Author: Garry Smith
In light of the intense criticism following yesterday’s news that Team17 was launching an “environmentally friendly” Worms NFT project, the publisher has announced it will no longer be going ahead with its plans.”Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project,” the company wrote in a statement on Twitter. “We have listened to our Teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space.”Read more Source – eurogamer.net
With early retail copies of Dying Light 2 now out in the wild, developer Techland has asked fans who’ve received the game ahead of Friday’s official launch to hold off playing until then.”Fellow survivors,” the developer wrote in a message on Twitter, “we see that some of you got an access to the retail copies of Dying Light 2 before the release date… We understand you want to start exploring the City ASAP and we couldn’t be happier!”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
OlliOlli World, the ambitious new entry in Roll7’s acclaimed skateboarding series, is just a week away from release, and the developer is marking the final countdown to launch with news that Hollywood star Danny Trejo will be making an appearance in-game.Trejo is certainly prolific, having featured in over 250 film and TV roles (including the likes of Machete and From Dusk Till Dawn), and his video game credits are steadily expanding too. His OlliOlli World cameo will be the actor’s second video game appearance in a little over two months, having been given a starring role in his own Far…
Free browser-based puzzler and cultural phenomenon Wordle has been purchased by the New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.Wordle – which challenges players to puzzle out a daily five-letter word within six guesses using colour-coded clues – was released last October by developer Josh Wardle. Initial interest was modest, but its popularity has skyrocketed in recent weeks, growing from 300,000 users around the middle of January to millions of players.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Over on the Eurogamer YouTube channel we’ve carved out quite the niche for ourselves when it comes to yelping our way through co-operative horror games. With all the practice we’ve had, it stands to reason that we’d be pretty good at surviving a spirit-based onslaught by now, but how did we fare as a team of ghost hunters when we were pitted against actual players in the role of vengeful ghosts, rather than some clunky AI? Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Here are some of the absolute best PC gaming headsets available, based on a full decade of testing. We’ve got wired and wireless options, cheap headsets that won’t break the bank and premium options that justify their higher prices. As well as the big names like Turtle Beach, Razer and Logitech, we’ve also highlighted headsets from smaller firms like Epos and Audeze that are absolutely worth knowing about. The idea here is to give you a few options to choose from without being overwhelming, so that you can pick up a new headset at the right time – whether that’s…
Since Microsoft Flight Simulator’s stunning debut toward the end of 2020, developer Asobo has been steadily finessing its already breathtaking map with the introduction of numerous free World Updates, each focused on giving a new part of the globe a glorious makeover – and now it’s Australia’s turn to receive all the attention.World Update 7 – which follows similar geographical makeovers for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States – is available now on Xbox and PC, bringing with it updated satellite imagery, a new digital…
Sony’s previously announced partnership with Discord has finally reached fruition, and PlayStation users can start linking their PSN accounts with the chat platform from today.Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan formally announced Discord integration for PlayStation Network last May, saying the companies were aiming to bring “the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year”. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear how far that integration might actually go, but now, in a new post on the Discord website, all has been revealed.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Bandai Namco is resurrecting its Dark Pictures Anthology Friend’s Pass promotion once more, enabling owners of the three-strong horror series to invite a friend to play through any Shared Story mode for free until the end of February.All three Dark Pictures Anthology titles – Man of Medan, Little Hope, and House of Ashes – are eligible this time around, and players that own any of them on Steam, Xbox, or PlayStation can invite one friend to complete one full playthrough of the co-operative Shared Story mode for free per game. Own all three games and that’s three full playthroughs.Read more…
I’ve been sucked into Vampire Survivors like a stream of blood pouring into a fanged mouth. I’ve done well in the game and I’ve done badly, and what I’ve come to realise is that every time, I’m playing for one moment. One moment which entirely changes the course of the game: power evolution.I hope you read that in a dramatic voice.Read more Source – eurogamer.net