Author: Garry Smith
Amazon Games is celebrating one whole year of New World with a snazzy new infographic. Showcasing “key highlights from the launch”, the summation of facts and figures looks back and reflects upon “our brave New World”. In the twelve months since the PC MMORPG launched, players have clocked up an astonishing 569.1 million collective hours played, and streamed 12.4 billion minutes on Twitch. 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.
Transformers are coming to Magic: The Gathering. Announced at this week’s Hasbro PulseCon, the first six double-sided cards feature your favourite Transformers in both vehicular and robot form, and there’s two versions of each Transformer, as they come in both a retro 1980s style as well as their inversed Shattered Glass variant. So far cards featuring Optimus Prime, Starscream, Soundwave, Slicer, Goldbug, and Flamewar have been confirmed, and will reportedly be available in The Brothers’ War sets, as well as Bundle Box and collector boosters, too. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners.…
A GTA 5 player who failed their in-game driving test is only using public transport to get around Los Santos. After failing their San Andreas driving test, redditor MotorDesigner reached out to the GTA subreddit for advice on the best way to get around the city without a car – legally, in other words, even though the concept is comically novel in any GTA game, of course. Admittedly, the in-game driving test doesn’t look too troublesome – questions include when it’s permissible to run a red light, what the correct driving position is, and how best to drive when “getting…
One of the founding members of Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has revealed that several members of the team have left, and “their leaving the company was involuntary”. In a succinct yet puzzling Medium post, Martin Luiga – a founding member of ZA/UM and seeming “secretary of the ZA/UM cultural association” – revealed that designer Robert Kurvitz, writer Helen Hindpere, and art director Aleksander Rostov haven’t worked at the company “since the end of last year”, “which would seem like bad news for the loving fans that are waiting for the Disco sequel”, Luiga said. Here’s the full content of the…
Imperial War Museum London’s new exhibition wants to challenge “perceptions of how video games interpret stories about war and conflict”. Entitled War Games: Real Conflicts | Virtual Worlds | Extreme Entertainment, the exhibition is running from now until May 2023 and seeks to “delve into one of today’s most popular storytelling mediums and ask how the reality of war is represented in the virtual world of a video game”. “Featuring 12 diverse case studies, War Games invites visitors to interrogate the tension that exists between the thrill and tragedy of warfare in a game and its repercussions in the real…
Watch Dogs creator Jonathan Morin has joined NetEase Games. Morin – who will “help lead NetEase Games Montreal to create a new IP, powering NetEase’s mission to become one of the biggest video game publishers in the world” – brings 24 years of “AAA” experience after having “played a key role in shaping the critically acclaimed Watch Dogs franchise at Ubisoft and vastly contributed to the Far Cry series”. NetEase stopped short of revealing what new project Morin will be working on but says he joins other “major talent hires” including some from Quantic Dream, Jackalope, and Nagoshi Studio. Read…
Get set for spooky season with this all-new teaser from The Callisto Protocol. The new video from developer Striking Distance Studios is entitled “The Truth of Black Iron” and invites us to discover “what terrifying secrets lie beneath Black Iron Prison in The Callisto Protocol”. You can check it out below: 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.
Transparency alert: EGX is run by Eurogamer owner ReedPop. There was a nice buzz about EGX London this past weekend, a whiff of positivity about it, at people being back together, relatively unimpeded by the pandemic and playing games together again. EGX felt much more like its old self. And many of us were there, walking the halls, hosting quizzes (thank you if you came to one), and playing games.And what games there were: big ones, small ones, old ones, new ones. One of the most eye-catching instalments was a pool table with an enormously warped corner, curving up into…
Publisher Tilting Point has announced it is bringing three new games to Netflix’s game library. Tilting Point specialises in mobile free-to-play games. Some of its most recently published games include Warhammer: Chaos and Request, Narcos: Idle Cartel, and SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off. The publisher has now partnered with Netflix to release three games on the platform, with SpongeBob: Get Cooking already available to download and play now. 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.
Dome Keeper divides me. There’s a part of me, each time I play, that’s really happy to return, to feel the ground give under my drill, to hoist my mined resources triumphantly to my command centre and turn them into upgrades to improve my base. This time, I tell myself, I will build better and survive longer and make my dome’s defences impenetrable. This run will be the one.Then, inevitably, it isn’t. Just as I get some real momentum going, a particularly savage wave of shadowy monsters overwhelms me, from both the air and ground, and my precious dome cracks…