It’s another week, and it means another week of (mild) regularity with the latest video game news and other headlines with Gamesline’s The Bulletin!
While gamescom has overtaken the crux of major video announcements, several other sudden surprises and unsurprising slops have also taken space on the newspaper stand.
Gamescom Big Gains
gamescom 2024 is still ongoing into the weekend, and you can catch up with our roundup of opening night’s announcements here! But a big crux of the annual convention’s major programming has reached its climax with its award show with the following winners:
- Monster Hunter Wilds for Best Trailer, Most Epic, Most Entertaining, and Best PlayStation Game
- Little Nightmares 3 for Audio, Visuals, and Best Xbox Game
- Genshin Impact for Best Mobile Game
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for Best PC Game
- Frostpunk 2 for Gameplay
- Tavern Talk for Most Wholesome
- Creatures of Ava for Games for Impact
- Microsoft / Xbox / Bethesda / Blizzard for Best of Show Floor
Tango Gameworks Dances Again
In a sudden turn of events, games studio Tango Gameworks has been taken over by publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton, with full intent on resuming all work activities as norm and ambition to further continue the Hi-Fi Rush IP.
The Hi-Fi Rush developer was founded by Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami and went on to be acquired by ZeniMax Media, in turn, later getting folded over into Microsoft. News that Tango Gameworks was to be shuttered erupted back in late spring.
Packing Up Camp
Meanwhile, the bell tolls for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp—and certainly not those kinds of Bells—and it has been announced that services for the mobile game will end November this year.
That said, Nintendo has further elaborated they intend on releasing a paid, offline version of the game, and Pocket Camp players will be able to transfer their data from the original game.
In other news…
Steam now has a new feature in reviews to indicated if a reviewer has played the title extensively on the Steam Deck.
While among several of the lineup of announcements made at gamescom 2024, developer Warhorse Studios emphasizes that Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will not be released until the first quarter of next year on February 11, 2025.
In the midst of another wave of SAG-AFTRA strikes that has now evoked a rally for video game actors, Amazon Games CEO Christopher Hartmann claims that games “don’t really have acting“.
The Backyard Sports video game franchise is being rebooted.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has unveiled a 60-day plan to address player complaints.
John Carpenter is reportedly heavily involved in the production of a new Halloween game, to be developed on Unreal Engine 5.
Final Fantasy XVI is now up for preorder on both the Epic Games Store and Steam. The game is due out September 17th, and a demo is available now. Meanwhile, a rumor also suggests that game will also soon find itself on the Xbox.
To no one’s shock, the Borderlands movie flopped at the box office. You can still get the Claptrap popcorn bucket watching something else though! (while supplies last)
And finally, United States Vice President candidate for the Democratic party Tim Walz was apparently a huge Dreamcast gamer, to the point his wife had to hide the console away from him.
