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A free update to Sifu adds Mandarin voiceover.

Blizzard's World of Warcraft game for mobile will be unveiled in May, the developer has said.

Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG have announced that Lost Ark has now exceeded 20 million global users.

I'd never watched Survivor before and it's only now that I realise why: it didn't do very well in the UK in the early noughties so it disappeared. That explains it. But while it flopped here, it soared elsewhere, and so it was, as a complete newbie to the series, I recently found myself watching the 2019 Australian Survivor series on Amazon Prime. And it absolutely blew me away.

Amazon is reportedly in negotiations to bring PlayStation's blockbuster God of War series to Prime Video in a live-action TV adaptation.

Following a rather low-key end of 2021 - in which Sea of Thieves players got buriable treasure, some fancy fireworks, and the ability to sit on things - Rare is ready to step things up again for the piratical multiplayer adventure's first big update of 2022, bringing Spanish-style sea fort raids and more when Season 6 arrives this Thursday, 10th March.

Battlefield 2042's delayed 3.3 update, which introduces a refreshed Scoreboard UI alongside a number of bug fixes, will launch tomorrow, 8th March - and the previously announced "exclusive bundle" being given to certain players as compensation for the beleaguered FPS' delayed first season, arrives at the same time.

EA Motive will be turning down the lights and cranking up the volume for another look at its still-early-in-development remake of Visceral Games' much-love sci-fi horror classic Dead Space in a new developer livestream airing on Friday, 11th March.

The Nintendo Switch Online app got a huge update this morning.

Elite Dangerous developer Frontier Developments has unveiled F1 Manager 2022, a new licensed racing management sim heading to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation this "summer".

I've had a soft spot for Inkle ever since playing Sorcery! on my old banger of an iPhone many years ago, and I've been delighted by every single game it has made since. Games like 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, the 2022 BAFTA-nominated Overboard! and Pendragon - games that wield words masterfully. And I cannot wait for the studio's new game A Highland Song that was revealed properly only a few weeks ago.

On Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's launch this April, players will be able to get their hands on an additional Mandalorian DLC. This will be part of the game's Character Collection (Season Pass), which contains seven DLC packs.

Forspoken, the forthcoming adventure from Square Enix, has been delayed.

UPDATE 07/03/22: An update for the Steam client has been released, meaning the issue with saving Elden Ring to the Steam Cloud should now be fixed.

DF Direct Weekly tallies up its 51st show, but it's actually our 52nd week - we took a break for Christmas - meaning that this week is our one-year anniversary! And it's a particularly meaty episode this week as the team convene to wrap up discussions on Elden Ring and Steam Deck, specifically by tackling virtually every question we received on both topics from backers of the DF Supporter Program.

UPDATE 07/03/22: The Frost Fatales speedrunning event raised $132,350 for the Malala Fund.

A story expansion for Lost Judgment is on the way starring supporting character Masaharu Kaito.

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.

A comprehensive list of all of the biggest games from all the biggest publishers and developers at this year's trade show.

UPDATE 07/03/22: Doom designer John Romero has raised over €25k for Ukraine humanitarian efforts with his Doom 2 level.

In a lawsuit over loot boxes in NBA 2K, publisher Take-Two has been accused of "unfair, deceptive and unlawful practices".

A new boundary breaking video takes a peek inside Elden Ring's colosseum, which might be used for DLC.

For those patiently waiting to hear more about Obsidian's RPG Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and its arrival on the Nintendo Switch, there's bad news: it is no longer coming.

Grow: Song of the Evertree is like the perfect combination of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon. It has everything you could want from a farming game, with an alien element added in. Your role is to bring the expansive world tree back to life and create and nurture your own worlds by farming. You are also responsible for building villages, recruiting people to live in your town, and finding love in the face of adversity. The world has been taken over by 'the Withering' which is responsible for corrupting the land and disrupting the song created by the Evertree.

Valve has revealed Steam now has over a thousand "verified" games that will play flawlessly on its new handheld system, Steam Deck.

Activision Blizzard is being sued for wrongful death by the family of an employee that died by suicide after allegedly being sexually harassed.

Samsung has reportedly been hacked by the same group that attacked Nvidia last week.

DLC for Mario Party Superstars may be on the way.

Halo Infinite's multiplayer lead, Andrew Witts, is leaving the studio.

Epic Games is the latest games company to suspend sales of its products in Russia whilst its unprovoked war against Ukraine persists.