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Midnight Society, the new AAA game developer backed by controversial streamer DrDisrespect, aka Guy Beahm, has detailed how its early access plans involve owning "Founders Pass" NFTs.

Around 70 percent of Elden Ring players have defeated the game's first major boss.

The next round of Xbox Game Pass titles due to arrive via Microsoft's subscription service have been detailed online.

Elden Ring's mighty General Radahn is certainly a sight to behold, thanks to his towering frame, tusked helmet and absolutely gigantic swords. But as imposing as he most certainly is, he is also unintentionally comical thanks to his insistence on riding a comparatively teeny tiny horse into battle.

Fresh from setting an initially impressive speedrun time for Elden Ring (that's since been broken), streamer LilAggy has turned his attention back to Dark Souls Remastered.

If you're the sort that balks at the thought of a clean line, white wall, or an excessively nude bit of shelf space, The Sims 4 has you covered with its newly announced Kit DLC, Decor to the Max - a busy ode to maximalism that's coming to all platforms next Monday, 21st March.

Grand Theft Auto 5 comes to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X tomorrow, 15th March. Yes, the game that once launched on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 nine years ago lives to see yet another release on yet another generation of hardware. And its reincarnation comes with significant improvements like 4K crispness, 60 frames-per-second silkiness, texture upgrades, draw-distance upgrades, HDR options and ray-tracing. Whew.

You can now download the first batch of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC ahead of its arrival this Friday.

You can now tweak the difficulty of Elden Ring to your liking using mods on PC.

Ubisoft open world driving game The Crew 2 will get a fifth year of free content updates, beginning in July.

A bunch of mods have been released for Sifu on PC that turn the game into The Matrix.

Eight-and-a-half years on from Grand Theft Auto 5's release at the twilight of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era, the world has changed. Games have changed, humour has changed, the public has changed, the developers have changed - not just those who worked in GTA5 but, more than likely, the makeup of developer Rockstar North itself. And in the ensuing years of service-game evolution and osmosis, the game's more visible half, GTA Online, has changed an awful lot too.

When I eventually mustered enough courage to go to an acting class several years ago, and began to rekindle a passion long left dormant, I learnt a powerful lesson which still stays with me today. It's not theatrical, it's something I apply across my entire life, and it's not a hack for getting ahead. It's simple and honest.

Today brings our best and longest look yet at the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which will arrive in UK cinemas on 1st April.

Babylon's Fall, it's fair to say, hasn't got off to the strongest of starts. Not only did the Square Enix and PlatinumGames collaboration launch to mediocre reviews, it struggled to attract much interest from players. And now, following Babylon's Fall's limp reception, Square has launched a survey in a bid to help "bring everyone an even better game experience".

Kirby, despite looking as smooth and pink as the day he was born, is officially 30 years old this year, and to celebrate the ageing of video gaming's most beloved suction orb, Nintendo is holding a special birthday "music fest" and streaming it to the world.

Indie Gladiator game, Domina, has recently clocked up hundreds of "overwhelmingly negative" reviews on Steam after the developer slipped anti-mask rhetoric into the game's latest patch notes.

Everyone wants extra performance from their PC hardware, right? And that's where technologies like AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), Nvidia's DLSS and Intel's upcoming XeSS are all about - essentially allowing the GPU to render at a lower resolution, then either upscaling or reconstructing to the native output of the display. In a sense, this is new territory for PC, where native resolution rendering was for a long time considered the only way forward. However, in console land, 'smart upscaling' isn't new, really coming to the fore with the launch of PS4 Pro in 2016. PC has embraced similar techniques, but has also spawned its own blend - and AMD's FSR in particular stands apart. So when Team Red asked us if were interested to talk FSR, we jumped at the chance. AMD's approach is different, both in terms of technology and philosophy.

UPDATE 14/3/22: Stalker developer GSC Game World appears to have subtly changed the name of its upcoming and now on-hold sequel.

Here is something adorable to ease you into Monday afternoon: a little chihuahua has stolen the hearts of many by performing to the Pokémon theme at Crufts.

We tried not to talk about it, we spent almost an hour avoiding the topic but eventually it had to come out: Alex is being driven to his wits' end by the fact that so many major titles are shipping on PC with a stuttering issues. Kicking off this egregious assault on gameplay most recently was the bizarrely poor conversion of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, followed up swiftly by Elden Ring and just last week, Shadow Warrior 3. But it's not a new problem - games like Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghostrunner and Sword and Fairy 7 launched with similar issues. Typically, this stutter is caused by shader compilation - the process whereby GPU code is compiled on the fly during gameplay - and seems to be particularly bothersome on Unreal Engine titles.

Fortiche, the talented French animation studio behind brilliant League of Legends show Arcane, is now part-owned by Riot Games.

Savathûn's Throne World is an indulgent, decadent place. Its neat privet hedges bookend meandering walkways that don't seem in a rush to get anywhere, and much of the ground - bleached, polished stone - is obscured by a thick carpet of russet leaves and blood-red petals.

Sony has announced another State of Play this week, this time focused on Hogwarts Legacy.

A modder has created their own portable Nintendo GameCube.

The second annual Video Game Accessibility Awards took place over the weekend, celebrating games making strides in accessibility.

Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé has spoken out about Facebook's "current definition" of the metaverse.

A notorious hacker who's been slaughtering and softbanning players in Elden Ring has said he's a "necessary evil".

Twitch has responded to a fresh wave of hate raids against women and LGBT+ streamers.

Valve has announced that Windows drivers are now available to install on its Steam Deck.