Author: Garry Smith
Turn on your Xbox late at night and what do you hear? A booming animated Xbox logo, probably – especially if you’ve had the volume up on one of your TV’s apps earlier in the day. Thankfully, Microsoft has heard your calls – over the noise of their own Xbox consoles, presumably – and is implementing an option to mute startup sounds entirely. Yes, you’ll be able to tell that Xbox swoosh to shoosh. The choice of a silent startup is available now to those in Microsoft’s Alpha test ring for Xbox system software, meaning everyone else will likely follow…
Life can be a lot less bother when you hover. Think of Exile, the 1988 marvel that cleverly crams an entire alien world and its belligerent fauna into the scrawny 32k memory of a BBC Micro. Chief among the game’s chaotic pleasures is its nifty jetpack, empowering your stranded space captain to explore the hostile planet Phoebus and its clever tangle of interlocking physics systems. As modes of transport go, jetpacks are often more about pluck than precision. In Exile you are engaged in a constant push-pull with unhelpful gas geysers, explosive shockwaves and the invisible tug of Phoebus gravity.…
Deathloop has finally appeared on Xbox Series consoles. The time-travelling caper from Microsoft-owned Arkane Studios debuted as a PS5 and PC release last September – a time-limited console exclusive owing to a pre-acquisition agreement with Sony. That original PS5 release had some flaws but has been patched since release with additional content, visual fixes, and a new 120fps graphics mode. But with a fresh start on new consoles, has Arkane finally delivered a properly calibrated version of their first-person adventure? Is this the definitive Deathloop experience? Deathloop is a curious game. Like many prior Arkane titles, it’s superficially a first-person…
Sly Cooper developer Sucker Punch has lifted the lid on a new line of merchandise to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary. This range consists of a Sly plushy (seen in the header image), a print of some anniversary artwork by the original Sly Cooper’s art director Dev Madan and an anniversary T-shirt. The artwork is certainly an impressive collection of nostalgia for Sly Cooper fans. Madan has rammed it full of references and Easter eggs from the last 20 years. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational…
For those of you eager to hear more about the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie from Nintendo and Illumination, there is good news. New York Comic-Con has announced a “teaser trailer premiere” will be revealed on 6th October at 4pm PT for those in attendance. This trailer will then likely be made available to the wider public in the following days. Meanwhile, Chris Pratt, or Mario, shared the news of this upcoming reveal by assuring us that we will all be blown away by the trailer, just as he was. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
Valve has introduced a new, live, charts page on Steam. As you may have surmised from the headline already, this page sees all of Steam’s top games bundled together in one place. It will replace the usual Steam Stats many of you may be familiar with. “Today we’re launching Steam Charts, a new section of Steam that is dedicated to showing the most-played and top-selling games on Steam. Including numbers in real time,” Valve said in a statement (thanks, Kotaku). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational…
Seven new patent filings from Destiny developer Bungie have been unearthed, predominantly all linked to virtual controls on touch-enabled devices, lending further credence to reports earlier this year that it had a Destiny mobile game in the works. Those reports first surfaced back in July, when The Game Post, citing a source with knowledge of Chinese mobile developer NetEase’s plans, claimed the company was collaborating with Bungie to bring a completely new instalment in the Destiny series to mobile – a project said to have already been in development for several years. It’s in this context that the seven newly…
Google’s Arts and Culture team has created a cute Zelda-like adventure for those looking to further their education on ancient Mesoamerica. Known as The Descent on the Serpent, this game was made in collaboration with Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology (thanks, The Verge). It starts off with the player visiting a museum. However, out of nowhere, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror, Tezcatlipoca, rushes in and steals an artefact on display. This clearly can’t be good news, and soon a talking statue, which is also on display at the museum, asks for your help returning the artefact before the equinox…
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast we’re discussing video game leaks, following last weekend’s devastating hack of Rockstar Games which saw almost an hour of in-development Grand Theft Auto 6 footage spilled onto the internet and promptly dissected by the masses. The sheer fact Rockstar had been hacked in this manner was itself shocking – but the damage felt worse due to the negative comments this work-in-progress content then received. The hack has robbed Rockstar of its oppurtunity to show the game on its own terms – and for what benefit? We discuss. After that, we turn our attention to…
As Microsoft starts to feel more heat from regulatory bodies over its $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, CEO Satya Nadella has said he’s “very confident” the deal will go through. Governmental scrutiny of Microsoft’s acquisition has grown in recent weeks, with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announcing it was moving to a more in-depth “phase 2” of its investigation, having determined the acquisition would give rise to the “realistic prospect of a substantial lessening of competition in gaming consoles, multi-game subscription services, and cloud gaming services.” Sony, too, has grown increasingly vocal over the proposed deal, particularly as it…