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EA is being fined by the Netherlands Gambling Authority for $10 million euros over there use of loot boxes and ultimate team packs in FIFA. EA is going to try and fight this further in the courts but so far things haven’t been going their way. In other news; Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine have been delayed, Todd Howard tips his hand to say Elder Scrolls 6 might not be an Xbox console exclusive, Activision Blizzard is looking to hire 2000 people, and supposedly Best Buy will have PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles in stock for black friday. Stick around to catch all the upcoming releases next week and a 5-second review of Watch Dogs Legion.
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[Games Industry dot biz] EA fined €10m over loot boxes as Dutch court sides with gambling authority https://bit.ly/2TErtcM
[VG 247] Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine delayed to first-half of 2021 https://bit.ly/3mCSU36
[Games Industry dot biz] Todd Howard: “The next generation is about access” https://bit.ly/37UtPN3
[Best Buy] 2020 Black Friday newspaper ad https://bit.ly/2TCH6l3
[Twitter] @BobbyKotick https://bit.ly/37TOOzF
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Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of the United States Christmas shopping season since 1952.
FIFA is a non-profit organization which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, fútsal and beach soccer. It is the highest governing body of football.
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country primarily located in Western Europe and partly in the Caribbean, forming the largest constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. In the Caribbean, it consists of three special municipalities: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The country’s official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamentu as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages (spoken in the east and southeast respectively), while Sinte Romani and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is an upcoming home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced in 2019 as the successor to the PlayStation 4, it is scheduled to launch on November 12, 2020 in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, and on November 19, 2020 for the rest of the world.
The platform is anticipated to launch in two varieties, as a base PlayStation 5 system incorporating an Ultra HD Blu-ray compatible optical disc drive for retail game support alongside digital distribution via the PlayStation Store, and a lower-cost Digital variant lacking the disc drive while retaining digital download support.
The PlayStation 5 features a customized solid state drive designed for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in graphical performance. The hardware also features a custom AMD GPU capable of ray tracing, support for 4K resolution displays and high framerates, new audio hardware for real-time 3D audio effects, and backward compatibility with most PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games.
Xbox Series X and Series S are upcoming home video game consoles developed by Microsoft. They are both scheduled to be released on November 10, 2020 as the fourth generation of the Xbox console family, succeeding Xbox One.
Rumors regarding the consoles first emerged in early-2019, with the line as a whole codenamed “Scarlett”, and consisting of high-end and low-end models codenamed “Anaconda” and “Lockhart” respectively.
The high-end model was first teased during E3 2019 under the title “Project Scarlett”, while its name and design as Xbox Series X was unveiled during The Game Awards later in December. In September 2020, Microsoft unveiled the low-end model as Xbox Series S.
