Project Cars 1 and Project Cars 2 will be removed from sale over the coming months. The original entry inSlightly Mad Studios’ racing series will be delisted on October 3 and the sequel will be pulled from sale on September 21. The news was confirmed on the Project Cars Twitter account, which said the decision had been made “due to expiring car and track licenses”. “Both games will remain fully playable, and our players will still be able to enjoy all the game features, including multiplayer....

PlayStation 5 sales to consumers were around 1.7 times greater than Xbox Series X/S sales as of the end of 2021, according to data from analytics firm Ampere Analysis. Earlier this month,Sonysaid it hadshipped 17.3 million PS5 consolesto retailers by the end of December. And Ampere research director Piers Harding-Rolls thinks almost all of those units made their way into consumers’ hands last year. “Sony ended 2021 withPS5cumulative sell-through reaching 17....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Season 11 has been detailed ahead of its PC launch on March 31 and consoles on April 8. Available to preview now on thePCtest server, the new season brings back Paramo, the 3×3 South American highlands map firstintroduced with Season 9 in October 2020. It is now playable in solos, duos or squads in first and third-person perspectives, and the dynamic world system that randomises major landmarks between matches has been expanded....

Ubisoft has detailed its launch plans for Rainbow Six Siege cross-play and cross-progression. Both features will be enabled forPC,AmazonLuna and a newStadiaversion of the game on June 30. Cross-play will be available betweenXboxandPlayStationconsoles in early 2022, when cross-progression will be enabled across all platforms. “For these updates, we needed a bit more time in order to prepare and make sure they have a smooth launch,” said Guillaume Gad, associate producer atUbisoft Montreal....

There are now three weeks to go until it’s no longer possible to buy games on the Wii U and 3DS eShops. Nintendois in the process of completely shutting down both digital stores, and players are only able to buy games on them until March 27. If you intend to buy certain titles on theWii Uor 3DS eShops but don’t have enough balance in your account, you’ll need to use aSwitchto top it up....

Capcom will release a remake of Resident Evil 3 in 2020, a new report has claimed. YouTube channelSpawn Wavereports thatResident Evil 3remake is in active development atCapcom, which matches what VGC has been told by a number of sources. [UPDATE:Resident Evil 3 remake has been officially announced with a full trailer.] Resident Evil2 remake released in January 2019 – 21 years after thePlayStationoriginal – and hasbeen a very successful title for Capcom, with sales approaching 5 million units....

What sane person would choose to live in Kamurocho, the central setting of the Yakuza series? Repurposed for six games – not to mention spin-offs and remakes – this tiny cluster of casinos, burger joints and hostess clubs has seen enough violence to depopulate entire countries, let alone a square mile of retail. Walk its streets and you’d feel the crunch of loose teeth underfoot, such is the number of hoodlums powerslammed into tarmac by long term hero Kazuma Kiryu....

It may be tempting to compare Sonic Frontiers to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but the latest Sega platformer actually has more in common with a different Nintendo exclusive. As a neat bookend to 2022, Frontiers reminds us a lot more ofPokémon Legends: Arceus, which was released back in January. That ended up being the first big pleasant surprise of this year, and Frontiers is one of the last....

The best games are often the ones that can appeal to complete amateurs and long-time devotees while providing the same, uncompromised experience to both. There are few better examples of this than Super Monkey Ball. The arcade game turnedGameCubelaunch title was one of the most popular early offerings onNintendo’s system, and the best first foot forwardSegacould have placed after its decision to stop making consoles and go third-party. The Monkey Ball series has returned in infrequent sequels over the years, but it’s the initial trilogy of Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball 2 and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe that (quite literally) encapsulated the series’ simplistic genius, before other gimmicks such as touchscreens, motion controls and jump buttons were added to the mix....

The latest update to the Rockstar Games Launcher aims to fix crash errors experienced by Red Dead Redemption 2 PC players when attempting to start the game. Red Dead Redemption 2launched forPCon Tuesday, butmany players encountered a crash errorwith the message, “Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly.” The newRockstar GamesLauncherupdatetargets this issue and several others experienced by players attempting to play the game, including theEpic Gamesstore version. [UPDATE:Rockstar has now recommendeddisabling anti-virus software, updating the Rockstar Launcher and clearing local profile details]...

The upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake may have given its protagonist a makeover to make him look younger. When the gamewas officially announced in October 2022it was accompanied bythe first trailer, showing protagonist James Sunderland as he arrives atSilent Hillafter receiving a letter from his dead wife asking him to return. However, some fans of the series pointed out that James looked older than he did in the original version ofSilent Hill 2, where the character was supposed to be 29 years old....

PlayStation-acquired studio Firesprite is moving to a new office that’s significantly larger than the one it currently occupies. The studio is currently based at Liverpool’s Vanilla Factory, a building which contains a number of units converted into offices, retail and leisure spaces. Firesprite’s office unit at Vanilla Factory covers 2,295 sq ft, according to the building’s floor plan information. However, the company has now leased a four-building cluster in Liverpool’s Duke Street, which will give it 50,000 sq ft of space....

The head of Square Enix has claimed that Crystal Dynamics was a bad fit for Marvel’s Avengers, given its lack of experience with the games as a service model. Addressing shareholders in a statement published in the company’s annual report, presidentYosuke MatsudasaidSquare Enixneeded to learn from the game’s “disappointing” performance. Notably, he highlighted the importance of matching development studios with “game designs” that best suit their skillsets and interests....