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Superheroes, Super Mario and War: 7 Games Coming in October

"Gotham Knights", "Overwatch 2" and "Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope" are just some of the exciting titles coming this October. The article contains sponsored links. When you shop through them, MovieZine may receive a commission.   The gaming season begins in earnest in October with multiplayer titles such as "Overwatch 2" and "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II" or story-driven adventures such as "A Plague Tale: Requiem" and "New Tales From The Borderlands". We at MovieZine have put together
Gaming

New Overwatch 2 players must play 100 matches to unlock the original characters

According to a new blog post on the Overwatch website, new players in Overwatch 2 will have to play 100 matches to unlock all the characters from the original Overwatch game . The idea is to keep new players from feeling overwhelmed and give them the chance to learn all the modes and characters at their own pace. But it also says this. This means that these restrictions only exist when it comes to competitive games and not if you run practice matches with family and friends. O
Gaming

Skull and Bones is delayed at the last minute

Well, just when we thought it was finally time, it wasn't time at all. Ubisoft's project Skull and Bones was supposed to be released on November 8, i.e. in just over a month, but now they have announced that this will not be the case. The game is instead postponed until March 9 next year. On Twitter, they write that the game is actually already finished, but that they received some feedback from technical tests and their insider program, which convinced them that the game needs to be polish
Gaming

Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold over 20 million copies

Cyberpunk 2077 has been getting quite a boost since the release of the Edgerunners series, the game received an update and we learned more about the planned Phantom Liberty expansion. And now they can add another proper milestone, namely that the game has sold over 20 million copies. On Twitter, Cd Projekt Red writes that 20 million cyberpunks are now roaming the streets of Night City, which can be compared to the 18 million they reported in April. The milestone also means that the gam
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Canada, New World Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator

There have been quite a few world updates to Microsoft Flight Simulator . Right from day one, we could fly all over the world. However, the team is working hard to spruce it up – and now the turn has come to Canada. It is revealed via the official news page from Xbox. Canada is filled with a plethora of sights to explore from the air: magnificent urban architecture, wave-battered northern coastlines, and vast sweeps of tundra, glaciers and towering peaks. That sounds like quite a fligh
Tech

Critical Whatsapp bug can be used to remotely hack devices

Whatsapp has now released a security update to fix two critical security flaws in the messaging service's IOS and Android apps. According to cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes, the vulnerabilities could be used to take control of the app. The flaws are to be found in Whatsapp and Whatsapp Business for Android and IOS that do not run version 2.22.16.12 or later. The Hacker News writes that one of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-36934), which has a CVSS rating of 9.8 out of 10, could be used
Gaming

Overwatch 2 requires a mobile number to play

Unlike its predecessor, Overwatch 2 will be free-to-play, which of course increases the risk of cheating and people creating accounts on the fly to be able to act like fools. However, Activision is ready with a set of solutions that they call the Defense Matrix , and part of this is connected to whether the fans have mobiles or not. In order to play the game, you have to connect a mobile phone number to your Battle.net account, and this applies regardless of the platform you play on and eve
Gaming

EA and Koei Tecmo unveil Monster Hunter-like Wild Hearts

A few days ago , EA and Koei Tecmo confirmed plans to show the first trailer for Wild Hearts today. Said and done. Now "a new kind of hunter game" has been revealed and there is no doubt that it will have tons of things in common with Monster Hunter. February 17 will be a release for Playstation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. It takes place in a kind of fantasy feudal Japan where you hunt Kemono beasts. The journey goes through a colorful world where you can either go hunting on your own or wit
Gaming

BHVR ignoring the major problem of hackers in Dead by Daylight

So, this is nothing new by now, that cheaters are a problem in Dead by Daylight. What is sad though is that it's nothing new that Behaviour ignores the problem effectively ruining the game for its player base, streamers and content creators. In fact the problem is so bad right now that big name streamers are coming out of their silence and recognizing the problem. Streamers like Otzdarva and Spookyloopz, who by the way are in the Fog Whisperer program are now opening up. In the video below (spoi
Movies & TV

Do you remember when a young Jeremy Renner played Jeffrey Dahmer?

Long before "Avengers" he made one of the film's first portraits of the infamous serial killer. The currently streaming miniseries "Dahmer - Monster: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer" has made the whole world re-discover and horrify one of America's worst serial killers. Eva Peters is well deserved for his role, but he was not the first to take on the complex and unpleasant character.   Already in 2002 came the first feature film about Jeff Dahmer. Then you could see a relatively unknown 30-
Gaming

CD Project Red celebrates its 20th anniversary

July 1st this year, the Polish company CD Project Red celebrated 20 years as a company. A few days ago, the company released an 18-minute video on the history behind everything. In the video, Adam Badoski, Piotr Nielubowicz and Marcin Ivinski talk about the company's journey from the first Witcher to today. There is also a website dedicated to the celebration where you can read about the games and the company's history. They also encourage readers to share screenshots, selfies and more to p
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17-year-old arrested for Grand Theft Auto leak

It has been called one of the biggest leaks ever in the gaming world. Now a 17-year-old boy from London has been arrested. A police source tells The Desk that the boy was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the server breach of Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive, the companies behind "Grand Theft Auto",  The Desk reports. On September 18, 90 clips of what were said to be gameplay sequences from the upcoming "Grand Theft Auto" game were posted online. "Hey, here are 90
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A Plague Tale: Requiem is 15-18 hours long

A Plague Tale: Innocence was a pretty big adventure that took most players 10-12 hours to run through, but the sequel seems to be a completely different beast. A Plague Tale: Requiem not only looks absolutely state-of-the-art and appears to have much deeper gameplay - it's also 50% longer. This is revealed by Lead level designer Kevin Pinson from Asobo Studio in an interview with Play Magazine (issue 19), where he tells us that the title will take 15-18 hours to play through. And he adds th
Tech

Samsung will update these 11 phones to Android 13 this fall

ONEPLUS was perhaps a little surprisingly the first manufacturer besides Google to update a phone to Android 13. Several manufacturers are expected to ship their Android 13-based interfaces this fall, including Samsung. According to SamMobile, Samsung will specifically update 11 phones to One UI 5 and Android 13 before the end of the year. The phones listed are the Galaxy S21 series, Galaxy S22 series, Galaxy Z Flip 3, Flip 4, and Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Fold 4. The eleventh and last phone
Gaming

Splinter Cell remake will be "updated to a modern audience"

There will be no Splinter Cell in VR, but the remake of the first game is still happening. They have already said that the remake will be built from the ground up, and now it also seems that the plot will be updated. In a job ad where Ubisoft is looking for a screenwriter, they write that they are compiling a team with passion and respect for the "three-focal glasses" and that this is a chance to be part of a popular series while delivering the next generation of graphics and modernized sne
Gaming

Embracer is not entirely satisfied with Saints Row's reception

Saints Row was released exactly a month ago and … probably didn't impress very many. The ratings have been relatively low - enough to cause the Embracer share to decline - and sales do not seem to have been very good either. During Embrace's annual meeting, CEO Lars Wingefors had the following to say: "Personally, I had hoped for a better reception for the game. It has been very polarizing. There are many details to address about it - on the one hand I am happy to see so many players and fa
Tech

Logitech has unveiled its portable streaming console G Cloud

Just as expected, it is a machine that does not rely on its own horsepower to run the games, but instead invests in streaming games through the cloud. Basically, it's a tablet with Android as the base, with integrated support for the streaming services Geforce Now and Xbox Game Cloud. We can probably assume that other services, such as Stadia and Amazon Luna, will also work great - as long as there is an Android app, most things should be possible. The leaked specifications also proved
Gaming

1 million plays Cyberpunk 2077 daily, claims CD Project

It's going well now, Cyberpunk 2077. The sad release (not least on the old-gen) is well documented, but in the wake of updates, the Netflix series Edgerunners and the disclosure of a expansion have rushed the number of players. In fact, CD Projects yesterday tweeted that the game was visited by 1 million players each day this week. CD Project thanks for the support of all "Chooms". The future looks bright, with the expansion Phantom Liberty on the horizon. While it will be the only expansio
Tech

Nvidia has announced the next generation of graphics cards

The next generation of graphics cards have been unveiled, which will initially consist of three cards: RTX 4090 24 GB ($1599), RTX 4080 16 GB ($1199) and RTX 4080 12 GB ($899). However, the prices are suggested retail prices, and as we've learned in recent years, it's not impossible for them to skyrocket when the cards are actually released, depending on availability and how eager enthusiasts are to snap them up. The card is powered by the new Ada Lovelace architecture, which should provide
Gaming

Electronic Arts Motive Studio is working on a new "Iron Man" game

Electronic Arts is working on a brand new "Iron Man" game that will delve into the character of Tony Stark. Electronic Arts Motive Studio announces that a new "Iron Man" game is in the works. The game will be a third-person action adventure and is being developed in collaboration with Marvel Games. The game's development team is led by executive producer Olivier Proulx, who previously worked on Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" at Canadian game studio Eidos Montreal. This is the sta
Movies & TV

Bill Skarsgard finished filming "The Crow"

Last week, the filming of Rupert Sanders' "The Crow" remake was completed in Prague. After more than three months of intensive work. Bill Skarsgard stars as the revived and vengeful musician Eric Draven in the new adaptation of James O'Barr's graphic novel. "I just finished the film a week ago. It has been an incredibly ambitious project. And far. I was in Prague for 3.5 months and worked the whole time. Now I'm trying to digest it a bit. When you are so involved in something, you become qu
Gaming

Vince Zampella: Battlefield 2042 "deviated too much from what BF is"

Battlefield 2042 was not quite what the players wanted, mainly because it differed quite significantly from previous parts of the series. Anyone who agrees with this is welcome Battlefield boss Vince Zampella In an interview with Barrons (via VGC ), he says: "I think they strayed a little too far from what Battlefield is. They tried to do a couple of things that were maybe ambitious: grow the number of players etc. I don't think they put enough time into further developing what makes it fun
Gaming

Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks players for 'second chance'

The Polish studio has gone out of its way to patch up its action RPG, and it seems to have paid off. Earlier today we wrote about the number of players rushing on Steam. Paweł Sasko does not take this lightly, saying that it is "a second chance" . In short, but sometimes a sobbing emoji is worth a thousand words. Although there will be an expansion in 2023 – Phantom Liberty – many had expected a second one later. No such plans exist, but CD Projekt promises "full commitment" to the brand be
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