Author: Garry Smith
There were sad faces all round when Microsoft announced Scalebound, its highly anticipated monster-bothering collaboration with Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames, had been cancelled, leaving fans of the studio to ponder what might have been if events had transpired differently. And it seems Platinum itself is still eager to see the project reach fruition, now saying it “wants to discuss [its resurrection] with Microsoft properly”.Scalebound first surfaced during Microsoft’s E3 showcase back in 2014, promising to transport players to a hostile world where – in the role of a cocky teen with a massive sword – they’d take on enormous creatures, with…
My basic, idiotic take on Mondrian is that he’s one of the hardest artists to see. I don’t mean that you have to climb a lot of stairs or find your way through a maze. I don’t mean that curators like to bombard you with dry ice as you approach. I mean that, once I look at a Mondrian – the classic grid-based Compositions kind of Mondrian – it’s always been quite hard for me to really take it in. His squares and lines and blocks of primary colour have been thoroughly co-opted by the advertising and design industries. He…
Many Fortnite fans may be left disappointed, as it has been revealed that Epic’s battle royale will not be making a showing on Valve’s Steam Deck.Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, was recently asked by Twitter user Stormy178 if there were “any plans to update [Fortnite] to make Proton/Wine be compatible with EAC and BattleEye anti-cheat on Linux?”. To this, Sweeney replied with a swift no. He did, however, reiterate there is a “big effort underway to maximize Easy Anti Cheat compatibility with Steam Deck” (via PC Gamer).Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Despite originally launching all the way back in 2013, Grand Theft Auto V’s popularity shows no sign of waning; according to Take-Two latest quarterly earnings report, Rockstar’s irrepressible open-world opus has managed to shift another 5m copies since November, bringing its lifetime sales up to 160m – and the publisher also has a little more to say about NFTs too.Take-Two also offered updated numbers for the GTA series as a whole, which has now sold in over 370 million units – a rise of 15m since November. The publisher did not, however, share figures for its much-maligned GTA: The Trilogy…
Last March, Assassin’s Creed co-creator Jade Raymond unveiled Haven Entertainment Studios, a new independent developer that would be creating a brand-new IP for PlayStation – and now, just under a year later, early details on the project have emerged, calling it a “persistent and evolving online” game for PlayStation 5 and PC.That’s according to Montreal-based French-language publication Le Devoir (via Google Translate), which sheds a little more light on Haven’s ambitions – with accompanying quotes from Raymond and fellow co-founders – as part of a short profile piece on the studio. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Dying Light 2 follows the original in having multiple endings.There are essentially five outcomes in Dying Light 2 – but depending on certain story choices leading up to this point, you might see some differences in how Aiden concludes his journey.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Indie game platform itch.io has condemned NFTs.In a series of tweets, it called NFTs a “scam” and suggested supporters of the tokens should “reevaluate [their] life choices”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Techland has revealed imminent and upcoming hotfixes for Dying Light 2: Stay Human.Following a successful start on Steam that saw over 160,000 players embracing the chaos of Dying Light 2’s zombie infested Villedor, reports of numerous game breaking bugs have started making the rounds online.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Halo fans now rich in glittery bottles of nail polish have found themselves unable to redeem an accompanying Halo Infinite skin. Last month, Microsoft announced a deal with nail polish brand OPI and two of its games: Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5. Fans who bought bottles of the sparkly finger makeup would be rewarded with similar shades for their Spartan/car.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Co-op has finally arrived in Age of Empires 3.Players can now band together to experience “story-driven historical narratives and objectives”, including all the same gameplay you know “but tailored for the cooperative experiences”, as well as fully-voiced dialogue and enemy AI that can take on two opponents instead of just one.Read more Source – eurogamer.net