Month: October 2024

Headbangers: Rhythm Royale is flying from the roost later this month, and it’s so dumb and stupid I kind of love it. To boil down the concept: imagine Fall Guys, but with rhythm-based minigames in the style of Warioware. You can play a demo of it right now as part of Steam’s Next Fest until October 16.

Developed by Glee-Cheese Studio and published by Team17, Headbangers puts you in the talons of a pigeon, facing up against 29 other players (or, right now, a handful of players and bots—it’s still in a humble demo phase after all) to see who can keep tempo.

What’s neat is how much mileage Headbangers is already getting out of its concept. I played a few rounds where I chirped along at a garden party, played DDR on a spinning vinyl, did an instant-death finale on a retro …

A paltry eight years after we first heard rumblings of it, we’ve finally gotten our first shot of the upcoming silver screen version of Five Nights at Freddy’s. What’s more, we’ve even got a release date. Blumhouse Productions announced via its Instagram page that Five Nights at Freddy’s (the movie) will release in cinemas and on the Peacock streaming service on October 27 this year.

The picture gives us a first look at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the restaurant (or chain of restaurants) in which the FNAF games take place. Standing outside, we can see the titular Mr Fazbear accompanied by a child who may or may not be Piper Rubio, who is listed as one of the film’s cast members.

And that’s your lot, I’m afraid. No sign of any other cast members, including once and future Shaggy …

It’s a bad time to be Activision Blizzard. The publisher is set to fork out $23.4 million to tech incubator Acceleration Bay after a jury ruled that it infringed on two of the company’s patents. 

According to Reuters, the patents are related to the “simultaneous sharing of information” used in multiplayer aspects of Activision Blizzard’s games. Acceleration Bay originally filed the infringement complaint back in 2015, before being dismissed and refiled a year later.

While Activision Blizzard argued that any monetary damages shouldn’t exceed $300,000, the jury disagreed. It ruled that the publisher owes $18 million for patent infringement in World of Warcraft, and a further $5.4 million for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Acceleration Bay la…