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Tencent Acquires Minority Stake In Yooka-Laylee Developer Playtonic

Tencent Acquires Minority Stake In Yooka-Laylee Developer Playtonic

Tencent has announced a minority stake in Playtonic, although the studio will retain full creative control over its IPs.

Solar Ash Trophy List Revealed, Platinum Trophy Requires Multiple Playthroughs

Solar Ash Trophy List Revealed, Platinum Trophy Requires Multiple Playthroughs

Solar Ash's Trophy list has recently gone live, and it seems that those who want to get the Platinum will have to complete multiple playthroughs.

Phil Spencer Talks About Emulation And Preservation Of Games, Calls For Industry-Wide Support

Phil Spencer Talks About Emulation And Preservation Of Games, Calls For Industry-Wide Support

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has called out for industry-wide support to allow emulation of older games on modern hardware for the sake of game preservation.

Hunt: Showdown’s PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Patch Offers up to 60 FPS Performance

Hunt: Showdown’s PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Patch Offers up to 60 FPS Performance

Hunt: Showdown's update 1.7 offers a framerate of up to 60 fps on both the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, which is live now.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Definitive Edition Graphics Comparison – What’s Changed?

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Definitive Edition Graphics Comparison – What’s Changed?

While not a perfect remaster by a significant margin, Vice City's Definitive Edition seems to have received the most love out of all games in the trilogy.

Grand Theft Auto 3 – The Definitive Edition Graphics Comparison – How Good Is It?

Grand Theft Auto 3 – The Definitive Edition Graphics Comparison – How Good Is It?

While Grand Theft Auto 3's Definitive Edition improves on many aspects of the original, it's still an inconsistent package that should've spent more time in the oven.

Grand Theft Auto 4 Remaster Needs To Happen, But Rockstar Should Handle It With Care

Grand Theft Auto 4 Remaster Needs To Happen, But Rockstar Should Handle It With Care

With the original trilogy being souped up for a modern audience and GTA 5 still being very relevant today, GTA 4 sticks out like a sore thumb and as such, deserves a remaster.

Heavenly Bodies Releases for PS4 and PS5 on December 7th

Heavenly Bodies Releases for PS4 and PS5 on December 7th

Heavenly Bodies is a physics-based space thriller from 2pt Interactive, which releases on December 7th for both the PS4 and the PS5.

Call of Duty: Vanguard – Free Multiplayer Access Slated for the Weekend

Call of Duty: Vanguard – Free Multiplayer Access Slated for the Weekend

Call of Duty: Vanguard's first free access weekend starts Thursday, and includes the entirety of the game's multiplayer offerings.

Embracer Group Wants To Continue Its Spree Of Acquisitions In 2022

Embracer Group Wants To Continue Its Spree Of Acquisitions In 2022

Embracer Group's latest earnings report reveals that the company is planning to maintain a blistering pace of acquisitions in 2022.

NFTs “Feel More Exploitative Than About Entertainment” – Phil Spencer

NFTs “Feel More Exploitative Than About Entertainment” – Phil Spencer

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer says that Microsoft isn't currently planning to bring NFTs to gaming, since he feels it's more exploitive than it is about entertainment.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human Might Add Co-op-Focused Character Classes In The Future

Dying Light 2 Stay Human Might Add Co-op-Focused Character Classes In The Future

Dying Light 2 Stay Human's lead designer Tymon Smektala has hinted that the game might feature classes geared towards co-op gameplay in the future.

Skate 2’s Online Servers Will Still Be Shutting Down In Three Weeks, EA Confirms

Skate 2’s Online Servers Will Still Be Shutting Down In Three Weeks, EA Confirms

EA's Skate 2 was just recently added to Xbox's backward compatibility program, although servers for the game will still shut down in a couple of weeks,

Elden Ring’s PS4 Pro Version Seemingly Runs Smoother on PS5 Than Native PS5 Version

Elden Ring’s PS4 Pro Version Seemingly Runs Smoother on PS5 Than Native PS5 Version

Elden Ring runs smoother on the PS5 when running the PS4 Pro version via backward compatibility than the native PS5 version itself.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Has A Collective Metacritic User Score Of 0.5

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Has A Collective Metacritic User Score Of 0.5

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition currently stands at a miniscule user rating of under 0.6 on review aggregator platform Metacritic.

Xbox Game Pass Was Originally Supposed To Be A Rental Service – Xbox Exec

Xbox Game Pass Was Originally Supposed To Be A Rental Service – Xbox Exec

In a recent interview with GQ, it has been revealed that Microsoft originally envisioned Game Pass as a rental service instead of a Netflix-esque subscription model.

Beyond Good And Evil 2 Is Still Several Years Away, Could Release In 2024 – Rumour

Beyond Good And Evil 2 Is Still Several Years Away, Could Release In 2024 – Rumour

A developer working on Beyond Good and Evil 2 has stated that the game is several years from release, and insider Tom Henderson believes it might be coming in 2024 or 2025.

Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition Launches On November 30

Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition Launches On November 30

Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition will be releasing on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S on November 30.

CrossfireX Is Getting Closer To Release, Remedy Confirms

CrossfireX Is Getting Closer To Release, Remedy Confirms

According to Remedy's latest business report, CrossfireX has been steadily making progress in development as it moves closer to its release date.

Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One Review – Missed Opportunity

Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One Review – Missed Opportunity

Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One teeter-totters between being an okay game and an excessively padded out adventure.