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Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has detailed how he expects the game developer and publisher will capitalise on blockchain technology in a new interview. Matsuda intimated that traditional game development, especially in the domestic Japanese market, is now “not enough” for the company, adding that he wants to “utilise the power of [autonomous game content] to create games that will continue to evolve” and use blockchain tech to incentivise any such user generated content. “In the future, we would like to try our hand at providing ‘autonomous game content’,” the president told Yahoo Japan (as translated by VGC). Read more…
Final Fantasy 14 producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, has apologised for ongoing issues with the MMORPG’s new housing lottery system that’s preventing players from winning any land. In a post on the game’s official website, Yoshida outlined what the team was doing to address the problem in which players are being told their bids were unsuccessful because there “were no participants in this lottery”, or that the winning number is “0”… even though no players can be assigned that number. “We understand that this is a major issue, and are prioritising our investigation into the matter,” Yoshida said. “We are…
Platinum Games’ beleaguered new release, Babylon’s Fall, is continuing to struggle just a month on from its release.As spotted by TechRadar, according to SteamCharts – a site that, predictably enough, charts the performance of games on Steam – the global concurrent player count for the new game dropped to just eight players on Wednesday 13th April. Its highest ever peak sits at just 1166 players. In the last 30 days, the average player count has been just 137 simultaneous people. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational…
Who remembers the winter of 1985? In the UK, it was one of the coldest for many years, although east-west tension was beginning to thaw as US president Ronald Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in November. I was 12 years old and unworried by historic political meetings or war in the middle east. All I wanted to do was play computer games. And I wanted to play them on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I’d first been introduced to the Speccy three years earlier. Growing up, everyone seemed to have that one friend whose parents bought them everything. Mine lived across…
No More Heroes 3 is headed to PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox consoles later this year. “Our favourite otaku assassin returns!” tweeted XSeed games. “Travis Touchdown has been forced out of retirement to defend not only Santa Destroy, but Earth itself! Bring on the beam katana and take on Travis’ toughest challenge yet in No More Heroes 3, coming this fall to PS4, PS5, Xbox, and PC!” As yet there’s been no word on a specific release date, but right now we can expect it sometime autumn 2022 – or Q3, if you’re in the southern hemisphere, of course. Read…
You can now hunt Easter eggs as well as ghosts in the latest Phasmophobia update. Hotfix 0.6.1.3, which is available now, introduces “bug fixes and a weekend Easter event” with every location hiding “several Easter eggs to hunt and find”. But it’s not just a meaningless holiday activity; collect all the eggs in every location – you can track how many you have beneath the map in the truck – and you’ll restore each team members’ sanity to 100 per cent, too. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated…
Child of Light director Patrick Plourde is the latest senior developer to announce they are leaving Ubisoft after almost 20 years at the company.The creative director – who has also worked on Watch Dogs 2, Far Cry 3, and Rainbow Six Vegas – announced his departure earlier this week, and confirmed he’s moving on to form his own “independent creative consultancy”. “R6 Vegas, AC, FC3, CoL, WD2… it’s been a privilege to collaborate with everyone at Ubi on these great games!” Plourde tweeted. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is…
Listen to every song from the Webby nominated video game, IGN 25: The Game. If you like what we’ve made here, please consider voting! https://bit.ly/38IxK21 Made in celebration of our 25th anniversary, we created a free game that has you play as the anthropomorphic D-pad known as Iggy in a side-scrolling platformer that lets you travel through the past 25 years in pop culture. Play and listen through two decades of entertainment history and avoid the dangers posed by every iconic video game, movie, and piece of technology of the last 25 years. https://www.ign.com/ign25thegame Music Composed by Mikhail Bespalov, Sergey…
If you feel like you need to see even more of Master Chief’s derriere after his naked TV debut last week, well I have good news – there is a mod that lets you play Halo Infinite in third person.The PC mod in question comes from Opulent Halo (via PC Gamer). While the mod is actually a few months old now, many have been recently diving back into Halo Infinite to see how Master Chief (at least his video game form) looks from this new angle. Perhaps Paramount has whetted some appetites?In a video showing off the mod in action,…
A new update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection has added “experimental” cross-platform co-op for both Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST. The feature will let anyone on PC, Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S play these games’ campaigns co-operatively online together. In patch notes, developer 343 Industries said the cross-play had been tested internally – though the company now needed “additional insight from real players with different networking setups”. If you experience issues, you’re encouraged to report them so 343 can improve the feature further. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners.…