Techland Teases Dying Light 2 Online Stream

Techland has announced that more info for Dying Light 2 will be revealed on a Twitch stream on May 27 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET.

No details on what will be shown were given, However recently the developer has been hyping up the Livestream on Twitter with some cryptic videos that show off the text saying, "Are You Dying 2 Know More?" with the date of the stream appearing.

I loved the original Dying Light and I can't wait to play the new game when it drops but I do wish that Techland would stop talking about the game until it's ready. They clearly announced the title a little too early and have had problems with development along the way. Techland has done these teases before that basically lead to practically nothing, The tagline Are you dying to know points to what fans want and that's a release date. If it ends up just being the developers answering some questions, then I think I'm out.

Sony Has 25 New PlayStation 5 Games In Development

PlayStation has confirmed there are currently 25 first-party games in development for the PlayStation 5 and more than half of them are possibly brand new IP.

PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst was talking to Wired for a feature about the PS5's first six months: "There’s an incredible amount of variety originating from different regions," which, he claims, include "big, small, different genres."

The games we know that are coming to PlayStation 5 are Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, God of War: Ragnarok, and Horizon: Forbidden West. PlayStation also has two partnerships with other studios that include Haven Studio which is Jade Raymond's new studio and a multiplayer project from Firewalk, a studio founded by Bungie developers.

Later on in the feature, PlayStation's CEO Jim Ryan went on to try and play down previous reports of PlayStation 5 stock issues for the foreseeable future, saying "We’re working as hard as we can to ameliorate that situation. We see production ramping up over the summer and certainly into the second half of the year, and we would hope to see some sort of return to normality in terms of the balance between supply and demand during that period."

The interesting note is if this generation lasts along long as the previous generation, 25 games only works out to be 3 games a year. The fact that almost half are new IP which would mean they would need more development time than say a squeal is somewhat telling that these games are for the entire generation. If that is so, it's kinda lackluster with Microsoft owning 23 studios with each studio working on multiple projects. That is all speculation though, Hopefully, the 25 games are not including already known titles and we'll see a ton of cool games coming to PS5 in the future.

Hogwarts Legacy delayed into 2022

Warner Bros has announced that Hogwarts Legacy has been delayed into 2022.

a statement posted to the official Twitter account said: "Creating the best possible experience for all of the Wizarding World and gaming fans is paramount to us, so we are giving the game the time it needs."

This year is currently looking to go one of two ways for me, either a ton of upcoming games get delayed due to working at home situation or there are so many games coming that this delay will only end up being a good decision all round. I'm still currently playing 2020 games and the game train isn't stopping with Yakuza 3, 4, and 5, Hitman 3, Scott Pilgrim VS The World The Game: Complete Edition and that's just the games I'm excited for that’s launching in January.

Hogwarts Legacy is now launching on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC in 2022.

Ubisoft Massive & Lucasfilm Games Announce A New Star Wars Game

Ubisoft Massive & Lucasfilm Games have revealed a brand new open-world Star Wars game, can we just take a second and rejoice that it's not another EA Star Wars game.

As revealed by Wired, the game will see Julian Gerighty (director of The Division 2 and The Crew) as creative director, however, they also confirmed that it's still in the early days of development with Massive still hiring staff for the project.

Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot gave a statement on the partnership, saying "The Star Wars galaxy is an amazing source of motivation for our teams to innovate and push the boundaries of our medium. Building new worlds, characters, and stories that will become lasting parts of the Star Wars lore is an incredible opportunity for us, and we are excited to have our Ubisoft Massive studio working closely with Lucasfilm Games to create an original Star Wars adventure that is different from anything that has been done before."

The title will be the first mainline Star Wars game outside of VR or a LEGO game that isn't developed by EA's Star Wars division. EA was originally in an exclusive agreement to make Star Wars games for ten years, however, they've just crossed the eight-year mark.

No details have been given as to the status of that agreement, although EA is still apparently free to continue to create Star Wars games going forward, and Lucasfilm Games intend to work with other partners as well in the future.

Senior Vice President of Global Games and Interactive Experiences at Disney Sean Shoptaw told Wired: "EA has been and will continue to be a very strategic and important partner for us now and going forward, but we did feel like there's room for others.

Indiana Jones game In The Works At Machine Games & Bethesda

Bethesda has announced that developer MachineGames (Wolfenstein Series) is working on a brand new Indiana Jones game.

Details on this project are super sparse apart from that it will be "an original story" not based on any of the films, and will be executive produced by Todd Howard. The game will also be created in collaboration with the newly-rebranded Lucasfilm Games.

a short teaser trailer was released on Bethesda Twitter, which also confirmed that it'll be a while before the studio has more information on the project. It's currently unknown what platforms we'll see the game come to but it'll probably be on Xbox, considering their recent purchase of Bethesda and all its studios.

On a personal note, I'm super excited to finally get an Indiana Jones game from a studio known for making great games. I'm pretty intrigued to see what type of game we'll get in the future.

Dying Light 2 News Coming Soon

Dying Light 2 might finally be on the horizon after developer Techland has released a statement responding to the departure of one of its longest-serving employees.

Narration Designer Pawel Selinger recently revealed on his LinkedIn page that he had left the company after 22 years at the studio. The news was reported by several outlets with a large portion of them putting him as the lead writer of the game after a recent departure of their prior writer.

Techland responded over the weekend with a statement to PC Gamer, which confirmed the departure of Pawel Selinger but also clarifying his former role: "Paweł Selinger, who has been the Narration Designer for the last two years, decided at the end of 2020 to end his cooperation with Techland and to pursue his further career elsewhere."

The statement continued on: "Paweł spent most of his professional life at Techland and he, among others, takes credit for the success of the series Call of Juarez. He left a large piece of himself with Dying Light 2, as he worked on the project from the very beginning. His duties, ie. the narrative department, were taken over by Piotr Szymanek in October 2020."

the statement also added that there could be some light on the horizon for those wanting news on the game by saying: "We will be sharing exciting news about Dying Light 2 soon!"

Hitman 3 All Six Locations Revealed

IO Interactive has revealed a full list of all the upcoming locations for Agent 47 next adventure in Hitman 3.

The developer's announced via a blog post on the official website that the three previously revealed locations of the Chinese city of Chongqing, Dubai, UAE, and Thornbridge Manor in Dartmoor, England would be joined by three other locations.

the three new maps consist of the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, a vineyard based in Mendoza, Argentina, and the final mission which will be the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. That's pretty much all the details as they wanted to keep it as spoiler-free as possible but they do have screenshots of all available areas located on their website.

Hitman 3 will be releasing on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC from January 20

Persona Soundtrack Comes To Spotify

Atlus has announced that most of the original soundtracks for the Persona games will be dropping onto Spotify.

Here's a list of the following Atlus soundtracks available on Spotify now:

Persona 5 OST

P4 & P4 Golden OST

P3 & FES OST

P2 Sound Collections

P4 Dancing All Night OST

P4 Arena Ultimax OST

Never More - Reincarnation: Persona 4

P3 & P4 Vocal Sound Collection

PQ & PQ2 OST

As a massive nerd for Persona, I'm super stoked to see the soundtrack become easily accessible to listen to. Previously you could only get hold of the soundtrack for the games by purchasing the collector’s edition of the games or via uploads on YouTube.

Here are some of my favorite tracks from all the games I've played:

Mass Destruction (Persona 3 FES)

The Snow Queen (Persona 3 FES)

Pursuing My True Self (Persona 4 Golden)

Time To Make History (Persona 4 Golden)

Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There (Persona 5)

Phantom (Persona 5)

Life Will Chhange (Persona 5)

I could have listed at least another ten songs, I don't know how Atlus does it but the songs gain so much meaning over the course of each game. If you can't tell, this is just a huge ploy to encourage you to go play Persona 5 Royal. Which you should because it's one of, if not the best game that released in 2020.

The Year Of Creation

What's up folks and welcome to another blog post. I struggled for so awhile trying to figure out the introduction to this post so I thought I'd just rehash my podcast intro for it.

I have always been able to focus on something and hammer away at it continuously but 2020 kinda took that from me and stomped on it hard. I managed to somehow keep posting daily on Instagram and exercising but everything else went to the wayside.

Content creation is something I’ve always been drawn too and I plan to go bananas in 2021. The Podcast is moving homes from SoundCloud to HelloGhostly.com. This means sadly that either i lose all the current episodes I've created or import them all over, which takes a ton of time. Hopefully, I'll then be able to bring the podcast to more platforms such as Spotify or Amazon Music.

Gaming News is coming back to the website on a weekly basis covering the best news for consoles such as Xbox Series X, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. However, it's gonna be a little bit different as I'll only be covering the news that interests me, and I might inject some opinion along the way.

Lastly, I plan to do another regular feature on the website focusing on content creators in general, I'll be revealing more on that in the near future.

2021 has given me perspective on what's important, My family is always gonna be my first priority but creating is a close second. I plan to create a ton of awesome content over the course of the next year and i can't wait to get started.

Overwatch Year Of The Pig Event, Anthem VIP Demo - Hello Ghostly Games Podcast 25.01.19

Anthem VIP demo is now available to download, Blizzard Entertainment announces the new year lunar event called The Year Of The Pig and I spent my week Hunting down Funko Pops.

That's not all though, we discuss Bungies statement on the future of Destiny, Dragon ball FighterZ free on Xbox, Fortnite getting frosty with the sneaky snowman, Halo: The Master Chief Collection dev is teasing something for SXSW, Fallout 76 not going free to play and Overkill's The Walking Dead console release delayed.

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The Division 2 Private Beta, Kingdom Hearts 3 Epilogue - Hello Ghostly Games Podcast 18.01.19

After last week darker tone, I felt at times for a more happy episode, so I drank two coffees before the episode. That will make it happy, won't it? no okay. But seriously we talk more video games this week and get into the release dates for the division 2 private beta, kingdom hearts 3 epilogues coming after the game launches and much more.

Overwatch's Solider 76 Joins Tracer as an LGBTQ hero - Hello Ghostly Games Podcast 11.01.19

What's Up everyone, I wanted to start by adding a somewhat disclaimer to this episode. The following episode gets into a mature discussion in regards to depression, anxiety, and death. I talk about the recent loss of my father in law and how that's affected me over the past year and also my previous attempts of suicide.

It was rough for me to listen back to but I hope this episode helps you if you're going through similar feeling or issues. Life always gets better and there is always someone who cares, even if it feels like there isn't.