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Elden Ring has hit a new concurrent player peak on Steam, hitting almost a million simultaneous players: 953,426 to be precise.

A Gotham Knights playtest was allegedly added to Steam before being removed - or hidden from public view, anyway.

Amazon has banned over a million Lost Ark accounts it believes were bots.

Let's talk about a Nintendo-published rhythm game that made its name on Nintendo DS and deserves a modern revival. You're probably thinking about Elite Beat Agents, but that's actually not the focus of today's discussion. However, it is important to our story, so let's begin there.

Activision Blizzard has announced it is "suspending new sales of and in [its] games in Russia" whilst its unprovoked war against Ukraine persists. The company is also matching employee donations 2:1 to organisations "providing immediate relief in the region".

President and co-founder of the Nintendo-owned Next Level Games, Douglas Tronsgard, has announced plans to retire, offering a "special thank you" to Nintendo "for believing in me and Next Level Games".

Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries says it needs "more time" to work on the cooperative campaign and Forge, and cooperative missions will not be available in May as hoped.

How Polyphony Digital has scaled Gran Turismo 7 across three different PlayStation consoles, each with a very different performance profile is absolutely fascinating - not least because the developer has also given us the mechanism to easily produce a vast array of comparison assets to pore over, laying the differences bare in a remarkable way.

2K has revealed what's coming in its "innovative"," "franchise-first" new MyFaction Mode.

When you watch a speedrun, you're not really watching a single run. You're watching a culmination of work: the glitch hunters who figured out how to skip parts of the game, the previous runners who learned how to move around as quickly as possible, and the countless practice hours of the person currently trying to beat their personal best.

Back in 2020, developer Kaizen Game Works unleashed its dizzyingly high-concept open-world detective adventure Paradise Killer on Switch and PC, while PlayStation and Xbox owners were left eyeing up its woozy blend of sun-kissed investigatory action and eldritch nightmare from the sidelines. That's all set to change, however, with an expanded version of Paradise Killer finally heading to Xbox and PlayStation on 16th March.

Nintendo says its Russian eShop has been "temporarily placed into maintenance mode" after its payment service provider suspended the processing of payments in rubles.

More details on the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online for PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X have been revealed by Rockstar.

EA has announced it will be stopping all sales of its games and content, including virtual currency bundles, in Russia and its ally Belarus while Russia's invasion of the Ukraine continues.

Microsoft has suspended all new sales of its products and services in Russia.

Halo Infinite's early December campaign launch saw the arrival of a massively anticipated title that delivered on many levels, but couldn't shake many of the technical issues we highlighted throughout the preview/flighting process. However, towards the end of February, the Halo Infinite Season 1 mid-season update arrived, promising a fix for one of our biggest issues - the fact that first-person animations operated at a lower frame-rate than the rest of the game.

Gunborg: Dark Matters looks like a Metroidvania, but it isn't. Something about the layout tricked me - warrenous 2D corridors, suggesting complexity, back-tracking, several flavours of door. In fact, this is an action game - a short, punchy action-platformer game with an emphasis of repeating levels until you ace them. I think it's great.

Patch 6.1 for Final Fantasy 14 is due out in mid-April, named Newfound Adventure.

There's a virtual exhibition for Norco, the extremely moody, murky point-and-click mystery coming at the end of this month, that you can play here on Steam for free.

The long-awaited House of the Dead: Remake for Nintendo Switch will launch on 7th April.

There's a lot going on in this live-action advert for Elden Ring, which publisher Bandai Namco has produced for Thailand.

My heart's racing. Palms are sweaty as I grip the controller in anticipation. My sign is down, but will my dealer turn up? Or will my cash be wasted?

When Nintendo shared its trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land during its Direct presentation in February, one thing that got everyone talking was Kirby's new Mouthful Mode. It allows Kirby to inhale and then embody numerous items, and now it turns out this also includes Nintendo Switch boxes.

2020's Treyarch-made Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been given a surprise update today - and it sounds like more updates will follow over the course of this year.

After some eight years since the last numbered instalment, Polyphony Digital's flagship PlayStation series returns today with Gran Turismo 7 - and going live alongside it on the PlayStation Store are some microtransactions which represent a slightly tweaked approach to the one we saw in Gran Turismo Sport.

New PC and PlayStation release Babylon's Fall appears to have flopped on Steam.

Twitch has recently lost a number of high profile employees amid claims it's losing touch with its community.

Hello! We're going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we'll be looking at trends we've spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. Sometimes we'll just be thinking about things we've enjoyed and where they could lead. Have a lovely new year all!

Sony has quietly pulled PlayStation's new blockbuster racing game Gran Turismo 7 from sale in Russia.

Twitch has updated its policies to prevent the spread of harmful misinformation on the platform.