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With the imminent arrival of Disney Dreamlight Valley's DreamSnaps update, developer Gameloft has shared its full patch notes.

The Wingman game mode and two maps have been added to the limited test of Counter-Strike 2.

UPDATE 18/7/23: There's been another sighting of Lego 2K Goooal! - despite the fact this sporty Lego spin-off remains officially unannounced.

Microsoft and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority have been provisionally granted two further months to reach a new agreement over Activision Blizzard following a joint request to the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Studios has released a new trailer showcasing its upcoming heist shooter's stealth gameplay. Unfortunately, it released it so sneakily, it went undiscovered for five days and the studio ended up having to tell everyone where it'd hidden it.

Assassin's Creed: Codename Jade, the Ancient-China-set free-to-play mobile game from Tencent's Level Infinite, will start its first closed beta on 3rd August, Ubisoft has confirmed.

Death Stranding, one of video gaming's finest stomping-through-a-damp-valley sim, will be shoving a baby in a jar and walking grumpily into Fall Guys tomorrow, 18th July.

I think it's obvious when something has been created out of love. Maybe it's in the garnish delicately placed atop fluffy, steaming rice. Maybe it's in the subtle differences you see on a living room wall as it reflects the passage of time.

A while back, I wrote a DF Direct Weekly blog explaining why Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart's PC port is crucial for the future of the platform, and last week's official specs reveal is validation of sorts for that initial article. The game remains a highly important release for the PC format because it's the first game built from the ground up around PlayStation 5's solid-state storage and hardware decompression capabilities - and we now have confirmation that the port will be using DirectStorage, the Microsoft API designed to bring current-gen console-level storage performance to the PC platform.

Microsoft has officially killed off its long-running Xbox Games with Gold offering, and lifted the lid on its replacement: Xbox Game Pass Core.

UK supermarket giant Tesco will end its sale of boxed video games.

The first episode of the second season of The Last of Us has been written.

As a VR veteran and self-confessed Far Cry fan, a fully VR version of a Far Cry game is always near the top of my wishlist when someone asks me which games I'd love to play in VR.

A missing girl was found last year when the FBI used her Nintendo Switch to locate her.

Viewfinder is a puzzle game built around a single moment that I will simply never tire of. Here's how it works. You see a bridge. You lift your camera and take a picture of the bridge. You take the picture you now have in your hand - the bridge - and then hold it up elsewhere in the world, maybe where there's a gap in the ground between you and the spot you want to get to. Choose the location, the angle, and commit. Voila! The picture of the bridge is now an actual bridge that you can walk across. Gap? What gap.

New handheld gaming consoles, such as future versions of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027, the EU has said.

The planets in Star Wars Outlaws will be hand-crafted rather than procedurally generated, and equivalent in size to two "zones" in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

Andrew Witts, former lead multiplayer designer on Halo Infinite, has rejoined former Halo developer Bungie to work on new project Marathon.

The creator of standout PSP rhythm game Patapon has revealed a spiritual successor is in development called Ratatan.

UPDATE 17/7/23: Ghost of Tsushima's Daisuke Tsuji will play Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 1.

Fable's narrative lead, Anna Megill, has moved on from Playground Games.

Sonic the Hedgehog maker Sega plans to remake and reboot more of its classic Sonic titles.

Legendary castle sim, Stronghold, is getting a definitive edition that will include an "entirely new" 14-mission campaign.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that Microsoft has reached an agreement to "keep Call of Duty on PlayStation".

Team Fortress 2 has beaten its own concurrent user record, clocking up 258,997 players earlier this week.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Group has acquired the Montreal-based studio, Turbulent.

The Tomb Raider 2013 reboot trilogy by Crystal Dynamics was a statement of intent - a shot aimed directly at Nathan Drake and the Uncharted series. Whilst Lara Croft was hibernating, Naughty Dog may have had free reign to set a new standard for creating cinematic action-adventure narratives, but maybe true legends like Lara will always endure?

Video game mental health charity, Safe in Our World, has released a new interactive journal designed to help people track their mental health and engage with self-care.

Payday 3 requires an always-online game connection, even if you're playing alone.

Bethesda Studios' studio design director, Emil Pagliarulo, has revealed that they "simply can't" give away any details about Starfield, confirming that only Bethesda boss Todd Howard "is authorised to talk publicly about unreleased game information".