Destiny 2 to stop removing old expansions, starting with Lightfall in February

So long, sunsetting! Necessary as it might have been for Bungie, this ‘sunsetting’ removing content people bought has raised hackles. Now Bungie say they’ve been working on the game’s technoguts, and won’t do that anymore. Bungie started sunsetting in 2020 alongside the launch of the Beyond Light expansion. They also forced obsolesence on many weapons, another sunsetting process they laterabandoned but didn’t reverse. This all left the game feeling very empty, not to mention utterly baffling and hostile to newcomers....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Noah Goodman

District 9 director's battle royale game gets a new trailer, but relies on NFTs

A different kind of future tech dystopia than the one depicted in the trailer… A Pacific island with cybernetic implants does sound a bit Crysis-y. The multiplayer is, as noted, a battle royale mode, with up to 150 players fighting together. Gunzilla say the game will launch in 2023, alongside a few other detailson its official site.

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 57 words · Mark Dawson

Floodland is a colourful settlement builder about surviving post-climate collapse

Watch it below to see what I mean. Laws will let you an “age of equality” or a “benign dictatorship.”

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 20 words · Mark Grant

Frontier and Command & Conquer Remastered devs join forces for new WW1 RTS

The Great War encompasses the entire length of WW1. Petroglyph Games were founded back in 2003 by some ex-Westwood Studios staff. Ill be watching The Great War with interest. The Great War: Western Front is scheduled to release sometime in 2023.

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 41 words · Lisa Oneal

A Lords Of The Fallen reboot is in the works

The cinematic trailer doesnt showcase any gameplay, but it does spotlight what lies in store for fans. The epic fight with the three-headed undead dragon and its phantom rider in the trailer certainly has my attention.

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 36 words · Erica Miller

A Rick-less Morty teleports into MultiVersus today

Morty will wield the plumbus, a weird chicken-leg thing thats ubiquitous throughout the universe of Rick And Morty. Still no more word on when Rick will rock up, though. Both were swiftlyconfirmedfor season one by devs Player First. Ed thinks MultiVersus open beta is thenext best thingto Smash that youll find on PC. MultiVersus is on basically every platform and costs zilch to boot. MultiVersus is free-to-play onSteamand theEpic Games Store....

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 81 words · Caitlin Mcfarland

A Year Of Springs dev npckc "never planned" on making games, but wanted to tell kinder LGBTQ+ stories

Yet it comes at a time when diverse representation in media, including games, is improving. These are personal stories npckc wanted to tell, while also being inspired by real events in Japan. “I never planned on being a game developer. I never planned on making games,” as npckc put it. I want other people to see, so I just kind-of make it happen." And even in the years since, this issue has persisted....

August 23, 2022 · 2 min · 255 words · Alexis Hall

Become a rad assassin or peaceful doctor in open world wuxia RPG Where Winds Meet

How do I know that? Because Gamescom Opening Night Live showed the first trailer today. Watch it for yourself below. It was very dramatic, with moonlit lakes and buildings being set alight by fallen candles. There was poetry and petals flying into air. I may have shed a single, fat tear while watching. The cities bustle and it’s possible for you to climb up snow-blasted mountains to high fortresses. Its pretty cool indeed....

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 104 words · Andrew Mason

Cult horror flick Killer Klowns From Outer Space is getting turned into a game

It’s going to be an online 3v7 asymmetrical multiplayer, out in 2023 Will clowns evernotbe creepy? If you’re not familiar with the film, the title kinda says it all. A group of aliens disguised as clowns invade earth and start killing people - simple! As the clowns, your mission is to hunt down all the humans and take over the town. As the humans, you’ll need to avoid getting captured by the clowns and sabotage the alien invasion....

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 90 words · Mackenzie Lewis

Dune: Awakening is a survival MMO set on the sandy world of Arrakis

Its intriguing then to seeDune: Awakeningannounced at tonights Gamescom Opening Night Live. Walk without rhythm and youll get to watch the trailer below. Theres a blue-eyed bloke in a Fremen stillsuit whos prepping himself to jump aboard one of Arrakis gigantic sandworms. Theyre Dunes version of trains, ysee. The games coming from Funcom, purveyors of licensed Dune gamessince 2019. Theyre known for other licensed MMOs such asConan Exiles. I enjoyed the first half of that there Denis Villeneuve Dune movie that came out last year....

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 121 words · John Garrison

Every new trailer from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022

Everything announced at the first Gamescom show of 2022 Goodness,Gamescomis here already. How did that happen? Feel free to skip ahead to any game trailer you like using the below list! And, well, hes right. That was a trailer that didnt give much away. Thats really all we can say at this point. What makes these zombies different is the occasional tentacle that shoots out from their wounds as theyre damaged....

August 23, 2022 · 4 min · 655 words · Robert Campbell

Ex-GTA dev's new studio reveals Everywhere, which is probably like either Roblox or Second Life

Beyond that, I’m not sure I can say anything. So it will probably be either like Roblox or likeSecond Life, then? The teaser trailer is a montage of stuff happening quickly in the shape of the logo. I wish I could give you more opinions about, well, anything to do with Everywhere. It has deserts, forests, and a big futuristic city. Is the sort of space-horror tease at the end of the trailer anything?...

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 147 words · Robert Spencer

Fallout 76 project lead opens new studio making new open-world RPG

Alright, so little info there. Yep, still vague. Hey, it’s early days for development. For reference, Bethesda have saidSkyrimwas made by about 100 people and 400-odd have been onStarfield. Not that it’s worth directly comparing the games in this way when we know basically nothing about Wyrdsong. I’d be far more interested in something Alpha Protocol-shaped than anything remotely resembling a Bethesda RPG. But I am still bored of Bethesda-style RPGs....

August 23, 2022 · 1 min · 86 words · Megan Sandoval