Hades 2 released in early access last night, and is already pulling in some impressive numbers on Steam for concurrent players. At the time of writing, there are over 100,000 players making their way through Supergiant Games' first-ever sequel. It has eclipsed its predecessor, with the first Hades game currently holding a concurrent player record of 37,749 (although, it is worth noting that Hades was a timed-exclusive on the Epic... Read more ›
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A Poppy Playtime book, based on the cult-favourite horror game, is now available. The in-world Poppy Playtime Orientation Notebook, published by Scholastic, has been authored by "a brilliant biologist-turned-employee of Playtime Co." and promises exclusive secrets and backstory on the origins of popular character Huggy Wuggy, the Smiling Critters, and more. "This partnership with Scholastic marks a significant milestone for Mob Entertainment, solidifying our commitment to transmedia storytelling," sai Read more ›
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Arkane Lyon boss Dinga Bakaba and others from across the industry have reacted to today's news of devastating closures at Bethesda. Earlier today, news broke that Microsoft is making huge cuts at Bethesda, including closing Redfall studio Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks, and Mighty Doom studio Alpha Dog Studios. Bakaba, Arkane Lyon's studio and co-creative director, described the decision as "absolutely terrible" in an irate thread on X,... Read more ›
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In the wake of devastating closures at Bethesda, Arkane Austin has confirmed the Hero Pass DLC for Redfall will no longer be released. Instead, players who purchased the pass as part of the £100 Bite Back Edition or £30 upgrade will receive credit to the same value as the pass. As Eurogamer reported last week, it's been a year since Redfall's launch and its promised Hero Pass was yet to... Read more ›
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Xbox has today announced stunning cuts and studio closures affecting a slew of development houses under the Bethesda banner. Redfall developer Arkane Austin will close, and its online co-op vampire game will not be updated further. Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks will close. Read more Read more ›
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Freya Allen, who plays Ciri in Netflix's Witcher adaptation, has said she feels sorry for Liam Hemsworth ahead of his turn as Geralt, and hopes viewers will give him the "time of day" when the show's fourth season makes its debut.Speaking with Collider, Allen said the Witcher's fanbase "can be very attack-y", adding that Hemsworth's situation is not an "ideal" one. Allen is, of course, referring to Hemsworth taking over... Read more ›
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CD Projekt Red's official mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt now has a release date. The Witcher 3 REDkit, as it's known, was made available last month for playtesting ahead of a full release. Now we know from a Steam post that's later this month: 21st May. The editor will be available for free for anyone who owns the game on PC. Read more Read more ›
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Cal Kestis, the main character from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, will soon be available as a Lego minifigure for the first time. After various teases, including his appearance in a recent Lego Star Wars anniversary video, Lego has now confirmed Kestis' minifigure will be part of the upcoming Imperial Star Destroyer (75494) set, due to launch on 1st August. Priced at £150, the set will primarily consist... Read more ›
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Beat Saber will no longer be supported on Meta Quest 1 VR headsets later this year. According to an FAQ on the game's website, the developer is aiming to "raise the bar of what's possible", meaning it will focus on more recent and powerful devices instead. Beat Saber will remain playable on Meta Quest 1 devices, but from 2nd November support will end. This means no multiplayer or leaderboard functionality,... Read more ›
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Medieval city-building strategy Manor Lords released in early access last month, and already its community has modded in DreamWorks Animation's great green ogre as a playable character. After all, what really is a new PC release without the swift implementation of a Shrek mod?The mod in question comes from NorskPL, who states: "Shrek is lord, Shrek is life."As you can see in the image above, this mod replaces the playable... Read more ›
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Stone the crows! London-based indie studio, SFB Games is probably best know for its Nintendo Switch launch title Snipperclips, but its newest release, Crow Country couldn't be any more different. Heavily inspired by PS1 survival horror in both graphics and gameplay, Crow Country sees you exploring an abandoned theme park in search of its missing owner Edward Crow.Crow Country releases on Steam, Xbox X/S and PS5 on Thursday 9th of... Read more ›
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Nintendo expects Switch to sell another 13.5m units during the coming financial year - enough that it will overtake Nintendo DS to become the company's best-selling platform. In total, Switch is now on 141.32m units sold. In financial results published today - alongside which Nintendo mentioned Switch 2 for the first time - Nintendo forecast enough Switch 1 sales to take the aging console to 154.82m sold. As a reminder,... Read more ›
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Remedy has cancelled its premium co-op multiplayer game, Codename Kestrel.The project - which started life as codename Vanguard, before it was rebooted last year - was being developed by the Alan Wake and Control studio, with Tencent set to handle the publishing side of things. Read more Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 14 has suffered a DDoS attack, though issues appear to now be fixed. Yesterday, technical difficulties were experienced in all data centres across the globe, including issues with logging into the game or being disconnected. In a blog post, Square Enix stated it is "investigating the attack and taking countermeasures". It seems the issue may now have been fixed. This morning I had no issue logging in following... Read more ›
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Nintendo has officially discussed Switch 2 for the first time, and laid out a rough timetable for when we'll see the much-discussed console publicly unveiled. A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we'll hear of Switch 2 "this fiscal year" - before the end of March 2025. The message also damps down any expectation we'll hear about Switch 2 in the... Read more ›
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Sequels are always difficult, I imagine. How to capture the core brilliance of a thing and build on it? What to add, what to remove? I've always loved Sid Meier's rule of thirds for Civilisation games: one third remains the same, one third is improved, one third is totally new. But not every game is Civilisation.Sequels for roguelikes, though? Cor. Difficulty cubed. This is because roguelikes, with campaigns composed of... Read more ›
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A new week and a fresh Monday brings with it the hopefully welcome prospect of a new episode of DF Direct Weekly - and this week, the team sit down to discuss topics as diverse as Starfield's planned performance upgrade for Xbox Series X, the latest Switch 2 rumours, more path tracing in Capcom RE Engine titles and some new information on the PlayStation 5 Pro's GPU - such as... Read more ›
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Recently, because I hate myself, I was browsing Twitter (I’m not calling it X) and I stumbled across an incredible conceptual video from an artist named DEVINK that shows what they imagine a potential Fortnite X Fallout crossover could look like.This crossover seems like a bit of a no-brainer to me and I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happened in the future, but what about Fallout crossovers from... Read more ›
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Sony has backtracked on its plans to enforce mandatory PSN linking for Helldivers 2 players on Steam, following immense backlash from its community.On Friday, the publisher announced Helldivers 2 players on Steam would soon be required to link to a PSN account for safety and security. This, it said, was always going to be a requirement for players on PC, but due to issues at launch linking was made optional.This... Read more ›
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Steam is refunding players with hundreds of in-game hours in Helldivers 2 after publisher Sony and developer Arrowhead told PC players that in order to keep playing after next month, they would have to link to a PSN account.One player managed to secure a Steam refund despite having played Helldivers 2 for 90+ hours by simply submitting a refund request with the message: "Sony has retroactively changed how the game... Read more ›
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