By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:42 GMT Plague Inc. developer Ndemic Creations is working on a new mode that gives players the job of stopping a deadly pandemic rather than creating one. The developer announced the upcoming mode along with its news of a $250,000 donation split between the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness
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By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:01 GMT Valve honcho and billionaire Gabe Newell once worked as a gold farmer in World of Warcraft while in the early research phase of what would eventually become Steam Workshop. Newell opened up about his time as a gold farmer in a recent interview with Edge (via
Get the best deals while shopping online ▸ http://joinhoney.com/dykg Honey is FREE and finds coupons with the click of a button. Thanks to Honey for sponsoring! SUBSCRIBE for more Animal Crossing ► http://bit.ly/DYKG_Subscribe In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at some facts, secrets and Easter eggs surrounding the Animal Crossing series
By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:46 GMT Microsoft is experiencing a surge in demand for its cloud services throughout this period of global lockdown due to COVID-19. The tech giant confirmed a 775 percent increase “in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place order,” with a spike in everything from
[embedded content] Not long after all the Nintendo Direct Mini presentation earlier this week, the talented team at WayForward locked in a Switch release date for Shantae And The Seven Sirens. It’ll be washing up on the Switch on 28th May, and is expected to launch for $29.99 USD. While this new expansive quest is
As countries around the globe continue to observe lockdowns in an effort to slow the spread of Coronavirus, people have turned to video games for weddings and graduation ceremonies. CNN reported that games like Animal Crossing and Apex Legends are being utilized to host events that have been postponed for the foreseeable future. A New Jersey couple
By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 18:28 GMT MMO Final Fantasy 14 is suspending its automatic system of demolishing in-game houses of players who have not recently logged-in due to a lapse in their subscription payments. The temporary suspension comes in the wake of worldwide lockdowns to level the spread of COVID-19, resulting in
Media Molecule’s Dreams is a departure from the studio’s previous projects in that it’s more of a creative platform than a traditional video game. The single-player campaign tells a thought-provoking story, but it’s short and is designed to showcase Dreams‘ development tools. Although Media Molecule has extensive plans for Dreams and has drifted towards making
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Zen Studios’ Operencia: The Stolen Sun doesn’t really get off to the brightest of starts on Nintendo Switch. Opening with a prologue that sees you assume control of King Attila and his wife Reka as they attempt to close a portal between their land and the underworld, things kick off
Five years after Absolute Drift, Funselektor have found themselves behind the wheel once again. This week, the minimalist driving developers released a free demo for Art of Rally, a top-down distillation of the (objectively best) motorsport that takes Absolute Drift’s textureless powerslides and lets them loose on delightfully toy-like Nordic forest tracks. A car is
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIV players won’t lose their in-game houses during the Coronavirus pandemic. Housing plots are limited in the MMORPG so obtaining one is no easy feat. The developer utilizes an automatic demolition mechanic that, as the name suggests, knocks down players’ estates if they don’t enter them for 30
By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 16:57 GMT Square Enix is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Nier with the release of a remastered version for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. [embedded content] Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139, as it will be called, will launch on PlayStation 4, PC via Steam, and Xbox One. Nier Replicant
What happens after World of Warcraft: Classic? It’s something the MMO throwback was always going to have to deal with, eventually. There’s only so much content to revisit after all. As Classic’s expiration date slowly draws closer, Blizzard have begun asking players what they’d like to see next – specifically, whether they’re ready to head
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Nier series of games, Square Enix today announced an upgraded version of Nier Replicant (the original Japanese PlayStation 3 release) is heading to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. The port is being developed in conjunction with Toylogic and is spearheaded by director Yoko Taro and producer Yosuke Saito. Square Enix also revealed
God of War creator David Scott Jaffe has taken issue with protagonist Kratos being mischaracterized as a misogynist in the earlier titles following the series’ change in direction in 2018. Quoting an article that delves into the franchise’s history and describes its beginnings as “misogynistic” and “toxic,” before 2018’s redemption arc, Jaffe tweeted that “Kratos was
Netflix has signed a deal to make a live-action adaptation of classic video game Dragon’s Lair. The company has reportedly been negotiating the deal for a year, and has tapped Ryan Reynolds to star in the movie based on the 1980s arcade hit. The production team includes Reynolds (Maximum Effort), Roy Lee (Vertigo Entertainment), and Trevor
Screenshot Saturday Sundays! A virtual picturebook of holiday snaps from across the game development globe, delivered straight to Twitter’s doorstep every seven days. This week, we’re basically running down good lockdown practice: wash up often, eat well, and remember to take a nice walk now and again. Maybe don’t go hopping on trains right now,
Square Enix has announced an “upgraded version” of 2010’s NieR Replicant for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Accompanying the surprise announcement was a trailer, which you can check out below. #NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, an upgraded version of the original, is now in development for #PS4, #Xbox One and #Steam! Enter an apocalyptic world
Bienvenido a Box Art Brawl, our weekly look back at the same game’s retro box art from around the world with a cheeky vote attached. To coincide with the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons we took a look at the first game in the series last week. Despite the North American and European variants
[embedded content] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fan and mechanical engineer, Eric Heckman, came up with an electric idea to wire a taser to a GameCube controller, so he could shock himself while he played as the Pokémon fighter, Pichu. In an email to Kotaku, Heckman explained how it’s was a “pretty simple” design. Apart from
Mekorama looks a lot like Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. There’s no getting around this, but in the same way that Metroid Prime looks a lot like other FPS titles, it doesn’t quite play the same. In fact, Mekorama is played entirely on the Switch’s touch screen (or with an on-screen cursor, if you wish), and
It feels criminal to do this to Doom Eternal. Doom is the ur-FPS. Not the first, by any means, but the most – the first-person shooter we’ve been chasing for decades. In their own act of heresy, though, modders have plucked the eyes from our Doom Slayer and hung them a few feet behind his
Netflix confirmed last night that they have renewed the excellent Castlevania animated series on the streaming platform for a fourth season. A release window hasn’t been announced for the fourth season but if you’ve yet to catch up on the animated series there are currently 22 episodes available on Netflix. Share this! Like this: Like
No, I didn’t spill coffee on the keyboard. Yes, the ellipses are part of the title. 10 years after its console debut, NieR is heading to PC with the elegantly-titled Nier: Replicant vers.1.22474487139… – not a remake or a remaster, Square Enix insist, but a spruced-up re-release that’s polishing up the audio, sprinkling in some
Panzer Dragoon: Remake made a surprise landing on the Nintendo Switch earlier this week as a timed-exclusive, and while it doesn’t quite match the Sega Saturn original, there’s a patch on the way that will hopefully make it a little bit better. Anyone expecting to hear Saori Kobayashi’s additional soundtrack when they booted up the
Nintendo has already rolled out two updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch. Despite this, there still seems to be some serious glitches that could potentially ruin your experience. According to a post on the Animal Crossing website, Bell Tree Forums, there’s a glitch that can bug plots of land on your
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy has finally been released on the Nintendo Switch, but there seems to be a disturbance in the force. There is reportedly an issue with the game’s online multiplayer component. While there’s no mention of a cross-play feature in the official Nintendo description, right now, PC players are able to
Dengeki Online has new information about Animal Crossing New Horizons sales figures in Japan. Dengeki says that the game has sold 1,831,859 copies in Japan for its first week of availability. This is 90% of the game’s initial stock. To compare, Animal Crossing New Leaf sold only 558,000 in its first week in Japan, and
This week, Mount & Blade 2’s early access launch date was moved up by one whole day, Epic Games launched a publishing scheme, Half-Life: Alyx was the talk of the town, and that ol’ new coronavirus continued to disrupt things. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and
Actor Abubakar Salim, who voiced Bayek of Siwa in Assassin’s Creed Origins, has opened up his own video game studio, Silver Rain Games. Former BAFTA games program manager, Melissa Philips, has teamed up with Salim and the two have plans to give budding developers a chance. Outside the gaming world, Salim is known for his roles
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