Hi, and welcome once again to Replay, WIRED’s rundown of all of the week’s biggest videogame news. We took a quick hiatus last week, but we’re back at it again for all socially distanced game news we might find.
The Last of United States Part II Is Delayed Indefinitely, Says Sony
The Last of Us Part II, initially slated for release on May 29, is now postponed till further notification, according to a tweet from Sony. In a season filled with delays, this one is particularly striking, considering that the video game was only a month far from its release date, a time in which games are, typically, more or less completed.
” Logistically, the global crisis is avoiding us from supplying the launch experience our players are worthy of,” Sony stated in the tweet. While some game business are moving forward with major releases in spite of hurdles provided by the coronavirus, The Last of United States Part II‘s cancellation stands out due to the fact that of its subject matter, given that it takes place in a harsh postapocalypse damaged by a pandemic. (I indicate, a zombie pandemic, however still.) Maybe it is everything about logistics, however one can’t help however wonder if Sony simply didn’t think releasing this particular video game right now was wise. Can’t blame them.
QuakeCon Isn’t Occurring This Year, for the First Time in 25 Years
QuakeCon started as a lover event, dedicated to the magnificences of Doom and Quake, prior to being embraced by id Software and, later, its owners at ZeniMax and Bethesda, and became a major gaming convention and a mass event of all things id. Now, thanks to the coronavirus, it’s not taking place, for the first time in its history. As GameSpot reports, id and Bethesda revealed the cancellation on Twitter, discussing that, though no one knows what things will appear like in August, when the con was arranged to happen, it doesn’t seem wise to attempt to plan it out with something like a pandemic hanging over everything. It’s a shame, as it would’ve been the occasion’s 25 th anniversary.
Epic Is Launching a New Publishing Label
Epic Games Publishing– developed by Legendary Games, makers of Fortnite and operators of the PC storefront Epic Games Shop– is now a thing. As reported by Kotaku, this new arm of Legendary will publish video games by developers like Playdead, gen Style, and Solution Entertainment. It seems like a fairly generous deal, with Legendary not taking any copyright rights but completely covering development costs– with the games presumably then becoming Legendary Games Shop exclusives on PC. As for what games these groups are developing, or when they’ll see the light of day, that’s anybody’s guess. Impressive is still, and always, making relocations.
Recommendation of the Week: Doom 64 by Midway Games, on PC, Nintendo Change, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo 64
Doom 64 is more than just an easy port of the original Doom It’s a whole brand-new game, and it combines brand-new levels with a new bit of gunk and moodiness that transforms the Doom formula– that is, the original early-’90 s Doom formula– into something new. With a moody goth-core soundtrack by Aubrey Hodges, this is Doom at its most threatening. With the release of Doom Eternal, Bethesda ported the former Nintendo 64 unique to just about every platform. It’s well worth having a look at.
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