Gaming News & Rumours

[Morbid_Angel]

[PC] Call of Duty is returning to Steam - confirmed

After some Modern Warfare II art popped up on Steam a few days ago, the internet has been rife with rumours of the franchise returning to Steam after a lengthy absence, and today we got confirmation.
There's no details on how it'll return, but it IS coming.
The prevailing theory is that the new games will become purchasable on Steam, and will then redirect to Battlenet once you launch the game, like how EA and Ubisoft does.
Others are hoping they'll do what Bethesda has recently done, and scrap their own launcher and fully re-integrate into Steams ecosystem with no extra launcher on top.

Source: https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status ... 3384046592

[PC] Game Pass Ultimate €1/$1 for 3 months for new AND returning customers

This is not something I do myself, but if money's tight and you don't care about "owning" your games, you can now get a 3 month sub for €1/$1. (confirmed by multiple people on Reddit and Twitter)
Here's how to do it for non-US citizens:

For those of you in Europe or anywhere out side the USA : you have to get the offer from the Xbox app on Windows, it doesn't work with OP's link because you need an American address. Just go into the Xbox app, to your profile and choose to join Gamepass and you'll find the offer there.

For Us residents, just follow this link - https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass

Link above is also the Source.

[Morbid_Angel]

[PC] (now) Former Playstation exclusive Spider-Man Remastered coming to PC on 12th August 2022

Just been confirmed on Playstations own State of Play stream, the heavily praised Spider-Man game is coming to PC in just over 2 months.



Not too shabby.

[Multi Plat] Resident Evil 4 Remake announced and with a launch date set to 24th of March 2023

Edited: Game should release on all platforms that can handle it. (Thanks to Shodan for clarification)

[Shodan]

Its not exclusive, all other RE Remasters were released multi-platform, RE4 was released just like Doom, in every console capable of running it lol

[Morbid_Angel]

Its not exclusive, all other RE Remasters were released multi-platform, RE4 was released just like Doom, in every console capable of running it lol

Yeah I've seen that throughout the day. I've also seen/read that Resimake 4 is handled in-house and with the same budget as Resimake 2, so it should at least have the quality and care of that, rather than the gutted 3, which I'm still annoyed by.

[Morbid_Angel]

[Multi Plat] Saudi Arabia has acquired a $1 Billion stake in Embracer Group

This is a pretty substantial investment, and not one I'm overly fond of in the long term.
And, in case you don't know who or what Embracer Group is, it's the investment group that currently owns companies like THQ Nordic, Gearbox Entertainment, Koch Media (who owns Deep Silver, for instance), Saber Interactive, and more.
Full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embracer_Group

Source: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/new ... cer-group/

[Multi Plat] The Last Of Us Remake Reportedly Arrives In September For PlayStation And PC

According to the same dude that leaked the entire State of Play line-up and the name of Kojima's new horror game (Overdose), The Last of Us Remake is coming to PC and PS5 on the 2nd of September 2022.

Source(s): https://twistedvoxel.com/the-last-of-us ... tation-pc/

https://twitter.com/insider_wtf/status/ ... 9914286080

[Morbid_Angel]

[Xbox] Xbox is partnering up with Samsung to launch a Xbox TV app, allowing Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to access their library on Samsung 2022 smart TVs - no console required

This is essentially a streaming service for Cloud gaming. Could be useful for some, but not something I'd ever use.
As far as I understand the announcement, the service will only be available on Samsung's 2022 TV's (and newer ofc) which imo seems really weird, but I could be very wrong in this regard, though the article doesn't say otherwise.

Source: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/06/09/ ... _lrn_6.9.1

[PC] CoD: Modern Warfare II Steam page is up, and lo and behold it costs €69,99 for the base game

Personally, I never buy AAA games on launch because they're very rarely worth the money spent and always full of bugs, so to see them launch their pre-order at €69,99 and the "Vault Edition" at €99,99 just makes me laugh.
I know that the industry at large wants to shift away from the €60 price tag, but the initial point of going digital, was to pass on the savings of not having a brick and mortar store to the consumers. But no, they kept the €60 price tag and now they want the standard to go up to €70. Fuck these greedy fuckwits. I'll continue to wait for deep sales for any all AAA games I want to play.
Additionally, it was Cod: MW2 that in 2009 was the first game to bump the PC price from €49,,99 to €59,99, back in 2009, so prepare for history to repeat itself and get used to the €70 price tag. (at least at launch)

I know this came off as ranty, but this shit has always pissed me off, especially now where they charge full price for half the game with pre-planned DLC and microtransactions out the ass. [/end rant]

Source(s): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1938 ... arfare_II/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/08/ ... -60-on-pc/

[Morbid_Angel]

[Multi Plat] The Last of Us Part I Remake releasing Sept 2, also in development for PC

The rumour posted yesterday by @insider_wtf has been confirmed today. It'll release on the 2nd of September on PS5, and at a later date (I'd assume Q1 or early Q2 of 2023) on PC





Source: https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1534926704698748929

[VOL-E]

Read about it on reddit, don't understand why this game needed a remake When it had Remaster which looks and plays still great! And 70€?

[Morbid_Angel]

Might be some compatibility issues or basic things in the old build that doesn't translate well to the PS5 hardware - in any case it's very overpriced (as you'd expect) and for people who already played it on PS4, utterly pointless.

Now me, as a PC player that hasn't played it, I'm very much looking forward to it, although I won't buy it on release because fuck that lol.

[Morbid_Angel]

[PC] Goodbye Heroes of Newerth – HoN Shuts its doors today

This is my favourite MOBA of them all. It built on what DotA did before it, and turned everything up 2-3 times and also got rid of the horrendous turn-rates, making everything instant and very snappy, and I loved it for it.

Some personal favourite heroes of mine were Bubbles, Dampeer, Corrupted Disciple, Nomad, Soul Reaper, Deadwood, Predator, Pandamonium, Puppet Master, Dr. Repulsor, Wretched Hag, Soul Stealer, Torturer, Electrician, Gladiator, Chipper, Witch (Pimp) Slayer, Valkyrie, Swiftblade (SKILLBLADE!), Fayde, Flint Beastwood, Silhouette, Vindicator...

The best was always to go Carry Master and stack crit items along with a Shroud for fantastic 1-shots, before they nerfed his crit skill.

And then there's the announcers. Both John Saint John (the dude behind the iconic Duke Nukem) and Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson had announcers in the game, but my favourite was absolutely the "Flamboyant" announcer which was absolutely hilarious. (Getting a quad kill netted you a "Rainbow Warrior!" shout lol)

Thinking back, this is probably the best $30 I've ever spent because I got over 7000 hours of game time out of it - most of it with a core of IRL 2 friends.
The absolute worst experience in it was probably trying to communicate with people that didn't speak a lick of English, and for them to refuse to at least try to cooperate. (Brazilians, Turks and Greeks will forever be my least favourite gaming companions solely due to experiences in HoN)

RIP Heroes of Newerth (2009 Beta) 2010-2022

(If only S2Games' owners/decisionmakers weren't wildly incompetent, this game might've had a chance to still compete with LoL and DotA 2

https://esports.gg/news/esports/goodbye ... ors-today/

Although this game is shutting down today, there are rumours that some of their original heroes will be ported to DotA 2 - Puppet Master has allegedly been found in some leaked files, so we could be seeing HoN heroes in DotA 2 at some point in the future.

[Mobile] NetEase delays Diablo Immortal's China launch, (3 days before launch) shares tumble

Internet and gaming giant NetEase (9999.HK) delayed the rollout of its video game Diablo Immortal in China three days ahead of its official launch, a move that comes just after the game's official account on Weibo was banned from making new posts.

China-based NetEase, which was set to release the game on Thursday, did not provide a new launch date, but said on Sunday it wanted to make changes such as improvements to the game-play experience and conduct "multiple optimization adjustments".

I have no stake in this other than I LOATHE P2W in any and all games, so to see this piece of shit get delayed this close to release brings me copious amounts of satisfaction.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nete ... 022-06-20/

[PC] Steam Summer Sale starting on 23/07-2022

The Steam Summer Sale will go live from the 23rd of June to the 7th of July, starting and ending at 10 AM PT which equates to 19:00 CET.