Welcome to Weekly News Roundup, where we bring you the top gaming news of the week and kicking off our news IGN have fired a staff member after a major plagiarism scandal.
IGN the very popular gaming media company recently put out a review for the game Dead Cells. On the same day YouTuber Broomstick Gaming posted a comparison video showing the similarities between his review of Dead Cells published on July 24th and IGN's review published on August 6th. At first the similarities are small but as the video goes on they start to become more obvious and apparent.
Boomstick Gaming said that there were no hard feelings but wish that he had be credited however after an investigation by IGN the ultimately fired writer Filip Miucin.
Filip Miucin has not yet made a public comment on the scandal but IGN have posted a statement apologising to it’s viewers, Dead Cells developer Motion Twin and of course Boomstick Gaming. IGN also stated that they are currently working on another review for the game.
But as messy as this situation is IGN seem to be responding accordingly, when asked on Twitter if Boomstick Gaming would receive the ad revenue pulled in by the review Peer Schneider co-founder of IGN confirmed that discussions with Boomstick Gaming along those lines are taking place. It’s nice to see that IGN are taking this seriously and seem to be doing everything they can to right there wrongs because let’s be honest it’s not something you see a whole lot of in this industry.
In other news Fallout 76 will not be releasing on Steam. This week Bethesda released a statement about the launch of Fallout 76 saying that the game and it’s beta for PC will only be available through Bethesda.net and not Steam. This is a strange move given that all previous Fallout games have been released on Steam but of course in doing this Bethesda won’t have to share any of the money made through sales with anyone.
Now this doesn’t mean Fallout 76 won’t make it to Steam eventually, Fallout Shelter was also a Bethesda.net exclusive but has since made its way to Steam. Fallout 76 is set to release on PS4, Xbox One and PC on November 14th with the beta starting sometime in October.
Next up, Cory Barlog, writer and creative director on God of War might have hinted that the script for the next God of War may already be in the works. Definitely one of the standout games of this year so far has been God of War and with nothing but praise there is a strong chance of a sequel. This week Cory Barlog put out a tweet saying that he had just sat through a four hour script note discussion.
If we also factor in that Santa Monica Studios now have a job listing on their website for concept artists to work on the God of War team, yeah there’s a damn good chance their working on it.
But of course they would games take a seriously long time to make so getting started on the next God of War now is perfect for Santa Monica Studios but we probably won’t see the game for another 4 years.
Next, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is in closed beta this weekend starting today of all days. The beta for the next Call of Duty starts today at 10am Pacific time and is available to players on PS4, Xbox One and PC and is a whopping 21GB in size. However PC gamers to get another treat with an open beta also available for the whole weekend as of now an open beta for PS4 and Xbox One has not been confirmed.
And finally Henry Cavill wants to play Gearlt of Riveia in Netflix’s Witcher adaption. During an interview with IGN while promoting his latest film Mission Impossible: Fallout Cavill who is best known for playing Superman confirmed that he wouldn’t mind playing Gearlt in Netflix’s TV adaption of the Witcher.
Interestingly enough Cavill also happens to be a gamer and is a massive fan of World of Warcraft and Skyrim. And who knows if he landed the role he could do a fantastic job we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
And that is your gaming news for the week. We’ll be back next week with another dose of gaming news. I’ll see you in the next one but until then remember for all your news, reviews, playthroughs and previews
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