Thursday, 10 October 2024

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 10 October 2024.

General4 stories

Nintendo playtesting mystery new Switch Online feature this month with up to 10K people

  • To get in involved, participants must be at least 18 years of age and have a Nintendo Account registered in either Japan, the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, or Spain. Sign-ups are due to open via Nintendo's application form on 10th -- October at 6pm PDT and will close on 15th October. The playtest itself runs from 23rd October to 5th November.
  • Unclear at this time what feature is being playtested
Eurogamer
Free Games / Subscription2 stories

October’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue and Classics titles announced

  • Extra + Premium
  • Dead Island 2 | PS4/5
  • Two Point Campus | PS4/5
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me | PS4/5
  • Gris | PS4/5
  • Return to Monkey Island | PS5
  • Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed | PS4/5
  • Firefighting Simulator The Squad | PS4/5
  • Overpass 2 | PS5
  • Tour de France 2023 |PS4/5
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands | PS4
  • Premium
  • The Last Clockwinder | PS VR2
  • Dino Crisis | PS4/5
  • Siren | PS4/5
  • R-Type Dimensions EX | PS4
VGC
Business2 stories

Cryptic Studios is laying off staff at the end of October

  • Almost a full year after its last round of layoffs, Cryptic Studios is letting go of more staff. Various workers on LinkedIn revealed they were impacted, and that they will no longer be at the studio after October 31
  • Exact number of people affected is unclear at this time
Game Developer