Ubisoft has announced it’s working on a Splinter Cell remake.The remake is in development at Far Cry 6 lead studio Ubisoft Toronto, and is being built on Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine – the same engine used to develop Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Ubisoft’s upcoming Star Wars game.A Ubisoft video that acts as a hiring call for the project is below:Ubisoft said to expect...
Spiritfarer's final update arrives free next week – Eurogamer.net
UPDATE 13/12/21: The wonderful Spiritfarer has now sold 1m copies, developer Thunder Lotus has said. The milestone was announced today, as the game’s biggest and final free update arrives.As of today, Spiritfarer has been updated to its all-encompassing Farewell Edition, which includes all free updates and DLC released so far. Today brings two new spirits to your ship plus a number of other...
Solar Ash review – Nothing breaks like a heart – Eurogamer.net
Late last night I stood in a floating church, looking up through the bones of the shattered ceiling towards the sky, where an island hung above me. The island was facing downwards, so where there should be stars, I saw patchy grass and the tops of noble pines. It was beautiful and teasing and I wondered how to get there.This is Solar Ash, and Solar Ash is a skating game, really. It’s a...
Horror Scorn will now release in October 2022 – Eurogamer.net
Scorn – an “atmospheric first-person horror adventure” – will now release in October 2022.Scorn was announced way back in 2016, and its Kickstarter campaign – which exceeded its €150,000 (£128,000) target by almost €50,000 (£42k) – initially intimated a launch date in October 2018. Sadly that was not to be, and this year’s expected...
Taipan coiling to strike! Providing next-generation airlift under AIR 9000 – Defence Connect
Get notifications in real-time for staying up to date with content that matters to you.The Multi-Role Helicopter (MRH) Program is a key component of the Australian Defence Force Helicopter Strategic Master Plan that seeks to rationalise the number of helicopter types in ADF service. The MRH Program consists of three phases of AIR 9000, and this will provide a brief update on the state of the...
Pokémon Go will suspend gameplay in Russia, Belarus – Eurogamer.net
Pokémon Go will suspend its gameplay in Russia and Belarus for the foreseeable future, developer Niantic has now said. The game has already been pulled from app stores in those countries, while in-game functionality will go dark “shortly”.Niantic will also do similar for its other games, including its original title Ingress and Nintendo collaboration Pikmin Bloom. We stand with...
Australia news live: petrol forecast to reach up to $2.15 a litre; Dutton blames Labor for defence cost blowout – msnNOW
LIVE – Updated at 08:29 Follow live. The day that was, Monday 10 October 08:29 That is where we will leave the live blog for Monday. Here’s what made the news today: Petrol prices could hit $2.15 a litre in coming weeks as capital cities return to the top of their fuel cycles and the return of an excise tax kicks in. The federal government revealed a $6.5bn defence budget shortfall, saying 28...
Elden Ring was biggest non-COD, FIFA UK launch since Red Dead Redemption 2 – Eurogamer.net
Elden Ring earned the biggest non-FIFA or Call of Duty video game launch in the UK since Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018.For a more recent comparison, its launch sales figures were 2.5 times greater than those of Horizon Forbidden West’s, according to data from GSD (via Gamesindustry.biz).These figures reveal that over 68 percent of Elden Rings sales came from digital downloads, with PC and...
Lost Ark's March update out now, adds limited-time racing event and first PvP season – Eurogamer.net
After a bit of a tease earlier this month, Lost Ark’s big March update is now here, introducing the previously confirmed new end-game raids and story quests, alongside a couple of additional treats, including a limited-time Arkesia racing event and its first PvP season.The Arkesia Grand Prix, as the racing event is formally known, will be available for the next month until April’s...
Get Sid Meier's Ultimate Collection for cheap from Humble Bundle – Eurogamer.net
If you’re looking for a new game to get lost in for hours on end, you won’t want to miss out on Sid Meier’s games as they’re absolute time sinks. Perhaps the most well-known of the Sid Meier series’ is Civilization, a turn-based strategy game where players must build and lead a civilisation from the ground up. The most recent entry, Civilization VI, was released in...