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Developer Respawn has addressed the recent Apex Legends hacks.

The 1.6 update for Stardew Valley has caused a massive spike of interest, resulting in a new record Steam concurrent player count.

Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!

UPDATE 20/3/24: Starfield's latest update is now live for everyone. This update includes improvements to the photo mode and other quality of life changes.

The PlayStation 5 Slim disc console went on sale last week at various UK retailers, dropping in price from £479 to £409 for the second time in 2024.

Bungie is reportedly in the midst of a creative leadership shakeup that has resulted in the studio replacing game directors on its PvP reimagining of classic 90s shooter series Marathon, with former Valorant game director Joe Ziegler now confirmed to be in the role.

Pirates make everything better, so if Blizzard's announcement that World of Warcraft now has a standalone battle royale mode isn't enough to get your tootsies twitching with excitement, then how about this: it's called Plunderstorm and is all about the piratical booty.

Stardew Valley's long-awaited 1.6 update - which creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone at one time warned wouldn't "be huge", a comical assertion in hindsight - is finally here on PC, and it's accompanied by some an absolutely gargantuan patch notes.

PlayStation's former head of internal game production Connie Booth, who departed Sony last October after nearly three decades, has joined EA to to oversee its action-RPG portfolio.

Blizzard is overhauling the way it introduces new heroes into Overwatch 2 starting in Season 10, by making them free and immediately available to all players instead of locking them behind the game's premium battle pass or a progression grind, as was previously the case.

Last week, more detailed leaks emerged concerning the technical specification of the PlayStation 5 Pro. The machine is real, it is coming relatively soon - and by and large, the leaks are accurate. The question is, what are the design objectives of the new console? What is less than ideal about the current PS5 and how will the Pro model address that? We're on the record as saying that this generation doesn't really need a mid-gen upgrade, but does the state of recent games and the extra power and capabilities of the mooted Pro change our opinion?

Amazon has released a new video teasing its upcoming Fallout TV adaptation, which appears to follow up an initial snippet seen last week.

Much the same as last year, AI remains the talk of the town at GDC 2024. Roblox Studio has announced a new generative AI-based character creator. Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia unveiled a new AI-powered chip, sending its stock price skyrocketing. And behind closed doors, Ubisoft demonstrated something of its own to a small collection of the press: a partnership with Inworld AI to create a prototype for "Newly Evolving NPCs", or NEO NPCs as Ubisoft calls them.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has discussed the company's strategy of experimenting with generative AI, as detailed in today's announcement of NEO NPCs - a new prototype project from Ubisoft designed to let video game characters respond with custom responses to players' speech input.

Flat2VR Studios is a new developer dedicated to turning flatscreen games into VR experiences.

Here's something to tide you over until Bungie releases its rebooted Marathon: there's a freeware fan revival for the 1994 FPS known as Classic Marathon, and it's coming to Steam "soon".

Unity and Convai, a company which provides generative conversation AI software, will release Project Neural Nexus, a demo game which showcases Convai's "smart" NPCs and Unity's Muse Behavior tool, later this year.

Janky. That's the word that springs to mind when I think back to the games I used to play – Alone in the Dark among them – as a kid. Along with the fixed camera angles and tank controls were the bugs and the glitches and all that lovely jank, as much a part of survival horror's storied beginnings as Resident Evil's "itchy tasty" memo.

Microsoft has revealed its next batch of Game Pass titles for March and into the start of April.

On Xbox, Final Fantasy 14 will have its own currency for service fees and optional item purchases.

Denuvo developer Irdeto has announced a watermarking feature for its anti-piracy software which will make it easier for developers to track down the source of leaks.

Something Wicked Games has reportedly laid off "most of" its staff, according to a handful of people impacted.

"The beautiful thing about what Black Panther did was it essentially showed there can be heroes that look like me," says Abubakar Salim. "The feeling I had when watching was I wish I had this when I was a kid, because it shows to me, as an actor, I don't have to be the best friend of the cop, or the buddy character. I can actually be a hero.

Sand Land, the video game adaptation of Akira Toriyama's beloved manga series, now has a demo on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PS4, and Steam, ahead of it full launch in April.

Valve has launched Steam Families - a streamlined, enhanced version of its existing household game sharing tools - that's available for testing now in public beta form.

GOG has announced a new partnership with Amazon Luna that'll let its customers play the games they own across a range of supported devices via cloud streaming, starting "soon".

A new fan mod for Dark Souls 3 has been released offering a complete overhaul of the game that promises "a retelling of the Dark Souls universe".

You may remember that we relaunched the Digital Foundry merch store for Black Friday last year, with a host of DF-adjacent designs for shirts, mugs, hoodies, posters and stickers. Today, we're happy to announce our first wave of new designs for 2024 - expertly modelled by Rich and Alex in this week's DF Direct show - plus the return of a fan favourite.

Songs of Silence, the upcoming strategy game from Chimera Entertainment, will launch in early access on Steam in May.

UPDATE 18/3/24: Baldur's Gate 3 has received its latest hotfix (#22) today, including on Xbox. Microsoft's console will, as of today, also get caught up with several recent small updates - meaning Xbox will once again be able to use cross-save functionality with no further issues. The patch notes for hotfix #22 are minor, but you can find them now on Steam.