Author: Garry Smith
Phil Harrison has departed Google, where he served as vice president and general manager of Stadia, following the beleaguered cloud gaming service’s demise earlier this year. Harrison joined Google in 2018 and shepherded Stadia through its high-profile – if increasingly problematic – launch in 2019, remaining onboard during the service’s slow, steady decline. It was Harrison who announced the closure of Stadia’s internal game development studios in 2021, and, ultimately, shared word of the cloud gaming service’s impending demise last September, admitting it hadn’t “gained the traction with users that we expected”. Ahead of Stadia’s closure this January, Harrison said…
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, has revealed the difficulty faced when creating Mario games for mobile. Mario has had a few mobile outings over the last seven years – starting with Super Mario Run in 2016, and then Mario Kart Tour and Dr. Mario World in 2019. Nintendo has since moved away from Mario on mobile, after it shut down Dr. Mario World for good just two years after it launched. 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…
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters. It’s a series about highlighting some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It’s also a series about you having your say, so don’t be shy, use the comments below and join in!Oh and you can find our entire Five of the Best archive elsewhere on the site.It’s a bit of a running joke here how much I like dragons. Has it got a dragon in it? Give it to Bertie. And it’s true, I do like them! I like them a lot. If I could have my…
Paradox Interactive’s acclaimed grand strategy game Crusader Kings 3 is ready to hit the road, with its Tours and Tournaments expansion now confirmed to be launching on 11th May. Tours and Tournaments – Crusader Kings 3’s second major expansion, following last year’s Royal Court – has something of an outdoor theme. Those “tours”, for instance, arrive as part of a new travel system, giving players the tools to plot either a modest trip – perhaps navigating their realm, gifting or extorting their vassals along the way – or a far more elaborate globe-trotting jaunt, whether that be through dangerous or…
Call of the Sea VR, the virtual reality adaptation of developer Out of the Blue’s acclaimed 2020 tropical island mystery adventure, launches for Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro on 13th April. Call of the Sea, if you’re unfamiliar, tells the story of Norah Everhart (voiced by Firewatch and The Walking Dead: Season One’s Cissy Jones), as she embarks on an adventure, circa 1934, across a beautiful but strange South Pacific island in search of her missing husband. What follows is a bit of a delight – Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese called the original a “dazzlingly different debut” in his review…
Microsoft’s perpetually expanding line-up of wireless Xbox controllers continues to flourish with a new ‘sustainable’ variant released to coincide with this year’s impending Earth Day. The new Xbox Wireless Controller – Remix Special Edition, as it’s known, takes some design inspiration from nature, sporting a two-tone green facade – apparently drawing on lichen found in the Pacific Northwest Forest – as well as earthy grips finished with a topographic pattern. It also incorporates a blue underside, presumably representing the sky, or the sea, or a blueberry. As for the sustainability bit, one third of the controller is made from a…
With the imminent arrival of Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Pride of the Valley update, developer Gameloft has shared its full patch notes. From tomorrow (5th April), players can expect to see Pride Rock’s own Simba and Nala padding their way through the game, as the doors to the Lion King realm open. Meanwhile, there will be some new items for players to purchase from Scrooge McDuck including some “mushroom inspired” sets – an actual toad stool, perhaps – and “snazzy bathroom equipment”. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…
Activision Blizzard has settled a lawsuit lodged by the US Justice Department regarding a controversial tax planned for the wages of esports players. Overwatch and Call of Duty esports teams were set to be given an effective salary cap, dubbed the Competitive Balance Tax, which was designed to kick in after teams earned over a certain threshold. This tax “effectively operated as a salary cap, penalised teams for paying esports players above a certain threshold and limited player compensation in these leagues”, the US Justice Department alleged. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected…
Overwatch 2’s newest Support hero has leaked ahead of their official reveal by Blizzard. Here’s an introduction to Lifeweaver, a plant-based pansexual and the game’s first Thai hero. In a now-deleted article over on PCGamesN, Overwatch 2’s senior character technical artist Chonlawat Thammawan revealed a number of inspirations for Lifeweaver (lso known as Niran Pruksamanee), such as the mandala shape. Thammawan, who originally pitched the idea of including a Thai character, said Lifeweaver is a celebration of Thai culture, while lead narrative designer Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie spoke more of the hero’s warm character. As for Lifeweaver’s skill set, it all sounds…
The Saudi Arabian government is reportedly planning to invest $38bn into the country’s gaming industry. Most recently, the Saudi government increased its stake in Nintendo to 8.26 percent through the Public Investment Fund, the state’s sovereign wealth fund, and it also holds millions of shares in EA and Take-Two.Savvy Gaming Group, a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund, hopes to work with the companies it has invested in to “work together on publishing, run their Esports business, or develop new IP together”, Savvy’s CEO Brian Ward told Bloomberg. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their…