apex Legends ranked modes means it’s no longer beneficial to quit a match after you’ve been downed.Prior to these changes, ranked Apex Legends players could quit matches after being downed to avoid registering a death on their player profile – essentially preserving their K/D ratio.But a new update will address this issue, changing how kills, deaths and assists work.“I have a change

Twitch streamer Tyler “Trainwrecks” Niknam has responded to his alleged ban from Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff’s Apex Legends tournament, which was apparently due to gambling concerns.The $50,000 (roughly £36,000) tournament is hosted by Kolcheff in association with both EA and developer Respawn Entertainment, and has a whole host of streamers involved.

Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity is now available for Nintendo Switch.Guardian Of Remembrance follows on from the first DLC pack released in June called Pulse of the Ancients.But while the previous DLC added new characters and weapons to the action-oriented Zelda spin-off, Guardian Of Remembrance is a considerably more substantial offering, as it includes two new story arcs, Battle for Kakariko Village and Battle of Goponga Village.It also includes new stages, which will also let players visit

Apex Legends next map, Storm Point, discusses the size and verticality of the landscape.Respawn’s battle royale Apex Legends is close to releasing its 11th season with a new map. Storm Point is the largest map released for Apex Legends, and its designer Rodney Reece has spoken to The Loadout about its design.Reece explains that he pushed for more verticality because he knew that legends would be coming to the game to exploit the added height.

Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) – a competitive Apex Legends tournament – a Respawn developer has responded to the request for the shields to be changed in ranked matches.Initially, the gold/legendary knockdown shield was removed from both private matches and the ALGS as teams who were fully knocked with a gold shield would end up placing higher in the leaderboard than a team eliminated after them.Cloud 9’s Jamison ‘PVPX’ Moore tweeted about removing the gold shield in Ranked matches as well,

Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, particularly with The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and Mario Kart 64.One of the biggest issues is in Mario Kart 64, as it does not let players save ghost data on the Nintendo Switch. This is because it can’t detect an N64 Controller Pak, meaning that fans can’t save their own records to compete against them in ghost trials.One error message states “No N64 Controller Pak detected to save ghost data.

Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack has launched today (October 26), adding a new library of N64 games that are available to play for subscribers.