Author: Garry Smith
Microsoft is set to defend its beleagured $69bn Activision Blizzard deal at a “last-ditch” meeting with the EU next week. The behind-closed-doors session was confirmed by Microsoft to Reuters, and will take place in Brussels on Tuesday, 21st February. According to Reuters, Microsoft is expected to offer remedies after the hearing takes place. 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.
A group of games industry veterans – consisting most prominently of former Respawn Entertainment developers with credits on the likes of Titanfall and Apex Legends – have teamed up to form new “remote first” studio Wildlight Entertainment. Wildlight has been founded by Dusty Welch and Jason McCord (who’ll act as CEO and design director respectively), with Chad Grenier serving as studio head and game director. Grenier was previously game director on Respawn’s hugely popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends before leaving the studio after more than a decade at the end of last year. Grenier is joined by another high-profile…
In the run-up to next week’s launch of Yakuza samurai spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin, Sega has released a two-part combat demo for Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam. Like a Dragon: Ishin, if you’re unfamiliar, originally released for PlayStation 3 and PS4 in Japan (under the name Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!) back in 2014, transplanting the chaotic open-world Yakuza formula to the Late Edo Period for a historical slice of samurai action. That action follows protagonist Sakamoto Ryōma as he returns to his home in Tosa where, after a run-in with a high-ranking samurai, he’s sentenced to be executed. Thankfully for…
Firaxis’ excellent superhero strategy adventure Marvel’s Midnight Suns is preparing to open The Abbey’s doors and welcome another new fighter, with its previously announced Venom DLC now confirmed to be arriving next Thursday, 23rd February. And ahead of that, publisher 2K has launched another free trial across all platforms, plus discounts on the base game. Venom will be the second DLC character to join Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ original playable superhero line-up – consisting of Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Iron Man, Magik, Nico Minoru, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Wolverine – following on from the addition…
Disney Dreamlight Valley gets its next major update today, which adds Olaf from Frozen, Mirabel from Encanto, and also extends the game’s ongoing storyline. Patch notes for the update released today also reveal the addition of a premium shop, which will see “rotating cosmetic items like clothing, furniture, premium house skins and more”. You won’t find this stuff elsewhere, such as at Scrooge McDuck’s General Store, and you’ll only be able to buy these things using the Moonstone currency – previously used to unlock the premium season pass reward track. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
There’s a dilemma to remaking a 30-year-old game, and it’s how much do you remake. If you build it completely anew and reimagine everything, then how much of the original game do you still actually have? Then again, if you don’t change enough, how much of a remake is it?This System Shock remake is an attempt at the answer, and an intriguing one, because I think if you showed it to someone unaware of the original, who was judging it purely in a 2023 context, they’d look at it and wonder what the fuss was about. To them, I’d hold…
From PS2 exclusives like Okami and Shadow of the Colossus to best sellers like Final Fantasy X and GTA: Vice City, when it comes to picking the best PlayStation 2 games, there’s no shortage of titles to choose from. It’s true — Sony’s second console has quite the game library and story behind it.Released in the US on October 26, 2000 and nearly one month later in Europe and Australia, the PS2 arrived right at the start of a new millennium. And like the many other consoles that came out around that time (Nintendo Gamecube, Sega Dreamcast, and original Xbox),…
Xbox’s new “carbon aware” energy saving feature – which launched for Insider testing last month – is now available to everyone as part of the console’s February update. Essentially, Xbox’s new energy saving feature allows a console – provided it’s connected to the internet and has access to regional carbon intensity data – to schedule game, app, and OS updates at time a higher proportion of electricity is coming from lower-carbon sources on the electric grid. Microsoft says this decreases fossil fuel dependency and CO2 emissions and could potentially saves users money. Additionally, Microsoft once again highlights Xbox’s Shutdown (energy…
Valentine’s Day has been and gone but Warframe is still in a romantic mood, charting a love affair across the Void in its new Citrine’s Last Wish update, out today on all platforms. Among the various additions introduced in Citrine’s Last Wish are new Mirror Defence missions, described as “classic defence missions with a twist”. This latest challenge type, found at the new Tyana Pass node, sees Tenno battling an onslaught of tough enemies determined to harness the power of two crystal-encased lovers, lost to time and space, for themselves. “In response to the connection between Belric and Rania,” explains…
If you’re not a PlayStation Plus subscribers but have always been faintly curious about what life might be like for those on the other side, now’s your chance to get some answers courtesy of Sony’s imminent free PlayStation Plus online multiplayer weekend. Sony’s promotion runs for 24 hours, starting this Saturday 18th February, and as with its previous similar events, anyone can put PlayStation 4 and 5’s online multiplayer through its paces during that time – teaming up with friends, strangers, or otherwise across all multiplayer-supporting games – without needing to cough up the usual fee. What you will need,…