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There's only one thing I love more than playing Deathloop at the moment and that's trawling the tunnels of Black Reef in search of the game's secrets.

Sony's latest system software update for PlayStation 5 went live last week, bringing with it the ability for all users to make use of the M.2 storage expansion bay for NVMe drive upgrades. The 667GB internal drive limitation for PS5 apps is now a thing of the past and games can be run from virtually any PCIe Gen 4.0 drive installed into the console. Sony has a series of recommendations, but what happens when you install a drive that doesn't meet the required spec? In fact, what happens when you augment your PS5 with the absolute slowest PCIe Gen 4.0 drive money can buy? Enter the Western Digital SN750 SE.

David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière, the bosses of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream, have successfully sued French newspaper Le Monde for libel, after the outlet printed alleged claims by studio members of a toxic work environment.

Solitaire now has a Halo theme.

It will take a Halo Infinite player 16-18 hours before they run out of daily challenges, 343 has said.

Fusebox, developer of the popular Love Island mobile game, has laid off staff shortly after complaints surfaced regarding "problematic" in-game content.

343 will run two Halo Infinite technical previews during back-to-back weekends - but matchmaking is only up for a set amount of time each day.

Following last week's Sea of Thieves Season 4 teaser, Rare has provided a more substantial run-down of features pirates will be able to plunge into starting this Thursday, 23rd September.

In a short introductory text, Kena: Bridge of Spirits sketches out its world, before throwing you right into its midst. A beautiful forest, and you, Kena, a spirit guide. You know how it goes: spirits are mostly happy enough to go to their final resting place, though a few are not, bound to the forest by their regrets. It's Kena's role to find them, give them a good whacking and then help them move on. The spirit's negativity also takes a physical form - rot, which infects the forest and attracts other unhappy spirits. However, to Kena the rot is also a friend, and whenever she finds little rot creatures, they are happy to join her to aid with combat and various puzzles.

The Good Life - Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro's intriguing "daily life RPG" murder-mystery adventure - finally has a release date and will be making its way to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC on 15th October.

Welcome the latest DF Direct Weekly - the 29th, in fact! As you are likely aware by now, this is our regular show where DF team members down tools for a couple of hours to discuss the latest in tech and gaming news, kicking off this week with a little behind-the-scenes information on our collaboration with Gamers Nexus in getting to the bottom of the PlayStation 5 CFI-1100 - but also in sharing some more on data gathered during production of that project, where we discovered that the new PS5 firmware seems to have a small, but measurable boost to performance in some scenarios.

A question that pops up often around these parts is where have all the arcade racers gone, and one answer, it turns out, is blindingly obvious; you can find them down at the arcade. Cruis'n Blast, which just launched this week, is part of that other seemingly endangered species, an arcade port that squeezes 2017's gloriously overstated racer onto the Switch, and one that serves up the kind of garish, absurd outrageous entertainment so many of us pine for from our racing games.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is getting an official free-to-play mobile app, TCG Live, which will let you play the venerable card game for the first time on smartphones.

Mick McGinty, the artist behind iconic video game covers such as the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 and the Mega Drive's Kid Chameleon, has died following a battle with cancer.

Last year, Nintendo fans finally found Luigi in Super Mario 64, after the source code of the game was leaked online.

Warhammer Online shut down eight years ago - but it lives on thanks to the work of dedicated fans.

Catan: World Explorers, the Pokémon Go-style game from developer Niantic, is being shut down following a year-long soft launch in certain countries.

Deltarune's third, fourth and fifth chapters will all arrive at the same time, creator Toby Fox has said.

Age of Empires 4's technical stress test was held over the weekend, and so we finally have a proper look at gameplay.

With the recent news of a Knights of the Old Republic remake, we thought it'd be fun to return to this look behind the curtains of BioWare's groundbreaking original. This piece was originally published in December 2017.

WipEout Rush is a new game in PlayStation's legendary racing series - coming to iPhone and Android in early 2022.

I was taken aback watching The Matrix 4 trailer earlier this month, because it's been years since anything Matrix was exciting, and I'd forgotten how much it means to me. I really love that film (I am pretending there is only one of course). And seeing Keanu as Neo again sent shivers down my spine. And that moment where he and Carrie-Anne Moss meet in the trailer? Ooh ooh ooh.

Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games has pushed out a new update to celebrate the ghost investigation game's first anniversary.

Now released from its three-game deal with Sony, Quantic Dream - developer of PlayStation exclusives Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human - has reportedly signed a deal with Disney and is rumoured to be working on a new Star Wars game.

Revered 90s gaming show, GamesMaster, will be back on our screens later this year after a 23-year break.

Luke Ross, the mastermind modder behind the impressive GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 R.E.A.L. VR mods released a new mod this week that brings virtual reality to the world of Mafia: Definitive Edition.

Good news for fans of party games - the eighth instalment of The Jackbox Party Pack is set to release on October 14, 2021.

No, it's not just you - Apex Legends' servers are unstable right now.

Call of Duty: Vanguard isn't even out yet, but players are already reporting that cheaters are out in force during this weekend's cross-platform beta test.

We live in an age of hyperbole, where a couple of modest successes are enough to elevate someone to legendary status - at least in the eyes of a rapidly churning pop culture. This week we said goodbye to a genuine legend, Sir Clive Sinclair, whose vision virtually defined the British games industry - and by extension huge swathes of the modern gaming landscape. Ironic, given that gaming was perhaps the furthest thing from Sinclair's mind when he was creating his first home computers in the early 1980s.