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Following a year of console exclusivity to the PlayStation 5, Arkane's outstanding Deathloop arrives on Xbox Series S/X today and it'll be hitting Game Pass to boot. There are some minor tweaks and changes, including all the accessibility options added over the last year as well as a new extended ending, but beyond that it's the same brilliant game, so here's our review of the original, first published in September 2021, to let you know a little more.

After last week's info blowout, the open beta for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 went live over the weekend, allowing us to get intimate with all the new mechanics and systems for the follow-up to Infinity Ward's 2019 reboot (and not to be confused with 2009's Modern Warfare 2, of course). Things were kept intimate when it comes to game modes, too, with a focus on 6v6 stalwarts - as well as a cameo from the returning third-person playlist - which helped underline how different it feels. Does it work? Well opinion is split, so here's two takes from two very different kinds of Call of Duty players.

For those of you still waiting to get your hands on one of Valve's portable Steam Deck PCs, there is good news.

Developer Brianna Lei has announced a sequel to her 2017 game Butterfly Soup, and it's out next month.

Resident Evil Village's Shadows of Rose DLC will serve as Capcom's final act for the Winters family, the publisher has said.

EA boss Andrew Wilson has suggested the ongoing drama surrounding the future of Call of Duty is "a tremendous opportunity" for his company's beleagured Battlefield franchise.

Nintendo will be discontinuing social media logins into Nintendo Accounts and the Image Share service on 3DS and Wii U consoles next month.

More leaked footage from Diablo 4 has found its way onto the internet, adding to the blizzard being faced by Blizzard.

A PlayStation 5 with a detachable disc drive is reportedly in the works by Sony for launch around September next year.

YouTuber Dan Allen has apologised after it became apparent he was behind a Twitter account which had recently leaked details of Ubisoft's Forward presentation, alongside other industry details.

I first read Paul Auster when I was at university. A tutor recommended The Music of Chance, I think, and I ended up reading all of his stuff in one of those bursts of love you sometimes get for writers. Then, I sort of dropped out of the Auster business. At the beginning of lockdown, I re-read Leviathan, on a whim, and didn't love it. I re-read The New York Trilogy, which I had adored the first time around, and thought it was fine.

My favourite Monkey Island story isn't about a puzzle or a character or a joke. It's not Stan and his hand-talking, or the severed head that can lead you through mazes. It's not actually a story from the game itself. It's to do with a friend of my wife's. This friend once admitted that, as a kid, whenever she had a story she wanted to tell her mum, her mum would always stop her at the start and say, with what I'm guessing was a heavy, deeply theatrical sigh, "Is this about Monkey Island?"

It's a shorter DF Direct blog this week - it's supposed to be a public holiday - but our weekly show goes live on YouTube as normal and it's a special one on two accounts. First of all, there's well over two hours of discussion to wade through, covering the latest Sony State of Play, last week's Nintendo Direct and the biggest news from the Tokyo Game Show. The second factor that makes this one rather special? That'll be a 40 minute (!) guest slot for none other than Eurogamer's Ian Higton!

Rockstar has acknowledged the enormous Grand Theft Auto 6 leak of work-in-progress development materials that took place over the weekend.

343 Industries has confirmed its withdrawing the dedicated playlist for Halo Infinite mode Land Grab.

Following news that Like a Dragon: Ishin is coming to the West, Sega has confirmed that it is officially dropping the Yakuza name from its fan-favourite RPG series.

A 14-year-old MMO was temporarily taken offline after an angry ex-employee filled the game will unsanctioned messages, including complaints about pay and working conditions.

It looks like a new Final Fantasy 16 trailer may debut next month.

AI-generated imagery is here. Type a simple description of what you want to see into a computer and beautiful illustrations, sketches, or photographs pop up a few seconds later. By harnessing the power of machine learning, high-end graphics hardware is now capable of creating impressive, professional-grade artwork with minimal human input. But how could this affect video games? Modern titles are extremely art-intensive, requiring countless pieces of texture and concept art. If developers could harness this tech, perhaps the speed and quality of asset generation could radically increase.

I've been playing VR for a very long time now so my legs are pretty sturdy, but when legendary flatscreen to VR modder Raicuparta approached me with a preview build of his Neon White VR mod, I must admit I was a little apprehensive.

An Elden Ring board game is on the way.

UPDATE 19/9/22: Rockstar has commented on the GTA 6 leak from over the weekend - here's our full coverage.

With a new Monkey Island game coming next week, we decided to get a couple of Guybrush superfans together to talk about this magical, evocative, and hilarious series.

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Phil Spencer wants you to know that Microsoft hasn't "given up" on bringing Final Fantasy 14 – currently only available on Sony consoles – to Xbox.

Valve is showing off Steam Deck's unreleased dock at Tokyo Game Show.

Apex Legends developer Respawn has nerfed the Heat Sink skin iron sights and says it is "improving the competitive integrity of iron sights now and in the future".

Steam Deck may well be the most mainstream example of the handheld gaming PC, but Valve is certainly not the first company to give the concept a shot. Other manufacturers got there first and continue to innovate with intriguing products. The AyaNeo Air is the most exciting of those handhelds yet, in that it's something of an anti-Deck. The Air is small and easy to handle in the way that Steam Deck is not. It has the OLED panel with the inky blacks and incredible contrast that the Deck's mediocre IPS LCD does not. Also - for good or bad - it runs on Windows 11, meaning that it plays everything, something that remains beyond the Deck when running the default Steam OS.

Like a Dragon: Ishin will only feature Japanese voice acting, producer Masayoshi Yokoyama has confirmed.

It's been out less than a fortnight, but already over a million people are playing Disney Dreamlight Valley.