As EA and FIFA attempt to work out a deal for the future of the football series, EA Sports has released new statistics that speak to the enormous popularity and appeal of the franchise.
After 22 days in the market, FIFA 22 has reached 46 trillion minutes played overall, which works out to 87.8 million years of gameplay. Players have scored 5 billion goals and played in 2.1 billion matches overall. People in more than 200 nations worldwide have played FIFA 22. People are playing around 89 million matches per day, EA said.
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Read moreIt’s fitting that the music first greeting you in Legend of Grimrock II is a rousing, bombastic tune that would just as easily be at home in a summer fantasy blockbuster. The sequel is a grand adventure, a far cry from the claustrophobic tunnels of its predecessor’s excellent first-person, tile-based dungeon-crawling revival. And while the suffocating atmosphere of the franchise’s first entry has been diluted by a focus on exploration rather than escape, its mechanics and well-crafted content have flourished and been improved in almost every way. Legend of Grimrock II is a logical and brilliantly executed next step for the series, exhibiting slight symptoms of too much freedom, but never stumbling for long.
Grimrock II has little to do with the mountain peak in the game’s title; rather, it serves as reassurance that the formula defined decades ago, and modernized in the original Grimrock, still elegantly drives the experience. You fashion a party of adventurers with classic Du…
Read moreCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches worldwide on October 25, so Treyarch has released the patch notes to reveal all the changes made after the game’s beta. This includes weapon changes and small adjustments to several multiplayer map designs for Black Ops 6.
Black Ops 6 includes campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies, and while some players are getting hands-on time early thanks to New Zealand’s time zone, the game doesn’t officially arrive until tomorrow. Treyarch has revealed that all side Easter eggs and main story quests for both Zombies maps will remain locked until 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM BST on October 25 to avoid any major spoilers and give all players a fair opportunity to discover them.
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Read moreNvidia has announced that Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available on GeForce Now, and will be adding several popular Bethesda titles for the first time this month.
A recent blog post explains that PC players with access to GeForce Now will be able to play Larian Studios’ newly released role-playing game if they have an Ultimate membership ($20 a month). Members have previously been able to access the early access version of Baldur’s Gate 3, but with the official PC launch, the full game is now available and streamable through the service.
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Read moreReaching the level cap in the long-running MMO The Lord of the Rings Online–not to be confused with the other LOTR MMO that has reportedly been canceled–usually involves killing a fair number of orcs and beasts, but one enterprising player has decided to take a more pacifistic approach by baking his way to the top.
As originally reported by MMORPG.com, Cookingwithsim tackled the challenge on the Evernight server, and every day for the past eight months he could be found either baking mountains of pies or foraging for ingredients in which to create more culinary gains.
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Read moreDiablo Immortal is Blizzard’s newest entry in its decades-old franchise, but it marks the first game in the series to launch on both PC and mobile devices. If you’re looking to boot up this fresh release and see what’s what, you’re going to want to be sure your rig or phone can handle what you’re throwing at it.
PC system requirements
Luckily for PC players, the minimum requirements for Diablo Immortal are low, meaning that a large majority of PCs should be able to enjoy the game on low settings at the very least. Even more, its recommended requirements are extremely reasonable, too, so even older gaming PCs should have no issues running the game.
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