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- Dragon Age 4 is definitely a “single-player focused experience”
- BioShock 4 may be taking notes from Half-Life 3
- Fortnite Chapter 3’s leaked trailer reveals Spider-Man and Gears of War collabs
- Halo Infinite has an absurd desync problem which devs will “look into”
- Five strategy games like Total War
- FFXIV has smashed its all-time Steam player record and doubled it in six months
- What if: Fallout 5 is set before the bombs dropped?
- The classic GTA Trilogy is back but only for “Definitive” edition owners
| Dragon Age 4 is definitely a “single-player focused experience” Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:05 AM PST  It's been three years since the announcement of Dragon Age 4 and we still haven't had much more than rumours about BioWare's next title - even details on what type of game it'll be. While it was previously believed to have multiplayer or be live-service like Anthem, BioWare has finally confirmed what all fans wanted to hear - Dragon Age 4 will definitely be an entirely single-player game. Much like BioWare, Dragon Age 4 has gone through a lot of changes in its lifespan. While it previously seemed to be a more online-focused game in the style of Anthem, in February this year it was reported that EA and BioWare had killed all form of multiplayer from the new Dragon Age and made it purely single-player again. It's now December 4, otherwise known as Dragon Age Day, and the team at BioWare has finally confirmed that Dragon Age 4 - or whatever it'll be called - will indeed be a "single-player focused experience" and that they're "still hard at work on building [it]". |
| BioShock 4 may be taking notes from Half-Life 3 Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:53 AM PST  A number of possible BioShock 4 details may have been leaked. If the rumours are accurate, we may now know the proposed time period, setting, and even the city name of the new BioShock - and some of these details might sound a little familiar to Half-Life 3 followers. These rumours come from podcaster and game journalist Colin Moriarty on the latest episode of his Sacred Symbols PlayStation podcast. Reportedly the Cloud Chamber-developed BioShock 4 is targeting a 2022 release, is internally codenamed "Parkside" - which has been rumoured previously - and "the development team has incredible latitude to get it right", according to Moriarty. While all this is rumour until announced, sources at VGC and Eurogamer support Moriarty's findings. The game will supposedly take place in the 1960s - the same time period as the original BioShock. It's the setting, however, that might resonate with Half-Life 3 devotees - as BioShock 4's version of Rapture or Columbia may be an "Antarctic city called Borealis". |
| Fortnite Chapter 3’s leaked trailer reveals Spider-Man and Gears of War collabs Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:56 PM PST  Fortnite Chapter 3 launches in just a few days and now we have a good idea of what it'll look like. A leaked Fortnite Chapter 3 Battle Pass trailer has hit the internet, revealing some major map changes, modes, skins - and at least two major crossovers for Marvel's Spider-Man and Gears of War. The whole of the year-long Fortnite Chapter 2 comes to a crashing conclusion tonight with a big ending event cunningly titled "The End", after which Epic Games will presumably debut the first details and trailer for Chapter 3 - which launches on December 6. Despite Epic asking the community not to leak any Chapter 3 info - and then proceeding to accidentally leak part of the trailer itself in a TikTok ad - the full Battle Pass trailer for Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 has completely leaked online ahead of The End event. The trailer reveals massive changes coming to the game, including a completely revised map, new locations, new skins, a racecourse, a giant statue of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's character The Foundation, and at least two major collabs. RELATED LINKS: Fortnite V-Bucks, Fortnite Skins, Fortnite Creative Codes |
| Halo Infinite has an absurd desync problem which devs will “look into” Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:31 AM PST  Since the surprise early beta release of Halo Infinite's multiplayer last month, it's clearly been incredibly popular but hasn't been without problems. Now, one player has managed to record a truly incredible case of desync which may be causing hit registration issues - and developer 343 Industries has now confirmed it will "look into" the problem. Since the launch of Halo Infinite multiplayer on November 15, players have frequently reported odd hit detection issues - especially on PC - that have prevented them from getting kills or progressing normally. The issue certainly seems to be desynchronisation and server lag, but with the game's full release coming in just a few days the situation doesn't seem to have improved. This week, Reddit user TonySoprano3000 recorded the best example yet of this desync issue, which is presumably the reason for all the hit registration problems. The video shows the player's point of view - or client-side - on the left along with what is actually happening server-side on the right, so what other players see. RELATED LINKS: Halo Infinite release date, Halo Infinite system requirements, Halo Infinite ranks |
| Five strategy games like Total War Posted: 03 Dec 2021 08:22 AM PST  So, you want to play more games like Total War? Creative Assembly's seminal strategy series is a law unto itself, offering a rich, far-reaching turn-based campaign layer while also letting you load into a separate real-time tactical map where you can take your armies and fight it out for the glory of Rome/Sigmar/Troy/etc. In the pantheon of strategy games, few have approached Creative Assembly's unique vision, so when it comes to looking at other games that follow a similar mould you have to think really hard about what it is you actually want. Do you want something with a similar tactical layer? Something that offers a great campaign? Something that genuinely does try and do a bit of both? Without any obvious competitors, this leaves us with a lot of ground to cover. There are more strategy games out there than we'll ever remember, so we've decided to focus on some new titles, as the classics have been well trod by now. Here are five options that just might scratch that Total War itch - enjoy! RELATED LINKS: Age of Wonders: Planetfall review, Best strategy games on PC, Upcoming PC games |
| FFXIV has smashed its all-time Steam player record and doubled it in six months Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:46 AM PST  The early access release of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker has seemingly pushed the venerable MMO to new heights, as the game's all-time concurrent player record on Steam has been smashed for the second time this year - and the new count is more than double FFXIV's previous peak from June this year. Despite being out for over ten years now, or eight as A Realm Reborn, Final Fantasy XIV has continued to go from strength to strength in 2021 alone. The MMO reported over 22 million registered players back in April and has repeatedly broken its concurrent player count record this year. According to SteamDB, the new concurrent player count for Final Fantasy XIV today is 87,831 - beating the previous record of 67,148 on July 18. By the end of June, the peak was still around 41K, meaning the MMO has more than doubled its concurrent players in just under six months - and added over 20,000 players to its previous record. On December 2, the player count was 40,232. RELATED LINKS: FFXIV Shadowbringers review, FFXIV Gunbreaker job guide, FFXIV Dancer job guide |
| What if: Fallout 5 is set before the bombs dropped? Posted: 04 Dec 2021 03:06 AM PST  Todd Howard has a "one-pager" for Fallout 5. Perhaps Bethesda Game Studios is working on bringing that initial design doc to life, or maybe it handed development over to another studio as it did to Obsidian for Fallout: New Vegas. Either way, the developers probably have some clue as to what it's going to be about. And we don't. That gives us a golden opportunity to put forth an idea that will horrify you: the idea of a Fallout 5 set in the world before the bombs drop. The snatches of Fallout's pre-war world were always its most gripping narrative element. The very first thing the original CRPG shows you is a world clinging onto the visual language and cheery public service broadcasts of our real-world post-war America, despite having been bombed to a fine paste. How and why did that culture form? In that first RPG, and indeed all its sequels, an alt-history timeline plots depleting resources and superpowers squabbling over the scraps, leading of course to a giant nuclear war that leaves the world irreparably brown. So what was life like during those years, from the 2050s to the 2070s? RELATED LINKS: Fallout 4 console commands, Fallout 4 mods, Buy Fallout 4 |
| The classic GTA Trilogy is back but only for “Definitive” edition owners Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:55 AM PST  December 4, 2021: The original GTA Trilogy is back, but only on Rockstar's launcher for people who own the Definitive Edition. Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is out, and while I hate to put too many qualitative statements about a game here in a news story, there's no way around it. It's bad. Rockstar previously provided an update on the "unexpected technical issues" plaguing the remastered open-world games and promised patches are coming and the originals getting relisted. One of those has happened, at least, although not in the way everyone would like. The original versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas are now available for free for anyone who purchased the new Trilogy - or plans to pick it up before July 1, 2022. However, there is no word on when the classic trilogy will be relisted on the Rockstar launcher to buy as a separate bundle as the developer promised - or whether the games will come back to Steam or any other PC storefronts after they were pulled in October. |
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