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Following the departure of Mike Ybarra, Blizzard has announced its new president: Activision's former general manager of its Call of Duty franchise, Johanna Faries.

Warner Bros will push further into video games as it seeks ways to ensure its big budget franchises generate "more than just one great hit every three or four years".

Hello! It's that time again - I promise to keep it brief. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's servers are now live for early access players here in the UK, but we won't have a review for you here on the site today - or indeed on the game's full launch this coming Friday 2nd February.

UPDATE 6pm UK: A statement from Eidos Montreal has confirmed 97 jobs have been lost at the studio, following the previously-reported news that its Deus Ex project has been cancelled. The studio employed 481 people, as of 2022.

UPDATE 5pm UK: Sony has now confirmed its PlayStation State of Play broadcast this week, on Wednesday 31st January at 10pm UK time.

Co-op survival action RPG Enshrouded has welcomed over a million players since its release in early access last week.

This week's DF Direct Weekly - perhaps inevitably - kicks off with extended discussion on the Palworld phenomenon, while much time is spent mulling over the Horizon Forbidden West PC features trailer Sony 'dropped' last week. However, what caught my eye in putting this piece together was our discussion on input lag in the wake of John's Tekken 8 coverage, where it emerged that Namco had delivered the most responsive Tekken game in the modern era. We don't focus too much on input lag, but really we should, especially as we enter the next era of graphics technology.

Some games can take forever to finish. Hours upon hours can be put into any given title, as players make their steady way to victory. When those credits ultimately roll, the sense of achievement can be a wonderful feeling.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the series' most successful launch on Steam over its launch weekend.

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.

Fighting and fantasy fans are desperate to see Final Fantasy 7's Tifa in Tekken 8, so much so Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada acknowledged it.

Edmund McMillen has discussed a potential Fortnite collaboration with Epic Games, the celebrated indie designer has said.

Footage from a cancelled futuristic Call of Duty sci-fi game in development by Tony Hawk's studio Neversoft has leaked online.

Visions of Mana, Square Enix's forthcoming action-RPG, will reportedly release on Game Pass on day one.

UPDATE 29/01/24: World of Demons is now set to end service on 31st January.

Publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced a delay to the release of narrative adventure game Open Roads.

Have you spotted the Killmonger dreads? They're everywhere these days. What started in Marvel's Black Panther film is now ubiquitous in gaming. And these dreads are not just on the heads of Miles Morales or Tekken's Eddy Gordo. They're in character creators too. The style began as fashion but has quickly become a stereotype.

Nexon has announced it is pulling the plug on its free-to-play PvP medieval fantasy game Warhaven just four months after it launched in early access.

Free "interactive study" Interaction Isn't Explicit is now available via the PlayStation Store.

Palworld developer Pocketpair has apologised to fans affected by cheating in Palworld, admitting that "it is currently difficult to completely prevent all cheating".

Ironmace says a court has dismissed its former publisher Nexon's request for an injunction following the publisher's claim that Dark and Darker has been written with stolen code from a game the team had been developing for Nexon.

Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski says he's "down" to consult on the next Gears game, saying "if they were smart", Microsoft and Coalition would invite him to "give his two cents".

If you're encountering an infinite loading screen when trying to connect to Palworld servers this weekend, you are not alone.

Earlier this week, I got the chance to talk to Obsidian about its brand new role-playing game Avowed. This is the game it's making for relatively new owner Microsoft, so in some respects, it's a product of a new Obsidian era. But it's not the first big RPG Obsidian has made for Microsoft and Xbox. As I discovered when I went to visit the studio a couple of years ago - oh god it's actually six - there once was another. It was a game with an incredibly ambitious idea at its heart - a million-person raid - and it was also a game that would never, perhaps understandably, come out. Nevertheless, Obsidian boss Feargus Urqhart was happy to tell me all about it, so this is the story of it - of Stormlands.

UPDATE: Frontside 180 is reportedly a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pocketpair.

Sony has quietly blocked the Cronus Zen from connecting to PS5 consoles via its latest firmware update, a device which lets players use, or modify, "any supported controller" on Sony's console.

As well as being a breakout hit on Steam, Palworld is available to play on both PC and Xbox systems via a preview build on Game Pass. As well as the expected Series X and Series S compatibility, this Unreal Engine 5 release is intriguing in that Xbox One consoles are also supported.

Gears of War creator Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski says Palworld's astonishing success "kinda validates" a pitch he'd made to Epic "many years ago".

Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob and Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games have reportedly lost around 40 per cent and 30 per cent of their staff, respectively.

The April Fool's joke brought to life, Bloodborne Kart, has had to postpone its release following "contact" from IP owners Sony.