Author: Sarah Connor
Sony has released a new video teaser for its upcoming Uncharted compilation, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves. The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is set to release on PS5 on 28th January 2022 with an unspecified PC release expected later on this year. You can check out the launch trailer for the remastered collection below:Read more Source – eurogamer.net
There’s a screen in the Switch interface that tells me I’ve played Animal Crossing: New Horizons for almost 200 hours. That feels by far the longest I’ve ever spent with a single game – though perhaps Fortnite might tell me otherwise. The weird thing is, with New Horizons, it really doesn’t feel like I’ve spent 200 hours with it. Maybe the time has flown by. Maybe. It’s more that my interactions with the game feel, even now, relentlessly superficial.Animal Crossing is a lovely game about moving to a town filled with animals and then swapping furniture with them. That’s the…
Sony has responded to this week’s industry-shaking news that Microsoft is buying Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, and said it expects Microsoft to “ensure Activision games are multiplatform”.The brief statement, issued to the Wall St Journal, is Sony’s first comment on the deal.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
With Dying Light 2 just weeks away now, developer Techland has revealed those purchasing the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One versions of the game will be entitled to free PS5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrades respectively, should they require them at a later date.Techland is yet to detail the precise enhancements PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S owners can expect when Dying Light 2 launches early next month, but it has now referenced them in more general terms in two new “Modes Presentation” trailers, outlining the three different visual modes selectable on new-gen platforms.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
If you recently missed out on The Game Collection’s Switch OLED deal for £299.95, you’ll be pleased to know you can find a similar deal over at Amazon right now. The online retail giant has reduced the price of the white Nintendo Switch OLED to £300.44. We’re not sure exactly what the stock levels are like but it has sold out in the past- and the Neon Switch OLED is currently sold out at Amazon.While £9.55 is only a small 3 per cent discount, this is the cheapest we’ve seen the console at Amazon, and it’s the cheapest Switch OLED…
Forget Call of Duty: Warzone and Bloodborne – the next-gen upgrade we really want is here.My Friend Peppa Pig’s PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S upgrades are now available for free, and they make last year’s family-friendly hit game really pop.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Tinkering with the classics is always asking for trouble. There’s the legion of fans to satiate, the details you daren’t deviate from, the difficulty in making meaningful additions. Tinker with a cult classic and you’re really asking for trouble, those details sacrosanct as scripture to its dedicated followers while any changes are subject to intense scrutiny – so it’s with some delight I can report that Windjammers 2, the follow-up to Data East’s dearly beloved Neo Geo action sports classic, pulls the trick off handsomely. Firstly, though, it’s worth briefly exploring what made the 1994 original so beloved, as that’s…
The physical version of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is coming to Switch next month.Though already available digitally on the eShop, the physical version will be available from 11th February.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Mike Ybarra, boss of Blizzard, has released a blog post laying out the steps he says will “rebuild trust” in the developer following the reports of toxic workplace culture and sexual harassment which emerged last summer.Ybarra is now Blizzard’s sole leader following the departure of former co-head Jen Oneal, who resigned from her role after only a couple of months.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Rainbow Six Extraction is a little like going to your parents home and finding an entirely different family living there amongst your parents’ floral furnishings. Here is a game where things pretty much look to be the same – hey, there’s the destructible environments we know so well, and over there you can see the usual smorgasbord of tech-savvy operators – and yes, there are similarities between Extraction and the R6 games that have come before it… but, well, you can’t help but notice the differences more than the parallels. It’s almost as if those differences stand out a touch…