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What To Expect During ‘Splatoon 3’s’ Upcoming Splatfest 2024
From April 20 to 22, Nintendo’s squid-themed shooter, Splatoon 3, will host a “Splatfest” event where players can experience in-game musical performances and see the game’s characters and cities with a spring theme. On the game’s official X account, the developers told fans that this year’s theme will involve the question: “Which fuzzy fluffiness do you like the most?” The post included the three options of “Baby Chicks,” “Li’l Bunnies” and “Bear Cubs,” with the studio asking fans to pick their favorite of the three. And it was not just the fans who were saying their favorites – the official W...
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GTA Members Can Now Play ‘Red Dead Redemption’ Within ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ For Free
After its release in 2022, Rockstar Game’s GTA+ subscription service has hosted several games previously released by the studio within their massively successful title, Grand Theft Auto V, which continues to be one of their best-selling games despite launching over a decade ago in 2013. While it had first been released to introduce new in-game benefits for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, in October 2023, they had started to have the subscription include older games from their library to be available to play in rotation within the base GTA V game. At first, it was the old...
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Part 3 Of Final Fantasy VII’s Remake Has Hastily Started Development, Director Is Ready To Finish The Project
After releasing on February 29, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with overall acclaim from fans of the Final Fantasy franchise and critics. Although its different take on the story was criticized by some players, the game’s modern art style has been well welcomed by the gaming community, reflecting the advancements in the graphical quality of games in the ninth generation of consoles. Shortly after the release of the second game, the project’s creative director, Tetsuya Nomura, confirmed that the development of the third and final entry of the remake trilogy is “off to the races already” in a video t...
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April Fool’s Rumors For The Potential 2024 Release Of ‘Hollow Knight: Silk Song’ Might Actually Be True
Throughout its five-year development, fans anticipating Team Cherry’s upcoming Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, have been teasing each other with memes regarding the game’s unknown release date. One of these supposed “jokes” came from a user named Eroke on the gaming forum site ResetEra, who posted a screenshot of the title receiving a rating of “12+” from the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) of South Korea. However, this may be less of a joke than what fans had thought. On April 1, a product marketing manager for Xbox, Tao Sila, posted on X that the wishlist page for Silksong wa...
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Without Fail, ‘Overwatch 2′ Amuses Fans With Its Yearly April Fools’ Day Patch
On April 1, Blizzard Entertainment updated their massively successful first-person shooter game, Overwatch 2, with a patch reflecting the mischievous holiday of April Fools Day. This has been a yearly tradition for the franchise that fans look forward to each year. To see the changes that the patch had made to the game, players could access the new content by selecting the “Balanced Overwatch” option in the Main Menu. After selecting the option, players could discover the various ways that the studio had “unbalanced” its heroes. For example, D.Va’s “Self-Destruct” move can knock players hit by...
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‘World Of Warcraft’ Fans Get Answers About Secret Patch
World of Warcraft players have more to do than wait for the upcoming expansion of The War Within. We have finally uncovered the mystery behind the secret patch. The WoW team developed this mode away from Public Test Servers to prevent it from leaking. It worked too well, considering how little we knew previously. A brand-new battle royale mode called Plunderstorm has been released. The secrecy now makes all the more sense. Undeniably, nothing like this has ever existed in the game in its long history. The game mode is new for WoW, and moreover, it’s a new direction for Blizzard. Thankfully, th...
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Is ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Only Great Because It Broke?
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a technical marvel. Some aspects of its physics engine have great potential across many industries. However, when Tears of the Kingdom was in development, it actually broke. The break was significant, affecting game mechanics and physics. Across the developer floor, programmer Takahiro Takayama could hear people shouting things like, “it’s flying” or “it broke” and that things were absolute “chaos.” They had realized that everything had to be physics-driven by removing all non-physic-driven objects. One innovation they implemented was independent in...
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‘Diablo 4, Season 4’ Is Delayed To May 14 – Here’s Why
Diablo 4, Season 4 release date is getting pushed back nearly a month to May 14. While players are left with a disappointing season in the meantime, it does leave time to level their battle pass. The expected overhaul includes so much content that Season 4 is getting its own Public Test Realm. Some argue that the changes are so extensive, it might as well be a new game. Their show about the Season was two hours long. Notably, the overhaul in loot is going to have a big impact on in-game playability and how you build your character. Loot drops will be smaller but more valuable to speed up the p...
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‘Assassin’s Creed Jade’ Delayed Due To Strategy Shift By Tencent
Tencent’s subsidiary, Level Infinite, is responsible for the development of Assassin’s Creed Jade in partnership with Ubisoft. However, in what Tencent is calling a strategy shift, the mobile-only game has been delayed until 2025. The new plan is to move away from Western franchise mobile video games because they believe that the profit margins are thin. If you take a look at reviews from past Assassin’s Creed games, it makes sense that they’d see it as a risk. Players often have mixed reviews of the games. Some past profit strategies led to unpopular delivery modes and packages. Today, even t...
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Sequel To ‘Dragon’s Dogma’ Is Full Of Tricks From Developers – Which Has Polarized Players
On March 22, Capcom released a new entry into the Dragon’s Dogma series about 14 years after the first game’s release in 2012. With generally positive reviews, the sequel has come up in many discussions online due to the game’s intentionally difficult gameplay as well as some hidden mechanics that can extremely impede the player’s progress in the story. A few examples of the game purposely messing with players would be some aerial enemies may abandon the battle in mid-flight which can strand players, masking the elven language from players until they have a party member that speaks their langu...
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