Author: Garry Smith
It’s Monday, it’s DF Direct Weekly – which as the name heavily implies – is Digital Foundry’s weekly show, where team members take a break from their current projects to discuss the latest gaming and technology news. What’s excited us the most this week is the ‘shadow drop’ of Valve’s Portal and Portal 2 for Nintendo Switch. These games are timeless: brilliant examples of excellent design that don’t actually require immense hardware to look and play wonderfully. Nevertheless, it’s great to see 720p60 and 1080p60 gameplay from the Switch in mobile and docked permutations respectively – and we’ll be covering…
A fan made video focusing on 2013’s The Last of Us highlights some of the most impressive details hidden within the game that many may have missed. Ahead of The Last of Us Part 1’s release for the PS5 (and eventually PC), content creator Speclizer has revisited the first game in Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic world. They have since shared a compilation of the incredible inclusions from Naughty Dog, many of which can be easily missed on your average playthrough. I am talking about things like Joel’s buttons being embossed with the words “Naughty Button” or being able to spot Tess’…
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s Madagascan jeep chase almost featured a stunt made famous during Sean Connery’s sixth outing as James Bond (I mean, why not, Drake does look pretty sharp in a dinner jacket after all).The stunt in question comes from the 1971 film Diamonds are Forever, where Sean Connery’s Bond tips his vehicle onto two wheels to get through a tight gap (something those in pursuit are, of course, unable to pull off). “We actually prototyped doing that [during A Thief’s End’s jeep chase],” Uncharted 4’s co-lead designer Kurt Margenau reflected during a recent chat with Couch Soup.…
FaZe Clan member Cented has been booted out for using discriminatory language. A clip of Cented using the N word has surfaced online, leading to the ban. “FaZe is constantly evolving and we expect our members to do the same,” reads a statement on Twitter from the group. 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.
Political parties in the Netherlands have broadly backed a new attempt to block the sale of video game loot boxes in the country. Six parties say they will support the motion, which would bring Dutch law largely in line with Belgium – where loot boxes were outlawed back in 2018 (thanks, Neowin). The motion describes loot boxes as “a form of gambling” and states “children in video games are manipulated to purchase” such items via in-game microtransactions. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Monster Hunter Rise numbers are soaring on Steam following the release of the Sunbreak expansion. At the time of release on PC in January this year, the game had a concurrent player count of 134,262; now that’s close to doubling at 231,360 – and it continues to rise. Sunbreak is a huge new expansion to the game, adding master rank hunts, a plethora of new items, and returning monsters to defeat. 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.
Surprise, Sony fans! Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to PS4 in the West… a full decade after it first release in Japan on PC. The ARPG will debut on PS4 on 31st August, six years after it arrived on PS4 in Japan and over a year later than it arrived in the West on Xbox and PC. Like the versions on other consoles, it will be cross-platform compatible and free-to-play, and carry the “New Genesis” sub-title with fully localised text and character voices in English (thanks, Polygon). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to…
Bandai Namco has dropped a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming tactical battler, Digimon Survive, which finally releases on 29th July, 2022. Digimon Survive – which “blends visual novel storytelling with tactical battle elements” – has been a long time coming, having been formally delayed three times to “allocate more time to development” and “enhance the quality of the game”. Featuring over 100 Digimon, this latest game in the Digimon series features a world map that is divided into areas and locations which you will need to scan in order to find “glitches” for clues and items. Read more Source…
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) is over for another year, netting a staggering $3,018,320.49 with donations still coming in – that’s almost £2.5 million. In all, the event showcased 134 different speedruns with games such as Left 4 Dead 2, Super Mario World, Portal 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, to name but a few – and racked up over 42,000 individual donations. Summer Games Done Quick returned this summer with more charity speedruning attempts and an in-person event to complement its online component for the first time in two years in Bloomington, Minnesota. Read more Source…
Glen Schofield is feeling relaxed. It’s been, you sense, a whirlwind few weeks for the Dead Space creator, his new team having finally put out the first glimpse at its stylish, slick and incredibly gory space horror Calisto Protocol at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest – a reveal that marks a significant milestone in a project spun up some three years ago alongside new studio Striking Distance. “It feels like freedom,” Schofield says as we chat in the sun in an annex to Summer Games Fest’s LA venue. “It always feels that way, but somehow this one was more cooped…