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Three games will be removed from the catalogue this month
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, although not a major release of the past year, has won the favour of fans thanks to its solid asymmetrical multiplayer horror. Recently, Gun Interactive announced on Twitter that the game has sold 1.1 million units worldwide and has attracted 5.6 million players, 4.5 million of whom have played the game through Game Pass alone:
Michael Douse, publishing director at Larian Studios, has confirmed rumours that Baldur's Gate 3 will have as many as four discs during its physical release on Microsoft consoles. In his post on the X (Twitter) account, he said that the developers had to use four discs because the game exceeded the 3-disc space limit by 500 MB:
Synduality: Echo of Ada, a shooter from Bandai Namco, still has no official release date, but it seems that it will be released this year. The publisher has announced closed beta testing for Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, and PC (via Steam), and published a new video with gameplay:
Xbox Partner Preview will take place on the 6th of March
Starbreeze Studios, the developer of Payday 3, has released the first in a series of "Operation Medic Bag" patches. It brings general bug fixes and improvements; new features such as a standby button, DirectX12 support, a new challenge, and more.
It looks like inXile Studios has adopted the experience of GSC Game World
Despite the fact that Baldur's Gate III was released last year, physical versions of the game in the form of Deluxe editions will be distributed only at the end of this year. However, there are potential problems with them - the Xbox Series version may require 3 or 4 discs. The studio wants console releases to be fully playable from discs without a significant download for owners.
The promotion is available until the end of the weekend
Developer Visual Concepts has released a new trailer for WWE 2K24, which demonstrates new storylines in the MyRISE mode:
Pentiment is a point-and-click adventure role-playing game with 2D graphics based on 16th century illustrations. The player takes on the role of illustrator Andreas Mahler, who decides to investigate a murder in the town of Tassing, but has no idea what the attempt to play detective will lead to...
The new device will be without a disc drive
Microsoft has announced that the release of the real-time strategy game Age of Mythology: Retold will take place this year, and also published a new trailer:
Visual Concepts and 2K have announced the roster for the upcoming WWE 2K24 wrestling game, which includes more than 200 WWE players divided into different categories such as Legends, NXT, Raw and Smackdown.
As many rumours have suggested recently, Tango Gameworks' surprise Xbox hit from early last year, Hi-Fi Rush, will be released on PlayStation 5 on 19 March. Initially, the announcement was made on Bethesda's YouTube channel in Latin America, but the video was quickly taken down for some reason. In any case, the official trailer is currently available on the main Bethesda Softworks channel:
