Forza Horizon 5 has passed 20 million players in just under seven months. The milestone is confirmed in the game’s Hall of Fame leaderboard, which can be accessed at the main Horizon Festival site. The leaderboard shows the player’s total score and where it stands compared to every other person who’s played the game. At the time of writing, the Hall of Fame gives a total of 20,012,405 players....
Nintendo has added four new Game Boy games to its Nintendo Switch Online retro game library. Kirby’s Star Stacker, Survival Kids, Gradius: The Interstellar Assault and The Sword of Hope are all available to play on the service now. Kirby’s Star Stackeris a Tetris-like block-dropping puzzle game featuring a selection of Kirby characters. Players drop two-block shapes consisting of the animal helpers from Kirby’s Dream Land 2, with the aim being to drop them between Star Blocks to make them disappear....
Marcus Lehto has confirmed that he’s left his position as game director on a new Battlefield title. Lehto, who co-created theHalofranchise atBungie,founded Seattle-based Electronic Arts studio Ridgeline Gamesin 2021. Speaking last year, he said its debut project would be “a single-player campaign that will engage players in new ways while also remaining true to the classic elements of what makes Battlefield truly unique”. However, it was recently spotted that all references to Battlefield andEAhad been scrubbed from Lehto’s social media accounts,suggesting he’d left the company....
Early Nintendo Switch 2 players have already unearthed secrets in Mario Kart World, including a hovercraft and a new mechanic. Nintendokicked off itsSwitch2 Experience tour this week, allowing players in various cities around the world to play the console early. As captured by an X user who playedMario Kart World, a demoer showed off a hidden secret in the game: a hovercraft that can be controlled by the player....
GoldenEye’s HD Xbox remaster has been the stuff of legend in gaming circles. Until, that is, a functioning build of the cancelled projectleaked onto the internetearlier this month. Before the public could fire up an emulator and try it for themselves, all we knew of the N64 remaster weredetails leaked in a 2008 UK magazineand the occasional tantalising video clip uploaded to YouTube during the past decade. Unsurprisingly, speculation has been rife around why the project never came to be: Was it cancelled because ofNintendo?...
Indie digital game store Itch.io is relisting free NSFW (Not Safe for Work) games today, but paid content will remain hidden for now. Last week indie digital game store Itch.iodeindexed its entire NSFW games library from its store, a move which comes as payment providers have started scrutinising NSFW content on platforms such asSteam. The decision was met with condemnation from developers, with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) releasing a statement saying it was “seriously alarmed” by the delistings....
A leaked Suicide Squad image has confirmed plans for service game elements such as a battle pass. The image, which originated on the 4chan forum and has been verified by a VGC source, is understood to originate from a recent test build, and shows various menus planned for theRocksteadyco-op game. The battle pass and multiple currencies shown in the image have inspired debate on social media about how extensive the live service elements will be for the title....
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become only the 30th game to receive a perfect score in respected Japanese magazineFamitsu. As reported byRyokutya2089, issue 1835 of the weekly publication (which will arrive on Japanese shelves on Thursday) gives the game a score of 40. Unlike most video game publications, Famitsu games are reviewed by four different critics, who each give the game their own score of 10. to get a ‘Famitsu 40’, then, a game needs to unanimously get a perfect 10 from all four reviewers....
CI Games has confirmed that a sequel to Lords of the Fallen is in development. The game is planned for release onXbox Series X/S,PlayStation 5andPCvia theEpic Games Store. CI Games said it has signed a deal granting Epic the “exclusive worldwide distribution rights… on the PC platform for the entire product life cycle”. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, Lords of the Fallen is a reboot of the dark fantasy action-RPG of the same name that was released in 2014....
A launch day patch for Marvel’s Avengers focuses primarily on stability improvement and enables Steam Cloud. As well as adding a workaround forNvidia10-series driver related crashes, the patch fixes an issue that resulted in some players being unable to throw rocks as Hulk or to shoot as Iron Man. Alist of fixesincluded in the patch was published onSteambyNixxes, a support studio on the game, which has mainly been developed byCrystal Dynamics....
Metaphor: ReFantazio has reached 1 million sales on its first day of sale, according to Atlus. In a press release,Segaclaims that the newly releasedAtlusRPG “achieved its global cumulative sales of one million units”, which it says consists of “the total number of physical unit shipments and downloadable unit sales”. WhenPersona 5was released in Japan, it sold 500,000 units during its initial month. When the game was later released worldwide, Atlus claimed at the time that Persona 5 shipped 1....
Stefanie Joosten, the actress who played Quiet in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, has claimed Hideo Kojima originally approached her to play the role of Fragile in Death Stranding. Joosten toldYouTuber YongYeathat Kojima had left her under the impression she was due to play Fragile in the upcomingPS4exclusive, but after hearing nothing more on the subject for a year after he initially made contact, she says her management team followed up withKojima Productionsonly to be informed that someone else had been given the job....
In recent years, many have proclaimed this the ‘golden age’ of Capcom – and with good reason. The Japanese publisher’s impressive run of form arguably began in 2018 with the release of Monster Hunter World, a game that is now Capcom’s best-selling game ever. Now Capcom is back with its sequel, Monster Hunter Wilds. Wilds is a game that’s not only an absolutely first-rate action experience, it’s also the most approachable the series has been while achieving a spectacle not yet seen in the two-decade-old franchise....
