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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Square Enix's Naoki Yoshida thinks Final Fantasy 17 should be directed by someone new to make a game "with challenges that suit today's world". Yoshida was interviewed by Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on the Game Maker's Notebook podcast (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences) and candidly discussed development of Final Fantasy 14 and 16, as well as the future of the series. When jokingly asked if he's directing Final Fantasy 17,... Read more ›
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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, the well-received Three Kingdoms-era Soulslike from developer Team Ninja, is bundling its base game and DLC into a single Complete Edition, which is launching for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, and PC on 7th February. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, which originally launched last March, serving up a challenging - but surprisingly approachable - action-RPG adventure build around a faster, more aggressive style of combat... Read more ›
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Whether it's via FPS Boost or bespoke software upgrades, backwards compatibility on the current-gen consoles delivered an unexpected delight - the ability to liberate older console games from their 30fps limits, running them at 60 frames per second or even higher. FPS Boost did the business for Xbox Series consoles on an impressive range of titles, but there was always the sense that PS5 could do more. It's a hunch... Read more ›
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Contrary to its usual image as a company open to fan games and mods, Valve has taken down two well-known community projects.Both Portal 64, a demake to port the original Portal to the N64, and Team Fortress: Source 2, an effort to "recreate a new [Team Fortress] experience" in the Source 2 engine, were targeted by Valve.On 10th January, the creators of each project released statements confirming the end of... Read more ›
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A demo for upcoming action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink is now available on PlayStation 4 and 5.The demo allows players to try out three different modes. Story mode includes a "small slice" of the main story, while quest mode lets players complete a "sampling" of three quests. These quests can be played solo or through online co-op with up to three other players. There are 11 characters to choose from... Read more ›
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Sand Land, the upcoming game from Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama based on his manga, will release on 26th April across PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Sand Land, for those unaware, is set in a post-apocalyptic desert world where water is in short supply for everyone. Yes, demons and humans. Obviously, something needs to be done about that, and so a rag-tag team sets off in search of... Read more ›
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The cat's out of the bag. No, really. It is. Konami and Limited Run Games are bringing retro classics Felix the Cat and Rocket Knight Adventures back for the modern age. The upcoming Felix the Cat release will include the feline's NES title and Game Boy title. Both games will come with a range of new features and "quality of life fixes" for today's gaming enjoyment. This release will be... Read more ›
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Capcom has rolled back a recent update to 11-year-old game Resident Evil Revelations which added a DRM called Enigma Protector.The DRM was noticed after Steam players began reporting errors when launching Revelations last week, including a reduced and unstable framerate, as well as broken mods.Steam users review bombed Revelations with complaints about Enigma, which prompted Capcom to roll back the game on 9th January (which can be seen on its... Read more ›
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I think I first heard the term memory tax when I was writing about chess. In chess, at the really great levels of play, memory tax is a huge part of what you're dealing with. You don't just have to remember what a bishop does and how castling works - I hate castling. You have to remember whole openings and end-games, and remember how to counter this kind of move,... Read more ›
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Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has admitted the Amazon-owned streaming platform isn't profitable. Clancy led a Q&A stream on Twitch following the news earlier this week the company is laying off over 500 members of staff, equating to around 35 percent of its workforce. "We've implied this before where we say we need to run it sustainably," said Clancy, "but I'll be blunt: we aren't profitable at this point." Read more Read more ›
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There's something about a magic door. Who could resist them? I can't. I don't know anyone who can.Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a lot of things. It's the latest game in a beloved series whose lineage stretches all the way back to the glory days of home computing. It's a metroidvania so beautifully put together it almost feels like a Plantonic example of the form. It's a promising... Read more ›
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Ubisoft will fix a small amount of text-to-speech generated dialogue in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown as part of a future update. The upcoming 2.5D Metroidvania game features the regular human-voiced cast you'd expect, bar one character: a tree spirit named Kalux. Kalux only has a small handful of lines throughout the game, but these have been left with work-in-progress generated dialogue. Ubisoft has said it plans to add... Read more ›
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Golden Sun and its sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Age are coming to Switch next week. Both games will be added to the Game Boy Advance library on Nintendo Switch Online on 17th January. Note the Expansion Pack subscription is required. The Golden Sun series of RPGs was developed by Camelot, otherwise known for its work on the Mario sports games. Read more Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week: dice, Bond, and trains.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive.I'd forgotten how much I like this game. Sometimes time away can do that, can't it, reinforce our feelings about a... Read more ›
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In a move that feels a little like being catapulted back in time several decades, Ubisoft has released a free playable Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown demo - for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC - ahead of the game's full launch next week. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown revives Ubisoft's shamefully long-dormant action-platforming series for a new generation - a new generation that wouldn't even have been born... Read more ›
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Well here's one way of getting yourself some free publicity: casually announce your product will be releasing alongside Switch 2 this "September" so that everyone excitedly thinks you might have just accidentally splurged Nintendo's big secret, then, when you're confronted about it, give a little shrug and admit you were "just guessing". That's pretty much what happened today when audio company Altec Lansing shared a press release unveiling a partnership... Read more ›
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In a week that's already seen Unity and Twitch announce signifiant job cuts, Discord has reportedly told staff it'll be laying off around 170 employees - approximately 17 percent of its workforce - as it seeks to "sharpen our focus and... bring more agility to our organisation." As reported by The Verge, employees at Discord were informed of the job cuts today by CEO Jason Citron in an all-hands meeting... Read more ›
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What with the launch of couch co-op, Adventures mode and a variety of other free content updates, a Switch version, a new engine, two paid expansions (including an Among Us collaboration), plus news of an animated TV adaptation, 2023 was a busy year for Vampire Survivors. However, creator Poncle isn't done yet, and it's now share a revised development roadmap (of sorts) for its perennially vampire-free minimalist survival RPG, which... Read more ›
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If you're big of years but small of shelf space, you might be interested in the newly announced 400 Mini, an officially licensed scaled-down version of Atari's four-and-a-half decade old home computer, the Atari 400, which launches on 28th March this year. Created by Retro Games Ltd - the company previously responsible for the C64 Mini and Amiga 500 Mini - the 400 Mini sports a similar design to Atari's... Read more ›
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Actress Isabela Merced will play Dina in the second season of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation. The show describes Dina's character as "a free-wheeling spirit whose devotion to Ellie will be tested by the brutality of the world they inhabit." "Dina is warm, brilliant, wild, funny, moral, dangerous and instantly lovable," said series co-creators and executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann in a statement following news of Merced's... Read more ›
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