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.
PlayStation State of Play Notes – 31st January 2024
Kicking off with a trailer for Helldivers 2 – Releasing February 8th for PS5 and PC.
New extended gameplay trailer for Stellar Blade – Releasing April 26th for PS5.
New Sonic game. Looks like a new version of Sonic Generations. It’s SHADOW! Sonic x Shadow Generations – Releasing August 2024 on PS5 and PS4
New trailer for Zenless Zone Zero from Hoyoverse (Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail) officially in development for PS5, but still no god damn release date…
New trailer for Foamstars (What would happen if Sony made Splatoon?) – Releasing on the 6th February on PS5 & PS4
Dave The Diver is coming to PS5 in April with Godzilla DLC coming in May
New trailer from Stunlock Studios – V Rising is coming to PS5 later this year
New extended gameplay trailer from Konami and it’s for a new original title in the Silent Hill franchise. Silent Hill: The Short Message a full storied free-to-play game coming to PS5 and it’s available today!
A new gameplay trailer for Silent Hill 2 now in development for PS5
New trailer from the creators of Bioshock – Judas – In development for PS5
New trailer from VertigoGames in collaboration with Deep Silver – It’s a PSVR2 game – Metro Awakening VR – Available later this year
New game from Urbanwolf Games for PSVR2 – Legendary Tales ARPG – Releasing on February 8th
New trailer from Capcom – Dragon’s Dogma II – Releasing March 22nd for PS5
New extended gameplay trailer for Rise of the Ronin – Releasing March 29th on PS5
New trailer from Ballistic Moon, a game rebuilt and enhanced for PS5 and PC – Until Dawn – Releasing later this year
New extended trailer for Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Releasing in 2025
And a new IP from Kojima, in the ‘Action Espionage’ genre titled Metal GePhysint – No trailer or anything… Just that Kojima and Sony are working on it.
Another PlayStation State of Play is coming on February 6th, focusing solely on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH ahead of it’s release on the 29th February
Early this morning, the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Japan kicked off with the 3rd, final and full trailer for the upcoming expansion Dawntrail.
A new ranged, magical DPS job called Pictomancer was revealed (to go alongside the already revealed Viper that was announced at the London Fan Fest) and will be used by Krile in the upcoming expansion/story
Krile as the new Pictomancer
Pictomancer was introduced in Final Fantasy VI (1994) by the character Relm and has been featured in other Final Fantasy games such as ‘Record Keeper’ and Brave Exvius. The job will be available on Dawntrail launch from Gridania and will begin at Level 80.
Relm from FFVI
They also revealed the final race to be added to the game (for now), Female Hrothgar.
Male Hrothgar was introduced in Shadowbringers in 2019, but due to the pandemic, they couldn’t get the female variant out until now.
Female Hrothgar
They also announced new areas, but didn’t delve too much into them, including the new futuristic/cyberpunk ‘Solution Nine’
They also touched upon some information about travelling to other planets in the future for content, similar to Ishgard restoration and possibly Island Sanctuary but we’ll find out closer to its release.
Beastmaster was also announced as the new Limited Job (Blue Mage) but it won’t be releasing until the latter part of the expansion.
As part of the new graphics update that they are carrying out, they had comparison shots of the races in the game. This is just one mere example.
Female Elezen. Left is the original (currently in the game) and the Updated looks for Dawntrail.
‘The Arcadion’, the new 8-man raid series, was announced that appears to be in the same area/style as Solution Nine.
A new Ultimate Raid was announced, ‘Futures Rewritten (Ultimate)’ which is the same title as Patch 5.4 released back in December 2020.
New ‘Field Operations’ were confirmed (Similar to Bozja/Eureka) but no details were made available.
Xbox Open Beta Test is happening in mid-February.
Final Fantasy XIV x Final Fantasy XVI Crossover Questline is planned for early April.
