Bungie has announced that almost 13 million people have played Destiny.
Bungie announced this milestone, and many more statistics, through its end of the year update. Nearly 13 million players have played Destiny – 12,869,066 to be exact.
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Ubisoft confirms Assassin’s Creed: Victory leak is genuine (Read Below).
Assassin’s Creed: Victory is real, Ubisoft has confirmed, expressing its disappointment that its flagship franchise has leaked again.
Following the leak of Assassin’s Creed: Victory details today, Ubisoft has released a statement acknowledging the video is genuine.
“It is always unfortunate when internal assets, not intended for public consumption, are leaked,” the publisher told PC Gamer.
“And, while we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles, we’re disappointed for our fans, and our development team, that this conceptual asset is now public.”
So yes, it’s real, and yes, it’s being developed by Ubisoft Quebec for full release.
“The team in our Quebec studio has been hard at work on the particular game in question for the past few years, and we’re excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date,” Ubisoft continued.
“In the meantime, our number one priority is enhancing the experience of Assassin’s Creed Unity for players.”
At this stage it’s best not to take other details from the report as gospel – things like a lack of PS3 and Xbox 360 port, while pretty credible, are subject to change before the game’s projected northern autumn 2015 release.
Dying Light Season Pass contains three pieces of content (Read Below).
Details for Dying Light’s Season Pass have been dropped by Techland.
It will include exclusive missions, original weapons and outfits, and new gameplay.
Here’s what it contains:
- Cuisine & Cargo – Available first for Season Pass holders, these two hardcore missions let players put their skills to the ultimate test. Investigate buildings sealed off in the very first days of the outbreak – with the infected inside. Explore ominous corridors of once the most famous restaurant in Harran, and employ both stealth and combat to ransack a zombie-filled loading bay at an abandoned railroad yard.
- Ultimate Survivor Bundle – Players will receive seven unique in-game items that will bring fighting zombies to a whole new level. Grab three special outfits and four blueprints for over-the-top weapons to make your survival in the quarantine zone a good bit easier.
- The Bozak Horde – The final Season Pass drop will deliver a new map and gameplay, playable in either single-player or co-op. Go inside the Harran Stadium, the most famous landmark in the city, and test your combat know-how against relentless hordes of the Infected. Fight increasingly stronger and larger enemy waves as you oppose a mysterious psychopath called Bozak.
The first content contained in the Season Pass will arrive in February 2015 and will be included with the Dying Light Ultimate Edition.
Dying Light will be released in 2015 on January 27 in North America, January 28 in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and January 30 in Europe.
The Season Pass will run you $19.99 and the game will be made available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
As reported in October, the game is no longer in development for PS3 or Xbox 360.
Adr1ft, The Witcher 3 among TGA 2014 debuts (Watch & Read Below).
Adr1ft and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have been confirmed as two of the dozen world premieres to air during The Game Awards 2014.
Adrift is a first-person experience, created by Adam Orth in the wake of his famous “deal with it” comments and subsequent departure from Microsoft. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a gosh darned video game I refuse to explain for rock dwellers.
A new teaser trailer for The Game Awards 2014 confirmed the inclusions. Viddy:
The three new games join Bloodborne, The Order: 1886, Metal Gear Online,King’s Quest and No Man’s Sky for announced projects showing off new footage or other material during the awards show.
There will also be some surprise announcements, although sadly we know Xboxand Bethesda won’t be behind them. I had such high hopes for a new Arkane announce, too.
Maybe at the PlayStation Experience? Both events will be held this Friday.
Thanks, Kotaku.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets yet another matchmaking patch (Read Below).
Another day, another Halo: The Master Chief Collection patch designed to fix endless, fruitless matchmaking queues.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection has been patched multiple times since launch and seems to be in much better shape, but some players still just can’t get into a match on a regular basis.
The latest patch is rolling out now and is, as usual, designed to fix matchmaking. Surely this has to be the one to fix it?
In addition to matchmaking the patch goes someway towards addressing team balance, but 343 said it has another patch coming next week specifically for that issue.
Here are the patch notes, direct from Halo Waypoint:
- Made a change to allow for matches to start once minimum player counts are met, allowing for faster matching times.
- Made an update to resolve issues that caused false matches to be created, which resulted in a variety of matchmaking issues, including slow matchmaking and bad session starts.
- Streamlined the process for maintaining party continuity through the matchmaking process.
- Made an update to the high-level matchmaking flow that will reset lobbies after each match. Moving forward, players and party leaders need to press “B” after the post-game-carnage report, and select a playlist for their next match. This flow is consistent with previous Halo titles.
- Improved user experience through removal of non-actionable error messages. This will allow for a more seamless matchmaking flow with less interruption and confusion.
- Improved the post-game experience to fix an issue that could result in a player getting sent to another player’s lobby, rather than returning to the matchmaking screen.
Isn’t this fun? We’re still waiting to hear how Microsoft and 343 intend to make this right for fans.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
FIFA is so popular, it’s turning Americans into football fans (Read Below).
FIFA is doing so well in the US, that it’s actually helping increase the popularity of the sport, according to EA.
According to data gathered by EA, those who play FIFA games are becoming fans of the professional sport in America, playing the game with an MLS club and much more.
The US is also the second best-selling country for FIFA 15, presumably behind the UK.
Have a look at the infographic below.
Thanks EA.
Star Citizen has passed $63 million funding milestone (Read Below).
Star Citizen has rocketed past $63 million in crowdfunding.
The space sim reached the milestone recently, just two weeks after reaching the $61 million mark.
So much so, that there is currently nothing planned for this milestone, or any forthcoming ones.
One of the major new additions that all this money bought, was adding planetside exploration and first person combat.
Thanks, Kotaku.
Far Cry 4: second Xbox 360 and Xbox One patch out, fixes progression bugs (Read Below).
Ubisoft has released a new patch for Far Cry 4 on Xbox 360 an Xbox One.
The new patch is specifically for Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The notes were revealed on the Ubisoft blog.
- Fixed some random crashes on all game modes
- Fixed host migration edge random & case issues
- Fixed custom match stability issues
- Fixed join-in-progress edge case issues
- Fixed progression page issues in Story missions
- Fixed functionality issues in the shop menu
- Fixed several localization issues (cut-off text, subtitles)
- Fixed various low repro walkthrough breaks
- Fixed host migration random issues specific to coop
- Fixed minor gameplay functionality issues
- Fixed aiming issues with the machine gun weapon
- Fixed minor and low repro QTE issue with specific animals
- Fixed Map Browser issues
- Fixed occlusion and navmesh issues
- Fixed some missing audio in radio calls
Thanks, Ubiblog.
Game of Thrones TellTale series kicks off next week (Read Below).
Game of Thrones starts next week, TellTale has announced in one of its famous last-minute release date reveals.
The first episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones, Iron From Ice, hits Mac and PC on December 2. It will also be available on PS4 in North America on this date.
On December 3, it travels to Xbox 360 and Xbox one globally, as well as the European PlayStation Network.
The mobile release follows the next day, arriving on iOS on December 4.
The announcement follows rapidly on the heels of the release of the first episode of Tales from the Borderlands this week.
Thanks, Telltale’s Twitter.
Steam Exploration Sale day two – BioShock Infinite, Wolfenstein: The New Order, much more (Read Below).
The Steam Exploration Sale has even more savings on offer on its second day. There are 1,875 sale items at time of writing, which is a heck of a lot to parse.
Steam is offering extra discounts to help you navigate the event through featured and daily deals. Here are today’s featured deals, which are available for two days:
And here are the daily deals, which are only available for one day:
These deals have been up for about three hours at time of writing, so be sure to get in quick before they expire tomorrow. Yesterday’s featured deals are still available if you search for them.
We’ll be slacking off over this weekend, so make sure you check the Steam front page in our absence to make sure you don’t miss a bargain. Another good tip is to add everything you want to your wishlist; Steam will email you if it goes on sale. Which is extremely likely.
Usually the best deals pop up on the final few days, so if a discount isn’t steep enough you can take a gamble on waiting.
Thanks, Steam.
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