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NCSoft is gearing up to release its next MMO. Currently titled Project LLL, the South Korean developer is touting it as an open-world third-person shooter set to release in 2024. That release date is still a way out, but the developer has treated us to almost 10 minutes of gameplay footage in the meantime. It's an awful lot of runnin' and gunnin' swaddled in an industrial sci-fi blanket—or ...read more
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Microsoft has revealed that it proactively suspended up to 4.78 million Xbox user accounts during the first six months of 2022. The data was included in the company’s inaugural ‘Xbox Transparency Report’, which was published on Monday to highlight steps the platform holder is taking to moderate content to create a safer environment for players. According to the Microsoft, it took a ...read more
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The nominees for The Game Awards 2022 have been revealed. God of War Ragnarök is nominated for 10 prizes, ahead of Elden Ring and Horizon: Forbidden West, both of which are up for seven awards. The Game of the Year nominees are A Plague Tale: Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarök, Horizon: Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
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Some extremely astute players appear to have discovered a discrete reference to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in the recently released God of War Ragnarok. The allusion can be heard in a few lines of dialog between Kratos and Mimir. The news comes by way of the user on Twitter going by TheCardinalArts who posted a short video showing the exchange. “Brother, I’ve heard my share of ...read more
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While the first developer diary for Owlcat Games’ Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was focused on the setting, allies, and choices, the latest is all about the profession itself. What does it mean to be a Rogue Trader? Find out below. Set in the Koronus Expanse, a long way from the Imperium’s armies and fleets, the region is largely unexplored. It’s still perilous, though, with heretics, ...read more
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According to his recent social media activity, Xbox head Phil Spencer is very impressed with Vampire Survivors. The PC version left early access last year, with the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S arriving on Game Pass late last week. Created by solo developer Luca Galante, Vampire Survivors takes place in a region of rural Italy that has been overrun with monsters by the evil Bisconte Draculo. ...read more
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Diablo 4 is shaking up the saga's formula in a big way: its open world will allow players to tackle the storyline in an order of their choosing. In previous Diablo games, the narrative was linear and structured in a series of Acts. For Diablo 2 and Diablo 3, this meant five Acts – with the fourth Act being shorter, and the fifth Act coming from its expansion pack. Diablo 4 breaks from tradition ...read more
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Flying Wild Hog and Focus Entertainment’s upcoming third person action shooter Evil West has looked like an intriguing prospect in all that we’ve seen of it so far, and sure enough, it has turned a few heads in the lead-up to its launch. That launch, of course, is not too far away now, and ahead of it, Focus Entertainment has revealed the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements ...read more
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It looks like God of War Ragnarok is already a massive success for PlayStation and developer Santa Monica Studio. While reviews for the latest God of War installment previously suggested that the game could be a big winner for Sony, it seems like sales have also already been astronomically high. And although it will take a lot for Ragnarok to sell more than 2018's God of War, it's definitely ...read more
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FromSoftware’s Elden Ring continues to perform well, according to publisher Bandai Namco’s recent Q2 fiscal year 2023 report (translation via DeepL). It hit 17.5 million sales worldwide as of September 30th, 2022, with its last major milestone being 16.6 million sales by June 30th. The open-world action RPG launched on February 25th and sold over 12 million units worldwide in less than a ...read more
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