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You Can Express Anger At Fortnite About Sidekick Restrictions Through A New Survey
The next big addition to Fortnite generated some big complaints, but fortunately, you can raise those directly at developer Epic Games in a new survey from the studio.
With the new mini-season based on The Simpsons comes the debut of Sidekicks, adorable pets that accompany you (and offer no gameplay advantage) on your battle royale bouts. But a closer look at the fine print reveals that the base appearance of these cute cosmetic creatures can only be customized once they have been obtained.
That means if you purchase a Sidekick from the Fortnite item shop, you only get one chance to determine its basic look, and you won't be able to change it afterward. If you want the same Sidekick but with, say, a different fur color, you'll have to buy it again. You can change the names of your Sidekicks at any time, however. Players have leveled complaints online, accusing Epic Games of greed.
Continue Reading at GameSpotWoW's Infamous $90 Dinosaur Mount May Be Coming Back
World of Warcraft's most infamous and expensive mount might be coming back after having only been available for a limited time.
According to a datamine by Wowhead, a shop-file description mentions a "Brutosaur Comeback." The description doesn't specify which massive dinosaur Brutosaur mount it is, but it's likely not the original Mighty Caravan Brutosaur that was available during the game's Battle for Azeroth expansion to the tune of 5 million gold.
That leaves the Trader's Gilded Brutosaur, which was available during a three-month period for WoW's 20th anniversary, as the likely candidate. The mount cost $90, making it the most expensive single in-game-shop item in the MMORPG's history. Wowhead estimates Blizzard could have made around $15 million selling the Trader's Gilded Brutosaur, and if that's the case, it's hardly a surprise the developer would offer it up again for those who didn't bite the first time.
Continue Reading at GameSpotCall Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Zombies Main Quest Start Times Revealed
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's release on November 14 is right around the corner. Outside of the campaign and multiplayer, the popular Zombies mode returns. The main quest for the new Zombies map, Ashes of the Damned, will go live on the same day that the game itself debuts, and now we know the precise time when the quest will be available for everyone.
Activision announced that the main quest for Ashes of the Damned will open at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET on Friday, November 14. "Set your reminders and choose your team carefully… this won't be a walk in the park," Activision said. Here are more launch times:
Black Ops 7 Zombies main quest launch timesNovember 14
Continue Reading at GameSpotPokemon "Summon" Patent To Be Reexamined Under New USPTO Boss' Orders
Nintendo's litigation against Palworld developer Pocketpair is becoming increasingly complicated by the day, with one recent patent granted to the Pokemon franchise now under review by the United States.
According to a new Games Fray report, the new head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), John A. Squires, has ordered a reexamination of Nintendo’s Patent No. 12,403,397. Filed in January 2023, granted to Nintendo in September 2025, and dubbed the '397 patent, the listing is oftentimes oversimplified to "summoning characters and making them fight." It's for this reason that Squires's office is seeking to determine if such a feature is even patentable.
"I have determined that substantial new questions of patentability have arisen as to claims 1, 13, 25, and 26 of U.S. Patent No. 12,403,397 B2 (the '397 patent')," Squires wrote in his order, citing two older applications filed by Konami in 2002 (Yabe) and Nintendo in 2019 (Taura) as justification for the patent's reexamination. "Thus, a reasonable examiner would consider each of Yabe and Taura to be important in deciding whether the claims are patentable, and Yabe and Taura each raise a substantial new question of patentability. I hereby order [the] reexamination of the '397 patent."
Continue Reading at GameSpotWhere To Get Lemons And Apricots In Arc Raiders
You might think that your weapons or gear or inventory items are the most important elements of your Arc Raiders account, but the answer is, actually, your pet chicken. At the start of Arc Raiders, you'll be gifted Scrappy, a chicken that can collect resources for you while you're out killing enemies during a drop. To make Scrappy even stronger, it can be upgraded to be even better at its job.
Like all upgrades in Arc Raiders, Scrappy requires some specific resources every time you go to advance its level. If you want to progress Scrappy to level three, you'll need to acquire three lemons and three apricots. While this might sound like a trivial task, just wait until you learn how rare lemons and apricots can be in Arc Raiders.
Lemon and apricot locations in Arc RaidersIn general, you'll be able to loot lemons and apricots on the ground at the base of trees. However, you can also kick some trees to get fruit to fall onto the ground, which you can then scoop up. Consider that a bonus addition to our Arc Raiders tips. The number of available trees during a drop wildly varies in Arc Raiders, and this includes trees that you both can and can't shake. Both lemons and apricots are "green" loot items, so they tend to stick out more than more common loot you find on the ground.
Continue Reading at GameSpotHyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Review - Link To The Past
There's been a veritable cornucopia of Dynasty Warriors spin-offs over the years, including anime adaptations like Gundam, Berserk, and One Piece and video game collaborations with Persona and Fire Emblem. The 2014 collab Hyrule Warriors and its sequel, Age of Calamity, are perhaps the most warmly received of them all, owing to their blend of Omega Force's overblown hack-and-slash action with The Legend of Zelda's iconic characters, locations, and enemies.
With Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, the two long-running series are more intertwined than ever, to the point where it feels more like a brand-new Zelda release than just another musou spin-off. It's not without its faults and is unlikely to convert anyone unconvinced by this style of game already, but Age of Imprisonment improves upon its predecessors in numerous ways.
The game's story is the most obvious aspect where the two series are aligned. Unlike Age of Calamity and its alternate timeline ideas, Age of Imprisonment is considered canon by Nintendo, expanding on the fragments of information shown in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to reveal the full extent of Hyrule's founding, Ganondorf's rise as the Demon King, and the subsequent Imprisonment War. If you've played Tears of the Kingdom, there aren't many surprises to be found here. Its most crucial story beats have already been covered, so part of the game involves revisiting these inciting incidents and exploring their aftermath.
Continue Reading at GameSpotNew Study Finds Physical Games Are 100x More Carbon-Intensive Than Digital
A new study has revealed its findings on the carbon footprint of physical video games, and unsurprisingly, digitally downloaded games are considered to be more environmentally friendly in comparison to physical. French carbon-accounting firm Greenly studied the environmental impact of various systems and the production of video games, finding that physical copies of games are "100 times more carbon-intensive" than their digital counterparts.
According to Greenly, the manufacturing and transportation of physical games--with 1 million discs being used as an example--could produce 312 tons of carbon dioxide, while 1 million downloads of the same game--if it were 70GB in size--would equal three tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
"Although cloud-based gaming can be detrimental as a result of its need for continuous access to energy-hungry data servers, we also cannot neglect the continued impact of manufacturing and packaging physical video games," study author Stephanie Safdie explained to GamesIndustry.biz. "Ultimately, downloading a digital copy imposes emissions linked to electricity use at home, as well as the energy use of the concerned data center--but it does not have the same impact as the emissions created by the industry in terms of landfill and excessive waste, which are primarily still accounted for by physical consoles and hard disc copies of games."
Continue Reading at GameSpotXbox Game Pass Ad Reminds People That New Games Are Added All The Time, As Big Game Is Set For Removal
Microsoft has debuted a new advertisement for Xbox Game Pass aimed at reminding people that they don't have to wait very long to play more games. The "New Games Added All The Time" ad focuses on a sad-looking, tired person sitting inside a disc-return box waiting for someone to return a game so they can play it. This is meant to highlight how people used to rent games at places like Blockbuster but had to wait, in some cases at least, for people to return their copies.
"That was then," the ad states before cutting to the person sitting at their desk at home and booting up a game from the Game Pass library. "Now, new games are added all the time," the ad says.
Microsoft normally adds games to Game Pass across two waves each month, and there are currently more than 850 titles available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.
Continue Reading at GameSpotNintendo Switch 2 Continues To Be A Massive Hit, Selling Over 10 Million Units In Four Months
Nintendo has confirmed that in the last two quarters, it has sold a staggering number of Switch 2 consoles. As part of its latest financial results, the company reported 10.36 million Switch 2 units sold as of September 30, in the two quarters since it went on sale. In the last three months alone, Nintendo sold 4.54 million Switch 2 consoles.
To put that into context, that's more than double what the original Switch console sold within the same two-month time period (4.7 million units sold), and even more than what Sony managed with the PS4 (7.5 million units sold) and PS5 (7.8 million units sold) during its first two quarters. With the Switch 2 selling well, Nintendo has now increased its hardware forecast for the business year, as it predicts that it'll sell 19 million Switch 2 consoles, up from its original estimate of 15 million. If Nintendo reaches this number, that'll put Switch 2 sales far ahead of the original Switch, PS4, and PS5 consoles during their launch years.
As for its predecessor, the Switch has now reached 154.01 million units sold since 2017. This puts the Switch within spitting distance of the Nintendo DS, which sold 154.02 million units. Nintendo noted a 60% decline in Switch sales when compared to the same period in its previous fiscal year, but it is predicting that the console will dethrone the Nintendo DS by the end of its financial year and will cement itself as the company's best-selling console of all time.
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