Robert Prince III – best known as Bobby Prince, the man behind the iconic score of the original Doom game – has died aged 81. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft is offering a snazzy dynamic dashboard background to Xbox owners who pick up the new Stormcloud Vapor controller. The purple-ish pad costs £65 ($70) and launches in the UK, US and other countries next week, on Tuesday 8th August. Unlocking the accompanying Stormcloud Vapor dynamic dashboard background is as simple as connecting your controller to the Xbox. So, presumably, you can buy one and pass it around your friends... Read more ›
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Xbox has announced the games which'll be joining the Game Pass library in the first half of August.Platformer Celeste is already available on cloud, console, and PC, and its return to the service was announced a couple of weeks ago alongside Venba, Toem, and Maquette.Next to join will be A Short Hike, with Broforce Forever, Limbo, Airborne Kingdom, and Everspace 2 to follow in a steady drip of drops. Read... Read more ›
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Hasbro wants to put its older Transformers video games on Xbox Game Pass but says it can't because Activision doesn't know where it's stored them. Activision, along with its subsidiaries, was responsible for developing and publishing plenty of Transformers games over the years, including the popular Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and Transformers: Devastation.A new game for the franchise, titled Transformers: Reactivate, is currently in development by Brink developer Splash Damage,... Read more ›
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DJ Dimitri Vegas will be joining Hitman World of Assassination, as the first Elusive Target created for the game in two years. Agent 47 will be tasked with taking out Vegas - aka "The Drop" - sometime this autumn.In a short clip promoting the upcoming mission, 47 apologises to the DJ, assuring him it is "nothing personal". All the while, the renowned Greek-Belgian's music blasts away in the background. Read... Read more ›
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Enterprising developer Pascal Gilcher, best known for creating a ReShade add-on for ray-traced global illumination (RTGI), has unveiled his work on a path-traced version of Skyrim Special Edition. Even more excitingly, this new ReShade add-on operates on similar principles to Nvidia's RTX Remix, with the potential to add world-space (rather than screen-space) path-traced lighting to thousands of games based on DirectX 9 or later. This new PTGI upgrade is significantly... Read more ›
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Remnant 2 has sold 1m copies since its release last week, across PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. "To everyone who helped us achieve this amazing milestone, thank you for your unwavering support," developer Gunfire Games' boss David Adams said. "This was a multi-year journey for us and we couldn't be happier to see fans having such a great time with a game we put our heart and soul... Read more ›
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If you thought there wasn't anything else left to discover in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you'd be sorely mistaken. Zelda engineers have now discovered a way to use what they're calling "quantum entanglement" to connect objects together over large distances, without a visible connection between them. This process, which has been dubbed "q-linking" by the community, has a brief yet rich history - a previous q-linking method was found... Read more ›
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On its surface, Pikmin is a cute strategy game about growing little plant people and gathering treasure. Delve deeper into its lore, however, and you'll find fans debating the series' apparent commentary on human extinction, and all sorts of timey-wimey shenanigans going on to make its many story elements match up. Spoiler warning: the following article discusses endgame details for Pikmin 4. Before Pikmin 4, I'd never spent much time... Read more ›
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Ratatan, an upcoming rhythm strategy game from the creator behind Patapon, hit its Kickstarter funding goal in under one hour. The Kickstarter went live yesterday, with a pledged goal of £109,331. It surpassed this figure in 47 minutes. "RA-TA-TAAAAAAN!!! We did it!" the creator celebrated on Kickstarter. "Thanks to all your help we were able to clear our initial goal in 47 minutes and give everyone at Ratata Arts the... Read more ›
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Bandai Namco has issued a warning to Tekken 8 players still playing the now-concluded closed network test (or, CNT) through nefarious means. Tekken 8's latest network test ran over the weekend, and provided those taking part with a taster of what's in store. But, of course, the beta's files were cracked, allowing some players to continue beyond the test period. Perhaps understandably, Bandai Namco does not want this to continue... Read more ›
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A public service announcement here for anyone taking this Thursday off work to play Baldur's Gate 3 on its PC launch - beware that the game is a hefty download, and there's no pre-loading available. On PC, at least, Baldur's Gate 3 weighs in at 122GB. It's global launch time is 4pm UK on the 3rd August - that's 5pm CET, 11am Eastern or 8am Pacific. If you've been playing... Read more ›
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Make Way reminds me of the time a friend fell down a flight of stairs while trying to show me a card trick. He was fine, I should say: fine at the start of it and mostly fine at the end of it. Merely flustered, mildly askew, as if he had encountered a bug he could not replicate. He had just fanned the cards - I don't know why we... Read more ›
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Hello, happy August, and welcome back to our new recurring series, What to Play This Month, a roundup of the best games from the last one and the things we're most excited to play from the month ahead - plus our other suggestions for what might complement it. As a reminder, the goal for us with this series is simple enough: there are more games releasing than ever, so we're... Read more ›
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American Truck Simulator has almost reached its latest destination, with developer SCS Software confirming the game's Oklahoma expansion will arrive tomorrow, 1st August. Since launching back in 2016, American Truck Simulator's digital reimagining of the US - with its miles of road and endless sweeping vistas - has been steadily expanded and refined through a mixture of free and paid updates. Oklahoma is the game's 13th explorable state, joining California,... Read more ›
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, the heavily Jet-Set-Radio-inspired adventure from developer Team Reptile, launches for PS4 and PS5 on 1st September, two weeks after Switch and PC. As one glimpse will confirm, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk pays homage and then some to Sega's beloved Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio, sporting an immediately familiar cell-shaded aesthetic as players skate, skateboard, and cycle through the futuristic streets of New Amsterdam, dodging militarised police as they... Read more ›
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Following EA Sports FC 24's formal unveiling earlier this month, the steady dripfeed of news continues, with EA now revealing a partnership with the Ballon D'or that'll see the presitgious award come to Player Career mode via a glitzy in-game end-of-season ceremony - for players on current-gen consoles and PC, at least. The Ballon d'Or has been awarded to the best football player of the season by French magazine France... Read more ›
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Microsoft has submitted a material changes of circumstances document to the UK's regulator which stands opposed to its $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition, urging it to drop its block of the deal. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority previously ruled that the deal would not be allowed to go ahead back in April, citing concerns on Microsoft's current, and potentially future, dominance in cloud gaming. Despite that setback, Microsoft has continued... Read more ›
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It's basically a clean sweep for Sony and PlayStation news, leaks and rumours in this week's DF Direct Weekly news stories. That kicks off by picking up a thread from last week about the 'Project Trinity' PS5 Pro leak that emerged, before moving onto the remarkable - and very real - price cuts we saw on the existing PlayStation 5 model. Meanwhile, compelling footage and photos of the Project Q... Read more ›
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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty developer Team Ninja has released its 2023 roadmap for the game. As well as Wo Long's last two paid DLC packs, Team Ninja is preparing monthly free updates which will add new content and collaborations with others Soulslike games, as well as fixes for balance issues and bugs.The roadmap was released along with a statement from Wo Long director Masakazu Hirayama, which elaborated on what's coming... Read more ›
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Nintendo's next-gen Switch console is currently set to debut in the second half of 2024, according to a new report. Development kits for the console have now been passed to third-party developers, VGC states, ahead of its debut next year. Eurogamer sources have also heard word of a latter half of 2024 launch window for the next Switch console, which will remain playable in a handheld configuration. Read more Read more ›
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