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PUBG publisher Krafton says it "remains steadfast" in its plans to "secure and expand powerful game-based IPs".

In this week's DF Direct Weekly, the Digital Foundry team spends much of the duration breaking down Microsoft's Xbox Developer Direct - and to cut to the chase, we're all agreed that this is the best games presentation we've seen from a major platform holder in years.

Dambuster Studios reckons the game's new skill deck is one of the "most exciting" features coming to the highly-anticipated sequel, Dead Island 2.

In-game footage reportedly taken from Guerilla's upcoming Horizon Forbidden West co-op mode has leaked online.

Warning: This piece contains discussions of mortality.

Forza Motorsport has reportedly been delayed from its previously announced "spring 2023" release date on Xbox Series X/S and PC to "Q3 maybe even a little bit later".

Spoon-wielding Pokémon Kadabra will be returning to Pokémon: The Card Game for the first time in over two decades this June, following illusionist, magician, and spoon-bender Uri Geller's decision to drop his long-running lawsuit against the character.

Mushroom fans rejoice! HBO has confirmed its critically acclaimed live-action TV adaptation of The Last of Us will be returning for a second season.

Battlefield 2042's long-awaited Class update, which rework's the beleaguered shooter's much-maligned Specialists system into something more closely resembling classes from previous Battlefield games, will launch next week, developer DICE has confirmed.

Like a Dragon: Ishin! stands in a somewhat odd position. It's the first release in the series to drop the Yakuza title. It's a remake of an almost 10 year old game, but is new to audiences outside of Japan.

If you had been hoping to watch HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, but don't subscribe to the necessary services to do so, I have good news. You can now watch the first episode for free via Sky TV's YouTube channel.

GoldenEye 007 is now available on both Nintendo Switch and Xbox, but it turns out cheats work slightly differently across the two versions.

Ubisoft is reportedly working on both Far Cry 7 - its next mainline release in the series - and a standalone Far Cry multiplayer game.

The pitch for Drop and Hifiman's HE-R7DX headphones is pretty simple: bring the essence of audiophile-grade audio down to an affordable level. At $99, these cans ought to be a solid starter for budding audio enthusiasts, promising great audio even if you're driving them from a standard phone or computer rather than a powerful DAC. In fact, Drop's page promises "excellent isolation, impressive details" and even "open-back-level soundstaging". It sounds like a winning formula, but do the HE-R7DX live up to their billing? We tested the HE-R7DX for two weeks to find out.

It is widely accepted that if a nuclear blast were to unleash over us, we would not live to tell the tale (unless you are Indiana Jones and you happen upon a surprisingly sturdy fridge. Yeah, I didn't buy that either).

Hasbro is set to lay off approximately 1,000 people from its global workforce this year in an effort to cut costs, around 15 percent of global full-time employees.

Bungie has released a blog post explaining the reasoning behind an outage of the game this week that's caused players to lose progress.

Motive has detailed the accessibility options for Dead Space.

The Pathless, from developer Giant Squid and published by Annapurna Interactive, will launch on Xbox consoles and Nintendo Switch on 2nd February.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: JRPG heaven, lovely days with pleasant tiles, and a search for a good phone game.

Road 96, the acclaimed narrative adventure from developer Digixart, is getting a prequel, and it's coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC on 4th April.

Developer Fntastic has rebuffed suggestions from increasingly vocal detractors that The Day Before - its now twice-delayed and seldom seen open-world zombie survival MMO - is a scam, saying, "When the game comes out, people will finally see the truth."

UPDATE 27th Jan 2023: GoldenEye 007 is out now and thankfully the watch music is present and correct!

Pharaoh: A New Era - publisher Dotemu and developer Triskell Interactive remake of Impressions Games' classic Ancient-Egypt-themed city builder - finally has a launch date and is coming to PC on 15th February.

The Xbox Series S is, on paper, every bit as feature-rich as the Series X. It's based on the same fundamental RAM, storage, CPU, and GPU technologies - which of course means that it is ray tracing capable. You can absolutely get RT acceleration on the system, just like any other RDNA 2-based hardware platform. In practice, it's a bit more complicated. The Series S has a modest 4TF GPU paired with a meagre 10GB of RAM, which makes it challenging to implement complex ray-tracing effects on the console. Most recent games lack ray-tracing on Series S, even if they pack one or more effects on Series X and PS5.

Epic has revealed its next free Game Store titles: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider and City of Gangsters.

The not-so-good ship ISG Ishimura is around 62 years old by the time Isaac Clarke arrives there in Dead Space. During its long career as a "planet cracker", this unpleasant hybrid of Nostromo and whaling vessel has been modded and expanded in grander and smaller ways. Even playing a newcomer - part of a small team sent to repair the Ishimura following a loss of comms - you feel that history of alterations as you stomp from sector to sector, fixing up broken systems while demolishing the, as it transpires, horribly mutated undead remnants of the crew.

Amazon has announced the games available as part of its February Prime Gaming lineup.

Do you keep a journal? I used to. Initially, I tipped all my kid-shaped thoughts into a book with citrus-scented pages, and then my teenage dreams and devastations fell into a navy diary with golden trim and a flimsy lock. Several years later, I moved on to blogging and learned, very much the hard way, not to blast every waking thought and irritation onto the internet.

If you've ever found joy in rolling down a grassy hill or sliding down snowy slopes on a homemade toboggan, then Tray Racers could well be for you. It's a game in which a bunch of kids race down sand dunes on - what else? - a tray, all aiming for the fastest time.