Author: Garry Smith
Returnal developer Housemarque is hopeful the game’s arrival on PlayStation Plus will help it find a bigger audience. Speaking to Eurogamer last night at the BAFTA video game awards, Housemarque managing director Ilari Kuittinen said it was “brilliant” that Returnal will be added to Sony’s forthcoming revamped subscription service. “As you know, it’s been a while since the release. And we know the people who get into [subscriptions] play a lot,” 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…
Crytek has issued a “quick update” and an apology for the problems plaguing Hunt: Showdown’s recent event, Traitor’s Moon.In a statement posted to the company’s social media channels, the developer acknowledged that “several issues have prevented some of you from comfortably participating in the event” following “server issues, bugs, and for console, sensitivity issues”.”These have all been very frustrating and we understand the impact that the downtimes and issues have had for many of you,” the statement admitted. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only…
Immersion is easily virtual reality’s biggest strength over what you might call flat gaming. When done well, VR can whisk us away to familiar worlds, storybook fantasies, a galaxy far far away, even the mountainside for a quick spot of climbing. Putting players directly inside these 360 degree spaces, there’s an utter joy to the medium that can’t be recreated on a TV or PC monitor. Often, that hinges on intuitive use of motion controls – and in VR, hand movement is integral. Some VR games support traditional controllers but, honestly, they’ve never done the format justice. Direct hand and…
Digital Extremes has finally set a date for Warframe’s Angels of the Zariman expansion, with the free-to-play sci-fi shooter’s first big update of 2022 coming to all platforms on 27th April. Angels of the Zariman focuses its multitude of new additions around the lore-critical Zariman Ten Zero, an Orokin ship that vanished during a Void-Jump accident. Front and centre of the update is a new instalment in Warframe’s single-player, story driven Cinematic Quest saga, which this time sets the scene by taking Tenno aboard the Zariman Ten Zero.Then, once the mission is complete, players will gain access to Chrysalith, a…
Tired of those infernal video games, always insisting on being so darned interactive? Well, developer Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology) has you covered in its next horror title The Quarry, which comes with its very own Movie Mode. Movie Mode, just as it sounds, lets players (or rather viewers, in this instance) watch the entirety of The Quarry’s summer-camp-flavoured horror in linear, non-interactive fashion – meaning you can simply plop your bot on the sofa, grab your popcorn with two controller-free hands, and soak up its scares with only minimal exertions from yourself. As detailed in a…
This week’s big Unreal Engine event brought word of a new Tomb Raider game set to made using Unreal Engine 5, and saw Epic Games’ powerful game toolkit made freely available to all. There wasn’t a lot of news for Fortnite players – at least, not on the surface. But eagle-eyed Fishstick fans did subsequently spot something: a brief glimpse at a list of Fortnite file names left open on a strategically-placed Epic Games computer. Zoom in and you can make out references to “Vader” and “Family Guy”. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their…
Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett wants Lara Croft to have less father issues in the forthcoming next game. Speaking to Eurogamer at last night’s BAFTAs, Pratchett confirmed she’s not working on the newly announced title, but is “very excited to see what they do with Lara next”. “We had a really fun time evolving her character, so I would like to see probably less father issues,” she said. “And that’s coming from me!” 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…
Football Manager 2022 is now free-to-play on Steam and Xbox until Monday, 11th April. Head to Steam or the Microsoft Store to download Sports Interactive’s football management sim. Official social media accounts say Football Manager 2022 will be free on the Epic Games Store, too, but it currently isn’t. According to the Football Manager Twitter account, there are some problems the developer is trying to work through. 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.
Square Enix has trademarked Tactics Ogre: Reborn in Japan, sparking speculation a remaster of the wonderful medieval-themed tactical role-playing game Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together will soon be announced. The trademark, spotted by Twitter’s Renka and shared by the ever-watchful Nibel, is being paired with the Tactics Ogre remaster that appeared on last year’s infamous GeForce Now leak. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together first launched on the Super Famicom in Japan in 1995. It later came out on the Sega Saturn and, in the west, the PlayStation. It was remade for PSP in 2010. Read more Source -…
BAFTA has announced the 2022 winners of its annual Games Awards, with developer Housemarque’s sci-fi shooter rogue-like Returnal leaving the show most laden, having taken home the gong across a grand total of four categories, including one for Best Game.Alongside that Best Game award, Returnal came top in BAFTA’s Audio Achievement amd Music categories, while Jane Perry scored a win in the Performer in a Leading Role category for her portrayal of Returnal protagonist Selene Vassos.Returnal wasn’t the only multi-award winner, however; Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart successfully beat the competition in BAFTA’s Animation and Technical Achievement categories, while Hazelight…