I remember sitting next to a popular US games journalist at E3 in 2016. A PR had asked them what they felt aboutNintendo‘s booth, which that year was entirely dedicated toThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It was, according to the unnamed media personality, ‘the height of arrogance’. The fact that Nintendo thought it could come to E3 and show one game and get away with it, proved how out-of-touch the company had become....
An Elden Ring player has released their own iOS app designed to let players track quests and NPCs in the game. Shattered Ringaims to address one of the most common complaints aboutFromSoftware‘s latest action RPG, its lack of a quest tracker. This was a deliberate design choice rather than an oversight, and some players have said they prefer exploring the game’s world without an ever-growing list of quests weighing on them....
A developer has put further development of their Steam Early Access game on hold because they’re going to jail for three years. Fortune’s Run was released on Early Access in September 2023 and has since earned a ‘Very Positive’ rating among its reviewers. The game was placed in Early Access because its developer, who goes by the name Dizzie, wanted to “develop the game side-by-side with the community”, with the initial plan being to finish the game by 2026....
Remedy has cancelled one of its in-development multiplayer projects, codenamed Kestrel. In a statement published on Tuesday, theAlan Wake 2developer said that, in conjunction with co-financierTencent, it had decided to cancel the project to focus on other games. Kestrel – previously codenamedVanguard–was “a premium cooperative multiplayer game” being created by a small team, according toRemedy. The company has a second multiplayer project in development, codename Condor, which takes place in theControluniverse....
Among Us will be getting free cosmetic DLC to celebrate the release of Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. As posted on the official Among US account on X, the game will be getting a free Miles Edgeworth outfit on September 9. Edgeworth is the protagonist of the two Ace Attorney Investigations games, only the first of which was released in the west. Both games have now been remastered and are coming to all modern platforms inAce Attorney Investigations Collectionon September 6....
Respawn will introduce a time-limited Apex Legends solos mode on Tuesday August 13. It will be available as part of the two-week Iron Crown Collection event coming to the battle royale game. “We’ll talk more about Solos when it’s live and you’ve had a chance to play it,”Respawncommunity manager Jay Frechette said onReddit. “For now we’re going to put it out there and see what happens and what kind of feedback we get....
Meet Your Maker will come to PlayStation Plus on day one as part of April’s line-up for Sony’s subscription service. The post-apocalyptic first-person building game will be released on April 4, when it will also be claimable viaPlayStationPlus. Meet Your Maker is also scheduled to release onPC,Xbox Series X/SandXbox Oneon the same date. Developed byBehaviour Interactive, which is best known for its asymmetrical horror game Dead By Daylight, Meet Your Maker is set in a sci-fi world in which players are tasked with harvesting a precious resource known as GenMat....
Ubisoft has released an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla hotfix designed to address another Sigrblot Festival issue. The publishersaidthe update addresses an issue which was stopping players from progressing in the War Effort quest during the Sigrblot Festival, despite having completed all the objectives from the four posts. Players may need to restart the game in order to activate the fix. Introduced as part ofAssassin’s Creed Valhalla title update 1.3.0, the Sigrblot Festival is a time-limited event running until August 19....
Ubisoft has released an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update designed to solve a problem that was stopping players from using boosters they’d purchased. Assassin’s Creed Valhallamicrotransactions were introduced about a month after the game’s launch, enabling players to purchase permanent XP and Silver boosts. “We deployed a hotfix to address an issue where purchased permanent boosters could not be used by players,”Ubisoftsaidthis week. It also confirmed plans to fix several other issues in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla title update 1....
This article contains spoilers for some of the cameos in Astro Bot. Concept art forAstro Bothas shown off somePlayStationcameos that haven’t made it into the final game. The game, which was released on Friday, features over 150 cameos from PlayStation icons, past and present. However, while many franchises are covered, there are several that have been omitted. Now, in a new video feature fromVGC showing off the making of the game,Team Asobihas shown a piece of concept art that appears to feature at least two characters that didn’t make it into the final game....
A significant Call of Duty leak has revealed the first details on Black Ops Cold War, ahead of its full reveal on Wednesday. According to info uncovered in free-to-play Warzone’s latest update (viaCoDTrackerandModern Warzone), Cold War is described as “the direct sequel to the original” Black Ops and is set for release onPC, and current and next-gen consoles in November. Cold War’s campaign will take place during the 1980s and see players battle alongside Woods, Mason and Hudson in East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, Soviet KGB headquarters and more....
Cronos: The New Dawn has been announced. The horror game, which is being developed byBloober Team, is set for release in 2025 onXbox Series X/SandPC. A trailer for the game can be viewed below. “Delve deep into the heart of a deadly struggle against overwhelming foes with combat-driven gameplay, all while uncovering the mysteries of a twisted time travel story.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp5X_7OGoBA&ab_channel=Xbox The game takes place in 1980s Communist Poland, a wasteland that has been affected by a plague known as “The Change....
Bungie is prioritising the “work-life balance” of its employees over the release a much-requested weapon fix, according to game director Luke Smith. Asked during GuardianCon whenDestiny2’s overpowered Lord of Wolves shotgun will be addressed,Smith saidBungiecould crunch to speed up the release of a fix, but this wasn’t something the studio was in favour of doing. “We are looking at this summer, something like July,” he said. “The state that the game gets into is, we have a patch that we’re readying right now....
