Author: Garry Smith
Respawn Entertainment is currently working on a single-player first-person shooter with a focus on mobility and style, according to a new report – but before irreversible excitement takes hold, it’s claimed the project won’t be a Titanfall sequel.The report follows Respawn creative director Mohammad Alavi’s recent announcement he’s departing the studio after 11 year to pursue his “next adventure”. Alavi leading development of a “brand new single-player adventure” at the company, first mentioned in a job listing posted last year, and news of his departure prompted some to ponder the fate of the project.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
So far, Sega’s had something of a rollercoaster relationship with NFTs, bursting forth fully enthused last summer before seemingly reining that excitement in more recently. However, its corporate machinations continue behind the scenes and new trademark registrations and logos have emerged revealing Sega’s new gambit to potentially be called Sega NFT.Sega first shared its interest in joining the NFT and blockchain throng last April, when it revealed it had partnered with Japanese company Double Jump Tokyo to begin selling the likes of visual art, in-game images, and background music based on its new and classic IPs in NFT form. It…
Ken Levine, creator of BioShock, has discussed his view of ditching writing he deems not to have worked – and described it as a “luxury”. This week, Levine appeared on a fresh podcast to discuss his career and ongoing work at Ghost Story Games – Levine’s current studio which was focus of a critical report earlier in the month. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Troy Baker, one of the most high-profile and prolific voice actors in video games, star of The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite and Fortnite, is now promoting NFTs. Baker, whose voice can be heard in hundreds of games, announced this morning via Twitter that he was partnering with VoiceverseNFT, a company which describes itself as providing “the world’s first VoiceNFTs”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Final Fantasy 14 will be back on sale for new players later this month.Following the release of the Endwalker expansion, Square Enix removed the base game from digital sales as it was proving too popular for the servers to cope.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
It’s been a long and bumpy ride for Dying Light 2, but, a little under four years after its initial announcement, Techland’s parkour-infused open-world zombie sequel is now just weeks away from release – and to celebrate the occasion, the developer has shown off co-op gameplay and a brief console comparisons video as part of its final Dying Light 2 pre-launch livestream series.While most of the show was taken up with slightly laboured reminiscences of things past as launch looms (ie. the previous five livestream episodes), Techland did managed to squeeze in one notable bit of new gameplay in the…
PlatinumGames’ Kenichi Sato has announced he will no longer serve as the company’s president and CEO, positions he’s held at the Bayonetta and Nier: Automata studio since 2016, with Atsushi Inaba set to take on the roles.Announcing the news in a statement shared on the developer’s website, Sato wrote, “As of the end of last year, I have resigned from my post as CEO and president of PlatinumGames and entrusted Vice President Atsushi Inaba as my successor.”Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Purchase a random item from a Malfunctioning Vending Machine is one of the Season Quest in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1.The challenge tasks you with visiting the numerous vending machine locations across the new Fortnite map to see if you can find the one which is malfunctioning. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has spoken out about verbal abuse against the developers of the game.Featuring on the Square Enix Radio Mog Station, translated on reddit, Yoshida requested fans consider their language when offering feedback on the game.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Love them or hate them, lockpicking is perhaps the greatest staple minigame developers turn to when needing to mix up gameplay or just extend the length of a game.Now a single game, well more of a museum, collates all those minigames into one big game. Read more Source – eurogamer.net