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UPDATE 2ND DECEMBER: Today is the last day of the discount. The code will expire at midnight UTC tonight.

Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla studio Ubisoft Montreal is reportedly working on a new Animal Crossing-inspired social sim featuring Minecraft-like building elements, with former Gotham Knights creative director Patrick Redding said to be at the reins.

The Witcher 4 - AKA Project Polaris AKA "the first instalment in the new Witcher saga", as it continues to be referred to in lieu of a publicly announced name - is another step closer to release, with CD Projekt confirming its development has shifted to "full-scale production".

Loco Motive is one of those games that's very easy to enjoy and feel like you're having a jolly good time while you're playing it. A point and click adventure in the vein of old LucasArts games, this is a funny and exquisitely animated romp across a 1930s Orient Express-alike that delights at almost every turn. It's a murder mystery at its core, albeit one that isn't afraid to laugh at its own expense and employ the same kind of daft puzzle logic as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle did before it. There are so many things I like about it, so why did I feel increasingly indifferent to it by the time I hit the end credits?

Pokémon Go's next season is named Dual Destiny, and will kick off next week on Tuesday 3rd December.

Improvements to the PlayStation 5 Pro patch for Alan Wake 2 are still not ready, despite Remedy today releasing a new update for the game across all platforms.

UPDATE 26/11/24: Fortnite has now released an official version of yesterday's Chapter 6 artwork, confirming the inclusion of both Godzilla and Baymax in the next iteration of Epic Games' evergreen battle royale.

Rift of the NecroDancer has finally got a firm release date, but it's been pushed back into next year.

PlayStation is celebrating its upcoming 30th Anniversary by letting you sit on its logo while riding the Victoria Line.

Nintendo will close its Switch eShop and all network services in China in 2026.

Microsoft will shutdown its Xbox Avatar Editor app on PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 9th January due to "low engagement", the company has said.

BioShock and Mafia publisher 2K has killed off its PC launcher, and uncoupled its top titles from the software.

Nintendo has added The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom to the official series timeline.

To return to Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness in 2024 is to go back to some of the earliest building blocks of the real-time strategy genre. There were, of course, many great RTS games that preceded Blizzard's high fantasy take on the genre - not least Westwood Studios' seminal Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis. But the point remains: considering these games first appeared in the mid-90s, they are naturally going to feel just a tiny bit antiquated by modern genre standards. An obvious point to make, perhaps, but I think it's important to state upfront that these Warcraft Remasters are very much the games as you (probably) remember them, as opposed to being big, sweeping remakes that have been updated with all the recent mod cons you've probably become accustomed to in the years since.

Iconic PS1 survival horror Dino Crisis was released on PlayStation last month, but was only available for PS Plus Premium subscribers.

Is the next big video game company acquisition on the cards?

I look at my robots, and I mull. I’ve got tanky Steel Balls serving as a mobile frontline, buffered through hordes of little Crawlers carefully positioned to soak up sniper fire. Behind those loom my Fortresses, dishing out rockets that delete any medium unit, helped out by Fire Badgers to incinerate anything small. I’m lacking big target damage, though, so I pop down a Melting Point with the last of my cash and end my turn.

Humanoid Origin, the studio founded by former Mass Effect director Casey Hudson in 2021, is ending development of its untitled sci-fi game and shutting its doors, after an "an unexpected shortfall of funding left [it] unable to sustain operations."

Amazon's intriguing Secret Level anthology series is almost upon, bringing 15 episodes of brand-new stories set in familiar video game worlds. And following on from its recent series trailer, Amazon is now releasing individual teasers for each episode, offering a closer look at the likes of Spelunky, Unreal Tournament, and, of course, that posthumous turn for Concord.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has admitted it's still no closer to announcing a console release date for the beleaguered city builder sequel, having run into what it calls "hardware limitations" impacting performance on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.

The arrival of a new working week can be pretty bleak, but hey - at least you have a brand new edition of DF Direct Weekly to watch or listen to. Despite the colossal workload we have, there's a huge amount of discussion this week - from an extended chat about the strengths and weaknesses of Sony's PSSR upscaling through to a look at Assassin's Creed Syndicate's 60fps patch and some quick impressions on the new PlayStation Portal update.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has cut ties with MMA fighter Conor McGregor, following last week's Irish High Court ruling that found he had assaulted and raped a woman in December 2018.

Troy Baker - best known as Joel in The Last of Us, as well as Nathan Drake's brother Sam in the Uncharted series - is set to collaborate with Naughty Dog once again.

A new trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film has been released, showing off its version of the Chao Garden.

Darkest Dungeon 2 will receive a major free update in January, alongside its next paid DLC.

The Last of Us series has only had two main entries - but Naughty Dog has made the most of those two games with a variety of remasters and remakes. PS5 Pro puts a capstone on those follow-up efforts though, by delivering both contemporary Last of Us iterations at 4K60 using PSSR. These patches also provide an interesting console benchmark, because the old PS5 modes are available on PS5 Pro, giving us a rare test to compare the Pro and base machine in like-for-like content in a Pro enhanced title. So does the PS5 Pro deliver the definitive Last of Us experience? And exactly how well do the old modes scale on the boosted Pro GPU?

An array of Ubisoft games including Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are broken on some devices running Windows 11 with version update 24H2 installed.

Farthest Frontier will now be released in full next year.

Netflix and Riot Games' utterly brilliant Arcane will be followed by three further series exploring other parts of the League of Legends world.