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Microsoft is holding a press briefing in Brussels to address the future of its $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout attempt, due to begin at 5.45pm UK time.

Sony has announced the first State of Play broadcast of 2023, set for this Thursday, 23rd February at 9pm UK time.

Bethesda has announced a Doom spin-off for mobile phones developed by Zenimax-owned Canadian studio Alpha Dog.

Blumhouse Productions - the movie company behind some of the last two decades' biggest horror movie hits - is establishing a new gaming division focused on publishing indie horror games for PC, consoles, and mobile.

The original developers of Star Fox have been celebrating the game's 30th anniversary on Twitter.

The next Pokémon Presents livestream will take place on Pokémon Day - that's 27th February.

Microsoft has announced the next wave of Xbox Game Pass games.

Capcom has announced a $1m first prize for an upcoming Street Fighter 6 tournament.

Mortal Kombat 11 fans have found a fun Easter egg nearly four years after the game launched.

A new game in the Trine series is rumoured to be in development, named A Clockwork Conspiracy.

PS1 JRPG classic The Legend of Dragoon arrives on PS Plus today with trophy support.

I like bad games. They can often be more interesting than the current standard of highly polished, triple-A titles that adorn our PlayStation's and Xbox's hard drives. This is partially because more often than not their supposed "badness" isn't because they are badly designed, but because they didn't come together in the way they perhaps deserved to. You can call me contrarian if you want, but that's not what I'm trying to be. It's more that I want to allow more time for games to breathe than I think they're sometimes afforded.

Bandai Namco has released a new video showing off Kazuya in Tekken 8.

Destiny developer Bungie has won a $4.4m lawsuit against cheat seller AimJunkies in arbitration.

Happy PlayStation VR2 launch day everyone! Sort of...

An update for Gran Turismo 7 launched this morning (21st February), adding VR support, an AI race, and new cars.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is set to receive its final update, 1.7.0.

Microsoft has announced it has finalised a 10-year agreement to launch Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms on "the same day as Xbox, with full feature and content parity".

The Tower is exactly my kind of thing. It's a Pico-8 game created by the luminously talented designer Tallywinkle, and I've been playing it on-and-off since last week. I think on-and-off is actually the best, and perhaps the only true, way to enjoy this.

Developer IronOak Games has teased a little more of For the King 2 - the sequel to its wonderful tabletop-RPG-meets-digital-board-game adventure - with its latest trailer revealing a handful of new features including landboats and recruitable pets.

Square Enix has pledged to finally address issues affecting its wonky Chrono Cross remaster, known as The Radical Dreamers Edition, in a new patch arriving this month - almost a year after its initial release on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch.

Bloober Team has announced a June launch window for Layers of Fear - the Layers of Fear 1 & 2 remake formally known as Layers of Fears - and shared a new trailer to coincide with the news.

Let's get this one out of the way early: there's a certain strangeness - or worse - to talking about how good the bits where you get to play as Erwin Rommel are in a video game. This is the odd situation that Company of Heroes 3 puts you in, however. A game that simulates war for fun, which releases, somewhat unbelievably, a day before the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and is - despite the questionable nature of putting you in a Wehrmacht commander's shoes, and astonishingly poor decision-making behind its release date - somehow, a success. Company of Heroes 3 is very, very good, in part because great care has been taken with those gambles on its setting and tone.

Ubisoft has now confirmed it will attend E3 this year, following confusing comments made by the company's boss Yves Guillemot last week.

In this week's DF Direct Weekly, myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia deliver our post-mortem on the PlayStation VR2 review window, responding to points made in coverage elsewhere and tackling a big bunch of questions about the technical make-up and capabilities of the new headset. On top of that, we test out a curious report of DLSS in Cyberpunk 2077 'working' on select Nvidia non-RTX GPUs (spoilers: we think it's just a bug) while the deficiencies of Wild Hearts on PC and the quality of the Tales of Symphonia remaster are discussed at length.

I got very excited about Terra Nil when I played a demo in summer 2021. Here was a game from BroForce developer Free Lives about repairing the world. A calm and gentle game about regrowing wastelands and then packing up and getting out of there, and leaving no trace. A kind of reverse city-builder, if you like, or an anti-city-builder, maybe. And it felt so refreshing to play that, as well as being current and topical.

The final story of Forspoken was "nothing like" the original version worked on by Gary Whitta.

Let me be clear about one thing: I am not a scientist. My school reports in this department were generally along the lines of "Victoria, she tries". But just because I wasn't very good at science, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. In fact, sometimes I had the most fun in a lab when I failed. Actually, I don't believe failure is the right word. To borrow from Thomas Edison and his historic endeavours to create the light bulb: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

This weekend's ticketed Pokémon Go Hoenn Tour event in Las Vegas received a poor reception - literally - due to phone network connectivity issues which left many unable to play, and which developer Niantic blamed on unexpected overcrowding.

Lego has begun removing videos uploaded to YouTube which discuss a rumoured Legend of Zelda set, details of which have trickled out over the past few months.