Month: October 2024

ล่าสุดค่ายเกม Netmarble ได้ประกาศผ่านทาง Facebook Fanpage เตรียมเปิดให้บริการ Solo Leveling: ARISE ในครึ่งปีแรกของปี 2024 และจะเปิดให้ลงทะเบียนล่วงหน้าเร็ว ๆ นี้ โดยจะเปิดให้เล่นบนมือถือทั้งในระบบ iOS, Android, และแพลตฟอร์ม PC ซึ่งมาพร้อมกับฟีเจอร์เล่น cross-platform

Solo Leveling: ARISE เป็นเกมแอ็คชัน RPG พัฒนาโดย Netmarble Neo และอ้างอิงจากซีรีส์เว็บตูน Solo Leveling ที่มียอดดูสะสม 14.2 พันล้านทั่วโลก ผู้เล่นจะได้ผันตัวเป็นฮันเตอร์เพื่อปกป้องมวลมนุษยชาติจากเหล่าอสูรมอนสเตอร์ต่าง�…

ประเทศไทย – 28 พฤษภาคม 2567 – วันนี้ Ubisoft และ Evil Empire สตูดิโอพันธมิตร ได้ประกาศว่า The Rogue Prince of Persia™ เกมแอ็กชัน มิติแนวโร้คไลท์ พร้อมให้เล่นทั่วโลกแล้วในรูปแบบเกมระหว่างการพัฒนา บน Steam พร้อมส่วนลด 10% ในช่วง 24 ชั่วโมงแรก ตัวเกมยังมีให้เล่นบนบริการ GeForce Now อีกด้วย โดยในช่วงแรก The Rogue Prince of Persia ที่เป็นเกมระหว่างการพัฒนา จะประกอบด้วยฉากการเล่น 6 แบบ อาวุธหลัก 8 ชิ้น และอุปกรณ์อันทรงพลัง 6 แบบ, การเผชิญหน้ากับบอส 2 ครั้ง และเหรียญเครื่องประดับ 30 อัน สำ�…

แฟนเกมค่าย NEXON มาติดตามข่าวนี้ได้เลยครับเมื่อล่าสุดทางผู้พัฒนาเกมดังกล่าวได้ออกมาประกาศเปิดตัว 5 เกมมือถือใหม่จากค่ายที่จะมาให้เราได้เล่นกันในปี 2024 ส่วนจะมีเกมอะไรบ้างนั้น มาติดตามกันได้ที่ด้านล่างนี้เลยครับ

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เกมมือถือแอ็คชั่นสุดมันส์! ที่ให้คุณสัมผัสการต่อสู้รูปแบบคอมโบแอคชั่นที่เข้มข้นด้วยกราฟิกคลาสิกคุณภาพสูง โดยตัวละครที่ปรากฎในเกม ก็คือตัวละครจาก Dungeon & Fighter ต้นฉบับที่กลับมาในเวอร์ชั่นม�…

ล่าสุดค่ายเกม NCSOFT ได้ประกาศเปิดให้ลงทะเบียนล่วงหน้าเวอร์ชั่น Beta Test รอบสองสำหรับ Battle Crush เกมแนว Action Cross-Platform Multiplayer ตัวใหม่แล้ว โดยสามารถลงทะเบียนเพื่อลุ้นรับสิทธิ์เข้าทดสอบได้ ที่นี่ และจะเปิดทดสอบตั้งแต่วันที่ 21-28 มี.ค.บนมือถือ ผ่าน Google Play Store และบน PC ผ่าน Steam

Battle Crushเป็นเกมแนว Action Cross-Platform Multiplayer กราฟิกการ์ตูน โดยผู้เล่นจะได้เลือกตัวละครมากมายที่อิงจากตำนานพร้อมสกิลที่แตกต่างกัน และเลือกโหมดเกมที่ใช่ในสไตล์คุณ

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Microsoft is holding an Xbox Games Showcase in June, which will be its first big online event featuring games from its still-relatively-new crown jewel, Activision Blizzard. It’s also teasing a follow-on presentation similar to the Starfield Direct stream in 2023 but focused on an all-new game, and while it’s keeping the title of that game under wraps for now, we’re pretty sure we know what it is.

First things first, the relevant details: The Xbox Games Showcase will take place on June 9, beginning at 10 am PT/1 pm ET/6 pm BST, and will be livestream on Twitch (and with ASL), YouTube, and Facebook. After the event, there will be a week of “updates and deep-dives on a ton of games” on the Xbox Wire website and the Official Xbox Podcast.

“This will also be our first Showcase featuring games from our portfolio of studios across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios, in addition to titles from our third-party partners,” Microsoft said.

As for the [Redacted] Direct that will follow the Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft described it as “a special deep-dive into the next installment of a beloved franchise.” It also dropped this image:

It didn’t take …

EVE Fanfest is celebrating 20 years of CCP’s unique space MMO, and has given us our first look at new FPS module EVE Vanguard and the reveal of EVE’s next expansion: Havoc, coming November 14. The clue’s in the name. Following the successful overhaul of faction warfare in recent expansions, CCP has decided to mess with things in the only way EVE really knows how. More factions, more fighting, and more destruction.

Havoc was teased with four hidden stargates that CCP recently placed in the game, alongside some obscure clues for how to find them. The developer expected this to take weeks, maybe months. The players did it in days. Just before the Fanfest keynote at which Havoc was announced, the audience was treated to EVE Online on the big screen, with CCP Fozzie, aka senior game designer Josh Bayer (Fozzie Bayer, geddit?), hanging out around one of the stargates with around 200 other players in the system.

Flashes. The odd naughty shot. Then all of a sudden the gate powers up. There’s a collective intake of breath in the room as player ships immediately begin jumping. “Shall we go through the stargate?” asks Bayer. 

The room erupts in cheers. He jumps throu…

It’s a good time to return to the 2021 shooters that got a critical walloping at release. In case you haven’t heard, Battlefield 2042 is really good now, and I’m starting to feel better about Halo Infinite’s multiplayer after last week’s Season 3: Echoes Within update.

First, the good stuff: Season 3 added two new Arena maps (Chasm and Cliffhanger) and one Big Team Battle map (Oasis). Halo Infinite has been in dire need of map injections since the day it launched and I’m glad to report that all three of these are winners so far. I’m especially enjoying Chasm, which might take the award for Halo-est Halo map 343 has put out yet.

Chasm is essentially two hallways in an unspecified alien facility divided by a bottomless pit (or chasm, if you will), connected only by a couple of light bridges and floating hexagonal platforms arranged like a 3D platformer.

The symmetrical staredown of the rival hallways is perfect for mid-range fights with Battle Rifle bros or pistol pros. Since most of the space between you is death pit, you tend to stay on your respective side and side-strafe until the fight is over, which is a nice changeup of the usual “run at each other while s…

Hearts of Iron 4, a kind of Midnight Suns game where you make Mohammad Reza Shah and Mao Zedong best friends instead of Blade and Spider-Man, has announced its next DLC. It’s heading down to South America in Hearts of Iron 4: Trial of Allegiance, a new country pack that aims to round out the experience of playing Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Although Hearts of Iron mostly—for understandable reasons—focuses on the Pacific and European theatres of WW2, there was plenty going on down in South America during the most destructive war in human history. The DLC will release on March 7, and Paradox’s first update about it is mostly about its Brazilian aspect: focusing on the first presidency of Getúlio Vargas and his attempts to keep a grip on power, which he did by imagineering a bogus communist uprising called the Cohen Plan and using it as a pretext to clamp down on other people’s political liberties. 

Early-to-mid 20th century governments loved inventing fake communist uprisings. It was like their favourite thing to do. But that doesn’t mean scaring reds out from under the Brazilian bed is all you’re going to get up to. Brazil is…

Just days after Microsoft announced the upcoming closure of Tango Gameworks (alongside Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games), the studio has released one final patch for the outstanding rhythm-based action game Hi-Fi Rush.

Hi-Fi Rush was unequivocally great. It holds an “overwhelmingly positive” user rating on Steam across more than 23,000 user reviews and an 87% aggregate score on Metacritic, although—full disclosure here—we gave it a less-than-stellar 69% in our own review. It was also “a break out hit for us and our players in all key measurements and expectations,” in the words of Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, who added, “We couldn’t be happier with what the team at Tango Gameworks delivered with this surprise release.”

Yet somehow that big, undeniable success—which came on top of past critical success with The Evil Within games and Ghostwire: Tokyo—wasn’t enough to justify keeping the studio around. Even more baffling, less than a day after killing Tango Gameworks, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty had the nerve to hold a town hall meeting in which he said, “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards.” (He…

While the original will forever hold a place in my heart, SimCity 2000 is one of those sequels that was simply meant to be. It was one of those sequels that doubled-down on everything brilliant about the first game, with a stunning visual makeover that saw the top-down 2D look become a gorgeous isometric urban panorama. It’s more complex, much more can go wrong, and I’m not sure Maxis or EA ever made a subsequent SimCity that improved on it.

I played this game a lot when I was a kid and thought I had a fairly good memory of it, but a piece of trivia has caught me completely off-guard. The SimCity games have always been packed with Easter eggs, but It turns out that one of SimCity 2000’s little surprises is an essay on the nature of cities by one Neil Gaiman.

Gaiman is now one of the most well-known and prolific authors in the world, but when SimCity 2000 came out in 1993 he was best-known for his pioneering Sandman comics series. The essay is simply titled SimCity and is found in-game by clicking on the library building, which brings up the option to “ruminate”. Should you do so, the game will display Gaiman’s essay, which does indeed ruminate on the nature …

The base tile for Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake processors will contain a large L4 cache, potentially helping squeeze more performance out of the integrated graphics chip and boosting boot times.

I love a good techie codename, and Intel’s Adamantine is one of my favourite recent ones. It’s only recently come to light via a patent that has been unearthed, which details this solid base tile for the company’s first true chiplet CPU, Meteor Lake. 

Yeah, I’ll admit when I first saw it I thought it was a nerdy Wolverine reference, too, but it just means ‘unable to be broken’, which I guess is pretty much the same. Kinda.

Anyways, the patent was filed a couple of years back, but has recently been brought to the attention of ComputerBase, who had been talking about Meteor Lake having some extra pool of L4 cache for a little while.

It had initially thought the extra L4 was purely a sort of Infinity Cache analog—similar to that used by AMD for its modern graphics cards—or an eDRAM cache clone, to improve the speeds of the built-in Xe graphics cores. This was the theory anyway, particularly because the Linux patch notes described how the iGPU would …

Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is having a big month. Just two weeks ago the Dolphin team announced that its development is now so rock solid they were doing away with the concept of “stable” builds entirely and moving to a rolling release cycle, taking the emulator out of the “5.0” build era that started back in 2016. Today it’s adding a long-requested feature: integration with RetroAchievements, a community-driven project that adds Xbox- or Steam-style achievements to thousands of older games.

“RetroAchievements sets essentially amount to a list of tasks and goals that may go above and beyond simply beating the game,” writes Dolphin blog author JMC4789. The integration currently supports more than 100 games from the GameCube library, though I’m not sure what’s on the full list—the launch has seemingly overwhelmed RetroAchievements’ servers, causing them to crash. 

“The servers on fire, everything is okay. Grandma will be by shortly to fix it. The hype is real,” the Retroachievements account tweeted less than 10 minutes after launch. Update: RetroAchievements servers are now back online.

There is, at le…