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Xbox celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day
"Accessibility awareness and support is something that has to happen every day."
Microsoft is celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day with a number of accessibility updates and partnerships.
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Death Stranding free on Epic Games Store
Plus programme to give 5% credit back on all purchases.
Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is the latest free game available to claim via the Epic Game Store.
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Hypnospace Outlaw spin-off Slayers X gets June release date
And Game Pass day one.
A spin-off of Hypnospace Outlaw is on the way next month, as announced by creator Jay Tholen.
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Xbox discusses offering "timed slices" and games with ads on PC and console
As alternate monetisation options for developers.
Xbox has discusssed "timed slices" and games with ads internally, to offer different monetisation methods to developers.
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Extensive fan-made Call of Duty project shut down by Activision
Soaps and dreams.
Activision has shut down a Call of Duty fan-project almost two years in the making.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will finally connect to Pokémon Home next week
House that for good news.
The latest Pokémon games for Nintendo Switch will finally connect to cloud service Pokémon Home following an update due next Wednesday, 24th May.
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Acclaimed puzzler The Case of the Golden Idol coming to Nintendo Switch
Murder, she wrote.
Acclaimed puzzle game The Case of the Golden Idol is coming to Nintendo Switch. After a period of PC exclusivity, the murder mystery head scratcher will be making its console debut next Thursday 25th May.
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10-year old fighting game Killer Instinct migrates to new servers
Ensures "best possible player experience" for game's future.
Killer Instinct, the 2013 soft reboot for the fighting series, is receiving an update - as the game's servers undergo a legacy migration.
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Mortal Kombat 1 release date set for September, set in "reborn" universe
Jean-Claude Van Damme has a skin in the game.
Mortal Kombat 1 launches 19th September 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. There's no PS4 or Xbox One version.
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First Xbox titles for GeForce Now announced, following 10-year deal pledge
Gears 5 available to stream today.
Nvidia has announced the first Xbox PC games to hit GeForce Now, its cloud gaming service.
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Interview | After the Remote Pass nerf, Pokémon Go moves forward with Shadow Raids
"We made a decision that we'd have to grit our teeth and get past."
Two months ago, Pokémon Go developer Niantic told Eurogamer it would launch a blockbuster slate of new features over the course of this summer, following its controversial restructure of the game's popular Remote Raids gameplay.
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Lords of the Fallen launches in October
Knocked down now up again.
Lords of the Fallen has a release date: Friday 13th October 2023. Let's hope it's not unlucky.
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Digital Foundry | Nvidia announces RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards in both 8GB and 16GB varieties, plus an 8GB RTX 4060
4060 Ti is $399 for 8GB, $499 for 16GB, while 4060 is $299.
Nvidia has officially unveiled its first mid-range Ada Lovelace graphics card, the RTX 4060 Ti, with both 8GB and 16GB variants at $399/£389 and $499 respectively. The 8GB card is the first to be released, with sales beginning on May 24th, while the 16GB variant debuts in July. The firm also detailed its mainstream RTX 4060 GPU, also coming in July, to debut at $299.
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Gaslamp fantasy Nightingale has early access launch delayed
"The playtest process is working."
Nightingale, the forthcoming "gaslamp fantasy" survival game from ex-Bioware boss Aaryn Flynn, has had its early access release delayed.
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This week, Amazon announced plans for an all-new Lord of the Rings MMO from its New World development studio, just years after an earlier attempt.
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Hunt calls upon CMA to promote "economic growth".
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has called upon the country's regulator to understand its "wider responsibilities" to promote economic growth, following its recent block of Microsoft's proposed $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom glitches allow for duplicate items
Giant Wallet not provided.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have discovered multiple glitches to duplicate items.
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If you have been waiting to watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie from the comfort of your own home, it looks like you will be able to do so from Monday.
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Sony unveils Access controller for PS5 to assist disabled players
Formerly Project Leonardo.
Sony has revealed the name of its accessibility controller previously known as Project Leonardo.
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Feature | A round-up of the talks from GAConf Europe 2023
A look at the current state of accessibility in games.
The Games Accessibility Conference returned to London on the 24th and 25th of April, with a program of talks on accessibility at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre. The conference talks were also live streamed through Zoom thanks to the conference's hybrid setup.
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Blizzard explains Diablo 4 level scaling
Monster mash.
Diablo 4 employs a level scaling system designed to make monsters relevant to players at all times.
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Take-Two hints Grand Theft Auto 6 could be out as early as next year
$8bn net bookings expected in FY2025.
Take-Two has released its latest yearly earnings report and there're intriguing predictions buried within, suggesting GTA 6 could well be launching as soon as next year.
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Journey dev's "social adventure" Sky: Children of the Light heading to PC
With cross-play and cross-progression.
Sky: Children of the Light, the acclaimed free-to-play "social adventure" from Journey and Flower developer ThatGameCompany, is making the jump to PC.
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BlizzCon returns this November for its first in-person event since 2019
More details to be revealed next month.
BlizzCon is back this November, with its first in-person event since 2019 following several years of digital-only events and no-shows as Blizzard navigated a pandemic and workplace controversy.
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Twitch is today launching a new Alerts feature, to help creators personalise their streams.
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Looks like Mortal Kombat's next instalment is being revealed tomorrow
Tick, tick... Boon!
After a month of teases, it looks like tomorrow's the day the next Mortal Kombat game - not Mortal Kombat 12, according to reports - will get its official reveal.
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Nearly 20 years after its announcement, Jagged Alliance 3 has a release date
Out in July on PC.
It's been an extremely long wait for Jagged Alliance 3 - series fans have been patiently twiddling their thumbs for almost 20 years at this point - but finally, the turn-based tactical RPG threequel has a release date and will be launching for PC on 14th July.
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Nicolas Cage will feature in Dead by Daylight
A horror face off.
Nicolas Cage - yes, the Hollywood actor - is set to feature in horror multiplayer game Dead by Daylight.
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The Expanse: A Telltale Series episode one arrives this July, across Xbox, PlayStation and PC
Little Drummer girl.
Episode one of The Expanse: A Telltale Series now has a firm release date of 27th July, from its previous summer release window.
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Digital Foundry | Too big for Steam Deck? The most demanding PC games tested
TLOU Part 1, Resident Evil 4, Redfall - and more.
Valve's Steam Deck is a very capable handheld, capable of PS4-class visuals in a compact form factor. Packing a 1.6-teraflop GPU, modern quad-core CPU and plenty of memory bandwidth, the Deck can keep pace with a surprising array of current and last-gen software. Modern PC games get more demanding by the day though and 2023 releases in particular have suffered major performance woes - even on powerful machines. So can the Steam Deck still deliver playable performance in this year's most challenging software?
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