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The games industry is overlooking potential for growth by not fully accommodating female players, according to new research by Ampere Analysis.The firm – which combines consumer research (with 46,000 global respondents annually), gaming market data and forecasts, and title-level sales and tracking data – says there are steps that can be taken to get more women interested in playing games.Women represent 48% of the gaming population – around 922 million players – across 21 markets, Ampere says. “But at such a large scale, this 4% difference does represent 93 million fewer female gamers [than male],” senior analyst Katie Holt said…
Resetting a huge live-service game like Overwatch 2 is a risky move, but one that’s paid off for Blizzard already. Retitling the FPS to Overwatch, adding several new heroes, and providing a narrative reset have reinvigorated the shooter’s community, providing the exact kind of second wind the devs were hoping for.Alec Dawson, associate game director on Overwatch, tells PCGamesN about the team’s current blend of nervousness and excitement. “You dream of these types of things. It’s the beginning of a comeback,” he stated.”Early last year we were talking about all these plans and how we were going to execute and…
Ubisoft have released a broad update on the future of Assassin’s Creed, with thoughts from new head of content Jean Guesdon. It doesn’t tell us much, but it doesn’t tell us nothing. At the very least, it’s not another layoff announcement. Firstly, don’t believe the scuttlebutt about their Assassin’s Creed multiplayer project, Codename Invictus, which is “progressing steadily” in the hands of some For Honor veterans. It’s not some kind of Fall Guy house party malarkey, whatever the rumour-mongers might tell you. It’s… well, it sounds like they’re still deciding what it is. Announced in 2022, the project is proceeding…
More Ravenswatch DLC and new free updates are in the works, and I couldn’t be happier. The Passtech Games roguelike ARPG has become one of my favorite co-op games over the past couple of years. It blends the isometric action of Diablo with an open-world race against the clock that feels a lot like Elden Ring Nightreign, and a cast of familiar faces from fantasy and fairytales. With publisher Nacon’s recent filing for insolvency, I was worried what the future of Ravenswatch might look like, but the latest news is good. Passtech says that both it and Nacon “are incredibly…
Ubisoft’s new creative boss for Assassin’s Creed has provided an update on in-development projects like Hexe and Invictus, and all-but-confirmed the existence of a Black Flag remake.Jean Guesdon was appointed as head of content for Assassin’s Creed last month, alongside two other franchise veterans who will steward the series at Ubisoft’s new subsidiary, Vantage Studios.The Origins and Black Flag creative director starts his update on the franchise by confirming that last year’s Shadows is moving into its “final phase” of support. This means smaller, less frequent updates, he said, as its development team shifts focus to future titles.And those future…
Marathon is finally here, and if you’ve been waiting for a good extraction shooter to upgrade to one of the best gaming monitors, you’ve… well… been waiting a long time. We’ve held through the delays, though, and now it’s time to drink in the neon vibes and cheeseburgers.The good news is there are three high refresh rate gaming monitors that we hold above all else, and considering Marathon sometimes feels like a one-hit-kill experience competitive players are holding onto every frame they can. I’ve been totalled in one too many Server Slams for my liking, so now I’m looking at…
People on social media are upset about censorship in Resident Evil Requiem. Wait, come back! This isn’t one of those situations where Twitter dudes with usernames like BasedMaxxing97 rant about the bikini armor being altered to cover up the ‘vagina bones’. It seems the Japanese version of Capcom’s new horror game doesn’t feature any blood and guts in certain scenes, in a bid to appease the country’s regulators. Instead it has… anomalous pools of shadow. Hideous darkness spilling from the cleaved torsos of ostensible cadavers. The same darkness lurks within you and I. What fools we were,…
When is the Elder Scrolls 6 release date? The next installment of Bethesda’s critically acclaimed RPG series has been a long time coming. In fact, it’s now been longer since the game’s announcement than the gap between Skyrim’s release and the announcement itself. Over half a decade ago, we had our first official look at the game courtesy of a short teaser trailer, and we’ve been keeping a close eye on the latest developments at Bethesda ever since. We might have been spoilt by the likes of Skyrim and Oblivion already, but we’re more than ready to get stuck into a new…
Sony’s strategy of releasing its single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC will soon be stopping, according to a new report.Bloomberg, citing people familiar with Sony‘s plans, says the company is pulling back from its plan to release its upcoming games on PC, with future single-player games set to become PS5 exclusives.The report claims that while Ghost of Tsushima eventually got a PC port a few years after its release on PlayStation consoles, its sequel Ghost of Yotei won’t be coming to PC after plans for a port were scrapped in recent weeks.Likewise, the upcoming PS5 exclusive Saros – the latest…
I got surprisingly emotional when Pokemon Winds and Waves was revealed last week. Maybe it’s to be expected as someone who’s grown up playing the series; Pokemon Blue introduced me to the wonderful world of RPGs in the late ’90s before I had any notion of what an RPG was. It’s wild to think about how the series has continued to evolve since then, and that two decades later, I’m still striving to be the very best, like no one ever was.Naturally, I can’t help but be excited (and cautiously optimistic after Pokemon Scarlet and Violet) to put my trainer…