A spooky season staple.
How's about a random, non-gaming related question for the spooky month?
A real simple one: Do you like pumpkin pie?
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Alien: Isolation 2 Confirmed by Creative Assembly
One of the best horror games ever made is finally getting a sequel.
The 10th anniversary of the launch of Alien: Isolation comes with word that Creative Assembly is starting to work on a sequel. The first title was a big hit amongst critics and players, and demands for a sequel have been strong since that game's release.
Creative Assembly's creative direct Al Hope says that the sequel is in "early development." Don't expect to hear much about this sequel for... -
Halo Franchise Moves to Unreal Engine 5 as 343 Industries Rebrands as Halo Studios
This push towards "new" also includes a new philosophy at the studio.
Just before the final match at Sunday's 2024 Halo World Championship, Microsoft shared a surprise video concerning the future of the Halo franchise. Among the several things said and shown in the video were several test scenes of familiar locations and characters from Halo all displayed in Unreal Engine 5. Yes, the Slipspace engine is already being relegated to the trash bin.
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Foamstars is Now Free to Play on PlayStation
Season 8 also begins today.
Foamstars, the soap-infused competitive combat game full of good, clean, fun, is now available as a free-to-play title from Square Enix. Foamstars can be downloaded and played for free for everyone on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. As this is now a free-to-play title, no PlayStation Plus subscription is needed to play online.
Square Enix also notes that the eighth season of Foamstars, Diamond Jam, is now live in the game. This season adds... -
Review: Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is Diablo at its Best
Refined to hellish perfection.
Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred feels like a fresh beginning for the action-RPG that released a little over a year ago. Despite receiving generally high praise from media outlets, including my own review, fans were quite vocal about the game needing some broad, sweeping changes to several core gameplay systems. Blizzard responded to these complaints by releasing a series of updates that drastically improved and reiterated on several core gameplay mechanics. ... -
Starfield Design Director Calls it the Best Game Bethesda Ever Made
Yeah, about that...
Starfield has been lingering at a "Mixed" Steam review score for basically the entirety of its life. The game's first major expansion, Shattered Space, came out just this week but is currently sitting at a "Mostly Negative" user score. Heck, even critic scores for Shattered Space are only at 52%. Still, Starfield is "the best game" Bethesda ever made, so long as you believe the words from Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo.... -
Outlast Developer Red Barrels Suffers Data Breach
"Players have not been impacted by the event."
Red Barrels, the studio behind the Outlast games, including the co-op multiplayer title The Outlast Trials, has suffered a "cybersecurity event." This event being an unauthorized intrusion into their internal systems and access to "some of its data."
Red Barrels made the announcement of the intrusion on October 2, 2024 through their website. An exact date or timeframe on when the actual intrusion... -
The Alters Release Date Pushed to Early 2025
This sci-fi focused title has been pushed out of 2024.
The Alters has been pushed out of a nebulous 2024 release date and will instead be released some time in the first quarter of 2025. 11 bit studios made the delay announcement through various social channels today.
The delay announcement did not really offer any specific reason. The message, shared as though it were an in-universe notification, says that they need more time to "optimize all mission-critical systems... -
Update Released for Nvidia App Beta, Plus New Drivers for Throne and Liberty
RTX HDR now supported for multi-monitor setups.
A new GeForce Game Ready Driver is out today from Nvidia. This update adds support for things like DLSS, Reflex, and RTX to a handful of new titles. Perhaps more importantly, a new update was released for the beta version of the Nvidia app. This is the program that Nvidia will eventually replace extremely outdated Nvidia Control Panel with.
Today's update for the Nvidia app adds in some much requested features from users.... -
Nintendo Issues Copyright Strikes Against YouTube Creator Focusing on Emulation
Emulators. Emulation. It matters not to Nintendo.
In addition to taking down popular Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx, the house of Mario is also issuing copyright strikes against YouTube creators. Nintendo seems to once again be taking action against YouTube channels that showcase its games running on emulators, having issued copyright strikes against creators like Retro Game Corps (via Time Extension).
Retro Game Corps is a channel that focuses on previewing and reviewing... -
Nintendo Forces Ryujinx Emulator for Switch to Shut Down
First it was Yuzu and now Ryujinx.
Nintendo has struck another blow against Switch emulation today as the Ryujinx emulator has been shut down. The emulation scene began wondering what was going on earlier in the day on Tuesday, October 1st when the Ryujinx GitHub repository returned a 404 error. The official Ryujinx Discord also had invitations disabled around the same time.
It was speculated that Nintendo, and their far-reaching legal team, got to the Ryujinx team and... -
It's Not Just You, PlayStation Network is Down (Update: It's Back Up)
Go ahead, get the pitchforks back out.
If you tried to play online with your PlayStation consoles starting roughly around 8:41PM (ET) on October 1, you may have noticed that you couldn't get online. Hell, you probably can't do much of anything online related be it through PlayStation consoles or some services access through a desktop or mobile browser. It seems as though PlayStation Network, all of it, is currently down.
The PSN Service Status page indicates that there... -
First Trailer for Prime Video's Like a Dragon: Yakuza
KIRYU CHAN!
Amazon's Prime Video just released the first full trailer for their upcoming six-episode series, Like a Dragon: Yakuza. This is the live-action adaptation of Sega's Yakuza/Like a Dragon game franchise that was first revealed back in June 2024.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza will hit Prime on October 24, 2024. ... -
Sony Fixes PS5 Bug that Displayed Ads Instead of Game Backgrounds on Home Screen
Turns out people weren't too happy having their entire screen be a giant ad.
This week, what seemed like a malicious move on Sony's part may have just been a little whoopsie from the PlayStation 5 company. When firing up their PS5 consoles, instead of seeing a background for the games they were playing, users instead saw old discount promotional images and advertisements for games not yet released.
This change really didn't sit well with PlayStation 5 owners that saw... -
Some Things to Know Ahead of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred Launches
The expansion drops on October 8th.
Blizzard shared a things that Diablo 4 fans should perhaps be made aware of before the Vessel of Hatred expansion releases on October 8, 2024. These little tidbits of information include the exact time on when the expansion will release in your time zone, if there is a pre-load available, and more.
In addition to Vessel of Hatred coming out on October 8, the new Season for Diablo 4 will also arrive. This means there's going to be a lot...
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