Summary

  • The Last of Us Online multiplayer game is canceled to focus on single-player games.
  • Hogwarts Legacy sales could rival Call of Duty and Rockstar Games.
  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will receive an update in 2024 to add missing features.

The Last of Us’ online game receives definitively upsetting yet understandable news, The Day Before’s Fntastic closes down, and Arkane Lyon’s Marvel’s Blade shares concept art to help supplement the game’s stylish reveal teaser. Today, The Best War Games’s weekly recap takes a look at some of the most notable headlines from the past week.

A Death Stranding movie is in the works from Hideo Kojima and A24, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 provides a disappointing update on features that weren’t already part of the game on release, and Mortal Kombat 1 celebrates the holiday season with yet another festively themed Fatality for players to enjoy. All that and more in this week’s roundup of games industry news.

The Last of Us Online Gets Canceled

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The Last of Us Online, the standalone multiplayer game that Naughty Dog recently had on ice, is now canceled entirely so that the studio can keep its focus on single-player games rather than dedicating all its efforts on live-service elements.

Hogwarts Legacy’s Sales Rivaling Call of Duty, Rockstar Games

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Hogwarts Legacy failed to receive any hype around awards time and its Switch port was deemed underwhelming. That said, Hogwarts Legacy’s sales speak for themselves and now have a chance to break a 14-year streak set by either Call of Duty or Rockstar.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Details New Update Now Coming in 2024

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched without some features from the previous games, but that’ll be rectified at some point in early 2024 when Insomniac finally adds a New Game Plus mode alongside other long-awaited accessibility, quality-of-life, and customization options.

The Day Before’s Fntastic Shutting Down

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2023 continues to put out some fascinatingly surreal industry tales and Fntastic’s The Day Before is yet another with the studio closing down only four days after the game’s early access release, apparently due to financial issues.

Arkane Shares Marvel’s Blade Concept Art

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Not long after the reveal of Marvel’s Blade at The Game Awards 2023, Arkane Lyon took to sharing a few pieces of concept art that help to further represent what the stylish Marvel game will look like.

Features

Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele’s OD will likely be buried beneath a ton of speculation and obscurity until launch and maybe even beyond that, but that’s not the only commonality it already shares with Kojima’s Death Stranding franchise. Interestingly, a Death Stranding movie from Kojima and A24 has also recently been announced.

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Emperor Sheev Palpatine is infamous for initiating Order 66 and the resulting Jedi Purge, but a lesser-known yet equally elaborate plot of his occurred soon after his demise in a contingency plan dubbed Operation: Cinder.

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Quan Chi has recently been added as Mortal Kombat 1’s latest Kombat Pack DLC character, and the winter season is also celebrated in-game with a festive yet appropriately gory Fatality.

The Best War Games Exclusives

Grand Theft Auto 6 might not be slated to launch until 2025, but there is reason to believe that 2024 will still have new trailers and details to share about the game, even if quite a bit of time between new information drops is to be expected.

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Death Stranding
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Top Critic Avg: 83 /100 Critics Rec: 79%
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Released
November 8, 2019
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language
Developer(s)
Kojima Productions
Publisher(s)
Sony, 505 Games
Engine
Decima
Cross-Platform Play
Yes! Players will share the same server as Steam and Epic users
Cross Save
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DIGITAL
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From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT.

In the future, a mysterious event known as the Death Stranding has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to grotesque creatures from the afterlife roaming the fallen world marred by a desolate society.

As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America.

Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC includes HIGH FRAME RATE, PHOTO MODE and ULTRA-WIDE MONITOR SUPPORT. Also includes cross-over content from Valve Corporation’s HALF-LIFE series and CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. Stay connected with players around the globe with the Social Strand System™.

Genre(s)
Action
How Long To Beat
40 Hours
Metascore
85
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Premium