Research firm reveals the top-grossing PC and console games of Q1 2024
Research firm Newzoo has revealed what it claims were the top-grossing console and PC games in the first quarter of 2024.
Gaming News in Germany
Manor Lords players delighted to discover a villager with an NSFW name, but the developer says it's historically accurate
One of the joys of playing a city builder is peering down at the little people on your screen and watching what they're doing. Manor Lords is no exception—it's fun to sit back and observe your little 14th century peasants working in the fields, constructing buildings, and lugging resources from here to there as they go about their daily lives.
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'
Last year, we were slightly surprised to learn that not only does the German government sponsor a videogame award ceremony, it gives serious cash prizes to most of the winners. At the 2023 German Computer Game Awards—aka the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP)—retro RPG Chained Echoes won Best German Game and a €100,000 endowment, and at this year's ceremony on April 18, the same honor and cash prize went to Everspace 2 and Hamburg-based developer Rockfish Games.
Rumor: Assassin's Creed Hexe Gameplay Details Leak Online
Assassin's Creed Hexe's protagonist will possess magical abilities, such as a way to possess cats, and to manage some form of fear system, according to a recent report. Assassin's Creed Hexe has only received a teaser trailer so far, leaving much to the rumor mill and speculation, but it seems to take place during the 16th-century Witch Hunts of the Holy Roman Empire.
Roccat is gone, replaced by Turtle Beach: 'We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand'
Roccat is no more. The peripheral brand out of Germany, bought by Turtle Beach in 2019, is being retired and all of its existing product lines will be shifted over to Turtle Beach branding.
Ark's animated series now streaming in the UK and 10 other territories
If you've been eager to watch the animated Ark: Survival Evolved TV series, but your attempts have so far been thwarted by your failure to live in the US or Canada, there's some good news: it's now officially available in 11 other countries, including the UK, via Paramount+.
Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third
Chalk this up as further evidence of the impending demise of civilisation, along with the climate, large language models and the increasingly ubiquitous implementation of the Oxford comma. Now it's being reported that very nearly half of all internet traffic is accounted for by bots.
Fallout 4 Sales Soar to #1 in Europe Following TV Show Debut
Fallout 4 sales have soared in select European countries following the debut of the Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime.