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Microsoft's corporate chat tool Teams is getting a range of casual games to aid team building, including Solitaire, Minesweeper, Wordament and IceBreakers.
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UPDATE 17/11/22: Call of Duty players have figured out a neat trick that stops your squad from having to kill the Chemist four times in a row. You can read about it here.
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Next Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak update adds AI hunters for Master Rank
Plus cuddly weapons and more next week.
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak's next free Title Update is right around the corner, and it's a good 'un, adding new monster variants, expanded uses for AI hunters, plus a host of welcome tweaks and refinements when it launches next Thursday, 24th November.
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Digital Foundry | A Plague Tale: Requiem: PC analysis, optimised settings - and the performance boost from the new patch
All platforms run up to 35 percent faster after the recent update.
We've already established that A Plague Tale: Requiem is a graphically demanding game - hence the move to a 30fps/40fps target for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, despite running at a native 1440p with temporal upscaling for a 4K output and often failing to maintain its performance target. In search of answers as to how heavy this game is, we can look to the PC version for answers - just as we did with Gotham Knights.
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users can now get three months worth of free access to Apple TV+ and Apple Music through the service's Perks program.
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Twitch streamer dinossindgeil has completed The God Run 3 - that's a Soulsbornekiroring no hit run.
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No, Assassin's Creed Valhalla isn't headed to Game Pass right now
"This was an error."
Earlier this week, Assassin's Creed fans equipped with Eagle Vision spotted a Game Pass logo on the Microsoft Store page for Viking adventure Valhalla.
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Nominees named for first ever video game Grammy Award
History in the making.
Next year's Grammy Awards will include the first ever Grammy for video game music.
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Have you ever found yourself playing through God of War thinking "damn, that food looks good enough to eat?"
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Nier Replicant protagonist and his flying, talking book to join Rainbow Six Siege
As part of Year 7 Season 4 update.
The unnamed protagonist of Nier Replicant and his companion Grimoire Weiss are coming to Rainbow Six Siege next week.
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Remember Marvel's Avengers? Square Enix's live service game gets its long-expected addition of Bucky Barnes, AKA the Winter Soldier, on 29th November.
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As Call of Duty fans eagerly wait for Warzone 2.0's servers to go live this evening, the original Warzone will see some major changes.
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Microsoft celebrates 20 years of Xbox Live
Halo from the other side.
Where has the time gone? Can you believe that Xbox Live first went, well, live 20 years ago?
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Feature | A look at a few accessibility issues with open-world games
From GTA to Horizon Forbidden West.
Hello! Welcome to the first in a series of pieces to celebrate Disability History Month. Today, Vivek returns to the streets of Los Santos.
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Clive won't be the only playable character in Final Fantasy 16
And why Eikons are like Gundam.
Clive, the protagonist of Final Fantasy 16, won't be the only playable character.
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Phil Spencer admits Microsoft shipped games "too early"
Delaying Starfield was "the right thing to do".
Phil Spencer has admitted Microsoft has shipped games "too early".
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Mei temporarily disabled in Overwatch 2 for two weeks
UPDATE: ... and two days due to "critical issue".
UPDATE 16/11/22: The mid-season patch for Overwatch 2, which will include restoring Mei, has been delayed.
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MultiVersus Season 2 adds Samurai Batman, Big Head mode, shop, more
UPDATE: Marvin the Martian and King's Landing coming.
UPDATE 16/11/22: Up next for MultiVersus - after all of the new Season 2 launch content listed below - will be a brand new character and stage, Warner Bros. has announced.
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Feature | Doug Cockle and the case for re-recording voice overs in The Witcher 1 remake
C'mon CDPR.
In October, CD Projekt Red announced it was remaking the first The Witcher game with the help of an external studio called Fool's Theory.
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Geralt voice actor sad about Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher Netflix show
"I just felt he did a fabulous job."
Doug Cockle, the actor renowned for portraying Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher series of video games, has told me he's sad to see Henry Cavill leave The Witcher Netflix show.
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Podcast | What The Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle did next
This world doesn't need a hero, it needs a professional.
I can't believe it was six years ago that I met Doug Cockle, voice of The Witcher (Geralt) in the video games. He was a teacher back then, leading the acting course at Arts University Bournemouth - such an ordinary place to find a bonafide video game star.
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Feature | Halo Infinite's Winter Update feels like the beginning of the fightback
Forging a path.
Plenty has been said about the state of Halo Infinite - a game which launched to deserved praise on the strength of its campaign and multiplayer, but has since struggled to gain any real momentum. Our State of the Game from Vikki this summer goes into this in closer detail, but in short, despite being a brilliant return to form for the series, Halo Infinite has been left to dwindle through delayed updates and a clunky live service model that even Microsoft itself admitted it must recover from.
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Ocean survival adventure Raft is coming to consoles
"Many of you have asked for it and we hope you are as excited as we are!".
Six months after enjoyable open water survival adventure Raft drifted serenely out of Steam early access, developer Redbeet Interactive has announced it's adapting the game for consoles.
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Take a look at this impressive Fallout 76 live-action fan film
Nuke kid on the block.
If you're still impatiently awaiting Amazon's live-action take on the Fallout universe, you might like a look at a newly released Fallout 76 fan project, admirably capturing the ambience of Bethesda's long-running series without, I assume, a budget of 150m Bezosbucks.
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Phil Spencer says Xbox shelved game streaming box because it cost too much
Couldn't hit desired $99-129 price point.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has revealed Microsoft's decision to "pivot away" from its previously announced Game Pass streaming box earlier this year was due to pricing concerns, with the company unable to get the device within its desired $99-$129 price bracket.
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Civilization 6's Leader Pass is official, adds 18 leaders over 6 DLCs
First pack arriving next week.
2K and developer Firaxis have formally announced the previously leaked Leader Pass for Civilisation 6, adding 18 leaders to the 4X strategy favourite over the course of six DLC releases.
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Pikmin Bloom passes first anniversary, hosts Pikmin 3 event
Find your flower.
Pikmin Bloom, the social walking game from Pokémon Go maker Niantic, recently passed its first birthday and is now hosting a special event themed around Pikmin 3.
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Here's what's coming to Xbox Game Pass in November
Pentiment! Norco! Warhammer Darktide!
Xbox has revealed the dates for November's additions to Game Pass.
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Phantom Liberty confirmed to be paid expansion for Cyberpunk 2077
Cross one's palm with Silverhand.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty will be a paid expansion.
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Sony has published a patent that suggests its exploring ways of the history of in-game assets using the blockchain and NFTs.
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