The Crew Motorfest Features Over 800 Customization Parts, Accessibility Settings Revealed

In the future, will we be streaming our video games rather than downloading them?

Microsoft has made another shocking move to get their merger acquisition deal regulator approval.

Sony’s systems have become notorious for their lack of legitimately great arcade racers, but The Crew Motorfest could be about to plug the gap. The Ubisoft open world racer – which has clearly been inspired by Forza Horizon – potentially represents the best the genre’s going to get on PS5 and PS4, so it’s exciting to see development cross the finish line ahead of the title’s 14th September launch.

There’s no shortage of incredible video games that are slated to launch into the marketplace this year. We still have a few months left, and the calendar looks filled with incredible releases. However, you might be keen on knowing when some of these upcoming video games hit the gold milestone status. Fortunately, we have a gold status announcement we can share today. It looks like Ubisoft has another game set to begin mass manufacturing. Today the developers behind The Crew Motorfest have revealed that the game build has become certified gold. 

Bethesda Game Studios has spoken before about companions in Starfield and how only four (all from Constellation) support full quest lines. However, in a recent Discord Q&A (transcription via Reddit), designer Emil Pagliarulo and design director Will Shen revealed there are more than 20 named characters.

Intel has reportedly questioned US's CHIPS Act, claiming that the company should get a larger share from the likes of Samsung and TSMC.

The next few weeks and months are packed full of major releases, and unsurprisingly, plenty of those upcoming titles are reaching the finishing line with their development cycles behind-the-scenes. Another name has now been added to that list.

The cyberpunk future is never going to be a nice place.  Life is cheap, corporations dominate all, and the sky is blotted out by spires insulating the rich from those living in the gutters.  The transhumanism bit is always a nice perk, of course, but enhanced senses and strength don’t really make up for what’s been lost, especially when upgrades are pricey and money is scarce.  Cyberpunk is a techno-nightmare, and every year its horrors are a little less far-fetched.  Even so, Johnny Turbo’s chainsaw-leg goes a long way towards making that future at least a little bit attractive.

You might've heard that Larian Studios is being sued over Baldur's Gate 3 being too good. It is 2023's highest-rated game, after all. But the lawsuit is a complete fabrication, stemming from a satirical TikTok video.

Hideki Kamiya, who you'll probably know as the creator of Bayonetta and Okami and as that guy who blocked you on Twitter, thinks «JRPG» is A-OK. The vice president of Platinum Games was asked for his take on the term—which has been the subject of a debate in the last few months—in a chat with VGC, and came out strongly in favour of it. In fact, he thinks Japan should wear it as a badge of honour: A symbol of everything unique and essential about the country's games.

Baldur's Gate III is dominating the Steam charts with record-breaking numbers, surpassing the 800,000 concurrent player mark on August 6. To be precise, the peak count was 814,666, perching it as the ninth-highest ranking PC game, when sorted by all-time peak variable — right below Hogwarts Legacy. It's an impressive feat, considering the game had been out for nearly three years now, albeit in early access, which allowed developer Larian Studios to slow-cook it to perfection based on player feedback. The completed version of the game dropped August 3 on PC and has shown no signs of slowing down.

Tesla has been locking certain features for vehicle owners behind a paywall. Dumb as it sounds to have to deal with in-car purchases after you've already paid for the car outright, Tesla isn't the only car manufacturer doing this, but its owners are asked to pay extra for things like faster acceleration and heated rear car seats. And there are inevitably those who have been searching for a backdoor—and find one, they have.