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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that the «rapid patch» the team deployed to Steam yesterday is «now on PS5 as well».

Helldivers 2 has gotten a new update on PC, hoping to fix many of the crashes that players have been facing, as well as bringing improvements to the game’s online matchmaking. The update, out now on PC, will be coming to the PS5 version of Helldivers 2 at a later date.

Arrowhead Game Studios’ highly anticipated third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has received its first patch on PC to improve matchmaking and iron out some crashes, but the devs have admitted that “we know there’s more to solve.”

Arrowhead Game Studios has released a statement, announcing that it is actively working on fixing problems faced by the PC release of Helldivers 2. Taking to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), a statement by game director Mikael Eriksson says that the studio has made a patch for Helldivers 2, which is set to come to PC first, followed by the PS5 version of the game.

Helldivers 2 launched earlier today and has been sat at the top of the Steam sales charts, with a healthy 60,000+ currently in-game. Alas, the co-op shooter also has a "Mixed" user review rating on the platform, thanks in part to optimisation and matchmaking issues.

Embark Studios releases update 1.5.5 for The Finals, introducing a bunch of nerfs for popular weapons and gear including the Defibrulator, while also making important tweaks to Crossplay and Matchmaking services. Since the official launch of The Finals during The Game Awards 2023, Embark has continued to tweak and update the experience for the growing number of players.

Sony has filed a patent for a matchmaking system that will match players according to session play time. The system aims to partner players with similar session lengths and will consider other gaming session parameters.

Diablo Immortal is beginning to roll out its latest content update, with Season 22: Plague Reaper and a new Battle Pass,returning events, balance changes, and feature updates included.

Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon hit PlayStation, Xbox, and PC back in August – read Game Informer's review here – and if you've been looking for another reason to dip into its mech-action combat, look no further than the latest update for the game. Developer From Software released a new update last week that adds ranked online matchmaking, a ranked leaderboard, and more to the game. 

From Software has released a new ranked online matchmaking mode for Armored Core 6 Fires of Rubicon.

Armored Core 6 just joined this year's surprising avalanche of quality-of-life updates and out-of-the-blue patches: like Baldur's Gate 3 adding a whole new epilogue and difficulty mode, or Cyberpunk 2077 finally making good on its promises of a working public transport system. 

FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon has been out since August, but apparently, during all this time, there hasn’t been a way to prove how muscular your mech is. That changes tomorrow (December 19) because ranked matchmaking and leaderboards are coming aboard patch 1.05.

FromSoftware has announced a significant patch for action game Armored Core 6 that adds a number of new features to the game.

FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is ending the year by introducing ranked matchmaking for PvP. Players can battle each other in competitive matches for a spot on the leaderboard and even personalize nameplates to establish their presence. Check out the trailer below below.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware will release the version 1.05 update—the “Ranked Matchmaking Update”—for Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on December 19, the companies announced.

A new hotfix for The Finals has been released, which aims to improve the game's skill-based matchmaking.

The Finals is improving its skill-based matchmaking system for better and closer matches.

The Call of Duty team has issued a statement regarding fans’ complaints with skill-based matchmaking, and has promised to make conversations around the topic “part of our ongoing discussions with the community.”

The Call of Duty team responds to skill-based matchmaking concerns and its approach to the upcoming season 1 launch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reignited the long-smoldering battle over the validity and fairness of skill-based matchmaking, and with frustrations now threatening to boil over, the Call of Duty team says they'll actually tell players what's going on under the hood of ELO and SBMM and MMR and everything else. Just, you know, not today.

Call of Duty is an incredibly competitive FPS game. Most players might avoid the campaigns of these titles instead of focusing on online multiplayer. So, it’s no secret that there is a lot of time and effort to ensure the online component is an enticing experience for players. After all, for a game series with an annual release, you must ensure the game will have some kind of new hook or enhancement. Whether that’s the era you’re set within or even the popular zombies mode getting revamped, fans eagerly await to see what is next for the franchise. 

Skill-Based Matchmaking in Call of Duty has long been the subject of scrutiny and debate within the community, only fueled by the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III on Nov. 10. Now, though, the Call of Duty team has finally acknowledged it.

Skill-based matchmaking is a lot like magnets: How do they work? Nobody really knows outside developers themselves, and historically game makers have been reluctant to talk very much about it. But in a statement shared with Charlie Intel, Activision said it's finally going to start offering some real insights into its processes for Call of Duty matchmaking after the launch of Modern Warfare 3 Season 1 in December.

There’s a whole slew of big changes coming to Destiny 2 with the release of the Season of the Wish on November 28. Aside from getting rid of Legendary Shards, for example, Bungie is also about to finally push out the working version of the long-awaited Fireteam Finder.

Developer Hexworks has released more free content for its recently-released action RPG Lords of the Fallen. The update, titled The Way of the Bucket, focuses on some of the characters from Lords of the Fallen that have gotten popular with the game’s community.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer Games held a Reddit AMA on Monday intended to answer a ton questions about the game's multiplayer. However, it remained silent on one of the game's most controversial issues: Skill-Based Matchmaking.

Gunfire Games’ first paid DLC for Remnant 2 is now available with The Awakened King. It adds a new location in Losomn, a powerful new boss, new weapons, armor, Rings and more. However, there’s also a new patch which adds some quality-of-life features and bug fixes.

Turn 10 Studios has released the first post-launch update for Forza Motorsport, somewhat confusingly labelled as ‘Update 1.0’, but bringing with it a bunch of improvements for in-game progression, multiplayer matchmaking, and a smattering of bug fixes to boot.

Turn 10 Studios has released the first post-launch update for Forza Motorsport, somewhat confusingly labelled as ‘Update 1.0’, but bringing with it a bunch of improvements for in-game progression, multiplayer matchmaking, and a smattering of bug fixes to boot.

The New World team discusses service improvements, matchmaking development and challenges,  requests like cross-world Outpost Rush,  and more on the way in Season 4. 

With a new day comes yet another Lords of the Fallen patch. The folks at Hexworks certainly aren't resting on their laurels despite the game's positive commercial debut hinted by CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski on Twitter.

Starbreeze Studios has said that the issues that have been disrupting Payday 3 since the game launched have now been fixed.

Starbreeze has shared a new letter updating the public about the state of Payday 3.

After a disastrous launch that saw Payday 3 unplayable for many, developer Starbreeze has declared the matchmaking issues over, opening the door to a big update for October.

Payday 3 finally launched last month, more than six years after its initial reveal in 2017. We quite enjoyed it, and you can find out why in Game Informer's Payday 3 review. Despite our enjoyment, many players encountered severe matchmaking issues that made it tough to play the game given its always-online nature. Now, just under two weeks after the game's launch, developer Starbeeze Studios says the matchmaking issues are fixed. 

PayDay 3's matchmaking issues have been fixed, developer Starbreeze has announced.

This morning, Starbreeze provided another update on PAYDAY 3, the highly anticipated third installment in the cooperative first-person heist shooter game. Firstly, the Swedish studio said the matchmaking issues that plagued the game's launch were fixed thanks to a two-stage process. The matchmaking software was updated, and the infrastructure was upgraded with more regional nodes, improving redundancy across online services and increasing matchmaking speed in PAYDAY 3.

Square Enix’s open beta for Foamstars is now live on PS5. Unfortunately, the multiplayer shooter is already facing issues. The official Twitter revealed that user access is currently “concentrated,” resulting in matchmaking errors and long queue times.

As Payday 3’s matchmaking issues continue, its developer is looking into adding an offline mode.

Payday 3 is being taken offline twice this week for improved server and matchmaking stability.

Payday 3 has only just launched, but it’s already struggling with broken matchmaking and a flood of negative Steam reviews. While the online functionality and server status go up and down, players are looking toward Starbeeze for any word on the matter. The developer made a post sharing its plans for updates addressing the matchmaking issues, and it looks like we’ll see fixes for the server problems drop very soon.

Payday 3 matchmaking issues continue as the heist FPS faces a tough response on Steam, where it now has a ‘mostly negative’ rating based on player reviews. Users cite issues with getting into Payday 3 matches and also the game’s always-online functionality. Wait times and some performance issues are also cause for complaint, with only 33% of all Payday 3 Steam reviews now offering the shooter a positive notice. Developer Starbreeze also reports that it has encountered a fresh problem with Payday 3 matchmaking that as of this writing it is still attempting to stabilize.

Payday 3 launched four days ago, but you'll be lucky if you've played a handful of heists thanks to all the server issues. Granted, the game has bots, so you can at least play by yourself, right? Unfortunately, no. Payday 3 is always online, so if the servers are down, you're completely locked out of the game.

Payday 3 is finally here, but the Starbreeze always-online heist shooter has already had quite a rough launch. Matchmaking issues have plagued both the early access period and yesterday’s full launch, but Starbreeze is saying that things are already starting to “look better” with more fixes and improvements on the way.

Payday 3 has only just released from Starbreeze into the exciting wilderness that is the gaming community, but players are already having issues with the highly anticipated game’s online play. Following feedback from fans regarding problems with matchmaking, the developer has released an official response stating that the team is aware of the trouble fans are having in-game and is working hard to get an update deployed to ensure Payday 3 runs properly.

The mid-season update for Inkbound is set for today, and introduces multiplayer matchmaking, an improved ping system, easier difficulty changes, and additional quality of life and system improvements.

Could Titanfall 3 finally be on the way? It’s a hope that fans of Respawn’s beloved shooter have been holding onto for the best part of a decade now, but recent evidence in the form of quiet updates to Titanfall 2 and a cryptic teaser for its spiritual successor Apex Legends has given them renewed hope that something new might be on the way.

Titanfall 2 players are rushing to the game's multiplayer after Respawn quietly fixed the matchmaking server issues. 

Dark and Darker update 12 has arrived for Ironmace’s old-school dungeon-crawling RPG game. The extraction-style PvPvE game has found itself a dedicated audience despite the fact that you still can’t find Dark and Darker on Steam at the time of writing. For those of you still eagerly spending time with the early access build, we’ve got the latest set of Dark and Darker patch notes for you as its newest update rolls out.

Ah, Warzone. It's all fun and games until you're absolutely tanking and there's nothing you can do about it. Have you ever felt like you were being put up against players way better than you? Have you ever had that niggling doubt that the skill-based matchmaking system was out to get you?

November will mark 10 years since the launch of Killer Instinct on Xbox One, and though the fighter hasn’t had the most active post-launch support in the years since then, the substantial updates it has received have ensured that it manages to retain a strong a dedicated playerbase nonetheless. And to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, it will be receiving another update later this year.

Now that Season 2 has been live for a little bit, the New World team is reflecting on matters of balance, and while win rates are overall well-balanced, there are some trouble spots and inconsistencies that need attention.