Davide Soliani, the director of the Mario + Rabbids franchise has launched a new studio called “Day 4 Night” which also include Christian Cantamessa (Red Dead Redemption) and other members of Ubisoft Milan, Cristina Nava, Gian Marco Zanna and Luca Breda. Cristina left Ubisoft after the release of Star Wars Outlaws
Horizon Zero Dawn has been delisted from Epic Games Store ahead of the release of the Remastered version, which release on October 31st.
Depending on the perspective that you play, would depend on how difficult Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be. If you opt for the new “third-person visual perspective”, it will be easier compared to the original “fixed perspective”
James Allard, the co-founder of the Xbox, has joined Amazon as a VP of its devices and services team. After leaving Microsoft, he created “Project 529”. A service to prevent bike thefts and advocating for cycling.
Riot Games is currently working on transitioning VALORANT to Unreal Engine 5 and that there would be new “playable experiences” coming to the VALORANT universe.
The CEO of Level-5 was convinced by Nintendo to make another Professor Layton game after the series came a conclusion. Professor Layton and the New World of Steam was announced back in February 2023 and is set to come out in 2025.
Krafton (PUBG Studios (PUBG: Battlegrounds) and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol)) has signed a licensing deal to bring Palworld to mobile.
Microsoft is discontinuing the HoloLens MR headsets
Square Enix is looking to bring Final Fantasy XVI (16) to Xbox consoles, but the director Naoki Yoshida couldn’t share anything specific about the release.
Shutaro Ida (Designer for Castlevania and Bloodstained) has stepped down from the development of Bloodstained 2 as he was diagnosed with cancer.
Tango Gameworks was already 6-months into developing Hi-Fi Rush 2 before Krafton and Tango met. They say that the game is currently on hold until Microsoft has transferred all the related assets to Tango’s new owner.
Games coming to Xbox Game Pass
MLB The Show 24 – Console – Out now
Open Roads – Console – Out now
Sifu – Console, Cloud and PC – Out now.
Mad Streets – Console, Cloud and PC – Out October 7th
Inscryption – Console, Cloud and PC – Out October 10th
72 out of the 84 staff that work at XR Games are set to be laid off following the poorly-received release of Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded – It is unclear if other projects such as Zombie Army VR and Starship Troopers; Continuum are affected by this.
A co-op mode for Assassin’s Creed Shadows in currently in development.
Fallout TV show has become the 2nd show on Amazon Prime Video to have been watched by 100 Million viewers. The only other show to do this was Season 1 of Rings of Power
The new season of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been played by less than 300 people on Steam.
Epic Games is now “financially sound” after their mass lay-offs, which saw 830 people leave the company.
Dance music from the early 2000s resonate with me quite a bit. It was something that was always played while at home or at school. Especially whenever I went to secondary school, some classmates with their phones (that we weren’t supposed to have) were banging out the likes of Darude, Scooter, Cascada.
At home, my father really enjoyed his dance music and would put on ‘Kiss’ or ‘The Box’ on the TV and if we were in the car, it was a pirate radio station, Energy 106.
There would be a rotating playlist on the TV, radio and my classmates phones which included ‘Shooting Star’,
Released in 2002 and appearing on the very first Clubland compilation album released in the summer of 02, it has always been a great song to sing and dance to.
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Lyrics:
Where were you to hold my hand Do the things that we had planned Yes I need you by my side When things go crazy
I just need to know you care Guarantee that you’ll be there When I wake up in the night Will you be my guiding light?
I don’t care how far I’ll take you there tonight Just tell me where you are And everything’s gonna be alright
Just tell me where you are, where you are, where you are Like a shooting star across the midnight sky From far from afar just to be with you tonight Like a shooting star across the midnight sky From afar from afar just to be with you tonight
Where were you to hold my hand Do the things that we had planned Yes I need you by my side When things go crazy
I just need to know you care Guarantee that you’ll be there When I wake up in the night Will you be my guiding light?
Like a shooting star Like a shooting star across the midnight sky Wherever you are you’re gonna see me fly Like a shooting star across the midnight sky Wherever you are you’re gonna see me fly
Where were you to hold my hand Do the things that we had planned Yes I need you by my side When things go crazy
I just need to know you care Guarantee that you’ll be there When I wake up in the night Will you be my guiding light?
Where were you to hold my hand Do the things that we had planned Yes I need you by my side When things go crazy I just need to know you care Guarantee that you’ll be there When I wake up in the night Will you be my guiding light? Spoken with you to hold my hand
Assassin’s Creed: Shadows has been delayed from November 12th to February 14th 2025. It will no longer include the Season Pass. Starting in February, all Ubisoft titles for PC will be released on Steam on Day 1.
In Japan, the $1300 collector’s edition of Monster Hunter Wilds comes with a bike! (pictured below)
Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury is now available in Street Fighter 6
PlatinumGames (Bayonetta) have acquired the trademark for The Wonderful 101 from Nintendo.
Behaviour Interactive (Dead by Daylight) is acquiring Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon)
Stardew Valley is to get Version 1.6 update on 4th November.
Star Wars Outlaws is coming to Steam on November 21st.
Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 version 2.0 is now available on Steam which includes resolution/upscaling options, control settings, Steam Trading Cards support – Notes
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New content for Astro Bot announced including new speed run levels and 10 new bots, coming later this year. – Trailer
The Midnight Walk announced for PS5 and PSVR2 – Trailer
Trailer for Sonic x Shadow Generations – Sonic 3 Movie Pack which has Keanu Reeves VA for Shadow – Coming December 12th
Fantasian Neo Dimension coming to PS5 and PS4 on December 5th – Trailer
New gameplay trailer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Releasing October 31st for PS5 – Trailer – Mage Deep Dive
New trailer for Alan Wake 2 The Lake House expansion coming this October – Trailer
PSVR2 trailer for Hitman World of Assassination coming this December. Trailer
**Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered ** coming December 10th on PS5 and PS4 – Trailer
Fear the Spotlight from Blumhouse Games coming October 22nd on PS5 and PS4 – Trailer
Towers of Aghasba early access this November – Trailer
Split screen update for Lego Fortnite update coming. New Fortnite themed controller also announced Ad
Dynasty Warriors Origins launching on January 17th for PS5. Trailer
New trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds – Releasing February 28th 2025. Trailer
Trailer for Lego Horizon Adventures November 14th for PS5 and PC. Trailer
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered announced for PS5 and PC on October 31st 2024. PS4 players can upgrade for $10 – Trailer
Photo mode coming to Steller Blade – OST available today on streaming services. Steller Blade x Nier Automata collaboration coming later this year. Trailer
WWE 2K24, Dead Space (Remake) and Doki Doki Literature Club are going to PlayStation+ in October
Dino Crisis and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is coming to PS1 classics
The Last of Us Part 1 to the PS+ game catalogue for Last of Us Day
New controller colours and console covers coming titled “Chroma Collection”. Ad
Advert of games which have been enhanced for PS5 Pro. Ad
Ghost of Yotei announced. Coming 2025 for PS5. Trailer
I switched to Ghost for a 2nd time back in March 2021 after they released Version 4 and I have been using it quite a bit between then and now. I just wanted a simple way to blog without having to deal with plugins. The editor was quite powerful and it was a great experience,
So why did I change?
In the more recent updates, Ghost has been adding features to the editor that would help with linking posts to old post and edit images directly on the website. But I couldn’t. The linking of old posts feature was breaking with no helpful warning, so I hoped that the next versions would help [They didn’t] and their image editing tools were made available for free for Ghost Pro subscribers but not for people that are self-hosting.
And that is another thing… Ghost really don’t want you self-hosting the software for Production. They do not provide support for self-hosting installs, and that is a disappointing factor that I had to deal with, and was the ultimate reason for changing.
I really wanted to try WriteFreely, but no matter what I did… I couldn’t get it to work at all. I probably didn’t have any patience to troubleshoot it. I will revisit this one day and try and get it working.
I was advised to check out ClassicPress. While it is cool in theory and would probably work for certain setups, it was not for me. Thankfully, I was able to convert the work that I did on ClassicPress to WordPress via a Manual Update and everything has been working great.
I am not a fan of Gutenberg, but I put some time and effort in and managed to re-create the home page and the posts pages to be very similar to my Ghost site.
padraig.blog on Ghostpadraig.blog on WordPress
You may see references to “signing up for a newsletter”. No one signed up. And that’s OK. This blog is a hobby and I do not rely on it to pay my bills at the end of the day!
I am using 8 plugins on this WordPress site, and at the moment, I wouldn’t need any more to (mostly) re-create the experience that I had in Ghost.
ActivityPub – This one was given. While Ghost are actively working on ActivityPub, (which I appreciate), I have my fears that it would only be available to their Pro users and will provide Zero support to people on self-hosting.
You can now follow this blog, either put the URL for this site, or @padraig@padraig.blog into the search of your Fediverse client, and you can see when I release a new blog post!
Instant Images – I love Unsplash and I have used them quite extensively on this blog over the years and I do not plan on changing this. It also has support for Openverse, Pixabay and Pexels.
Shortcorder – I used ‘Snippets’ in Ghost which was like canned text. It is used for the footer of my posts.
Spectra – This is a plugin that gives you access to more blocks for Gutenberg. It is mainly used on the home page for the posts layout. I try to use WordPress’ own blocks where possible.
WP Dark Mode – If users want it, there is a 🌙moon at the bottom of the page that will switch it to a Dark Mode.
Redis Object Cache & WP Super Cache – For object and page caching, respectively.
The new WordPress site is only a few days old, and I am still tweaking it to my liking!
If you have suggestions on how I can improve the look, feel, functionality of the site, please let me know on the Fediverse.
It was reported on a PlayStation podcast that Concord costed $400 million to make. Internally, the game was referred to as “The future of PlayStation”. Additionally, it was claimed that any negativity about the game was shutdown.
Separately, it has been reported that the director of Concord, Ryan Ellis, has stepped down and will be transitioning to a support role.
A new trailer was released for Silent Hill 2 remake noting that the game will be a timed exclusive on PS5 for one year, with the game releasing on other platforms on 8th October 2025. Trailer
Xbox will be holding a Toyko Game Show event on Thursday, 26 September 2024 11:00 (UK/Ireland Time)
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was revealed today by RGG Studios featuring Goro Majima as the protagonist – The game will release on February 28th 2025 for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series S|X, Xbox One and PC.- Trailer
As part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, they have released trailers for upcoming TV shows for some video game franchises including:
Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered has been rated by the ERSB for the PS5 and PC which would be an improved version compared to the version that was released in 2020. It would bring the game in line with the PS5 version of Horizon Forbidden West
Freedom Wars Remastered has been announced by Bandai Namco. Originally released on the Vita in 2014, this remaster will be releasing on January 10th for the PS4, PS5, Switch and PC. – Trailer
Co-op PvE shooter set in the Dead By Daylight universe, Project T has been cancelled.
skate will launch in Early Access next year
A new Battlefield is in the works, with a major testing programme being held early next year.
Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series S|X on October 15th with free upgrades for PS4 and Xbox One users.
New games are coming to Game Pass soon:
Wargroove 2 – Cloud, Console and PC from tomorrow (September 19th)
Frostpunk 2 – PC on Friday, September 20th
ARA: History Untold – PC on September 24th
Overwatch 2 – Launch before October 21st and get 6 hero skins and 30 Mythic Prisms.
Producer for Final Fantasy XVI Naoki Yoshida has discouraged PC players from making ‘offensive or inappropriate’ mods for the game, since is now available for PC.
Square Enix has revealed that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Final Fantasy XVI have underperformed according to a new results briefing. They have stated that they will ‘shift to a multiplatform strategy’
The following games are now available on Nintendo Switch Online – Battletoads Double Dragon, Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen’in Shūgō, COSMO GANG THE PUZZLE, Big Run
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