Author: Game Infliction

Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred gets October release date plus trailer which I refuse to watch because it sounds horrid

Microsoft and Blizzard have slapped a release date on Diablo 4‘s forthcoming content-o-season Vessel Of Hatred. It’s out 8th October 2024, and sees you hooting and hollering down the road to the new region of Nahantu in search of Neyrelle, a character “who is both suffering the fate of her choice to imprison the Prime Evil Mephisto, and seeking a means to destroy him”. In the process, you may choose to become “the apex predator of the jungle as the all-new Spiritborn class”. You can also recruit mercenaries to help you, fight alongside other players in a new PvE co-op activity, “and more”.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Release Date Announced During Xbox Games Showcase

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches November 19, 2024, Microsoft announced during its Xbox Games Showcase.

The follow-up to 2020’s well-received Microsoft Flight Simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, and graphics, Microsoft said. It’s all powered by an evolved Asobo Studio engine and built by French outfit Asobo Studio.

As an Xbox Game Studios title, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches day-one across Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows 10/11, and Steam. For more, check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024.

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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.

Hands On: Sonic X Shadow Generations Is A Love Letter To Sonic Adventure 2

Shadow Superstars.

Back in 2011, Sonic Generations felt like an attempt to win back long-time Sonic fans. Whether they grew up with 2D Sonic or the 3D adventures, both sides of the fanbase were becoming frustrated with the attempts at experimentation, and the supposed abandonment of what made Sonic great – fast, frantic, flowing action.

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What’s on your bookshelf?: author and games writer-abouter Alice Bell

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! You likely already know that books are made from trees, but did you know that Kindles are made from discarded tree asset packs? My uncle, who is a tree, told me that. This week, it’s the one and only author and games-worder-abouter, Alice Bell! Cheers Alice! Mind if we have a nose at you bookshelf?

What are you currently reading?

What did you last read?

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Sonic Team On Remasters: “If There’s A Title People Like, We’ll Think About It”

What Sonic game would you like to see return?

Sonic X Shadow Generations remasters the original title and adds a brand-new Shadow the Hedgehog campaign.

This upcoming release and Sonic Colors Ultimate have led to speculation about what other Sonic games could potentially return in the future, and now Sonic Team’s head Takashi Iizuka has responded to a question about this during a chat with IGN – mentioning how fan requests will be considered.

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Round Up: Every Switch Highlight At The Future Games Show – Summer Showcase 2024

So many games!

The Future Games Show – Summer Showcase for 2024 has now wrapped and it was filled with all sorts of video game announcements.

Some of these even included console announcements and a handful of them have also been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch and “Nintendo” platforms in general. Here’s a round up of everything Switch related:

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Lost And Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in which you play as a duck-turned-human intern

I wrote about the Wholesome Direct earlier this evening and pulled out a handful of games I liked from the showcase. I didn’t mention the game I liked most, because I wanted to give it this fuller shoutout. Lost And Found Co. is a hidde object adventure game set in a colourful, densely detailed world, and there’s a demo available to play now.

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Dredge’s Next Expansion Update ‘The Iron Rig’ Launches This August

More DLC is on the way.

The spooky fishing sim Dredge is getting its next dose of DLC on 15th August 2024, with its new ‘Iron Rig’ update.

This update is the “second official expansion” for this title. As highlighted in the PR, it adds a new story, new tiers of equipment, abilities, gadgets and consumables. There’s also 50 new fish being added, a new tier of fishing equipment, new characters, new hazards, new lore and new world events.

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