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In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Sony and PlayStation have now showcased a whole series of new accessibility features coming to the highly anticipated God of War: Ragnarok. Building on the new installment’s 2018 predecessor, Sony said in a blog post that the team has now added more than 60 features and settings you can toggle to create the best possible gameplay experience for you. “Not only have we redesigned our UI to allow for more flexibility and readability, but we have also rebuilt controller remapping from the ground up and added more customization to our combat and interaction systems,” wrote Santa Monica Studio lead UX designer Mila Pavlin. “We have retained all our accessibility features from 2018’s God of War and expanded upon them to include more than 60 ways to ...

Back in April, Activision and Infinity Ward finally confirmed the long-rumored Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, building on the massive success of the Modern Warfare reboot in 2019. Around the same time, the company also revealed that a new Warzone experience will be coming, but since then, little information regarding both MW2 and Warzone 2 has been released — until now. According to Exputer‘s Tom Henderson, sources close to the project have said that the upcoming installment will be bringing back some of the most iconic maps in the entire franchise, reviving 2009’s Modern Warfare 2 classics such as Terminal, High Rise, Quarry and Afgan. The maps will all be expanded upon and connected together to create a much larger combat area players are now used to for Wa...

Sony will be releasing three new covers for the PlayStation 5. First announced last year, the covers will be offered in five colorways inspired by the galaxy and will match its DualSense wireless controllers. The company began selling its Midnight Black and Cosmic Red covers following the announcement in December. Now, Sony has returned with the three other colorways, releasing PS5 console covers in Nova Pink, Starlight Blue and Galactic Purple. The plates are currently available for pre-order in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg and will begin shipping out next month. Availability in additional countries will follow on June 17. To change out PS5 console covers, Sony instructed users to “simply remove your original white PS5 console cov...

Almost two years after its massively successful launch, Mediatonic‘s Fall Guys is now going free-to-play. Aside from PlayStation platforms and PC, the game will also be launching for both the Xbox family of consoles as well as the Nintendo Switch, and all four platforms will offer the game completely free of charge. However, those on PC will no longer be able to download the game via Steam, so you’ll have to transition over to the Epic Games Store. Of course, all platforms will also support cross-play, and you’ll be able to link up with your friends through the Epic Games account as well. As for those who did purchase the game originally, Mediatonic will be gifting everyone a Legacy Pack as a thank you, which comes with a special nickname, nameplate, three additional costumes and acce...

Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption publisher Take-Two Interactive is now planning on releasing eight more remasters. Revealed during a recent financial report, the video game company said that it intends to remaster another eight more of its classic games and release them by 2025, calling them “new iterations of previously released titles.” While it didn’t mention any franchise specifically, Take-Two will have plenty of options from Rockstar Games, including more GTA titles, a possible remake of the original Red Dead Redemption, or even Bully, a game that has garnered a cult following over the years with many fans asking for a sequel. Despite the good news, fans might also be skeptical about Take-Two’s plans. Earlier last year, the company released a remaster of t...

Wata Games and Heritage Auctions co-founder Jim Halperin has now become the focus of a class-action lawsuit claiming that they’ve manipulated the retro games market for personal gain. The filing was made in California by clients that previously employed Wata for its grading services and alleges that Wata has been artificially inflating the prices of retro video games and failing to disclose that Halperin also sits on its board of directors. The company is now accused of “engaging in affirmative acts to manipulate the retro video game market, engaging in unfair business practices, engaging in false advertising, making false statements about the turnaround times for grading services and failing to disclose material delays to customers.” At the core of the allegations is Wata’s practice of ch...

Ahead of launching its PlayStation Plus subscription service, Sony has detailed some of the games that will be included in the catalog. Spanning hundreds of titles, the list is made up of games coming out of PlayStation Studios and those from third-party partners. From its own studios, PlayStation is offering titles such as Demon’s Souls, Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut and God of War. It also has several installments from a few franchises, including Spider-Man, Uncharted, The Last of Us and more. Alongside those games, players can try out Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Batman: Arkham Knight, NBA 2K22, Resident Evil and more from the service’s third-party studio partners. The service is broken down into three different benefit plans: PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra and Premium. Those who op...

Google has unexpectedly launched a web-based pinball game. An official statement from the tech giant mentioned that the game is written in their programming tools Flutter and Firebase, and uses the Flame game engine to run. The game is available for free on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows and is said to help demonstrate the practicality of Flutter and Firebase. Offering straightforward gameplay, players start by picking a character and then gaining access to the pinball game that gamers are used to and love. Check out the pinball game here. Google has also made the code available for those interested in developing using their platform. In other gaming news, Netflix is entering gaming by adding two Stranger Things title. Read Full Article