Author: Sarah Connor
Nintendo once had bold plans to quickly branch out into a raft of mobile game releases – but no more. When it launched its first app, Miitomo, back in 2016, Nintendo’s then-boss Tatsumi Kimishima said four more smartphone games would debut in the following 12 months. In reality, Nintendo took several years to hit that milestone, and in the years since has shuttered several of them. Just one new Nintendo mobile game has launched in the last two years: Pikmin Bloom, developed by Pokémon Go maker Niantic. This week, as Dragalia Lost joined Dr. Mario World and Miitomo on Nintendo’s…
Google has started refunding customers who purchased Stadia hardware through the Google Store. Earlier this year, Google announced the closure of its beleaguered cloud gaming service, stating it aims to have all refunds completed by 18th January 2023 – the date Stadia servers are switched off for good.Now, the Stadia Twitter account has confirmed that those who made their hardware purchases via its Google Store should start seeing their refunds coming in. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Let’s get it out of the way right off the bat, shall we? The answer is: yes. Yes, The Callisto Protocol is Dead Space in fancy threads. Yes, The Callisto Protocol – just like Dead Space – takes place in deepest, darkest space hundreds of years from now. Yes, The Callisto Protocol – just like Dead Space – features horrifying zombies that don’t shuffle and moan as much as they screech and barrel towards you. Yes, The Callisto Protocol – just like Dead Space – explores not just the horror of an infectious disease that reanimates the dead, but that…
Frictional Games, the studio behind masterful sci-fi horror Soma, has announced a new entry in its acclaimed Amnesia series. It’s called Amnesia: The Bunker and is heading to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC in March next year. The Bunker – which will be the fourth Amnesia game, following on from The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, and last year’s Rebirth – promises to be something a little bit different, favouring “unscripted” semi-open-world horror over its predecessors’ more linear scares. “For the first time, players are equipped with high levels of freedom to impact gameplay, choosing their playstyle as they explore…
DICE has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Battlefield 2042 over the long term. The EA developer announced that Season 5 for the game has entered pre-production, which goes beyond the obligatory four seasons of content it owed to Year 1 battle pass subscribers. “Across our team continuing to focus on Battlefield 2042, we have a mix of veteran developers alongside those working on their first game breathing in new life,” DICE states in its latest blog post. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Microsoft has revealed the games heading to Xbox Game Pass this December. Available today are a trio of games: Eastward (Xbox, PC and Cloud), The Walking Dead: The Final Season (Xbox, PC and Cloud) and Totally Reliable Delivery Service (PC). But we also have a bunch of games to look forward to later this month. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
If there’s one universal truth about Call of Duty players, it’s that they will spend as much money as needed to get even the slightest advantage over their peers. They would rather rage quit than be embarrassed by death. So when Activision releases a premium skin bundle that makes it as difficult as possible for you to been seen by opponents, players will buy it in droves. A new operator skin designed by Call of Duty eSports team LA Thieves puts players in an all-black outfit, allowing them to hide in shadows for some poor soul to pass by. Read…
Google has released a new interactive doodle in celebration of the life of Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, the Black video game engineer who invented the first cartridge-based home video game system. The doodle starts off with a tutorial the gives you a brief introduction to Jerry, before letting you enter an editor which allows you to create your very own retro arcade game. There are also five premade games to give you inspiration, and you use them as a template to edit from (or you can just play them if you’re not feeling creative). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content…
A series of new images promoting HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us have been released. These images show each of the main cast as their respective characters. This includes Pedro Pascal as Joel, Bella Ramsey as Ellie, Merle Dandridge as Marlene (a role she also played in Naughty Dog’s video game), Lamar Johnson as Henry, Anna Torv as Tess, Nick Offerman as Bill and Gabriel Luna as Tommy, to name but a few. You can see the full set of these new images below. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This…
Bethesda’s Todd Howard has shed more light on Amazon’s upcoming Fallout adaptation. Speaking on Lex Fridman’s podcast, the show’s executive producer stated that the upcoming series is “not a retelling of a game story”. Rather, it will take place on a separate area of the world’s map. “Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world that we have built, doesn’t break any of the rules, can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games,” Howard elaborated. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated…