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GSC Game World has announced that STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has officially gone gold. This means the game is done, and a master copy has been sent for mass production (the game will be released on physical discs for Xbox, in addition to digital). In theory, this means no more delays are in order, although there's a famous precedent: CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077, which was confirmed to have gone gold on October 5, 2020, ahead of its planned November 19, 2020 launch date. However, on October 27, the Polish developer was forced to announce a short delay to […]
We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years.Read more...
In 2019, indie Canadian studio Nine Dots released Outward, an unforgiving immersive action roleplaying game that immediately captivated an audience. Having sold over 1.3 million units to date, the game is now getting a sequel, as announced earlier this month by Nine Dots. We had the opportunity to talk with Guillaume Boucher-Vidal, CEO of Nine Dots Studio and Game Director on the original game and the sequel while at GDC 2024. You can read the full transcript below; Outward 2 can be wishlisted on Steam. How long has Outward 2 been in development so far? Well, we started full production […]
At GDC 2024, Wccftech attended a presentation and subsequent roundtable Q&A about open world survival MMO Dune Awakening with Creative Director Joel Bylos. The full interview will be available soon, but in the meantime, here's what Bylos told us when we asked whether the game would launch this year: The best question. I would love to know. I don't know. We don't want to ship it till it's ready. I don't know how many of you have played Conan Exiles. We have a reputation for interesting ideas and some jank. I would prefer to get rid of the jank. I'd […]
Not quite gone are the days of the zombie survival simulator. Although there are still titles coming out, the releases seem staggered more and more among the wider breadth of multiplayer titles. NetEase Games is looking to change that dynamic with Once Human, a free-to-play online multiplayer title in the same vein as titles such as Tom Clancy’s The Division. We recently went hands-on with the Unreal Engine 5 title on PC thanks to two NetEase reps (Derek Qiu, Head of Overseas Operation, and Peng Sun/Victoria, World and Content Designer) who sat down to talk with us for a brief […]
A few days ago, Unchained Entertainment (previously known as City State Entertainment) re-emerged after a long slumber and revealed that Final Stand: Ragnarok would re-launch on Steam Early Access this Thursday, while Camelot Unchained, the original MMORPG project devised by the studio, would come out in late 2025. To be honest, fans and Kickstarter backers were almost losing hope at this point. The studio had received over $2 million in funds back in 2013, but the MMORPG seemed still far from completion. The current focus on Final Stand: Ragnarok, which is a very different game, also might have certainly disappointed […]
Over two years after the Steam early access debut, Angela Game released the 1.0 version of Myth of Empires in late February. The main reason for the long early access time was the legal dispute with Studio Wildcard and Snail Games that was only settled four months ago. In an interesting turn of events, the plaintiffs became the new publisher of the multiplayer war sandbox game. With Myth of Empires back on Steam and a console version in development, we interviewed Angela Game to discuss the launch reception and a detailed roadmap of updates coming to the title this year. […]
A few days ago, Techland announced the upcoming launch of Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition. This version of the game features all content released post-launch, including the premium Bloody Ties DLC, and debuts today alongside the big (and free) Firearms update, considered the largest to date by the Polish studio. They're probably right. Here's an overview of everything you can expect to find in the patch: The introduction of firearms: pistols, SMGs, rifles, and shotguns 50 additional Legend Levels, with players now able to reach the Platinum tier and unlock new upgrades geared toward firearms Around 10 hours of new […]
There are only three days left before the PC early access debut of Nightingale, the first game released by Canadian developer Inflexion Games. To tide our readers until Tuesday the 20th, we've just published an exclusive interview with Inflexion founder and CEO Aaryn Flynn, a former BioWare veteran and General Manager. As part of our chat, we asked him whether he was worried about launching a game in the same genre (survival crafting) that already saw big hits last month. You can find the reply below. Between the huge success of Palworld and the recent launch of Enshrouded, are you […]
Nightingale, the debut title of Canadian studio Inflexion Games, is scheduled to launch on PC early access via Steam and the Epic Games Store next Tuesday. It's been a long road for the team founded by BioWare veteran and former General Manager Aaryn Flynn. After more than fifteen years and credits on masterpieces such as Baldur's Gate II, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, and the first two Mass Effect installments, Flynn left in 2017 and joined Improbable in September 2018. A few months later, it was announced that he would lead […]
In less than four weeks, players will be able to play through the second entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy on PlayStation. Rebirth does away with the PlayStation 4 release, something that players would have expected after Remake Intergrade and the introduction of Yuffie Kisaragi was exclusive to the latest Sony console generation. At the moment, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth remains a PS5 console exclusive but certainly has the possibility of coming to PC by way of Epic Games Store and/or Steam in a matter of months. During our preview event, Square-Enix allowed us free reign to explore […]
The WWE 2K franchise has spent the last couple of years finding its feet again after the disastrously received WWE 2K20, with last year’s WWE 2K23 being quite a solid effort in my estimation, even if it wasn’t quite the cohesive overall package I was hoping for. This year’s WWE 2K24 looks to build on that sturdy foundation with a wider array of new features than last year, including a new 2K Showcase celebrating WrestleMania’s 40th birthday, several new match types, gameplay updates like Super Finishers, and more (you can check out my full hands-on impressions here). As in the past, […]
It's not even the end of January yet and the games industry has already announced layoffs for several thousand employees, showing that 2024 could be even more problematic than the already troublesome 2023 in this regard. We reached out to MIDiA Research Senior Analyst and Strategy Director Karol Severin to discuss the state of the games industry in this post-pandemic, high-inflation environment. Sales were up 1% in the US and 1.7% in Europe for 2023, and Newzoo is forecasting growth for 2024 (although they believe it will be a lean year). At the same time, the games industry has been […]
Today, almost a year and a half after the modding platform's announcement, NVIDIA releases the highly anticipated RTX Remix creator toolkit Open Beta. While the runtime has been available for some time, the public availability of the creator toolkit should really kickstart the modders' work to easily remaster classic PC games with cutting-edge rendering features like path tracing, DLSS 3, and AI-upscaled assets. NVIDIA is also partnering with ModDB to make it easier for users to check out which games are compatible with RTX Remix and to get the optimized configuration files to run the mods. There's a series of […]
In 2019, indie Canadian studio Nine Dots released Outward, an unforgiving immersive action roleplaying game that immediately captivated an audience. Having sold over 1.3 million units to date, the game is now getting a sequel, as announced earlier this month by Nine Dots. We had the opportunity to talk with Guillaume Boucher-Vidal, CEO of Nine Dots Studio and Game Director on the original game and the sequel while at GDC 2024. You can read the full transcript below; Outward 2 can be wishlisted on Steam. How long has Outward 2 been in development so far? Well, we started full production […]
At GDC 2024, Wccftech attended a presentation and subsequent roundtable Q&A about open world survival MMO Dune Awakening with Creative Director Joel Bylos. The full interview will be available soon, but in the meantime, here's what Bylos told us when we asked whether the game would launch this year: The best question. I would love to know. I don't know. We don't want to ship it till it's ready. I don't know how many of you have played Conan Exiles. We have a reputation for interesting ideas and some jank. I would prefer to get rid of the jank. I'd […]
Not quite gone are the days of the zombie survival simulator. Although there are still titles coming out, the releases seem staggered more and more among the wider breadth of multiplayer titles. NetEase Games is looking to change that dynamic with Once Human, a free-to-play online multiplayer title in the same vein as titles such as Tom Clancy’s The Division. We recently went hands-on with the Unreal Engine 5 title on PC thanks to two NetEase reps (Derek Qiu, Head of Overseas Operation, and Peng Sun/Victoria, World and Content Designer) who sat down to talk with us for a brief […]
A few days ago, Unchained Entertainment (previously known as City State Entertainment) re-emerged after a long slumber and revealed that Final Stand: Ragnarok would re-launch on Steam Early Access this Thursday, while Camelot Unchained, the original MMORPG project devised by the studio, would come out in late 2025. To be honest, fans and Kickstarter backers were almost losing hope at this point. The studio had received over $2 million in funds back in 2013, but the MMORPG seemed still far from completion. The current focus on Final Stand: Ragnarok, which is a very different game, also might have certainly disappointed […]
Over two years after the Steam early access debut, Angela Game released the 1.0 version of Myth of Empires in late February. The main reason for the long early access time was the legal dispute with Studio Wildcard and Snail Games that was only settled four months ago. In an interesting turn of events, the plaintiffs became the new publisher of the multiplayer war sandbox game. With Myth of Empires back on Steam and a console version in development, we interviewed Angela Game to discuss the launch reception and a detailed roadmap of updates coming to the title this year. […]
A few days ago, Techland announced the upcoming launch of Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition. This version of the game features all content released post-launch, including the premium Bloody Ties DLC, and debuts today alongside the big (and free) Firearms update, considered the largest to date by the Polish studio. They're probably right. Here's an overview of everything you can expect to find in the patch: The introduction of firearms: pistols, SMGs, rifles, and shotguns 50 additional Legend Levels, with players now able to reach the Platinum tier and unlock new upgrades geared toward firearms Around 10 hours of new […]
There are only three days left before the PC early access debut of Nightingale, the first game released by Canadian developer Inflexion Games. To tide our readers until Tuesday the 20th, we've just published an exclusive interview with Inflexion founder and CEO Aaryn Flynn, a former BioWare veteran and General Manager. As part of our chat, we asked him whether he was worried about launching a game in the same genre (survival crafting) that already saw big hits last month. You can find the reply below. Between the huge success of Palworld and the recent launch of Enshrouded, are you […]
Nightingale, the debut title of Canadian studio Inflexion Games, is scheduled to launch on PC early access via Steam and the Epic Games Store next Tuesday. It's been a long road for the team founded by BioWare veteran and former General Manager Aaryn Flynn. After more than fifteen years and credits on masterpieces such as Baldur's Gate II, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, and the first two Mass Effect installments, Flynn left in 2017 and joined Improbable in September 2018. A few months later, it was announced that he would lead […]
In less than four weeks, players will be able to play through the second entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy on PlayStation. Rebirth does away with the PlayStation 4 release, something that players would have expected after Remake Intergrade and the introduction of Yuffie Kisaragi was exclusive to the latest Sony console generation. At the moment, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth remains a PS5 console exclusive but certainly has the possibility of coming to PC by way of Epic Games Store and/or Steam in a matter of months. During our preview event, Square-Enix allowed us free reign to explore […]
The WWE 2K franchise has spent the last couple of years finding its feet again after the disastrously received WWE 2K20, with last year’s WWE 2K23 being quite a solid effort in my estimation, even if it wasn’t quite the cohesive overall package I was hoping for. This year’s WWE 2K24 looks to build on that sturdy foundation with a wider array of new features than last year, including a new 2K Showcase celebrating WrestleMania’s 40th birthday, several new match types, gameplay updates like Super Finishers, and more (you can check out my full hands-on impressions here). As in the past, […]
It's not even the end of January yet and the games industry has already announced layoffs for several thousand employees, showing that 2024 could be even more problematic than the already troublesome 2023 in this regard. We reached out to MIDiA Research Senior Analyst and Strategy Director Karol Severin to discuss the state of the games industry in this post-pandemic, high-inflation environment. Sales were up 1% in the US and 1.7% in Europe for 2023, and Newzoo is forecasting growth for 2024 (although they believe it will be a lean year). At the same time, the games industry has been […]
Today, almost a year and a half after the modding platform's announcement, NVIDIA releases the highly anticipated RTX Remix creator toolkit Open Beta. While the runtime has been available for some time, the public availability of the creator toolkit should really kickstart the modders' work to easily remaster classic PC games with cutting-edge rendering features like path tracing, DLSS 3, and AI-upscaled assets. NVIDIA is also partnering with ModDB to make it easier for users to check out which games are compatible with RTX Remix and to get the optimized configuration files to run the mods. There's a series of […]