Month: October 2024

Publisher Paradox Interactive has delayed Cities: Skylines 2’s console release once again.
The game was initially slated to arrive on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 alongside PC in October last year. However, this date got moved to spring, before getting bumped back again to October of this year. At this time, the team said it had been “struggling to get Cities: Skylines 2 to the necessary level of optimisation for a console release”.
Now, the game’s console launch isn’t going to be in October either, as the team has “not yet met the stability and performance targets” it had set for Xbox and PlayStation.

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A developer who worked on Rockstar’s scrapped GTA 5 single-player Trevor DLC has discussed the project’s cancellation and expressed regret it never saw the light of day.

The existence of GTA 5 single-player DLC, in which fan-favourite character Trevor Philips would have taken a starring role, has been discussed previously, and fans have wondered for some time if they’d ever hear more on why it was never released – though the sheer magnitude of GTA Online’s success always seemed the reason why Rockstar ultimately priotised its resources there.

Now, speaking to YouTube channel SanInPlay, former Rockstar senior camera artist and virtual cinematographer Joseph Rubino has discussed his work on the project – and why it was cancelled.

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Xbox owners in the US will be able to play and purchase games directly from the Xbox App on Android from November.
The change follows the ongoing legal battle between Epic Games and Google. Earlier this week a US judge ruled Google runs a monopoly via its smartphone app store, meaning third-party storefront apps must now be made available from the Google Play Store.
This has opened the door for Microsoft, meaning players can now purchase Xbox games on Android devices and then immediately stream them through Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Official Showcase Reveal: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Xbox Games Showcase 2024

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A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead – the upcoming game inspired by the film franchise of the same name – is set to include an optional microphone feature that allows its creatures to detect any real-life noises made by the player.
It’s called the ‘Microphone Noise Detection’ feature, and pretty much does what it says. Essentially, if players choose to activate their mic when playing The Road Ahead, any cough, sneeze or sudden announcement from a loved one that it is time for supper could give the location of your in-game character (a young asthmatic college student named Alex) away.
This, developer Stormind Games has said, will all help to bring the “horror right into your room”, which sounds more than enough to scare the John Krasinskis out of me.

Survive in Silence | A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead – Live Action Trailer

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Ghost of Yōtei, the newly revealed follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima, will have a less repetitive open world.
Sucker Punch’s Nate Fox and Jason Connell, creative directors on Ghost of Tsushima, were interviewed by The NY Times to discuss the sequel, due out next year on PS5.
“One challenge that comes with making an open-world game is the repetitive nature of doing the same thing over again,” said Connell. “We wanted to balance against that and find unique experiences.”

Ghost of Yōtei – Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

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Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has debuted a feature length and emotionally driven documentary about its upcoming release, Stalker 2.
The documentary, War Game: The Making of Stalker 2, touches on the developer’s history and details what it has been like to work on the forthcoming sequel during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Since 2022, GSC has delayed Stalker 2 delayed several times and relocated staff to safely finish the project elsewhere, while others have joined Ukraine’s armed forces, and dealt with Russian hackers who leaked test builds.

22 Things You Need To Know About STALKER 2 – Gameplay, Enemies, & New Anomalies – STALKER 2 GAMEPLAY

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Sega has announced the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Movie Pack will be coming to Sonic x Shadow Generations as DLC just ahead of the film’s release.

And yes, it’ll star Keanu Reeves as the voice of Shadow.

The DLC will be inspired by scenes from the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film and arrive ahead of its release on 12th December.

SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS – Story Trailer

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What are you doing tonight at 11pm UK time? That’s right, watching Sony’s latest PlayStation State of Play broadcast right here with us. We’ll keep you up to date with everything that happens in a blow by blow account, and we would love to have you chat along with us as you watch the stream and tell us what you think.
The show begins at 11pm UK time (3pm PT) and is embedded below, and it runs for around half an hour, so it’s blessedly brief. Despite that, Sony has promised to pack in more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PSVR2 games, some of them new, some of them getting updates.
What do we expect? Well, the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 remaster because it leaked ahead of the show. But also probably the Until Dawn remake, and probably the Silent Hill 2 remake, after it was confirmed as a PlayStation exclusive the other day. And maybe the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster, and maybe a Days Gone remaster. Yes, we live in a world where remasters and remakes rule (give us Bloodborne you cowards!).
The newly unveiled PS5 Pro will also feature, in all its exorbitant expensiveness, as will myriad announcements of game-enhancements for it. Pre-orders for it open on Thu…

If you’re trying to keep spoiler-free as you prepare for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’s release next week – and Silent Hill 2 Remake’s release on 8th October – you may want to step away from social media for a while.
Over the weekend, hours-long streams of both games are popping up online, most of which have been chopped up into small, social media-friendly pieces and shared to sites like X/Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok, often without spoiler warnings.

DF Retro: Silent Hill 2 – Horror Perfected on PS2/Xbox/PC/PS3

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UPDATE: A correction: Take-Two’s report detailed below that lists GTA 6’s planned autumn 2025 launch date was in fact first published in July, pre-dating the more recent rumour of a delay. Our original story remains below:

Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, has recommited to the game’s planned autumn 2025 launch window after recent rumours of a delay.

This month, speculation of a GTA 6 delay sparked internet chatter that Rockstar’s long-awaited project had been pushed to 2026.

Now, in its newly-released annual report, Take-Two Interactive has doubled down on the game’s publicly-confirmed release timing – and said GTA 6 will still launch in around 12 months’ time.

“Rockstar Games continues to invest in the franchise and plans to release Grand Theft Auto 6 in the fall of calendar 2025,” Take-Two Interactive wrote. “The label released its first trailer for the title in December 2023 and will share more details over time.”

Last week, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that half a dozen Rockstar employees he’d spoken to had heard no word of a delay to the game – although that didn’t rule one out if executives had mad…