Month: September 2024

Ubisoft will no longer be hosting a playable demo of Assassin’s Creed Shadows at EGX this October.
“We appreciate the incredible passion and dedication of our community, and we’ve seen your excitement to get hands-on with the game, so we sincerely apologise for any disappointment this change may cause,” the Assassin’s Creed UK social media team posted this afternoon.

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Ubisoft has announced a dramatic delay to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which will now launch on 14th February 2025 instead of its previously planned arrival this November. Existing pre-orders will be refunded.

The publisher has always targeted the year’s key holiday sales period for its Assassin’s Creed blockbusters, making this move highly unusual. In a statement, Ubisoft said the game’s content was complete – as you’d hope, seven weeks ahead of its intended launch date – but would now receive further polish.

Crucially, Ubisoft said the delay could be blamed on “softer than expected launch for Star Wars Outlaws”, its previous big budget blockbuster for which it had high hopes, but then launched in August to lukewarm sales. The publisher was acting now, it said…

The PlayStation 5 Pro 30th Anniversary bundle went live just after 10am this morning, priced at £960, and sold out within seconds.
It’s unclear how much stock was available to purchase here in the UK. In total, just 12,300 of the PlayStation 5 Pro 30th Anniversary Editions will be available worldwide.

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

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StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection are heading to Xbox’s PC Game Pass subscription on 5th November.
While the multiplayer components of both games are free-to-play, this addition will make their single-player campaigns available to subscribers of PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate.
The move follows Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard and follows Diablo 4 as yet another major Blizzard franchise available on Game Pass.

Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 Broadcast

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Today is The Last of Us day, and in honour of the occasion Naughty Dog and HBO Max have released another trailer for the second season of their acclaimed TV adaptation.
As with our brief teaser from August, today’s trailer once again starts with Catherine O’Hara’s still to be named character chatting with Pedro Pascal’s Joel, before cutting to scenes of his life in Jackson with Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey), and more from cast members including Isabela Merced’s Dina, Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby and Young Mazino’s Jesse.
I won’t lie, the trailer is great, and I can’t wait to see more when the second season makes its debut next year. You can check it out for yourself below. Oh, and – the music!
Now, those who read the site often will know that I Love The Last of Us, so…

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Five years ago, a small team of three people released a really rather special game out into the world, all about anonymously writing and receiving letters, which had also been written by other real people, and offering some words of encouragement to those who need it. This was Kind Words, a fitting name for a game that did so much to lift spirits and create a safe space for anyone going through a hard time.
In the time since Kind Words released five years ago, developer Popcannibal has been working on a sequel. It is called Kind Words 2, and unlike the original game where you were confined to a bedroom, in the sequel, there’s a world outside to explore. Those wonderful letters still remain, though.
As for when you can explore that wholesome outside world for yours…

If you’ve been feeling a little trucked out with American Truck Simulator’s existing 15 states, and have been dreaming of more beatiful tarmac to traverse soon, there’s good news: developer SCS Software has announced its Arkansas expansion will arrive next Monday, 16th September. And ahead of that, there’s a major new patch adding improved controller support and more.

“Located in the south-central region of the United States,” explains SCS in its blurb for American Truck Simulator’s Arkansas expansion, “the state is a nature wonderland with three national forests, many State Parks, nearly 9,000 miles of pristine streams and rivers like the Arkansas and Mississippi, as well as the ever-stretching Ozark and Ouachita mountain ranges.”

As such, truckers hitting t…

With Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion just weeks away from release, Bethesda has been teasing some of the things players can expect to find when House Va’ruun’s homeward of Va’ruun’kai opens for business on 30th September.

“Thank you to the millions of players who have made the Settled Systems their home and helped make this an incredible first year for Starfield”, Bethesda wrote in a post on social media, before turning its attention to those pre-launch teases.

First up is the reveal Shattered Space’s new planet of Va’ruun’kai will be something for explorers to get stuck into, featuring “over 50 locations to discover” – one of which, as we learned during Gamescom, will be House Va’ruun’s capital city of Dazra.

Starfield Official REV-8 Trailer

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Destiny 2’s average 30-day player count on Steam has dropped to its lowest level in the series’ history.
Whilst participation in live-service games inevitably waxes and wanes – and these figures do not account for players on console – it’s nonetheless an unwelcomed milestone for Bungie’s beleaguered sci-fi shooter.

Destiny 2 | The Journey Ahead [UK]

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