Author: Garry Smith
343 Industries is continuing its reward system revamp by making Credits earnable in Halo Infinite’s Season 2’s battle pass. While as yet there’s no date on when the changes will be implemented – Season 2 is expected to come in around May 2022 – it’ll be welcomed news for Halo fans who’ve been unhappy that up until now, the only way to get Credits was to fork out your real-life cash.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Valve has confirmed that games using anti-cheat software Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) can now be run on Steam Deck.The update – which directly addresses developers with games on Steam – details how the team has worked in partnership with Epic to make it “simple” for PC games that use EAC to add Steam Deck support, which should, in turn, see more compatible games added to the upcoming handheld system.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
If you’d been hoping that you might get to lay your hands on the highly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls 6 later this year, you might have to adjust your expectations: according to a now suspiciously-deleted LinkedIn profile, the game is seemingly still in pre-production.The employment profile – which was reportedly updated in January 2022 – comes from a new starter at Bethesda, who reportedly joined the studio in talent acquisition just this month.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
League of Legends developer Riot has once again teamed up with Epic Games, this time to bring Vi from League of Legends spin-off show, Arcane, to Epic’s outrageously popular battle royale, Fortnite. It’s part of a wider partnership the two companies struck up towards the end of last year which introduced Vi’s sister Jinx to Fortnite last November. The new content will go live at 7pm US Eastern time, which is midnight tonight/tomorrow morning in the UK. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
A new PC mod for the original Final Fantasy 7 bumps up the frame rate to 60fps.As beloved as the original is, the frame rate is pretty shaky – often dropping to around 15fps during battle sequences.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Even after many years of playing video games, I still sometimes come across some I don’t quite know how to describe. It’s an exciting thing, but also deeply inconvenient when part of your job requires you to, well, describe games. Strange Horticulture calls itself a puzzle, but it isn’t a puzzle in any way I associate with the word. You are the horticulturist, nameless and mostly voiceless, welcoming patrons into a shop that consists of many shelves of different vibrantly coloured plants and flowers, as well as a desk with a drawer. As a player, you can interact with the…
God of War has been out on PC for a week and already modders are having plenty of fun.This is rapidly becoming the norm as PlayStation exclusive titles head to PC, what with bizarre mods added to Final Fantasy 7 Remake and a VR mode added to Horizon Zero Dawn.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
If you’ve been enjoying Amplitude Studios’ 4X strategy game Humankind but have a hankering for something a little more alternative in your historical timeline, you might like to cast your gaze in the direction of the developer’s newly released official Endless mod and map.As its name suggests, Humankind’s Endless mod takes its cue from Amplitude’s long-running series of Endless games, which to date include Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space and its sequel, and Endless Legends – not to mention a huge number of accompanying expansions.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard’s Wisconsin-based Raven Software studio – where strike action has been ongoing since December, following the firing of 12 members of the developer’s QA team – have announced their intention to form a worker’s union.The instigating incident – which came amid an already troublesome time for Activision Blizzard management, who had been repeatedly criticised following the California state lawsuit calling the publisher a “breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women” – took place in December when around a third of the QA team was laid off. The firings, coming after a five-week period of…
The original plan for Assassin’s Creed – back when the whole franchise was planned as a trilogy – would have seen series hero Desmond blasting off on a spaceship.Details of the idea, originally dreamed up by Assassin’s Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets, have been published by Lars de Wildt, a researcher of conspiracy theories, religion and other beliefs in digital media culture at Belgian research university KU Leuven.Read more Source – eurogamer.net