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🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, PCAC Black Flag Resynced: How to get Diving Bell
!(https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/diving-bell-black-flag-resynced.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp) One of the major changes(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-all-the-major-differences) between Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and the 2013 original is the fact that Edward Kenway can dive anywhere. While deep diving expeditions were previously limited to specific shipwreck sites on your map, Resynced now allows Edward to explore the dark depths of the ocean to his heart's content, as long as you have the Diving Bell. Getting the Diving Bell isn't difficult, but it does take a few hours of playing Resynced. If you've been itching for a chance to explore the sea as soon as possible, this guide explains how to get the Diving Bell in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and how to use it to start swimming for lost treasures in the ocean. Read more(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ac-black-flag-resynced-how-to-get-diving-bell)
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, PCAssassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced: Best settings for PC performance
!(https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-01.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp) This rare hardware-y appearance in Guides Town comes courtesy of a certain remade plunder 'em up, in which I've spent... yeesh, nearly six hours poking around the graphics options in search of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced best settings for PC. In many games, this kind of thing is a doddle, as a lot of individual settings don't affect the performance of modern graphics cards(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-graphics-card) and CPUs(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-cpu-for-gaming) either way – meaning you can keep a bunch of the best-looking settings, while still claiming a tasty framerate boost with just a handful of tactical lowerings. And, in all likelihood, some upscaling. Black Flag Resynced(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced), however, actually does run faster (even if by small margins) when you drop almost any of its 20-plus individual settings, presenting a trickier choice of what to tone down and what to crank up. Still, after much benchmarking – and verifying with normal play - I think I've cracked it. There's a combination of Medium, High, and Ultra High settings that tidily preserve Resynced's windswept good looks, while bumping up performance over the more, some might say needlessly, demanding presets. Read more(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-best-settings-for-pc-performance)
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, PCEchoes of Aincrad release date and launch times
It's almost time for another Sword Art Online RPG.
🎮 PlayStation, Xbox, Multi-platformYour Loyalty To Sony Or Xbox Means Nothing, Analyst Says
In response to Sony announcing that it will stop producing physical game discs for PlayStation starting in 2028(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-tries-to-change-the-subject-after-killing-playstation-discs/), a lot of people have had a lot of things to say. One of those voices is Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, who offered a refreshing, if not brutal, reminder that your loyalty and love of PlayStation--or any other game console or franchise--means nothing to the corporate overlords controlling them. It's all about money, and it always has been. "You can love your preferred video game ecosystem, franchise, or whatever all you want. You can think your years of customer loyalty should/will be reciprocated. But these businesses don't love you back. Same with your job, fwiw. You're a number on a spreadsheet," he said(https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mq5emsdzqs2c). Piscatella also pointed out(https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mq5dcs7lcs2d) that, with forecasts for the PS6 and Project Helix to cost $1,000 or more (if they are ever released), console manufacturers like Sony and Xbox will "prioritize profitability" where they can. The thinking is that, if Sony can't convince as many people to buy a very expensive console, it can make up some of the difference by cutting out discs to improve margins. As reporter Jason Schreier breaks down in a great video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sESfDf0My84), a company like Sony would take home about $45.50 from the sale of $70 game sold at retail on a disc. With digital games, Sony keeps the full $70. It's not hard to see why Sony is shifting to an all-digital future. Third-party games will go all-digital on PlayStation in 2028 as well, and this will help those publishers make more money (by way of improved margins), and Sony will make lots more money as well through collecting its platform fees. "Digital is just too lucrative" Dr. Serkan Toto of Kantan Games said Sony is not going to reverse its decision on killing off physical game discs because the money to be made in an all-digital world is too lucrative to ignore. "I sympathize with physical media fans, but Sony will not reverse this decision," Toto told IGN(https://www.ign.com/articles/they-now-wait-for-this-storm-to-pass-ps5-owners-are-cancelling-playstation-plus-subscriptions-to-protest-sony-killing-discs-but-analysts-say-it-wont-make-any-difference). "They of course knew what the online reaction would look like, and they now wait for this storm to pass." "Sony has over 120 million active PlayStation users," he added. "Around 50 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. As a thought experiment, let's say 500,000 cancel in protest, that would be just 1% of that business gone--of course not enough to Sony to start rethinking. Digital is just too lucrative." The numbers According to IGN's accounting, a first-party PlayStation game sold on a disc at retail would see Sony keeping about 65% of the sale price, with about 30% going to the retailer; the other 5% is for the manufacturing costs. A third-party game sold on a disc at retail--say, a Call of Duty game from Activision--would provide Sony a licensing fee of about 15%. For a digital game, a first-party game sold via the PlayStation Store would net Sony all of the revenue. For third-party games, Sony would collect its 30% cut as the platform owner. That works out to about $21 for a $70 game. When all games go digital in 2028, Sony stands to make significantly more money, as you can see. What's next For what it's worth, while Sony has confirmed plans to kill discs, Microsoft has not yet announced plans, but many are theorizing the next Xbox will be all-digital as well. After all, the numbers show that the share of digital game sales only continues to grow(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstations-disc-based-game-sales-have-dropped-dramatically-in-recent-years/) at Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and third-party publishers. Sony still sells many millions of physical PlayStation game discs annually(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstations-disc-based-game-sales-have-dropped-dramatically-in-recent-years/), and there are many people who want to see physical media live on. There are also real game preservation concerns in an all-digital world. More than 225,000 people(https://www.change.org/p/don-t-kill-the-disc-tell-sony-to-keep-physical-playstation-games?recruiter=44035009&recruitedbyid=d3ab8940-6ed8-0130-66ee-3c764e049b10&utmsource=sharepetition&utmcampaign=psfcomboshareinitial&utmmedium=copylink&shareid=hFbcPxQ684) have signed an online petition calling on Sony to reinstate physical games. The obvious enthusiasm for physical media is unlikely to change the calculus for Sony for the main reason Piscatella and Toto laid out: money.
🎮 PlayStation, Multi-platformOver 220,000 People Petition Sony Not To Kill Physical PlayStation Game Discs
As Sony plans to kill all PlayStation disc production in January 2028(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028/), a Canadian retailer has done what everyone was probably thinking of doing: urging the company to change its mind with a petition that's garnered over 220,000 signatures. PNP Games is an independent retailer(https://pnpgamesonline.com/) based in Canada that started in 2005 by selling games on eBay. Since then, it opened three locations around Canada, becoming a budding business that supplies its customers with everything from home goods like art and drinkware to gaming products such as controllers and consoles. Think GameStop but make it Canadian. On July 1, just as Sony announced its plans to end disc production of all new PlayStation games in 2028(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-is-sony-killing-discs-its-all-about-profitability-and-control-expert-says/), PNP Games started a petition(https://www.change.org/p/don-t-kill-the-disc-tell-sony-to-keep-physical-playstation-games) called Don't Kill the Disc. The mission statement is simple: "Sign to tell Sony to keep disc-based games alive beyond 2028, so the next generation can own the games they play, not just rent them," per the Change.org petition page. "If we do not speak up now, the disc disappears, and the choice goes with it." Since starting the petition, over 220,000 people have signed the appeal, essentially telling Sony that physical media is important to not just gamers but entertainment enthusiasts as a whole. In a July 6 IGN interview(https://www.ign.com/articles/dont-kill-the-disc-independent-retailer-launches-petition-calling-on-playstation-to-keep-physical-games-gets-over-115000-signatures), PNP Games CEO Jade Pearce spoke about how vital physical media is for businesses and consumers. "Physical games support an entire industry that an all-digital future quietly erases: retailers, distributors, manufacturers, warehousing and logistics, the pre-owned and trade-in market, and the collector and preservation community," Pearce said. "That is thousands of jobs and countless small businesses. Ending physical media removes consumer choice, weakens local economies, and hands a few platform holders total control over how, and whether, you can access the games you buy." This sentiment is echoed in the petition's messaging as well. PNP Games noted that the death of physical media is "about jobs" as much as it is about the disc being "a real game" that you own, share, resell, trade, collect, gift, and pass down to your kids. An all-digital future puts the very idea of ownership in a precarious spot, which is what PNP Games hopes to change Sony's mind on with the Don't Kill the Disc petition. "We are not against digital," Pearce wrote on the petition's page. "We are against digital being the only option. A large and passionate community still wants a real, physical game they own outright, and Sony is about to take that choice away." GameSpot has reached out to PNP Games for comment and will update this story when we hear back. You can imagine what the comments have been on the petition. Many of the signatories said Sony's decision weighs heavily on whether they'll buy PlayStation products going forward. Others took to calling the company consumer-unfriendly, stating they feel like Sony is taking advantage of the goodwill it built over the years. And quite a few mentioned that, if we're being hurtled toward an all-digital future(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstations-disc-based-game-sales-have-dropped-dramatically-in-recent-years/), they might as well buy a PC. The internet--and the signers of the petition--have a lot to say(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-disc-death-sends-the-internet-into-its-physical-media-defense-arc/) about what Sony's doing.
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, PCAssassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: How to get the Rope Dart
!(https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/black-flag-resynced-rope-dart.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp) In the original 2013 release of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag), the Rope Dart was an awesome weapon that let Edward Kenway snag enemies from afar, pulling them towards him for a nice sword thrust to the gut. Unfortunately, it only became accessible in Sequence 11 of the campaign, meaning that players had to wait a good number of hours before they could begin weaving it into their infiltration and assassination routines. Basically, it was an endgame tool that would've come in handy earlier. Black Flag Resynced fixes this grievous error, letting players obtain the Rope Dart much, much sooner. In this guide, we'll delve into how to get the Rope Dart in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and how to use it, ensuring that you won't have to wait long before you can start stringing up rival privateers from trees. Read more(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-how-to-get-the-rope-dart)
🎮 PlayStation, Xbox, Multi-platformNew anime Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is going viral
Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is new on Crunchyroll, and the painfully accurate anime is getting praise from the FGC
🎮 PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Multi-platformBrigandine Abyss preview: A cult-classic series returns with Fire Emblem flavor
Brigandine Abyss is a new strategy RPG developed by Happinet and published by NIS America that mixes complex battles with Fire Emblem-style narrative.
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck, PC, Multi-platformThe Steam Machine fits my TV, my desk, and my life
For the last couple weeks, I've been in an extremely lucky position: I've been spending a lot of time playing games on Valve's Steam Machine. We gave the Steam Machine a 6, and I don't disagree with my colleague Sean Hollister's review. But even though I already own a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, &8230;
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, Mobile, VR, PCHaze Seas codes
!(https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/haze-seas-0.webp?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp) Haze Seas is a One Piece-inspired Roblox(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/roblox) RPG that’s packed with plenty of rare fruits to discover. As you explore a massive world, you’ll battle your way through challenging quests, improve your build, and maybe even team up with allies or crews. Read more(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/roblox-haze-seas-codes)
🎮 PlayStation, Multi-platformSony Tries To Change The Subject After Killing PlayStation Discs
To kick off July, Sony made the surprising announcement that it plans to end support of physical discs for PlayStation games(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028/) at the beginning of 2028. In the week since that news, Sony kept quiet on social media. Now, Sony has attempted to start a new conversation with gamers, but it's not going well so far. In the message seen below, Sony touts the FlexStrike wireless fight stick. Under normal circumstances, this product could have been positively received on its own terms. Unfortunately for the team behind controller, their announcement has been met by lingering anger and resentment from fans over the decision to kill physical discs. https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/2074478664805212593 Some of the responses are a little too profane to share here. There may be support for Sony, but if so, it's been largely buried on social media. Most of the messages have been angry, satirical, or both. https://twitter.com/jchip/status/2074479131077624268 https://twitter.com/balefulspook/status/2074480356460249307 https://twitter.com/SepticSauce/status/2074499339062243733 https://twitter.com/haffsabu/status/2074481096142553558 https://twitter.com/algorusty/status/2074484273671815509 https://twitter.com/SeptimoCieloPod/status/2074488491451244857 Companies like iam8bit and GameFly have already shared their disappointment(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/profoundly-disappointed-is-this-companys-response-to-sonys-decision-to-end-disc-support/) in Sony's move away from physical discs. Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott has suggested that Sony made this decision to exert greater control over pricing and distribution(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-is-sony-killing-discs-its-all-about-profitability-and-control-expert-says/). Eliminating physical discs effectively kills the used games market and makes Sony's online store the only outlet that can sell its titles outside of code-in-a-box games like Grand Theft Auto 6(https://www.gamespot.com/games/grand-theft-auto-vi/). There are also concerns that Sony's experiments with dynamic pricing(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstations-digital-only-future-makes-sonys-dynamic-pricing-harder-to-ignore/) will charge some players more than others while keeping prices artificially high. To further underscore the lack of permanence in the digital marketplace, Sony has also shared its plans to close the Play Station 3 and Vita online stores(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-to-end-playstation-store-support-on-ps3-and-vita/).
🖥 PlayStation, Xbox, PCWhat's changed in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
!(https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/edward-jumping-black-flag.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp) Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag) is considered by many to be one of the best in Ubisoft's ongoing chronicle of Assassins versus Templars, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a pirate-loving fan of this franchise who didn't enjoy swashbuckling as Edward Kenway in the original 2013 release. After many months of rumours swirling about the remaster, we've finally had a chance to sink our anchors into Black Flag Resynced(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced), and can lay out the biggest differences that immediately caught our eye. If you've been on the fence about whether to check out this update, or are simply wondering what's changed, this guide's for you. We'll outline all the major differences between Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced and the original game, starting with the fresh coat of paint that Edward is sporting and ending with some of the more notable omissions to the game's overarching plot. Read more(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-vs-original)