Harry Potter RPG
Avalanche Software’s Harry Potter game to be revealed soon
WB Games Avalanche (the one in Utah, not Sweden) is supposedly about to reveal their new AAA title, judging by a recent job listing.
The game is rumoured to be a Harry Potter RPG that first leaked into public view in 2018. Except for the snippets of character customization and gameplay from the leaked footage, there is no information about the game.
- WB Games bought Avalanche from Disney in 2017
- Avalanche’s last game was Cars 3: Driven to Win from 2017
- The new game is built using Unreal Engine 4
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Which CD-based console featured games with Nintendo characters?
- The Phillips CD-i
- The 3DO
- The Sega Saturn
- The Atari Jaguar CD
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Daily Fact
Cyberpunk wasn’t always high-tech
CD Projekt Red has become a household name thanks to the Witcher series, and while their next game remains an RPG it has quite a different pedigree.
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the classic 1988 pen-and-paper role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020, written by Michael Pondsmith and published by R Talsorian Games. Cyberpunk 2077 is set 57 years later, and features the digital ghost of Johnny Silverhand, a character from Cyberpunk 2020.
The term Cyberpunk was originally invented by Bruce Bethke for a 1980 short story, and came to describe a sub-genre of science-fiction that explores the impact of digitization, computer network and posthumanism on capitalist society.
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PS5 Hi-Res
Impressive textures on PlayStation 5
The developers behind upcoming first-person thriller Martha is Dead are excited about the PlayStation 5’s ludicrously high-resolution output.
LKA’s head of studio Luco Dalco talked to Official PlayStation Magazine UK about the new capabilities and explained how they will improve their next game.
”We worked a lot in order to use the highest-resolution textures as possible also on PS4,” said Dalco. “PS5 will allow us to use an incredible Texel density, up to 4096px/m – that means the visual will be fully detailed also in higher resolutions. It’s one of the most important advances in visual capacity that we were waiting for.”
- PlayStation 5 is rumoured to support 8k output
- LKA’s last game was the adventure The Town of Light from 2016
Photorealism ahoy: “PS5’s specifications are incredibly exciting – particularly for us is the additional graphical power and inclusion of ray-tracing architecture. Our studio has come a long way over four years and Martha Is Dead will strive for photorealism.”
No release date yet: LKA has yet to announce a release date for Martha is Dead, but you can always wishlist the game to get notified.