After some leaks earlier this week, Bandai Namco has now officially confirmed Super Baby 2 and Gogeta SS4 from GT will be joining Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s third DLC pass. The announcement was made during Japan’s National Championship broadcast.

Super Baby 2 will be released on 15th January 2021, and Gogeta [SS4] – a fusion of Goku and Vegeta is “coming soon”. There’ll also be a 2-day early access period for each character. Below is your first official look:

What do you think of the final two fighters joining Dragon Ball FighterZ’s third DLC pass? Leave a comment down below.

A Twitter user has shared a story about Nintendo repairing a Wii U that had a missing wedding ring lodged in it.

User @sam_nama explains how their daughter put the ring in it – treating the system as if it was a piggy bank. Obviously, it didn’t work out and the console had to be sent to Nintendo for repair.

Upon return, it was discovered Nintendo had gone to the extent of cleaning the ring. How considerate! The Wii U was fixed, too. So, there you go – another funny Nintendo repair story. We’re just glad to hear the ring has been reunited with its owner.

The drama over Cyberpunk 2077 has taken an unprecedented new turn. Sony has announced that it is removing Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store, and will offer refunds for players who’ve purchased the game.

The news comes from a blog post that could win an award for most buried lede of 2020. In a decade of digitally selling games on the store, Sony has yet to take down a large, high-profile title like Cyberpunk 2077, let alone offer refunds for a specific game.

CD Projekt Red had previously said players could seek refunds for the game, but did not indicate any special arrangement with Sony or Xbox that would allow refunds to be possible.

This follows a rough, buggy release for the title that has raised concerns among CD Projekt’s investors and briefly caused company founder Marcin Iwinski’s net worth to drop briefly below $1 billion.

PlayStation users seeking refunds can begin their journey here.

Update: CD Projekt has issued a statement to investors regarding Sony’s decision. It doesn’t add much, only that the company plans to continue support for players who still own the game.

“The decision was undertaken following our discussion with [Sony Interactive Entertainment] regarding a full refund for all gamers who had purchased Cyberpunk 2077 via PlayStation Store and want a refund at this time. All copies of the game previously purchased digitally on PlayStation Store remain available for use by their respective buyers.

“Gamers can still buy physical versions of the game in retail and mail order stores. All copies, whether digital or physical, will continue to receive support and updates from [CD Projekt Red.]”

Microsoft has also since stepped up with its own special refund policy, though it currently doesn’t plan to delist the game like Sony has. On the retail front, CD Projekt recently promised to help players refund physical or digital copies bought through retail stores itself.

CD Projekt chief executive Adam Kicinski has suggested Cyberpunk 2077 won’t be pulled from the Microsoft Store.

The long-awaited RPG launched on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in pretty rough shape, with a huge number of players encountering bugs and crashes on last-gen consoles.

As a result, Sony chose to remove it from the PlayStation Store last night, while also making good on CD Projekt’s promise to refund players who aren’t satisfied with the state of the game.

The decision has left many wondering whether Cyberpunk would meet a similar fate on Xbox platforms, but in a statement handed to Reuters, Kicinski said the company isn’t in “such discussions with Microsoft at the moment” — suggesting the title has been granted at least temporary amnesty on Xbox platforms.

Earlier this week, CD Projekt management took responsibility for Cyberpunk’s rocky launch — which finally arrived after multiple delays and instances of mandatory crunch — by admitting they “underestimated the scale and complexity of the issues” affecting the console versions of the game.

“We ignored the signals about the need for additional time to refine the game on the base last-gen consoles,” said Kicinski during a conference call. “It was the wrong approach and against our business philosophy. On top of that, during the campaign, we showed the game mostly on PCs.

“This caused the loss of gamers’ trust and the reputation that we’ve been building through a big part of our lives. That’s why our first steps are solely focused on regaining those two things. We are concentrated on fixing Cyberpunk on last-gen consoles.”

The reference count is the number of times an object is referenced by a variable. If an object isn’t referenced anymore, it can be safely removed from the memory—what’s the use of an object nobody cares for anyway? This article shows you how to count the number of references to a Python object.

What’s the Current Reference Count of Python Object

Question: How to get the current reference count of a Python object?

Answer: You can get the current reference count with the sys module’s getrefcount() method. For example, to get the number of times variable x is referenced, run sys.getrefcount(x).

Here’s the general strategy for an arbitrary object:

import sys

print(sys.getrefcount(object))

The following code snippet shows an example of an object x that has a reference count of 13. After creating a new reference y to the object x, the reference count increases by one to 14.

import sys x = 42 print(sys.getrefcount(x))

# 13 y = x print(sys.getrefcount(x))

# 14

You may not have expected that the initial reference count is 13. So, why is that? Let’s see.

Why is the Reference Count Higher Than Expected?

Reason 1: Implicit Helper Variables

Python is a high-level programming language. It provides you many convenience functions and memory management. You don’t have to care about the concrete memory locations of your objects and Python automatically performs garbage collection—that is—removing unused objects from memory. To do all of this work, Python relies on its own structures. Among those, are helper variables that may refer to an object you’ve created. All of this happens under the hood, so even if you don’t refer an object in your code, Python may still have created many references to that object. That’s why the reference count can be higher than expected.

Reason 2: Temporary Reference in getrefcount()

Note that by calling the function getrefcount(x), you create an additional temporary reference to the object x. This alone increases the reference counter by one.

The post How to Get The Current Reference Count of an Object in Python? first appeared on Finxter.

The open source cross platform HTML5 game framework just got a major update, Phaser 3.50. We’ve long been a fan of Phaser, going back to Phaser 2 with our Complete Phaser Game tutorial as well as our Phaser 3 tutorial video. The Phaser 3.50 release is called the single biggest Phaser release yet.

Details from the Phaser blog:

After 13 beta releases, over 200 resolved issues, thousands of lines of new code and the culmination of over 6 months incredibly hard work, Phaser 3.50 is finally here.

It’s not hyperbole or exaggeration when I say that Phaser 3.50 is the single biggest point release ever in the history of Phaser. There are quite literally hundreds of new features to explore, updates to key areas and of course bug fixes. I did actually try counting all the changes, but gave up after I’d reached 900 of them! Thankfully, they are, as always, meticulously detailed in the Change Log. The changes for 3.50 actually grew so large that I had to split them out from the main Change Log and put them into their own file.

However, don’t let this overwhelm you. A massive number of the changes are purely internal and while there are absolutely some API breaking changes in this release (hence the large version number jump), we’ve kept them as sensible as possible. We already know of lots of devs who have upgraded with minimal, or no, changes to their actual game code. We cannot guarantee that for everyone, of course, but depending on how complex your game is, the chances are good.

This release comes with several new examples and all of the existing examples have been audited to guarantee they are compatible with version 3.50. Major new features from Phaser 3.50 include an improved post processing effect pipeline, 3D Mesh game objects, multi texture support, isometric and hexagonal maps directly from Tiled support, Aseprite export support with animations, point lighting game objects and much much more.

Full details of the hundreds of changes in this release can be found in the release notes. Phaser is an open source project under the MIT source license and is available on GitHub. You can learn more about the Phaser 3.50 release in the video below.

The Look Around feature of Apple Maps may work with more countries in the future, with Apple’s vehicles driving around Israel, New Zealand, and Singapore to collect images used to generate the street-level views.

Geno, as you’ve likely heard by now, has returned to the Smash Bros. series once again as a Mii Fighter costume.

It might not necessarily be the news every Geno fan wanted to hear, but hey – some acknowledgment is arguably better than nothing. To celebrate this special occasion, Super Mario RPG‘s character designer, Kazuyuki Kurashima, has shown some original concept artwork of what Geno looked like before his design was finalised.

Here’s every shot, courtesy of Kurashima’s official Twitter account:

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Different, huh? Obviously, we all know what Geno ended up looking like, and well, the rest is history! Which design do you like the most? Have you decked out one of your own Smash Bros. Mii Fighters as Geno yet? Leave a comment down below.