Category: News

  • Gaming News – 29th October 2024

    Gaming News – 29th October 2024

    • The developers behind the failed Concord, Firewalk Studios has been closed by Sony after spending “considerable time these past few month exploring all [of their] options” – Neon Koi (fka. Savage Game Studios) were working alongside Firewalk and were potentially going to release Concord on mobile down the line.
    • The early access for Path of Exile 2 has been delayed by 3 week to December 6th. This is due to server side infrastructure work that is taking longer than expected to completed.
    • New multiplayer maps and modes and a new Zombies map is coming to Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 1 on November 14 with Omnimovement and BO6 weapons coming to Call of Duty: Warzone on the same date.
    • Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition – A remaster of the WiiU title has been announced for the Nintendo Switch and will release on March 20th, 2025.
    • Shadow Man and Turok 2 has been added to the Nintendo 64: Mature app for Nintendo Switch Online.
    • Bungie’s development of Marathon is ‘on track’ but they are not ready to show gameplay.
    • The specs for Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has been released [pictured]
  • Gaming News – 16th October 2024

    Gaming News – 16th October 2024

    • The release date of Alan Wake 2‘s DLC ‘The Lake House’ has been leaked. It is set to be released next Tuesday (22nd October) alongside the physical edition of the game.
    • Riot Games is cutting 32 employees, with 27 being from its League of Legends team and 5 from publishing. This is in addition to the 530 jobs that were cut in January.
    • Mark Rubin is working on a recovery plan for XDefiant and has admitted that there are no plans to shut down the game after Season 4. There were meetings last year regarding their Year 2 plans.
    • Nobuo Uematsu has stated that Fantasian Neo Dimension is his final game project as a composer but has emphasized that he is not retiring. He is going to be cutting back on the video game music work so he works on other music that he wants to make. He will continue working on jobs for one theme song (Like he did with ‘Dragonsong’ the theme for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward)
    • Activision has released the PC specs requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 which is out next Friday. Preloading will begin on Monday at 5pm. Game Pass players, the game will launch between 12pm on Thursday and 7am on Friday. Steam and Battle.net will have to wait until 5am on Friday.
    • Xbox has announced the following games are coming to Xbox Game Pass.
      • South Park: The Fractured but Whole – Console, Cloud and PC – Released today (October 16th) for Ultimate/PC/Standard Game Pass.
      • Donut Country – Console, Cloud and PC – October 17th for Ultimate/PC/Standard.
      • MechWarrior 5: Clans – Series X|S, Cloud and PC – October 17th for Ultimate/PC.
      • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Console, Cloud and PC – October 25th for Ultimate/PC.
      • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III – Cloud – October 25th for Ultimate.
      • Call of Duty: Warzone – Cloud – October 25th for Ultimate.
      • Ashen – Console, Cloud and PC – October 29th for Ultimate/PC/Standard
      • Dead Island 2 – PC – October 31st for Ultimate/PC
      • Starcraft: Remastered – PC – November 5th Ultimate/PC
      • Starcraft 2: Campaign Collection – PC – November 5th Ultimate/PC
    • Bioware has released the PC specs for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and has confirmed that there is no 3rd party DRM (Such as Denuvo)
    • Sony is going to be holding PlayStation: The Concert in over 200 cities in the next 2 years. The show will feature performances of music originally composed by Gustavo Santaolalla (The Last of Us), Joris De Man (Horizon), Ilan Eshkeri (Ghost of Tsushima), Bear McCreary (God of War) and more. The first show will be in Dublin’s 3Arena on April 19th 2025. Tickets are on sale now.
    • It Takes Two has sold over 20 million units.
    • Resident Evil 4 remake has sold over 8 million units.
    • Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero has sold over 3 million copies within the first 24 hours.
    • Hades II is getting its first major update in a free update today ‘The Olympic Update’ – Trailer – They have also added native support for Mac’s with Apple Silicion.
    • The source code for Rogue Legacy 1 has been made available for free – Github
    • Bandai Namco has cancelled or paused development of several games including an upcoming Naruto and One Piece game. It is not known how many jobs are at risk.
  • Gaming News for Wednesday 20th March 2024

    Gaming News for Wednesday 20th March 2024

    • Alpha Protocol is now available on GOG after it was delisted from Steam in 2019.
    • A new Fatal Fury game has been revealed, subtitled City of the Wolves – Releasing early 2025 – Trailer
    • A new Marvel game has been revealed, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is releasing in 2025. Trailer
    • Baldur’s Gate 3 physical edition for consoles have been delayed while PC versions have been released.
    • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate get it’s 99th and final Spirit Board event.
    • Respawn has confirmed that Apex Legends esports props were hacked mid-game and are working on fixing the issue.
    • Project Birdseye has been revealed by the developer of The Callisto Protocol that is an action rougelike that is a spin off the original Callisto Protocol. First look
    • All Overwatch 2 heroes will be free at the launch of Season 10.
    • A new 60-man Battle Royale for World of Warcraft has been released, titled: Plunderstorm.
    • Diablo IV ray tracing updating is coming on March 26th.
    • Evil West, Hot Wheels Unleashed Turbocharged 2, Open Roads SUPERHOT MIND CONTROL DELETE, ARK: Survival Ascended, Diablo IV and Terra Invicta are coming soon to Xbox Game Pass for PC.
    • Rainbow Cotton, which originally released on Dreamcast in 2000 is getting a remake and will release in May.
    • Character designer for the Tales of… series, Mutsumi Inomata has died aged 63.
    • A year after launch, PlayStation has paused production of the PS VR2 due to slow sales.
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