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Summer Games Done Quick is returning with another week-long charity speedrunning event this June, and it'll mark the show's first in-person event since organisers made the move to an online-only schedule more than two years ago in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A massive Apex Legends leak has appeared online, purportedly revealing the nine seasons' worth of unannounced heroes coming to developer Respawn Entertainment's free-to-play battle royale shooter, alongside details of new maps, weapons, and more.

Microsoft is giving away a pair of Sonic-branded Xbox Series S consoles and - the true star of the show - two sets of furry Xbox controllers.

Predator: Hunting Grounds developer Illfonic has now fully revealed its upcoming Ghostbusters game, Spirits Unleashed.

CD Projekt has today released patch 1.52 for Cyberpunk 2077.

A Gran Turismo 7 fan has published a script-based exploit which can be used to grind currency, following controversial changes to the economy in PlayStation's racing game introduced via a patch last week.

Gran Turismo 7 now has the dubious honour of having the worst Metacritic user score for a game from PlayStation Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment, SCEA, SCEE, or SCEJ. Ever.

Casey Hudson, the former boss of BioWare and its Mass Effect trilogy, has offered an update on his new project.

Nintendo-published mobile game Draglia Lost is shutting down.

Nintendo Switch has added the ability to store games in folders, which it calls groups.

I started running last year after reading Ben Wilson's wonderfully Brysonian memoir, One Year Without Social Media, a memoir that properly soars whenever 5Ks and 10Ks are in the offing.

After a bit of a pause while Sea of Thieves put its pieces in place for Season 6, the multiplayer pirate escapade will soon be embarking on its second adventure episode, Forts of the Forgotten, with proceedings getting underway this Thursday, 24th March.

With a physical E3 once again ruled out this year, and the show's digital plans still uncertain, all eyes are on the big publishers to see how they might continue to fill the void left by the long-running industry show. And according to a new report, Ubisoft is currently prepping a "massive" showcase event of its own, where it could reveal the unannounced likes of a new Prince of Persia game and an Immortals Fenix Rising sequel.

Techland's next-gen spruce-up of the original Dying Light is, following its recent PS5 release, now available on Xbox Series X/S, with enhancements available for Xbox One X too.

Last week, there was a faint flutter in Elden Ring circles after fans spotted a cute little detail: that George R. R. Martin appeared to have inserted himself into the game while writing its background lore by naming all its major players - who you'll inevitably encounter as bosses at some point or other - after his own initials. In response, the Game of Thrones author has now taken to the internet to dismiss the theory as being all a bit daft.

Developer Counterplay Games' action-RPG Godfall will - after nearly 18 months of PlayStation and Epic Games Store exclusivity - be making its way to Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam on 7th April, arriving in a new Ultimate Edition guise.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt has confirmed it has begun development on the next game in The Witcher series.

Starship Troopers: Terran Command has been delayed until 16th June 2022.

PlayStation's latest acquisition is Haven Studios, the new development team lead by Assassin's Creed co-creator Jade Raymond following her departure from Google Stadia.

A new investigation into emotional abuse at three indie studios brings gaming auteurs into stark relief.

The 53rd DF Direct Weekly is now available for your viewing pleasure - and as a podcast too, if you'd prefer. After the obligatory chat about the improvements made to Grand Theft Auto 5 for its latest upgrade for current-gen consoles, we move straight on to the ongoing topic of Elden Ring console performance where we have found that the recently minted 1.03 patch actually seems to improve Xbox Series console performance!

Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams are reimagining 1970s text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.

UPDATE 21/3/22: Epic Games has raised $36m in 24 hours from sales within Fortnite, the company has announced.

I've recently been watching episodes of the Clone Wars cartoon series, and it came to mind while playing a near-final build of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. Both offer their own riffs on the series' established film stories, weaving in and out of Lucasfilm's vision (or Lucas' most recent revision since). Both are clearly built with a real love of the source material. And both have bits which feel like filler - but when things work, they work well.

Metroid Dread is now the third highest-selling game in the series.

Arc System Works has announced crossplay and a second character pass for Guilty Gear Strive, meaning four additional fighters are on the way.

It was during a lecture they probably should have been listening to that Sara Thompson doodled the Dungeons & Dragons Combat Wheelchair on the back of a textbook. They'd been talking about it for a while, the wheelchair, irked by a game that offered players limitless freedom to be whoever they wanted but still struggled to fully represent them. So they did something about it.

It's all going on for Greg Buchanan. His still-warm thriller novel Sixteen Horses looks destined to become one of the books of the year, having filled window displays at Waterstones stores around the UK for the paperback launch in February. I've read it and it's brilliant; dark, disturbing, fearsomely intelligent and utterly compelling. I couldn't put it down.

A secret in The Witcher 3 has finally been confirmed by a CD Projekt developer, seven years after the game's initial release.

The founders of Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios have been accused of toxic behaviour and mismanagement.