No Man’s Sky Beyond: Everything in the New Mega-Update
When I spoke to Sean Murray last year, he had decided that he was done with huge updates to No Man’s Sky. The last major addition, titled Next, had added so much in one go that it had left him a little exhausted, and he wanted to switch to smaller, more regular patches. For a while, he kept that promise to himself. “We kept things more as a live game, like a normal studio would,” he tells me. “We were doing really well, like a proper game!”
“And then we just went mad.”
13 months after Next’s release, we’re sat in the same office, and Murray is showing me a new mega-update called Beyond. It’s considerably bigger than Next, rolling three planned sets of changes into one package. The free update will be out on August 14, and is built with the kind of altruistic optimism we’ve come to expect from Hello Games, designed to simultaneously offer meaningful changes to existing players, tempt lapsed players back, and offer brand new experiences for those who haven’t yet been converted.
World of Warships: Legends Celebrates Full Release With Ambitious New Campaign
Wargaming has announced that World of Warships: Legends will go into full release worldwide on August 12th, adding new content in the form of German battleships and destroyers, and a campaign centring around the legendary battleship Tirpitz.
The free-to-play World of Warships: Legends arrived on PS4 and Xbox One in early access form back in April 2019, with fans enjoying regular additions to the game in the subsequent months in addition to bug fixes and UI tweaks.
The Hunt for Tirpitz campaign will be available for five weeks, running from August 12th to September 15th, allowing players to progress through 100 levels by completing challenges and weekly missions. Players will also receive new campaign currency along the way, giving them a chance to play some of the upcoming German Battleships such as the Gneisenau or Bayern.
World of Warships: Legends Celebrates Full Release With Ambitious New Campaign
Wargaming has announced that World of Warships: Legends will go into full release worldwide on August 12th, adding new content in the form of German battleships and destroyers, and a campaign centring around the legendary battleship Tirpitz.
The free-to-play World of Warships: Legends arrived on PS4 and Xbox One in early access form back in April 2019, with fans enjoying regular additions to the game in the subsequent months in addition to bug fixes and UI tweaks.
The Hunt for Tirpitz campaign will be available for five weeks, running from August 12th to September 15th, allowing players to progress through 100 levels by completing challenges and weekly missions. Players will also receive new campaign currency along the way, giving them a chance to play some of the upcoming German Battleships such as the Gneisenau or Bayern.
More Single Player Games Are Heading to Xbox, Promises Phil Spencer
Xbox chief Phil Spencer has promised on Twitter that "strong" single player games are a key focus for the platform, and will be for the foreseeable future.
After a Twitter user asked whether more single player games will land on Xbox in years to come, Spencer replied, "Yes, I can confirm. With the additions to XGS
we have a lot of teams that have built strong SP focused games and we want that to continue."
Yes, I can confirm. With the additions to XGS we have a lot of teams that have built strong SP focused games and we want that to continue.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) August 7, 2019
More Single Player Games Are Heading to Xbox, Promises Phil Spencer
Xbox chief Phil Spencer has promised on Twitter that "strong" single player games are a key focus for the platform, and will be for the foreseeable future.
After a Twitter user asked whether more single player games will land on Xbox in years to come, Spencer replied, "Yes, I can confirm. With the additions to XGS
we have a lot of teams that have built strong SP focused games and we want that to continue."
Yes, I can confirm. With the additions to XGS we have a lot of teams that have built strong SP focused games and we want that to continue.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) August 7, 2019
The Boys Is One of Amazon Prime’s Most-Watched Shows After Just 2 Weeks
Amazon’s satirical superhero series The Boys has fast become one of platform's most binge-watched series of the year, not to mention one of Prime Video's most-watched series ever.
Amazon Prime Video shared their delight over this achievement in an announcement as Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, highlighted the success that the show has found in such a short space of time.
"We are thrilled that The Boys has surpassed our predictions for viewing in its first two weeks, and has become one of our most watched Amazon Original series by our Prime Video customers," she said. "This creates great momentum and excitement for us as we get ready for season two."
The Boys Is One of Amazon Prime’s Most-Watched Shows After Just 2 Weeks
Amazon’s satirical superhero series The Boys has fast become one of platform's most binge-watched series of the year, not to mention one of Prime Video's most-watched series ever.
Amazon Prime Video shared their delight over this achievement in an announcement as Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, highlighted the success that the show has found in such a short space of time.
"We are thrilled that The Boys has surpassed our predictions for viewing in its first two weeks, and has become one of our most watched Amazon Original series by our Prime Video customers," she said. "This creates great momentum and excitement for us as we get ready for season two."
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DayZ Refused Classification in Australia for Drug Use Not Yet Featured in the Game
The Australian Classification Board has refused classification for Bohemia Interactive’s long-gestating survival shooter DayZ, creating a confusing scenario IGN is still attempting to unravel.
DayZ was refused classification on June 4 this year due to “illicit or proscribed drug use related to incentives or rewards,” a video game rating hurdle that has persisted in Australia despite the major reforms of 2013.
“One of the options to restore the player's health is a marijuana joint, labelled 'cannabis', which is denoted by a cannabis bud in the player's inventory,” explains the report, via Kotaku.