Battlefield V debut trailer has generated a lot of controversy among the members of the community because it featured female soldiers and fancy vanity items that many thought would harm the series’ historical accuracy.]]> Trove Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:35:56 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/36/3314/Battlefield-V-Vanity-Items-Won’t-Feature-Things-That-Weren’t-Used-In-World-War-II.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/11/59841/Retro-Saturdays-Episode-24--Anachronox.html Trove Sun, 1 Jul 2018 23:40:29 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/11/59841/Retro-Saturdays-Episode-24--Anachronox.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/35/8741/ExSony-dev-says-PS4--console-crossplatform-block-is-all-about-the-money.html
A former Sony developer has said the great PlayStation 4 cross-platform block is all about the money.
John Smedley is the ex-boss of Planetside 2 and H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company, which changed its name from Sony Online Entertainment in 2015.
In a tweet referencing the fact , Smedley said Sony's controversial policy comes down to money.
]]> Trove Sun, 1 Jul 2018 01:57:21 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/35/8741/ExSony-dev-says-PS4--console-crossplatform-block-is-all-about-the-money.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/86/5098/E3-2018-Sony-Briefing-roundup.html Did you miss the PlayStation Briefing last night? Greg didn't, he covered the whole show. Check out the roundup below to find out what went on. Ellie kissed a girl and she liked it. New The Last of Us Part II footage To kick off Sony’s E3 2018 press conference, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II was shown, with a new cinematic furthering Ellie’s characterisation into the r...[Read More] Classic Black Ops maps coming to Black Ops III and 4 The four classic maps Jungle, Summit, Slums, and Firing Range are being remastered for Call of Duty Black Ops 4 and, surprisingly, also Black Ops III . Further ...[Read More] Ghost of Tsushima debut gameplay footage New footage was revealed of Sucker Punch’s Samurai adventure game Ghost of Tsushima. A beautiful field full of flora and fauna, followed by a dark forest and so...[Read More] Resident Evil 2 remake re-revealed Finally, after years of waiting we got to see something of the Resident Evil 2 remake. Pretty visuals, shots of Sherry, Ada, and Leon, zombies and a licker, I’m...[Read More] Trover Saves the Universe from Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland revealed Rick and Morty creator, Justin Roiland, brings us a new comedy sci-fi game for PSVR and PS4, Trover Saves the Universe, developed by Squanch Games, we see what ...[Read More] Death Stranding gameplay footage debut Sony have delivered on the gameplay footage we’ve all been waiting for, footage for Kojima Production’s Death Stranding. It looks gorgeous, eerie and confusing,...[Read More] New Spider-Man gameplay footage The Sony E3 2018 press conference delivered some more Spider-Man footage, revealing several classic villains will be involved in the adventure. And with the tit...[Read More] Control revealed A third-person action game with physics manipulation, possibly also some time manipulation, was shown off at the E3 2018 Sony press conference. A new title call...[Read More] Nioh 2 revealed Nioh 2 got a quick reveal teaser in the Sony E3 2018 press conference. A really quick teaser. I’m sure it’ll pop up online shortly, but as of yet no...[Read More]
]]> Trove Sun, 1 Jul 2018 01:47:25 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/86/5098/E3-2018-Sony-Briefing-roundup.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/86/5109/Trover-Saves-the-Universe-from-Rick-and-Morty-creator-Justin-Roiland-revealed.html Rick and Morty creator, Justin Roiland, brings us a new comedy sci-fi game for PSVR and PS4, Trover Saves the Universe, developed by Squanch Games, we see what you did there. Check out the reveal trailer below:
]]> Trove Sun, 1 Jul 2018 01:47:25 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/86/5109/Trover-Saves-the-Universe-from-Rick-and-Morty-creator-Justin-Roiland-revealed.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/54/7696/ExSony-dev-says-PS4--console-crossplatform-block-is-all-about-the-money.html
A former Sony developer has said the great PlayStation 4 cross-platform block is all about the money.
John Smedley is the ex-boss of Planetside 2 and H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company, which changed its name from Sony Online Entertainment in 2015.
In a tweet referencing the fact , Smedley said Sony's controversial policy comes down to money.
]]> Trove Sun, 1 Jul 2018 01:46:05 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/54/7696/ExSony-dev-says-PS4--console-crossplatform-block-is-all-about-the-money.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/106/14416/Valve-defends-decision-to-back-off-Steam-curation-with-hard-numbers-at-industry-talk.html Valve’s move to an ‘anything goes’ approach to deciding which games will appear on Steam is a controversial one, but the company defended the decision by offering up some hard numbers that help describe the scope of the problem at a games industry talk this week in Russia.
Earlier this month, Valve announced that the company would allow any game on Steam so long as it wasn’t either illegal or “trolling.” The move came after outcry over emails the company sent to the developers of adult-themed games, primarily visual novels, telling them to either censor content or have their games pulled from Steam.
Valve might not be doing much curation these days, but we still are! Here's our list of the .
Now, Valve is explaining the subsequent decision to cease curating games almost entirely. Jan-Peter Ewert, head of Valve’s business development, gave a presentation at the Business Conference for Games Industry that laid out some of the numbers the company deals with when it comes to the sheer number of new games coming through Steam Direct.
In one slide, provided via Twitter by , Ewert shows how the number of new games on Steam has increased with each successive indie discovery program. Before Greenlight, which launched in 2012, about five games were released a week. With Greenlight, that number grew to 70 per week, and now with Steam Direct, Valve is seeing about 180 weekly game launches.
Those numbers couple with an ever-expanding Steam playerbase. Ewert said 13.5 million first-time purchasers have arrived on Steam in January through April of this year. They add up to a daunting challenge, wherever you fall on Valve’s decision about curating games.]]> Trove Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:43:06 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/106/14416/Valve-defends-decision-to-back-off-Steam-curation-with-hard-numbers-at-industry-talk.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/106/14395/Because-of-Battlefront-2-EA’s-going-to-give-you-loot-box-odds-in-FIFA-19.html Star Wars Battlefront II was the game which stirred the most vociferous action against loot boxes, but it wasn’t the first EA game to make use of the random blind purchase model. EA Sports titles - FIFA in particular - have offered similar purchases for years as part of the wildly popular Ultimate Team mode. They aren’t going away, but EA does plan a significant change for them starting this year.
Starting with this year’s EA Sports titles, EA will now disclose the odds for Ultimate Team packs. That change will affect FIFA 19 and Madden NFL 19 most obviously, and could indicate that EA plans to move toward more transparency for this monetization scheme across any future titles - though don’t expect them to drop the loot box model entirely.
There's plenty of sport to be had in the .
“Our model is sustainable,” EA Sports vice president and COO Daryl Holt tells . Holt says that the controversy over Battlefront II has “certainly changed us - in the way it always does in terms of anything you hear from a player or from the industry - in how we all react and adapt to it.”
The disclosure of pack odds for sports titles is one such change coming as a result of that feedback, and Holt says it’s an indication of “how we communicate and we deal with live service models and how we test things and implement feedback across all of EA.”]]> Trove Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:11:00 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/106/14395/Because-of-Battlefront-2-EA’s-going-to-give-you-loot-box-odds-in-FIFA-19.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/97/3166/Psychedelica-of-the-Ashen-Hawk-Endings-and-Trophy-Guide-Spoiler-Free.html Platinum trophy procurement pronto.
]]> Trove Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:00:01 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/97/3166/Psychedelica-of-the-Ashen-Hawk-Endings-and-Trophy-Guide-Spoiler-Free.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/33/2104/Should-Gamers-Be-Worried-For-the-PlayStation-Brand.html Trove Fri, 29 Jun 2018 02:02:42 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/33/2104/Should-Gamers-Be-Worried-For-the-PlayStation-Brand.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/42/2282/Why-you-should-stop-asking-for-a-release-for-The-Flow’s-368-Henkaku-exploit.html Disclaimer from Wololo: for some reason this article has generated more controversy than it should have, with in particular established hackers in the Vita scene voicing their doubts that the Vita has the power...
]]> Trove Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:38:14 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/42/2282/Why-you-should-stop-asking-for-a-release-for-The-Flow’s-368-Henkaku-exploit.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/4/4640/Sony-share-price-dips-as-Fortnite-account-controversy-draws-ire.html PlayStation thinks you have enough people to play games with already, so you can't possibly need cross-platform multiplayer to play with someone on Nintendo Switch or Xbox One. And if you want to use your Epic account to track your progress in Fortnite, well ... you can't - but why don't you just keep using ...]]]> Trove Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:35:46 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/4/4640/Sony-share-price-dips-as-Fortnite-account-controversy-draws-ire.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/99/3745/Shovel-Knight-Reaches-2-Million-In-Worldwide-Sales.html Yacht Club Games announced that Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has reached a new milestone of 2 million copies sold worldwide since its release in June 2014.
]]> Trove Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:00:51 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/99/3745/Shovel-Knight-Reaches-2-Million-In-Worldwide-Sales.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/43/6112/Nazis-as-the-bad-guys-in-videogames-How-is-that-controversial--Tauriq-Moosa.html has been around longer than I’ve been alive. What began as two innovative anti-Nazi stealth video games for the Apple II and Commodore 64 became id Software’s famous . The game popularised the first-person shooter, giving rise to household names like Doom and Call of Duty. The latest iteration is released this week and, for the first time, are offended by its . How on earth have we got here?

]]> Trove Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:00:23 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/43/6112/Nazis-as-the-bad-guys-in-videogames-How-is-that-controversial--Tauriq-Moosa.html http://gamewizzard.com/news/43/6121/Daytona-USA-why-the-best-arcade-racing-game-ever-just-wont-go-away.html Released in 1993, Sega’s coin-op driving masterpiece should be lagging in the slipstream of other driving titles by now. Just what is the game’s secret?
If you were to set foot inside the , a densely packed treasure trove of classic and modern arcade games in Croydon, there is one cabinet you’d almost certainly have to queue to play on. Featuring chunkily texture-mapped stock cars, snaking between each other on swooping circuits below an azure blue sky, Daytona USA, is one of the greatest driving games ever made.
Released in 1993, and available in a variety of cabinets from basic standing model to full-on deluxe recreation of the player’s 41 Hornet car, Sega’s masterpiece always pulls a crowd. And not just in this specialist coin-op den. The game can still be found in public places all over the UK and beyond, while myriad ports have made their way to everything from Dreamcast to PlayStation 3.]]> Trove Fri, 6 Oct 2017 10:28:29 +0000 http://gamewizzard.com/news/43/6121/Daytona-USA-why-the-best-arcade-racing-game-ever-just-wont-go-away.html