“Sad” and “Frustrating” PlayStation News Inbound, God of War Creator David Scott Jaffe Says

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has discussed how the Brawl leaks changed the series’ approach to storytelling. This was due to outlets uploading videos of the game before it launched.

I Wanna Be The Guy was a freeware platformer that pastiched classic Nintendo games and required pixel-perfect jumps and a lot of trial and error to overcome its umpteen unpredictable, unfair deaths. Naturally it became an internet sensation all the way back in 2007, bolstered further by the release of the source code in 2011 and a tidal wave of fangames that followed.

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Warner Bros. will be heavily veering into a live service model for its future games. During its latest Q3 earnings call, CEO David Zaslav confirmed that the company plans to transform its biggest video game franchises into long-term products, bolstered by regular content drops and heavy monetisation. In recent years, gamers have developed a distaste for such money-hungry practices, which often lock out content behind some form of paywall or a battle pass, instead of providing a complete game at launch. The idea is for players to keep playing WB-published games for months, instead of having AAA developers put out a new game every three to four years — which is the general cycle.

Activision and Xbox have teamed up to release full screen ads for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the console's homepage, which players have since heavily criticised.

The Gears of War franchise was among the biggest and most popular properties in gaming in the Xbox 360 era, back when Epic Games delivered an excellent trilogy of revolution third person shooters that spawned an army of games trying to emulate its success with cover-based shooting mechanics, and though the series is obviously still a successful one, it’s fair to say that it’s lost some of the luster it once had.

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator behind the Gears of War series, has suggested the games get a God of War-style reboot. Oh, and that Xbox just needs to give him a call.

Sony has revealed their response to Microsoft’s recently closed acquisition of Activision Blizzard King.

A new system software update for the PlayStation 5 has been released. Numbered at update 23.02-08.20.00.06, the update is a weighty one, coming in at 1.185GB. The update brings with it a few new features, including some fixes to the interface for users of the PlayStation VR2.

After years of collaboration between Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthorn and multiple filmmakers—first with Warner Bros, then Blumhouse—the point-and-click horror series has finally become a movie. But possibly not a great one.

We first saw Manor Lords a couple of years ago, when its mix of Crusader Kings-like simulation, Ages of Empires-y city-building and sweeping battles a la Total War made it one to watch. We weren’t alone in that anticipation either, as the ambitious medieval strategy game - created by a solo dev, no less - rocketed up the Steam charts to become one of its most wishlisted games.

The latest New World Community Q&A is up, and the team is answering questions about Artifacts, Heartrunes, mutation difficulty, and bee shooters?