Author: Garry Smith
Star Citizen, the controversial space sim from developer Cloud Imperium Games, has now raised more than half a billion dollars in funding from backers. Star Citizen’s exceedingly lengthy development is well-documented, with the game still in alpha over a decade after production began. And while it’s attracted some private funding in that time, the overwhelming bulk has come via crowdfunding, beginning with a successful $2m USD Kickstarter in 2012 and ballooning from there. As of today, Star Citizen has amassed $500,075,150 USD in crowdfunding from a total of 4,096,384 backers, according to the official Roberts Space Industries website. Its previous…
Apple has announced it will be raising its App Store prices in multiple territories – including every country that uses the euro, but excluding the UK at present – starting on 5th October. As per an update shared with developers, which did not provide an explanation for the impending price hike, Apple said the move will impact all tiers of its App Store pricing chart in the following areas: Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use the euro currency. When the pricing changes come into effect on 5th October, App Store items…
If FIFA 23’s 700+ plus real-life football clubs somehow aren’t enough to be getting on with, it looks like you’ll soon be able to sling a decidedly more imaginary one onto the pile, with all signs pointing to an appearance from Ted Lasso’s AFC Richmond in this year’s game. Hints of an impending crossover with the award-winning Apple TV+ comedy series first emerged last week, when a listing for AFC Richmond – the fictional London team managed by Ted Lasso in the show – briefly appeared on EA’s FIFA ratings database before being removed. That might have been the end…
Nintendo will be discontinuing social media logins into Nintendo Accounts and the Image Share service on 3DS and Wii U consoles next month.Nintendo has slowly been dropping support for the 3DS and Wii U, and most notably will close the eShop storefronts for both on 27th March 2023. Social media logins to a Nintendo Account and the Image Share service are the next features that Nintendo is dropping support for. 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.
More leaked footage from Diablo 4 has found its way onto the internet, adding to the blizzard being faced by Blizzard. As with previous leaks from August, this footage appears to have originated from the ongoing Friend and Family beta version of the game – something that is labelled as a “private test build”. The latest leaks were uploaded to reddit and show a total of 43 minutes of gameplay footage. This work-in-progress footage includes the map, various cosmetic options and a variety of attacks – though is all subject to change before the release of the full game. Read…
A PlayStation 5 with a detachable disc drive is reportedly in the works by Sony for launch around September next year. The report, by Insider Gaming, suggests the console will otherwise have near-identical hardware to current PS5 models, with the only difference being the removable drive itself, and an extra USB-C port for it to plug in. There’s also the suggestion this new console will be sold both on its own and with the detachable disc drive included. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only…
My favourite Monkey Island story isn’t about a puzzle or a character or a joke. It’s not Stan and his hand-talking, or the severed head that can lead you through mazes. It’s not actually a story from the game itself. It’s to do with a friend of my wife’s. This friend once admitted that, as a kid, whenever she had a story she wanted to tell her mum, her mum would always stop her at the start and say, with what I’m guessing was a heavy, deeply theatrical sigh, “Is this about Monkey Island?” I think about this a lot.…
It’s a shorter DF Direct blog this week – it’s supposed to be a public holiday – but our weekly show goes live on YouTube as normal and it’s a special one on two accounts. First of all, there’s well over two hours of discussion to wade through, covering the latest Sony State of Play, last week’s Nintendo Direct and the biggest news from the Tokyo Game Show. The second factor that makes this one rather special? That’ll be a 40 minute (!) guest slot for none other than Eurogamer’s Ian Higton!You may have watched and read Ian’s excellent PlayStation…
Rockstar has acknowledged the enormous Grand Theft Auto 6 leak of work-in-progress development materials that took place over the weekend.In a statement published this afternoon on Twitter, as the company returned to work, Rockstar admitted it had suffered a “network intrusion” – a hack – from which the early development footage of GTA 6 had been taken.Rockstar said it hoped the hack would have no impact on its live services – such as GTA Online – and insisted the leak would not impact the development of the game long-term. Still, Rockstar acknowleged it was “extremely disappointed” at what had happened.…
Yet another new Yakuza game was announced during the Ryu Ga Gotoku Summit today. Titled as Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, this game will follow the story of former gangster Kiryu Kazuma from the events of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life up until Like a Dragon 8. A trailer was released, showing Kiryu being disciplined at a monastery, having seemingly renounced all of his former life, before it’s revealed that Kiryu is in fact still involved with the Daidoji family from Yakuza 6. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to…