Author: Game Infliction

Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate is still in development despite myriad cancellations at Square Enix, series creator Yuji Horii has confirmed.

As reported by GamesRadar, Horii posted on X/Twitter about the game in what’s essentially the first update since its announcement in May 2021. He didn’t provide any new details on Dragon Quest 12 despite it being the series’ anniversary on May 27, but at least confirmed Square Enix was still working on it.

“Everyone, thank you for all the congratulations,” Horii said of the 38th anniversary celebrations. “I’m hoping it will be a fitting posthumous work for the two people who have passed away.”

Stellar Blade developer Shift Up is considering making a sequel to the PlayStation 5 exclusive.

Speaking to Famitsu, and translated by Genki on X/Twitter, studio founder and Stellar Blade director Kim Hyung Tae alongside technical director Lee Dong Gi discussed Shift Up’s current plans for the game and a potential sequel.

The pair said Shift Up plans to add a photo mode and additional outfits to Stellar Blade, and beyond that has a long-term plan for the game which includes more fun updates. As for the sequel, neither Kim nor Lee said much, but they’re reviewing what fans liked about the first game in their considerations for a second game.

While light, these comments follow word from Gematsu that a public filing on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index confirmed Shift Up was “considering a PC version of Stellar Blade and a sequel.” Fans who enjoyed the game can therefore look ahead with some hope, though an official announcement is likely still far away since Stellar Blade only launched on April 26, 2024.

It brought its sci-fi action and adventure exclusively to PS5, with its inspirations including Alita: Battle Angel, 80s and 90s science fiction, and a taxi driver strike according to Kim. Its already enjoyed a handful of post-launch updates too, including one which added a boss challenge, new outfits, and more.

In our 7/10 review, IGN said: “Stellar Blade is great in all of the most important ways for an action game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and several frustrating elements of its role playing game mechanics prevent it from soaring along with the best of the genre.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask just received another unofficial PC port with a high frame rate, ultra-widescreen resolution, and more.

As reported by VGC, this port from Harbour Masters, the same team which released an unofficial version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for PC in 2022, is completely separate to another Majora’s Mask port released earlier in May 2024. That version used “Recomp” recompiling technology to port any Nintendo 64 game much faster than ever before.

Harbour Masters, meanwhile, reverse engineered the original N64 version of the game to create a readable code before porting it to PC. It claims this will allow for “more large scale features” than the Recomp version, evidenced by the likes of Harbour Masters’ version having mod support.

LANÇADO o 2Ship2Harkinian! Um port de PC do game THE LEGEND OF ZELDA MAJORA’S MASK!

Ele é trabalho do time Harbour Masters 64, que usou o projeto de decompilação do jogo para criar uma versão nativa para PC!

Já na primeira versão, conta com várias opções de customização e… pic.twitter.com/HEPq0W6T3e

— Senhor Linguiça (@SenhorLinguica) May 27, 2024

As for its other features, autosaves, faster mask transformations, skippable cutscenes, a bow reticle, and more have all been added to Majora’s Mask in Harbour Masters’ version. Cheats, such as infinite health, magic, rupees, and consumables are all available too.

Creating unofficial ports of Nintendo games comes with certain risks, of course, including legal action from the gaming giant. Nintendo issued a takedown request to Github for more than 8,500 copies of code of Switch emulator Yuzu earlier in May 2024, for example. This came after it sued the creator of Yuzu, who had to pay $2.4 million in damages, and follows a string of similar cases.

Game file sharing website RomUniverse was ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo in 2021, while another instance in 2018 saw it receive more than $12 million in damages. It also blocked GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin from releasing on PC game platform Steam.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Star Citizen has now raised over $700 million according to figures from developer Cloud Imperium Games.

The developer behind the controversial space sim makes revenue publicly available on its website, which at the time of this article’s publication shows Star Citizen has raised $701,186,615. CIG calls this money “funds raised.”

CIG even breaks down the revenue by recent months, weeks, and hours. At its lowest point on the morning of May 28, Star Citizen brought in $42,886 in one hour, about $1.5 million yesterday, May 27, $10,883,513 last week, and $4,753,264 for the month of April (things appear to have picked up considerably in May after the launch of the Alpha 3.23: Adventure Beckons update).

Star Citizen is considered one of the most controversial projects in all video games. Over the 12 years since its crowdfunding drive began, it’s been called many things including a scam by those who wonder whether it will ever properly launch. Its virtual space ships, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, are often the focus of criticism.

Alpha 3.23 launched two months after CIG began talking about Star Citizen’s 1.0 launch being within sight, over a decade after the game released its first crowdfunding drive. CIG chief Chris Roberts has said 2024 will see the launch of Star Citizen Alpha 4.0, and that the developer is working to bring features developed for Squadron 42, the standalone story-based game starring the likes of Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson, to the persistent universe portion of the game “at an accelerated rate”.

This is all building up to Star Citizen 1.0, which, Roberts has said, “is what we consider the features and content set to represent ‘commercial’ release.” However, there is still no release date or even release window for Star Citizen 1.0. CIG will share the roadmap later this year, it has said.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Following the enormous success of the Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes, Capcom has turned its attention to remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica.

That’s according to a Twitter/X report by Dusk Golem, who said remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica are “in development right now.” IGN can corroborate that Zero and Code Veronica are the next two Resident Evil remakes scheduled to release. Capcom is yet to comment on the reports.