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A year late and without a number of key features, Halo Infinite will finally arrive for PC and Xbox on 8th December.

The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War launches 23rd September for all of Europe, America, Oceania and Southeast Asia.

Destiny 2 PC players may notice an impact to their game's performance following the recent addition of anti-cheat software, Bungie has warned.

Wasteland 3: Cult of the Holy Detonation is the last DLC for the game, developer inXile has confirmed.

Monster Hunter Rise's latest crossover is Akuma from the Street Fighter series.

The Ascent is a bit of a mess on Windows 10.

Just in time for Halloween, here's an official set of Pokémon trading cards themed around Edvard Munch's iconic, haunting painting The Scream.

A super rare Pokémon card has sold at an auction in New York for a whopping $195,000.

If you've finally wrapped up every last challenge from Sea of Thieves' utterly stupendous Pirates of the Caribbean story expansion and are in need of new adventure, Rare has a fresh batch of chaos for players to embark on, courtesy of a new Borderlands-themed collaboration event.

Square Enix's series of Final Fantasy pixel remasters continues on 8th September with the arrival of Final Fantasy 4 on Steam and mobile devices.

Microsoft has broadcast its big Xbox Gamescom livestream, which gave us a good look at Forza Horizon 5 but notably skipped all mention of Halo Infinite.

Publisher Team17 and developer Drop Bear Bytes have joined forces to bring Australia-themed post-apocalyptic cRPG Broken Roads to Steam and consoles next year.

There's a lot happening in developer Adobo's stupendous Microsoft Flight Simulator between now and the end of the year, starting with Septembers's makeover for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. That, however, is just the beginning, with the developer having now confirmed two new aircraft, plus a competitive multiplayer mode arriving this autumn.

Playground Games has shown off the typically spectacular intro sequence for Forza Horizon 5 in a new gameplay video, confirming the game's cover cars as it did so - but had little in terms of concrete new detail to share on the open-world racing game.

UPDATE: 24/8/21: Following the recent discovery of a console listing for Crusader Kings 3 on the Taiwan ratings board website, developer Paradox Interactive has made it official: the superb medieval grand strategy game is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass.

Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One get cloud gaming this Christmas, Microsoft has announced.

UPDATE 5.30pm: Bungie has announced a 30th anniversary event to be held this December, in-game within Destiny 2, with a new dungeon set within Destiny's iconic loot cave. Themed items will be offered celebrating Bungie's past, including previous games, and return the fan-favourite weapon Gjallarhorn.

Magic the Gathering gets Fortnite and Street Fighter cards in 2022.

Join us this evening to watch Microsoft's Xbox Gamescom livestream, which is due to begin at 6pm UK time (that's 1pm Eastern, or 10am Pacific).

Last week, Intel finally laid down its cards. Architecture Day 2021 saw the company deliver an array of truly exciting new products, stretching across CPUs and graphics, from laptop to datacentre. The firm is looking to massively accelerate its compute performance by a factor of 1000x over several years. It's a seemingly impossible task, but Intel wants to achieve it by leveraging the state of the art in CPU, GPU and integration technology. A core part of the strategy is in delivering competitive graphics performance - and that's where the new line of discrete GPUs from Intel comes to the fore... and they're looking superb.

There's something very "Steam game" about Atrio: The Dark Wild. I don't know exactly what a Steam game is but if you think of Steam as pistons and valves, the colour black, and that ultra-low thunk of a piano key when a Valve logo pops up on the opening screen of some classic, I think it's that. Atrio is dark, literally and figuratively. It has some of that lovely, satisfying kind of automated crafting. It's a bit political, and a bit funny, in its own way, the game you giggle at villainously from your racing car throne in some enjoyably dingy, PC monitor-lit bedroom. So: Steam game, whatever that is.

UPDATE 24TH AUGUST 2021: The creator of the Simpsons: Hit & Run fan remake has removed it from their Patreon due to copyright concerns.

UPDATE 24/8/21: Speaking to Eurogamer, Shin'en has confirmed The Touryst's leaked 9th September release date for PlayStation 5, along with a host of other details.

Sega has announced an indefinite delay to the physical release of Sonic Colours: Ultimate in Europe.

This is quite the change. If you didn't know, King's Bounty 2 has gone 3D, in the sense that the camera is now over the shoulder of your hero rather than high up in the sky looking down on them, and the world around them. And that really changes things. It brings you into the world in a way the games previously didn't. You're in the world rather than observing it. You're up in the faces of the people who live there, talking to them, deciding things, buying things from them. You're inside their houses and their castles, and you're looking up at the rooftops of caverns or crumbling ruins.

Asterix and Obelix are readying for some fisticuffs in developer Mr Nutz Studio's striking 2D beat 'em up Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All!, which is now confirmed for a PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC release on 25th November.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey players on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 will soon be able to hurtle across ancient Greece at 60fps, courtesy of a new game update releasing tomorrow, 24th August.

Bungie has released a teasing video showing off a glimpse at a long-awaited villain, ahead of its big Destiny 2 Showcase event tomorrow.

DF Direct Weekly hits a quarter century with a full 25 shows under our belt and with this one, we have what may well be the largest show we've ever done - and that's all down to the sheer weight of tech news this week, kicking off with discussion of Intel XeSS and the reveal of the new Alchemist GPU. I went to Intel's Architecture Day last week - my first 'in person' business meeting since the Xbox Series X reveal in March 2020 - and what strikes me is that Intel has piled everything into this GPU. Features-wise, we've got full DX12 Ultimate compliance (naturally) but more than that is the sizeable silicon investment in hardware-accelerated ray tracing and machine learning features. In this sense, Alchemist is very much going toe-to-toe with Nvidia in architectural terms compared to AMD, where the silicon budget has primarily been spent on rasterisation performance and memory bandwidth optimisations.

Mojang's enjoyable Minecraft Dungeons now has a Steam page, and a planned release date of September 2021. Hey, that's next month!