Gaming News for 10.01.20 Death Stranding Leader GDC 2020/Magic: Legends Disappointed/What showed on Nintendo Direct

Death Stranding leads GDC 2020 nominations

Game Developers Choice organizers announced nominees for their annual awards. Winners will be announced March 18th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the Independent Games Festival awards ceremony will also take place.
The leader in the number of nominations for the Game Developers Choice Award was Death Stranding. Developers from Kojima Productions can take seven awards with them, including the prize for the best game of the year.
Next come Control and Outer Wilds, who each received five nominations, Disco Elysium and Untitled Goose Game - four nominations, as well as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Sayonara Wild Hearts - three nominations.

Magic: Legends' first gameplay disappointed players

Magic: Legends' first gameplay disappointed players
At The Game Awards 2019, the announcement of MMORPG in the Magic the Gathering universe - Magic: Legends. As it turned out, this is not a classic MMO, but another Diablo clone.
Game Informer, where the novelty became the main topic of the next issue of the magazine, published a short gameplay video, which revealed the first frames of the role-playing action. After quite impressive cinematics, the players were confused by what they saw.
Many are embarrassed that the game was presented as MMORPG, while it clearly belongs to another subclass of role-playing games - ARPG. And judging by the gameplay, the developers from Perfect World and Cryptic also shamelessly copy Diablo.
Now the video has roughly equal likes and dislikes, but in the comments the players are mostly unhappy with what they saw.
Magic: Legends will be released this year on the PS4, Xbox One and PC.

The Sims 4: Compact Life catalog adds tiny homes and folding beds

Electronic Arts has introduced another catalog to the legendary life simulator The Sims 4. And this time, the creators were not limited to adding new items and outfits. “The Sims 4: Compact Life” will change the very basics of Sim life.
Buyers of the catalog will be able to plunge into a new unusual test: to build a house on a tiny site of 100 tiles, 10x10. Those who manage to cope with this will receive special advantages: low utility bills, increased speed of establishing friendly and romantic relations and a bonus to comfort.
To cope with the minimum living space was easier, the creators added a set of compact and multifunctional furniture. For example, a wall in which a bookshelf, a TV and a stereo system are combined. Or a folding bed, which also serves as a wardrobe.
By tradition, the kit will include new outfits and hairstyles for sims. All of them embody the idea of ​​modesty, comfort, environmental friendliness and reasonable consumption.
PC players will be able to make their lives compact on January 21st. And on February 4, the day of the 20th anniversary of The Sims, the catalog “The Sims 4: Compact Life” will appear on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers presents as a sequel to Persona 5

Atlus Studio has released the second trailer for the future action movie Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, which is being developed jointly with Omega Force, a division of Koei Tecmo. He is accompanied by the song Rivers in the Desert.
The main focus of the new video is on the activities of the Phantom Thieves, well known in Persona 5. In the final, the creators even hint that they view The Phantom Strikers as the sequel to Persona 5: the number 2 is trying to take its place in the logo, but the letter “expels” it.

The new trailer for the first time shows three bosses of prisons - mystical structures that replaced the original palaces. In Sibuya, we will meet with the dark version of Alice, in Sapporo - with the gluttony Mariko, and in Sendai - with the dragon-like Ango.
In the coming days Atlus promises to publish a lot of additional information about the upcoming game. In particular, tomorrow we are waiting for the next video trip of Morgan to one of the real gaming locations: most likely, it will be Okinawa.
And the release of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers will take place on February 20 in Japan, the game will be released on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. In the West, she will appear later.

«Catch the Knight»: The first teaser in three months for the new Batman: Arkham

At the end of September 2019, WB Montreal began to tease the new Batman: Arkham, however, the ardor of developers, unfortunately, faded after the first hint.
Fans counted on the announcement of the game at least at The Game Awards 2019, but this did not happen. Why did the game team decide in the fall to hint at a project if it was not going to present it soon? Unfortunately, this is still an open question.
But today, January 9, a second teaser image with the caption “Catch the Knight” appeared on the studio’s social networks. The first teaser had a similar record.
It is not known when WB Games still announces the game, but usually the publisher shows new items shortly before their release.
According to rumors and leaks, the main villains of the new Batman will be the members of the Court of Soviets, a secret criminal organization whose members have ruled Gotham for years as gray cardinals. In addition, Ra's al-Ghul and Men-Bet are expected to appear.
The game should be a direct continuation of Batman: Arkham Origins - events will unfold before Arkham Asylum.
All teasers at the moment

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem release postponed for two weeks

Diabloid Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem was due to exit early access in late January. However, the developers decided to postpone the release. The head of Wolcen Studio, Daniel Dolui, spoke about this in a new special video.
According to Dolui, at the current stage of development, every extra day and even an hour of work can help a small French studio make its project better. The creators do not want, because of the release of the tagged game, all their work wasted.
The new release date for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem was February 13th. Although you can buy the game on Steam now, it will only be available on PC.
At the same time, the developers showed the process of creating a character, as well as small fragments of gameplay.
Only five developers started work on the game, and now forty people work at Wolcen Studios. The project successfully passed Kickstarter and since March 2016 has been in the Steam early access.

What did Nintendo Direct show about Pokémon?

What did Nintendo Direct show about Pokémon?
Recently, a special Nintendo Direct about Pokemon was held, where several announcements took place at once.
To begin with, the developers of Pokemon Sword and Shield announced a seasonal pass, which includes two additions. Each of them will be changed depending on the version of the game.
Isle of Armor will be released in the summer and will present a judo school with mentor Mustard, as well as a new type of fighting Pokémon Kubfi.
The Crown Tundra will be released in the fall and focus on exploring locations and a new cooperative mode.
Each addition, among other things, will add new locations, characters, costumes and about 200 Pokemon. The subscription can already be bought. The next important announcement is a remake of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX, which will be released on March 6 only on the Nintendo Switch. The original game appeared in 2006 on the Nintendo DS. Unlike the original, the remake will have only one version.
The demo has already been released on eShop, where pre-order is also available. The latest major announcement is the release of Pokemon Home in February.
This is a service thanks to which you can transfer your Pokémon from 3DS games (Pokémon Bank), Pokemon GO and Pokemon Let's Go to Pokemon Sword and Shield. Unfortunately, it will be possible to transfer them so far only to the very last part of the franchise.

Grand Theft Auto V became the most downloaded game in the European PS Store for 2019

Sony unveiled lists of the most downloaded games in the U.S. and European PS Store for 2019. Predictably, the leaders in the regions are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Grand Theft Auto V.
At the same time, the first novelty of the year in the European ranking, in addition to the next Call of Duty and FIFA, was the Crash Team Racing remake, which is in tenth position. Then comes the remake of Resident Evil 2 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
European top 20 for 2019
1.Grand Theft Auto V
2.FIFA 20 (new)
3.Minecraft
4.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (new)
5.Rainbow Six Siege
6.Red Dead Redemption 2
7.The Forest
8.Rocket League
9.UFC 3
10.Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (new)
11.FIFA 19
12.Need for Speed ​​Payback
13.Star Wars Battlefront II
14.Battlefield V
15.The Sims 4
16.Gang Beasts
17.Resident Evil 2 (new)
18.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (new)
19.Assassin's Creed Odyssey
20.TEKKEN 7.
In the US, the situation with the news is better: the Division 2 is located on the ninth, and immediately after it are the Days Gone, the Fallen Order and Borderlands 3.
American top 20 for 2019
1.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (new)
2.Minecraft
3.NBA 2K19
4.Grand theft auto v
5.NBA 2K20 (new)
6.Rainbow six siege
7.Madden NFL 20
8.Star Wars Battlefront II
9.The Division 2 (new)
10.Days Gone (New)
11.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (New)
12.Borderlands 3 (new)
13.LB The Show 19 (New)
14.World War Z (new)
15.God of war
16.Mortal Kombat 11 (new)
17.Rocket league
18.The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
19.The forest
20.Spider-Man
It is noteworthy that in both regions there is no Death Stranding.