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After six years, Destiny 2's concluding expansion, The Final Shape, is almost in sight, with a launch expected early next year. Right now, its innards remains mysterious, but that'll change next week when Bungie shares first details in a newly announced livestream.

Xbox is introducing a new enforcement strike system, adding transparency to its safety systems.

What if you could patrol the streets of Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto 5 and freely speak to the inhabitants? And what if they could actually talk back to you with authentic-feeling custom dialogue?

Xbox has announced the remaining set of games to be added to the Game Pass library over the next couple of weeks.

Modders have created Lone Wolf modes for Baldur's Gate 3, allowing players to solo the game without companions.

Following the release of its iOS controller app, Netflix has started to roll out a "limited" beta test to stream its games via your TV.

Bethesda has laid down some of Starfield's backstory, detailing the events which take us from 2023 to 2330 - when the game's story is set.

The ability to change the appearance of your character in Baldur's Gate 3 is "being cooked", developer Larian has stated.

Square Enix has released a short blog post celebrating the 20th anniversary of GameCube classic Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, in which the game's producer has said fans should "trust that one day a brand-new chapter will be added to their adventure".

A speedrunner has managed to complete Baldur's Gate 3 in only 10 minutes.

UPDATE 15/8/23: Activision has dropped its lawsuit against TikTok star Anthony Fantano, after the two became embroiled in a legal back-and-forth over a widely-shared Crash Bandicoot audio clip.

Ask me to pick two moments that sum up Final Fantasy X and I'd probably roll with 1) Yuna dancing on the ocean at Kilika to send the souls of the dead to the Farplane, and 2) Tidus performing a Sphere Shot in Blitzball. The first because it's a mesmerising performance of grief and transcendence, the second because it's patently daft in the best of ways. Blitzball, in case you haven't had the pleasure, is FFX's central minigame. It's essentially rugby but played in a stadium-sized water bubble, with stats and status effects cheerfully lifted from the turn-based combat system. Sphere Shot is Tidus's signature move as a young Blitzball star - it sees him backward-somersaulting in slow motion to perform a kick on goal with a randomised buff.

A new report from Axios has shed fresh light on Embracer Group's mysterious $2bn "major strategic partnership" which collapsed spectacularly back in May, causing its shares to drop by 40 percent and sending the company into cost-cutting mode.

Xbox has confirmed that a Father's Day post from its Brazilian social media account which included Final Fantasy 7 Remake was posted in error, and "included a title not available on Xbox".

Ubisoft has changed the release date of Assassin's Creed Mirage, which will now arrive on Thursday, 5th October.

I'd thought that the era of console leaks was over and that the platform holders had battened down the hatches to minimise the flow of unauthorised information to little more than a trickle of unreliable hearsay, but it's looking like Sony in particular may have a problem. The evidence suggests that imagery and even a video of the second generation revision of the PlayStation 5 has reached the public. The circumstances aren't quite as spectacularly unlikely as the PS3 Slim's unofficial debut in a Philippines marketplace a month before its actual unveiling at Gamescom 2009, but the story is intriguing nonetheless.

All 24 previous starter Pokémon are set to arrive in Scarlet and Violet in the second part of its Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansion.

The Pokémon Company has pledged $200k to the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund after announcing Honolulu as the location of next year's Pokémon World Championship.

I had been waiting for this for ages: my first night dive. Listen: doesn't the night transform things? A quick wander outside, a spot of sky-staring, even a casual glance out the window at the dark horizon becomes a thing of intrigue. Tall buildings picked out with those gorgeous red lights on the corners, trees rendered as cavernous congregations of clasping branches. And underwater? Underwater at night? What would that be like?

This year's Pokémon World Championship tournament saw organisers disqualify multiple pros using hacked Pokémon teams, sparking debate across the community.

Forza Motorsport won't include splitscreen at launch.

As fan complaints over game quality grow, The Pokémon Company has said it is now having "more and more conversations" about ensuring game standards - while keeping to the series' relentless release schedule.

The Super Mario Bros. movie is getting a 4K theatrical re-release later in Japan this year.

Baldur's Gate 3 is now 2023's best-reviewed game.

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Hamilton Simulator is out now on Roblox.

In the wake of our reporting on PlayStation 5's new Dolby Atmos support in last week's DF Direct Weekly, Sony's marketing team got in touch with a response from PS5 lead system architect, Mark Cerny, on how the new surround sound set-up actually works. In the Direct, we speculated that the PS5's existing, very impressive Tempest 3D audio data was most likely being recalculated and injected into the Dolby Atmos 'container'.

Baldur's Gate 3 players believe they've identified an issue "halfway through Act 3", which some believe hint at "a weird error with the way [Larian has] designed the whole narrative progression".

Epic action-RPG Titan Quest is back for a new generation with a new sequel.

Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada has spoken up the impact of trolling, revealing that even "silly threats" affect "everyone" in the fighting game community.

I can't remember when I bought Eternal Champions, which is annoying because I always remember obscure purchases to the detriment of remembering genuinely useful things. Besides the fact it would have been a Mega Drive game I hadn't seen before, I can be fairly confident that the game cover sold it to me. I would have been about 10 at the time and my sole reference point was occasional games magazines and a lot of browsing shelves and thinking 'ooh, that looks good' in that way that only a 10-year-old can truly do in the appropriate way.