Radical Forge, the co-developer for Sea of Thieves, Gang Beasts and Zombie Army 4 has confirmed lay-offs within the company. It is no known how many people have been made unemployed as a result.
While the new Twisted Metal has to be cancelled, the unannounced Horizon multiplayer game has not been cancelled.
Crash Team Rumble will not be getting any updates after next week.
Toys For Bob’s, the Crash Team Rumble developer announced that they will be spinning out of Activision and will be working on new IP’s. They will no longer work on Crash Bandicoot or Spyro games.
Randy Pitchford informed his staff at Gearbox Software (Borderlands) that a decision has been made about the future of the company. According to reports, they will be leaving the Embracer Group and being sold to another company.
Staying with Embracer Group, they are reportedly selling Saber Interactive for $500 million, including the rights for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake. It is said that the company which has 3500 employees could be sold to a Private Investor.
Aerial Knight’s Never Yield is this week’s Epic Games free game. Next week is a new game, Wild Rooster’s Astro Duel 2.
Biomutant will release on the Switch on May 14th. When it releases, it will include all the DLC.
The Pokémon Company has confirmed that the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket will not feature NFT’s
As part of the lay-offs at Electronic Arts, they are closing the Battlefield single-player studio Ridgeline Games and have cancelled Star Wars‘s first-person shooter that was in development by Respawn (Titanfall, Apex Legends)
Hoverboards aka. Skimmer’s are coming to Destiny 2 on Tuesday.
I regularly post gaming news for some friends in a Discord server. Now I will bring it to my blog. But the difference is, I just get to the point. Game has X happening on Y date. Simple. Not everything will be covered. My main sources are VGC and Eurogamer, but I look at other sites and Twitter accounts for content.
Arrowhead Studios (Helldivers 2) are set to be impressed by the increased concurrent user cap (Set at 800,000 players) and how the servers were handled over the weekend. Now they are updating their content roadmap, now that the server issues have been mostly subsided.
Stardew Valley 1.6 update is set to release on PC on March 19th with a console and mobile update later.
SuperMassive (Until Dawn) has announced that the layoffs of 90 employees.
Tekken 8 has hit 2 million sales in just 1 month.
Larian Studios (Baldur’s Gate 3) are working on mod support and have condemned the “threats and toxicity” against developers.
Video game music legend Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) has revealed that he doesn’t think he’ll compose a full game ever again. Uematsu last credit would have been for the main theme of FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
A new game is being teased in the Bravely Default series.
Yoko Taro has teased a possible 3rd Nier game. Yoko tweeted ‘r3incarnationan’ which is in reference to the mobile game, but nothing official has been revealed.
PlayStation is cutting 900 staff (About 8% of its workforce) and will close its London Studio. Firesprite Studio will see reductions too. Other studios affected: Insomniac Games (Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us, Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted) and Guerrilla Games (Horizon: Forbidden West, Killzone)
Firesprite’s new Twisted Metal live service game has been cancelled due to the layoffs. The game was supposed to release around the same time as the TV Show.
POKÉMON DIRECT NOTES: 2 new games have been revealed Pokémon Legends Z-A which takes place in Lumiose City, a city from Pokémon X & Y – The game is set to release in 2025.
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, a mobile card game based on the real life Pokémon TCG is coming to iOS and Android devices later this year.
F1 24 has been revealed. It will release on PS5, Xbox Series S|X, PS4, Xbox One and PC via EA, Epic & Steam on May 31st.
Reynatis, an action-RPG is going to be released in the west after it was shown at the Nintendo Direct last week, but only in the Japanese version. It was not shown anywhere else. The game will be releasing this Autumn for Switch, PC, PS4 and PS5.
Nintendo is suing the creators of the popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo’s software encryption and facilitates piracy. They are also seeking damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.
The Kabuki Warriors defeated Indi Hartwell & Candice LeRae to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships
Becky Lynch defeated Naomi, Bianca Belair, Tiffany Stratton, Raquel Rodriquez and Liv Morgan and will face the winner of the Rhea Ripley vs Nia Jax Women’s World Championship match later on.
The Judgement Day (Finn Bálor & Damien Priest) defeated New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate) to retain the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship
Drew McIntyre defeated Randy Orton, Logan Paul, LA Knight, Bobby Lashley and Kevin Owens and will face Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins at WrestleMania for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Rhea Ripley defeated Nia Jax to retain the Women’s World Championship. Becky Lynch will face Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania for the Women’s World Championship.
There was also the Grayson Waller Effect with Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins. They are planting the seeds for a tag team match between Cody/Seth vs Rock/Roman. We’ll see how this plays out.
For the 2nd time in WWE’s history, WWE travels to Australia for a Premium Live Event. Last time they were in the land down under was in 2018 for Super ShowDown.
There are 5 matches on the card. 2 ‘Chamber’ Matches and 3 title matches.
Title Matches
The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) (C) vs Indi Hartwell & Candice LeRae in a tag team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships.
PREDICTION: This match was made late this morning. Indi will get the home town pop, but I don’t think they are going to be taking the titles. Asuka and Kairi to retain.
The Judgement Day (Finn Bálor & Damien Priest) vs Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate in a tag team match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships
PREDICTION: Finn & Damien don’t have any story leading them into Wrestlemania, so it would be good to have them drop the titles to Pete & Tyler, and then they can build to a big match at Mania. Who? I don’t know. Pete & Tyler to win.
Rhea Ripley (C) vs Nia Jax in a singles match for the Women’s World Championship
PREDICTION: Rhea is the biggest star in the company right now. She is not going to lose in her hometown to the Australian Nia Jax… Wait a minute. In all seriousness, it would be criminal for Rhea to drop the title to Nia. Nia doesn’t need the title. Rhea to retain.
Non-Title Matches
Becky Lynch vs Naomi vs Bianca Belair vs Tiffany Stratton vs Raquel Rodriquez vs Liv Morgan in an Elimination Chamber Match. Winner faces the winner of Rhea Ripley vs Nia Jax for the Women’s World Championship at WrestleMania!
PREDICTION: Chamber matches are very difficult to predict. You can discount Raquel, Tiffy and probably Naomi. They are great in their own right, but they are not ready for the title. Becky, Bianca and Liv are more than likely, and I would give 40/40/20 split respectively. I would like Becky to win, but wouldn’t be mad if either of the other two wins.
Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre vs Logan Paul vs LA Knight vs Bobby Lashley vs Kevin Owens in an Elimination Chamber Match. Winner faces Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania.
PREDICTION: Again, difficult to predict. You can remove Logan from the equation. While the other 5 could do it, it’s highly unlikely that LA Knight and Kevin would win. I really would like to see LA Knight winning it, but it seems we have all gone a bit… sour on him for some reason. Perhaps that is WWE’s fault for not slapping the title on him right away… Hopefully he can bounce back and become world champion down the line. For this, though, I have Drew McIntyre winning it and will face Seth at Mania.
And those are my predictions… What do you think?
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Bluesky, the social media site that launched into an invite-only beta about 2 years ago, is now accessible to the public without the requirement of an invitation code.
The platform was initially a project of Twitter before being spun out to be its own thing.
Bluesky are not part of the Fediverse that Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc are using, ActivityPub. They have their own protocol “AT Protocol” but like ActivityPub, servers would be able to follow and interact with each other.
It’s not a (Twitter) bird, it’s a (Bluesky) butterfly
The idea at the time was for Twitter to build the AT Protocol as part of Bluesky and then have Twitter use that technology. Thankfully, that was all put to a halt once Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October 2022.
At the time of writing, Bluesky is the one and only instance of the AT Protocol, so I would hedge a bet that now that Bluesky is public, they would be keen to release AT Protocol to the world for all to use.
I can be found on Bluesky @pf.ie, but you won’t find me posting that much on it.
This has been my earworm for the last few days. So bloody good.
This is the theme for the AEW wrestler, Julia Hart. This is her singles theme, as she is normally accompanying the other members of The House of Black.
