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343 Industries has admitted the launch of Halo Infinite season two has been "bumpy".

Blizzard has been in the news a lot recently, not only for its upcoming acquisition by Microsoft, but also due to the multiple reports of a toxic workplace environment and allegations of sexual misconduct that came to light last year. Then, in January, Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra released a blog post laying out the steps he said will "rebuild trust" in the developer. This included plans to hire new team members, whose roles would focus on improving the company's workplace culture.

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: tomb raiders, diving headers and power washers.

TennoCon, Warframe's annual fan event, is officially returning this summer in digital-only form, with developer Digital Extremes having now confirmed that all-day proceedings will be getting underway on 16th July.

If you're starting to tire of splicing up the same old animals into DNA hybrid monstrosities in park management sim Let's Build a Zoo, there's some potentially exciting news on the horizon: you'll soon be able to fancy up your adorably terrifying creations into something even more exotic when the game's newly announced Dinosaur Island DLC arrives on 23rd May.

Fans of quality freebies (so basically everyone then, I assume) are in for a treat next week as Prey and Jotunn join the lengthening list of games to be given away on the Epic Store.

Following the news that Haden Blackman, studio head and founder of Mafia 3's developer Hangar 13, is stepping down from the role after seven years, a new report has claimed a fourth instalment in the Mafia series is currently in early development at the studio.

Fortnite has today joined Xbox Cloud Gaming, making it the first free-to-play game to do so.

All sorts of strange things come out of Reddit.

The Geoff Keighley-hosted Summer Game Fest will broadcast its live show on Thursday, 9th June at 7pm UK time (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern).

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has announced details of the game's big European summer meetup, which is set to take place this year in Berlin.

UPDATE 5/5/22: Dying Light players - today is your day! Not only are you getting a brand new DLC (see original story below), but we have just been given a press release about a free upgrade to the Enhanced Edition that comes with the game's newest patch (patch 1.49).

As many know already, the Monkey Island series took on a new look as well as a new creative team in its third outing, The Curse of Monkey Island. However, this new art style was not simply because of the change in management behind the game's development. Rather, it was because of the tools being used behind the scenes.

Hitman 3's forthcoming Freelancer roguelike mode has been pushed back.

Microsoft has finally caved into years of pressure and has resurrected Clippy from the grave... sort of.

With the launch of the first wave of maps in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass (quite a mouthful, I know), we saw the return of fan-favourite Wii map Coconut Mall.

It's cool to be kind in Citizen Sleeper. A low-intensity, minimalist kind of chillhop sci-fi game, set on a half-ruined space station floating between freedom and indenture, characters here are guarded at first, before, after an investment of little more than your time, dropping walls to reveal themselves as almost unanimously gentle, considerate, warm. What really grabs you, though, is how this is reflected in the nature of Citizen Sleeper itself.

Yuke's, the Japanese developer behind two decades of popular WWE games, has announced it is returning to the wrestling genre with new project AEW Fight Forever.

Mages rejoice! There's now a fan-made calculator for Elden Ring that could prove invaluable.

A Rockstar Games artist has taken some of the most iconic games of today and given them a retro comic book inspired makeover.

Gunzilla Games, the mysterious studio which opened at the end of 2020 with an impressive list of talent from a number of AAA games studios has finally shared more details about their first game.

Ubisoft looks to be readying itself to fight off a potential future takeover bid, according to a new report.

Haden Blackman, studio head and founder of Mafia 3's developer Hangar 13, is stepping down from the role after seven years.

You've heard of Wordle. You've probably heard of Heardle. But have you heard of Final Fantasy 14 Heardle?

An hour of new footage of Arkane Lyon's cancelled Half-Life 2 spinoff, Ravenholm, has been released courtesy of Noclip.

Streaming numbers are down across the board as the world opens up again post-lockdown.

"They're outsiders," says Jane Perry. "Maybe this is what draws the characters together, the sense of being not entirely comfortable in the skin that they're in or in the world that they find themselves in."

UPDATE 5/5/22: Furi developer The Game Bakers has issued a short statement to fans on the game's lack of DLC support for Xbox.

I once got bullied out of going to see the film A Knight's Tale by the cashier at the cinema. He took one look at me and my brother and thought he saw kindred spirits."Do you like cars?" he asked. "Um..." we stalled. "You should go and see Fast and Furious," he said. But we didn't want to: we wanted to see Heath Ledger. So naturally we agreed and went to watch the cars, and I've never seen A Knight's Tale since.

Today, 4th May, is Star Wars Day and Microsoft is celebrating the annual ode to George Lucas' iconic sci-fi odyssey by giving away 12 custom Xbox Series S consoles inspired by developer Traveller's Tales' recently released Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.