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The Sims 4's first Stuff Pack in two-and-a-half years - Home Chef Hustle - has been given a release date, and will be introducing some hardcore small appliance action to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC from next Thursday, 28th September.

A week after Unity announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model - drawing immediate and widespread condemnation from the development community - the company has reportedly told staff it'll be making adjustments to the controversial new pricing plan.

In news that isn't likely to be much of a surprise to anyone at this point, a newly unearthed Microsoft court document has confirmed The Elder Scrolls 6 won't be making its way to PlayStation when it eventually shows up in 2026 or beyond.

Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick was briefed by Nintendo on Switch 2 in December last year.

It's quite hard to believe it, but yes - yesterday marked 10 years since GTA 5 first released on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Resident Evil 4's brilliant Separate Ways campaign starring fan-favourite Ada Wong has now been confirmed for launch as DLC for Capcom's equally brilliant Resi 4 remake. And today, we can now bring you more of a look at what to expect.

Triple-A gaming on mobile phones? Up until now, the chances of it happening seemed vanishingly slight owing to the sheer range of hardware with a staggering breadth of horsepower and the correspondingly fragmented audience. Why attempt to port a game like Death Stranding to a phone if the vast majority of the audience can't run it? And do games like Death Stranding actually work as a mobile experience to begin with? We're about to find out, as last week's Apple keynote revealed two new iPhones - the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max - running games including Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Village, Assassin's Creed Mirage and, yes, Death Stranding.

No matter which graphical performance setting Spider-Man 2 players decide to opt for, ray tracing will be included as standard.

Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, known to history as the Count-Duke of Olivares, is one of those historical figures who really deserves a video game made them. Not a video game that sees them as the hero, of course, but as the terrifying, grasping, mercurial villain. The Count-Duke was the favourite of Spain's Philip IV. In paintings from the era he fairly radiates malice and self-interest. He was huge and powerful, the epitome of the power behind the throne.

Marvel's Avengers has been heavily discounted as support ends ahead of full delisting.

Unity has apologised following the furore around its disastrous plans to charge developers when people download games made using its technology.

Although Xbox hasn't announced September's second wave of Game Pass titles, the next set of games leaving the service has been spotted.

Would you like to come to my house for dinner? I've got lots of different things I can cook for you. Look, here are some of my favourites.

Respawn seems to have quietly patched Titanfall 2.

Fables author and artist Bill Willingham – yes, the same Bill Willingham behind Telltale's The Wolf Among Us game – has put the rights to the Fables intellectual property into the public domain.

TIGA, a trade association for the UK video games industry, has published the shortlist for the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2023.

Another day, another Starfield exploit. This one lets players plunder the inventory of the poor unsuspecting shopkeeper in Akila City.

To celebrate 2023's World Cleanup Day, publisher Secret Mode has confirmed that indie Loddlenaut – a game all about clearing up the pollution left behind by evil megacorps – will release on 16th November 2023.

Six million players have "explored Ghostwire: Tokyo's spooky streets".

NexusMods has banned a Starfield mod that permitted players to removed pronoun options from the game.

A few years ago, I was changing costumes between scenes in a period drama, stepping out of 18th Century workwear and into some noble's finery, when a fellow cast member told me something I had never expected to hear. They had worked at Games Workshop for many years, and they told me that when Pokémon arrived in the UK, it nearly brought the company - Games Workshop - to its knees.

Foamstars – Square Enix's upcoming 4v4 party shooter that's essentially Splatoon but with foam – is running an open beta test at the end of this month.

NetherRealm has deployed a day-one patch for Mortal Kombat 1 on consoles and Switch.

When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched, we described its PC version as the worst triple-A port we'd seen in 2023. However, since then, multiple patches have been deployed and in the latest revision, an entire revamp of the 60fps performance mode was gifted to console players. So how has the PC version fared?

Women in Games has set the theme for its upcoming annual conference: Disruption.

Warhammer has dropped an all-new Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin teaser that details how it plans to "deliver a truly comprehensive RTS game at launch".

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze has confirmed the upcoming heist shooter will not have the controversial DRM system Denuvo.

Apex Legends developer Respawn has banned over 2000 accounts for cheating as it gets set for next week's Harbingers Collection Event.

I had a migraine this week when I first heard about the Van Gogh Museum's forthcoming collaboration with Pokémon. I saw a Sunflora grinning beneath corduroy skies - this wasn't part of the migraine - and I thought: really? The Sunflora looked delighted. I wondered: wasn't van Gogh amongst the unhappiest people to ever hold a brush? Is that match-up particularly harmonious? Something something crass? Art and commerce! Then I grumped off for a lie-down.

Tired of that giant white slab of a PlayStation 5 in your living room and looking to add a bit of pizzazz to your surroundings? Well then Sony might just, depending on your idea of tasteful, have what you're looking for: three new metallic console covers (and matching controllers) that are almost certainly not going to match your existing decor!