WACO, Texas (KWTX) – No need to be overwhelmed with fear for March because I’m Andrew Hamilton and I’m here to navigate you through all great games releasing this month in your March episode of The Download. Aspyr is bringing the king of Star Wars shooters back(Aspyr) Star Wars Battlefront Classics Collection: We start this … Read more
Of the 900 PlayStation employees that lost their jobs during yesterday’s layoffs, it’s reported that roughly 40 of them — or 10 per cent of the developer’s workforce — belonged to Horizon Forbidden West team Guerrilla Games. Dutch outlet AD shared the news that the layoffs at Guerrilla Games concerned “ten percent of the staff, … Read more
Image: Push Square Murmurs of an upgraded PS5 Pro have been rumbling for some time now, and analysts are certain it’ll arrive some time later this year. The souped-up system is being billed as the best place to play the hotly anticipated GTA 6, which is scheduled to release some time next year. It’s expected … Read more
In fact, such is its success that it’s now gaining on the aforementioned Palworld. Obviously, interest in the Pokémon-inspired survival game has dipped a little bit since its unfathomable highs, but it was doing about 535k users on Steam when Helldivers 2 was hitting the records mentioned above, so the gap is closing between the … Read more
Screenshot: Xbox / YouTube On Thursday, the leadership of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division shared an update on their plans for the platform going forward. And, surprise! It wasn’t nearly as much as a paradigm shift as the internet doomsayers had predicted. Yes, some Xbox games will be going multiplatform—we don’t know exactly which ones yet. … Read more
A pretty great selection here, then, with lots of notable inclusions. Need for Speed Unbound is a really solid arcade racer that was massively overlooked at the time of release, so this makes a lot of sense. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, The Outer Worlds’ PS5 version, and a couple of LEGO titles are also good gets. … Read more
With the industry as volatile as it is, publishers and developers must find new ways to monetise and offer value to their players to keep them coming back. Released on Friday, Helldivers 2 from developer Arrowhead Studios had a massive weekend, doing things slightly differently from its competitors in the service space, which might be … Read more
Sony is launching Helldivers 2 this week on 8th February, 2024, and by the looks of it, the co-op shooter might be more popular than you think. From what can be gleaned from digital storefronts, the sci-fi shoot-’em-up seems to be killing it in terms of pre-orders. As noted by X user KAMI, the game … Read more
Alphabet ’s disappointing earnings outlook spoilt the party for investors last week as other Big Tech players wheeled out the champagne. The Google parent is searching for levers to please investors and signing up a partner for its fiber-cable business could be one handy tool. Alphabet is looking for external investment for its GFiber business, … Read more
Microsoft will have already owned plenty of PS5 devkits, of course, as its output already includes fully multiformat titles like Minecraft. However, the fact that it’s been making additional investment into more of Sony’s hardware simply adds further fuel to the fire of its impending pivot. Phil Spencer, the boss of Xbox, announced overnight that … Read more