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There is nothing more consistently satisfying in an RPG than the feeling of unlocking a new skill. Grand story decisions are few and far between, but the RPG skill tree is always there with you, feeding you little power boosts, hinting at new ways you might be able to attack each encounter - if only you gained just a little more XP, and more cash for a key weapon or cybernetic upgrade.

Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way. First released in December 2020, the open-world RPG was saddled with technical issues, including bugs and very poor frame-rates on last-gen console systems. Sony even pulled the game from sale amidst a wave of negative feedback from early players. Some three years later, most of those initial concerns have been resolved, and current-gen consoles and PCs are getting a major expansion, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty - an impressive evolution of the core game.

Mobile game Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis is being developed for PC and will be available via Steam.

El Paso, Elsewhere is beautifully simple. It's a third-person action game in which you fire guns and dive through windows, triggering bullet-time as you whittle down ranks of converging foes. Its levels are labyrinthine, its hunger for carnage is nearly endless. It's a thrilling challenge at the standard difficulty and thoroughly cathartic if you drop down the damage you receive, set the ammo to infinite, and just thrash away in the abyss. All of this, yes, but what's special about El Paso is how it's been dressed up.

UPDATE 26/09/23: Hideki Kamiya has commented further on his departure from PlatinumGames, thanking fans for their support.

Capcom's president and chief operating officer has said he thinks game prices should go up.

We may not be getting any big juicy news on Naughty Dog's games or show as part of The Last of Us day today, but we do have a slither of an update for season two of HBO's TV adaptation.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase and creative director Tetsuya Nomura have discussed the term JRPG, and shared contrasting opinions.

While we wait (and wait) for Ubisoft to show more of Beyond Good & Evil 2, early footage from the project has surfaced from back in 2008.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will task players with catching chocobo in real-time out in the wild.

If you're jumping back into Cyberpunk 2077 with the release of Phantom Liberty today, be aware that it's possible to lock yourself out of the DLC's main quest.

For many, E3 is considered the magical place where the video games industry comes together, for a show jam-packed with exciting game announcements, demos and exclusive access to developers from all over the world. For me, however, the one event in the games industry calendar that has always held the most fascination is Tokyo Game Show.

Vampire Survivors developer Poncle has said it's "investigating" the possibility of adding proper online multiplayer co-op to its conspicuously vampire-free minimalist survival RPG, although there's no guarantee it'll actually happen.

Naughty Dog has announced it'll be celebrating The Last of Us Day - its annual hat tip to the community - again this year, but has warned fans not to expect any game or TV show news.

Two weeks after getting its first small update, Starfield has just recieved another, this one focusing on performance and stability, as well as remedying a number of gameplay issues.

Following a tumultuous week for Unity, in which the company infuriated a significant portion of the development community by making dramatic changes to its engine licensing terms - only to then partially walk them back on Friday - at least one studio has had enough, with developer Neognosis announcing it'll no longer be porting its acclaimed Wipeout-inspired racer BallisticNG to Switch as a direct consequence of Unity's actions.

A ransomware group has claimed to have hacked Sony, and is now trying to sell data stolen from the company.

Starfield already hosts hundreds of mods created by the game's community, designed to tweak Bethesda's sci-fi exploration RPG in all sorts of ways.

Development of Quantic Dream's Star Wars Eclipse is "simmering", the studio has said, suggesting further details are still a ways off.

It's Monday, meaning it's time for us to publicly deploy the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly - and one of the topics covered this week concerns evidence from Activision's Bobby Kotick to the FTC during the Microsoft trial, more specifically the idea that he was briefed on the technology last year and believes that the hardware 'has closer alignment' with the last-gen consoles. This raises an interesting question: how can this be the case in a world where strongly sourced rumours suggests that Epic Games has its The Matrix Awakens demo running on target Switch 2 hardware?

Developer Aspyr Media and publisher Saber Interactive are facing a class action lawsuit regarding the cancelled DLC for the Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed the install size for Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty and noted the recent Update 2.0 is required for install.

Firstly, I'd like to apologise to the team at Inflexion Games. I happen to share my name with their forthcoming gaslamp survival fantasy - to the extent they've had to mute me on social media so my silly little posts don't get in the way of them looking at what people are saying about Nightingale.

Final Fantasy 14's next patch, titled Growing Light, will release on 3rd October.

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic will release on 17th November.

Video game creation platform Roblox has laid off 30 staff in the company's talent acquisition team, as hiring slows.

Metal Gear Solid will run at 30fps in Konami's forthcoming Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 across all platforms.

Capcom would "gracefully decline" any acquisition offer from Microsoft, according to the company's chief operating officer.

The arrival of Payday 3 has been plagued by server problems, leaving the game inaccessible at various times across its launch weekend.

I don’t want to brag, but my sister and I think of ourselves as somewhat seasoned co-op professionals. We grew up playing games together, turning games which weren’t even meant to be played in co-op into multiplayer experiences (like splitting a controller in half to play Tekken 3’s Force mode). So when I heard about KallaX, a co-op game about aliens building furniture in space, I wondered whether we’d be able to master the art of assembly.