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In a move that really shouldn’t surprise anyone who is familiar with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series by now, creator Scott Cawthon has confirmed that he is going to be releasing the forth game; the so-called “Final Chapter” earlier than the teasers have been suggesting.
A number of Youtubers including Razzbowski and Dawko have been showing off e-mails that seem to be from Scott Cawthon’s personal e-mail account confirming the fact. In a video to announce the release date change Dawko says that Cawthon has been talking to them about whether to do any early release or not eventually deciding to release the forth game on August 8th to celebrate the one year anniversary of the original FNAF 1 game. He also says that the game’s trailer will also be finished some time next week.
Cawthon has a habit of releasing the FNAF sequels early, having first done it with the second game releasing the full version shortly after sending out the demo version for lets play videos to the surprise of all. This time around the players have some pre-warning about the date change but Scott has said that he will be releasing some extra content on the original release date of Halloween just to honor it.
Teasers have been plentiful for the forth game, starting with an image of a spotlight illuminating the top hat of the titular character that popped up on the scottgames.com site and seemed to signal that FNAF3 was the end of the line. When the hat vanished a few months later people began to wonder if it was the end only for a few days later to find a new teaser image of a ‘nightmare’ version of the Freddy Fazbear animatronic character.
Free-to-play MMO RaiderZ will be shutting down for good next month, after the game’s developers MAIET have ceased trading. The game will close down when the developer company is finally dissolved.
The game has been suffering server issues recently and it was because of this that the publisher of the game, Perfect World, discovered the situation.
“Over the past weeks, RaiderZ has seen a few different instances where the game has had issues with the server. In the past, we have been working with MAIET, the developer of RaiderZ, in order to troubleshoot and solve issues to keep the game available for the players. Unfortunately, MAIET is no longer operating anymore.”
Players who have made any purchases involving RaiderZ since May 7th will be refunded their money to their Arc Account Balance and the in-game prices have also been slashed for the time the game has left, with players who logged in during the last month also being given 1000 in-game currency to have some fun with before the servers go offline on August 7th, 10am PDT.
While the reason for MAIET’s folding is not known, looks at reviews for the game on Steam are mixed, with a good number of the negative ones complaining about constant crashes and also quite a few mentioning that the game contained a trojan or other malicious software that attempts to get players to deactivate their anti-virus software; a claim that is denied by others.
Oculus VR have confirmed that they’re working on around two dozen games for their own Oculus Rift device, with CEO Brendan Iribe saying that these games are being fully funded by their own studios – Oculus Studios.
The games are part of a program where developers pitch their ideas to Oculus and in return for platform exclusivity the games get full funding to be made. Other VR developers are also welcome to take part in the program to pitch ideas. Oculus have also made smaller investments in VR games that are not exclusive to the Rift, which total around $10 million altogether.
Oculus seem to be the first of the ‘big VR studios’ to be looking at exclusivity deals, and the question now on our lips has to be will other like Sony’s Morpheus or the Valve HTC Vive do the same as they get closer to release?
The launch of Arkham Knight’s PC version has been another one of those releases that’ll go down in gaming history, and not for the right reasons. It released with bugs severe enough to make the game unplayable for many, to the point that its been pulled from sale in numerous stores both real-life and digital.
Now during an update on its current status Warner Bros. have said that Rocksteady’s work on the game’s planned DLC will be taking a backseat while they attempt to get the game up to par. Which means delays are incoming for the Batgirl: A Matter of Family content and the release date it originally had for July 14th will now not be met.
“Our continued focus on getting the right PC fixes in place for the main game has had an impact on the development of all DLC content for the PC version of the game.” said Yorick. “This means that the Batman: Arkham Knight – Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC will not be available on July 14th for those who are currently playing the PC version of the game. We apologize for the delay and only want to make sure that any content that we offer is up to the standards that PC players expect.”
As a result of the PC version’s faults as well WB have decided to overhaul their internal review process for all future games they make. There haven’t been any updates about specific fixes happening for Arkham Knight though, nor a date to expect it to be for sale again. Only that it will be out when “Rocksteady and all parties” are happy that it meets a “superior quality bar”
