Author: Sarah Connor
The regulatory battles between Sony and Microsoft over the latter’s Activision Blizzard acquisition are throwing up all manner of headline stories – such as Xbox effectively positioning themselves as third out of three in terms of the major console platform holders, Sony writing off its chances of ever creating an FPS as potent as Call of Duty – and perhaps most intriguing of all, acknowledgement that this console generation is likely to persist until 2027 or even 2028.The various legal documents make for great reading but do need to be treated with more than a little caution. On the face…
Pokémon Go has revealed details of its ninth season, Mythical Wishes, which will carry the game through the next three months: from 1st December to 1st March. Mythical Wishes is a reference to Hoenn’s Mythical creature Jirachi, which has only appeared in Pokémon Go once previously. It looks set for a reappearance (and possible Shiny debut?) at 2023’s Pokémon Go Tour event, which is set to be detailed fully tomorrow. More tangibly, today’s new trailer also teases the release of Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre at the end – some of the most powerful creatures in the series, and a…
Three years after it released on PC, Red Dead Redemption 2 broke its all-time peak of concurrent players yesterday.Single-player DLC for the game looks unlikely, and the bundled multiplayer offering Red Dead Online was pronounced “dead” by its community of players after developer Rockstar confirmed it would no longer push major updates to the game to shift development to Grand Theft Auto 6 instead.That hasn’t put people off enjoying Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online, however (with some help from the Thanksgiving holidays across the pond and Steam’s autumn sale). Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and…
There are plans afoot (or should that be, apaw) to introduce a console, complete with its own video games, that is tailored exclusively to dogs. After all, who says man should have all the fun. The brainchild of the UK-based startup Joipaw, the Joipaw Console will come with a “dog-tailored touchscreen, a height-adjustable stand and an automated treat dispenser.” It will run interactive puzzle games, such as a whack-a-mole challenge, that are “constantly new and challenging” for man’s best friend (thanks, Axios). “Add speakers, a microphone and a Full HD camera, and you have the smartest dog tech product to…
New details have surfaced of an F-Zero Switch game prototype. YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming interviewed ex-Nintendo programmer Giles Goddard, who now runs his own studio (Chuhai Labs – Cursed to Golf, Carve Snowboarding). Previously he worked on Super Mario 64, Star Fox, and 1080 Snowboarding. In 2021, Goddard hosted a reddit AMA where he admitted F-Zero was his favourite game on the SNES and that his studio had created an F-Zero prototype with ultra-realistic physics that was never released. DidYouKnowGaming dug deeper. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for…
Activision was kept busy over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend fixing a popular Call of Duty glitch which granted infinite money and weapon XP. The now-fixed exploit let you repeatedly sell weapons at the game’s Buy Stations in exchange for XP. In a quick fix for the issue, XP from Buy Stations was nerfed to counter the number of people quickly levelling up their weapons. But, as fans quickly found, this still left the game’s white dumpster Dead Drops as an option. This lasted another half day or so, until it too was countered by another behind the scenes change. Read…
With the release of Need for Speed Unbound this week, Criterion Games is properly back. Not that the Guildford studio’s been away, of course, but in recent years its role shifted towards a support studio, lending a hand with the Battlefront and Battlefield series among others – and its last standalone title was the X-Wing VR mission for Star Wars Battlefront back in 2016. It’s something of a moment, then, to have Criterion Games back – and back on Need for Speed for a second stint behind the wheel following 2010’s Hot Pursuit and 2012’s Most Wanted. Need for Speed…
Fans of Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology are unhappy at the long wait for what they see as crucial fixes to earlier games in the series. The horror franchise’s first two titles – Man of Medan and Little Hope – were updated on 28th September with a spruce-up designed to introduce difficulty settings, QTE warnings and more accessibility options. Man of Medan even gained a “previously unseen” story chapter. But these updates also had the unintended consequence of introducing a raft of bugs to the games, with a number of players complaining of being unable to save or make progress…
Fran Lebowitz once said, “You’re only as good as your last haircut,” and perhaps she has a point. After all, Joel Miller from Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us series is easily recognisable, with his full head of hair and slightly scruffy facial furniture. However, it turns out that if you remove all of his hair (bar his eyebrows, thank goodness), he looks really quite different… and I am not sure that is a good thing. As shared by prolific modder Speclizer, who recently unlocked God of War Ragnarök’s unfinished photo mode, there is now a The Last of Us…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet players have noticed that the RNG of the Battle Stadium is not working as intended. As shared on reddit, user Lord-Trolldemort noticed that the accuracy of certain moves was rigged. And as the Battle Stadium is the game’s ranked online mode, this could have serious implications. 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.