Author: Garry Smith
The discourse around Days Gone continues. Last week, former Days Gone director John Garvin controversially stated the reason the game didn’t receive universal acclaim was because of “woke reviewers” and reviewers who “couldn’t be bothered to actually play the game”. In addition to these unusual remarks, Garvin also threw the game’s programmers under the bus, blaming Days Gone’s “tech issues” such as “bugs, streaming and frame rate” for its middling reception. 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.
Digerati, publisher of The Outbound Ghost, has filed a lawsuit against its developer Conradical. Last week, lead developer Conrad Grindheim released a YouTube video explaining that his relationship with the publisher had “dissolved” and he was requesting the publisher return the publishing rights to him. The dispute occurred due to Grindheim’s disappointment with the quality of the console release of the game, specifically on Switch. He allegedly vandalised the game’s store page on Steam in response, which has since been removed. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…
Xbox boss Phil Spencer believes PlayStation is trying to retain its “dominance” of the console market by “making Xbox smaller” and objecting to its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. “Sony is trying to protect its dominance on the console. The way they grow is by making Xbox smaller,” Spencer said on the Second Request podcast when discussing “the one major opposer to the deal”: Sony. “Sony is trying to protect its dominance on the console. The way they grow is by making Xbox smaller,” Spencer said (via VGC). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected…
Goat Simulator 3’s Mandatory Holiday Update is now here. The free update includes a host of “festive goodies to ramp up that holiday spirit”, including Santa hats, elf outfits, and “weapons that shoot colourful lights”. You can watch the brightly-coloured carnage in the teaser below: Here to ensure that “Ensure no NPC has a silent night”, the game’s first content update since the sim released last month. As well as hats and outfits, you’ll also get Sack & Sleigh – a feature that lets you pepper NPCs with wrapping paper and wrap them up – a lights machine gun with…
The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich has responded to The Witcher fans and insisted she has “never mocked the books” the video games and Netflix show is based upon. The furor began when writer Beau DeMayo – who’s now working on X-Men ’97 – says some of his colleagues in The Witcher’s writing room “actively mocked” the source material written by Andrzej Sapkowski. “I’ve been on show – namely Witcher – where some of the writers were not or actively disliked the books and games (even actively mocking the source material),” DeMayo said in an interview back in October. Read more…
Eight years on from the original Valiant Hearts, a new mobile game is on the way from Netflix. Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is coming soon to smartphones, it was confirmed tonight during The Game Awards 2022. The beloved Valiant Hearts was a bold indie-style puzzle adventure set in World War 1 which originally launched for PC and consoles back in 2014. This new entry is developed by team members who worked on the first game. Here’s a first look: Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes…
Sifu’s previously teased free autumn update is now here, adding a nifty replay editor to developer Sloclap’s acclaimed martial arts adventure on PC and PlayStation. There’s more too, but the replay editor is undoubtedly the star of the show, giving players the tools to turn their favourite takedowns into cinematic mini-masterpieces. There are options to adjust camera placement, for instance, to define lens parameters, choreograph camera movement, and even add effects including slo-mo and speed-ups. You can get a taste of the tools available in Sloclap’s autumn update trailer below. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
Game of the Week goes out to all of our supporters as part of the Eurogamer Essentials newsletter. There’s going to be a slight shake-up of the supporters program in the near future (don’t worry – it’s all good news) so stay tuned for more details, and thanks as ever for your support – it’s much appreciated. As we stumble bleary-eyed to the end of a post-Game Awards Friday, there was a temptation to highlight one of the many starry reveals from this morning’s show. Death Stranding 2 feels like something of a dream game, giving Hideo Kojima a chance…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 only released at the end of October, but it’s already the biggest-selling game of 2022 in the US. Topping the November sales chart, that means Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has not only knocked Elden Ring off the coveted top spot, but it’s also resisted stiff competition from other games released last month, including God of War: Ragnarök and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. According to data from NPD and reported by VGC, that also makes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 the fastest-selling entry not just of the year, but of the franchise’s…
Superb rhythm game Metal: Hellsinger has hit over a million players on PS5 and Xbox Series X and is now available on PS4 and Xbox One, too. To celebrate, developer The Outsiders has “new weapon skins to collect, combos to master, and Archdevil Mode to suffer” the latter of which is an all new brutal difficulty level. There’s also a free digital artbook up for grabs, too. The changes come courtesy of update 1.5, which as well as the usual bug fixes and QoL improvements, also invites players to “rediscover each map in order to find Coats of Arms Collectibles”.…