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Valve has confirmed that games using anti-cheat software Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) can now be run on Steam Deck.

If you'd been hoping that you might get to lay your hands on the highly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls 6 later this year, you might have to adjust your expectations: according to a now suspiciously-deleted LinkedIn profile, the game is seemingly still in pre-production.

Nintendo may have been working to improve the emulation system that recently launched on Nintendo Switch.

League of Legends developer Riot has once again teamed up with Epic Games, this time to bring Vi from League of Legends spin-off show, Arcane, to Epic's outrageously popular battle royale, Fortnite.

A new PC mod for the original Final Fantasy 7 bumps up the frame rate to 60fps.

343 Industries is continuing its reward system revamp by making Credits earnable in Halo Infinite's Season 2's battle pass.

There's a screen in the Switch interface that tells me I've played Animal Crossing: New Horizons for almost 200 hours. That feels by far the longest I've ever spent with a single game - though perhaps Fortnite might tell me otherwise. The weird thing is, with New Horizons, it really doesn't feel like I've spent 200 hours with it. Maybe the time has flown by. Maybe. It's more that my interactions with the game feel, even now, relentlessly superficial.

If you've been enjoying Amplitude Studios' 4X strategy game Humankind but have a hankering for something a little more alternative in your historical timeline, you might like to cast your gaze in the direction of the developer's newly released official Endless mod and map.

With Dying Light 2 just weeks away now, developer Techland has revealed those purchasing the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One versions of the game will be entitled to free PS5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrades respectively, should they require them at a later date.

Quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard's Wisconsin-based Raven Software studio - where strike action has been ongoing since December, following the firing of 12 members of the developer's QA team - have announced their intention to form a worker's union.

Forget Call of Duty: Warzone and Bloodborne - the next-gen upgrade we really want is here.

The original plan for Assassin's Creed - back when the whole franchise was planned as a trilogy - would have seen series hero Desmond blasting off on a spaceship.

The physical version of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is coming to Switch next month.

Rainbow Six Extraction is a little like going to your parents home and finding an entirely different family living there amongst your parents' floral furnishings. Here is a game where things pretty much look to be the same - hey, there's the destructible environments we know so well, and over there you can see the usual smorgasbord of tech-savvy operators - and yes, there are similarities between Extraction and the R6 games that have come before it... but, well, you can't help but notice the differences more than the parallels. It's almost as if those differences stand out a touch sharper - a little starker - when you're thigh-deep in the warm waters of familiarity.

Game developers aren't interested in NFTs and cryptocurrency, according to the latest GDC State Of The Game Industry report.

Mike Ybarra, boss of Blizzard, has released a blog post laying out the steps he says will "rebuild trust" in the developer following the reports of toxic workplace culture and sexual harassment which emerged last summer.

BioWare's Dragon Age 4 won't be ready for release this year, according to new reports.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: photography, a classic shooter, and cards!

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick held an internal meeting on the morning of 20th January to address employee concerns about the Microsoft acquisition.

The headlines have concentrated on the issues surrounding the Switch version of Sonic Colours Ultimate - and let's be clear, there are problems there - but we wanted to take a look at the remaster from a more global perspective. After all, the game is playable on three different PlayStations and a total of four Xbox systems, so how well does the game fare overall? is the remastering work of a decent quality? These are all questions worth answering because fundamentally, the original Sonic Colours was an excellent Wii title and it's a game well worth improving and modernising for the today's systems.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said he is keen to revive Activision franchises the publisher has recently ignored.

With Steam Deck currently still on track to meet its revised February 2022 release date, there's a lot of work going on behind-the-scenes in preparation for launch, including Valve's extensive drive to rate every game on Steam for compatibility with its highly anticipated portable gaming PC - and the first batch of Steam titles to have received ratings, whether that be a fully compatible Verified or otherwise, have now appeared for perusal online.

UPDATE 21/1/21: Trading has now been restored to Pokémon Go, following the fix of the issue first identified on Wednesday evening.

Call of Duty could ditch its yearly release schedule, according to a new report.

Xbox head Phil Spencer has spoken of Microsoft's "desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation" following the company's $70BN acquisition of Activision Blizzard earlier this week.

PC players with a hankering for some big stompy robot action are in luck; mech shooter Daemon X Machina has been confirmed as next week's free Epic Games Store game.

Shenmue: The Animation - a, yes, animated adaptation of Sega's cult classic 1999 Dreamcast game - finally has a release date and will be down at the docks, eyeing up sailors, from 5th February on Crunchyroll and Adult Swim.

A new update on the official Wizarding World website has re-confirmed a 2022 release date for Hogwarts Legacy, contradicting recent reports the open-world action-RPG had been delayed.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection, which gathers together fancied-up versions of the original Life is Strange and its prequel Before the Storm, has been delayed for a second time on Switch and is now expected to arrive "later this year".

Even after many years of playing video games, I still sometimes come across some I don't quite know how to describe. It's an exciting thing, but also deeply inconvenient when part of your job requires you to, well, describe games. Strange Horticulture calls itself a puzzle, but it isn't a puzzle in any way I associate with the word.