Author: Garry Smith
When was the last time you played a game on Facebook? Well, Meta is hoping to tempt you back to its platform with an interesting prospect: a daily, choice-based narrative experience taking place over the course of the next four months, titled The Walking Dead: Last Mile. A massively interactive live event (MILE), the project is a collaboration between publisher Genvid, which specialises in these part-game, part-interactive stream, part-live show creations, with design and narrative input from The Walking Dead’s team at Skybound and funding from Facebook. The big sell is that Last Mile is a new chapter of The…
A new novel based in the Halo universe is coming to stores on 9th August.This book, which is called Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, will act as a prequel to Halo Infinite and tells of the six months before Master Chief wakes up and the game’s campaign begins.It sounds like this will offer up some useful bits of background information for those who started Halo Infinite and found themselves a touch confused by what exactly was going on. While some of this history can be picked up in-game thanks to some well-placed audio logs, it could definitely be made clearer for…
Welcome to the landmark 69th edition of DF Direct Weekly, our regular scheduled show where the team takes a break from their various projects to talk about the latest gaming technology news. This week’s offering kicks off with detailed impressions of Horizon Forbidden West’s 1.17 patch, introducing support for 120Hz features on PlayStation 5 including VRR (variable refresh rate) features for the performance mode and a ‘balanced’ alternative to the quality mode, running at 40 frames per second.We were looking to produce come ‘bespoke’ content for this update because it’s actually rather good, but ultimately opted against it because what…
Yes, there’s another weird and wonderful way to play through Elden Ring – playing the piano. Omunchkin13 posted a video over on reddit of his Elden Ring completion using a piano as a controller. While the piano still plays music, don’t expect a full concerto – it’s more experimental jazz – but this is still a very impressive feat. 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.
Kojima Productions has threatened legal action over social media posts identifying Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima as the man who assassinated ex-Japanese prime ministor Shinzo Abe. Abe, the highly-respected former leader of Japan, died last week in a shooting that shocked Japan and prompted international outcry. A 41-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene. Over the weekend, internet users began to circulate an old photograph of Kojima online, identifying the image as that of the suspect. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Low sales of the Wii U weren’t the only reason Nintendo decided to not offer dual GamePad support on its somewhat underwhelming console. The decision was also due to a general lack of suitable games to actually make its implementation worthwhile, former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aimé has said.Speaking to MinnMax, Fils-Aimé stated: “What was interesting is that with the Wii U, there was a full development plan for all of the interesting interactions and all of the interesting capabilities that the system could do, and so in that case, technically could multiple gamepads communicate with a Wii U?…
Professional gamer Philip “ImperialHal” Dosen hit the headlines this weekend after he held off from shooting an opponent in a competitive match when he realised the enemy player had been disconnected. As spotted by Apex Legends Intel, ImperialHal was competing in the Apex Legends Global Series 2022 – a championship with a cool $2 million up for grabs – when he spied a lone player off in the distance. After monitoring them for a couple of seconds, he told his TSM teammates: “Dont shoot him. Don’t shoot him, bro! He’s crashed”. You can watch the full exchange in the tweet…
A developer who worked on Naughty Dog’s upcoming PS5 remake of The Last of Us Part 1 has hit back at claims it’s “just a cash grab”. In a tweet on his personal Twitter account, Robert Morrison – whose credits also include Resident Evil 7, Injustice 2, and Santa Monica Studios’ 2018 God of War reboot – countered such claims by insisting it is “the most meticiously built and crafted project” that’s had “the highest level of care and attention to detail possible”. Animator Morrison – who worked on The Last of Us Part 1 and now works at fellow…
Sony’s PlayStation 3 first launched in November 2006 and right from the get-go, the platform holder faced a stiff challenge in the form of Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Here we were looking at two machines of the same generation, Sony’s fiercest rival launching a full year ahead of the competition – and packing a hardware advantage in the form of its Xenos GPU from AMD. With hardware locked years prior, how did Sony react? Part of the marketing response was to concentrate on something Xbox could not deliver: full support for the new HDMI digital video standard, including the ability to…
Blizzard has confirmed that it will be tweaking both Mercy and Symmetra in the Overwatch 2 beta mid-cycle patch. In a blog on the official website, Blizzard said that the team has been hard at work “compiling player feedback, [and] squashing bugs”, and revealed that part of this will be revisiting Mercy’s changes in light of fan feedback. Healer Mercy received some minor nerfs when the beta test kicked off, such as her character automatically launching into the air when reaching an ally. Now, however, Blizzard is changing it so that you can decide if and when to jump… even…