Author: Garry Smith
Masayasu Ito – Sony Interactive Entertainment’s executive vice president of hardware engineering and operation, as well as lead engineer on both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 – is retiring on 1st October after 36 years with the company. Ito first joined Sony in 1986, where he initially worked on in-car audio equipment before joining the PlayStation division in 2000 to lead hardware engineering. Here, Ito oversaw the development of numerous key PlayStation products, including the PS3, the hugely successful PS4 – which went on to sell over 117 million units – and, starting in 2015, the PlayStation 5. Alongside…
Ahead of this weekend’s Ubisoft Forward digital showcase, a new report has claimed the event will offer a look at three previously unannounced Assassin’s Creed titles – one set in Japan, another in 16th century Europe, and a third in China. Earlier this week, Ubisoft confirmed it would be ‘unveiling the future’ of the Assassin’s Creed franchise during this Saturday’s digital showcase, but stopped short of providing specifics. A look at the recently recently confirmed Assassin’s Creed Mirage seemed a certainty, but a new report has suggested the publisher might in fact have a lot more its ready to share.…
Mario Kart Tour has made Nintendo an estimated $293m globally to become the company’s second highest grossing mobile game. That’s according to data from reliable app store analytics company Sensor Tower, from across both the App Store and Google Play store. The estimates follow the recent news that Nintendo will remove gacha elements from Mario Kart Tour, which allow players to spend money on randomised rewards. This will be replaced by a rotating item shop. 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…
Mike Fahey’s bio on Kotaku read, “Lover of video games, keyboards, toys, snacks and other unsavory things.” All of this is true, as any of his legion of commited readers could tell you. But in one of the all time great Fahey pieces, he offered an even better description: “I am a 6’6″ man with a vivid imagination and strange thought processes.” This is the Fahey that his readers truly knew – a gentle, sweet-natured giant with a brilliant mind and an eye for the angle that nobody else had thought of – a willingness to monitor a situation and…
Toby Fox has confirmed that the next chapter of RPG Deltarune won’t be out this year. The creator shared the news on his Twitter account, saying: “We won’t be able to put out any new chapters of Deltarune this year.” However, he does confirm that something is on the way to celebrate the anniversary of the second chapter and previous game Undertale next week. 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.
Kinetic Games has released an updated development roadmap for its deliciously spooky ghost hunting sim Phasmophobia, with the game’s custom difficulty feature now set to release this month with plenty more on the way. As Kinetic explains in a new Steam post, the team has now revised its early access roadmap for 2022 and beyond to “more accurately represents what we achieved this year, and what we plan to do moving forwards” following a longer-than-expected development period for Phasmophobia’s VR rework, which eventually arrived in April. Kinetic has released some smaller updates since then to keep players appropriately terrified but…
This Saturday brings another edition of Ubisoft Forward, showcasing the publisher’s roster of upcoming games, and in the run-up to its arrival Ubisoft has shared more on what viewers can expect to see when tuning in, including a look at the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. As previously announced, Ubisoft Forward gets underway on Twitch, YouTube, and Ubisoft’s website this Saturday, 10th September, from 8pm in the UK.Those with a little more time on their hands can start even earlier, with a pre-show scheduled to run from 7.35pm BST, promising news on the latest seasons, characters, and content from…
The Torchlight series is returning – although this time as a free-to-play game for PC, iPhone and Android devices. An early Steam version of the game is available to download now, as part of a closed beta test before a full launch next month, some time in October. (You can request access via its Steam page.) There’s a whiff of Diablo Immortal to Torchlight Infinite, which has numerous ways to spend money within the game. Monetisation will include a season pass, monthly pass, auction house and premium currency bundles. Spending and progress will be reset at the end of the…
Splatoon 3 has already leaked online, including major spoilers for the game’s story mode. We won’t be posting any spoilers here so if you want to stay spoiler-free before the game’s official release, be wary when searching for Splatoon 3 on YouTube or social media. Splatoon 3 will release on 9th September, but leaks were being posted online almost a week before that date. 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.
The next Assassin’s Creed game, set in Baghdad, will feature crowds of people on its streets for the first time since the widely-panned Paris-set Unity. That’s according to a fresh round of leaked information on the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage from well-established Ubisoft leaker j0hnathan, who has now had his Twitter account suspended. Among those details includes the fact that Baghdad will be divided into four separate zones, each with a boss to defeat, but also be surrounded by a desert area, oases and rivers. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This…