VERACITY IN GAMING
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[Update: outage resolved] Nintendo Switch network services were down due to Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. The AWS outage affected other services and games including Valorant, Dead by Daylight, and PUBG as well.
Pokémon BDSP players are holding random online battles with a specific ruleset through a unified password (6350 4649). Pokémon BDSP doesn’t have official random online matchmaking.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Version 13.0.1 nerfs Min Min & Pyra/ Mythra, buffs 20 fighters including Piranha Plant, Inkling, Bowser Jr, and Meta Knight. This is the final fighter adjustments for Smash Ultimate.
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin new update went live. It overhauls the “Sakuna the Efflorescent” tower-defense minigame, adds a bunch of dishes, and makes various adjustments and bug fixes.
Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam to begin developing a third person action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The project begins with an initial investment of roughly 30 million dollars.
A VTuber by the name of ootamato (大田マト) has announced that their VR sandbox game Primitier is entering Early Access on Steam on December 2.
BLAZBLUE ALTERNATIVE DARKWAR (BBDW) to end service in Jan. 2022, less than a year after launch. BLAZBLUE ALTERNATIVE DARKWAR launched in February of this year for iOS/Android as a free-to-play app (available only in Japan).
Farming Simulator 22 is off to a great start with over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam. Farming Simulator 22 is the first PC title in the series in three years.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update version 13.0.1 will include the “final fighter adjustments,” according to Nintendo of Europe. Version 13.0.1 is coming soon.
NEO: The World Ends with You sales underperformed Square Enix’s expectations, although it was well received by players. NEO: The World Ends with You was released for PS4/Nintendo Switch in July of this year.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid shoot ’em up PS4/Switch game to release on March 24 in Japan. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Burst Forth!! Choro-gon☆Breath is a videogame adaptation of the popular manga/anime series.
An arrangement of the classic Kirby song "Meta Knight's Revenge" gets a nomination at the 2022 Grammys. It was performed by The 8-Bit Big Band and features chiptune artist Button Masher.