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If nothing else, Dune: Spice Wars – out in early access tomorrow – definitely feels like reading Dune. Aside from a few, pretty limited tooltips (along the lines of “consider harvesting Spice” – yeah, no kidding), there’s no real tutorial in Spice Wars’ early access version, and so your first game will feel a lot like opening up Frank Herbert’s first chapter. What’s going on? Who’s this guy? What’s that mean? Did my ebook download some kind of bugged version that’s missing the first hundred pages? Puncture that layer of surface cloud though and there is something good here. Not…
Publisher Coffee Stain and developer Iron Gate Studio have today announced that their Viking epic Valheim has surpassed 10m sales. In a joint press release, the companies wrote: “[We are] pleased to reveal that Valheim has surpassed ten million copies sold just over one year since its Steam Early Access release.”In addition to this, the companies also revealed that Valheim had an all-time player peak of 502,000 – not too mead-iocre at all. In fact, the player numbers were so good, that in just over two weeks, Valheim sold an astounding 3m units. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content…
Activision has said it will reveal the “groundbreaking innovations” it is building for new Call of Duty Warzone later this year. The new Warzone, which Activision today again described nebulously as an “experience” rather than a fresh update or full sequel, will also be free-to-play. It’s being “built from the ground-up” alongside this year’s main Call of Duty release, Activision said, which is a sequel to Infinity Ward’s 2019 Modern Warfare. 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.
After a controversial launch and a series of updates focussed on course correction, Gran Turismo 7 got its first proper content drop today, bringing three new cars and a sort of new track into the mix, as well as a suite of fixes and new features. Let’s get the disappointing bit out the way first – the new track on offer is the 24-hour layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, which makes bold and daring changes to the layout you’ll likely know well by…. Changing the position of the start/finish straight. So it’s the same track you know and…
Diablo Immortal will launch on 2nd June for both mobile platforms and via an open beta on PC, Blizzard has announced.Word of a Windows version was unexpected – but footage debuted in the release date reveal stream, below. Blizzard also confirmed the PC edition would be free-to-play and support cross-play and cross-progression.You sign up to pre-register now, via the link below. 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.
Peridot, the next game from Pokémon Go maker Niantic, has begun to roll out via its recently-announced soft launch. So far, the cute Tamagotchi-like app has become available in Malaysia – and footage of the game’s opening stages has been posted online. Around 10 minutes of footage from one user reveals Peridot’s opening tutorial, item shop and a list of possible tasks to increase your creature’s happiness. These tasks include pointing your phone camera (and therefore your Peridot pet) at specific objects like a flower, a cat or a dog. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong…
With a couple of big games released so far this year, such as Elden Ring and Ghostwire Tokyo, there’s a chance in the coming month or so to catch up with other recent titles. This is an ideal time given we’ll all be gearing up (mentally) for a summer of new gaming announcements from our corporate overlords.Luckily, The Game Collection understands this, and is offering a range of great titles at some excellent prices during their Easter sale. The sale will last until May 1st, unless some titles end up going out of stock, so grab whatever you want soon.There…
UPDATE 21/4/22: Nintendo has now responded to the filing of an official complaint which alleged company interference in an employees efforts to unionise. The company has said the claim was made by a former employee who was fired by Nintendo – but that the person in question was terminated for disclosing “confidential information and for no other reason”. Here’s Nintendo’s statement in full:”We are aware of the claim, which was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a contractor who was previously terminated for the disclosure of confidential information and for no other reason,” a Nintendo UK spokesperson told…
CD Projekt Red’s Gwent spinoff game, codenamed Project Golden Nekker, will not be coming to consoles on its release.Chatting to IGN, Gwent Comms lead Paweł Burza stated that the game would only be launching on PC, iOS, and Android, on an unspecified date later this year.This is something game director Vladimir Tortsov reiterated during a This Week in Gwent stream, which is hosted by Burza. 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.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga already has more than 375 characters to choose from, but as of today there are now 12 more. The next two character packs for the game – Rogue One and the Classic Characters Pack – are now available priced £2.49/$3, or as part of the game’s £12/$15 Character Collection season pass. Included in the Rogue One pack are seven characters from the so-so prequel: Jyn Erso, Bodhi Rook, Cassian Andor (soon to get his own Disney+ spin-off), K-2SO, Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus and Director Krennic. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images…