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hey guys this is linda l with gamers nexus and this is your weekly gaming news wrap-up star citizen's alpha 2 point 0 launched on the persistent universe this week available only to an initial round of 1000 backers the baggers were selected by cloud imperium games based upon merits as testers to include number and severity of bugs reported up to this point the CI g team thinks that this will ensure better bug resolution before rolling out to point 0 to the larger star citizen crowd star citizen 2 point 0 will eventually introduced functional respawn increased player count per instance zero gravity spacesuit flight call DV a first person shooter mode 38 playable missions and more large world technology is the biggest biggest item of note for star citizen 2 point 0 which creates a playable area of 1 million kilometers squared and 200,000 kilometers high one of the biggest playable game worlds known in competition with elite dangerous mark hamill recently discussed his experience working with the star citizen team and that discussion can be found on the website AC syndicate has launched and in this Assassin's Creed title players assume the roles of Jacob and Evie Frye who have found themselves leading the revolution against the Templars Evie plays more like a stealthy character while Jacob is a bit more brutal indirect set in London during the time when Charles Dickens Florence Nightingale and other known people are alive to help in our assassinations the game looks and feels like an assassin's creed game which does mean a lot of shading and lighting effects and high detail and face character models full GPU benchmark is on the site already star wars battlefront is jokingly referred to as a rescan of battlefield both made by dice on the Frostbite engine cattle front scale is extremely well across GPUs and CPUs and offer some of the best graphics ship to this year largely thanks to his dedication to lighting techniques and shading effects like ambient occlusion to help smooth model edges Blizzard is pushing out another beta weekend for its team shooter FPS overwatch the beta is playable through the weekend and distributed directly to battle.net accounts so there's no application page or email submission owners of battle.net accounts can log in to check if the beta has been applied to their account over what sticks to the blizzard semi cartoony aesthetic and borrow some character concepts from MOBAs Team Fortress 2 and other popular shooters