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.

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