Author: Garry Smith
The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 wrapped up on Wednesday and revealed a ton of new games on their way to Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2022 and beyond. From Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to 48 new DLC courses being added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to a remaster of Chrono Cross, there was a lot to keep track of.To ensure you don’t miss a single highlight from the livestream, we’ve gathered up all the biggest news and trailers from the latest Nintendo Direct below. Let us know which reveal was your favorite!Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Announced for September 2022Xenoblade…
Some five years after its original announcement, Telltale Games’ long-awaited The Wolf Among Us 2 has just received a first proper trailer, along with the news it’ll be launching in 2023.The Wolf Among Us 2 has, of course, had an eventful journey to reach this point; the original game – a five-episode story-driven adventure based on Bill Willingham’s Fables comic book – released almost a decade ago in 2013 to much acclaim, and the demand for a sequel was immediate. The news fans had been waiting for eventually arrived in 2017, with confirmation The Wolf Among Us 2 was in…
A smaller, standalone Assassin’s Creed game focused on stealth gameplay will launch later this year or in early 2023, and feature popular Valhalla character Basim. That’s according to a new Bloomberg report, which cites sources close to development. Eurogamer has heard of this project also, as well as early plans for it to include the city of Baghdad.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco has pledged that the game’s online servers will be available at launch, following the introduction of “necessary security measures”.The news comes in the wake of the extended and ongoing downtime for the Dark Souls series’ PC online servers following reports of an exploit which allowed remote code execution (essentially, something that would allow someone else to take control of your PC). Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Ubisoft has collaborated with The Sandbox to bring Rabbids to its “metaverse”.What is The Sandbox? “The Sandbox is a community-driven platform where creators can monetise voxel assets and gaming experiences on the blockchain,” according to its website.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Lost Ark is already proving incredibly popular ahead of its full release on 11th February.The Korean-developed ARPG MMO is on its way to the West courtesy of Amazon Games, following huge success in Korea, Japan and Russia over the past two years.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
“Fossils are aesthetically beautiful, and I love them for being physical reminders of the long history of life on this planet. Holding them makes me feel connected to the past.”These are the words of Brady Soglin, whose boyhood love for fossils took him to places ranging from Mazon Creek, a swampland sixty miles from his native Chicago, to Solnhofen, a Bavarian geological hotspot. A long-term hobby, he intertwined it with another – creating games – to form PC puzzler Fossil Corner, my favourite chill hidden gem of 2021. There’s much I like about the game, and much that piqued my…
After two of these roguelite DLCs so far, the formula for Far Cry 6’s villain-centric expansions has become predictable: you enter a character’s mind, confronting their demons and learning more about their backstory while shooting everything in sight. Thus, Joseph: Collapse has a lot of the same strengths and shortcomings of Vaas’ Insanity and Pagan Min’s Control that came before it. Unlike those, though, this final entry in the trilogy has the critical flaw of starring the weakest villain of the bunch – by quite a wide margin – in Joseph Seed. The Zen-like militant cult leader from Far Cry…
2022 so far: if you’re not being clobbered with an NFT, you’re being smacked in the chops by a metaverse, and the latest company to hop aboard the latter train is Bandai Namco, which is building a £96m virtual space where customers can experience “entertainment on an IP axis”.As spotted by VGC, Bandai Namco made the announcement as part of its newly released mid-term plan spanning April 2022 to March 2025. In the document, the publisher introduces a new speech-bubble-inspired logo (said to express “the potential of the brand to connect with people around the world through dreams, fun and…
A handful of teases and a couple of leaks later, EA has formally unveiled The Sims 4’s new wedding-themed Game Pack with first official details and a frankly adorable new trailer; it’s called My Wedding Stories and launches for PC and consoles next Thursday, 17th February.The bulk of My Wedding Stories was accurately leaked at the tail-end of last week, but for those of you not perusing Eurogamer late into Friday night, the gist is that it gives players the tools needed to craft a surprisingly comprehensive wedding experience for their Sims – right from the proposal all the way…