Yesterday, Amazon Luna suddenly launched in Italy, France, and Spain. The cloud gaming service is now expanding throughout Europe after becoming available in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.
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Ubisoft’s pirate action-adventure game remains landlocked with another delay. The publisher has pushed the troubled game’s release window back to early 2024.
The French publisher gave its yearly earnings report on October 26th, revealing that Ubisoft delayed Skull and Bones to Q4 2024. This means that the game should launch sometime between the start of January and the end of March 2024. While two-and-a-half to five months isn’t that much of an additional wait, this is far from the game’s first significant delay.
Ubisoft announced Skull and Bones in 2017, and it was supposed to launch the following year. However, the game faced multiple setbacks and changes in direction, leading to no fewer than six delays. Skull and Bones’ previous delay saw it pushed back to 2023. The latest postponement is no doubt disappointing for some but not terribly surprising. Hopefully, Ubisoft actually manages to get Skull and Bones out by the end of March, but only time will tell.
Skull and Bones is not the only Ubisoft game behind schedule. The company previously hinted at another big 2023 release, which some believe is Star Wars: Outlaws. Whatever it is, Ubisoft has delayed it to 2024.
The good news is that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown appear to be on track. Frontiers of Pandora was initially supposed to come out last year, but Ubisoft delayed it to this December. Meanwhile, The Lost Crown should launch in January. Finally, XDefiant escaped its indefinite delay and should launch before the end of March.
Yesterday, Amazon Luna suddenly launched in Italy, France, and Spain. The cloud gaming service is now expanding throughout Europe after becoming available in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.
Let’s take a moment to show some appreciation for the publishers who have the guts to keep kusoge available for purchase. Ziggurat. Nightdive. Thank you for giving me a megaphone to cry for help. Hopefully, someone will hear my pleas.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is apparently inspired by Final Fantasy 15, Horizon, and The Witcher 3.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will continue the FFVII remake trilogy with a more open world-like design. To that end, Naoki Hamaguchi, one of the game's directors, admitted he took inspiration from Western games like CD Projekt RED's The Witcher and Guerrilla Games' Horizon.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers!
Google — under fire in court for allegedly resting on its laurels thanks to its 90% market dominance — only made an effort to beef up the quality of its search engine in the European Union after being hit by a record antitrust fine, according to internal documents revealed in the US Justice Department's monopolization case against the tech giant.
By Sheena Vasani, a writer covering commerce, e-readers, and tech news. She previously wrote about everything from web development to AI at Inside.
There’s a chaotic, disorienting quality to many of Adi Shankar’s short films and series like Netflix’s first Castlevania that makes it seem as if the writer / director / producer always wants his stories to leave you winded and a bit rattled. His Konami-approved take on Dracula came with the brand name recognition and exquisite action sequences evocative of the classic games, but in Castlevania, you could still see shades of the high-energy, low-budget Bootleg Universe that first put Shankar on the map. This is even more true of Shankar’s latest series for Netflix, Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix.
Next week marks the third year since PS5 launched and we wanted to take this opportunity to thank the more than 40 million players who’ve joined our global PS5 community. In these first three years, PlayStation Studios and third-party developers have introduced more than 2,500 PS5 games for players to enjoy, including fan-favorite titles in recent months like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Final Fantasy XVI.
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Eiji Aonuma, known for his long-running work on Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series, is to be awarded a knighthood in France.
Ahead of the release of Tekken 8, Bandai Namco has unveiled the latest fighter, Victor Chevalier.