The US military has offered all kinds of incentives over the years to bait reenlistment, from training to sizable cash bonuses and extra time off. The commander of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion in Georgia got a little more creative: offering a 4-day pass to specifically coincide with the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. But anyone who’s played GTA knows this should be a 30-day pass.
Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, which featured classic characters from the series and launched in 2021, will become unavailable to download on August 20th and will be fully shut down on September 3rd, Konami says.
Symphony of the Night composer Michiru Yamane worked on the game, and we interviewed her back when it came out.
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The digital version will still launch on September 24th, but the physical release has been moved to October 15th, Remedy says. The game has also gone gold.
Nvidia’s cloud gaming service can now stream more than 5,000 PC games directly in the Mozilla browser, joining existing support for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Opera GX. It’s the latest effort to get GeForce Now onto as many screens as possible, following its expansions to Linux and Amazon Fire TV this year.
It’s rolling out a new membership program to a group of randomly selected members, who will gain access to rewards based on how many years they’ve been subscribed to the service. Some perks include a one-year Instacart Plus membership, free Pizza Hut pizza, and a 25 percent discount on the NBCU Shop.
And Shadow, Sora, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, and even Joker from Persona 5. They’re joining Fortnite as part of a new gaming-themed season, Override, that launches on August 20th. You can get a preview of what’s to come in a new trailer and a slick video featuring what’s in the battle pass.
HBO just confirmed that It: Welcome to Derry is returning. Season 2 “takes place in 1935 during the Great Depression and centers on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror.” No word on when it will premiere.
After saying to This Week in Videogames that he would have been “happy to replace her with AI,” Sacco says CEO Matthew Karch emailed her and “apologized unreservedly for the awful way he spoke about me in the press.” You can read her full statement below.
Sacco, a former lead writer on the recently-announced Rideshare “Stimulator”, had claimed that “Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development.” CEO Matthew Karch denied that Saber “replaced any writers with AI.” The game uses AI for voices, music, and missions, according to its recently-updated Steam page.
From a Wall Street Journal profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki: “Totoki said the company still hasn’t fixed a date for PS6’s launch.” RAM shortages are likely partly to blame, and a Bloomberg report from earlier this year said Sony has considered pushing back the launch to 2028 or 2029.
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Panettiere was best known for her roles in the Heroes and Nashville television series, Scream films, and Kingdom Hearts video games. No cause of death has been announced. Her father, Skip Panettiere, gave the following statement to ABC News:
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her -- and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”
