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I look at my robots, and I mull. I’ve got tanky Steel Balls serving as a mobile frontline, buffered through hordes of little Crawlers carefully positioned to soak up sniper fire. Behind those loom my Fortresses, dishing out rockets that delete any medium unit, helped out by Fire Badgers to incinerate anything small. I’m lacking big target damage, though, so I pop down a Melting Point with the last of my cash and end my turn.

Humanoid Origin, the studio founded by former Mass Effect director Casey Hudson in 2021, is ending development of its untitled sci-fi game and shutting its doors, after an "an unexpected shortfall of funding left [it] unable to sustain operations."

Amazon's intriguing Secret Level anthology series is almost upon, bringing 15 episodes of brand-new stories set in familiar video game worlds. And following on from its recent series trailer, Amazon is now releasing individual teasers for each episode, offering a closer look at the likes of Spelunky, Unreal Tournament, and, of course, that posthumous turn for Concord.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has admitted it's still no closer to announcing a console release date for the beleaguered city builder sequel, having run into what it calls "hardware limitations" impacting performance on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.

The arrival of a new working week can be pretty bleak, but hey - at least you have a brand new edition of DF Direct Weekly to watch or listen to. Despite the colossal workload we have, there's a huge amount of discussion this week - from an extended chat about the strengths and weaknesses of Sony's PSSR upscaling through to a look at Assassin's Creed Syndicate's 60fps patch and some quick impressions on the new PlayStation Portal update.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has cut ties with MMA fighter Conor McGregor, following last week's Irish High Court ruling that found he had assaulted and raped a woman in December 2018.

Troy Baker - best known as Joel in The Last of Us, as well as Nathan Drake's brother Sam in the Uncharted series - is set to collaborate with Naughty Dog once again.

A new trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film has been released, showing off its version of the Chao Garden.

Darkest Dungeon 2 will receive a major free update in January, alongside its next paid DLC.

The Last of Us series has only had two main entries - but Naughty Dog has made the most of those two games with a variety of remasters and remakes. PS5 Pro puts a capstone on those follow-up efforts though, by delivering both contemporary Last of Us iterations at 4K60 using PSSR. These patches also provide an interesting console benchmark, because the old PS5 modes are available on PS5 Pro, giving us a rare test to compare the Pro and base machine in like-for-like content in a Pro enhanced title. So does the PS5 Pro deliver the definitive Last of Us experience? And exactly how well do the old modes scale on the boosted Pro GPU?

An array of Ubisoft games including Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are broken on some devices running Windows 11 with version update 24H2 installed.

Farthest Frontier will now be released in full next year.

Netflix and Riot Games' utterly brilliant Arcane will be followed by three further series exploring other parts of the League of Legends world.

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Dungeon party game King of Meat will host an invite-only alpha this December, and you can sign up now.

Larian has reportedly posted a €249m (£207m) pre-tax profit for 2023. This is, of course, thanks in no small part to the runaway success of the Dungeons and Dragon's-based Baldur's Gate 3.

Sony is developing a portable version of the PlayStation 5, according to a new report.

The Invincible developer Starward Industries has announced its next project: action-adventure anti-combat RPG, Dante's Ring.

Manor Lords has outlined what's coming up in its next patch.

Dataminers have discovered the ages of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's cast as given by developer BioWare.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will not be getting any significant story-led DLC.

Introducing mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 has proved so successful, developer Larian Studios is restricting the number of mods console players can run at any one time.

Developer GSC Game World said Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's first patch will respond directly to feedback from players.

Microsoft is introducing a "seamless, full-featured in-game browser" to support gamers.

Why is it that in a role-playing game where the stakes are usually 'the end of the world', the end of the world always has to wait for us to finish our sprawling to-do list first? There's no way you've never encountered this. I came across it most recently in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which, after a thrilling end to Act One, effectively turned to me, the player, and said, hey why don't you focus on some companion quests now instead, eh? The world was still ending, the danger hadn't diminished or passed in any way, it's just the game needed a pace change and for me to see some of the other cool stuff in it.

Star Citizen's annual Intergalactic Aerospace Expo event is now live, and as part of the celebrations, Star Citizen is free to play from now until 5th December, complete with a new IAE Academy system designed to provide "a tutorial for new and returning players".

A Silent Hill 2 fan believes they've discovered a hidden message that adds further credence to a long-held fan theory about the seminal horror game.

Riot Games has pulled a promotional poster after fans pointed out it seemed to have been made using AI.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is calling for an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems.