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A patent has been granted to Sony that will allow spectators of a game to vote to remove players.

Work on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has reached a major milestone, with every game ever released on the console now successfully booting.

Following its previously reviewed partnerships with Remedy Entertainment, Inside developer Playdead, and Fumito Ueda's gen Designer (The Last Guardian), Epic Games' publishing arm has announced two new partners in the form of Cozy Grove creator Spry Fox and Eyes Out, the new studio co-founded by Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck.

The Nintendo Switch version of Life is Strange: True Colors will arrive in "early December", publisher Square Enix has said.

Android apps are finally available on Windows 11, albeit currently just for users of the operating system's beta channel.

Twitch is testing a new rewind feature for stream viewers.

UK retailer GAME has warned scalpers it has "strong measures" in place to stop multiple orders this morning, ahead of a new release of PlayStation 5 stock.

UPDATE 21/10/21: Nintendo has now released an update for Metroid Dread that fixes the game closing bug, as well as "several other issues to improve overall gameplay experience." You can read details on how to update the game here.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales is not a new game by this point, but it's one that still surprises me.

As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations for Tomb Raider, Square Enix has revealed footage and details of Tomb Raider: Ascension, an early survival-horror-like prototype created by Crystal Dynamics as it explored ways to reimagine the series - with various aspects of the project ultimately making their way into the developer's 2013 reboot.

Earlier this year, we started DF Direct Weekly - initially envisaged as a way to cover more topics and to do so in a way that wouldn't require massive production values. The obvious way to do this is via a simple Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting - but the results just weren't good enough, not meeting quality thresholds and looking out of place on the DF YouTube channel. At the same time, we were also looking at ways to more easily deliver higher quality filmed material in a 'work from home' environment, where space is at a premium and where time is of the essence.

A new video on Starfield gives us a look at The Settled Systems - and plenty of concept art.

I almost can't believe I'm writing this, but Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed yet again.

The third big addition to Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been spied again via a datamine of the game's latest patch.

God of War is coming to PC.

UPDATE 3.15pm UK: Oculus has now provided the following statement on changes to its Resident Evil 4 VR version:

Dusk is a dark, pixelated, nightmarish boomer shooter - and it left a strong impact when it first shipped on PC back in 2018. In fact, it's one of my top ten games of that year, and it's still brilliant even today. On the surface, the game looks like it stepped right out of 1997, doing a remarkable job of capturing the Quake aesthetic, but beneath the hood, you may be surprised to learn that this is actually a Unity engine project. That's no problem for a modern PC, but what about Nintendo Switch? Dusk is coming soon to the console hybrid and I'm happy to report that the Switch conversion is excellent.

Amazon is now working on enabling New World region transfers after a vociferous player backlash.

This week sees the long-awaited arrival of Denis Villeneuve's Dune in UK cinemas, and, not to be outdone, No Man's Sky is getting in on the big, wormy sci-fi action too, giving its burrowing space sausages a terrifying makeover as part of its latest update.

There's a new Lego Star Wars game coming out next month.

Amazon is giving New World players "The Stoic" in-game title and the "Waiting" emote for free to make up for the MMO's terrible launch server queues.

Dead by Daylight is receiving criticism online following the news its Pinhead character model, introduced in its latest Hellraiser content, has been made available for NFTs.

EA Sports has outlined FIFA 22's next big patch.

The highly anticipated, Oculus Quest 2 exclusive VR remake of Resident Evil 4 finally releases tomorrow and I've played through the first 4 hours.

Activision Blizzard has said that "more than 20" employees have "exited" the company due to "various resolved reports" in the wake of its sexual harassment becoming public.

EA has slapped over 30,000 FIFA 22 players with a week-long ban for exploiting a glitch in Ultimate Team.

Destiny 2 players will need to fork out extra to access the new dungeons coming to the Witch Queen expansion.

The number of people subscribed to Xbox Game Pass has grown by 37 percent over the year ending 30th June, Microsoft has revealed.

UPDATE 20/10/21: Square Enix has now confirmed the PC file size of Guardians of the Galaxy will be "approximately 80GB at launch". The system requirements on the Steam page have been updated accordingly.

Look, I get it. Even at the height of Quantum Leap's popularity three decades ago, turning an anthology TV series into a video game would have been a hard sell. This was a show that bravely hit the reset button every single week. In a flurry of electric blue flashes, time-travelling scientist Samuel Beckett would zap into a new body with the laudable but rather vague mission to "put right what once went wrong". Even with the probability analytics of his hologram guardian angel Al, it tended to be a painful process of trial and error. Sam would style it out while trying to deduce the win conditions that would allow him to advance. One week a blind concert pianist, the next a convict on death row. Such was the life of a cosmic samaritan.