Today we’ll be talking about issues plaguing the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Sea of Thieves gets a new challenge event at the end of this month, details on some PS5 exclusive features for Gran Turismo 7, Nintendo has a public service announcement for new Switch owners, Rockstar wants to say sorry for GTA: Trilogy – The Definitive Edition’s awful launch with some free stuff, and Intel’s CEO reiterates what we all already know, and that is that chip shortage will continue through 2022.

 

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* https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-7-remake-on-pc-has-some-major-problems

* This is sorta a few days old as far as news but it’s something that’s catching some traction so I decided to talk about it. Final Fantasy 7 Remake just came out for the PC and it has some pretty significant problems. Adam Bankhurst over at IGN did a good write up. To start off PC Gamer reported that the Graphics Settings menu is bare and offers, as PC Gamer said, “no variable framerate option, no way to tweak anti-aliasing, toggle Sync, or control effects like motion blur.” Performance wise Digital Foundry noticed frame drops, stutters, and just general instability. Using an NVIDIA RTX 3090 and Intel 10900K at 1080p, Digital Foundry’s John Linneman said the game is “a mess” and “the smooth presentation was central to the game’s story telling and this version compromises it.” What’s even more disappointing is this game’s abysmal price point. At $70 with these performance issues, (indicating that the developer possibly just didn’t put as much care in this version), I’d have to say for the time being Final Fantasy 7 Remake for the PC is not a recommended buy right now. 

* https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sea-of-thieves-grogmanay-start-time-challenges-and-rewards/1100-6499149/

* So that pirate game that Rare developed for the Xbox that I couldn’t remember the title of is getting an event soon. Sea of Thieves’s event is called Grogmanay, and Mark Delaney with Gamespot reports it will be starting December 27th at 2AM PT/5AM ET and ends at the same time on January 11th. You will need to complete six challenges to earn all four events rewards. When you attempt to complete the six challenges you will be required to be drunk…doesn’t that sound like fun? Well the six challenges include you drinking three tankards of grog and then attempt to complete something while you’re drunk. These include A Staggering Success where you get drunk,  then you dig up a chest while drunk, Dropping the Ball where you attempt to hit an enemy ship with a cannonball, Drowned Sorrows, where you defeat Ocean Crawlers, Sick Burn where you have to defeat skeletons using firebombs, Dinner and Drinks where you have to capture a pig, chicken, and snake, and then the final challenge has you defeat a shark while still drunk. The rewards include the Bilge Rat Celebration tattoo for one complete challenge, the Bilge rat celebration makeup for two completed, Grogmanay Annual tankard, for four completed, and the celebration celebrity title for all six challenges completed.

* https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-new-gran-turismo-7-video-shows-off-the-games-ps5-exclusive-features/

* Tom Ivan with VGC reports on some of the PS5 exclusive’s that will be in Gran Turismo 7. From a developer diary just released Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi talked about some of those features. He talked about how the PS5’s DualSense controller’s feedback triggers will be utilized in regards to brakin...