Author: Garry Smith
A new investigation into Diablo 4’s development has painted a picture of chaos and mismanagement at Activision Blizzard, reportedly resulting in a dash to meet a release date – said to be 6th June next year – that staff believe is “unlikely” to be met without “many hours of overtime or cut features”. In a new report by The Washington Post, assembled after speaking with 15 current and former Blizzard employees, it’s claimed Diablo 4’s development was troubled from the off, with leadership at the time instilling the project with a “sense of inertia” as large parts of the game…
League of Legends, Valorant, and more games from Riot will be available on Game Pass for PC and mobile from 12th December. The news was originally revealed back in the summer, though a release date was unknown. Once a Riot account is linked to your Game Pass account, you’ll have access to Riot’s portfolio as well as some other benefits. 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.
UPDATE 8pm: Microsoft has responded to the FTC’s announcement of a lawsuit to block its $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard. “We continue to believe that this deal will expand competition and create more opportunities for gamers and game developers,” Microsoft’s vice chair and president Brad Smith said in a statement. “We have been committed since Day One to addressing competition concerns, including by offering earlier this week proposed concessions to the FTC.” “While we believed in giving peace a chance,” Smith concluded, “we have complete confidence in our case and welcome the opportunity to present our case in court.” Read…
It’s my birthday! Kind of… So it turns out Saturday the 10th of December marks my 10 year anniversary working as a video producer for Eurogamer! Wow, doesn’t time fly and all that. Anyway, to celebrate the occasion, I’d love for you all to join me for HigTen, an epic, 7 hour community stream that’ll take place over on our YouTube channel!I don’t get paid to work on Saturdays though, so instead, HigTen will be kicking off tomorrow (Friday, December 9th) and it’ll be running from 10am GMT all the way through until clocking off work time at 5pm GMT.…
Sony has solved its long-running supply issues for the PlayStation 5 – in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, anyway. The PS5 has proved hard to find ever since it arrived two years ago, with stock problems leading to shortages and scalping. PS5 availability has been a global issue, though one Sony now says it has solved in its home country. Speaking at the recent PlayStation Partner Awards event in Japan, company boss Jim Ryan said the console’s ongoing supply problems had now finally been put to bed. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected…
The next game in the Bioshock series will have a former Ghost of Tsushima writer at its narrative’s helm. Liz Albl, whose previous writing credits also include Far Cry 4 (as well as its Valley of the Yetis DLC), Far Cry 5 and Watch Dogs Legion, announced she had recently joined the team at Cloud Chamber, taking on the role of its narrative lead for the studio’s upcoming Bioshock game. “The dream is real,” Albl shared last night. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only…
Sony is giving players the opportunity to try out the online multiplayer portion of its PlayStation Plus subscription service for free this weekend, starting on Saturday, 10th December. That means anyone can put PlayStation 4 and 5’s online multiplayer through its paces – teaming up with friends, strangers, or other non-specific entities across all multiplayer-supporting games – between 10th-11th December without needing to cough up the usual fee. The requirements to particpate are fairly obvious: players will need to register a PSN account, will need an active internet connection, and will need access to a game that supports online play.…
Ubisoft’s free-to-play mobile shooter The Division Resurgence is launching a closed-beta-style “live test” tomorrow, 8th December, for select participants on Android – and there’s a new trailer to accompany the announcement. Resurgence (not to be confused with Heartland, Ubisoft’s upcoming free-to-play Division game for PC and consoles), will, like other titles in the series, be an open-world third-person shooter RPG set in post-crisis America – specifically, Manhattan – following a deadly virus outbreak. Ubisoft’s previous chatter around Resurgence has promised a fresh story campaign offering a “new perspective on key story events” from past The Division games, with players once…
Legendary game designer Jeff Minter and his Llamasoft outfit is back with another blast of psychedelic shooter action, this time in the form of Akka Arrh – a “reimagining” of an ’80s arcade cabinet game that never actually released. This, of course, is a somewhat different scenario to Minter’s Polybius, which was inspired by an ’80s arcade cabinet game that never actually existed. Akka Arrh, though, is very much a thing, having been designed by Atari’s Mike Hally and Dave Ralston as a prototype back in 1982. Minter’s reimagining of Akka Arrh – of which only three cabinets are still…
Yuji Naka, the former boss of Sega’s Sonic Team, has reportedly been re-arrested in Japan over fresh allegations of insider trading. Japanese newspaper Asahi reported today that Naka now stands accused of violating financial laws in relation to another mobile game it is claimed he had insider knowledge of – Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldier. Specifically, Naka is accused of purchasing 144.7m yen’s worth of shares in its developer ATeam (worth around £865k) before The First Soldier was officially announced. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…