Author: Garry Smith
Halo Infinite’s player count has dropped below that of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the first time on Steam. The franchise’s latest title, which was released late last year, has steadily shed its player base as it became frustrated with the lack of content updates in addition to ongoing issues surrounding the game’s monetisation. As it currently stands, The Master Chief Collection had a peak player count of 9123 over the past 24 hours, in contrast to the 7842 players on Halo Infinite. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article…
Sonic Speed Simulator is a new Sonic the Hedgehog game available to play now as part of Roblox. The official, Sega-backed project lets you play as Sonic and race against friends through various worlds. Regular weekly updates will add more to the game over the coming weeks. It also marks the first time a well-known AAA game character has been officially featured in Roblox. 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.
Yesterday, I published a piece looking back at 10 years of Fez, and while writing it, I couldn’t help but wonder what the game’s creator, Phil Fish, was up to now. Just to recap: Fish left the games industry not long after Fez’s release, cancelling Fez 2 in the process. He then partially re-emerged with indie publishing label Polytron Partners a year later, in 2014, but was driven away again by repeated harassment from GamerGate. The last we saw of him was a collaboration on 2016 VR game SuperHypeCube.I thought I’d drop him a line for editorial process’ sake, then,…
Developer DICE is readying to launch a major new update for Battlefield 2042, with the beleaguered shooter’s 4.0 release promising to deliver “400+” fixes and improvements when it arrives some time next week. Although full patch notes won’t be available until next week’s launch, DICE community manager Kevin Johnson (thanks VGC) has shared some of the release’s key features on Twitter. Attachments will, for instance, receive an overhaul in Update 4.0, with DICE aiming to ensure all feel unique and have an impact on loadout choices and gunplay.Additionally, XP for Support Actions and Teamplay has been balanced “to ensure teamwork…
If you’re hankering for some additional letter-based puzzling to fill the void between your daily bursts of Wordle, Mattel and developer Scopely might well have the answer – as the grandaddy of word games, Scrabble, is given brand-new web version to mark what is apparently this year’s National Scrabble Day in the US. Scrabble Web, as this new online version of the classic word game is sensibly and unfussily known, delivers all the letter-plopping thrills of the board game original, albeit it in a free, easily accessible new digital guise. And while it might be relatively low on frills right…
The Witcher 3’s long-awaited PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S version has been delayed indefinitely following CD Projekt’s decision to move its development in-house.An enhanced version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC – which would include the base game and its various expansions – was initially announced in September 2020, with CD Projekt promising to deliver the likes of ray-tracing and faster load times. All this would be made available as both a standalone version and as a free upgrade to those that already owned the game on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.It…
Chernobylite developer The Farm 51 is “heartbroken” at current events in Ukraine. Speaking to PressPlayNews, studio creative director Wojciech Pazdur discussed the war, as well as the future of the game. “This war, like any other, is an unnecessary violence which takes lives of innocent people and forces millions to flee and abandon their homes while those who stayed have to fight for their lives during the humanitarian crisis,” he said. 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.
World of Warcraft maker Blizzard is polling fans of the franchise on what they’d like to see offered in the somewhat-inevitable Wrath of the Lich King Classic. Options in the marketing survey obtained by Wowhead include digital toys, pets and mounts, as well as character transfers, level boosts and game time. Several price points are mentioned, including $50 (£38) and $30 (£23) options. 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.
One scientist has answered the question surely on everyone’s minds since The Elder Scrolls 5 released over a decade ago – just what would Skyrim’s skeletons look like if they were alive today? Well, it turns out, they would look like disgruntled cavemen.Thanks to facial reconstruction technology, Twitter user Sulkalmakh from the Ancestral Whispers cranial reconstruction research team brought Skyrim’s bony boys to life, as it were.In a playful tweet from April Fool’s Day (via IGN), the user shared their “Facial reconstruction of an ancient Atmoran from Saarthal, dated to the late Merethic Era”. This may well have gone over…
Last March, John Wick director Chad Stahelski announced he was working on a movie adaptation of PlayStation samurai adventure Ghost of Tsushima, and now, a little over a year later, a writer for the project has been named.As reported by Deadline, the new Ghost of Tsushima film adaptation will be penned by Takashi Doscher, who previously wrote and directed romantic sci-fi romance, Only, alongside ESPN documentary A Fighting Chance.Deadline says the adaptation is still in “early development” and, as such, details remain scarce. However, the publication previously confirmed the project – a collaboration between Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions -…