Category: Gaming

  • The Game Awards 2024 Notes

    The Game Awards 2024 Notes

    • Trailer for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound – Developed by the same devs as Streets of Rage 4 – Trailer
    • Best Fighting Game Winner: TEKKEN 8
    • Trailer for One Move Away coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Trailer for Slay the Spire II – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Best VR/AR Game Winner: – Batman: Arkham Shadow
    • Trailer for Dave the Diver DLC – In the Jungle – Coming late 2025 – Trailer
    • Trailer for Thick as Thieves from the creators of Deus Ex – Trailer
    • Best Esports Game: League of Legends
    • Best Esports Athlete: Faker
    • Best Esports Team: T1*
    • Trailer for a new Pac-Man game by Bandai Namco – Shadow Labyrinth – Trailer
    • Trailer for Steel Paws – Coming to Netflix in 2025 – Trailer
    • Games for Impact Award: NEVA
    • Trailer for Tales of the Shire – Releasing March 25th – Trailer
    • Trailer for Stalcraft Operations – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Gameplay trailer for a murder party game – Midnight Murder Club – In Closed Beta – Trailer
    • Innovation in Accessibility Award: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
    • New game from the creator of Core Keeper – Kyora – Available to wishlist now – Trailer
    • Best Family Game – Astro Bot
    • New trailer from the studio who brought you Sifu – Rematch – 5-a-side soccer game – Trailer
    • Trailer for Solasta 2 – Early Access coming in 2025 – Trailer

    Main Show:

    • Todd Howard and Troy Baker on stag to present the first award. Harrision Ford is also here. Harrision is clearly drunk.
    • Best Performance Award – Melina Juergens for playing Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
    • First world premiere: Trailer from CD Projekt Red – The Witcher IV – Ciri is The Witcher – Trailer
    • “New standalone game”: Trailer from Bandai Namco & FromSoftware – Elden Ring Nightreign – Co-op action game – Coming 2025 – Trailer
    • Advert for FINAL FANTASY VII Rebirth – Releasing on PC on the 23rd January 2025. Trailer
    • Advert for Indiana Jones & The Great Circle – Available now.
    • Advert for Catly – Coming to Steam, Nintendo Switch, Apple i-Watch – Trailer
    • Advert for Path of Exile 2 – Early Access is available now.
    • Best Action Game – Black Myth: Wukong
    • Trailer from the creators of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian – Project: Robot – Trailer
    • The Game Awards orchestra performing the theme for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – Releasing February 11th 2025 – Crossplay between PC and consoles.
    • Trailer from Obsidian – The Outer Worlds 2 – Releasing in 2025 – For Xbox, Playstation and PC – Trailer
    • Josef Fares on stage to announce Hazelights newest co-op game – Trailer for Split Fiction – Play one level in Si-Fi and the next in Fantasy – Releasing on March 6th – Trailer
    • Advert for Fragpunk – Releasing March 6th Trailer
    • Advert for Killing Floor 3 – Coming March 2025. Trailer
    • Geoff talking about the layoffs in video games. – He introduces the first TGA Gamechanger award. – Amir Satvat who has helped people who have been laid off to find jobs in the industry.
    • Advert from War Gaming – Steel Hunters – Beta now available. Trailer
    • Blackfrost: The Long Dark II – Early Access coming in 2026 – Trailer
    • Randy Pitchford with the trailer for Borderlands 4 – Coming 2025 – Trailer
    • Clive Rosefield from Final Fantasy XVI is coming to Tekken 8 – Releasing December 16th – Trailer
    • Most Anticipated Game – Grand Theft Auto VI
    • Best Multiplayer Game – Helldivers 2
    • Best Community Support – Baldur’s Gate 3
    • Best Art Direction – Metaphor: ReFantazio
    • Advert for Splitgate 2
    • Advert for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
    • Advert for Mechabreak – Coming 2025
    • Advert for Star Wars Outlaws
    • Advert for Fortnite OG
    • Live performance for Arcane by Twenty One Pilots
    • Trailer for a new Virtua Fighter game from RGG Studio in development. – Trailer
    • Trailer for another RGG Studio game. Project Century – Also in development. – Trailer
    • Hideo Kojima is on stage talking about the last 10 years of TGA. He is here to announce the Best Game Direction Award.
    • Best Game Direction Award – Astro Bot
    • New trailer from Saber – Turok Origins – Trailer
    • A guy on stage in a Helldivers suit introducing a new trailer for Helldivers II – Omen of Tyranny update trailer. Available now – Trailer
    • New trailer and release date of Warframe: 1999 – Releasing tomorrow (13th December) – Trailer
    • Advert for Wuthering Waves for PS5 – Available January 2nd 2025 – Trailer
    • Adverts for Xbox.
    • Creators of Shovel Knights on stage to introduce:
    • Best Debut Indie Game: Balatro
    • Trailer for a new Capcom game Onimusha: Way of the Sword – Coming 2026 – Trailer
    • New trailer for The First Berserker: Khazan – Release date: March 27th 2025 – Trailer
    • New trailer for a new gacha game from Nexon – Arad: Dungeon & Fighter – Trailer
    • New trailer for Dying Light: The Beast coming out in the summer – Trailer
    • Best Action Adventure Game: Astro Bot
    • Best RPG: Metaphor: Refantazio
    • Content Creator of the Year: Caseoh
    • Best Sports/Racing Game: EA Sports FC 25
    • Best Sim/Strategy Game: Frostpunk 2
    • Ad for “Post Malone’s Murder Circus” update for Hunt: Showdown – Trailer
    • Trailer for Squid Game: Unleashed available on December 17th on Netflix Games – Squid Game Season 2 is out on December 26th – Trailer
    • Snoop Dogg on stage to introduce Best ongoing game.
    • Best Ongoing Game: Helldivers 2
    • Trailer for a brand new game from the creators of Overcooked – A new co-op game Stage Fright – Trailer
    • Trailer for a HBO/Warner Bros game – Game of Thrones: Kingsroad – Trailer
    • Ad for Double Dragon: Revive – Releasing October 23rd 2025. Trailer
    • Ad for Screamer coming 2026 – Trailer
    • Trailer from Naughty Dog – The Last of Us Part II Remastered coming to PC on April 3rd 2025.
    • Both the voice actress and actual actress for Ellie from The Last of Us game and HBO show on stage to introduce:
    • Best Adaptation Award: Fallout
    • Gameplay trailer for Den of Wolves – Trailer
    • New trailer for Zenless Zone Zero – New character
    • New trailer for Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.0 update – Trailer: Trailer
    • Snoop Dogg performing a song from his new album which releases tonight
    • Ad for LEGO Fornite Odyssey
    • Ad for Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
    • Khalid introducing:
    • Best Score/Music: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
    • Teaser trailer for Sonic Racing: Crossworlds – Trailer: Trailer
    • Trailer for Mafia: The Old Country – Releasing this summer – Trailer
    • Best Independent Game: Balatro
    • Best Mobile Game: Balatro
    • Best Audio Design: Senu’s Saga: Hellblade II
    • Players’ Voice: Black Myth: Wukong
    • Trailer for Infinity Nikki which has had 20 million downloads
    • Laura Bailey and Aaron Paul on stage introducing a game that they have worked on together – Dispatch – Releasing in 2025 – Trailer
    • Sam Lake on stage for:
    • Best Narrative Award: Metaphor: Refantazio
    • Live performance to introduce Okami sequel from Capcom and Hideki Kamiya – Trailer
    • Trailer for the Pearl Abyss title Crimson Desert – Releasing later 2025 – Trailer
    • ONE MORE THING:
    • From Naughty Dog & PlayStation: Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet – Trailer
    • Swen Vincke from Larian Game to present
    • Game of the Year Award: Astro Bot

  • Gaming News – 9th December 2024

    Gaming News – 9th December 2024

    • Square Enix has announced that the next season in Foamstars will be its last.
    • Rocksteady has announced that the current season of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be its last. There will be an offline mode coming next week.
    • CDPR has revealed that they are working on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2 and more information will be released in their live stream on Tuesday 10th December 2024 at 4:00pm
    • Gameplay for Borderlands 4 will be shown at The Game Awards this Thursday night.
    • Former art director for God Of War Raf Grassetti has joined Naughty Dog.
    • Marvel Rivals has hit 10 million players in 3 days.
    • Nexuiz, Friday The 13th: The Game developer Illfonic has announced lay-offs. It not currently know how many people have lost their jobs. According to VGLayoffs, 14,600 people have lost their jobs in the gaming industry this year.
    • RPCS3 (A PlayStation 3 emulator) has announced that the emulator now runs on arm64 architecture on Windows/Linux/macOS. So if you have an M-series Apple Mac device or perhaps a device with Snapdragon or similar processor, you can now play PS3 games on it.
    • Mafia: The Old Country has confirmed that the game will be at The Game Awards.
    • Google has extended the deadline to convert Stadia Controllers to Bluetooth mode until December 31st, 2025.
  • Gaming News – 3rd December 2024

    Gaming News – 3rd December 2024

    • BREAKING (While typing this up) – XDefiant will be shutting down on June 3rd 2025. As of today, new downloads of the game will no longer be available. They will continue to release Season 3 in the near future. This comes as it has been announced that Ubisoft’s San Francisco office and Osaka office are being laid off. Half of the XDefiant developers are moving to other projects.
    • Xbox Game Pass gaming coming this month include but not limited to:
      • Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – Console – December 4th
      • Forza Motorsport – Console – December 4th – Part of ‘Standard’
      • EA Sports WRC – Console, Cloud and PC – December 5th
      • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Cloud, Console and PC – December 5th.
      • Wildfrost – Cloud, Console and PC – December 10th.
    • Some Xbox Game Pass games are leaving, including but not limited to:
      • Forza Horizon 4 – December 15th
      • Rise of the Tomb Raider – December 15th
      • The Quarry – December 15th
      • Humankind – December 31st
      • LEGO 2K Drive – December 31st
      • Party Animals – December 31st
      • McPixel 3 – December 31st
    • From Software isn’t planning a sequel to Elden Ring
    • The NES version of Tetris is coming to Nintendo Switch Online on December 12th
    • GOG is planning to preserve Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 as Blizzard is pulling the games from sales in favour of their recently released Remastered games.
    • Wolverine, Iron Fist, Black Widow, Cloak and Dagger, and Squirrel Girl will be added to Marvel Rivals when the game releases next week, bringing the total number of characters to 30.
    • Specs have been released for the PC version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – The game will be available from Sunday night at midnight UK/Ireland time, with early access from Friday.
  • Gaming News – 27th November 2024

    Gaming News – 27th November 2024

    • 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.
  • Gaming News – 21st November 2024

    Gaming News – 21st November 2024

    • Dragon Quest III (3) HD-2D Remake has sold 821,000 physical copies across Nintendo Switch & PS5 in Japan making it the best selling game in Japan this calendar year. It has been the countries biggest launch since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the biggest Square Enix launch since Dragon Quest XI (11) in 2017.
    • Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic is coming to the Nintendo Switch on December 5th featuring a port of Rollercoaster Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon which released on mobile in 2016 and PC in 2017.
    • The 42nd Golden Joystick Awards were held today. Here is some of the award winners.
      • Ultimate Game of the Year: Black Myth Wukong
      • Best Game Adaptation: Fallout
      • Streamers’ Choice Award: Chained Together
      • PC Game of the Year: Satisfactory
      • Console Game of the Year: Helldivers 2
      • Best Lead Performer: Cody Christian for Cloud in Final Fantasy VII (7): Rebirth
      • Studio of the Year: Team Asobi (Astro Bot)
      • Best Indie Game: Balatro
      • Best Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII (7): Rebirth
      • Best Storytelling: Final Fantasy VII (7): Rebirth
      • Most Anticipated: Grand Theft Auto VI (6)
    • CD Projekt Red has confirmed that they have no plans for patch for Cyberpunk 2077 for the PS5 Pro console.
    • In a upcoming patch, the ‘stealth’ part of quests in Star Wars: Outlaws are going to be removed.
    • Sony has sent a letters to Kadokawa with its intention to acquire From Software (Dark Souls, Elden RIng, Bloodborne) – No decision has been made at this time.
    • Square Enix in partnership with Lightspeed Studios (PUBG Mobile) have revealed that they are working on Final Fantasy XIV (14) Mobile. It will initially launch in Japan and will feature the first 9 classes that appear in the 2013 release of Final Fantasy XIV (14): A Realm Reborn – There is also speculation that the voice acting has been updated/replaced. No release date.
    • It has been confirmed that there won’t be any DLC for Final Fantasy VII (7): Rebirth as Square Enix wants to get Part 3 released ‘as soon as possible’
  • Gaming News – 17th November 2024

    Gaming News – 17th November 2024

    Late Sunday night edition (because I have been busy and lazy all week.)

    • The plot to the 3rd part of the Final Fantasy VII (7) remake has been completed, and the game has gone into full production.
    • The Game Awards has confirmed that expansion packs, DLC and remakes are eligible for the Game of the Year category “if the jury deems the new creative and technical work to be worthy of a nomination”. The Game Awards air on Friday 13th December at 12:30am GMT.
    • Ratatan, the sequel to the 2007 PSP hit Patapon, has a new trailer with a release date of April 2025, and it comes to PS5/PS4/Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC.
    • The Splinter Cell movie, with Tom Hardy, is reportedly been cancelled as they “couldn’t get it right”
    • In a new documentary celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Half-Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode Three was 6 months into development but was dropped in favour of Left 4 Dead – With the new 20th Anniversary, there have been some game updates too: “Every map in Half-Life 2 has been looked over by Valve level designers to fix longstanding bugs, restore content and features lost to time, and improve the quality of a few things like lightmap resolution and fog”
    • Job roles have appeared online hinting to a Starcraft shooter. The game was revealed in Jason Schreier’s book “Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment” – Former head of Far Cry at Ubisoft, Dan Hay, is set to be leading the project.
    • Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, Joan in… Joan, Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse) is reportedly set to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider TV show.
    • Blizzard has announced and released Warcraft: Remastered, Warcraft II Remastered and Warcraft III Reforged as a Battle Chest which also includes a 2.0 patch for Warcraft III Reforged
    • According to Phil Spencer, there are no rules for which game from Xbox’s library gets released on PS5 or Switch.