Month: October 2024

Four years after announcing a new Skate game – and two years after eliciting collective groans with the news it would be free-to-play – EA has revealed the latest instalment in its long-running skateboarding series will launch into early access next year.

When developer Full Circle first began sharing details of its new Skate project (which is officially known as Skate, rather than Skate 4) back in 2022, the studio explained it wasn’t “a sequel, it’s not a remake, a reboot, [or] a prequel.” Instead, it was described as an “authentic evolution” of the series intended to reflect “where skateboarding and gaming is in the real world”.

Two years on, and Skate – which is set in San Vansterdam, a sister city to previous games’ San Vanelona – has already been available to a steadily growing number of early playtesters for quite some time. It was also briefly available to considerably more than a select few players after an early build of the game was leaked back in 2022.

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

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Evening Star, the studio behind Penny’s Big Breakaway, has announced half a dozen layoffs.
CTO Hunter Bridges announced the redundancies on X/Twitter, saying, “this isn’t a choice we wanted to make”, but “due to volatile market conditions in the games industry and operational realities of our business, Evening Star is having to part ways with six team members”.

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

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Flappy Bird, the infuriating mobile game, is set to make a return later this year.
The game grew to tremendous popularity with over 100 million people playing it, but in 2014 original developer Dong Nguyen removed the game from sale despite it generating a reported $50,000 a day in advertising revenue.
A decade later and Flappy Bird will return this autumn, followed by dedicated mobile apps coming to iOS and Android next year, as well as other platforms.

FLAPPY BIRD IS BACK!

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Microsoft has again confirmed the delay to the Xbox release of Black Myth: Wukong is not due to “platform limitations”.
Game Science’s action-RPG was released last month on PC and PS5, but the Xbox version was delayed for an unknown reason. Speculation grew the developer was struggling to run the game on the Series S console, while other rumours suggested the game was in fact a PlayStation console exclusive.
A representative from Microsoft has now confirmed to Forbes the game is still on the way, though it won’t comment “on the deals made by our partners with other platform holders”.

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Discord wants to share your recent playtime with your friends.
Discord’s activity tracker now displays not only the games you’ve been playing over the last 30 days, but also long you’ve been playing them, too.
Similarly, if you’ve returned to a game after a hiatus, your tracker will indicate to your pals that you’ve made a comeback.

PlayStation live-service Concord won’t sell you a battle pass – would it be better if it did?

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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus – the gorgeous 2.5D platformer with Metroidvania elements based on Japanese folklore – released earlier this year across PC and consoles. However, soon after its debut, its publisher Humble Games faced “restructuring” at the company, resulting in layoffs. (Eurogamer and Humble Games share a parent compamy, IGN Entertainment.)
This had a knock-on effect for the game’s developer Squid Shock. Soon after news broke about layoffs at Humble, Squid Shock assured its community it remained committed to Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, but the changes at the publisher could result in delays for updates, particularly on consoles.
“We are now in a difficult situation when it comes to updating the console ports, as both Porting and QA Support was tied into our deal with Humble,” Squid Shock wrote in July. “We are actively pursuing all available avenues to allow us to roll out updates to console versions, but we regret to say this may take some time to put in place.”

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