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After all traders and the Flea Market were removed from ‘Escape from Tarkov’ on April 27th, things have taken a major turn, and it seems players are being extorted for massive amounts of currency in order to bring back the in-game traders.
The BBC has announced plans to showcase its first ever Gaming Prom, titled “From 8 Bit to Infinity”, which will take place live at Royal Albert Hall on August 1st, and it’s going to include performances from games made as far back as the 1980s, right up to compositions for current-day titles such as music from ‘Battlefield 2042’.
Guinness World Records has announced that the longest single game of ‘Football Manager’ has come in at over 416 years. Yes, that’s four centuries of management, and includes over 22thousand matches played.
Rubber on asphalt
As part of the April development update for ‘Marvel’s Avengers’, developer Crystal Dynamics has shared upcoming changes and has revealed that Jane Foster: The Mighty Thor is coming to all platforms in the future as a playable hero.
A lawsuit involving original ‘Halo’ composers Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori against Microsoft that had been long-running after being filed in 2020 appears to have finally been solved, as O’Donnell has revealed via Twitter that the differences have been resolved “amicably”.
Turning games into films has been big business now for a long time, with major properties like ‘Resident Evil’, ‘Assassin’s Creed’, ‘Tomb Raider’, and even ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ making the jump to film, and it’s the same company that produced ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ that is actually behind a new film based on ‘Streets of Rage’.
In a short tweet, Raven Software, the developer behind ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ has explained that it has temporarily disabled vehicles while an “issue” is being investigated, with many players seeing this as a result of a glitch that is linked to vehicles, allowing players to get into the game’s golden vaults.
Sony had already invested £345million in Epic Games after a run of funding that took place a few months ago, but now the PlayStation manufacturer has invested £767million (or $1billion) into Epic Games, in order to build the “future of digital entertainment” and the metaverse
Late in 2021, Ubisoft announced it would be adding non fungible tokens (or NFTs) into the PC version of ‘Ghost Recon Breakpoint’, and it seems more NFTs are coming, and will be making their way into games outside of ‘Breakpoint’.
With an initial release in September 2021, Konami’s ‘eFootball 2022’'s negatively received attempt at creating a new series that was free to play, is getting a “version 1.0” update, which will bring changes and brand new features.
No more animation needed to grab those plants
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