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Nintendo has released 10 minutes of new footage for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, showing off new abilities, enemies and the sky islands.

Far Cry 5 was a beautiful game when it launched back in 2018. The game portrayed a sprawling open-world set in the American countryside, with impressive foliage rendering, vast draw distances, and detailed texture work. It was a big step up from prior games, packing excellent support for the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. Five years on, Ubisoft has released an update that unlocks the full potential of the old code on current-gen consoles by unlocking the frame-rate and allowing the game to reach 60 frames per second - so is this a smooth experience? Or are gamers in for a bumpy ride?

I'm excited. I've been playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for 11 years now, since its release in 2012, and it's gone from being a LAN party curio to my go-to game I've sunk literally thousands of hours in, whether I'm testing hardware or testing my mettle in its online matchmaking. I'm joined online by 1.5 million concurrent players, and even when I take a break from playing, I follow the thrilling competitive scene that awards millions of dollars in prize money to its participants each year – not bad for a slow-paced, strategic shooter series that started life as a Half-Life mod in 1999.

Developers have spoken about the "morally and physically exhausting" crunch culture at Ubisoft Paris.

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is coming to Steam in Early Access for free in Q2 2023.

US Members of Congress have raised concerns to the Biden administration about Sony's "monopoly" on the gaming market in Japan.

A quick PSA for you all - From the 1st January, 2024, Steam will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.

MultiVersus' open beta will come to an end on 25th June, developer Play First Games has announced. Following this date, the game's servers will shut down until Multiversus' full launch, which is scheduled for sometime in 2024.

Members of the Mass Effect development team have now joined the Dragon Age team to assist in polishing Dreadwolf in post-production.

UPDATE 28/03/23: GDC has responded to the alleged drink spiking at an off-site party, as well as unwanted advances in and around the show.

Hark! What's that sound? A car backfiring? A gunshot? A train collision at a crossing gate? In Paranormasight, that crashing noise, brisk but richly layered, a bit of metal to it, is the sound of understanding. It fires up the moment a character makes a connection between two disparate parts of the plot. It's the proverbial dropping of a penny. It's the instance of the fingerpost. Aha! But also, since this is a doomy kind of fairy tale: oh dear.

The first level of Terra Nil feels like perfection. What you give to the land and what you take from it renew each other, and so tasked with restoring a barren quarry to a thriving ecosystem, you start small. Far from the city builder convention of widely mapping out your infrastructure, you attend to small patches of land - one wind turbine and a handful of toxin scrubbers to clean the earth at a time, paid for by the irrigators you place to restore the grass on top of it.

Microsoft has stopped its £1 trial offer for Xbox Game Pass.

The latest DF Direct Weekly has arrived, with the Digital Foundry team discussing the big news from GDC - and not much is going to top Epic's various announcements in its latest State of Unreal. Kicking off with a beautiful UE5.2 tech demo showcasing the latest features of the engine, Epic delivered a range of impressive announcements, from sophisticated facial motion capture delivered via nothing more than a smartphone to a creator-led revolution for Fortnite. In the Direct we also spend some time talking about Nvidia's latest announcements via its own GTC event - with a path-traced version of Cyberpunk 2077 just weeks away from release.

A Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Direct will take place tomorrow, 28th March, at 3pm UK time.

Final Fantasy fans have been picking apart new footage of FF16 to discover possible references to previous games in the series.

Intercept Games has shared an update on its second patch for Kerbal Space Program 2.

A dataminer of Resident Evil 4 Remake has discovered a reference to Separate Ways, suggesting more DLC may be on the way soon.

Ironmace, the Korean developer behind upcoming looter Dark and Darker, has used ChatGPT to try and prove it hasn't infringed any copyright claims. This follows an accusation from Nexon, another Korean developer and one which several Ironmace employees used to work for, which claimed its game (P3) was used as a prototype for Dark and Darker.

Nintendo is offering a free seven day trial of Switch Online until 2nd April for new users.

Resident Evil 4 players will be aware of its iconic village section from the start, whether that's in the original, the new remake, or its chainsaw demo.

UPDATE 27/03/23: Here are the times when the Wii U and 3DS eShop stores will close:

I still remember the build up to American McGee's Scrapland. I would buy gaming magazines (well, when I was allowed to), particularly PC Zone, and the full-page ads made it seem like it was going to be a truly wondrous, open sci-fi adventure. There were also big expectations thanks to the success of McGee's previous game Alice. Despite the decent reviews, though, it didn't really have much of an impact at the time.

Hyenas developer Creative Assembly has revealed a new Sonic-cosplaying character has joined the roster.

Square Enix's latest Twitter tease has given us one of our best peeks yet at the RPG's gorgeous world.

It looks like Dead Cells is getting a native PS5 release that bundles in its Return to Castlevania DLC.

Action-RPG Duel Corp is now available in early access (EA) on Steam.

I was an absolutely massive fan of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners when I played it on PC VR. Scavenging my way through the mini open worlds of post apocalyptic New Orleans was super immersive and the way that the virtual weapons had a feeling of heft and weight to them brought a great sense of realism to the proceedings.

To mark its sixth anniversary, PUBG: Battlegrounds has dropped a neat little infographic that outlines exactly what we've collectively been doing over the last six years, including news that the free-to-play battle royale has now clocked up over 150.7 million players.

Five new cars are on the way to Gran Turismo 7.