Author: Garry Smith
The Savvy Gaming Group, which is backed by Saudi Arabia’s controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF), has bought the ESL for $1bn. The group has also snapped up popular esports platform Faceit for $500m, and will now merge the two. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
With Apex Legends’ 12th season coming in fast, developer Respawn Entertainment has officially unveiled the battle royale shooter’s next hero: Fuse’s one-time pal Mad Maggie.Maggie first entered the realm of Apex Legends lore a little over a year ago today, as part of Season 8 newcomer Walter ‘Fuse’ Fitzroy’s Stories from the Outlands animated introduction. Here, players saw the demolitions expert spending some quality time with Maggie, his childhood friend, until the pair had a disagreement that left him missing an arm.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Stranger of Paradise is a funny old thing. Revealed last year with an eyebrow-raising trailer in which chaos reigned and with a playable demo stumbling out soon after, it soon became the butt of online jokes – though over time and with a little bit of added context a fascinating retelling of the original Final Fantasy has emerged, with Garland, the evil knight of the first game, cast in the starring role. With Koei Tecmo on development duties, there’s more than a touch of Nioh to its hard-edged action, while Square Enix keeps the Final Fantasy references coming thick and…
Rare will be outlining Sea of Thieves’ “biggest year yet” during a special 2022 preview livestream airing this Thursday, 27th January.This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that phrase, of course; Sea of Thieves executive producer Joe Neate also teased the multiplayer pirate adventure’s “biggest year yet” ahead of 2021 – a claim that seems entirely reasonable in hindsight, given that last year saw Sea of Thieves introducing everything from a sizeable map expansion beneath the waves to a wildly cinematic Pirates of the Caribbean crossover. And that’s not even touching on the likes of new enemies, a new treasure…
Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, has officially announced Nagoshi Studio – his new Tokyo-based development house that’s part of Chinese technology company NetEase.Nagoshi announced his departure from Yakuza publisher Sega in October last year, when it was first revealed he would be joining NetEase. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Nintendo is attempting to scrub the internet of a fan-made Pokémon FPS, footage of which began to bubble up online last week. As chatter around the bloody Pokémon fan project grew, Nintendo began to take action, issuing copyright claims to block footage on YouTube and Twitter (thanks Kotaku). Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Warning: this article discusses trafficking and child sex abuse.”In empathy for the millions of girls who disappear from the face of the earth.” -Missing: Game for a Cause, 2015.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Following reports of XP farming, Battlefield 2042 says it has removed its fan-made zombies mode.Making the announcement on Twitter, Ripple Effect Studios’ Justin Weibe – who works as senior design director on the shooter’s latest instalment – says the plan is to “fix it in the future” and “keep it in alignment with standard game progression”, adding that to do so, the team has also “tightened [its] review process”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Halo Infinite players who lost XP during recent server outages are seemingly unlikely to have their rewards restored.Confirmation came via a customer support representative who responded to a player’s queries about lost XP, the response for which was then shared on the game’s subreddit community.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Another Apex Legends Wraith glitch has popped up, this time allowing players to draw their weapons and deal damage whilst the fan-favourite character is teleporting.Ordinarily, Wraith cannot equip weapons in the void, let alone unleash upon suspecting opponents whilst essentially invisible, but players have discovered that they can take pop shots at enemies if they expertly pull off a nifty manoeuvre that uses both Wraith’s Dimensional Rift ultimate skill and her Into the Void tactical. Read more Source – eurogamer.net