Author: Garry Smith
Hidetaka Miyazaki loves poison swamps, even if you don’t.The Souls games are notorious for including dark, dank swamp areas filled with toxic enemies: the nightmarish Valley of Defilement in Demon’s Souls, or the endless depths of Blighttown in Dark Souls.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
I’ve been fascinated lately by micro-RPGs, and specifically micro-JRPGs. Typically crafted in RPG Maker and published on Itch.io, these clever miniatures run a wide gamut, as I learned from a Twitter chat with sraëka-lillian, creator of the experimental OI series. Some, like GeaSaga from Ka·in Works, are full-scale distillations of classic role-playing narrative structures, trimming back all the grinding, exposition and angst to a limber playlength of 10 hours or less. Others snip off and spotlight cherished pieces of those larger games, like slimes or fishing – I’d love to play one dedicated to the act of Getting The Airship,…
Paramount+ is getting ready to share a fresh look at its upcoming TV show based upon Microsoft’s fan-favourite shooter, Halo.In true Hollywood style, Paramount dropped a trailer for a trailer, giving us a 21-second peek at the big teaser that’s set to debut during halftime at the AFC Championship game later today between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
God of War’s latest PC patch is here, and as well as a handful of bug fixes, it’s also bringing a DLSS sharpening slider, too. In a modest update over the weekend, the PC team at Sony Santa Monica deployed Patch v1.0.4 for the critically acclaimed game, which also includes a fix for unresponsive Atreus so that his state is reset if you restart from your checkpoint. It also addressed an issue where “control functionality would be lost if opening inventory during realm travel sequence”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Warframe’s next expansion will be called Angels of the Zariman.Revealed by way of a recent developer livestream and then via the game’s social media channels, Angels of the Zariman is said to be a “direct follow-up” to The New War, although the Digital Extremes team stopped short of revealing when, exactly, the new content will release, beyond confirming it’ll be “coming soon” as part of the Warframe 31.5 update.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
DLSS support for DirectX 12 mode is coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator on PC “later this year”.Confirmation came via a recent developer Q&A. While members of the Asobo Studio development team stopped short of confirming when, precisely, DLSS will arrive for PC players, they did update us on what’s coming to the excellent flight sim game in the first half of 2022. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale is now live.From now until 6pm UK time on 3rd February, PC players can “save on tens of thousands of titles”, including heavy discounts on games like Dead by Daylight (50 per cent off), Sekiro (50 per cent off), Rainbow Six Siege (60 per cent off), and Red Dead Redemption (50 per cent).Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Developer 343 Industries believes it has finally rectified the problem that’s been causing all ongoing matchmaking issues in Halo Infinite’s Big Team Battle playlist.Though we’re seemingly not going to see a hotfix deployed until 3rd February “at the earliest”, it should be good news for larger groups of friends who have been struggling to connect to a lobby with their fireteam intact.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
New co-op shooter The Anacrusis has clocked up over 200,000 players since it was released on 13th January.While the game remains in Early Access and is also available as part of Xbox’s Game Preview programme for Xbox consoles, developer Stray Bombay confirmed the milestone in a recent update. It also revealed that, collectively, players have taken down over one billion aliens. Not bad for a week’s work, eh?Read more Source – eurogamer.net
In December, Ubisoft raised eyebrows when it announced Quartz, an NFT platform for big budget games which would host resellable in-game items with unique codes stamped on. Despite saying the system would use an “energy-efficient technology… a million times less energy than a bitcoin transaction”, fans still criticised Ubisoft’s focus on and championing of a technology they claimed was unnecessary and speculative.Read more Source – eurogamer.net