Gaming News – 9th September 2024

  • A 9-minute presentation introducing the new Playstation 5 Pro is to be held tomorrow at 16:00
  • Embracer Group support studio Lost Boys Interactive who has worked on supporting games such as WWE 2K, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Diablo IV and New World are set to have a round of layoffs. The number of people who have lost their jobs is unknown.
  • Aimbots and homing ammo are 2 cheats that are available for Valve’s new game Deadlock which is still in early beta.
  • Hironobu Sakaguchi (Creator of Final Fantasy) was set to retire after the release of Fantasian, but has decided not to and is excited for the future.
  • Apple Arcade is to get 8 new games this month, including Balatro
  • It has been claimed by an industry insider that the new Nintendo Switch console will be backwards compatible with the original Nintendo Switch games. To what extent, we do not know.
  • The first 90 minutes of Silent Hill 2 remake is now live on YouTube. Japanese audio/text though – Video
  • Fallout TV show has won 2 Emmys for Outstanding Music Supervision and Outstanding Emerging Media Program
  • John Garvin (Director for Days Gone) has spoken out about an image of a bot from Astro Bot dressed as Deek relaxing on a beach: “Kinda sad that Deek has been reduced to promoting other games … well done Bend Studio! Way to protect your legacy!”
  • Netease has said the feedback for the new season of Once Human has been “quite demoralising” – They say that they “values players opinions” and hopes to “fulfil all requests in future updates” – No other information was provided.
  • Bungie has announced that they are switching their release model for Destiny 2 expansions titled: Codename Frontiers
    • 2 ‘medium-size’ expansions will be released per year – Starting next summer, a new expansion, codenamed “Apollo” will contain 2 major ‘Season’ updates in Summer (Codename: “Arsenal”) and Autumn (Codename: “Surge”). In Winter 2025 (going into 2026), will be another expansion, codenamed “Behemoth”. This expansion contains 2 more ‘Season’ major updates in Winter 2025 and Spring 2026 (no codename for these)

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