Gamepressure.com News 20 April 2021

Hubert Sledziewski, 20 April 2021, 23:26

One of the veterans of Blizzard Entertainment, Jeff Kaplan, is leaving the company after 19 years. Overwatch's director did not explain his decision, but the game's sequel is said to be unaffect.

Przemyslaw Dygas, 20 April 2021, 23:04

It turns out that the new cryptocurrency known as Chia may affect the availability and increase prices of other PC components. This time it would affect HDDs and SSDs.

Angelika Kaldus, 20 April 2021, 22:34

Stanislaw Just, head of Covenant.dev explained the mechanics and plot of the newly announced game Gord in a detailed interview for Opattack.

Michal Ciezadlik, 20 April 2021, 21:32

Demo versions of games on consoles are not something common these days. Especially in the case of PS5, where in the entire PS Store we can find only 3 titles offering free demos. In a discussion on forums we can hear voices that owners of Sony's new console want more demos.

Agnes Adamus, 20 April 2021, 21:02

A new character in Apex Legends was presented. It's Valkyrie, the daughter of Viper, a character known from Titanfall 2. What's most interesting, in the video revealing the heroine we also see a titan.

Milosz Piotrowski, 20 April 2021, 19:23

The PlayStation version of Cyberpunk 2077 met with a very critical reception. The problems associated with it could be listed for hours. The latest patch 1.2 and hotfix 1.21 fixed many of them, but not all. It turned out that in order to unlock one of the trophies players have to go back to version 1.0.

Karol Laska, 20 April 2021, 17:36

The trailer for the long-awaited second season of the sci-fi series titled Love, Death and Robots is now available. Netflix also confirmed plans for a third season.

Milosz Szubert, 20 April 2021, 17:31

Refreshed editions of Baldurs Gate (with Siege of Dragonspear), Baldurs Gate II and Icewind Dale received a new, major update, numbered 2.6. Among other things, it improves performance on 64-bit systems, eliminates a lot of bugs and adds a number of new features.

Przemyslaw Dygas, 20 April 2021, 15:51

Ubisoft revealed its plans to expand the Assassin's Creed universe. The franchise will be enriched with new books, comics and projects created in collaboration with Netflix.

Bart Swiatek, 20 April 2021, 15:30

CI Games summed up 2020 in its recently published financial report. The company earned almost $2M during this period. The document also included information on the sales of individual games.

Michal Ciezadlik, 20 April 2021, 15:28

Yesterday, Valheim received patch 0.150.3. Apart from bug fixes and many improvements, the patch also made it easier to use the hoe, which was appreciated by the game's community.

Bart Swiatek, 20 April 2021, 12:24

BioWare presented the first photo of the new figurine of the popular Mass Effect character Liara T'Soni. The item should go on sale in 2-3 months.

Adrian Werner, 20 April 2021, 12:11

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the release of Portal 2, the mod Portal Reloaded was released on Steam Workshop. It offers a new single-player campaign, in which the gameplay is enriched by the possibility of time travel.

Bart Swiatek, 20 April 2021, 12:01

Several mods available on Nexus Mods restore content that was cut from the final version of Cyberpunk 2077 - we're talking about quests, clothes or models of famous characters from the universe.

Adrian Werner, 20 April 2021, 10:32

Developers of Celeste announced that their next project will be the platform game Earthblade. Unfortunately, everything seems to indicate that we'll have to wait a long time for the game.

Bart Swiatek, 20 April 2021, 10:06

Responding to an Internet user's question on Twitter, Phil Spencer - the head of Xbox - noted that PC games will sooner or later be available for xCloud streaming on Xbox Game Pass. For now, however, the priority is on console titles.

Agnes Adamus, 20 April 2021, 10:02

The Play at Home initiative continues. Starting today, PS4 and PS5 owners can pick up the open-world action game Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for free. The action is time limited and will run until May 15.