Fortnite Winterfest, TMNT, PS5 Pro, and MORE!

ASMR gaming news girl readings everyone and welcome to ASMR gaming news please hit that like button sit back relax and let’s begin so we have a lot of really interesting video game news this week so let’s just jump right in with the new fortnite uh news so Winterfest is

Officially out uh just came out in fortnite Winterfest for those that don’t know is the kind of Christmas season update that fortnite does every year uh but this year is different so usually there is a special cabin you can visit within fortnite where you can claim presents and things and it’s super

Comfy and relaxing I actually really looked forward to it uh this year though fortnite decided again against doing that so there is no cabin in the locker or fortnite Lobby that you can access anymore sadly uh but there are still presents and things that you can claim but you

Have to do challenges or quests in order to unlock those presents so it seems like fortnite tried to do a few more things to make it a little bit more difficult for people to just log on to fortnite go to the cabin get a gift and leave

So it’s understandable but I really miss the old way so a lot of people were a little bit disappointed but fortnite added a bunch of new things to the map uh the um like snowball grenade launcher is back uh the items where basically you can hide or throw snow snowmen around like there’s

These uh I forget the ability name but basically uh you can instantly create a Snowman and then you can quickly hide in one of the Snowman that you create so it’s kind of cool uh hide quickly if you you know need to camp and you’re only in

An area with a lot of snow uh there’s a lot of like fun strategies and things people do with those you know they’ll put like five different like snowmen uh next to each other and then you know they’ll like make like a cool challenge video to see if anybody notices or

Pickaxes them to see if there’s somebody there uh a lot of big YouTube creators have always used these so glad that those are back and there’s a bunch of other kind of snow Christmas items on the map uh there are presents of course that you can open up that have really good loot

Inside of them so it’s a Christmas present if you find them on the fortnite map be sure to use them and uh yeah that’s that’s all that was included in the update but they also changed some things on the map uh there’s a lot of Christmas decorations

Everywhere and the floating island is no longer a floating island but it’s the floating crackshot cabin that was always used as the Winterfest cabin previously in fortnite so in a way we’re still getting to visit you know a Christmas cabin it’s only in the game though so uh

That’s a cool kind of small change uh a addtionally after doing all of this uh fortnite has been absolutely winning right now like destroying the competition uh with the rocket racing the Lego fortnite and the Jam Festival music modes within fortnite fortnite is doing insanely well I read that no other

Game this month has the amount of like users or players online uh compared to fortnite so fortnite is really really doing well um it seems like a lot of people that like Minecraft that like Roblox that like Lego are playing the Lego fortnite mode uh then you have a

Lot of people that are into like racing and Rocket League playing rocket racing and then you have people that love Guitar Hero and you know rock band style games and they’re playing the Jam Festival rhythm game and of course the regular fortnite fans are either playing Crea creative or they’re playing just

Plain old simple Battle Royale which is what I’ve been doing as well but uh yeah fortnite has been doing insanely well this week and we just got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles released on the item shop as well uh they came out yesterday and everybody was really

Excited for these skins to come out uh people have been waiting for the Ninja Turtles to come out in fortnite for a very long time there have been rumors about this for years like I remember on the chapter 2 map there were people saying oh yeah they’re they’re

Definitely going to make Ninja Turtle skins they have to they will but that never happened and there were leaks and things but finally finally it happened so uh people are really really excited with the kind of collab that they’re doing right now with the Ninja Turtles uh so hopefully we get more characters

From the ninja turtles in the future as well I see a lot of people saying they won Casey Jones and Shredder which would be amazing if that happens um so yeah very very excited about everything that’s happening in fortnite now let’s get to the regular

Video game news over here so there is a rumor that a new PlayStation 5 a PlayStation 5 Pro is going to launch in September 2024 so if you don’t have a PS5 right now you know what maybe it’s good to wait maybe wait a few months and buy this new

Version that comes out in September uh it’s just a rumor right now but Sony did do the exact same thing back on the PlayStation 4 uh they released the PS4 then they put out the PS4 slim and then they released the PS4 Pro which was like

An enhanced version of the PS4 with a lot more you know power and everybody really wanted that one so it seems like Sony’s doing the same thing with the PS5 you know we we got the regular PS5 which is the one I have they made the PS5 slim

Recently and now it seems like next year they’re making the PS5 Pro so it it’s going to have some special Tech uh as far as we know it’s going to have like super high advanced upscaling technology so games that are like 1080p it’s going to be able to like upscale them possibly

To 4K or even 8K resolution so uh yeah Graphics are going to look insane on this PS5 Pro of course if you have a PS5 slim the same games will run on PS5 and PS5 Pro uh it’s just that the PS5 Pro will probably run those games a little bit

Better so you might get a faster frame frame rate you know for fortnite maybe higher FPS things like that and better graphics of course uh and then we also got a rumor from Microsoft so it seems like the next Xbox might launch in 2027 or a little bit before then so uh

Some internal documents and things have been leaking and there’s rumors people talk to each other at Microsoft and some news came came out that the next Xbox like after you know the Xbox series X the Next Generation for Xbox might be launching in 2027 or a little bit before

2027 so maybe like you know November 2026 like right at the end of the year uh we don’t know but that’s what the rumor is suggesting and honestly kind of makes sense you know we’re basically at 2024 right now uh 2024 2025 I would say that the next generation of consoles will definitely

Happen around 2026 2027 so looks like we might be getting a PlayStation uh 6 and a new Xbox somewhere in 2027 2026 so that’s what the rumors are suggesting uh we got some news about the Elden ring Shadows of the her tree expansion so it looks a lot like the

Expansion for Elden ring is going to launch somewhere in early 2024 uh there’s a bunch of people saying that it’s going to happen in February just because of some posts and things that have been happening but there’s no official confirmation all we know is the expansion will definitely come out in

2024 probably sometime in the spring or early early February March you know somewhere around there possibly so hopefully they give us a release date uh this is going to be the first kind of big expansion for elen ring so people are very very excited for this um let’s see uh Minecraft added 4K

Resolution support on the Xbox series X and S so uh yeah there’s a now to get Minecraft at 4k on your Xbox that update just came out so you know what I’ll definitely have to check it out I have an Xbox series X and I do play Minecraft

On it sometimes so it would be kind of awesome to just see how the 4K resolution mode looks I bet 4K Minecraft looks really nice so I’ll have to check that out uh let’s see what else do we got here let’s see let’s see um trying to get

Through all the big important news you know uh oh this is bad okay so we have some bad news this week for Insomniac games uh Insomniac is working on a Marvel Wolverine game and some hackers hacked into their server got a bunch of information and they are holding it for

Ransom so a bunch of hackers basically you know hacked into insomniac’s game server they stole information about their Marvel’s Wolverine game and they stole employee information and they are holding it and basically saying like hey give us this amount of money or we’re going to release this stuff online so definitely

Not cool really feel bad for Insomniac you know uh having your stuff hack like that must be terrible so yeah uh that’s in the news this week hopefully they you know manage to recover all their stolen stuff and hopefully Marvel’s Wolverine and the employees at the company aren’t

Really affected too much by all this uh let’s see I’m I’m trying to go through like all the big and important news so apologies if I’m skipping some stuff here um let’s see oh this is also sad E3 has been officially permanently cancelled forever so wow this one hits hard uh wow

Uh for those that don’t know every single year for like I want to say like over 30 years or something crazy like that E3 has been taking place and it’s like this huge kind of once a year event where every single video game company used to go to you know you’d have like

Sony Xbox Nintendo Ubisoft um Activision EA like all the big game companies would go there and they would announce and show off their games uh journalists and and game fans got to try out these games and it was just like a huge kind of celebration of video games that would happen every year

Well when the pandemic hit that caused the event not to take place that year and then the year after that people still didn’t you know want to attend an event so was cancelled the next year and then the year after that there were scheduling problems a lot of companies

Pulled out so it didn’t happen that year and well now we’re here in 2023 and at the end of the year they basically announced that they are officially shutting down and E3 will no longer happen so wow that is crazy it’s an end of an era basically uh I’m actually sad that I

Never got to go uh I always wanted to go but uh I guess I’ll never get to go to E3 so a little bit disappointed about that if I’m going to be honest it would have been cool you know to get to try video games like really early uh they would always showcase

Games like months before they came out there like oh you want to play Marvel Spider-Man before it comes out you got to go to E3 you know stuff like that so yeah kind of kind of some sad news this week uh let’s see o this one also is we we we’re

Getting all the sad news at the end of the year that’s kind of sad uh the developers uh free radical has shut down and has basically let go all of its staff uh for those that don’t know free radical is developer they’ve been involved with so many games over the

Years uh one of their most famous series is the time Splitters series uh this series is like a crazy series of Shooters with humor and people really like this series and it had like Co-op and stuff it was pretty good it was back on like the

PS2 uh and PS3 if I remember I think there was like an Xbox 361 as well but yeah really sad that that happened to these developers uh and that’s kind of it that’s kind of it for all the big video game news for this week so yeah let me

Know what yall think of all the news this week apologies for the sad news but you know we get some good news we get some sad news um let me see if I can find something funny um okay this is kind of funny um the voice actor for

Kratos Kratos uh for those that don’t know is the main character in the God of War video game series so the voice actor for Kratos at the Video Game Awards uh he went on stage and was talking to the crowd you know like a presenter usually does and he made some jokes basically

Saying that his speech was going to be longer or he said something like his speech was longer than the new Call of Duty this year or something like that and the speech was really short so a lot of people immediately took that as like always kind of roasting Call of Duty uh

Having a really short campaign this year and uh after he said this a lot of people got mad with him uh mostly Call of Duty fans and some of the Developers for Call of Duty were kind of calling him out saying that wasn’t cool but everything seems to be fine now you know

Everybody kind of apologized and it wasn’t a big deal uh most ly he was just poking fun at Activision you know for rushing Call of Duty this year and not really making fun of Any of of the developers that worked really really hard on the game so uh yeah it was just

Kind of a crazy piece of you know uh news that came out this week that a lot of people were talking about it was honestly kind of funny watching it uh like yeah wow it was uh it was entertaining so um yeah that’s about it let’s as far as all

The video game news goes for the week so thank you all for listening for watching please be sure to like comment share and subscribe and I’ll see you all next time so long and farewell