Author: Garry Smith
Creative Assembly has confirmed the opening of a new UK development studio, Creative Assembly North. Headed up by Giselle Stewart OBE, the Newcastle studio will work “collaboratively” with Creative Assembly’s Sussex team on an unannounced project. As well as being the base of the company’s new Continuous Improvement Team, the new studio hopes to recruit over 100 developers in both creative and technical roles “over the coming years”. It is Creative Assembly’s third studio, alongside its other teams in Sussex, UK, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article…
Blizzard has thanked players for their patience after some were left waiting in hour-long queues to participate in Diablo 4’s open beta test this weekend. In a statement posted to the game’s official forum, the community team assured players that it was “actively working” on the issues, vowing to “increase the influx of players” and reduce queue times once numerous disconnection issues had been addressed. In an update posted a few hours later, community manager PezRadar thanked everyone for the “overwhelming response to the Early Access beta weekend” and reaffirmed that the team was “tracking and actively working on” issues…
If you have ever burned out on a video game, you know what it’s like. Suddenly, you’re exhausted any time the game you once loved shows up in your Steam library. Any time someone talks about it in your earshot, you’re filled with this pervasive cynicism that won’t quit. Nothing about the game is good, everything is bad, and nobody can convince you otherwise – even if you were its biggest fan mere months ago. I’ve played – and dropped – a lot of games since returning to this hobby in 2016. But the game I feel like I owe…
Actor Lance Reddick – star of John Wick, The Wire, and Destiny – has died, aged 60. Reddick’s prolific acting career began in the mid-90s, spanning television – where he rose to prominence with starring roles in shows such as The Wire and Fringe – film, most notably in the John Wick franchise, and, in later years, video games. Reddick’s gaming roles included Martin Hatch in developer Remedy Entertainment’s 2016 action-adventure Quantum Break and Sylens in Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series. However, he was perhaps best known as the voice of Destiny’s Commander Zavala, a pivotal character in Bungie’s ongoing narrative…
Layers of Fear – the somewhat confusingly named remake of developer Bloober Team’s psychedelic horror hits Layers of Fear and Layers of Fear 2 – has resurfaced with an 11-minute trailer showing off some of its gameplay changes and fancy new Unreal Engine 5 visuals. Layers of Fear (formerly Layers of Fears) is co-developed with Anshar Studios, and sees the original Layers of Fear, its Inheritance DLC, and Layers of Fear 2 rebuilt and reimagined in Unreal Engine 5 as a single, generations-spanning “psychedelic horror chronicle”. It also includes new chapter The Final Note, offering a different perspective on the…
Team17 staff have reported a round of layoffs, as the Worms developer and indie game publisher seeks to restructure its business. Staff were told of the changes at 4pm this Friday afternoon in a mandatory all-hands meeting, those who were present told Eurogamer. Impacted team members include those in the company’s art and design teams, Eurogamer understands, as the company shifts its focus further towards its publishing side, and external development of its own IP. 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…
A new Persona 5 spin-off game has been revealed, coming to mobile courtesy of Chinese developer Perfect World. Persona 5: The Phantom X will be a brand new game set in the same world as P5, with an original Phantom Thief group. Gameplay will faithfully follow that of Persona 5, but optimised for smartphone users. It will be free-to-play, with item-based in-app purchases. 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.
The first patch for Kerbal Space Program 2 has landed, and it is filled with “approximately 300” changes. This update follows a rocky launch for KSP2, which saw a steep fall in player numbers soon after its release, with many asking for refunds. Creative director Nate Simpson stated the KSP2 team has implemented “a lot of big improvements” with this update, including a fix for the bug that saw environmental objects “[spawning] on top of the active vessel” (something that would cause the Kerbal Space Center to move). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their…
The arrival of Resident Evil 2 and 4 hero Leon S. Kennedy into Fortnite should be a cause for celebration, but fans were left stunned last night when the series’ perfectly-coiffed protagonist turned up half-dressed. No, he’s not topless – though there’s a Resident Evil 4 Remake demo mod for that if you so choose. Instead, Fortnite’s Leon is missing his iconic jacket from the early stages of Resident Evil 4, and indeed any other style option. Fans have complained it is a missed oppurtunity for Fortnite’s version of Leon, and compared his character model to those for fellow Resi…
Storyteller, the Annapurna-Interactive-published puzzler from developer Daniel Benmergui, now has a release date and is launching for PC and Switch on 23rd March. Storyteller, which has been in development for quite some time now (Annapurna was first associated with it back in 2018), is described as a reactive puzzle game about building stories. Essentially, the idea is to build a coherent yarn across a page of comic-book-style panels, placing the appropriate characters, backgrounds, and plot devices to reach the specified outcome – which can range from tales of loves to stories of revenge and betrayal. Read more Source – eurogamer.net…