Gaming
Five Nights At Freddy’s 4 Confirmed
Thought Five Nights At Freddy’s was over? Well think again. There aren’t a lot of people out there with the ability to drive the internet absolutely crazy with nothing but a single, static picture. But Scott Cawthon, the creator of the Five Nights At Freddy’s series, is one of those people. Earlier today an image appeared on his website, scottgames, of Springtrap – the main antagonist of his last game, Five Nights At Freddy’s 3. The corner of the image contains a caption reading “The final chapter,” and a 31st October release date. Plus, the file name of the image is “4”.
At the time of writing, the website was crashing two out of three times, so in case you’re unable to feast your eyeballs on the latest Five Nights At Freddy’s hype-machine, here it is:
Creepy, right? We’ve got Springtrap with what appear to be tiny Freddy heads poking out of his chest. But that’s not what’s got the fans in a tizz. The fans are freaking out because of the hat. Earlier in the year, Cawthon’s site featured this image:
Fans interpreted the image of Freddy’s hat on the floor to mean the series was finished. It was supposedly Cawthon’s way of saying he’d hung up his Freddy hat for good, the series concluded with the third installment. It was a fair assumption, considering the last game more or less tied up all the story’s loose ends (albeit in Cawthon’s cryptic way). But a few weeks ago that image was replaced with another:
Yes, Scott Cawthon can even get people to freak out over a blank image. Cawthon’s shown time and time again that there’s nothing he loves more than to tease his fans, and with the hat gone fans were going wild over the possibility of another game. It turns out they were right.
The Five Nights At Freddy’s series owes much of its success to its popularity with Let’s Players on YouTube, with all three of the previous games collecting millions of views across countless channels. Because, you know, if there’s one thing more enjoyable than playing a horror game, it’s watching other people play horror games. But outside of the Freddy fans, the reaction to the announcement of fourth Five Nights At Freddy’s is more along the lines of meh. There have been three Five Nights At Freddy’s games in the past nine months and people seem to be tiring of the franchise. Even Markiplier, who among the larger YouTube channels has spent the most time with the games, said during his playthrough of Five Nights At Freddy’s 3, “I don’t think this series needs another game.” Among those YouTubers who played the previous three games, there seems to be consensus that yes, they will of course play it, but it’s become a chore.
I love watching grown adults leap out of their chairs in terror as much as the next person, but the next Five Nights At Freddy’s better feature something that’s actually different to the last three.
The never-ending saga surrounding Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has a new participant. Today, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from the state of Washington, said some things about the subject that were hard to understand.
The senator, whose remarks were reported on by ResetEra, spoke at a Senate finance committee hearing on “the president’s 2023 Trade Policy Plan,” which we are sure was quite interesting.
Senator Cantwell said that she had been told that Sony “controls a monopoly of 98% of the high-end game market” despite the fact that “Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive conduct through exclusive deals and payments to game publishers, establishing games that are among the most popular in Japan.”
This 98% statistic is highly deceptive because it ignores PC, Nintendo, and mobile games and instead refers to Sony’s adoption rate over Microsoft in Sony’s native country of Japan, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is even somewhat familiar with the video game business.
What can we do to rectify these problems and create a level playing field, she said of US Trade Representative Katherine Tai after charging Japan’s Federal Trade Commission with improperly failing to look into this purported “exclusionary conduct”?
It is absurd to claim that Sony has a monopoly on the Japanese video game market, as Luke Plunkett of Kotaku correctly points out, “because Sony doesn’t even have a 98% share of the market for the God of War series, a title they own, as Steam is getting 30% of every sale on PC.”
It goes without saying that we can’t expect elected officials to be experts in every field, but this is a visible step at a time when the ongoing attempt to buy the company is at a very important point.
Is it significant that Microsoft, along with Nintendo, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington—Senator Cantwell’s district—or that Microsoft has given Cantwell more than $500,000 over the past two decades? Let us leave that up to you.
Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, attempt to consume as much trash as you can without being discovered. It is a web-based sequel to the anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game.It will eventually be available on the PS5.
We couldn’t help but notice that the possum in the title doesn’t look like the cute Australian possum that comes out at night to visit people.On the other hand, it looks like the horrible North American opossums are the ones that will attack trash cans and cause general chaos.Even though we think the second choice was better in terms of theme, we prefer the first one and are happy to explain why.
Your thoughts on Pizza Possum? Does it possess the necessary mass appeal to successfully skitter along the back fenceline while setting the dog off in the process?
Resident Evil 4 is now out, and the excellent remake can be bought right away.Even though you probably plan to play it all this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that The Mercenaries, Resident Evil’s almost-required challenge mode, will be available as free DLC on April 7.
The mode’s exact details are still unknown, but if it’s anything like previous versions, you can expect some pretty hard tasks to test your skills.
You’re stumped about something? If you are still debating whether to purchase Resident Evil 4 Remake, be sure to look at our exhaustive guide for the answer or our in-depth review. Are you spending this weekend playing Resident Evil 4? Are you anticipating The Mercenaries?
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