Xbox Live Doubles in Price, Pokémon ‘Save Edit’ Bans

Resident Evil Village showcase round-up

Capcom’s Resident Evil Village showcase was streamed live yesterday, and there’s a PlayStation 5 demo live right now.

In a surprise twist, the world-premiere of Resident Evil Village gameplay footage was not the most exciting thing about the stream.

The so-called Maiden demo is available for PlayStation 5 owners right now, and pre-orders for both standard and digital editions have opened. Capcom also introduced a free multiplayer game called Resident Evil Re:Verse which will be included with Resident Evil Village.

• Resident Evil Showcase – January 2021
• Resident Evil Village – 3rd Trailer
• Resident Evil Re:Verse – Teaser Trailer

Highlights:

• Launches for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on May 7th
• Maiden demo available for PlayStation 5 now
  • Stand-alone experience with no combat and its own protagonist
  • Another demo will be available for all platforms later this spring
• Ethan Winters from Resident Evil VII returns
• Various fan favourite features reintroduced
  • Merchant sells items and recipes as well as customizing weapons
  • Craft “invaluable consumables needed to survive”
  • Inventory management “that may be familiar to series fans”
• Ethan will be stalked by fast-moving enemies
• The tall, imposing woman is Lady Dimitrescu, who has three mysterious daughters
• The daughters can “transform into swarms of insects”
• You’ll need to judge when to “attack, guard or flee”
• Ethan gets a new kick move to ‘buy him distance’
• Resident Evil Re:Verse is a new multiplayer experience
  • Available for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and compatible with next-gen consoles
  • Features “striking comic-style visuals”
  • Four to six-player deathmatch battles in iconic locations
  • Fan-favourite roster with “unique skillsets to master”
  • Killed players respawn as a bioweapon
  • Expect more details closer to launch

Which Rare game supported input from two Nintendo 64 controllers?

a) Goldeneye
b) Conker’s Bad Fur Day
c) Banjo Kazooie
d) Diddy Kong Racing

The answer will be revealed at the bottom of today's issue. Join up with our community on Twitter and Facebook to discuss what the answer could be.

All your endings are belong to us

Zero Wing is most famous for its hilariously terrible translation, which became an online phenomenon in the early 2000s and spawned the infamous All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme.

Aside from the translation taking rather excessive liberties with the English language, some of the dialogue is actually missing from the translation. Zero Wing also had 35 different endings, but they were all exclusive to the Japanese version.

The international version had only one ending, probably because the poor localization team had no chance to properly translate all the Japanese pop culture references in the original endings.

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Microsoft increase Xbox Live Gold prices

Microsoft is finally revising the pricing for the Xbox Live Gold subscription service, no less than 18 years after the service launched.

The price change won't affect you if you have an active 6 or 12 month subscription since you already have an agreement in place, but you will be subject to the new rates when you renew your subscription.

• 1 month of Xbox Live Gold will cost $10.99, increasing by $1
• 3 months of Xbox Live Gold will cost $29.99, increasing by $5

Pricing review: “Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community; we’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets,” according to the Xbox Blog.

Not immediate: Prices won’t be increased “until at least 45 days after” you are notified by Microsoft for those affected. If you convert a Gold membership to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, all your remaining Xbox Live Gold time will be transferred with no additional costs incurred.

Save game tamperers kicked off Pokémon online platforms in wave of bans

The Pokémon Company has banned players found editing save game files for Pokémon Sword & Shield and Pokémon Home.

Since Sword & Shield is partly an online game and ties into the Pokémon Home platform where players can trade, The Pokémon Company is trying to strongly discourage players from tampering with their data.

Home-less Trainers: What does a ban entail? You will lose access to Pokémon Home and will no longer be able to use any of Sword & Shield’s online trading service. Bans can be temporary or permanent, depending on how extensive the save game editing is and you will not be eligible for a refund for your subscription if you are banned from Pokémon Home.

• Sea of Thieves Season One raises anchor on January 28th as the new seasonal content cycle begins for the sea faring MMO
• T-800 and Sarah Connor from Terminator appear in Fortnite complete with new outfit variants and weapons to collect
• Get Galactic Civilizations III for free on Epic Game Store until January 28th
• Mass Effect 2’s biotic Jack was originally pansexual but BioWare decided to change it after a major media firestorm
• You can refund Cyberpunk 2077 without returning the game as CD Projekt RED won't ask you to return the game

Which Rare game supported input from two Nintendo 64 controllers?

ANSWER: Goldeneye!

Rare used to be a hugely ambitious developer, and they tried all kinds of wacky things in their Nintendo 64 games. For example, GoldenEye 007 can be played in a sort of proto-dual-analogue mode by connecting two controllers and adjusting the control scheme in the settings menu – 4 years head of Halo.

There weren't a lot of games featuring dual-analogue input on Nintendo 64 apart from Rare's first-person shooters, but enough for YouTube channel Stop Skeletons From Fighting to make a video rounding up all the games supporting it.

Today's issue of DailyBits was written by Gavin Herman, Erlend Grefsrud, Simon Priest, and Jamie Davey.