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Apex Legends season 14 pushes to record Steam player count
Apex Legends season 14 is off to a roaring start, with new content pushing the FPS game to an all-time high Steam player count of over half a million concurrent players. New character Vantage leads up the charge with her adorable bat companion, Echo, and players have been flocking to try her out on the reworked Kings Canyon map in the battle royale game.
The SteamDB records for Apex Legends show that it reached a peak concurrent player count of 511,676 players on August 10, one day after the launch of Hunted, the game’s fourteenth season. Along with Vantage, the new season also includes a much-anticipated increase to the Apex Legends level cap, as well as some major changes to the Kings Canyon map.
It also brings an end to one of the game’s longest-lasting features, the gold self-revive knockdown shield, which has been removed from the game entirely. This means an end to self-revive in Apex Legends, meaning that you’ll no longer be able to pull out those clutch solo moments after getting yourself back up from an unfortunate knockdown.
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Cyberpunk 2077 mod adds a garage interior to explore
One of the persistent issues you run into while exploring Cyberpunk 2077’s bustling Night City is that most of the buildings are closed off – only a few key buildings have interiors that you can explore. Fortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 modders are working on adding more of those, and Krat0es ‘Unofficial Content Patch’ mod does exactly that with a nondescript industrial building in the Santo Domingo district.
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Why Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered PC devs want players to “feel like we’re honouring the platform”
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is the latest ex-PlayStation exclusive to rock up on PC, following a collaborative effort between original developers Insomniac Games and porting specialists Nixxes. It’s also a skyscape-swinging, baddie-decking good time, so says Alice Bee’s review, and one that comes with plenty of special features just for the Windows version. I’ll be posting a more performance-and-hardware-focused guide to it later this week, but in the meantime I called up Jurjen Katsman, founder and senior director of development at Nixxes, and Mike Fitzgerald, core technology director at Insomniac, for a chat about how Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered makes the jump to PC.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered review: a fun hero epic that takes the wall-crawler to new heights
I’ve played a lot of Spider-Man games. To this day I nurture the belief that all tutorials should be narrated by Bruce Campbell. I even played Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, which had four different web-dudes and later inspired the Spider-Verse storyline in the comics. Point is, I’m standing on pretty solid ground to judge Spider-Man games. Marvel’s Spider-Man, originally released onto Sonyboxes in 2018, is finally coming to PC in a Remastered form, and let me tell you: it is a great Spidey game.
You know Spider-Man. He’s a dude named Peter Parker who was bitten by a radioactive spider and can now climb up walls and punch criminals really well. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered lets you roleplay being Spidey against the backdrop of a big, living New York city. It is, if you’ll excuse the pun, amazing. Now, is it the best Spidey game? Nah. I reckon that’s its spin-off/sequel Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, but that’s not on PC yet. This means Marvel’s Spider-Man gets to be the best wall-crawler game on PC for another few months, which isn’t a bad consolation prize.
Cards Against Humanity to donate sales from ‘forced-birth Republican hellholes’ to abortion funds
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Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit is a free fan-game – and a worthy successor to Sonic Mania
It’s been a bit of an up-and-down year to be a Sonic fan. Sonic Frontiers has looked brilliant and troubled in alternating media drops, and Sonic Origins offered fans the definitive versions of the 2D classics they’ve been clamoring for – except they were riddled with bugs, and weren’t really definitive. But now, Sonic fans have another reason to celebrate: the release of Sonic Triple Trouble… but in a new format.
For those of you who aren’t a thousand years old, Triple Trouble is a classic 8-bit Sonic game. Because the 8-bit games came out at roughly the same time as the 16-bit games, they’re rightly not as revered or beloved – but they are still, broadly, lovely little platformers that attempt to adapt the Sonic formula for much weaker platforms. A few of these games were loose adaptations of their Mega Drive equivalents – but a few were all-original affairs.
Most notable of these is Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble. This 8-but title is actually older than Sonic’s other classic 2D adventures, releasing for the Sega Game Gear handheld a few months after Sonic & Knuckles hit Mega Drive. That placement in the Sonic timeline got some fans thinking: what if this game had been 16-bit, and what if it were a sequel to Sonic 3 & Knuckles? What if it were, essentially, Sonic 4?
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022 promises 30+ games, here’s the start time and where to watch
While I haven’t the slightest idea how he’s managed it, Geoff Keighley has announced that Gamescom Opening Night Live is to run for two hours, with 30+ world-premiere announcements.
After the event was forced to go online for two years as a result of the pandemic, Gamescom will finally be an in-person event running from August 24-28, 2022, in Cologne, Germany. Meanwhile, to kick things off, Geoff Keighley confirms that the Gamescom Opening Night Live will be streamed from Germany on August 23.
For those who wish to attend the event in-person, which is said to have an audience of thousands of fans, you can purchase one of the limited tickets from Gamescom’s official website.