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Developer The Chinese Room and publisher Secret Mode have today announced the launch date of their narrative horror game Still Wakes the Deep. For the occasion, a new trailer was aired:
Still Wakes the Deep launches June 18 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC. It will also be available with Game Pass for console and PC.
Ahead of its release next month, Bandai Namco has aired a new trailer for the upcoming Sand Land game. More specifically, this trailer reveals Forest Land, a new world and characters imagined by creator Akira Toriyama specifically for the video game and animated series.
Sand Land launches April 26 on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Emulator takedowns continue. Not long after its first release, Suyu emulator has been removed from GitLab via a DMCA takedown. Suyu was a Nintendo Switch emulator forked from Yuzu emulator, which was the high-profile subject of a takedown by Nintendo last month. GitLab deleted Suyu's repository, stating that they'd received a takedown notice for the project. The tongue-in-cheek named emulator still has an official website up, though the Discord is not allowing new members, and the GitLab download page is gone. However, it seems a self-hosted download page is still available.
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Broken Roads is a post-apocalyptic RPG set in Australia that has strong Disco Elysium vibes from the art style to the gameplay. It was originally set to launch last November, but was pushed back to an undefined date. Australia-based indie developer Drop Bear Bytes have today announced the new release date for their game and released a new trailer for the occasion:
"We appreciate the community's patience in allowing us to give Broken Roads the polish and attention it needed to get to the finish line," said Craig Ritchie, Game Director at Drop Bear Bytes. "Broken Roads is now in its best state ever, with more polish, more voice acting, over 400,000 words of dialogue and more than 150,000 end-game permutations. We hope you all have...
The 2nd biggest technology company in the world, Apple, is being sued by none other than the Department of Justice of the United States, filed for antitrust violations according to the lawsuit.
The suit will be filed in a federal court in New Jersey, and according to people involved in the matter, the lawsuit could take place as soon as today, but it remains to be seen. This lawsuit comes alongside a surplus of other lawsuits and antitrust violations in the technology space, with other examples being the lawsuit against Google for monopolization and app store policies, and other lawsuits against Meta and Amazon in the same vein, and even Apple itself is also a target in Europe due to plausible anticompetitive behaviour regarding its...
Microsoft has created another custom Xbox Series X, this time theming after Fallout in celebration of the upcoming Amazon show.
Revealed in a post on X/Twitter, below, the console will be given away to one lucky fan who follows Xbox and retweets the post. The prize includes more than just the custom Xbox Series X, however, as it also bundles in a controller (which can actually be bought) and a custom vault to keep the hardware in.
This is a seemingly working safe with various bits of Fallout branding on it. It's marked as Vault 33, which is the same bunker where the Fallout TV show's protagonist comes from. Interestingly, it also has "Fort Knox" written on it, which is only mentioned in Bethesda's game universe in Fallout 76.
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Alpha Protocol is an espionage RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment that first launched 14 years ago. However, in 2019, the game was pulled from Steam due to music licensing issues. Since then, the game was not available digitally on PC; that is, until today, as GOG, Obsidian and SEGA have collaborated to bring the game back via GOG. This version is compatible with modern PCs, features licensed soundtrack and features performance improvements.
For the occasion, an 18-minute documentary video about Alpha Protocol's return to PC was aired which you can view below:
This launch also coincides with GOG's 2024 Spring Sale which includes over 5500 deals, including AAA titles. The sale will last until April 4th, 8 AM UTC.
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Today, Bandai Namco aired a new trailer for Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero showcasing the gameplay. The trailer also unveiled 11 new characters joining the game's roster.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is developed by Spike Chunsoft for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. There is no release window announced yet.
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The next wave of Game Pass additions is a momentous one, as it will be the first to feature an Activision-Blizzard title, fulfilling a promise Microsoft made when it acquired the publisher in a mammoth $68.8 billion deal. Diablo IV will be the first Activision-Blizzard title available to Game Pass subscribers when it comes to the service next Thursday, March 28.
Although Diablo IV is the headliner, this is a good wave of new titles overall. Coming today is The Quarry, a full-length branching narrative horror game from the makers of Until Dawn. Yesterday also saw the launch of the newest edition of MLB The Show, and at the beginning of April we'll get the Superhot sequel, Superhot: Mind Control Delete. As a bonus Game Pass Ultimate...
Denuvo by Irdeto has unveiled at GDC (Game Developers Conference) this past March 18th their brand new anti-piracy technology named "TraceMark", specifically tailored to make "leakers think twice".
This new technology is aimed towards the never-ending problem in the gaming industry of pre-release videogame leaks, be it press releases, distributed review copies or broken street dates. The watermark technology which Denuvo unveiled is apparently already trusted by Hollywood, paid-TV and sports leagues. Quoting Denuvo's own blogpost about the technology:
This brand new technology will be platform-agnostic, meaning it can be implemented in different systems as long as the game has the technology integrated into it, and so far it seems to...
Consumer augmented reality (AR) hardware manufacturer XREAL has announced a new product and AR games today. The XREAL Hub (displayed in the image above) is a two-port accessory that lets you charge your source device and connect your XREAL glasses at the same time. This can be handy for extended gaming sessions as these AR glasses have become popular companions for gaming.
Still about gaming, the company has announced a few AR games in partnership with some developers during GDC and includes the following:
Landing Party from Monsarrat: a mini-game, with 6 sci-fi missions that is laid out across a public park that you walk through to play.
Table Trenches from DB Creations: an AR real-time tactics game.
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The iconic voice actor behind the Metal Gear Solid series, David Hayter, is back with the stealth franchise but for a different purpose: narrating the games' history and cultural impact. Konami has debuted METAL GEAR SOLID Legacy Series, a series of short form videos about the origins of Metal Gear with none other than David Hayter as our guide. You can watch the first part below:
However, the company has not revealed the frequency of these videos' airing nor how many parts the series will include.
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Santa Monica Studio's God of War first launched on the PS4 back in 2018 and on PC for the first time in 2022. Last week, the DRM-free version debuted on GOG and having not played it before myself, I jumped at the opportunity this time around.
For those unfamiliar with the title, here's a quick refresher. Despite a confusing naming convention, God of War is the 8th instalment in the God of War series and is the sequel to 2010's God of War III. It puts players back in control over the titular God of war, Kratos, but this time accompanied by his son Atreus. This father-son duo ventures across the realm of Midgard to fulfil Atreus' late mother's wish which unfolds into an eventful journey.
While following the canonical story, God...
With Nintendo ceasing online communication for Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and Wii U systems next month, SpotPass data distribution will be halted. This will in turn affect games that use SpotPass features such as Mario Kart 7 and some Pokémon games. In order to enable such features to persist even after official support ends, the SpotPass Archival Project was launched. It allows owners of 3DS, 2DS and Wii U consoles to contribute their SpotPass data for archival purposes to assist network revival services in preserving SpotPass content.
The project page notes that when collected, database dumps are anonymized before being sent to network revival services to allow SpotPass features to be replicated later. It further notes that "in the interest...
A YouTuber has leaked some insider paperwork that reveals what future plans Sony has in store for the next PlayStation hardware. The channel Moore's Law Is Dead showcased what are purportedly internal documents directly from PlayStation's developer portal, stating that a PlayStation 5 Pro is allegedly in the works.
According to these papers, Sony aims to have a PS5 Pro--codenamed Trinity--out for the 2024 holiday season, with the system boasting major performance increases over the original PS5. Supposedly, the PlayStation 5 Pro will offer 33.5 teraflops, compared to the PlayStation 5's current 10.28 teraflops, and will utilize Sony's own in-house developed upscaling software, which will provide benefits similar to AMD's FSR or...
Nintendo is back at it again with their latest and most well known franchise, the DMCA, and this time they went after quite a handful of GitHub repositories with their DMCA strikes.
The latest and most notable repository attacked by Nintendo's DMCA is the "sigpatch-updater" homebrew application by iTotalJustice (alongside all of its forks) just a few days ago. This isn't the first time for iTotalJustice however, since he got another DMCA takedown previously for the standalone "sipatches" repository before back in 2022. The application worked as its title implies, by basically updating the signature patches from within the Nintendo Switch console itself. This seems like yet another instance of Nintendo trying to stomp on any kind of...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, the sequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, launches next month. In anticipation of its release, publisher 505 Games and developer Rabbit & Bear Studios have aired a new trailer for the game today:
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes launches on April 23 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC (EGS, GOG, and Steam).
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Ereban: Shadow Legacy is the debut title of Spain-based independent studio Baby Robot Games. It is a story-driven game with third-person stealth platformer gameplay which introduces a new mechanic allowing protagonist Ayana to merge with shadows for greater mobility and strategic advantage. After 5 years in development, the developers have today revealed the PC launch date for the game and aired a new trailer for the occasion:
Features of Ereban: Shadow Legacy include:
Become one with the shadows: Experience an unprecedented blend of stealth and shadows with the Shadow Merge ability. Dive into shadows and move freely through them to climb walls, reach inaccessible places, attack from cover or advance unseen.
Combine agility...
The highly controversial PlayStation 2 emulator for Android devices, AetherSX2, has been removed from the Google Play Store starting from March 10th, 2024.
This doesn't come as a surprise for many, though, as the AetherSX2 emulator halted development entirely back in 2023, with the developer specifically mentioning the "neverending impersonating, complaints, demands, and now death threats". Although, it took almost a year for the actual emulator app to be taken down from the Play Store, following the discontinuation of the project.
While AetherSX2 has suspended development a long time ago, and the Play Store will no longer offer the emulator, there's currently a community effort put into patching certain the latest available AetherSX2...
Happy Mar10 day! Nintendo is celebrating its mascot by unveiling a handful of announcements featuring Mario. A two-minute video was posted to the official Nintendo YouTube channel, detailing three new bits of information. First off, Nintendo and Illumination are teaming up once more, for a second Super Mario Bros. movie. The same team in charge of the first movie will return for this project, which will release in theaters on April 3, 2026 in the United States.
Two other reveals quickly followed: the release dates for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which will be out May 23, 2024, and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, which launches on June 27, 2024.
For those subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online, a few new games will arrive on the platform...