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Minecraft developer Mojang is gearing up for this year’s big 1.20 release, and following on from last week’s revelation it’ll finally introduce the game’s long-delayed archaeology system, the studio has now confirmed it’ll also usher in a new cherry blossom biome and sniffer mob. The sniffer, you might recall, came out top among Minecraft players during last year’s Minecraft Live mob vote, beating out two other options: the Rascal and Tuff Golem. Once 1.20 arrives, players will want to use their new archaeology tools to explore suspicious sand in search of sniffer eggs. Hatching these will eventually produce a fully…

PlayStation 5 console sales were up 202 percent across Europe in January 2023, compared to the same month a year ago. The statistic, per GamesIndustry.biz’s Chris Dring, lays bare how well Sony’s hardware shipments have recovered – or, depending on how you look at it, how constrained they were back in 2022. In real terms, all of this means that getting hold of a PlayStation 5 should now be much easier, which is good news all round. Stock of the in-demand console has been limited since its launch in late 2020, and a target for greedy scalpers. PlayStation’s 2023 marketing…

Once upon a time, Minesweeper was a deceptively simple logic puzzler you’d find bundled on many Windows PCs, but “deceptive simplicity” ain’t enough for today’s Maximum Gamer, whose brain has been honed through years of multiple browser tab usage to operate in 10450302 dimensions at once. And so I give you Minesweeper: Next-Gen. It’s broadly the same process of trying to clear a board of hidden explosives, with numbers on cleared tiles indicating the number of bombs nearby. But these boards – they are decidedly eccentric.

Microsoft has issued a statement in response to its own admission that titles entering Xbox Game Pass sell fewer copies in the 12 months following their addition to the service. Yesterday, GamesIndustry.biz highlighted a line from the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional report on Microsoft’s attempted Activision Blizzard takeover, published last week, in which Microsoft stated that a title’s inclusion in Game Pass resulted in a subsequent decline in base game sales. “Microsoft… submitted that its internal analysis shows a [redacted] percent decline in base game sales 12 months following their addition on Game Pass,” the CMA stated. Newscast:…

The eyes of the world may be on the MacBook when it comes to Apple computers, but the firm’s lineup of Mac Minis is well worth considering too – given they offer the same performance and the same software for far less money. In fact, these machines can even outgun Apple’s (still on sale) Mac Pro from just a few years back, making them an incredible value. Today, for instance, you can pick up the M2 Mac Mini for just £585, a historic low price and less than half what you’d pay for a similarly-equipped MacBook Air. The headline feature…

Is Viktor from Arcane the same one from League of Legends? Here is everything we know about him from the animated series. WARNING: The article contains spoilers from Arcane Season 2! Viktor from Arcane – Everything we know about him Viktor was born and raised in the slums of Zaun, the lower portion of Piltover coated in the toxic smog known as the “Zaun Grey”. As for how old is Viktor in Arcane, he’s first seen as his late teens or early 20s. Arcane’s timeline is set as the origin story for the characters that can be found in League…

Sony has confirmed that, as we all suspected, Cosmic Smash is being revived for PlayStation VR2. Just for a quick bit of background, Cosmic Smash initially launched all the way back in 2001. On its release, the game tasked players with traversing a futuristic subway-style map, with each ‘stop’ on the line challenging them to clear blocks at the end of a long room within a certain amount of time. This was all done by using a ball and racquet, offering players an experience somewhere between Breakout and squash. Now, 22 years later, the game is being brought back and…

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Jet Set Radio and a tactical RPG had a child, Canvas City might be the answer. Announced during The MIX Summer Games Showcase, the upcoming title from Disc 2 Games drops you into a city where creativity has been suppressed. Public art is banned, music is restricted, and expression itself has become an act of rebellion. You lead the Fire Starters, a group of skaters, artists, musicians, and dancers who fight back not through violence, but through style. Battles play out on tactical maps where movement is just as important as strategy.…

Mass Effect’s Legendary Edition is a brilliant remaster of BioWare’s sci-fi original trilogy, perfect in almost every way. But for hardcore fans, a few niggles remain. There’s the unfortunate loss of Mass Effect 1’s Pinnacle Station DLC – sadly gone forever, as its original development code became corrupted – and also the lack of Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Daily News. For the uninitiated, Cerberus Daily News snippets originally appeared on Mass Effect 2’s main menu screen as short in-universe news reports, fleshing out the game’s wider galaxy with ongoing stories and further detail. Mass Effect Legendary Edition analysed.Watch on YouTube…

Wondering when Skarner is receiving the next visual and gameplay update (VGU)? Here is what we know about the champion so far. Image Credits | Riot Games Skarner VGU 2024 –  Everything We Know So Far Skarner was voted by the community as the champion that would receive a rework in 2023. Being one of the least-played junglers in the game, due to his dependency on the spires, Skarner will hopefully get a new exciting kit like the recent Aurelion Sol CGU. At the start of the new 2023 season, Riot Games’ development team updated fans on the upcoming Skarner…