Street Fighter figurehead Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom after nearly 30 years

 Posted on January 28, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  442 words  |  Patria Henriques

Street Fighter figurehead Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom at the end of April after nearly 30 years at the company. Ono, who has worked on the Street Fighter series since 1998 and is credited with spearheading its revival with the launch of Street Fighter 4, said that from 1st May he will leave Capcom to work on a studio called Delightworks. Eurogamer news cast: is Sony's U-turn on PS3 and Vita games just delaying the inevitable? [Read More]

This new mod lets you play Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in VR

 Posted on January 28, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  429 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Flat screen to VR modder Helifax has just released a new mod that brings full 6DOF VR to Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. The mod itself is free to download from Helifax's website and you can watch me put it through its paces in traditionally immature, VR Corner style in the video above. The mod itself features "synced eye (single-frame stereo instanced) full 6DOF VR with Ray Tracing (not AER)" which in layman's terms means it looks very pretty and you can fully move your head and look around in all directions. [Read More]

"I am alone." Skyrim player tries to kill everyone in the game

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  275 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

A Skyrim player has tried to kill everyone in the game. "It is finished," redditor jaeinskyrim declared (thanks, PCGamesN). "2201 people/NPCs, plus over 2400 more various creatures. All gone. I am alone in Skyrim." Eurogamer news cast: Microsoft's plan to kill console scalping It was a monumental task. Bethesda's open-world fantasy adventure is huge and packed with NPCs - people, animals, creatures, undead, daedra, automatons... they all fell by the wayside amid jaeinskyrim's murderous rampage. [Read More]

Anno 1800 getting a fourth season of paid DLC next year and its first scenario next week

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  532 words  |  Trudie Dory

Acclaimed Industrial-Revolution-era city builder Anno 1800 has done really rather well for itself since its release back in 2019 - having recently surpassed 2m players - and Ubisoft is celebrating with the announcement of a fourth season of paid DLC, starting next year. Ubisoft says the Anno team is "just getting started" on its latest DLC journey and so isn't quite ready to reveal specifics just yet. However, its blog post offers a few teases on the direction Seasons 4's three planned DLCs will be taking, with the focus this time around said being the New World - in contrast to the Old World focus of Season 3. [Read More]

Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass update: changes, rewards, new features, and when Battle Charge Season 2 ends

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1672 words  |  Trudie Dory

Apex Legends season 2 is here, and the Season 2 battle pass, Battle Charge - as well as plenty of other changes in the Season 2 update - has arrived with it. Below you'll find a summary of everything you need to know about the new season, including Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass rewards, the Apex Season 2 changes that came with it, and everything else you might find useful. [Read More]

Blizzard announces World of Warcraft Shadowlands' final major content update, Eternity's End

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  486 words  |  Patria Henriques

Blizzard has announced World of Warcraft Shadowlands' next major content update amid a troubling time for the veteran MMO. Content update 9.2, dubbed Eternity's End, is the final major content update for Shadowlands, Blizzard said. It supposedly brings the story to a conclusion as players try to "thwart the Jailer's plans to unmake reality". In an announcement video, below, Blizzard teased a new zone called Zereth Mortis. This is the home reality of the First Ones, the " [Read More]

Borderlands 3 PlayStation crossplay confirmed in year-late U-turn

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  455 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Borderlands 3 crossplay will be added to the game's PlayStation 4 and 5 versions "in the future", publisher 2K Games has said - marking a U-turn on last year's kerfuffle which saw the game's PlayStation crossplay blocked. There's no exact date for when PlayStation crossplay will now be switched on, though 2K has today confirmed the move will indeed happen - letting players team up across Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Mac, Stadia and PC via Steam or Epic Games Store. [Read More]

Divinity Original Sin 2 on Switch is the perfect handheld complement to the PC game

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  9 minutes  |  1856 words  |  Patria Henriques

Among the most celebrated RPGs to hit PC over the last few years, Divinity Original Sin 2 makes a surprise debut on Switch with a unique and compelling new feature: the ability to share saves with the Steam version of the game, effectively allowing you to take your game on the go, then return your progress back to the PC version. We've seen the rise of cross-play in the likes of Fortnite, but this again shows Switch coming into its own as a perfect complement to the home experience - but beyond the intriguing cross-save mechanic, can such a complex, challenging game transition effectively to Nintendo's console hybrid? [Read More]

First glimpse of Resident Evil 4 remake gameplay

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  323 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Tonight brought our first - very brief - glimpse of gameplay from the upcoming Resident Evil 4 remake, as part of Capcom's not-E3 Showcase. Still, even this snippet was intriguing. "The experience of being attacked by hordes of crazed ganado is truly an iconic moment from Resident Evil," director Yasuhiro Anpo said, as we saw Leon sneaking around what looks like an early section from the game. " [Read More]

Fortnite: Where to collect a vintage can of cat food in Catty Corner or Craggy Cliffs explained

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  687 words  |  Patria Henriques

Cats are getting hungry during Fortnite's alien invasion. Here's where to collect a vintage can of cat food in Catty Corner or Craggy CliffsCollect a vintage can of cat food in Catty Corner or Craggy Cliffs is the third of Week 11's legendary quests in Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7. Such as the past few weeks, the first quest in this set involves using one of the payphones across the Fortnite map, and it's followed with the tasks to catch fish at fishing holes and collect a vintage can of at food in Catty Corner or Craggy Cliffs. [Read More]