Author: Garry Smith
Riot Games and Ubisoft have announced a partnership that’ll see the companies collaborating on a research project with the aim of creating “more positive gaming communities”. As explained in a blog post on Riot’s website, the project – which goes by the name Zero Harm in Comms – is the first step in a cross-industry initiative that’ll see the two companies working on a database to collect in-game data. This anonymised data – consisting of chat logs labelled by behaviours, from neutral to racist and sexist – will be used to better train AI-based preemptive moderation tools, helping them more…
Clive, the protagonist of Final Fantasy 16, won’t be the only playable character. In an interview with Japanese site Game Watch (via PlayStation Lifestyle), creative director Kazutoyo Maehiro noted that in the early stages of the game, players will control a character other than Clive. When asked if this was similar to Reks in Final Fantasy 12, he agreed. 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.
Here’s a quick public service announcement for anyone seeking to subscribe to PlayStation Plus, including its pricier Extra and Premium tiers. We’re expecting Sony to slash the price of its subscriptions in time for Black Friday by 25 percent – making a year’s worth of PlayStation Plus Premium cost £75 instead of £100. Word of the upcoming deal comes from Dealabs, which has accurately given advance notice of Sony’s monthly PlayStation Plus game line-ups for over a year now (thanks, VGC). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…
Phil Spencer has admitted Microsoft has shipped games “too early”. Speaking to The Verge, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming was asked about the decision to delay Starfield and Redfall, two of the company’s biggest upcoming exclusives. “It isn’t really a decision to move a game after spending the team’s effort over multiple years just to get to a point where you know you’re not going to deliver the game you want on the date that was promised,” said Spencer. “Now, it is at some level, because I have shipped games too early. We have experienced shipping games too early.” Read…
If you’re still impatiently awaiting Amazon’s live-action take on the Fallout universe, you might like a look at a newly released Fallout 76 fan project, admirably capturing the ambience of Bethesda’s long-running series without, I assume, a budget of 150m Bezosbucks. Created by YouTube channel Infectious Designer (which has also produced live-action shorts inspired by the likes of Half-Life, Killzone, and Watch Dogs), the Fallout 76 concept trailer serves up two minutes and 35 seconds of impressively realised Fallout splendour, replicating the series distinctive retro-futuristic aesthetic both before and after the nuclear apocalypse. Now, I’m not going to pretend to…
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has revealed Microsoft’s decision to “pivot away” from its previously announced Game Pass streaming box earlier this year was due to pricing concerns, with the company unable to get the device within its desired $99-$129 price bracket. Speaking in the latest episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast (as spotted by VGC), Spencer explained, “The console we built that now people have seen…was more expensive than we wanted it to be when we actually built it out with the hardware that we had inside.” Microsoft never formally revealed this version of its streaming box, codenamed Keystone -…
2K and developer Firaxis have formally announced the previously leaked Leader Pass for Civilisation 6, adding 18 leaders to the 4X strategy favourite over the course of six DLC releases. 12 of the 18 leaders featured in the DLC are new to Civilization 6, while six are described as “new takes” on existing leaders. Each is said to offer “surprising new or updated abilities”, alongside “inventive agendas that’ll change the way you play”. Up first are Abraham Lincoln (representing the United States), Queen Nzinga Mbande (Kongo), and Sultan Saladin (Arabia), all arriving as part of the diplomacy focused Great Negotiations…
Steam versions of various recent Ubisoft games appear to be on the way, according to datamined store details which have popped up online. Earlier this month, a Steam version of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was spotted in Ubisoft Connect’s database, prompting speculation the smash hit Viking adventure would finally arrive on Valve’s PC storefront. To date, PC players have only been able to access Valhalla via Ubisoft’s own launcher or the Epic Games Store. A Steam version of Ubisoft sports title Roller Champions was also spotted – and today was also made briefly available to view on SteamDb, all but confirming…
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is now available to preload ahead of the game’s release tomorrow – but doing so is anything but straightforward. PlayStation 4 and 5 owners searching for Warzone 2.0 last night were unable to find the download by searching “Call of Duty Warzone” in the PlayStation Store, while Steam users who own Modern Warfare 2 found no download whatsoever. Things are a little better on Xbox where Warzone 2.0 is discoverable with its own store page. Still, on closer inspection, the download confusingly also appears to bundle Modern Warfare 2 for free. Read more Source -…
Firesprite’s Horizon Call of the Mountain will release alongside the PlayStation VR2 on 22nd of February. Horizon’s creator Guerrilla Games confirmed the news earlier today. Pre-orders for the game are now open via the PlayStation Store. There is also the option to order the Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle, which will provide both the PS VR2 hardware and the game itself.In addition to this news, Guerrilla also released a trailer for Call of the Mountain, which you can see below. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…