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It looks like Sabotage Studio is working on DLC for its retro RPG Sea of Stars.

Ratatan, the spiritual successor to Sony Japan Studio's beloved PlayStation Portable rhythm adventure Patapon, has wrapped up its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, successfully amassing well over £1m - substantially above its £100,000 target - along the way.

The brilliant Arcane looks set to return for its second season on Netflix in winter 2024.

Nintendo has launched Pikmin Finder, a charming but simple mobile browser-based AR game.

Inevitably, the latest DF Direct Weekly arrives today, with plenty of discussion about Starfield in the wake of the review embargo, while we also talk about the compromises required to get Baldur's Gate 3 out this year on Xbox Series consoles. Series S loses the challenging split-screen feature, with its addition planned for some point in the future. However, I want to spend the lion's share of this blog discussing the reaction to AMD's FSR 3 frame generation technology and potential integrations on current-gen consoles, because we can't help but feel that a certain level of expectation management is required.

It's testament to Persona 5's critical success and popularity that, rather than give us the sixth entry in the series, Atlus seems intent on giving us another spin-off. Persona 5 Strikers already extended the narrative of the Phantom Thieves; now Tactica is giving us even more. But does this all leave the Persona 5 story now stretched too thin?

Players have been making the most of Starfield's ship creator to build homages to spaceships from Star Wars, Mass Effect, Firefly, and more.

Starfield is still only out for early adopters, but already players are experimenting with the character creator.

According to Bethesda, a lot is going to happen between now and 2330, when Starfield is set. Most obviously, if we follow the timeline setout by the developer, humans will be able to gallivant around in space and planet hop as casually as popping across The Channel for a quick visit to France. In fact, possibly even more casually than that.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder includes chatty flowers which share jokes and useful hints as you pass by - though Nintendo has now confirmed you can put them on mute if you'd prefer.

If you found the companions in Baldur's Gate 3 to be a little too horny, well, it turns out that was due to a bug.

UPDATE 4/9/23: CD Projekt Red has clarified which of Cyberpunk 2077's new features will be available as part of the base game's upcoming update, and which will be exclusive to its expansion Phantom Liberty.

Soulslikes are everywhere these days and everybody wants a slice of the Souls pie, though nobody yet has quite beaten FromSoftware at their own deliciously difficult game.

Leakers believe Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Teal Mask DLC's final lineup will include new Pokémon, a Bloodmoon Ursaulana and Sinistcha.

Valve has banned 90,000 Dota 2 smurf accounts, and will wipe out their associated main accounts, too, if they continue to spawn smurfs to bypass Valve's matchmaking system.

A Starfield player has credited the sci-fi game with saving their life after they stayed up late to play it and was awake when their apartment complex caught fire.

Mortal Kombat 1 will be playable five days early for players who buy the fighting game's Premium Edition.

One area where AMD is simply untouchable is in its APU business. Having dominated the console space with custom x86/Radeon processors for consoles, the firm is doing it again in the PC handheld space. Steam Deck made the impossible real by allowing triple-A titles to run on a totally viable handheld system, and while Valve is facing a number of competitors in this space now, the bottom line is that it's inevitably an AMD processor at the heart of each and every one of these systems. AyaNeo has established itself as a manufacturer of quality PC handhelds and its latest generation of devices - AyaNeo Air 1S and AyaNeo 2S - are excellent, overall.

Development of Final Fantasy 16's PC version is finally underway.

Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has teased that he's "working on another game" but says he "can't say anything" about it because Naughty Dog's communications director "will slaughter" him.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will release in late 2024 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.

Hello! Welcome back to the last entry in Captain's Log, a mini-series on the things we love about space - and how video games so brilliantly engage with it. You can read all of our pieces in the series in one place as they go live, here at the Captain's Log archive. Enjoy!

Bethesda hired noted Skyrim clutter mod creator Emmi "Elianora" Junkkari to help design Starfield's delightfully cluttered environments.

Good news, Diablo fans – Diablo 4 is running a bonus XP/Gold event, Mother's Blessing, to celebrate the (US - not for us in the UK, sadly) holiday weekend.

Horror master Supermassive Games has revealed that the reason Little Nightmares 3 only features online co-op is to ensure playing with a friend doesn't detract from the horror game's signature "atmosphere and immersion".

Space - the final frontier - an infinite playground shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, mankind has yearned to deepen our understanding of the cosmos - to explore the outer reaches of space. This infatuation with interstellar travel would manifest throughout literature and film in the years that followed but it is arguably the video game that shares the deepest connection with outer space. 1962's Spacewar, one of the earliest video games ever created, was built on this desire to dance among the stars. It was just the beginning. Now, 61 years later, those dreams of electronically powered galactic exploration have reached a new milestone with the release of Starfield.

The media artists union SAG-AFTRA has voted to expand its ongoing Hollywood strike to encompass the games industry.

Starfield includes a heartfelt tribute to – and from – a fan who died before the game was released.

From Software has confirmed it is "investigating" a save issue that is affecting Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon's PC players.

Paradox Interactive's medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings 3 is celebrating its three-year anniversary by trumpeting 3m copies sold since launch and by releasing a bunch of statistics gleaned in that time, suggesting players' conflict resolution skills may need some work - or at least, a little less of a preoccupation with murder.