Lies of P manages to be a solid soulslike with its interesting setting and combat mechanics, despite not attempting to bring any innovation to the formula...
Over a year after Beauty and the Beast's Belle first starting popping up in promotional images for developer Gameloft's Disney Dreamlight Valley, the avid book-reader, Gaston-snubber, and dinner-enjoyer will be joining the village sim today, 13th September....
Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it will soon charge developers when one of their games is downloaded....
The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without...
The Unity Runtime Fee is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024, and it's been universally panned by developers on social media since its announcement earlier today....
While details were sparse, Apple showed a few screens of the games on a virtual version of the iPhone 15 Pro during today's event, stopping short of showing gameplay of these games running on the newly announced phones. It's unclear what the gameplay experiences for these games will be like on the iPhone 15 Pro and Max;...
It's likely running native as they've been touting the ray tracing of their new gpu. They've pushed a number of games in the past to show off hardware updates or features, so that's probably what this is about.
Also, they didn't drop support for mac, they just focused on their own gaming API. They continue to get new games published.
Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community....
Alan Wake 2 outfit Remedy Entertainment have "always" felt pressured to make their games longer, creative director Sam Lake has observed in a new interview which also picks apart the differences between the forthcoming midwestern spookalot, out this October, and the 2010 original. Lake added that, Remedy's sense of audience...
Today, NVIDIA released a new Game Ready driver (version 537.34) for its GeForce graphics cards to deliver pre-release optimization for NetherRealm's hotly anticipated fighting game Mortal Kombat 1 and NEOWIZ's Soulslike game Lies of P....
In this episode of New Gameplay Today, Blake Hester and I show you a glimpse of a different kind of cooking game, Nour: Play With Your Food. Rather than tasking players with cooking a proper dish, developer Terrifying Jellyfish presents a playspace of ingredients, tools like blowtorches and meat tenderizers, and a suite of odd...
Fortnite Battle Royale’s v26.10 update is now live in-game and it brings with it some returning My Hero Academia items, three new heroes, and a new Shoto Todoroki-inspired item. Alongside Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido are in the Item Shop available for purchase.
Bilkins' Folly popped up on my radar, err, sea charts, earlier this year when developer Webbysoft and Publisher Armor Games Studios announced the PC-only title was actually going to launch on PlayStation and Switch now as well. I watched the console announcement trailer and knew I needed to check this game out – old-school...
I think it's safe to say that Pharaoh has the most campaign mechanics we have ever seen in this series to date. It's almost dizzying to come to grips with it all, though thankfully, they were introduced to me a little bit at a time. Where to even start? As I took control of Ramesses – not yet known by his royal title Ramesses...
We spoke to a number of game developers to get their insight on what’s really going on in the infamous Starfield potato clip, why more games don’t let players do this kind of thing, and whether or not 20,000 tumbling potatoes really is as impressive as it seems.
Sega has announced a release date for Football Manager 2024, which will debut on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and on smartphones from 6th November....
... a backlash from PC players has resulted in an influx of negative reviews. Now, according to Steam 250, it ranks just behind Overwatch 2 in the list of worst reviewed games on Steam....
YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs, however, realized that there's nothing stopping you from putting a Netherstone into a container like a crate or a sack (crucial to the Shadowboxing speedrun tech) and then getting rid of that container. I was able to replicate the trick in my own game, but curiously I only got the game over on losing my...
The most recent Kill Switch master list change details a variety of features and perks disabled in Dead by Daylight in order to resolve a popular survivor exploit. This means that if you’ve experienced it or have even used the technique at some point to become invincible yourself, you won’t be encountering it anymore. Killer...
This impressive overhaul mod for Devil May Cry 5 comes from modder 'Sparky1j' and is called "Devil May Crowbar". Due to the name of the mod, it's easily overlooked, but the project is an impressive project from the modder that deserves to be tried out....
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag’s unexpected disappearance from the Steam store is down to nothing more exciting than a tech bug - and definitely isn’t a sign of an upcoming remake for the pirate entry in the stealth-action franchise.
The Life Is Strange saga is expanding again in the form of Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, a comic series set after the events of True Colors. heck out our exclusive cover art reveal....
Ubisoft could potentially launch somewhere between the middle of September to the middle of October after being denied certification by PlayStation and Xbox....
Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans....
Everyone saw the current landscape coming, and there was no way around it if we wanted online distribution. I hate DRM as much as the next guy, and love my physical collection, but it wasn't Valve and Steam that ushered in this BS. You can avoid steam, and a large amount of DRM if you genuinely care about. There was pushback years later and even Apple allowed you to DRM-less options.
After years of MPAA and RIAA BS piracy claims from cd & dvd ripping and declining physical sales, every company and their mom was looking into DRM to allay the fears of copyright holders and enable digital distribution. It was going to happen regardless of Steam. Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Philips, etc were all launching the same shit. Apple launched the iTunes store months before with complete DRM and people ate that up. Companies new years before people would adopt it if the benefits of digital distribution outweighed the inconvenience, and they were right.
Shit like Denuvo was going to happen regardless, as despite the push back on some of the invasive DRM, some companies remain unconvinced. They do it even on top of Steam.
My argument is that it was inevitable at the time, and everyone saw it coming. It was going to happen regardless of whether Valve created steam or not.
You literally state this:
Turns out it DID make everything a nightmarish hellscape of big brother-esque remote digital rights control where you never own anything you buy. Those 20 year old veterans ruined it all.
I don't think any of that is true. You can avoid most of the shitty DRM today and the big brother-esque remote DRM. People who adopted it then, didn't usher this in.
It’s been six years since Forza Motorsport 7 was released, and a fraction under two years since it was delisted. That’s right; it’s been over 725 days since you could buy a Forza Motorsport game this side of the second-hand market. Fortunately, that’s about to change next month – but ahead of the much-anticipated...
For this month’s IGN First, I visited Remedy’s studio in Finland to play Alan Wake 2. Across more than an hour of play I experienced the entirety of Local Girl, the third chapter of Saga’s story. Within it, I saw plenty of things that will make long-term Alan Wake devotees happy. Manuscripts still litter the world, as do...
Firstly, Atari is to acquire AtariAge, which you could call a retro forum though that would vastly undersell what it is: over time this has grown into the best repository for everything Atari (as well as some other companies), both hardware and software, as well as being a major publisher for homebrew software....
From a hardware perspective, that's been true since just after the 1983 crash, when it was sold to Jack Tramiel's company -- even before the Lynx and Jaguar. The software side was split into Atari games which has an even longer history of being passed around.
Over the weekend, following the game's full release, it hit a peak of 330,723 concurrent players. That's bigger than Skyrim's 287,411 concurrent player record, though still a way behind Fallout 4, which has a concurrent Steam player count of 472,962
I'd bet a sizable portion of steam numbers aren't purchases either. AMD was running the promo such that anyone buying AMD hardware from like July onwards got a free copy.
So a user on Reddit (ed: u/Yoraxx ) posted on the Starfield subreddit that there was a problem in Starfield when running the game on an AMD Radeon GPU. The issue is very simple, the game just won't render a star in any solar system when you are at the dayside of a moon or even any planetary object. The issue only occurs on AMD...
Xbox Series S and X UK sales jumped 76% on Starfield launch (www.gamesindustry.biz) angielski
The launch of Starfield and a new version of the Xbox Series S significantly boosted sales of Microsoft consoles....
Lies of P Review - Lie or Die (wccftech.com) angielski
Lies of P manages to be a solid soulslike with its interesting setting and combat mechanics, despite not attempting to bring any innovation to the formula...
Square Enix games misfire due to being "single producer's fiefdom", report suggests (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Recent Square Enix games have misfired due to the approach of each game being "a single producer's fiefdom"....
Disney Dreamlight Valley finally adds Belle - and Beast - in today's update (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Over a year after Beauty and the Beast's Belle first starting popping up in promotional images for developer Gameloft's Disney Dreamlight Valley, the avid book-reader, Gaston-snubber, and dinner-enjoyer will be joining the village sim today, 13th September....
Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it will soon charge developers when one of their games is downloaded....
New PlayStation 5 update allows for second controller assist (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
A new PS5 update will allow players to assign a second controller as an assist. (+ more)...
Xbox Game Pass Core full list of games revealed (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Games with Gold replacement Xbox Game Pass Core launches on 14th September with 36 titles available to play....
Nintendo Direct announced for tomorrow (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
There's a new Nintendo Direct happening tomorrow, Thursday 14th September, at 3pm UK time....
The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without...
Why Unity's New Install Fees Are Spurring Massive Backlash Among Game Developers - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
The Unity Runtime Fee is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024, and it's been universally panned by developers on social media since its announcement earlier today....
Resident Evil 4 Remake, RE Village, And Assassin’s Creed Mirage Announced For iPhone 15 Pro (www.gameinformer.com) angielski
While details were sparse, Apple showed a few screens of the games on a virtual version of the iPhone 15 Pro during today's event, stopping short of showing gameplay of these games running on the newly announced phones. It's unclear what the gameplay experiences for these games will be like on the iPhone 15 Pro and Max;...
New The Witcher Board Game Announced - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
The developer is working with Go On Board on The Witcher: Path of Destiny, which is set within The Witcher universe....
Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community....
Alan Wake 2's developers "have always internally felt that we need to find ways to do longer games" (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
Alan Wake 2 outfit Remedy Entertainment have "always" felt pressured to make their games longer, creative director Sam Lake has observed in a new interview which also picks apart the differences between the forthcoming midwestern spookalot, out this October, and the 2010 original. Lake added that, Remedy's sense of audience...
Mythforce review: Saturday morning skeletons and familiar roguelike comforts (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
A zero-pressure dungeon roguelike that offers some familiar comfort even if it doesn't take full advantage of its Saturday morning cartoon schtick....
Game Ready Driver Optimized for Lies of P & MK1 Is Out Now, Adds ReBar to Starfield; DLSS 3 Comes to Icarus (wccftech.com) angielski
Today, NVIDIA released a new Game Ready driver (version 537.34) for its GeForce graphics cards to deliver pre-release optimization for NetherRealm's hotly anticipated fighting game Mortal Kombat 1 and NEOWIZ's Soulslike game Lies of P....
Nour: Play With Your Food | New Gameplay Today (www.gameinformer.com) angielski
In this episode of New Gameplay Today, Blake Hester and I show you a glimpse of a different kind of cooking game, Nour: Play With Your Food. Rather than tasking players with cooking a proper dish, developer Terrifying Jellyfish presents a playspace of ingredients, tools like blowtorches and meat tenderizers, and a suite of odd...
New Fortnite Update Includes Shoto Todoroki And More My Hero Academia (www.gameinformer.com) angielski
Fortnite Battle Royale’s v26.10 update is now live in-game and it brings with it some returning My Hero Academia items, three new heroes, and a new Shoto Todoroki-inspired item. Alongside Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido are in the Item Shop available for purchase.
Bilkins' Folly Preview - A Jolly (Rogers) Adventure - Game Informer (www.gameinformer.com) angielski
Bilkins' Folly popped up on my radar, err, sea charts, earlier this year when developer Webbysoft and Publisher Armor Games Studios announced the PC-only title was actually going to launch on PlayStation and Switch now as well. I watched the console announcement trailer and knew I needed to check this game out – old-school...
Total War Pharaoh: Hands-On Campaign Preview - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
I think it's safe to say that Pharaoh has the most campaign mechanics we have ever seen in this series to date. It's almost dizzying to come to grips with it all, though thankfully, they were introduced to me a little bit at a time. Where to even start? As I took control of Ramesses – not yet known by his royal title Ramesses...
Starfield’s Giant Pile of 20,000 Potatoes, Explained by Game Developers - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
We spoke to a number of game developers to get their insight on what’s really going on in the infamous Starfield potato clip, why more games don’t let players do this kind of thing, and whether or not 20,000 tumbling potatoes really is as impressive as it seems.
PS5 sales jumped 42% in the UK during August | UK Monthly Charts (www.gamesindustry.biz) angielski
According to GfK, over 135,000 games consoles were sold last month, a rise of 22% over July and 8% up over August last year....
Mortal Kombat 1 - Official Launch Trailer (youtu.be) angielski
Welcome to the New Era. Will you fight for peace, or embrace the khaos?
Chants of Sennaar review - a puzzling linguistic marvel (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Our Chants of Sennaar review - a brilliant game about cracking languages....
Pokémon collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum opens later this month (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
The Pokémon Company has announced a new collaboration running at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 28th September....
Football Manager 2024 release date set for November (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Sega has announced a release date for Football Manager 2024, which will debut on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and on smartphones from 6th November....
NBA 2K24 is already the second-worst reviewed game on Steam (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
... a backlash from PC players has resulted in an influx of negative reviews. Now, according to Steam 250, it ranks just behind Overwatch 2 in the list of worst reviewed games on Steam....
Microsoft reveals Astral Purple Xbox wireless controller (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
The next colour to be celebrated with an Xbox wireless controller is purple, as Microsoft has announced its new release called Astral Purple....
[Spoilers] Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs, however, realized that there's nothing stopping you from putting a Netherstone into a container like a crate or a sack (crucial to the Shadowboxing speedrun tech) and then getting rid of that container. I was able to replicate the trick in my own game, but curiously I only got the game over on losing my...
Dead by Daylight flashlights axed until devs resolve survivor exploit (www.pcgamesn.com) angielski
The most recent Kill Switch master list change details a variety of features and perks disabled in Dead by Daylight in order to resolve a popular survivor exploit. This means that if you’ve experienced it or have even used the technique at some point to become invincible yourself, you won’t be encountering it anymore. Killer...
This DMC 5 Overhaul Mod is a Must-Have for Half-Life 2 Fans (wccftech.com) angielski
This impressive overhaul mod for Devil May Cry 5 comes from modder 'Sparky1j' and is called "Devil May Crowbar". Due to the name of the mod, it's easily overlooked, but the project is an impressive project from the modder that deserves to be tried out....
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag’s unexpected disappearance from the Steam store is down to nothing more exciting than a tech bug - and definitely isn’t a sign of an upcoming remake for the pirate entry in the stealth-action franchise.
Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not Expands the Critically Acclaimed Franchise - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
The Life Is Strange saga is expanding again in the form of Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, a comic series set after the events of True Colors. heck out our exclusive cover art reveal....
Ubisoft's XDefiant Delayed After Being Rejected by PlayStation and Xbox - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Ubisoft could potentially launch somewhere between the middle of September to the middle of October after being denied certification by PlayStation and Xbox....
[Rumor] Embracer reportedly considering selling Borderlands developer Gearbox (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Gearbox is reportedly the latest studio to be affected by Embracer Group's restructuring efforts....
Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans....
Hands-on With Forza Motorsport: Back on Track - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
It’s been six years since Forza Motorsport 7 was released, and a fraction under two years since it was delisted. That’s right; it’s been over 725 days since you could buy a Forza Motorsport game this side of the second-hand market. Fortunately, that’s about to change next month – but ahead of the much-anticipated...
Alan Wake 2: Exclusive Hands-On Preview - IGN First - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
For this month’s IGN First, I visited Remedy’s studio in Finland to play Alan Wake 2. Across more than an hour of play I experienced the entirety of Local Girl, the third chapter of Saga’s story. Within it, I saw plenty of things that will make long-term Alan Wake devotees happy. Manuscripts still litter the world, as do...
Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Firstly, Atari is to acquire AtariAge, which you could call a retro forum though that would vastly undersell what it is: over time this has grown into the best repository for everything Atari (as well as some other companies), both hardware and software, as well as being a major publisher for homebrew software....
Starfield overtakes Skyrim with concurrent Steam players (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Over the weekend, following the game's full release, it hit a peak of 330,723 concurrent players. That's bigger than Skyrim's 287,411 concurrent player record, though still a way behind Fallout 4, which has a concurrent Steam player count of 472,962
Starfield Is Seemingly Missing Entire Stars (the local 'sun') When Running On AMD Radeon GPUs (wccftech.com) angielski
So a user on Reddit (ed: u/Yoraxx ) posted on the Starfield subreddit that there was a problem in Starfield when running the game on an AMD Radeon GPU. The issue is very simple, the game just won't render a star in any solar system when you are at the dayside of a moon or even any planetary object. The issue only occurs on AMD...