News that we missed as the GTA VI trailer debuted

The Grand Theft Auto VI trailer was presupposed to drop tomorrow morning, however a leak triggered Rockstar Video games to launch the trailer early on Monday afternoon.

Whereas we had been distracted with that information, we missed out on some information that on another day may be fairly fascinating. For example, Sony and Naughty Canine introduced that The Last of Us Part Two remaster will get a survival mode coming in January the place you make a roguelike run by means of a gauntlet to see should you can survive the entire beasts that the post-apocalyptic world can throw at you.

This mode, The Final of Us Half Two — Survival Mode, is a part of the remaster of The Final of Us Half Two approaching January 15 for the PlayStation 5.

On this mode, Sony stated it’s important to survive so long as you possibly can “in every run as you select your path by means of a sequence of randomized encounters that includes completely different foes and memorable places from all through The Final of Us Half II, all culminating in tense boss battles.”

The devs additionally stated distinctive gameplay modifiers can supply new and sudden challenges as you struggle to succeed – and survive – in a number of various encounter varieties. Play as quite a lot of characters together with never-before-playable characters like Dina, Jesse, Lev, Tommy and extra, every with distinctive traits to supply completely different playstyles, and unlock skins for them as you progress to make use of within the mode. It appears fairly brutal.

On prime of that, Epic Video games confirmed that The Weeknd is the primary headliner for the brand new Fortnite Competition music sport.

The Weeknd in Fortnite

Fortnite has confirmed The Weeknd as the primary headlining act for its new Competition sport extra. Fortnite Competition would be the first music-focused sport mode to debut with the favored battle royale sport.

Whereas Epic Video games makes Fortnite, Harmonix — the studio that made Rock Band — goes to make Fortnite Competition. Epic Video games acquired Harmonix again in 2021 to make Fortnite experiences. Why am I posting this at 10:45 pm at evening? Nicely, I used to be distracted by the GTA VI information as effectively.

The daddy of video video games

In the meantime, Nolan Bushnell, Atari’s cofounder and the daddy of video video games, joined Gravity Jack’s board of administrators. Gravity Jack, based mostly in Spokane, Washington, is targeted on augmented actuality and pc imaginative and prescient expertise.

Gravity Jack stated it has six foundational patents for AR expertise. With a wealthy historical past of crafting customized blended actuality experiences for Fortune 500 purchasers, the corporate is on a mission to seamlessly combine expertise into the human expertise. Not too long ago launching a StartEngine campaign, the corporate goals to fund its new inner gaming division by providing public shares within the firm and unveil a flagship cell augmented actuality sport entitled WarTribe of Binyamin.

This groundbreaking sport fuses AR and AI to create an expertise poised to redefine the gaming trade on the heels of Apple’s announcement of the Imaginative and prescient Professional, the corporate stated.

Did I miss anything? Please let me know.