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It's update day for Helldivers 2, and - as detailed in its patch notes - the big new addition is terrible, awful weather befitting of battling across planetary hellscapes. However - as not detailed in its patch notes - it's sneakily added a huge AT-AT-like robot enemy too.

Following a bit of a tease last week, Yellow Brick Games - the studio founded by former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw - has properly revealed its new third-person action adventure, Eternal Strands, which is coming to PC and consoles next year.

Content Warning, the latest internet sensation to surge up the Steam charts, is struggling with server issues as its developer confirms the co-operative horror romp has now been downloaded over 6.2m times since launching yesterday.

Content Warning is the new Lethal Company - or it is today at least. It's come out of nowhere, it's a gorgeously scrappy co-op horror experience, and it excels at creating moments that are frightening but also deeply hilarious. But there's something extra in the mix with Content Warning. It's astonishingly wholesome. Well, my second game was anyway. My second game was perfect.

Gearbox Entertainment has confirmed layoffs at the company, following the announcement of its sale by Embracer.

Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has confirmed he'll be back with a main theme for the final part of the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy.

You have until 5pm UK time to get your hands on Content Warning - the Lethal Company-style co-op horror game that tasks players with filming their friends doing scary things to "become SpöökTube famous" - for free.

Tales of Kenzera: Zau is coming to Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription on day one of its release.

This is just a quick reminder that Nintendo 3DS and Wii U online services will be discontinued next Monday, 8th April.

Microsoft recently held a virtual press showcase to flaunt four intriguing indie games coming to Xbox (and in several cases, other platforms too) in the near future, including Still Wakes the Deep, the long-awaited next project from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room.

Xbox has announced the games coming to Game Pass this April, led by Lego 2K Drive.

There is a Bugsnax card game on the cards.

The US Federal Trade Commission has blocked plans to introduce "privacy-protective facial age estimation" technology, which would have analysed the geometry of a user's face to determine their age.

Another April 1st has come and gone, and with it a glut of April Fools Day jokes, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Hollow Knight Silksong launched an Xbox Store page on the worst day possible.

I was scrolling on TikTok the other night when I discovered a new thing to worry about. Is Wordle about to run out words? Well, it's complicated. And also: no. But it's also interesting!

Loud disapproval for Sonic's original film design has prompted far greater scrutiny within Hollywood for getting video game adaptations right.

Dragon's Dogma 2 has sold 2.5m units since its release on 22nd March.

Ascendant Studios' Immortals of Aveum is currently enjoying a new lease of life as a 'free' game on PlayStation Plus - and two major upgrades are coming soon. The first - patch 1.0.6.3 - adds support for high dynamic range and should be rolling out to all console versions of the game today. Perhaps more exciting is the upcoming 1.0.6.4, which brings AMD's FSR 3 frame generation to consoles for the first time, increasing frame-rate via inserted, interpolated frames.

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has acknowledged it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players who bought the game digitally cannot platinum the game.

Payday 3's Operation Medic Bag's second patch is now available.

Do you find yourself at something of a loose end over the extended holiday weekend? Why not sit back and enjoy our first DF Retro marathon video, which combines multiple episodes of one of our most ambitious DF Retro projects yet into one mega-extended presentation. And it's good stuff, with John Linneman and Audi Sorlie revisiting the epoch-making release of the original Sony PlayStation across 1994 and 1995, examining the history of the system and covering every single launch game across all three major territories: Japan, North America and Europe.

God, I adore flatscreen to VR mods. Honestly, they're just so much more exciting to me than the current crop of official VR releases. A large portion of anticipated titles have been fairly underwhelming to say the least, but thankfully there's absolutely nothing like the feeling of revisiting an all-time classic in VR to make you fall in love with the medium once again.

I'm sitting opposite Saboteur's coder, Clive Townsend, at a retro gaming show in the Midlands. Two pints separate us: beer for me, cider for him - ever the West Country boy - and Townsend is affable, smiling and jovial. "20 years ago, I could have reached across this table and rendered you unconscious in two seconds," he grins. I laugh nervously while swigging a mouthful of Spanish lager. "But I've not trained for a long time. These days, I'd more likely breakdance a bit after a few drinks - but it usually ends in tears."

Hi-Fi Rush recently arrived on PlayStation 5 and as contentious as the idea of Xbox going 'multi-plat' in any way may be, the strategy so far is sound. Lower profile titles that aren't exactly triple-A juggernauts gain a new lease of life on competing console hardware. Giving titles like Hi-Fi Rush more of a chance to find a bigger audience can only be a good thing for the games themselves, and equally, could even help evangelise the Xbox platform and what it offers to a wider audience. However, Microsoft needs to tread carefully for obvious reasons - and a combination of bugs, tech polish issues and minor gaffes are concerning. In some cases, the PS5 versions receive features ahead of Xbox Series X and in the case of Hi-Fi Rush, there's a minor graphical upgrade of sorts on the Sony machine.

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and known to millions as the voice of Half-Life 2's vortigaunts, has died at the age of 87.

CD Projekt's chief financial officer, Piotr Nielubowicz, says the company does "not see a place for microtransactions in the case of single-player games".

Dredge, the sinister fishing game from Black Salt Games and publisher Team 17, has donated $100,000 New Zealand dollars to the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust as it celebrates its first anniversary and teases that there's more to come for the wonderful indie horror game.

At the age of 57, Chris Mandra has just released his first video game. This is something I find truly remarkable. For all the modern talk about portfolio careers and the death of a job-for-life, the idea of embarking on a completely new career in your sixth decade on Earth seems astonishing. At the age of 44, I sometimes daydream about starting out again, venturing into the unknown, maybe writing a travel book or doing that master's degree I never got round to. But it doesn't happen. There are too many forces holding me back, too much inertia from mortgages and children and the idea of having to learn everything again from scratch. What Mandra has done is nothing short of extraordinary.