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This surprisingly lavish remake of Naughty Dog’s 1999 kart racer certainly lives up to its titular suffix. You can almost feel the frames of these karts buckling, the nuts and bolts about to rattle loose, every time you trigger a turbo boost. Like sticking a V12 engine into a Fiesta, it feels like too much power in too small a frame, as your kart’s front wheels lift off the ground, its occupier clinging tighter to the wheel in tandem with your own grip on the controller....

Launch month sales for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Silent Hill 2 were reportedly relatively slow in Europe. That’s according to GSD data shared by GamesIndustry.biz’s Chris Dring, which covers physical sales from major markets and digital sales from most leading publishers, excludingNintendoand505 Games. Compared with other high profile RPGs released this year,Dragon Age: The Veilguardsales are tracking 18% belowDragon’s Dogma 2and almost 21% behindPS5exclusiveFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Dring said onBluesky....

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson expects games as a service to become “foundational” to the industry as technology and playing habits evolve. In a wide-ranging interview withGameDaily.Biz, the executive pointed to the way in which social media platforms increasingly satisfy the basic human need to interact with others. Wilson said creating online games that satisfy this “core motivation” will form the base from which everything else develops and be crucial to success for a third-party publisher likeEA....

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple has still yet to approve the addition of Fortnite to the iOS App Store, and has suggested it’s obstructing the process. The game was submitted toApplefor review on May 9, but on May 14 Sweeney told followers on X that Apple still hadn’t approved the game’s release. After one follower asked Sweeney where the game was, he replied: “No news from Apple yet. They’ve had it since last Friday....

Epic Games has acquired Tonic Games Group, the parent company of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout studio Mediatonic, for an undisclosed sum. In an update onEpic’s website, the studio’s new ownersaidFall Guys“gameplay isn’t changing” and that it will continue to support the title across platforms. And in a separate FAQ,Mediatonicconfirmedthat theSteamversion of Fall Guys will remain purchasable and receive future updates. The developer said it wants to bring several features offered in Epic titlesFortniteandRocket Leagueto Fall Guys too....

The studio behind Everywhere, the new game from former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies, has said it’s not dismissing technologies like blockchain, amid speculation the title could support NFTs or cryptocurrencies. Edinburgh-based Build a Rocket Boy premieredthe first trailer for its debut title EverywhereduringGamescomOpening Night Live on Tuesday, when it also confirmed plans for a 2023 release. FollowingEverywhere’s rather mysterious reveal, which left players with more questions than answers, eagle-eyed fans noticed that the studio is currentlyhiringfor several blockchain-based positions....

Several popular N64 games could be coming to Nintendo Switch Online soon, according to details spotted by fans in a recent trailer. During a brief section of avideoposted byNintendoin May, several blurred N64 games can be seen in the background. While it was initially assumed that these games were the titles already included in the service, fans have pointed out that several of them are for games yet to be included in theNintendo SwitchOnline service....

Players who buy the Standard Edition of FIFA 22 on PS4 or Xbox One will not be able to upgrade to the next-gen versions for free. Only the Ultimate Edition, priced at $99.99 / £89.99, will come with Dual Entitlement, which is essentially a bundle that adds the previous-gen and next-gen versions of the game to the player’s library. In a newDual Entitlement FAQlisted onEA‘s website, EA makes it clear that the next-gen upgrade is not available with the Standard Edition, which is priced at $59....

Square Enix has announced the start date for the Final Fantasy 14 open beta on Xbox Series X/S According to the publisher, the open beta will begin on Wednesday, February 21 at 3am ET / 8am GMT. Anyone with an existing Final Fantasy 14 account on another platform will be unable to join the open beta, as it’s solely designed for newcomers for now. “The open beta test will only be available to new players who will be playing Final Fantasy 14 for the first time,”Square Enixsays....

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s demo appears to be causing widespread issues, with many users reporting a ‘data corrupted’ error. TheTeam Ninja-developed spin-off game wasannounced during the Square Enix Presents live streamon Sunday, with a surprise demo due to launch onPlayStation 5the same day. However, at the time of publishing it appears that it’s not possible to play the demo after downloading it, as attempting to launch the trial causes an error message to appear....

A new patch for Gran Turismo 7 has reduced the amount of in-game currency many races reward, thereby making it harder to unlock new cars, even after widespread criticism of the game’s microtransations. The racer’s latest patch (version 1.07) has reduced the payout of several races, while fixing two late-game races that were being used to farm credits due to a bug. At launch, VGC reported thatsome of Gran Turismo 7’s cars cost as much as eight times what they did on Gran Turismo Sport, if purchased using real money....

A former Miss Moneypenny will now be jumping over to the dark side in Evil Genius 2. Samantha Bond played the role in the four Pierce Brosnan era Bond movies – GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day – but will now be voicing Emma, one of the four playable villains in the sequel to the cult 2004 crime sim. Bond joins the previously announced Brian Blessed, who also plays one of the four bad guys....

Epic has announced that its Fortnite Crew subscription will soon include all battle passes for the game. Starting on December 1 it will also include the new Music Pass, which will replace the Festival Pass, and the Lego Pass too, at no additional cost. On the same date,Epicwill also be increasing the price of the Battle Royale battle pass by 50 V-Bucks, from 950 to 1,000. “The real money price of V-Bucks will remain the same, and you’ll still be able to earn V-Bucks through leveling the Battle Pass,”it said....