The Biggest Gaming News For January 28, 2022
Happy Friday, or should I say, happy Pokemon Legends: Arceus release day. If you've had your head buried in your Switch all day, you may have missed some of these big gaming stories. Today, we got a new interview with FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki about Elden Ring's difficulty and a news from Sega about the future of its arcade business. We also got hints from NetherRealm Studios and Ludosity about the next Mortal Kombat game and Nickelodeon All Star Brawl character, respectively. Without further ado: here are the top gaming news stories from Friday, January 28, 2022.
In an interview with PlayStation Blog, Elden Ring direction Hidetaka Miyazaki said that his team at FromSoftware doesn't "try to force difficulty or make things hard for the sake of it." The director went on to say that they hope players don't feel unfairly punished by FromSoftware's games, which include Bloodborne, Sekiro, and the Dark Souls trilogy. Miyazaki believes that Elden Ring's open world and "freedom to progress through the world or return to a challenge later" will help more people finish this time.
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Jonathan Anderson, senior production manager at NetherRealm, tweeted a photo this week that may have leaked confirmation that Mortal Kombat 12 is in development. The photo shows several pieces of concept art from Injustice and older Mortal Kombat games, but if you look closely at the computer screen at the edge of the photo, you can see the words "MK12_Mast". You can also see an email from someone named Christine warning that recipients should be careful with the materials since fans "eagerly scrape the internet" for clues. This would indicate that the "slip" was a planned leak, or
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