EA has finally pulled back the cover on the details of next week's Battlefield 6 update, patch 1.3.1.0., revealing new content, improvements, a new map, weapons, Battle Pass, and ranked battle royale quads, too. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has announced a Direct Partner Showcase, which will focus on third-party games.This showcase will go live tomorrow - 21st February - at 2pm UK time. It will be available to watch on demand via YouTube.The showcase will last for "around 25 minutes", Nintendo said, and spotlight games coming in the first half of this year from the company's publishing and development partners. Read more Read more ›
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In this week's DF Direct Weekly, the Digital Foundry Team shares their thoughts on the Xbox business update podcast and attempts to fathom strategy from the PlayStation team in the wake of some ominous announcements that resulted in a 10 percentage point dip in Sony's share price. The bottom line looks stark and very straightforward: the audience for PlayStation and Xbox consoles is not increasing gen-on-gen, while the costs of... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards last week, and unlike at The Game Awards, the developers were actually allowed to take some time with their acceptance speech. And let it be known, Larian used that time wisely, addressing both the current state of the industry and the importance of player experience. When Larian's director of publishing Michael Douse took to the stage, he acknowledged... Read more ›
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The official Tomb Raider site has given us little tease as to how it plans to unify the timelines between the original Core trilogy and the recent Survivor trilogy.Back in 2021, Crystal Dynamics confirmed that future games in the franchise will unite the two sets of Tomb Raider timelines. Since then, we have seen Lara Croft pop up in Call of Duty with a design which mixed that 'Classic Lara'... Read more ›
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Capcom has shared a post to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Street Fighter 5, where it apologised for the game's original state at launch. "From the beginning to the middle of the release, there were network issues, lack of content, etc... We are truly sorry for the content that did not meet the expectations of many of you," Capcom's Japanese Street Fighter social media account shared over the weekend. This... Read more ›
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Nintendo shares have dropped slightly from a record high last week, following reports the company has internally delayed its expected Switch 2 release window into 2025. Eurogamer reported last Friday that Nintendo was now looking to launch Switch 2 in early 2025, a change from previous, unannounced plans that had the new console pegged for later this year. Sources with knowledge of the delay told us it was designed to... Read more ›
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A Limp Bizkit mod for Fallout: New Vegas once thought lost has now been rediscovered.The mod in question added Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as an in-game companion. And, of course, he brought some nu metal energy with him, as he only spoke in lyrics from the band's discography. All very standard modding community stuff.However, the mod had a very short shelf-life on Nexus Mods when it was first released... Read more ›
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PlayStation-published Helldivers 2 had a hugely successful weekend on Steam, despite some continuing server issues, with a fresh player peak of 409,367 users yesterday. That's a new record for Helldivers 2, according to official Steam figures, and puts the game's all-time player peak higher than Steam stalwarts such as GTA5, Rust and Destiny 2. To say that Helldivers has been a hit on PC would be something of an understatement,... Read more ›
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The Convergence mod for Elden Ring is out now, offering an "exhaustive overhaul" of the game. Available on NexusMods, The Convergence makes major changes from the very beginning of the game. Now players will need to choose from one of 27 new classes - each with its own unique progression path - that will determine the player's starting location in the world. The original game features 10 classes, but these... Read more ›
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The upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be a "AAA" game, Sega has said. Sega first announced it was making a long-awaited new Crazy Taxi title in December last year, as part of a new wave of entries in many of its classic series. Now, a Japan Times interview has shed more light on its scope, and revealed it is being worked on in part by Sega's relatively new Sapporo... Read more ›
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Counter-Strike 2 is Counter-Strike. The formula hasn't really changed since the 1999 original - terrorists and counter-terrorists sparring to eliminate the other side or plant/defuse a bomb at one of two designated locations - but Valve's 2023 release runs better on modern hardware than 2012's Global Offensive and offers sparingly more gameplay possibilities too. Fundamentally though, the core combination of tactical, round-based 5v5 competition and satisfyingly difficult shooting mechanics remain... Read more ›
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Despite claims it is a "quadruple-A" live-service experience, Skull and Bones's user Metacritic score has taken a pummelling since the pirate ship game was released on Friday, 16th February.Based on the 222 user scores recorded to date, Skull and Bones' user score is sitting at just 2.8 out of 10, making it the lowest-rated game of 2024 released thus far when ranked by user score alone.Complaints are centred chiefly around... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to "cap" concurrent players to around 450,000 to "further improve server stability".In a message posted to the game's Discord community, the team said it was "working around the clock to solve" the issue, and whilst it's been able to "mitigate" some of the causes, it was "still struggling to keep up with the scaling that is needed"."Earlier tonight we had server-related issues... Read more ›
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It looks like a demo for Dragon's Dogma 2 could be on the way.According to a recent Steam update – and spotted by the eagle-eyed community on the Dragon's Dogma subreddit – an update to Steam's backend hints that a mysterious "unknown app" was added to Dragon's Dogma 2's Steam listing.Furthermore, the app has been listed as "free on demand", which is often the text appended to Steam demos. Read... Read more ›
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DreadXP has confirmed its upcoming retro psychological survival horror game, Heartworm, will be released in 2025.Designed for people who "love early console-era survival horror games with cinematic fixed camera angles and low-fidelity visuals", Heartworm is described as "a nostalgia-wrapped nightmare with a compelling narrative that tackles themes of grief and obsession, supported by a haunting soundtrack, surreal visuals, and pre-rendered cutscenes".Heartworm developer Vincent Adinolfi had originally hoped Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has apologised for ongoing server "capacity issues" and says it is working to "increase server capacity to accommodate all".Following a pledge to give all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate for "a problem" that's giving out incorrect rewards at the end of missions, Helldivers 2's concurrent Steam count continues to tick up, which has, in turn, seemingly had a significant impact... Read more ›
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I never love defining one game with another, and not least a game like Harold Halibut, which wears its influences openly - stop-motion, Wallace and Gromit-style Aardman animations, mixed with maybe a bit of Wes Anderson and in all seriousness, Postman Pat - but which also so clearly deserves to be seen as its own thing.In this case though it's hard to ignore: the setup for Harold Halibut is very... Read more ›
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I will always have a soft spot for simultaneous turn-based games. These are the games, taking a cue from the likes of Frozen Synapse, in which I make my move in secret, my enemy makes their move in secret, and then both moves play out at once and there's nothing we can do about it. The pleasure of these games comes from intuiting your enemy's move and foiling it. The... Read more ›
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Digital Extremes' fan-favourite sci-fi RPG, Warframe, is coming to iOS later this month.Courtesy of the game's recently-launched cross-play and cross-save systems, players will be able to use – and switch between – platforms, which DE says offers the "same expansive, high-quality" experience on Apple devices as it does on PC and consoles.Players can access their Tenno collection across the platforms, whilst new arrivals will be able to claim "Day 1"... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 is awarding all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate players for "a problem" that's preventing players from receiving the correct rewards at the end of missions.In a statement posted to X/Twitter, deputy game director Sagar explained that whilst the team was still "working on a fix for this", it wanted to "alleviate the impact" for players jumping into the action over the weekend.That... Read more ›
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