Author: Garry Smith
Sega is reportedly planning to buy up Angry Birds creator, Rovio Entertainment. According to the Wall Street Journal (£), Sega Sammy Holdings is currently holding talks with Rovio to discuss a $1 billion deal. Citing sources “familiar with the matter”, WSJ purports that “assuming the talks don’t break down on drag out”, the deal could complete as early as next week. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
UPDATE 14/4/22 5.30pm UK: In response to further questions from Eurogamer, Nintendo has confirmed that its controversial Russian boss Yasha Haddazhi is still employed at the company. This is despite the fact Haddazhi is also now running Achivka, which was recently involved in the import and sale of Metroid Prime Remastered copies to the country. As a reminder, Nintendo stated in March 2022 that it had ended product shipments to the region. “Mr Haddaji remains in a temporary administrative capacity to fulfil various internal administrative functions while winding down the company,” a Nintendo spokesperson told Eurogamer. Read more Source -…
PlayStation Stars, Sony’s PlayStation loyalty programme, has revealed a new digital collectible of Shuhei Yoshida. PlayStation Stars was first announced in July last year. In September, Sony showed some of the collectibles that can be obtained by completing tasks, including 3D models of Ape Escape and a PlayStation 3.The new collectible is a 3D model of Yoshida as a bobblehead, complete with a short explanation of his role at PlayStation in working with third-party and indie developers. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
In Atari’s 1979-released coin-op game Asteroids, you play a dinky 2D starfighter blowing up drifting space rocks while fending off the occasional flying saucer. It can feel overwhelming – the play area wraps around itself, so you’re constantly having to reorient when an asteroid coasts off screen and reappears opposite. But there’s a fundamental orderliness to it. Each rock splits precisely into a pair of smaller, faster fragments when shot, which in turn split in two. Shooting wildly fills the screen with shrapnel, so you learn to be judicious, all the while swivelling and firing your rear booster to manage…
It’s probably fair to say Daedelic Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has been a little divisive since its unveiling in 2019, and it likely won’t help that the developer has now announced it’s charging extra for anyone that wants to hear its elves speak in authentic Elvish. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, for the uninitiated, forges something of a unusual path through Middle-earth, taking its wide-eyed lead – already an unusual choice for a protagonist – on a pre-Lord of the Rings adventure combining “subtle tactical stealth” and “fast-paced parkour action”. Perhaps a little oddly, given you’d…
We already knew the Super Mario Bros. Movie was doing alright for itself, but – having surpassed Frozen 2 as the biggest animated movie debut – it’s now officially the highest grossing film of 2023 so far and the biggest video game adaptation of all time. That’s according to Variety, which reports The Super Mario Bros. Movie has now surpassed $500m at the global box office, with $260m of that coming from US ticket sales and $248m of its record-breaking take earned internationally. Previous reports had placed The Super Mario Bros. Movie as having had the biggest opening of any…
Dark and Darker studio Ironmace Games has asked players to torrent the mediaeval extraction looter’s latest build following its delisting from Steam last month amid ongoing legal woes. Dark and Darker had a bit of a moment when its third playlest gained more than 100,000 concurrent players during Steam’s Next Fest back in February, but that initial success soon took a turn when Ironmace was accused of making its game “using materials and assets they worked on during their time” at developer Nexon. Although Ironmace has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, the studio was subjected to a police raid in response…
Peppa Pig: World Adventures gives players the chance to explore the globe, but perhaps its most memorable moment comes from its section set in London. There, players can meet England’s late Queen, in a playful sequence which sees the monarch ride a bus around the capital before joining Peppa and friends in a spot of puddle jumping (everyone loves jumping in muddy puddles, you know). This particular section of the game became widely-shared online soon after Word Adventures released thanks to a viral clip showing the game’s unexpected In Memoriam tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, which pops up at the…
Matt Mercer, known for his work on Critical Role and as Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil 6, will voice Ganandorf in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Mercer shared the news via Twitter last night, and called the role an “an immense honour” he has “thrown [himself] into doing justice” to. Alongside this announcement, Mercer also shared images of him cosplaying as Link when he was a child, and one of him more recently as Ganondorf. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Arkane announced its co-op shooter Redfall will be locked at 30fps on Xbox at launch earlier this week, and it sparked quite the conversation.Though a 60fps performance mode will be patched into the game “at a later date”, its absence at launch has some people reversing their decision to play Redfall when it comes out.But is 30fps for current-gen console games a dealbreaker? To quote Wes, “no one expects Starfield to run at 60fps”, but that probably won’t stop a lot of us from playing it when it (hopefully) arrives in September. Harsh words from Wes, but true. Sorry Todd.…