Kojima’s Return to Stealth with Physint Spurred by a Career-Threatening Brush with Mortality

Since being announced back in 2021, there have been a lot of questions about what Assassin’s Creed Infinity would even be. We've known Infinity would be a hub of sorts that connects other Assassin’s Creed experiences and includes online elements, but beyond that, things have remained sketchy. Well, we now have some more details from insider Tom Henderson, who has a very good track record when it comes to all things Ubisoft. According to Henderson, he’s laid eyes on demo footage of Assassin’s Creed Infinity, and, surprise surprise, it sounds like it will be a heavily live-service-focused product.

The release of WWE 2K24 is only a couple weeks away, and 2K Games has officially unveiled the game’s launch roster of over 220 Superstars from Raw, Smackdown, NXT, and yesteryear. One of the main questions fans had was how the recent bombshell lawsuit that leveled accusations of sexual coercion, assault, and trafficking against Vince McMahon, while also naming Brock Lesnar, would affect the lineup. Well, it seems neither Vince or Brock are in the game this year. That obviously makes sense, although fans were unsure if the change would be made at this late stage in the game.

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Former WWE and ECW competitor Francine Meeks recently threatened to sue the people behind WWE 2K24 over supposedly stealing her trademarked wrestling nickname. Developer Visual Concepts has been showing off more of WWE 2K24 ahead of its March 8 street date, with the game’s entire roster of legendary wrestlers and modern-day superstars being officially unveiled earlier this week.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is almost here, and it looks like it will push the PS5 and the game’s slightly-aging Unreal Engine 4 tech to the limits, so how does the game measure up technically? Well, the pixel counters at Digital Foundry have posted some early analysis, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag, depending on what visual mode you decide to use. You can check out their full video below if you have 10 minutes to spare, or you can scroll on down for our recap of the important points.

Last week Microsoft provided an update on Xbox exclusivity plans, saying big games like Starfield won’t be going multiplatform, but that a series of four more established or lower-profile games were making the jump. While Phil Spencer wouldn’t say what they were at the time, we now know they’re Grounded, Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, and… Sea of Thieves!

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Hideo Kojima believes that moms will not know the difference between PHYSINT and a movie, having said as much in a recent interview. The remark was offered as part of a somewhat wider look at the current Kojima Productions agenda that also saw the famed game designer share some new thoughts on everything that's presently on his plate.

Many Genshin Impact players think Setekh Wenut doesn't belong to the Spiral Abyss, calling the developers to remove or adjust it as soon as possible. Genshin Impact's Spiral Abyss hosts some of the hardest enemies in the game, including Setekh Wenut that lives underneath the Desert of Hadramaveth. Having been introduced as a world boss in version 3.4, the Sumeru-based serpent has joined the Spiral Abyss lineup in 3.5 with extra resistance.

Hideo Kojima dropped a bombshell at the end of January, announcing that — alongside development of Death Stranding 2 — he would also be returning to the action-espionage genre that put him on the map with the Metal Gear series, in the form of Physint for PlayStation 5. And now, in a new episode of his HideoTube web series, the designer has explained how a period of sickness and surgery — and thoughts of his own mortality — convinced him to 'change his priorities' and do something fans had been asking him to do for years.

A couple of weeks ago, Hideo Kojima announced that he was returning to the action espionage genre with a new game, codenamed Physint.