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A three-year study into the impact of video game loot boxes on young people has concluded that such mechanics cause “financial and emotional harm” to teenagers and children. The report, published by Newcastle and Loughborough Universities, tracked the gaming habits of 42 families with children aged between five and 17, and interviewed another 30 parents, carers and video game designers. In short, the study found children struggled to track spending in video games where “highly alluring” digital items were advertised to them using techniques borrowed from regulated gambling. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their…
Evil West is a remarkably direct take on third-person action, a linear and propulsive combat game with no open-world diversions, no loot, no crafting, and no side quests. The combat system at its core is fast-paced, responsive, and fair, and the B-movie style plot is well-told through a series of high-quality cinematics.Unfortunately though, the game has garnered controversy prior to release thanks to a pretty unexciting set of resolution options as reported by the game’s publisher – a 4K30 quality mode is par for the course, but 1080p60 performance modes for PS5 and Series X have concerned many. Meanwhile, Xbox…
December’s PlayStation Plus Essential games will be Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Biomutant and Divine Knockout. That’s according to reliable source Dealabs, which routinely leaks the list of games in advance. These games will reportedly be coming to PlayStation’s Essential subscription tier on 6th December, where they will remain until 3rd January. 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.
Australian MP Andrew Wilkie has filed a bill with the Australian government which seeks to regulate classification for games with loot boxes.Wilkie first stated his intention to introduce the Classication Amendment (Loot Boxes) Bill last year (via Kotaku Australia). Back then, he wanted any games with loot boxes to be given a R18+ rating, and a new “advisory” classification to highlight their presence.The bill was filed yesterday by Wilkie, and the details of it can be viewed on the Australian government’s website. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated…
Two Point Studios has announced its first expansion for spoof school strategy game Two Point Campus: Space Academy. The expansion will add three new campus locations, six student archetypes, six new courses and classrooms, and more. It’s set for release on 6th December across all platforms except Switch, which will arrive on the 12th December. Check out the trailer below – it’s clear the Two Point team are Trekkies. 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.
Nvidia’s own souped-up version of Portal will launch next Thursday, 8th December. This version of Valve’s classic first-person puzzler comes crafted by Nvidia’s own Lightspeed Studios, and will be released as a free DLC update for existing owners via Steam. As you’d expect from its name, this version adds ray-tracing, Nvidia DLSS 3, “hand-crafted hi-res physically-based textures” and “enhanced high-poly models evocative of the originals”. Here’s how it looks in action, compared to the original: 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…
UPDATE 29/11/22: Grand Theft Auto’s original programmer Mike Dailly has added some clarification to Colin Macdonald’s story about GTA starting out as a “dinosaur game”.Dailly replied to this news on Twitter, saying “the game was called ‘dino’, because the early C code framework came from a dinosaur game – several Dave-demos earlier.” Dailly went on to “[copy] code and [keep] the useful bits.”Macdonald replied to Dailly’s update by saying “Ah bugger, I was sure of that – ah well, it’s a nice story, but at least I know now!” Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to…
Bohemia Interactive, developer of military simulation game Arma 3, has asked fans to watch out for edited in-game videos being shared around social media that are falsely labelled as real-world war footage. Specifically, Bohemia has called for players and content creators to “use their game footage responsibly”, “refrain from using clickbait video titles” and “always state clearly that the video originated from a video game” rather than footage from a real-life conflict. Arma 3 gameplay videos have a history of being mistaken for real-world footage – even by professional news organisations – and this problem has only increased since the…
Here’s a question for you: if you fudge something up in a game, and it doesn’t kill you so you can still continue on afterwards, albeit with the undesired outcome, do you? Or do you reload? For a long time, I reloaded. I thought that was what I was supposed to do. The games I grew up on, that’s what you did. You quick-saved, you reloaded, you got your desired outcome. That was how I always played. By the end of a game, I’d done everything exactly as I intended, or I hadn’t done it at all. If only life…
If it’s bug squishing you want, you’re in luck; developer Offworld Industries has unveiled Starship Troopers: Extermination, a new 12-player, squad-based co-op FPS coming to Steam early access next year. Inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s cult-classic 1997 movie, Starship Troopers: Extermination drops up to three squads of four players onto the front lines amid an Arachnid assault, challenging them to work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend their base of operations, and finally escape to the extraction zone. There are three classes to choose from – Assault, Support, and Defense, each with their own weapons, equipment, and perks…