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The Ukrainian Games Festival is currently being hosted on Steam, to celebrate the country's Independence Day.

There are a lot of things you can do in eight minutes. Make a brew. Reply to a couple of emails. Pop to the loo. Eight minutes is a surprisingly long time, actually, and I know this because I've lost loads of eight-minute segments over the last couple of weeks as I sat in front of my PC, trying to play The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Tom Holland and Chris Pratt are reportedly pegged to star in the Jak and Daxter movie adaptation.

First-person shooter franchise Delta Force is being brought back from the dead by Tencent.

Ironwood Studios has delayed its driving survival game Pacific Drive into early 2024.

Dave The Diver has received a huge update, including new accessibility options and quality of life improvements.

IO Interactive has released a new update for Hitman: The World of Assassination. This update covers a large variety of issues, including that surprising "death wall" bug found on Hitman 2's Isle of Sgail.

Dragon Age writer David Gaider has defended Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel - the game's least popular companion - stating that fandoms are more forgiving of male characters.

Let's! Revolution! is another of those games that takes Minesweeper and turns it into something a little more elaborate. When I play, I'm pursuing an evil king across a range of different levels, growing more powerful as I go and firing off spells, but also taking damage, making mistakes, and trying to avoid mistakes I can see coming.

Dark and Darker developer Ironmace is cracking down on the cheaters currently plaguing the RPG's early access release.

Bethesda's Head of Publishing Pete Hines hit back at criticism that labelled Starfield's start screen as being designed by "a passionate team overworked or a team that didn't care".

The release of Red Dead Redemption on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch opens the gates for more people to enjoy Rockstar's wild west classic and the good news is that the Switch version is an excellent fit for the hardware. Expectations were higher for the PS4 version, but the bottom line is that aside from some more minor disappointments, what you're getting here is essentially a game that looks and plays like the Xbox 360 720p original in handheld mode, which rises to a native 1080p mode when docked.

We knew it was coming, and now Vampire Survivors' four-player couch co-op mode is live on PC and Xbox, and Nintendo Switch as of this week, too.

Good news, Tomb Raider fans – rumour has it, "breaking news" is on the way.

Ubisoft is running another closed beta for its upcoming swashbucklin' adventure, Skull and Bones.

Ghost-hunting sim Phasmophobia has just rolled out a hotfix to address some of the issues that crept in with its highly-anticipated Ascension update earlier this week.

I started playing Quake 2 over 25 years ago and today I'm still at it - thanks to a collaboration between Nightdive Studios, id Software and Machine Games that unleashes a new iteration of the classic shooter. This new re-release boasts a wide range of new content and features, but fundamentally it's designed to deliver the experience you remember. So let's break down the new features, the new content, the updated visuals and what you can expect on consoles and PCs alike.

One of Call of Duty's longest-serving developers, David Vonderhaar, has left Activision and Treyarch.

Blizzard has opened up about the impact Overwatch 2 "review bombers" have had on the team, acknowledging that the "dissatisfaction" stems from "the cancellation of the much larger component of PvE that was announced in 2019 [...] that Blizzard ultimately couldn't deliver".

Here's a brand new "overview" trailer for a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which is set to launch on 9th November 2023, for PC, P4/5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

If you've been enjoying the Mortal Kombat 1 pre-order beta, I have good news: NetherRealm is extending the beta test until 11pm UK time (3pm PT) Monday 21st August, 2023.

I've always loved the idea of video game lore, but I've always struggled with the real stuff of keeping track of it and making sense of it all. Partly it's because I have a terrible memory, particularly for names, places, events and dates, so I was always going to have difficulty with following the deep history of Assassin's Creed or the Elder Scrolls. The other reason, though, is because I always feel like I'm arriving late. All the actual archaeology has been done by the time I get there.

Somewhat alarmingly, No Man's Sky is now seven years old, and developer Hello Games is celebrating the exploratory space sim's latest milestone with a brisk video retrospective and, probably of far more interest to fans, the tiniest of teases for the game's next update. Really, it's just the name they've announced, so don't get your hopes up.

We recently spoke to Intel's Tom 'TAP' Petersen about updates to its DirectX 11 driver for Arc graphics cards and a new, entirely rebuilt version of its PresentMon tool for monitoring system performance. In short, these Arc GPUs continue to improve as Intel shore up support for older graphics APIs, with up to a 19 percentage point increase in average frame-rate in a selection of DX11 games with the release of the latest Arc driver, while the new version of PresentMon - available in beta now - offers some tantalising new possibilities for Digital Foundry and interested consumers alike.

Frog Detective, developer Worm Club's trilogy of endearingly daft sleuthing adventures, is making the leap to consoles - specifically PlayStation, Switch, Xbox (including Game Pass) - later this year, in a three-game collection appropriately titled The Entire Mystery.

Shortly after our main Baldur's Gate 3 content 'dropped' last week, I noticed a range of comments suggesting that the further you played into it, the more the performance characteristics changed. Early access veterans wanted more specific testing of the third act in particular and thanks to a game save bestowed upon us by Twitter user DarknessFX, we had access to a 99-hour save and were ready to dive into some stress test performance testing.

Years back I spent a happy afternoon in No Man's Sky just stood on a single spot. This is ridiculous, I know: No Man's Sky's selling point is the moment you launch yourself from a planet's surface, up into space, through the twisting ether and then down onto the surface of another planet without taking a breath. It's a game about movement, and about leaving a place to know that you'll probably never return to it.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: wingsuits, promising mistakes, and cooking people in stews.

Twitch streamers will soon be able to block banned users from continuing to watch their live broadcasts.

The Making of Karateka, a new "interactive documentary" telling the story of Prince of Persia and The Last Express creator Jordan Mechner's classic 1984 martial arts game, is launching for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on 29th August, with a Switch version to follow in September.