2022 has arrived and, despite bringing some bitterly cold weather with it, I’m sure we’re all hoping for a more positive year compared to the last two! Considering it’s only the first week of January, there was a surprising amount of news, so let’s dive right into our first gaming round-up of the year… In the News This Week E3 2022 will be online-only once again – Summer Games Fest confirms its return Mario Kart 9 rumours fly after analyst states it’s in “active development” PSVR 2 specs and name revealed along with Horizon Call of the Mountain! Just Add Water CEO and founder Stewart Gilray has passed away Insomniac Games are tweeting about the Chimera again, are they hinting at something? Rumour: The Last of Us PS5 remake will launch this year Rainbow Six Extraction will launch on Game Pass, Ubisoft+ coming to Xbox Ghost of Tsushima has swept past 8 million sales Days Gone might have sold 8 million copies in 1.5 years, according to game director A Skull & Bones associate game director has left Ubisoft GoldenEye 007 achievements appear online sparking rumours of remaster Castlevania NFTs to be auctioned by Konami as part of Memorial Series Amazon’s Fallout TV series will begin production this year Final Fantasy 7 Remake mod concept brings back PS1 camera And if you’re subscribed to various gaming services, January’s updates are live: Xbox Game Pass January 2022 includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Outer Wilds and more The January 2022 PS Plus games are now live, download links here PlayStation Now January 2022 line up includes Mortal Kombat 11 & Final Fantasy XII Our Most Wanted Games of 2022 Heralding in the new year, our look at the top games coming in 2022 kicked into overdrive as it entered the final five: #5 – Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League #4 – Dead Space Remake #3 – Horizon Forbidden West #2 – Elden Ring Check out the rest of our 50 Most Wanted Games of 2022 here, and keep your eyes peeled for our #1 game coming later today! Games in Review and Featured Articles As you might expect, it was a quiet start to the new year for the reviews: Exo One – XSX|S, XBO, PC – 8/10 Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! – NSW– 3/10 Never-the-less, Aran was on hand with the first preview of 2022 as he looked at My Lovely Wife that makes you question how far you would go to bring back someone you love. Last up, we finished off the week as we always do with What We Played, which featured Deep Rock Galactic, Far Cry 6 & It Takes Two. Trailer Park See the plane fight from the Uncharted movie in a new 2 minutes clip New Horizon Forbidden West trailer reveals the Utaru and Tenakth tribes AVICII Invector Encore Edition announced for Meta Quest 2 Your Achievements Here’s what you in our community has been up to this week: MrYd has made his way to the third area in Ghost of Tsushima and is loving it. He also enjoyed Deep Rock Galactic, Life is Strange 2 and Sniper Elite VR, but was disappointed with the ‘broken’ Alan Wake. willbuchanan got the platinums for Tomb Raider and Donut County. He’s also completed Maneater and the Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens DLC, and has now moved onto Guardians of the Galaxy. TSBonyman wasn’t impressed by Deep Rock Galactic and had mixed feelings for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – while it looks gorgeous he thought it was a bit bare bones. Luckily, the weekly music jams in Dreams are a familiar home. And Andrewww has been continuing through the main story of Days Gone, trying to avoid the open world fatigue from too many side quests. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you again soon!
Video Game Giant Konami is launching a NFT public sale to commemorate the “Castlevania” franchise. The field will embody 14 tokens, audio information, and poster artwork displaying scenes from early Nintendo video games. The public sale will start the subsequent week, January 12, 2022. Konami To Launch With Castlevania Commemorative NFTs The Castlevania thirty fifth […]
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In “celebration” of Castlevania’s 35th anniversary, Konami will sell its first batch of NFTs, the publisher announced Thursday. The release is being called the “Konami...
Castlevania NFTs are marking Konami’s entrance into the non-fungible tokens market. These Castlevania NFTs are part of Konami’s 35th Anniversary celebration for the iconic franchise. These NFTs are not just still images but also clips from the Castlevania series, with a total of 14 Castlevania NFTs being sold in this auction, which will be running next week from January 12th 10pm GMT to January 15th 2am GMT. The auction is taking place on OpenSea which uses the Wyvern Protocol built upon the Ethereum blockchain technology. Ethereum has been heavily criticised for the environmental impact it has with some research suggesting one transaction on Ethereum uses the same amount of electricity as the average household in the US for an entire workweek. Ethereum is stating it will be pushing upgrades through 2022 to reduce the carbon footprint of transactions by 99%. In the FAQ published by Konami the following has been made clear. One is that purchasing any of the NFTs does not entitle the owner any intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademarks, and there will be no cancellations or refunds once transactions are confirmed. Another interesting little tidbit is this line from the FAQ which reads, “NFT with the exact same data will not be resold, but similar NFTs tied to the same game-title may be resold in the future.” Konami is not the first gaming company to embrace the NFT trend. In September last year the game Phantom Galaxies was revealed which would allow NFTs in game. Ubisoft revealed its NFT program Quartz with the aim to sell items for its games starting with Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda also sees NFTs as an avenue for the games industry. There has been backlash too. STALKER 2’s NFT plans were cancelled after backlash from series fans, Valve will not allow NFTs or games with them on Steam, Wired Productions will not be including NFTs in its games, and Ubisoft also saw a lot of backlash to Quartz, with not much activity registered there. Source: Konami
Outside of some strange mechanical choices, Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! is a pleasant return to story-based Yu-Gi-Oh! RPGs. The new Rush Duel system is incredibly fun and innovative, and the amount of customization is the best I’ve seen in a card game. If you can look past a few missteps, Rush […]
One of the most fun aspects of any card-based game is making your own unique deck. Winning with the cards that you like makes it feel like you’re winning as a result of your own wits and strategy, which is a glorious sensation. For this reason, it’s definitely strange that Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of […]
