Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is available now for players who bought into the Deluxe and Ultimate editions, and it’s already kicking players’ butts. The difficulty is getting called out as “fucking absurd” in some cases, and early on there’s one name people are cursing more than any other: Great Ape Vegeta.Vegeta’s Great Ape transformation occurs fairly early in the Dragon Ball Z anime, and is a similarly early fight in Goku’s stretch of Episode Battle, which is Sparking Zero’s main single-player content. For players still getting to grips with Sparking Zero, Great Ape Vegeta is a massive early difficulty check, as the boss starts spamming super moves at you the instant the fight begins.developers after making great ape vegeta fight in sparking zero: pic.twitter.com/Q4zlzwSNrUOctober 8, 2024Great Ape Vegeta fight pic.twitter.com/XrymhoFAPqOctober 7, 2024They had to put “lower difficulty and retry” because damn, great ape vegeta is a tough one to beat lol💀 pic.twitter.com/TRLdWiDup6October 8, 2024The complaints about Great Ape Vegeta have even reached Bandai Namco’s ears. This monke got hands! #SparkingZero #DBSZ pic.twitter.com/EC6ozhx2YtOctober 8, 2024As one…
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Delayed without a new release date just weeks before its cancellation, it seems that Life By You stood no chance – and publisher Paradox Interactive explains why.Speaking in a recent interview with Eurogamer, chief creative officer Henrik Fåhraeus and deputy CEO Mattias Lilja discuss how sometimes “you go on too far and hope that you fix it, or steer it in another direction than we thought originally.” According to the publishing leads, Life By You is an example of both scenarios – there was simply too much wrong with the potential Sims 4 competitor to fix it.”We trusted the devs quite a lot,” describes Lilja. “We thought maybe another extension will get us where we’re going and then finally realized everything will be worse if we keep going, so we have to stop.” As noted by Fåhraeus, “A lot of the flaws were super clear and we saw the flaws individually.” There just wasn’t enough time to address them in the end, however – especially after so much had already been spent on mending the game’s issues.”We got closer and closer to early access,” the CCO continues, “trying to focus on fixing each individual problem.” Eventually, Paradox realized that “it’s too late, we’ve no…
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How to solve the gallows and poem puzzle
How to match the poems
Who to judge
The Silent Hill 2 Remake gallows puzzle and execution lever in the prison yard involves a series of poems regarding the judgement of criminals. Occurring immediately after you solve the Silent Hill 2 Remake Prison weights and scales puzzle to gain the lever itself, what follows is a strange and somewhat malleable puzzle that can often feel like it doesn’t have a clear answer, as you decide which of six criminals deserves the noose. We’ll explain how this system works, the solutions to the poems and the right choice for the noose in our guide to Silent Hill 2 Remake’s gallows puzzle below.How to solve the gallows and poem puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake The gallows in the prison yard in Silent Hill 2 Remake are solved through the following process:Take the execution lever earned through the scales puzzle in the yard and place it in the mechanism between the gallows.This will reveal six uncompleted poems about criminals, as well as a plaque telling you to judge one of them.The second halves of the poems are lying on the floor – you have to correctly match them with the poem halves…
Planet Coaster 2, the sequel to the popular theme park management game, now has a confirmed release date of 6th November 2024.
Developer Frontier first announced the game back in July, which adds water parks to its list of thrills, as well as various enhanced tools and quality of life changes.
The release date is across all platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The game is now available to pre-order.
Planet Coaster 2 | Pre Order Trailer
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Nintendo has revealed fresh details of its forthcoming RPG Mario & Luigi: Brothership, including its setting: Concordia.
The game was announced at Nintendo’s Direct in June, marking the series’ debut on Switch and latest game since Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam on the 3DS in 2015. It could potentially be the final Mario game on the console before the release of Switch 2.
Yesterday, Nintendo Japan shared a blog post with new details and, since then, a new trailer for the game has been released ahead of its launch on 7th November – see it below.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership — Greetings from Concordia! — Nintendo Switch
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Sales for Ironwood Studios' Pacific Drive have exceeded 600,000 copies. The developer revealed the news alongside its release of the game's first post-launch content.Ironwood's debut title first launched back in late February for PlayStaton 5 and PC to strong reviews. CEO and creative director Alex Dracott said the studio was "blown away" by Pacific Drive's new milestone, and thanked players for the response."It is a testament to the hard work of everyone at Ironwood Studios," he wrote. "None of this would be possible without [player] support, and we’re thankful for the chance to continue supporting Pacific Drive and improving their experience."Ahead of the game's release, Game Developer chatted with Dracott on its survival roguelike design. We also got behind the wheel with technical artst Karl Kohlman about the VFX software Houdini and using its pipeline for procedural generation.Months later in May, we spoke with director Seth Rosen about Ironwood's efforts to give a soul to the station wagon players use to get around Olympic Exclusion Zone.…
Ubisoft posted its financials for the first quarter of the 2024-2025 fiscal year, and the French developer is pleased with its performance in several areas.Net bookings for the quarter (which ended on June 30, 2024) hit €290 million (or $316.5 million). Not only is it up 8.3 percent from the same quarter for 2023-2024, it's also 5.5 percent ahead of the initial target of about €275 million.xDefiant, the studio's new shooter which released back in May, was singled out for its "encouraging" start. The game amassed over 10 million players in the first two weeks, and has generally outperformed expectations and "strong" average revenue per day."We delivered a solid start to the year with net bookings above target, reaffirming that we are on the right track," said Yves Guillemot. The Ubisoft CEO went on to affirm its 2024-2025 plans involve launching new games and "positioning them as long-lasting value drivers."
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The Federal Trace Commission (FTC) had branded Xbox Game Pass a "degraded product" after Microsoft announced a price hike.Microsoft is increasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Xbox Game Pass for PC subscriptions. It's also introducing a new 'Standard' tier that ditches day-one access for first-party titles.As spotted by The Verge reporter Tom Warren, the FTC claims that new Standard plan is a "degraded product" that essentially forces consumers to pay more for less.The U.S. regulator noted these changes come less than a year after Microsoft completed its $68.7 billion merger with Activision Blizzard—a deal the FTC heavily opposed—and claims the two are inherently linked."Microsoft is raising the price for its 'Game Pass Ultimate' product from $16.99/month to $19.99/month–a 17 percent year-over-year increase. Additionally, Microsoft is discontinuing its $10.99/month 'Console Game Pass' product. Users of that product must pay 81 percent more to switch to 'Game Pass Ultimate,'" wrote the FTC in a court filing.
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UK game development conference Develop will head to Liverpool in November for Develop: North.The one-day event will take place on November 14, 2024, at The Spine in Liverpool. Registration will open in September, when more details will be announced.Develop has become a mainstay on the UK game industry calendar and takes place in Brighton in July. The show attracted a record number of attendees this year, with 5225 people heading to the seaside earlier this month—an increase of 5 percent on last year.Organizer Tandem Events said there was also a "sizable increase" in the number of exhibitors across an expanded expo floor."Over the three days Develop:Brighton 2024 played host to over 100 sessions, from roundtable discussions to headline keynotes, as well as the biggest ever industry expo and the Develop:Star Awards—celebrating industry excellence over the past twelve months," it added in a press release.This year's keynotes were delivered by Sony's Shuhei Yoshida and Greg Rice, Interior/Night's Caroline Marchal, and Super Evil Megacorp's Kristian Segerstrale."The continued growth and success of Develop:Brighton shows the desire among t…
The TV adaptation of Xbox's Halo franchise has been canceled after a two-season run.Per Variety, Paramount+ opted not to pick up the show for a third season. The cancellation comes following season two's finale airing in late March."We are extremely proud of this ambitious series and would like to thank our partners at Xbox, 343 Industries and Amblin Television," wrote Paramount. "We wish everyone the best going forward."Despite this, a source told the outlet that Xbox, Amblin, and 343 would try shopping the show around to other networks. No specific names were given, but streamers like Netflix and Prime Video have been known to pick old previously cancelled shows.
A history of Halo's transmedia journey
Microsoft was trying to get Halo out of games and into live-action since Bungie was originally helming the series. Different directors were attached to make a hypothetical movie before those ambitions were scaled down to television.To date, Halo is Xbox's only franchise to be adapted for TV and fi…