Month: October 2024

Rogue Company has scrubbed all mentions of Dr Disrespect from the game.
The free-to-play multiplayer live-service shooter – which was heavily promoted by Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm – hadn’t been updated in over a year.
But within weeks of the news that Beahm had allegedly been sending sexually explicit messages to a minor via Twitch, developer First Watch Game and publisher Hi-Rez Studios had updated the game to remove all content affiliated with the streamer.

Newscast: With the death of Keystone, will Xbox give up its streaming console plans forever?

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Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka would love to make a Sonic RPG before he retires from Sega, though that’s just a dream.

Iizuka was interviewed by YouTube channel Good Vibes Gaming for a preview of the forthcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations and discussed whether he’d ever work on a Sonic RPG in future.

“Personally, I really like role-playing games,” he said. “The RPG game format is a lot of fun and I’ve even thought to myself ‘you know, for the past 30 years we haven’t done a Sonic RPG’. And I’m questioning myself. ‘Why haven’t we done a Sonic RPG in all this time? How have we gotten to 30 years with no RPGs?!’

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UPDATE 7/7/25:: Video Games Deluxe has refuted rumours that a new LA Noire game could be on the way.

In a statement to press, the team said: “We are working exclusively on projects for Rockstar.

We commissioned some music from a local composer Freyja Garbett for a VR project that we were working on a number of years ago when between projects. It is based on a case from LA Noire that did not make the cut but was more of a tech demo than anything else.

“We have no idea whether this will ever see the light of day but we decided to finish the score commission to support a local composer.”

Garbett’s Instagram posts have since been deleted.
Original story follows.

ORIGINAL STORY 6/7/25: Former LA Noire developers are reportedly working on a new psychological thri…

Alarmo, Nintendo’s new interactive alarm clock, is available now in the UK if you’re a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber.

The gadget is priced £89.99 on these shores. Upon its surprise announcement yesterday, Nintendo also announced a $99 price point for the US.

Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, to give the device its full name, is an interactive alarm designed to sit by your bedside. It includes alarm sounds and animations based around several top Nintendo franchises – including Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and Splatoon – to wake you up in the morning.

The interactivity comes from Alarmo’s snazzy movement sensor, which can detect when you’re beginning to get out of bed. When it detects this, you can expect to hear additional noises – such as Mario coin sounds -…

UPDATE 9/10/24: Just a quick update to let you know Sony is now selling those refurbished PS5 consoles via PlayStation Direct.
These refurbished consoles are promised to “work like new”, and retail at £389.99. Otherwise, Amazon discounted new PS5 slim consoles for £419.99 right now as well.
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ORIGINAL 11/9/2024: If the recently-announced PS5 Pro is a little too pricey for you but you have been looking to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 at some point, there is a significantly cheaper option on the horizon.
Sony is primed to start selling refurbished PS5 consoles, which it promises will be “as good as new” (although the company does note its refurbished products “may have minor cosmetic imperfections”).
While the PS5 …

Ubisoft’s efforts to improve the Star Wars Outlaws experience continue today with arrival of its newest update, this time promising further stealth tweaks, speeder improvements, performance and stability optimisations, and more.

Title Update 1.2, as the latest update is officially known, weight in at 3.8GB on PS5, 4.71GB on Xbox Series X/S, and 5.6GB on PC. Its primary goal, according to Ubisoft’s release notes, is “improving the camera on your speeder and its responsiveness”, as well as “other tweaks to ensure your adventures are smoother and more rewarding.”

Top of its list of notable changes, though, are those aforementioned stealth tweaks. Star Wars Outlaws’ previous Title Update 1.1.2 already made some initial changes to the games’s stealth sequences – w…

The Case of the Golden Idol is getting a little bit of a makeover.
Developer Color Gray Games has detailed a new Redux version of its detective murder mystery game, and it’s set for Steam and Switch.
This Redux version of Case of the Golden Idol will overhaul the game’s UI and add a new hint system. It will also offer 13 new localisations, readability and save improvements, and “dozens more” quality-of-life changes. All of this will make for a “much more seamless and enjoyable experience”, the developer said, particularly highlighting Steam Deck.

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Throne and Liberty – the latest South Korean free-to-play fantasy MMO to get a western release courtesy of Amazon Games – is off to a strong start this week, hovering near the top of Steam’s concurrent charts (albeit still behind that infernal Banana game) despite mixed reviews.

Currently, Throne and Liberty – which promises exploration and “massive-scale combat” for “thousands of players at once” across a “dynamic” open world – is Steam’s sixth most played game, with 251K concurrent players according to SteamDB. That puts it just behind Black Myth: Wukong, Banana, PUBG, and perennial Steam favourites Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2.

It’s a strong start for Throne and Liberty, but its early launch week peak of 326,377 concurrent players pales in comparison to Ama…

UPDATE 1/10/24 9am UK: Today brings fresh condemnation from Google of Epic’s latest legal foray. A statement this morning from Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, shared with Eurogamer, describes the litigation against Google and Samsung as “dangerous”.

“Epic’s latest lawsuit is a meritless and dangerous move,” Kleidermacher said. “Google did not request that Samsung create their Auto Blocker feature.”

Epic has argued that Samsung’s introduction of a new security feature, Auto Blocker, unfairly restricts competition by dissuading users from downloads made outside of Google and Samsung’s own stores.

“While Android allows sideloading, Google and the security community have warned users for years about the real risks associated with …

Microsoft has announced the next roster of titles set to join Xbox Game Pass in October. (Can you believe it’s October already? No, me neither.)

Headlining this month’s first crop of additions is Sifu, the kung fu combat action game that we dubbed as “elegant” in Eurogamer’s Sifu review.

The full list of Xbox Game Pass titles for October 2024 is as follows:

MLB The Show 24 (console) – 2nd October
Open Roads (console) – 2nd October
Sifu (cloud, console and PC) – 2nd October
Mad Streets (cloud, console and PC) – 7th October
Inscryption (cloud, console and PC) – 10th October

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

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