October 2020

As Gamesindustry.biz notes, CD Projekt Red’s share price peaked in late August with a market cap of 42.4 billion Polish złoty, which is about $US10.7 billion. The individual share price was just under 461 złoty per share, or $US116.50. Subsequently, the studio instituted mandatory extra hours to complete work on Cyberpunk 2077, and then announced a delayed release date. The share price dropped to 331 złoty, and is currently at 335 złoty, which is about $US85. I’d already forgotten there was a Witcher-themed augmented reality game in the vein of Pokemon Go announced in August, but that announcement coincided with…

Horror game anthology The Dark Pictures has revealed its next game, House of Ashes, by secreting a teaser trailer within just-released game Little Hope. Given the look, it’s likely that House of Ashes is about American soldiers and specialists in Afghanistan who uncover some ancient evil, and looks like it will star Ashley Tisdale. House of Ashes is due to release in 2021. The minute-long House of Ashes trailer shows American helicopters flying over rough mountainous terrain reminiscent of eastern Afghanistan’s Hindu-Kush. As the trailer opens, we hear American soldiers describing being attacked by something the listener “wouldn’t believe.” A…

Intel has unveiled its first discrete Xe graphics card, the Intel Iris Xe Max. It’s a mobile GPU designed to drop into thin-and-light notebooks to give creators the edge while they’re on the go. The Iris Xe Max GPUs match the Iris Xe graphics silicon of the new Tiger Lake processors in terms of raw specs, and promises to also boost performance by pairing the two GPUs together. This sort of total platform initiative is something AMD has recently championed when users pair its next-gen CPUs and GPUs. The upcoming RX 6000-series cards can potentially offer higher gaming performance when…

Ruined King was announced in December 2019 as the first-ever singleplayer League of Legends game, and also the first game to come out of the Riot Forge publishing label. Today Riot announced that Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, as it’s officially named, will go into full release on Steam and the Epic Games Store in early 2021. The League of Legends spinoff is being developed by Airship Syndicate, whose previous releases including Battle Chasers: Nightwar and Darksiders Genesis, as part of Riot’s effort to push beyond the mega-hit MOBA League of Legends. Riot Forge releases will be set…

As the Hollywood Reporter, er, reported, there’s a movie about esports called 1Up currently in the works. Ellen Page will play the team’s coach, and Paris Berelc the star of the show, a young player who quits a mixed team to start her own all-women’s team. It’s being directed by Kyle Newman, director of Fanboys, from a script by Julia Yorks, who writes kid’s TV shows. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 1Up “has been described as being in the vein of Pitch Perfect but set in the world of eSports with a Gamergate backdrop.” I don’t know about you, but…

From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random obscure games back into the light. This week… if you go down to the woods today, you’d better go armed to the teeth? Hmm. Wait. Somehow, that doesn’t quite sound right… Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project is unquestionably the pinnacle of horror movies in which nothing actually happens. Like trees? Seinfeld? Serial killers? Then this is the film for you. It’d be a great nap movie too, if not for all the shouting. On release, it raised many questions,…

This Halloween Epic Games is giving away Ghostbusters Remastered for free, and do not pass this opportunity up. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a classic, but this is the Ghostbusters 3 we never got, and now never will.  Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered adds only one thing to the 2009 original: a title card at the end of the opening sequence which reads ‘Dedicated to the memory of Harold Ramis.’ Ramis died in 2014. Dan Aykroyd and Ramis were the co-writers, lead actors, and animating spirits behind Ghostbusters, and played off each other as actors: Ray…

The Halo 4 closed beta test—”flight,” in Halo parlance—that got underway last week has been extended to November 6, and updated with a range of fixes and tweaks, as well as crossplay support for Firefight and multiplayer in Halo: Reach. Halo Insiders! We’re extending the Halo 4 flight an additional week to end on Nov. 6th at 10AM PT. With the extension, we’re adding:🔀 Halo: Reach Firefight and Multiplayer are now in for Crossplay Testing🖥️ Halo 4 PC and Xbox Updates🔥 And more!🛫 https://t.co/naKaJY1bguOctober 30, 2020 “Our flight patch brings some additional goals for this flight! Along with Crossplay and Advanced Graphics Options…