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Image: 2K / Sega / Capcom / Ubisoft / Kotaku / Deagreez (Getty Images)We still have over three months left in 2024, but looking ahead to next year has me a little nervous. The early months of 2025 are already filling up with a ton of big RPGs and long-ass games that will be hard to keep up on. And Ubisoft’s recent delay of the next Assassin’s Creed has only made things worse! The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Assassin’s Creed MirageWe started this year off with an avalanche of good and big games. As I mentioned back…

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Image: Sucker Punch ProductionsAs the name suggests, the sequel takes place in the areas surrounding Mount Yōtei, a mountain located on the island of Ezo or what’s known today as Hokkaido. The first words spoken in the trailer are “We are beyond the edge of Japan,” and this is true, as this northern island was not part of the country until the 1800s, when it was colonized and renamed. So the game not only takes place centuries after the original game, but it’s also pretty distanced from it in terms of geography. (Tsushima took place in a fictionalized version of…

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PayPal is set to allow U.S. merchants to purchase, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly through their PayPal business accounts. PayPal announced this move as part of its strategy to increase cryptocurrency’s role in everyday transactions for millions of businesses in the U.S. At launch, this service will not be available for businesses in New York. Since 2020, PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo have allowed consumers to buy, sell, and hold crypto like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).  Now, the company is extending these capabilities to business account holders, reflecting increased demand from merchants who want the same access to digital…

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The very slick Persona 3 Reload’s DLC, Episode Aigis: The Answer, came out this month. If you’ve yet to jump in to the game’s epilogue, let’s run through everything you’ll need to know before you start.Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star TrekPlaying The DLC Requires The Expansion PassThe Persona 3 Reload: Expansion Pass, which costs $35, is required to play The Answer, which is unfortunate news for those who purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate versions, hoping to get the entire experience. It has caused no small amount of controversy and Steam review bombing.A silver lining on…

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During TwitchCon 2024’s opening ceremony, the streaming service announced upcoming changes and advancements to its ban policy—namely that it would be making it more clear what constitutes a violation of the platform’s terms of service. According to Twitch, these changes “seek to improve clarity about our enforcements and reduce the risk that streamers lose their livelihood for low severity infractions.” But that doesn’t mean that intentional, repeat offenders will be able to weasel their way back onto the platform, as the company “will continue to issue suspensions, including indefinite suspensions for high severity infractions.”Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On…

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So it was fortuitous timing for Trump that his campaign scheduled a stop, later in the week, at the Bitcoin-friendly New York City bar, PubKey. According to the bar’s official X account, Trump bought 50 smash burgers and Diet Cokes for people in attendance, at a total cost of $998.77 including tax and tip, and then paid for it all in bitcoin. Fox News posted a video of the entire scene, leading a sharp-eyed reporter from CryptoSlate to quickly point out that Trump’s role mainly consisted of standing by at the counter while handlers actually performed the transaction, passing smartphones…

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Screenshot: Ubisoft / KotakuToday, Ubisoft announced that the recently delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be arriving on Steam on day one when it finally launches in February 2025 and confirmed that future Ubisoft games will do the same, ending a years-long strategy of keeping its biggest games off Steam for months or longer after launch. Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star TrekUbisoft never formally laid out a plan to delay every game it published from releasing on Steam, the most popular PC storefront. But in 2019 the publisher called Steam’s model “unrealistic” and chose not to…

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