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Larian Studios has revealed that they are trying to make modding happen for Baldur’s Gate 3 – and they want to include consoles.

Warner Bros. Games has announced crossplay will be added to Mortal Kombat 1 in a patch next week, which is also when John Cena's Peacemaker will be available in early access.

Baldur's Gate 3 will be getting official mod support down the line, including cross-platform support for consoles.

Palworld has reached an astonishing 25m players within its first month.

Ubisoft has shared a special message about their January release, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

Hidetaka Miyazaki definitively ended any questions about new Elden Ring DLC.

Hi-Fi Rush will skip the current Nintendo Switch and instead arrive on the console's currently-unannounced successor. That's according to a report from Insider Gaming, which states that the absence of a Switch version of the game in yesterday's Xbox multi-platform announcement was due to it launching on Nintendo Switch 2 instead.

A recent patch for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has caused more issues than it fixed, fans say.

Dead Island 2 is now on Game Pass.

Shin Megami Tensei games have always been a bit on the unusual side – at least in terms of a Westerner looking in. Persona 3 Reload follows that trend with many of the demonic foes you will encounter on your journey. Most of these enemies will be found in Tartarus, and these will often come in the form of bosses. 

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is releasing on March 13, 2024, on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows,on Steam and GOG.

A PlayStation 5 release date for the currently-Xbox console exclusive Hi-Fi Rush has found its way onto the internet.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed lingering questions around the company stance on physical media following last year's leaks of an «adorably all-digital» Xbox Series X refresh, saying Microsoft continues to be «supportive» of the medium, and insisting «getting rid of physical, that's not a strategic thing for us.»

Phil Spencer has gone on record on why Microsoft Gaming suddenly fired 1,900 of their own employees after the Activision Blizzard King merger was finalized months earlier.

Persona 3 Reload balances its life-sim and JRPG elements pretty darn well, but getting lax on your training will eventually lead to your demise. Tartarus is not the most interesting of places. This is mostly due to its procedurally generated dungeon format. Despite that, it is something you have to trundle through if you want to get through the game. 

Microsoft Gaming’s Phil Spencer has indicated a change in strategy for the company.

Ikumi Nakamura’s Unseen Studio has finally shared their first major preview for upcoming title Kemuri.

IGN has revealed a surprising new upcoming release a day early.

Sony is expected to launch a souped up version of the PlayStation 5 later this year, analysts have suggested.

The latest Assassin's Creed Mirage update is giving me flashbacks to that inglorious period in game design when every other action game had an insta-fail stealth segment to wind people up between cover-based shoot-outs and, I don't know, three-part glyph puzzles or what-have-you. Out today for PC at 12pm UTC, 1pm GMT, 7am ET and 4am PT, the 1.07 patch adds Full Synchronization Challenge, a permadeath mode (originally teased last year) that not only permakills you when you're slain by enemies, but also deletes your save file when you commit crimes such as slaughtering civilians, or going outside of "authorised map locations".

So you’ve defeated the Priestess on the Monorail and you’ve decided to head back into Tartarus and see what’s changed. Persona 3 Reload will stick to this formula for the next good while, so buckle up. Eventually, you will stumble across your next Tartarus boss encounter – Will-o-Wisp Raven. Oh, and his buddies. 

There's no room for mistakes in Assassin's Creed Mirage's new Full Synchronisation Challenge mode, which arrives in the game via a fresh update due today.

Baldur's Gate 3 won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards last week, and unlike at The Game Awards, the developers were actually allowed to take some time with their acceptance speech. And let it be known, Larian used that time wisely, addressing both the current state of the industry and the importance of player experience.

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As time goes by, it really does seem like there's a Soulslike for every occasion: Lies Of P for those who prefer their fairy tales more on the messed up side, Steelrising for those who like France and robots, Lords Of The Fallen for those who like spectral moths and lanterns. Well, another joins the fray in Enotria: The Last Song, an Italian-inspired Soulslike with the loveliest setting I've seen in a while.

Sega has revealed that their upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot will be a AAA title.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has already had bug fixes and a balancing patch, which is good news for players able to hop into the live service hero-biffer. It's less good news for those players struggling to play at all due to login issues and server issues.

Many people are still trying to process everything that happened during Xbox’s “Business Update” that transpired yesterday. This is because the whole presentation read as nothing more than “this could’ve been an email,” as nothing truly significant was revealed. The only “big pieces of news” were that Microsoft would bring four titles that had been out for a while to other platforms and that Microsoft was already working on their next-gen console to follow the Xbox Series X/S. But now, a separate interview from Xbox’s Phil Spencer has further shed light on what he feels is “best for business” from both Xbox and beyond…and it’s really telling.

Over 700 unionised Ubisoft employees working across the company's French studios have taken part in an organised day of strike action after annual salary negotiations collapsed.

Palworld is stepping up its efforts against cheats and hackers in the coming weeks, with the developers of the hugely popular Pokémon-a-like survival game saying they are focusing on stamping out ne’er-do-wells on its official servers.

Palworld developer Pocketpair has acknowledged the significant impact «cheating and the influence of fraudulent activities» is having on rule-abiding players of its hugely popular survival game, and has outlined some of the steps it'll be taking — including the introduction of an «external anti-cheat solution» — to tackle the problem.

Capcom has gotten candid about the issue of the $ 70 retail game.

The latest, and very timely, update for Baldur's Gate 3 is now live across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Baldur's Gate 3's latest update has, as per most of their updates, a colossal number of improvements. Notably, there are new animations for folks who hunker down in your camp and a speedier way to dismiss unwanted companions. But most importantly of all, the smooching has been improved tenfold for fans of romance, or voyeurs who relish virtual characters trading saliva.

ZA/UM, the studio famous for making Disco Elysium, is reportedly going through some rough restructuring of their own.

The Verge claims to know the four games that Microsoft will be bringing to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.

Alan Wake 2 is developer Remedy's fastest-selling game to date, but the studio is still to recuperate the project's development and marketing costs.

As part of a 'business update' confirming four first-party Xbox exclusives are coming to PlayStation 5 and Switch, Microsoft has moved to assuage fan fears it might be considering abandoning the console market, saying it's planning a new Xbox that will deliver «the largest technical leap...ever seen in a hardware generation.»

Microsoft has shared updated Game Pass membership figures for the first time since January 2022, saying the on-demand gaming service now has 34m «fully paid» subscribers, with «significant growth» coming from PC and cloud.

So, to say that the Xbox event that dropped today was “eventful” might be a bit of an overstatement for various reasons. One of those reasons is that nothing significant was truly revealed on the gaming side, and despite all sorts of “the sky is falling” statements about Microsoft going third-party, it didn’t happen. All Microsoft stated was that they wanted to “test the waters” by having certain titles go multi-platform despite being exclusive in the past, which is something numerous titles have done across several publishers. However, lost within that indecisiveness was a small glimmer of information that highlights the future of the company’s console brand.

If you told me at the start of the year that Palworld would break Steam records, I would've done a hearty "no no" chuckle. But here we are, with the survival game exceeding 19 million players and Pocketpair probably wondering how they managed such a feat. With its success has come the inevitable slew of impatient people saying the game's dead because it's not received updates fast enough, or folks saying it's lost a hefty percentage of its player base, and others saying its viewership numbers over on streaming services have plummeted. Palworld's community manager Bucky has gently reminded folks that not only is this discourse "lazy", but to play other games instead.

Embracer has publicly disclosed they have laid off 8 % of their staff.

Microsoft confirmed that Call of Duty is coming this year as early as October.

Xbox President Sarah Bond has an interesting new message to employees, that we might be hearing in public very soon.

It might seem like you’re going to have to scour the massive map of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown in hopes of finding all of the game’s Athra Surges. Luckily, however, this isn’t the case. In fact, by the time you beat the game, you’ll likely have discovered them all. Now you have to use them all, though, to get the trophy.

Dragon’s Dogma II director Hideaki Itsuno has announced that the game will have uncapped framerates.

If you want to make the perfect Pals, you’ll need to start breeding in Palworld. Breeding can be a complicated process, and we’ve thoroughly covered how to get started with breeding here. Once you’ve setup your first Breeding Camp and Incubator, you can start mixing Pals to make the most powerful creatures imaginable. And it doesn’t necessarily matter what species of Pal you choose — the trick is breeding Pals with the best traits.

Microsoft's Xbox and PC exclusive Pentiment will make its way to PS5 and Nintendo Switch, alongside the previously-leaked Hi-Fi Rush.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting a new leaderboard thanks to a «major unintended bug» which caused the Burn status to scale incorrectly.

You may not know his name, but Richard Wells is one of the most-heard voices in video games — and now he's blowing up on TikTok.

In Persona 3 Reload, the further you ascend through Tartarus, the harder the game gets. Thankfully, that curve is fairly smooth with the odd exception here and there. Once you reach floor 17 you will bump into your next boss. This chap can cause you a few problems if you don’t know what to do.

There’s a wild rumor right now about Xbox hardware, that we may just get confirmation this week.

We now have new information on Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, but it may not be what you want to hear.

Xbox is still committed to making consoles, says boss Phil Spencer

The brilliant Baldur's Gate 3 will let you lock lips with your love interest better than ever before as part of its big Patch 6 update, due next week.

When Microsoft entered the gaming console wars in the early 2000s, many people questioned whether the American-born company could draw in players to its system: the Xbox. After all, Sony and Nintendo had experience under their belts, and Sony was busting out the PS2, which would eventually become the best-selling video game system ever. Nintendo was still cranking out incredible 1st and 3rd party titles, which wouldn’t end by any stretch. So, could Microsoft stand on its own two feet and make an impact? The answer was “yes,” but not in the overarching way. After all, they’ve had plenty of bumps along the road.

Leveling up in Palworld is required to unlock new technologies and enhance your base. New technologies mean new weapons, new gear for your Pals and better workstations to construct all the items you’ll need to tackle the vast open-world of Palworld. And if you want to get everything on the tech tree, then you’ll also want to level up faster.

A Batmam Arkham fan has riled up the fanbase with something the fans didn’t even know they wanted.

Continuing their great prank of pretending they plan to release Skull And Bones, Ubisoft today launched an open beta for their multiplayer open-world pirate boat game. The free beta will run until Sunday night, after which Ubisoft will presumably delay the game for another seventeen years while once again redesigning the whole thing. When you buy your great grandniece Skull And Bones for her 17th birthday, you'll be able to tell her you were there for the mythical open beta of '24.

Romance sim masquerading as fantasy RPG Baldur's Gate 3 is putting vaseline on its lips, wiggling a little bit of tongue out and practising in the mirror for its next big update. That’s right, just in time for Valentine’s Day (or maybe just after), Larian are dropping the “Improved Smooches” patch.

UPDATE 2.20pm: Xbox Palworld players, your time has come. The below patch, known as version v0.1.1.4 on Xbox, is now available for you as well.

Beefy boxer Ed joins the Street Fighter 6 roster on 27th February.

It's time to play everybody's favourite game - no, not GTA 6, but the GTA 6 Release Date Quiz. Who's stepping up to the podium this time? Why, it's Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who offered thoughts on the matter in a recent investor Q&A. Fingers on the buzzers, everybody!

A series of Easter eggs point to us seeing more of Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, presumably as part of a forthcoming post-launch update.

Turn 10 Studios has released an initial outline of the changes it's making to car progression in Forza Motorsport.

A new rumor has appeared that suggests that we didn’t really understand Microsoft’s full plans when they got leaked.

Ubisoft's live-service pirate ship game Skull and Bones is a «quadruple-A» project, company boss Yves Guillemot has said.

Persona 3 Reload has reached 1m sales globally less than a week after it released.

Ubisoft may have narrowed down the timeframe for when they will release XDefiant.

The latest major Palworld update is live, fixing a range of crash and save data bugs while also addressing a glitch which saw your much-abused indentured munsters falling into an eternal slumber when assigned to a Pal breeding farm. I continue to wonder how much of Palworld is deliberate satire.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot believes the launch of GTA 6 will be «positive for the market» and expects it to launch after April 2025.

If you’ve past the halfway point in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, you’ll likely already have discovered the five timed challenges in the Sacred Archives region. While the first four are mandatory, as you’ll need to complete them to gain one of your Simurgh powers, the fifth optional one is by far the hardest. That’s why we’re going to guide you through it from start to finish in both text and video formats.

Much hay is made of the concepting of Batman villains, especially from 60s TV series ft. Adam West. It's done within canon, even! The Condiment King was created for the 90s animated series as a play on those kinds of whimisical, pun-focused villains. He shoots sauce and says things like "You just don't cut the mustard, Batman!". Maybe when you have to put out at least one issue a month, you throw a lot of villain spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, and once something does you then go about making "guy who has a thing for the calendar" more of a rounded character - a sinister dude with a weird backstory. Or you make him the world's greatest wife guy.

Though there is a trophy/achievement tied to finding the Ghost Ship in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the process of actually locating this secret area is surprisingly difficult. Of course, as usual, you don’t have to worry about that one iota if you’re here and reading this guide.

In a financial report released today, Ubisoft said they intend to release Star Wars Outlaws in 2024. That was already expected. More interesting is that Assassin's Creed Codename Red, the stab 'em up set in feudal Japan, is also due to launch in the "fiscal year 2025". That's also known as "before March 2025", for all you non-CEOs.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is literally starting off on the wrong foot.

WB Games seems to have hit the proverbial nail in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’s coffin.

A new update for Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 will finally make Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and the bonus content compatible with Steam Deck.

Rocksteady and Warner's much-disparaged live service superhero snuff fantasy Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League goes into Deluxe-preorder-only early access today, Monday 29th January, at 9pm, or if you're from the UK or US east coast, Tuesday 30th January at 12am ET and 12 GMT. Non-Deluxe peons get to play it from Friday 2nd February. With just a handful of hours till the initial release we still don't have review code, which is generally a good sign that a publisher thinks the game in question is going to get a mild-to-severe kicking.