Author: Garry Smith
Innersloth has revealed the roadmap for Among Us in 2022, with friend lists as the next major addition.It’s a much requested feature, allowing players to match up with their friends more easily without using codes.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
The developer behind a five-year-old app going by the name Wordle has donated his sudden monetary windfall to charity after confused users began flocking to his ageing puzzler, mistaking it for the smash-hit browser-based word game of the same name. Wordle, the new one that is, has taken the world by storm in recent months, with users returning to play the word-based head scratcher day after day. Despite its success, creator Josh Wardle has pledged to keep his game browser-based and ad-free – a decision that’s lead to plenty of unscrupulous sorts cloning the game to turn a quick profit…
Amid reports Sony is overhauling its PlayStation Plus service into something more closely resembling Game Pass, Xbox head Phil Spencer has said he thinks it’s an “inevitability” competitors will begin adopting the model because it’s “the right answer”.”I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out [at Xbox]”, Spencer told IGN when quizzed on the recent reports involving Sony, “but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent…
A group of Foxhole players have gone on strike, causing problems for the persistent world wartime MMO.Around 1800 players who act as dedicated logistics players have hung up their tools and founded LOGI – the “union-esque” Logistics Organisation for General Improvement, NME reported.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
The developer of arcade racer Buck Up And Drive has included an LGBT+ toggle that turns all billboards into Pride flags.While the game has proven popular on Steam, where it holds a very positive user rating, a handful of negative reviews from homophobic players have appeared, unhappy with the toggle.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
It’s a month until we get to see the new generation of F1 cars properly unveiled, but ahead of all that this weekend saw the competitive return of reigning champion Max Verstappen as he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual – perhaps the biggest virtual race of them all, and a welcome fixture on the calendar ever since it was first ushered into life as a replacement for the real thing during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic back in 2020. As ever the event attracted some considerable talent from the world of racing, with…
‘In Damascus the traveller sings in his heart: Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Details about upcoming WWE 2K22, including its cover, have reportedly leaked online.According to the Twitter account of TechnikNews, Rey Mysterio will allegedly grace this year’s cover. The site also intimates that pre-orders will go live “soon”, but stopped short of providing a definitive date – although we already knew that it’ll be sometime in March.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
The Harry Potter-themed game Hogwarts Legacy has reportedly been delayed to 2023. The news comes almost a year to the day after Warner Bros. Games delayed Hogwarts Legacy from 2021 to 2022, stating at the time that “creating the best possible experience for all of the Wizarding World and gaming fans is paramount to us so we are giving the game the time it needs”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Asmosdee’s digital board game, Pandemic, has been quietly withdrawn from sale “for a multitude of reasons that [the publisher] cannot disclose”.Without formal announcement, Pandemic was delisted from Steam on 6th January, and it looks as though players can’t pick it up on mobile devices now, either (although if you already own the game, you should be able to re-download it again from your library if you’re quick). All signs of the game have been scrubbed from the company’s website, too.Read more Source – eurogamer.net