Author: Sarah Connor
It’s nearly time for the inaugural Game Club and we’re so excited about it. No one has ever invited us to something like a book club before! And that’s exactly what this is: a chance for us all – you and us – to wear knitted jumpers and talk passionately about a game we’ve all been playing. And the game, in this case, is the free game we gave away to premium supporters earlier this month: the lovely Castlevania Anniversary Collection.What did you think of it? Did you manage to get through all nine games? I’ll be bloody impressed if…
Max Hoberman, CEO of Halo co-developer Certain Affinity, has shared a message with staff regarding recent political events, namely those involving personal health and privacy matters and the recent draft from the US Supreme Court to potentially overturn Roe vs. Wade.”As a business leader it’s exceptionally difficult to navigate highly politicised issues like transgender and abortion rights. But I’m not content to sit back and say or do nothing,” he tweeted, before sharing an in-depth message he had sent out to his employees.This message reads: “It is appalling that states, including the [Certain Affinity] headquarters’ home state of Texas, are…
Electronic Arts is reportedly pursuing acquisition and merger opportunities with “a number of different potential suitors”. That’s according to Puck (£), which yesterday revealed that EA has been “persistent in pursuing a sale” with a number of companies, including Amazon, Apple, Disney, and NBCUniversal, “emboldened in the wake of the Microsoft-Activision deal”. “In recent years, as media companies have taken greater interest in the rapidly growing gaming industry, [CEO Andrew Wilson] and Electronic Arts have held talks with a number of different potential suitors, including Disney, Apple and Amazon, sources with knowledge of those talks told me,” Puck reporter, Dylan…
Good news, Final Fantasy 14 fans – the hugely-popular MMO will now run on Steam Deck. Previously, the game would hang if you tried to launch it on Steam Deck, but now a new fix – in testing at the moment but deploying to all systems soon – means the Final Fantasy 14 Online Launcher is once again operational. The latest update similarly helps ensure these other games will be playable again, too: Age of Chivalry, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition, Saviors of Sapphire Wings/Stranger of Sword City Revisited, Iragon: Prologue, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Atelier Meruru, Warhammer:…
Hideo Kojima has responded to Norman Reedus’ comments that he has “just started” a second Death Stranding game. Without explicitly commenting on the revelation, Kojima shared a handful of pictures of the pair – the location of which seemingly celebrates Reedus’ The Walking Dead show – with the text “go to your private room, friend”. For those not in the know, the private room is a space where lead character Sam Bridges – played by Reedus – recovers during his journey in Death Stranding. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article…
Eve Anywhere is now live for Alpha players, enabling them to play Eve Online in any browser without client software. Up until now, the feature – which lets you play the sci-fi sim on Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari browsers – was initially restricted to the premium tier Omega players only. Now, Alpha players can access it too, albeit for 30 PLEX £1.20/$1.50 per 24-hour subscription. You’ll also need a stable internet connection of at least 25mbps, too. “Starting today Alpha pilots can now take advantage of Eve Anywhere, the revolutionary cloud-based platform that puts New Eden directly in your…
Halo Infinite was rough around the edges on release with animation issues, frame-pacing woes and extra problems in cutscenes. Some issues were tackled post-launch, but it’s with the release of the Season 2 patch that some long-standing issues have finally been resolved. We took a look at the fixes that 343 Industries has put in place on PC and Xbox Series X/S, covering animation, cutscenes and graphical modes, and identified some lingering issues with frame-pacing, v-sync and VRR that unfortunately still persist.Let’s start with the good stuff first: Halo Infinite makes a much better first impression on PC, Series X…
Players have discovered a “game-breaking” bug in Kirby 64. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is the latest N64 game to have been released on the Nintendo Online Expansion Pass. Originally released in 2000, it’s a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer featuring Kirby’s copy abilities, which can be combined into Power Combos, and it joined the Nintendo Switch Online’s library of classic games just yesterday. However, according to Redditor Keyblademasternadroj, there’s a bug in underwater levels that “causes you to enter hit stun forever” that can only be rectified by quitting the game. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
Half a million people have signed up to play vampiric survival game V Rising in just three days. “It’s official! 500,000 Vampires out there have stepped foot into Vardoran! Thank you all for joining us on this journey!” the developer tweeted yesterday. Although only available as an early access release for now, the newly-released open-world game has already clocked up a concurrent Steam peak of over 100,000 players – 101,036 to be precise – making it one of the most-played games on Steam right now. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This…
PUBG’s 17.2 update is now available on PC and mobile, bringing the 1v1 Arena to Training Mode, as well as updates to the Spotter Scope and balance changes to 5.56 Designated Marksman Rifles (DMR) and the Mortar. “The Spotter Scope and its automatic features of marking and following enemies continued to show overly strong performance, causing more stress than enjoyable experiences to our players,” Krafton explains. “Therefore, the enemy detection range has been reduced from 1000m to 600m and the white passive marker will not appear automatically in ADS mode.” As for the 1v1 Arena mode? That’s now available in…