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Late last week Naughty Dog revealed the recommended PC specs for The Last of Us Part 1, with a surprising amount of detail provided in their blog post - down to the exact hardware necessary to obtain 4K 60fps at ultra settings. While the blog post is in some ways self-explanatory and straightforward, reading between the lines there's actually a fair amount we can discern about the port. That's exactly what we did in DF Weekly #102, where PC nerd trio Alex, Rich and Oliver espoused some interesting possibilities ahead of the game's release on PC in almost exactly two weeks' time.

So here's a funny story. Thanks to YouTube's recent tightening of restrictions, the last time I previewed Dead Island 2 the video that I made was age-gated as soon as it was published thanks to the extreme gore on show. OK, so maybe its not that funny because I worked super late into the night to get the video ready for a crazy embargo and in the end it was a huge waste of time because hardly anyone watched it.

When Hitman 3 recently changed its name to Hitman World of Assassination, I had no idea how meaningful the moment was. On the outside it looked like a simple thing: Hitman 3 would now be known by this name and include levels from Hitman 2 and 3 - the trilogy would all be in one place. But on the inside, at IO Interactive, much more was going on.

The demo has only been out for a few days, but the talented modding community is already putting its skills to work and switching up Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake.

Cloud Imperium Games has launched a new update for the infamous MMO Star Citizen to make its world more persistent.

The developers of Soulslike Bleak Faith: Forsaken have hit back at critics claiming it's used stolen animations from FromSoftware.

A third, secret, weapon has been discovered in the Resident Evil 4 Remake's demo.

The previously-promised patch for Kerbal Space Program 2 should be arriving on 16th March.

The Ukrainian developer of Stalker 2, GSC Game World, has claimed one of its employee's accounts has been hacked and the studio threatened with blackmail.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) has once again broken its all-time concurrent PC user peak, 11 years after it launched on Steam, and just a month after setting the last record.

Amazon Games has outlined a little more about Lost Ark's all-new advanced class, Artist, including an explanation about why it chose to "make localisation updates" that modified Artists skins to make them less sexualised and "better fit Western norms".

We already knew that Endnight's early access survival horror Sons of the Forest has been a big hit – it almost instantly blew up on Steam, and managed to sell "over two million copies in the first 24 hours" – but now that success is tipping over into its fan-favourite predecessor, too.

PUBG: Battlegrounds' next update, 22.2, is set to launch on 14th March for PC players, and on 23rd March 23 for those fighting for a chicken dinner on consoles.

A campaign to crowdfund a new rogue-lite board game inspired by Dead Cells will shortly launch on Kickstarter.

Google is "positioning itself as a go-to tech partner for publishers of live-service video games" by offering its cloud gaming tech to other companies.

"So you've come."

Tactical first-person shooter, Lemnis Gate, is closing down.

Square Enix has revealed that it devised a Chrono Cross remaster project when the company began to fear that the classic 1999 game would be lost to the ages and "unplayable" on modern systems.

Overwatch 2's commercial lead and vice president, Jon Spector, is leaving Blizzard after six years with the company.

Half-Life is one of the most influential games of all time, thanks not just to its immersive setting, story and visuals, but to its 'modability'. Long after most people had played through Half-Life's campaign, games and mods powered by the GoldSrc engine continued to entertain and amaze. Almost 25 years after its original release, a new mod for Half-Life has arrived: a fully ray-traced version of the game, courtesy of modder Sultim Tsyrendashiev - who previously produced ray-traced versions of Serious Sam, Doom and Quake.

GoodbyeWorld Games' BAFTA-winning narrative experience, Before Your Eyes, is out now on PSVR 2.

First-person psychological horror, Someday You'll Return, is out now on PlayStation consoles for the first time.

Resident Evil 4 Remake is reportedly "100 per cent in the wild".

Red Barrels' third Outlast game, The Outlast Trials, will release in May 2023.

A few years back, browsing on Instagram, I was delighted to see a book I knew. The spine of it, anyway: a perfect bolt of cheery gold, stacked neatly on a shelf by some plants. The book was Kenny Shopsin's life-changingly great cookbook Eat Me, which I absolutely recommend, and the shelf it was on formed part of a cookbook library in Shake Shack's test kitchen. I emailed Shake Shack about this, because I am weird and because I am always hoping for an invite to a test kitchen, but even before they got back to confirm that they loved Shopsin as much as I do, I knew I was right in my identification of that book. Shake Shack and Shopsin made a lot of sense. And seeing the book there on that shelf was a chance to spot a new, illuminating connection between two things I already loved.

With several delays now behind it, a release is finally in sight for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - and ahead of its arrival later this year, developer Daedelic Entertainment has shared a fresh look at its stealthy action in a new gameplay trailer.

Three weeks after Wild Hearts' arrival, developer Omega Force has released the first free post-launch content update for its wonderful Monster-Hunter-like, this one introducing a new Kemono variant - the Hellfire Laharaback - plus a heap of balance adjustments and fixes.

Publisher Dotemu's stupendous beat-'em-up revival Streets of Rage 4 has just received a big free update on all platforms, adding the likes of new co-op moves and a custom survival mode.

In honour of international Mario Day (bafflingly still not officially a public holiday), Lego and Nintendo have announced a fresh collection of Super-Mario-themed sets, including a new take on Bowser Castle and a tease that Donkey Kong is on the way.

Bandai Namco has released a gameplay trailer for veteran Tekken character Paul in the upcoming Tekken 8 and while the famously hard-hitting puncher hits as hard as I'd hoped, it's his hair that's caught my eye.