Game News Round-Up

Baldur’s Gate 3 will add cross-play, 12 subclasses and a photo mode next year

December’s PlayStation Plus Essential and Classic games announced

• December’s Plus Essential games are It Takes Two (PS4/5), Aliens: Dark Descent (PS4/5) and Temtem (PS5). They’ll be available to all PlayStation Plus members from December 3 until January 6.
• December’s additions to the Classics Catalog will include PS2 games Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. They will be available from December 10.

Three more Mega Drive / Genesis games have been added to Switch Online

• ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, Vectorman, Mercs

Mac Walters' Worlds Untold studio on "pause" as it seeks new funding partner

• Mac Walters' Worlds Untold - which had been backed by NetEase - announced it was "pausing operations" until it can locate further funding.
• NetEase said it remains committed to "a strong global presence" despite pulling funding from Worlds Untold, whose project it has praised.

Block Blast reaches 40m daily active players

• Over 40 million active players every day and more than 150 million active players each month across the globe