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A new Mana game is in development for console.

River, the real-life dog who inspired Dogmeat from Fallout 4, has passed away.

CD Projekt Red's management has reportedly said the stability of its beleaguered RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has now reached a "satisfactory level".

Good news, Guardian - Bungie is releasing more Moon and Dreaming City weapons with new perks, including the fan-favourite Twilight Oath.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is coming to Ninjala.

Blizzard has confirmed that while Overwatch 2 is definitely still slated to come to Nintendo Switch, the game will have "some compromises" on Nintendo's handheld system.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla game director, Eric Baptizat, has left Ubisoft to join EA Motive.

A rating for the unannounced Castlevania Advance Collection has popped up again - this time in Korea.

Marvel's Avengers' next big update will permit players to team up with others that are using the same Hero.

The 3DS apparently released on my birthday in 2011. While I sat in a pub with a gruesomely sticky carpet and drank Strongbow with my friends, people in Japan shuffled, rather than ran, to buy Nintendo's latest offering, which would reach the West about a month later. I had to look that up, because just like on the day of its release, the 3DS passed me by entirely, released during a time when my relationship with videogames was as much like my relationship with money and consumer products on the whole - occasionally complicated, mostly non-existent.

Valve's 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2 just broke its all-time concurrent players count.

Modders do incredible things with the video games we love. They build expansion-sized add-ons, issue performance fixes, and come up with the weird and wonderful to extend the life of games long since left behind by their original creators.

Final Fantasy 14 is a game with a rich and storied history, spreading back across the generations to the PlayStation 3 era - and before that, to a 2010 PC release. Its status as an MMO separates it from Square-Enix's usual Final Fantasy offerings, but this game is very much worthy of its mainline series entry status. Today, we can play Final Fantasy 14 natively on PlayStation 5, but getting to the point of having a quality play experience on consoles seemed impossible when it first released, to the point where the game was even temporarily taken out of service. All of which brings us on to Digital Foundry video we're presenting today. Yes, you get to learn about Final Fantasy 14 on PS5 - and how it stacks up against PS4 and PS4 Pro offerings - but we go further, revisiting its misguided beginnings, its rebirth and its various expansions over the years.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition has certainly done the trick: it's rekindled a love of BioWare's original trilogy years after the games came out. But it's not just Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 that are being judged once again. Fans are reappraising Mass Effect Andromeda, too.

There was once a Mass Effect movie in the works. In 2010 EA sold off the film rights to Legendary Pictures, with then BioWare bosses Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk set to work as executive producers alongside former Mass Effect chief Casey Hudson. But it failed to materialise. Why?

The Halo TV show will reportedly lose its showrunner after season one is over.

CD Projekt and Netflix are set to hold the first ever WitcherCon next month - but don't expect the announcement of a brand new Witcher game.

Friday the 13th: The Game was set for an Among Us-style mode before a lawsuit blocked development.

GOG has served notice it will delist a number of classic games on Monday.

The Demon Slayer game launches in this west this October, courtesy of publisher Sega.

Activision has defeated WWE wrestler Booker T in a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 likeness lawsuit.

Last year, I encountered an urban legend of videogaming for the first time, the mythical Big November. November, people had told me for years, is the busiest time of the year for gaming, a time when every publisher scrambles to release something that you, or your children, then inevitably put on the Christmas wish lists to spend the cold months inside with. Finally, after years of hearing about Big November like Nessie from the depths, I experienced it. I experienced the start of gaming season in a year in which time is essentially meaningless. It led to me playing a lot of games in rapid succession, and I didn't like it. Yet I often see it suggested that for many people, this is the done thing.

A fan has made a video imagining a battle royale with cartoon characters set in Apex Legends maps.

The Shadowrun Trilogy is currently free on GOG.

Can we beg a spare moment of your time? We've got a quick survey here about gaming preferences which we would love your input on.

I can't look you in the eyes and tell you Dark Alliance is a great game because it isn't. Every rational bone in my body knows that. It's the kind of game you might play for an hour and need to see no more of because you've made your mind up. This game, you think, is a bit rubbish. And I'd struggle to tell you otherwise because to a degree, it's true. Dark Alliance makes a terrible first impression, stumbling in like it's drunk and falling over and dribbling on you. 'What happened to the series I loved?' you'll baulk. 'Where's the local co-op?! Why does it look like an Xbox 360 game?! And why does controlling it feel like my thumbsticks are clogged with Marmite?!' But - and there is a but - it's a grower, I promise. Hours later I'm really rather fond of it. It's dumb, yes, but since when was that a bad thing?

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a next-gen exclusive game - it's due out on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and Stadia at some point in 2022 (assuming it doesn't get delayed). But what does being next-gen exclusive actually mean?

Good news everyone, Konami's working on a brand new game - other than New Football Game Online Performance Test - and this one certainly looks intriguing. It's a "mystery simulation game" called Crimesight, where players must deduce "not only the culprit, but the victim as well". What, were you expecting Silent Hill?

I guess for a certain kind of game, the only currency that matters is rooms. This feels like it might be the case for Phantom Abyss, a new roguelite that I suspect has the makings of a proper classic. I cannot stop playing it. And as I play - it's out now in Early Access - what I'm thinking about is rooms. I'm recognising rooms. I'm being surprised by rooms. I'm wondering how many rooms the team has in its room coffers.

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 last night, and in doing so mentioned new gaming-focused features.