Game news “Ok Boomer” on Steam, One Piece characters in a Naruto game… Today’s game recap!
In the news on January 8, 2024: Square Enix presented some new features for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion; Blizzard ends maintenance on a Hearthstone mode while two new players manage to complete Tetris.
One Piece characters appear in this Naruto game and the results are impressive!
Modders Have Talent episode #125653. At the beginning of the year, user X Steinixos expressed his dismay by showing a gameplay sequence from one of the episodes of Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm. Instead of having characters from Masashi Kishimoto’s manga, there are two admirals from One Piece who fight with Kizaru and Aokiji. Enough to arouse the desire among fans to have a good versus fighting game from the universe created by Eiichiro Oda.
The end of a mode for this Blizzard game
It’s the end of Hearthstone’s Duels mode. In a post published at the end of last week, Blizzard Team 5 (responsible for developing the card game) announced “that they have made the difficult decision to stop maintaining Duels mode this year. A Player versus Player game mode where everyone created a starting deck of 16 cards which they embellished with treasures: cards much more powerful than average. A way of playing different from Constructed mode unplugged to allow the studio to relocate its resources.
FF 14: a new class that mixes FF 6 and Splatoon
This weekend took place the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2024 in Tokyo: an annual festival which serves as a big meeting for Square Enix and fans of the MMORPG since it is on this occasion that the future is discussed. In addition to a final trailer, a new class was presented for the Dawntrail expansion. The Pictomancer is a ranged magical DPS capable of materializing his ideas. It will therefore be part of the new extension, planned for summer 2024.
A special category for fans of fast FPS from the 90s
During the night of January 4 to 5, Valve updated the official labels (or tags) of its games. Now among them is the Boomer Shooter. A genre that encompasses all titles similar to fast-paced 90s first-person shooters. It is therefore necessarily a question of Doom, Quake but also more recent games like Beyond Sunset, Forgive Me Father 2 or even Reaver. Enough to start 2024 thirty years ago.
Fortnite: leak suggests three new game modes
At the beginning of December 2023, Epic Games formalized the transformation of its Fortnite game. In addition to its Battle Royale mode, it is also possible to play Rocket Racing (arcade racing game); Lego Fortnite (mixture of sandbox and survival) or at Fortnite Festival. The latter is a rhythm game that involves pressing the keys in rhythm with the music. In order to vary the experiences, Epic Games would have three additional mods in mind for Fortnite Festival: a Duel mode, an Arena mode and a Music Battle mode.
But also :
- Tetris was completed for the first time in 34 years a few weeks ago by a 13-year-old. Since then, two new players have succeeded.
- City of Heroes: MMORPG publisher Netease has granted a temporary license to Homecoming, a private server for the game which offers continuity of the experience since the game was discontinued in 2012.