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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Imagine being the only person in the building allowed to go into a room because there's a top secret console inside. It's bizarre and yet it happens - console manufacturers are famously secretive about their new hardware. And this is how a man called Simon Pick found himself shut away in a room with a new machine Sony was working on, called, at the time, the PSX - better known... Read more ›
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EA has apologised to FC 24 fans after a bugged challenge accidentally awarded thousands of players an incredibly expensive and hard-to-get TOTY player.According to a blog posted on the official website, it seems that for 24 minutes on 30th January, players partaking in the new Squad Builder Challenges (SBC) had a spectacularly high chance of securing the 86+ OVR untradeable Lionel Messi card worth hundreds of pounds.EA was notified of... Read more ›
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Konami is reportedly "potentially porting" the Silent Hill series to contemporary consoles.That's according to one of five short documentaries Konami published on YouTube the night it shadow-dropped The Short Message.In the fourth video, a level designer who worked on the highly-anticipated (and long rumoured) playable teaser revealed that Konami had originally reached out to the team at Hexadrive – a studio that had primarily worked on porting older games until... Read more ›
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The upcoming free-to-play skateboard sim, Skate, will be available on PC via Steam.The news was confirmed by lead creative writer Cuz Parry, who revealed that the fan-favourite skating game would be coming to PC via Steam for the very first time in a Q&A video posted to YouTube just a couple of days before the holidays.As PC Gamer points out, the news went largely unnoticed at the time, so it... Read more ›
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Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann says he has a "concept" ready for a third and final chapter of The Last of Us series.Talking at the very end of the fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary, Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, Druckmann acknowledged that whilst he didn't yet have a story fully fleshed out, he did have a kernel of an idea that "is as exciting as [The Last of... Read more ›
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Microsoft's next console release may lag behind Sony's due to a delay in signing contracts with technology partner AMD.That's according to podcaster Moore's Law is Dead, who stated earlier this week that Microsoft was "seriously, seriously shopping around with Intel and even NVIDIA apparently for their next-gen console"."As of one month ago, no next-gen contract with AMD had been signed with Microsoft," they said. Read more Read more ›
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There are many factors that go into making a good game, and there are some brilliant ones out there to choose from. But, what about the 'bad' games that are also out there? What is it that actually makes a game bad? And then, if we know what makes a bad game, could we somehow harness that, and make something that is, by the nature of its very badness, actually... Read more ›
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There's a bit of bad news if, like us, you were quietly hoping Citizen Sleeper 2 might just squeak out before the end of 2024; developer Jump Over The Age has confirmed there's still "around a year left of development" on its eagerly anticipated narrative sci-fi RPG sequel. Jump Over The Age - AKA developer Gareth Damian Martin - announced they were working on a follow-up to the hugely well-received... Read more ›
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Paradox Interactive has announced another delay for its ambitious Sims-like Life By You, which is now due to enter early access on 4th June. Life By You, the first game from Paradox's Tectonic studio (headed up by former Sims boss and Second Life CEO Rod Humble), was officially unveiled last March, promising a game that would let players "create humans and live out their lives without loading screens". It is,... Read more ›
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Catherine O'Hara has joined the cast of The Last of Us for the show's second season.O'Hara, whose expansive career includes playing eccentric matriarch Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek and Kate McCallister in the Home Alone films, will play an undisclosed character in HBO's adaptation. However, previous rumours suggested she will have a recurring role as an all-new character known as Gail.O'Hara joins Bella Ramsey's Ellie, Pedro Pascal's Joel, Kaitlyn Dever's... Read more ›
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As acclaimed first-person automation sim Satisfactory inches closer to the fifth anniversary of its early access launch, developer Coffee Stain Studios has revealed it's eyeing up a version 1.0 release "this year", and that the game has now sold over 5.5m copies. Satisfactory released into early access back in March 2019 - initially as an Epic Games Store exclusive before making the jump to Steam the following year - and... Read more ›
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Jim Carrey is set to return as Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film. Carrey starred as the infamous villain (Eggman, if you must) in the first two films and is now confirmed to reprise the role (thanks Variety) despite fan theories about the fate of the character. A teaser on the Sonic the Hedgehog film account features a laugh from the villain, hinting at his return. "You... Read more ›
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Frame generation went open source recently, as AMD added FSR 3 frame generation to its GPUOpen initiative, bringing competition to DLSS 3, locked exclusively to RTX 40-series GPUs. We've seen official FSR 3 support in a small amount of games so far, but the open source release has brought us DLSSG to FSR3 - a mod that works with any DLSS 3 frame generation title, swapping out Nvidia's solution for... Read more ›
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A new report on the development of The Day Before alleges Fntastic employees and "volunteers" were subject to mistreatment. The report was published by German PC gaming outlet GameStar and YouTube channel Game Two earlier this week, and is based on testimonies from 16 former Fntastic employees, one volunteer, and seven employees at publisher Mytona.The claims paint a bleak image of the working environment at Fntastic, which include allegations of... Read more ›
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InnerSloth and CBS Studios have shared a small teaser for their upcoming Among Us animated series. While it doesn't give too much away, the image shows an empty cafeteria with pizzas and balloons adorned by a banner that reads: "We're not dead". Well, I presume it should be read that way anyway. However, a nice big splash of red blood has covered up the middle word, leaving only 'We're' and... Read more ›
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Our Game of the Week is Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It's a game I enjoyed much more than I was expecting to. But I'm also deeply aware that I'm not really the intended audience. James Cameron made this deeply felt fantasy world that people really adore - I'm not one of those people.I had a sense throughout, though, that I was stepping on hallowed ground. I remember reading an article... Read more ›
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Infamous Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser believes the company used him as an example, and says his prison sentence and fine are designed to send a message to others who cross the company in the future.To quickly recap, Bowser was sentenced to 40 months in prison for the distribution and sale of piracy-enabling devices back in 2022. The Canadian programmer had worked as part of a larger hacking group known as... Read more ›
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The boss of indie publisher Devolver Digital has stepped down with immediate effect, following yesterday's confirmation of layoffs at the company's Artificer studio. Outgoing CEO Douglas Morin departed "as part of planning for Devolver's long-term growth and development", the company said in a statement. He has been replaced by Harry Miller, a Devolver co-founder who served as CEO previously. Devolver announced yesterday that 28 people are set to lose their... Read more ›
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Tencent won't be buying the Dungeons & Dragons IP from Hasbro. That's now been confirmed by both the Hasbro-owned Wizards of the Coast and Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke, of Baldur's Gate 3 fame. According to a report by Pandaily, Hasbro was seeking to sell the IP with Tencent as a potential buyer and Larian Studios acting as an intermediary - 30 percent of the developer is owned by Tencent.... Read more ›
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is doing well, having sold 1m units after a week of release.This makes it the fastest-selling title in the series, and is already made over half of its predecessor Yakuza: Like a Dragon's lifetime sales (1.8m as of December 2023).The numbers back up the positive reception Infinite Wealth has had from players. The game also had the series' biggest Steam launch ever, racking up over... Read more ›
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