Author: Sarah Connor
With the new year now in full swing and development resumed on Battlefield 2042, DICE has detailed the first set of updates heading to its beleaguered shooter over the coming weeks, promising the likes of Portal XP changes and a Scoreboard UI overhaul.DICE detailed its plans in a series of tweets on the Battlefield Direct Communication feed, noting the first of its updates will arrive tomorrow, 20th January. Update 3.2, as it’s known, will offer smaller fixes and improvements focussed on stability, plus adjustments to XP in Portal mode that will “enable more servers and game types to progress on…
We recently got early access to watch the brand new Horizon: Forbidden West story trailer, and afterwards were able to chat with Ben McCaw and Annie Kitain, narrative director and senior writer behind the game, to talk about what we’d just seen. Full details are in the video below of course, but there are some big new details worth sharing – spoiler warning if you’re planning on going into the game totally fresh.THERE MAY BE SPOILERS AHEAD!Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Breakout shooter success Splitgate will finally roll out its big Beta Season 1 update next Thursday, 27th January. In a press release today, developer 1047 Games detailed several major additions due at that point, including a custom map creator and a new 100-level battle pass.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Nintendo is struggling to scrub gameplay and story spoilers for Pokémon Legends: Arceus from social media, with major story elements now out in the wild. (Eurogamer has chosen not to include any spoilers in this article.)Read more Source – eurogamer.net
The Artful Escape is on its way to PlayStation and Switch on 25th January.The vibrant music-themed game is already available on Xbox and PC, including Game Pass.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Activision Blizzard’s controversial boss Bobby Kotick is expected to head out the door once Microsoft’s groundbreaking takeover bid goes through. That’s according to Wall St Journal sources, via a fresh report tonight.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Following today’s bombshell announcement that Microsoft is purchasing Activision Blizzard for $70BN, many questions still remain, not least regarding how the deal will impact platform exclusivity for the third-party publisher’s previously multi-platform titles – and it’s something Xbox head Phil Spencer has started to address, albeit in the vaguest of terms, as he continues his post-announcement PR rounds.It’s a topic that was touched upon in the briefest of manners in Microsoft’s original press release announcing the deal, with the company stating, “Activision Blizzard games are enjoyed on a variety of platforms and we plan to continue to support those communities…
Barely two weeks have passed since the release of Dead Cells’ third paid expansion, The Queen and the Sea, but developer Motion Twin’s astonishing post-launch support continues apace, with the studio now requesting input as it looks to improve the acclaimed rogue-like action-platformer’s accessibility features.”Recently we’ve been exploring how to make Dead Cells as accessible as possible,” Motion Twin – or rather, subsidiary Evil Empire, which now handles Dead Cells’ development – revealed on Twitter. “We’re doing our own research, but the best way to figure out what we’re missing is an open dialogue with the players.”Read more Source -…
Microsoft is buying Call of Duty and World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzard in an astonishing, industry-shaking deal worth $68.7bn. The deal, which is expected to be approved in 2023, was confirmed by Microsoft in a blog post from Xbox boss Phil Spencer. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Late last year, Sony finally added the ability to install your own SSD in the PS5. Before this, only external drives could be used on the PS5, and these were limited to playing last-gen games. Now, it’s easy to add gigabytes or even terabytes of storage for PS5 games in just a few minutes – and this article shows you how. This explainer is necessary because, unlike Microsoft, Sony isn’t making its own official drives in a unique form factor. Instead, standard PC NVMe SSD drives from a wide range of manufacturers will work – as long as the drive…