Author: Sarah Connor
Amazon has announced the new games coming to its Prime Gaming service this June. Heading the line up is Far Cry 4, which sees players taking on the role of Ajay Ghale as he becomes caught up in a civil war in the fictional Kyrat. Meanwhile, users will also have the chance to jet off to the tropical shores of Mêlée this month, thanks to the arrival of Escape from Monkey Island. This a timely addition to the service, with the sixth game in the Monkey Island series (the appropriately-named Return to Monkey Island) due to release some time this…
Northgard developer Shiro Games’ sci-fi strategy title Dune: Spice Wars generated plenty of praise when it launched into Steam early access toward the end of last month, and now, as the studio starts to build on that initial success, publisher Funcom has shared an initial development roadmap promising the likes of multiplayer, spaceports, and more to come. First up in terms of major new features is multiplayer, currently scheduled to arrive some time this “summer”. Details are scarce at this juncture, but Funcom’s roadmap makes reference to both co-op play and “free-for-all” PvP, with up to four players supported at…
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 has now passed the 1m sales milestone, publisher CI Games has announced. Released last June as the sixth game in the Sniper Ghost Warrior series, this latest entry hit the 1m sales mark in a little under 12 months. The franchise as a whole has now passed 13m sales, CI also noted. Generally speaking, the Sniper Ghost Warrior series has recently grown in quality after some earlier stumbles – in particular the series’ attempt at going open world with Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 which CI itself said had been “too ambitious”. Read more Source -…
Four games will be available next week for Netflix members globally as part of its growing mobile game library. Moonlighter, Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt, and Dragon Up join Netflix’s original Exploding Kittens – The Game. All four will be out on 31st May, bringing Netflix’s total games to 22. 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.
This year’s PlayStation’s Days of Play sale is now live, featuring discounts on PS4 and PS5 games, as well as various console accessories, until 8th June. On the digital games front, Sony is promising saving of up to 60% on its PlayStation Store, with the UK sale featuring discounts across a total of 280 games, as well bundles and DLC. As far as PS5 goes, discounts are available on around 80 titles, with first-party PS5 offerings being limited to just two games; there’s 40% off the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and 38% off Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Read…
The original Xbox One launched in 2013 as an all-in-one entertainment box with a Kinect sensor, broadcast TV integration and an imposing £429/$499 USD price tag. Its ambitions as a multimedia centre were high – but it came at a cost. Xbox One was underpowered due to a DDR3/ESRAM memory system with less bandwidth overal than the GDDR5-equipped PS4 and substantially lower GPU compute performance. The 2016 launch of Xbox One S was an improvement, not just in terms of form-factor but in performance too, thanks to a GPU ‘overclock’. All of which raises the question: how does the vintage…
Pokémon Go fans are finally getting the ability to message other players and arrange meetups – albeit via a companion app. Campfire is a new social app from Pokémon Go maker Niantic which will show live Pokémon Go features, such as gyms and active raids, as well as other players who have opted to show their location. The app, which is set to launch this summer, will also plug into other Niantic games such as Ingress. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full…
Barely a month has gone by since the arrival of No Man’s Sky’s major Outlaws update, which gave intergalactic explorers the opportunity to live out their pirate fantasies, but already Hello Games is back – this time with a brand-new expedition that finally answers fan pleas to add space whales (of a sort) to the exploratory sim.Expeditions, if you’re unfamiliar, are effectively No Man’s Sky’s stab at live-service-style seasonal content, serving up limited-time, curated experiences that condense and reshuffle its various systems into a series of progression-based milestone challenges. And today’s addition, titled Leviathan, is a very different proposition to…
Cities need infrastructure, architecture, people to fill the streets. They need parks and hospitals and hundreds of other things. But a lot of video game cities need something more: monsters! Today, Vivek looks at one of the real classics.Rapture’s Big Daddies As a fan of Batman, you’d expect my favourite city to be Gotham City in the Arkham series. But… “I rejected these answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture!” Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full…
Get your fists (and I suppose more importantly, your fingers) ready, as Streets of Rage 4 is now available on mobile. As you’d expect from the Streets of Rage series, the game promises plenty of chaos, with 17 iconic characters and new fighting mechanics included.Its release on Android and iOS is marked by this brand-new trailer. It’s laced with nostalgia, with the perfect synthwave backing track to get your blood pumping. You can check it out for yourself below. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes…