Gaming News – 27th November 2024

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  • A new update is coming to Baldur’s Gate 3 which adds cross-play, 12 new subclasses and a photo mode. Testing for the patch begins in January.
  • PlayStation Plus Essential Games for December are: It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent and Temtem. They will be available from December 3rd until January 6th.
  • PlayStation Plus Classic Catalog for December are: Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and Jax & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy – These will be available from December 10th.
  • In the first week of Ranked Play for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, over 19,000 cheaters have been banned and is banning more players every hour. To gain access to Ranked play, you must have won at least 50 Multiplayer games.
  • Worlds Untold, a studio created by former Mass Effect writer Mac Walters, are “pausing operations” until someone can fun the studio. They are working on an unannounced AAA action-adventure game.
  • Balatro has made over $4 million on the mobile version since its release on September 26th.
  • The third ‘Kombat Pack’, story expansions and other DLC for Mortal Kombat 1 has been cancelled due to the low sales of the “Khaos Reigns” expansion.
  • ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, Vectorman and Mercs from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis has been added to the Nintendo Switch Online.
  • Shuhei Yoshida is leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15th 2025 after 31 years at PlayStation. But he confirms on Twitter that he is not retiring from the industry.
  • Some CDPR news:
    • The Live-action Cyberpunk project is still in its conceptual phase, and it will be another year before they present it project to studios.
    • Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 30 million copies, with the expansion Phantom Liberty selling 8 million.
    • A new Cyberpunk animation project is in the work as CDPR have partnered with Netflix, but it is not clear that if they are using the same animation studio as Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
    • Development of the Cyberpunk 2077 game is being headed by CDPR’s new North American teams in Boston and Vancouver.
    • CDPR also announced that The Witcher 4 is in full-scale production. According to the CFO Piotr Nielubowicz, this project is the farthest along, and they have started their “most intensive phase of development”
  • Nintendo is closing the Switch eShop in China on March 31st, 2026. Players who have an active and associated WeChat account will receive up to 4 Nintendo Switch Games for free.
  • 2K has removed its launcher from all PC games including Civilization V, Civilization VI, XCOM 2, XCOM: Chimera Squad, Mafia Trilogy Definitive Edition, Bioshock 1 Remastered,, Bioshock 2 Remastered, Bioshock Infinite, The Quarry and Marvel’s Midnight Suns
  • Steam Autumn Sale is now on. A lot of places have an Autumn/Black Friday sale on, so check sites like GoG, Humble Bundle, Fanatical, Amazon Prime Gaming, Gamesplanet, PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, Nintendo eShop.
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