Author: Harrison Florence

Ubisoft has announced that the Trackmania racing title, currently offered as a free-to-play game-as-a-service for PC, will be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Stadia and Amazon Luna cloud platforms. . These new versions will include cross-platform play and the option to keep progress across all platforms. In addition, the content will have parity with the PC version, which will offer 280,000 player-created tracks since launch.“Trackmania was originally released for PC in 2020 and stands out for its short, obstacle-filled courses and emphasis on engaging the community, inviting players to cross the finish line using the fastest…

Not all annual titles are sports or Call of Duty. For more than 20 years, Ubisoft has not failed with Just Dance, a dance game that will be available this year on November 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. In addition to providing a release date, the French publisher has revealed that Just Dance 2023 Edition has been conceived as a platform whose great novelty is online multiplayer.“The latest installment of Just Dance ushers in a new era as a completely revamped on-demand dance platform that will allow players to have online multiplayer, a redesigned user interface…

This week we have had a bit of a Salseo in charge of Call of Duty. Phil Spencer made an offer to Jim Ryan to keep the franchise on PlayStation, but Ryan says it’s not enough. The soap opera is far from over and the success or failure of Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard could be at stake. Ultimately, no one will buy Ubisoft, but Tencent has already allied itself with the Guillemot family and between them they can control 29.9% of the company’s capital and voting rights.Continuing with Ubisoft, tonight we will discover the future of the company, which…

Microsoft has announced that it is working on a new version of the Xbox interface, which will start testing a random set of Insiders from the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring starting this week. The changes are focused on the home screen that players see as soon as they turn on the console and the objective is to apply a series of adjustments to its design to make it easier and faster to play games, find applications and navigate through menus. The renewed Xbox Home UI will be available throughout 2023 for all users.“We know that the Xbox home screen is where…

After delivering titles such as Bound by Flame, The Technomancer and GreedFall, the Spiders studio and the publisher Nacon leave us the launch trailer for Steelrising, a new intellectual property that is available today on PS5, Xbox Series and PC through Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG. The French developer maintains its commitment to the action RPG, but this time it is inclined to deliver a Souls-style game.Steelrising is set in an alternate 1789, when Louis XVI, the Clockwork King (Mechanical King), has gone mad and sent his mechanical army to brutally and ruthlessly put down the revolution. As Paris…

Quite quietly, Microsoft has released a new Xbox Series S/X firmware update that adds noise cancellation for party chat. This technology promises to eliminate background noises or sounds from conversations, including the annoying breathing of other players, the clicks of the mouse, keyboard or controller and music.Once the update is installed, noise cancellation is turned on by default in all Xbox Series party chats, but Microsoft offers the option to turn it on or off. “If you want to keep some background noise in your groups, such as music, you can also disable noise cancellation,” explains the technology on the…

Within the video game industry, the QA tester is the professional who is dedicated to quality control analysis, a fundamental job in the final part of the development of a project whose objective is that the game comes out polished and with the fewest possible errors. It is a job that requires many hours (and that is not always well paid), so there are companies that look for solutions that go beyond hiring more staff. The one that Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, has in mind is to use artificial intelligence (AI).In a Q&A session held at PAX…

The studio 1047 Games has announced that Splitgate, a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that bases its gameplay on the creation of portals, will end its development on September 15 with the release of a latest update. The studio makes this decision in order to focus all its resources on a new project, a shooter inspired by the Splitgate universe that will use Unreal Engine 5.On September 15, when Splitgate receives its latest update and leaves beta, players will be able to take part in a new season that will be accompanied by a free Battle Pass with an infinite number of…

Gearbox Software is a regular at PAX West (September 3-6) and has traveled to Seattle this year to showcase the narrative adventure New Tales from the Borderlands. The studio has provided a trailer with 18 minutes of gameplay where it becomes clear that we are facing a game where the choices influence the development of the story. The footage also reveals the three “adorable losers” who star in the campaign, Anu, Octavio and Fran, who also have their own presentation trailer.“In this part of the story, Anu, Octavian, and Fran find themselves in the sewers of Promethea racing Tediore to…

This week the video game industry has reminded us that we are in a time of shopping. Sony has announced the addition of Savage Game Studios, a mobile game developer, and Chinese giant NetEase has acquired Quantic Dream, the studio behind Detroit: Become Human. In addition, Sony and Tencent have jointly increased their stake in FromSoftware (Elden Ring) to 30%. On the other hand, Microsoft has confirmed that when they approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard, their games will come to Game Pass and Call of Duty will continue to be multiplatform.For their part, Ubisoft and 2K have announced a…