80s movie favourite The Karate Kid is being turned into a 16-bit-style side-scrolling beat-’em-up, and it’s heading to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 20th September this year.
The Karate Kid: Street Rumble comes from GameMill Entertainment, the publisher behind Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and is firmly setting its sights on the 80s era of Karate Kid rather than Netflix’s Cobra Kai continuation – which has already spawned two games itself.
Street Rumble is, somewhat surprisingly, only the third game to be directly based on the 80s movie series – the first, Atlus’ NES action game The Karate Kid, arrived in 1987, and Microdeals’ The Karate Kid 2 hit the Amiga and Atari ST in 1986. This new outing, though, promises to feature a whole bunch of familiar faces…
Read moreMicrosoft has confirmed sweeping changes – including price increases – to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the run-up to October’s launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which will include the removal of day one releases for its overhauled basic tier.
As reported by Windows Central, which says Microsoft has now confirmed the details, the first big Game Pass change comes with the imminent closure of Xbox Game Pass for Console. While this will continue to be available to existing members until their subscription expires (notably, from 12th September, Microsoft will only allow users to stack Game Pass for Console for up to 13 months), new users looking for a basic tier package will need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Standard, which launches in September.
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Manor Lords’ publisher has hit back at claims the game is an “interesting case study in the pitfalls of early access”, stating that assuming games can continue “endless growth” “causes so much trouble in the games industry”.
Responding to a post on LinkedIn from Hinterland CEO Raphael van Lierop, Tim Bender – who heads up publisher Hooded Horse – responded with a lengthy post of their own, suggesting that “if this industry is to find a more sustainable path forward, we need to move away from takes like [this]”.
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Read more The latest free-to-play RPG from the Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail team has reached an impressive milestone, less than a week since it made its debut.
Zenless Zone Zero has seen 50m downloads since its release on 4th July, MiHoYo announced over the weekend.
“A city that once only existed in the hopes and dreams of the dev team has never been as buzzing with life as it is now. Your patience and support have made New Eridu what it is today,” the team wrote on social media platform X.
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Read moreMario + Rabbids director Davide Soliani has teamed up with Red Dead Redemption lead designer and writer Christian Cantamessa to found a new studio, Day 4 Night.
Day 4 Night’s first project, a new IP co-directed by Soliani and Cantamessa, is described by Xbox co-founder Ed Fries – whose 1Up Ventures is financing the studio alongside publisher Krafton – as “easily the most creative thing we have seen in quite some time”.
Beyond that, details of the team’s first game are limited, although Soliani calls the studio’s work “a reflection of everything I’ve ever wanted to experience as a player – joy, adventure, poetry, action, wonder, and the pleasure of working with friends.”
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Read more Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has asked people not to “arbitrarily extract parts of comments for the purpose of reinforcing the legitimacy of your own opinion” after he was accused of blaming Western ratings board for having to put more modest clothing on characters in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake.
Initially, it was reported that Horii was irritated at the missive to make the outfits less revealing, allegedly saying in a TGS interview that he blamed America’s “religious” and “narrow-minded” approach for the changes, adding: “Doing business with such a ridiculous country is really frustrating. Because of that, Japan also gets negatively influenced” (thanks, Time Extension).
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Read more I wasn’t very well yesterday, and to make myself feel better I took to the internet to see what joys I could find tucked away in some corner or another. What I ended up finding was rather unexpected, but all the same very welcome.
You see, I came across a trailer for The Rocky Horror Video Game, an upcoming release from Bit Bot Media and Metal X Entertainment. And I think it looks kind of great, thanks to retro graphics and 8-bit chiptune renditions of The Rocky Horror Show’s soundtrack to boot.
The game is described as a “bonkers classic platformer”, which will allow players to relive the “strange journey of Brad and Janet like never before”. You can check out the announcement trailer for The Rocky Horror Video Game below.
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Read moreUPDATE 1/10/24: Sony has responded to complaints around a recent PlayStation 5 update festooning the console’s homescreen with promotional art and outdated news, blaming the now “resolved” incident on an unintended “tech error”.
“A tech error with the Official News feature on the PS5 console has since been resolved,” the company wrote on its Ask PlayStation social media feed, adding, “There have been no changes to the way game news is displayed on PS5.”
ORIGINAL STORY 30/9/24: PS5 owners are reporting emotions ranging from mildly miffed to deep-seated annoyance following Sony’s decision to plaster the console’s homescreen with ugly artwork and often irrelevant promotional news stories following its latest update.
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Read moreSquare Enix producer Naoki Yoshida has said he wants to launch Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox at some point.
But when will Xbox fans finally see the game arrive? On that, Yoshida was less forthcoming.
“Of course we did announce the PC version of the game, so looking towards the Xbox version, we do want to release it on Xbox,” Yoshida told Sports Illustrated’s Video Games site.
“But when it comes to the specifics such as when the game would be available and such, we are not in a position to be able to share anything. But of course, I want to say that it’s not as if there’s zero hope, and we very much do want to achieve that. So players should not give up in terms of their hopes.”
Back in January, a report pegged Final Fantasy 16 – then a PlayStation timed-exclu…
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