A new update and some hotfixes went up forNeed for Speed Worldtoday and yesterday, adding a full day/night cycle to the free-to-play racer. Since the game went free-to-play in September, it has reportedly reached three million total registered players. The free-to-play aspect means that while before you could only play up to level 10 in career progression, you can now play everything. The usual double XP bonuses, cars andpower upscan be bought for cold hard cash....

Featuring Chipzel, Lifeformed, Manami Matsumae, and more You might remember last year’sWorld 1-2, the big game music collaboration featuring artists from both sides of the Pacific. If you aren’t familiar, you may want to take some time now to catch up. The production group responsible for that has renamed itself Brave Wave, and has a new album titledIn Fluxthat is full of electronic goodness. The track featured below, “Menacing Wonders,” is by Chipzel (Super Hexagon) featuring Manami Matsumae (Mega Man), and it sports the fast synth one would expect from such a collaboration....

Even Yoko Taro has responded to the quest There’s been quite a commotion in theNierfandom the last few days. Following several video posts from one player, otherNier: Automataplayers are now on the hunt for a secret church area. The discovery lit up this week, but actually started a while ago. Reddit user u/sadfutago posted to theNiersubreddittwo months ago, asking how to “open the church” inNier: Automata. And in follow-up posts, sadfutago asked more, providing moredetails and images....

How foolish of you Anyone who’s looking forward toCyberpunk 2077will probably be elated to know that there’s a lot moreCyberpunkon the horizon. CD Projekt Red is working on not one, not two, but threeCyberpunkgames at the same time. As reported by Polish outletBankier, CD Projekt Red president Adam KiciÅ„ski confirmed during a conference this morning that the developer has three teams working on individualCyberpunkprojects. One isthe game that has been eagerly awaitedfor years now....

‘Would a coward do this… BYE!’ Ouya co-founder Muffi Ghadiali has left the company, according toTechCrunch. Ghadiali, who previously worked as Amazon’s product manager for Kindle, was a big part of Ouya development, leading teams responsible for the console’s hardware — from mechanical engineering to design — and software. Ouya issued the following statement to TechCrunch: OUYA is focusing more on the next phase of the business and product development. We’ve made some recent changes including the departure of Muffi Ghadiali who was invaluable during the launch of OUYA....

Oh, hey, another PlayStation VR game! BeforePsychonauts 2lands in 2018, we’re getting a warmup withPsychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, a made-for-VR title that’ll fill in some of the blanks between the original game and the sequel. As confirmed today, it’s set for a June 20, 2025 launch exclusively on PlayStation VR. As you might expect given the ties to VR,Rhombus of Ruinis a first-person experience, not another platformer. According to Double Fine, “The story picks up exactly where it left off at the end ofPsychonauts, with Raz, Lili, Sasha, Milla, and Coach Oleander flying off to rescue Truman Zannotto, the Grand Head of the Psychonauts....

Time for some rootin’ tootin’ lootin’ Rockstar continue to experiment with the online portion of their blockbuster sequelRed Dead Redemption 2.Still in its beta infancy (apparently) the absolutely nihilistic online world now has a new reason for everyone to immediately shoot everyone else in the face. Spoils of War is a new mode which sees players protecting their own horde of gold while simultaneously trying to steal from their opponents. Up to 16 players can take part in the grabby game, which no doubt results in a lot of lead flying, as each desperado frantically tries to keep their stash high, while grabbing as much as they can from their fellow bandits....

Somewhere pigs are flying The unthinkable has happened. One ofCave’s illustrious shoot-’em-upshas been announced for PlayStation 3. Despite some saying it would never happen, the latest edition ofWeekly Famitsureports 5pb will bringKetsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachito the system on July 25. The title’s arrival on the system is something of a dream come true for those that have longed for the day that one of Cave’s bullet hell shooters would come to something other than Xbox 360 or mobile devices....

Unique layout, small oversights Until Roccat’s Kova gaming mouse arrived on my desk this week, I had never actually heard of the company before. That’s a shame, because there are a bunch of unique and interesting aspects of their gaming mouse design that set them aside from the competition. The Kova is not the greatest gaming mouse I’ve ever used, but it certainly fills a spot in the market previously not catered to....

FIFA 20 top of the league once again Nintendo’sRing Fit Adventurehas rocketed back up the UK charts following another retailer restock. The hard sweatin’ Switch exerciser had a 1,160% sales boost, and came cartwheeling in at number two. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts’ soccer simFIFA 20is once again back in the number one spot. Yes, again. New Nintendo releaseClubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classicsmade its debut at number six, whileXenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Editiontook ahugetumble, dropping from number one to number 28 in a single week....

An anonymous tipster close to operations at Sega tellsGamerzinethat both Dreamcast titlesShenmueandShenmue IIhave been updated to HD, and have been finished for “well over a year,” taunting us with by saying that “Shenmue HD is real” after a tease from the publisher earlier this week. They say that Sega has been sitting on these all this time waiting for the franchise’s future to clear up. The future’s clear, Sega.Shenmue IIIis probably never happening, so just let us play the first two again....

New cosmetics, ahoy! The rough-and-tumble waters ofSea of Thievesare getting a bit more hospitable. Well, not from other players. They’ll still kill you right dead. But the game itself keeps getting more and more polished. Rare has released update 1.0.5 forSea of Thieves. There isn’t a single change to really latch onto. Like, the same shanty won’t play twice in a row anymore, and interface screens fade in now. That’s quality of life stuff — not the sort of thing that significantly changes the player experience....

Has Microsoft been reading self-help books? Microsoft has just announced that indie developers (like FarSight) can now self-publish on Xbox Live Arcade instead of being required to find publishers for their games. This means we can bringThe Pinball Arcadeback to the 360 ourselves, and also opens the door to an Xbox One version ofThe Pinball Arcadein the future! The Pinball Arcade‘s XBLA publisher Crave went kaput and forfeited its publishing license, causing trouble for the title and its team....