In transient: It’s Thursday and that may imply just one factor for Epic Games Store buyers – one other freebie. This week’s free title is Payday 2, the co-op first-person shooter from Overkill Software and 505 Games that first hit the scene in August 2013.
This is not the primary time we have seen Payday 2 go free. A couple of years after launch, Steam supplied the sport without cost… to the primary 5 million individuals fortunate sufficient to say it. Epic’s provide is nice for a full week to anybody that wishes it.
The complimentary recreation is a part of the continued Epic Games Mega Sale which kicked off final month and runs via June 15.
Publisher Gun Media has introduced that its license for Friday the thirteenth: The Game is about to run out on December 31, 2023. From that day on, the writer will now not have the ability to promote bodily or digital copies of the survival horror recreation.
Gun Media mentioned the title will proceed to operate via at the very least the tip of December 2024, and can stay on sale till the tip of this yr. A Twitter submit saying the information famous a diminished worth of $4.99 for the bottom recreation and $0.99 per each bit of DLC however as of writing, storefronts haven’t alter their pricing.
Licensing points have bit the sport within the butt prior to now. In 2020, devs needed to shut down the sport’s devoted on-line servers as a consequence of a proper concern.
A brand new recreation primarily based on the franchise is alleged to be within the works. According to longtime collection composer Harry Manfredini, it will likely be developed by a special firm and can function “extra sensible wanting” characters.
EA’s first school soccer recreation in additional than a decade is due out in 2024. Thanks to current NCAA modifications, student-athletes are actually in a position to be compensated for using their title, picture, and likeness (NIL). That’s nice information for gamers… at the very least, on paper. In actuality, the scenario is much extra sophisticated.
Let’s put aside the controversy of pay to win for a second (the place faculties with the deepest pockets will pay high greenback for the best ranked recruits) and focus on the matter at hand. According to a report from On3, EA has put aside a money pool of round $5 million to pay school gamers for his or her NIL in its new recreation. That works out to about $500 per participant and in line with a separate report from Sportico, there shall be no royalties concerned.
For comparability, NFL gamers featured in Madden video games polled over the previous few years earned anyplace between $17,000 and $28,000 for using their likeness. Then once more, the NFL has far fewer than the ten,000 or so school gamers that may obtain cash from the EA deal.
The College Football Players Association (CFBPA) is encouraging gamers to boycott the sport in hopes of getting EA to pay out extra, however is that the correct transfer? Sure, some elite gamers could also be price greater than $500 however to a child with no legit future in soccer past school and no change of touchdown another NIL offers… $500 is $500.
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