Month: December 2020

Crash Bandicoot’s unlikely career renaissance continues unabated. The former mascot’s Twitter account posted an amusing video of Crash and his sister Coco playing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. This is presumably a reference to the fact that Uncharted developer Naughty Dog first became a household name thanks to the Crash series.

While it’s nice to see PlayStation mascots enjoying each other’s games, this animation is seeded with unfortunate implications regarding the proximity of these game worlds and their canonicity. Is Nathan Drake simply a fictional video game star in the world of Crash Bandicoot? An Easter Egg in Uncharted 4 allows you to play the original Crash Bandicoot in Nate’s house, so it would appear that the reverse is true as well.

Thus, we find ourselves in an infinite recursion situation. DeviantArt artist KempferZero illustrates the matter well.

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PixelJunk Eden 2 hasn’t received much attention since it was casually announced during a Nintendo Direct, but now the game appears closer than we realized. According to Nintendo UK, the sequel to Q-Games’ 2008 game is coming on December 10.

The release date was dropped on the Nintendo UK site. The Nintendo of America site still lists Eden 2 with a more general “Fall 2020” release date. (Technically, winter begins on December 21 in the northern hemisphere.)

When it was announced, Q-Games said you’d guide your Grimp through stages that will be generated in real-time based on your actions. This is similar to the first game, which had you swinging through stages, but those were pre-made. In fact, one of the criticisms in GameSpot’s PixelJunk Eden review was that requiring you to gather five spectra from unchanging stages made the experience repetitive.

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It’s been almost two weeks since the PlayStation 5 launched in the UK, and many Ubisoft game owners are still unable to upgrade their PS4 copies of Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to their respective PS5 versions.

The issue is only affecting those who own physical copies of either game, with the PlayStation Store failing to offer the free upgrade option when inserting a disc–despite the free upgrade path featuring prominently on the front cover of both games. Fan uproar has gradually intensified since the PS5’s launch back on November 19, with many taking their complaints to Twitter and Ubisoft’s official forums. The company has finally acknowledged the problem publicly for the first time, saying that it’s working to resolve the issue via the Ubisoft Support Twitter account.

There’s still no word on when a fix might arrive, nor is there any explanation for why this is specifically affecting Ubisoft games in the UK–though there are also reports of the same problem impacting people in Greece, Bulgaria, South Africa, and other countries.

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