Author: Garry Smith

Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks’ action-horror title Ghostwire: Tokyo will reportedly take up just 20GB of space on your PC hard drive.Surprised? Me, too. I spend a lot of time here reporting on new games taking up more and more space on our PCs and consoles, so it’s a thoroughly pleasant surprise to be able to report that despite its “next-gen” tag – Ghostwire: Tokyo is a timed PS5 console exclusive – Ghostwire demands comparatively very little space. Read more Source – eurogamer.net

I’ve put about as many hours into MMORPGs as I have fingers on both hands, so perhaps I’m not the best person to pass judgement on Zenith: The Last City. Nevertheless, this incredibly ambitious VR exclusive from indie developers Ramen VR has been creating quite a buzz over the last week or so, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about for this week’s VR Corner.You can watch me bumble my way through the first few hours of this epic online quest-em-up in the video below. In it, you’ll get a taste of some of the early…

In the 30 years since Akihiro Suzuki started at Koei, he’s spent 20 of them overseeing Dynasty Warriors – progenitor of the musou genre, one of gaming’s longest-running series, and one whose every entry bar the fifth Suzuki has been involved in. It’s a success that the team could never really have anticipated – how could they, given how the series had its start in a different genre entirely. Released on the original PlayStation back in 1997, the first Dynasty Warriors was a Soul Calibur-like one-on-one fighting game and was met with positive reviews – so much so that Omega…

Satya Nadella has downplayed the likelihood of Microsoft’s enormous $69bn Activision Blizzard buyout being blocked by the US Federal Trade Commission. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nadella said the deal should be viewed in the context of the video games industry market – where Microsoft is not top dog.Read more Source – eurogamer.net

Blizzard Entertainment’s long-running Warcraft franchise will be making its way to mobile later this year, according to a newly released quarterly earnings report from Activision.As things currently stand, there’s not a lot of information to go on, with Activision only saying Blizzard is “planning substantial new content for the Warcraft franchise in 2022” that will see it deliver “all-new mobile Warcraft content into players’ hands for the first time”. The project is highlighted separately from World of Warcraft and Hearthstone, both of which will also be getting “new experiences” this year, according to Activision.Read more Source – eurogamer.net

Dying Light 2 is a true graphics juggernaut that shines brightest on PC. Yes, it’s a cross-gen title for sure, but one where Techland’s C-Engine allows for scalability well beyond the limitations of the last-gen machines – and perhaps even their current-gen alternatives too. That’s where high-end PC hardware comes to the fore, where Dying Light 2 deploys a range of hardware accelerated ray tracing features that radically transform the game, with only a small, limited sub-set of RT features ending up in the PS5 and Series X versions. Yes, you can play this game and get a good experience…

Dying Light 2: Stay Human has had a brilliant launch, with initial numbers on Steam passing 160,000 players.The latest figures show that, even with a somewhat mixed bag of reviews, there is definitely enthusiasm for Techland’s zombie ridden, parkour powered brawl. On its launch, Dying Light 2 saw 160,202 concurrent players on Steam (via Benji Sales). To put this into perspective, that is 3.5 times that of Dying Light 1’s all-time peak, and 50 percent bigger than that of Capcom’s Resident Evil Village.Read more Source – eurogamer.net

In November 2021, narrative designer Megnha Jayanth posted a transcript of a talk entitled “White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design” online. In it she argues that games are deeply rooted in Anglo-American and European imperialism. It’s a complex argument, and I highly recommend you read the whole essay, but there is one point in particular I latched onto – games, according to Jayanth, are difficult to extricate from capitalism and colonialism, seeing as the tastemaking cultures in the industry are both.There are many ways in which capitalism has an influence on the industry; here I’m going to focus…

Nearly eight years into the Sims 4’s life and the DLC show no sign of slowing. Following the arrival of this week’s vibrant Carnaval Streetwear Kit, a new leak has seemingly revealed extensive details on the life sim’s previously teased new wedding-themed Game Pack.Suspicions were raised that a new wedding-focussed pack was coming back in January, when EA teased its upcoming Sims 4 content plans for the first three months of 2022. That reveal promised a “game pack that throws a party for love”, and fans’ immediate thoughts of wedding bells now appear to have been by confirmed by a…

Co-op platformer It Takes Two was widely praised by critics when it launched last March, even managing to secure a place in many an end-of-year best-of list in 2021; more than that, though, it’s continued to resonate with players, and developer Hazelight Studios has now announced the game has surpassed the five million sales mark across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.It Takes Two, if you’re unfamiliar, follows the adventures of Cody and May, a human couple preparing to divorce, who are forced to work together after being turned into living dolls. In gameplay terms, that translates to a wonderfully…