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Intellivision has cut its latest fundraising campaign for the still-unreleased Amico console short, setting yet more alarm bells ringing over the troubled machine's future.

RimWorld, developer Ludeon Studios' widely acclaimed sci-fi colony sim, has been refused classification in Australia, preventing its release and effectively banning it from sale.

In a sense, the core takeaways have not changed since we first looked at the Elden Ring network test last year. First of all, the quality of the game is beyond doubt - From Software deftly blending its unique Souls formula with an open-world to surprising success. Every inch of its map is ripe for exploration, rewarding players for going off the beaten path - for making discoveries at their own pace. However, in terms of technology, while there are changes to how the game presents on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, the basic headlines remain in place. Whichever way you play, it's a challenge to get a stable 60fps level of performance on even new consoles, despite a choice of two rendering modes.

There surely can't be many that haven't been seduced by Flight Simulator's promise of a whole, beautiful world to explore whenever and wherever they choose. Developer Asobo's astonishing work at recreating the planet on a 1:1 scale has transcended the usual simming niche to present a proposition - a sort of virtual holiday on a harddrive - with genuine mass appeal. But there remains a key sticking point: hardware. Flight Simulator on PC is an absolute hog, even at its more modest settings, and the secondary route - namely Xbox Series X/S - has its own cost and availability barriers to contend with. There is, then, a whole untapped audience Asobo believes is eager to take to the skies - and that's where Flight Simulator's newly released Xbox Cloud Gaming edition comes in, making the experience available to anyone with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription and an internet connection.

A streamer is playing through Elden Ring with a Ring Fit Adventure controller.

Back 4 Blood has passed the 10 million player mark, developer Turtle Rock Studios trumpeted today.

Sony has revealed the latest games to be added to its subscription service PlayStation Now, and they include the highly anticipated and gaudy Shadow Warrior 3.

Today's planned launch of Little Orpheus for PC and consoles has been postponed, publisher Secret Mode has confirmed.

Funimation content comes to anime subscription service Crunchyroll, starting today.

Ambulances are on their way to Two Point Hospital in a new expansion named Speedy Recovery.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy will be coming to Xbox Game Pass on the 10th of March.

Leading eSports team Navi, also known as Natus Vincere, has cut ties with Russian esports conglomerate ESForce.

Square Enix's dormant Dungeon Siege series is being revived - as voxel content in "metaverse" game The Sandbox.

Sign language support is now available in Forza Horizon 5.

This year's upcoming FIFA 23 will reportedly allow fans to play each other across PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

Embracer Group, the umbrella company which owns THQ Nordic, Gearbox, Koch Media and Saber Interactive, will donate $1m to humanitarian aid groups in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Viking survival game Valheim has launched its new Mountain update, which adds instanced cave dungeons to the game.

Valve boss Gabe Newell has been out hand delivering Steam Decks.

The latest update for the Nintendo Switch Online service has added a new missions and rewards section.

World of Tanks creative director Sergey Burkatovskiy has been fired by studio Wargaming after publicly supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Elden Ring has been strongly anticipated by fans since 2019, when it was announced; part of the intrigue behind the game came from the involvement of George R.R. Martin, one of the most famous fantasy authors in the world. Elden Ring's director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, was a fan of Martin's work prior to working with him, particularly of Fevre Dream, a standalone novel that Miyazaki considered a masterpiece.

A new mod has been released that lets PC players pause Elden Ring.

Hello! Over the next few days we hope to be bringing you impressions of a few of the demos in the Steam Next Fest. You can view them all in our 2022 Next Fest archive.

I am by no means a Souls expert. The opposite really. I played Dark Souls a bit and loved it - but I also struggled with it, as a foolish, cowardly, flighty kind of person and player. By the time I almost knew what I was doing - or rather, by the time I started to make any kind of real progress - I had started to play in a very specific way.

At the start of every year I promise myself that this spring I will head out onto the South Downs late one evening and actually see the Milky Way. Light pollution: there are still certain spots on the Downs where it's actually dark enough to see the galaxy that we are a part of. To look up and look through the lurid gassy wilds of our home. Maybe with a Thermos of something because it's probably quite chilly.

Pac-Man's upcoming compilation of pellet-munching puzzles will launch for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation and Xbox on 27th May.

Whilst I do my best to keep my reviews spoiler-free, it's incredibly difficult to critique Martha Is Dead without reflecting, in part, on some of its more problematic story beats. Consequently, though I promise to minimise them, it's unlikely this review will be entirely without spoilers. Apologies!

Elden Ring servers will undergo maintenance this week to improve multiplayer functions.

Welcome to the blog post surrounding the publication of the 50th edition of Digital Foundry Direct Weekly, meaning that we're swiftly coming up to our one year anniversary of the show, something we may have celebrate in some way! I wasn't able to be involved with this particular episode owing to the commitment to the Steam Deck review, but rest assured, you're in good hands with John, Audi and Alex tackling the key topics of the week.

Civilization creator Sid Meier, a veteran of games development, has spoken out about the industry's ongoing push towards further monetisation.