Author: Sarah Connor
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…
UPDATE 19/01/22: Banjo-Kazooie will hit Switch Online on 20th January.Nintendo shared the news in a tweet with a new trailer of the bear and bird duo in action. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Life is Strange: Remastered Collection, which gathers together fancied-up versions of the original Life is Strange and its prequel Before the Storm, has been delayed for a second time on Switch and is now expected to arrive “later this year”.The Remastered Collection was originally due to launch last September, a mere two weeks after the arrival of the series’ latest entry Life is Strange: True Colors, but publisher Square Enix ultimately made the decision to postpone its release into 2022, citing “the ongoing challenges of the worldwide pandemic”.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
Shenmue: The Animation – a, yes, animated adaptation of Sega’s cult classic 1999 Dreamcast game – finally has a release date and will be down at the docks, eyeing up sailors, from 5th February on Crunchyroll and Adult Swim.A Shenmue anime was initially announced back in September 2020, with Telecom Animation Film (Tower of God, Lupin the Third: Part 5) handling production, and will see original series creator Yu Suzuki on executive producer duties while Chikara Sakurai (One-Punch Man Season 2, Magimoji Rurumo) takes a directorial role.Read more Source – eurogamer.net
A Klombo is the new type of dinosaur introduced to Fortnite during Chapter 3 Season 1.Unlike the raptors from Chapter 2, these creatures are not aggressive unless you decide to start a fight. Instead, they choose to wander about the Fortnite map looking for their favourite food – Klomberries. Read more Source – eurogamer.net
A new report has detailed a long-term culture of crunch at TT Games, the developer behind the main Lego series of licensed titles. The article, published by Polygon, also details more recent studio frustrations during the creation of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – which today got a final release date after years of delay.Read more Source – eurogamer.net