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Following complaints around the less-than-convenient way it's been doling out access to its Resident Evil Village demo, Capcom is extending its final demo event by a week.

PlayStation will hold its next Nintendo Direct-style State of Play broadcast this Thursday, 29th April at 10pm UK time.

A popular pastime in the Valheim community, for some reason, is the construction of slides and ramps on which to ride boats down mountains. Most of these typically try to launch the boats (and accompanying riders) into the sky, but the latest one is more about navigating your way to the bottom with skill - and hopefully not dying in the process.

It's that time again! Every Thursday morning, the Digital Foundry team convene to discuss the latest news in gaming, to talk about our most recent projects and to answer questions put to us by supporters of our Patreon! It's a fantastic way for us to break up the working week, spend some time chatting with each other and to address a range of topics we wouldn't usually have time to cover. This week, we discuss the new innovations to emerge at Microsoft's Game Stack Live event - including the Agility SDK - and to round up the best presentations from the recent Nvidia GTC and also to mull over a range of recent events.

Radiangames, AKA one-person indie developer Luke Schneider, has announced vehicle-building sandbox Instruments of Destruction.

Microsoft has announced May's Xbox Games with Gold titles.

The ninth season of Apex Legends is a big one - so much so that Respawn has decided to do away with the numbers, and simply name the new season "Legacy". There's a whole lot of Titanfall lore, significant map changes, and a brand new game mode called Arenas. It's all part of Respawn's much-teased plan to bring Apex Legends "beyond battle royale", as game director Chad Grenier first told me in an interview for Season 7. Last week I got to take a peek at some of this in a demo session, and hear a little from the developers about the design decisions behind the mode.

After playing Scavengers for a couple of hours, I felt cold. Like, to the bone. I'd frozen to death a few times from an impromptu storm that had caught my teammates and I on our heels. My character, arms wrapped tightly around themselves as I ran as fast as my limited stamina would let me to what I hoped was shelter, simply couldn't take the cold any more, and died. We were inches away from a fire. Such is the harsh world of this new game.

Last week, Microsoft upped the ante with its FPS Boost campaign, delivering 120fps upgrades for 12 Electronic Arts titles and an extra 60fps update for one other - and it's a terrific bonus for Xbox Series console users, albeit with a caveat or two we'll come to shortly. But to cut to the chase, every last-gen Battlefield game for Xbox One now runs at 120 frames per second on Series X, as does Titanfall and its sequel, and that's just the beginning.

McDonald's will reportedly restrict the number of additional Pokémon toys you can buy when Pikachu and pals turn up in UK Happy Meals from 19th May.

Gareth Damian Martin, the solo developer behind In Other Waters, has announced their new game Project Sidereal (a working title so it may change).

Popular football man Neymar Jr. joins the world of Fortnite this week, and comes free to anyone with the current season's battle pass.

Did you catch Resident Evil Village's latest demo oppurtunity last night, or did you miss out again? Whatever you think of the game's latest timed-availability trial, here's one thing the internet spotted while we did have access.

Titanfall 2, rather famously, didn't receive the sort of attention it deserved when it released in October 2016. Sandwiched between blockbuster shooters Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, it failed to see success in the sales department - despite receiving plenty of praise from critics. But it currently seems to be experiencing a revival on Steam, thanks to both Apex Legends and a Steam sale.

This year's Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) has gone to Colette, a 25-minute film released as part of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.

It looks like Godfall is coming to PS4.

Registration for mobile The Witcher augmented-reality spin-off, The Witcher: Monster Slayer, is open now for fans keen to try out an early-access "soft-launch version" of the game.

Cor, big news in Skate City where the fonts are modernist and the tricks are chained with angled swipes and taps of the thumb. The Apple Arcade classic is headed to PC, Playstation, Xbox and Switch on the 6th of May. Players will be able to clatter across the game's bloomy dream visions of Los Angeles, Oslo and Barcelona. (Roisin Murphy was right - Dear Miami really was the first to go.)

Outriders and Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly has acquired Phosphor Games.

A simple web browser plugin is giving players access to previous versions of the PlayStation Store, enabling them to purchase older games that were thought to have been removed from sale.

A new countdown website from Sega is hinting that there's big news afoot for fans of Yakuza spin-off, Judgment.

Almost 80,000 people have signed a petition demanding a Days Gone sequel.

Co-op adventure It Takes Two has sold over one million copies.

The truism that the longer something takes, the more satisfying its completion isn't always applicable to videogames. Many of my joyless grinds have ended in a bitter sense of relief rather than waves of joy. But when that game is R-Type Final and the grind is unlocking the full ship roster, the little ding that announced I'd unlocked the final of Final was a profoundly personal moment of deep satisfaction. 16 years in the making, it's probably the longest grind I've ever undertaken and alarmingly it only took 40 hours of gameplay to achieve, which tinged the whole thing with a weird sense of guilt. I should have done this a lot sooner. But nonetheless, the deed was finally done and my instance of the glorious R Museum is now resplendent with a complete catalogue..

The European Super League seems dead - for now, at least. But that didn't stop one Football Manager 2021 player from using the game to simulate how football might have played out over the next 25 years without the founder clubs in their leagues.

Rockstar had a bit of a wobble on Steam yesterday, delisting all its games before making them available for sale again.

Capcom is really leaning into the explosive popularity of Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu - it's made a life-sized towel of the 9'6" tall vampiric villain to promote the game in Japan.

Outriders griefers are kicking co-op players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot.

This week, Capcom announced The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is finally headed west - but the game comes with a puzzling difference.

The Naraka: Bladepoint open beta went live last night - and hit over 120,000 concurrents on Steam.