Month: January 2020

In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Outer Wilds‘ Loan Verneau says subscription services like Xbox Game Pass “unlock the market to weirder things.” “We’re on Game Pass for Xbox, and it’s been really awesome becuase I think it’s brought a lot of players to the game who would not have known about it otherwise,” says Verneau,
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Today, Sony released the first trailer for Morbius, its Jared Leto led movie about the titular Spider-Man character. While Sony’s last live-action outing tangentially related to Spider-Man, Venom, was pretty terrible, Morbius actually looks like it the potential to be an enjoyable film. The first trailer also features a couple of cool easters eggs, including
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood has finally received an update to support RTX, meaning that the shiny surfaces throughout the game’s world will now realistically reflect anything. Even Nazis I assume. Bethesda has announced that MachineGames’ spin-off to the Wolfenstein games now has RTX support. The support is only available for those on PC with a rig capable of
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The road to Vortex Rising’s release has been an interesting one. Creator Chris Kovalik originally worked on Icons: Combat Arena, a Super Smash Bros-like platform fighter that failed to make an impact and quickly shuttered in 2018. Last year, DualShockers talked about that project’s ups and downs with Kovalik, ultimately revealing the impending releases of
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Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2020 concluded its week-long 24-hour speedrunning marathon today by raising a total of $3.13 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This speedrun marathon also celebrated AGDQ’s 10 year anniversary. You can watch the finale for the event just below: AGDQ 2020 also had more donations than any previous Games Done
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Back in September of last year, Frogwares revealed that many of its games, including Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, were delisted from digital storefronts by Focus Home Interactive. The developer had been concerned that their flagship title Sherlock Holmes would not be salvageable due to various technical reasons. But a small internal team worked to
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Atlus and Koei Tecmo revealed the opening anime sequence for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. The opening is pretty action-oriented overall, compared to Persona 5 or Persona 5 Royal‘s openings, to show off and keep advertising how Atlus officially claims Persona 5 Scramble is the first-ever action RPG Persona game. Persona 5 Scramble‘s opening theme
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In a sigh of relief to many PlayStation fans out there, it seems like PS5 will indeed have exclusives to the console at launch. Following earlier news from Microsoft that early next-gen Xbox games would aim to be available on all Xbox consoles (PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X), Kotaku journalist Jason Schreier has
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Today is the seven-year anniversary for the official announcement of Cyberpunk 2077, CDProjekt Reds’ next ambitious project. It wasn’t until last year where we finally got a release date of April 16, 2020. Cyberpunk is arguably the most anticipated title coming out this year and has had quite an interesting development cycle. Since the title has met
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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) have announced their nominees for the 23rd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. A total of 65 games were nominated with Control and Death Stranding tied for the most with eight nominations each. The ceremony will take place on February 13, 2020 in Las Vegas with Greg Miller and Jessica Chobot
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