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Activision is embroiled in a trademark lawsuit with the developer of a strategy game called Warzone.

Just a week ago, BioWare was waggling its seductive wares at Mass Effect fans by breaking down the various tweaks and enhancements included in its upcoming Legendary Edition remasters. Things are getting a bit more specific this time around, however, with the developer now taking time to highlight the visual improvements purchasers can expect when the trilogy hits Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on 14th May.

The American political system often throws up some fairly strange stories, but this might be one of the weirdest yet - as a Roblox player managed to infiltrate the White House press corps.

UPDATE 14/4/21: You can now download Sony's big PlayStation 5 system software update - which also contains a couple of previously unannounced features (thanks, The Verge).

Call of Duty: Warzone's big nuke event is set for 8pm UK time on 21st April.

Blizzard has updated its Arcade Collection to add a couple more classic games: Lost Vikings 2 and RPM Racing.

It's a busy day for Warframe; not only is developer Digital Extremes poised to release the free-to-play sci-fi shooter's latest update, Call of the Tempestarii, on all platforms today, 13th April, it'll be launching its long-awaited Xbox Series X/S update, bringing parity with the recently enhanced PS5 version, at the same time.

Stylish first-person adventure Call of the Sea will come to PlayStation 4 and PS5 next month.

There is a surprising amount of art on the moon. There's a whole museum, allegedly - although it's very hard to confirm it's really up there. Who's going to check? You? Me?

The promising-looking Life is Strange: True Colors will get a prequel comic published by Titan Comics for Free Comic Book Day.

It's that time of the week again! In the video below, Tom, Emma and I run through the recent headlines that caught our eye in a chinwag of epic proportions. It's the Eurogamer Newscast!

Northgard, developer Shiro Games' acclaimed real-time strategy affair, is heaving its Viking-themed heft onto iOS devices today, 13th April.

Back in November last year, Capcom was hit by a severe cyber attack that saw personal information, internal briefings and game details compromised and held to ransom. Following a few updates in November and January, Capcom has now issued a lengthy explanation of exactly what happened - and the steps it's taking to prevent it happening again.

Developer Asobo has its spruce-up shoes on once again, and has now released its latest Flight Simulator World Update, this time giving France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg the gorgeous makeover treatment.

Four years after its release, the Steam version of Nier: Automata is finally getting an upgrade - although details remain pretty light on exactly what the patch will do.

It might not be the Nintendo Switch hardware news you were waiting for, but Nintendo has today lifted lid on a fresh colour Switch Lite.

Fortnite maker Epic Games has scooped together $1bn in funding to help its "long-term vision for the Metaverse".

Pokémon Go's latest event, Rivals' Week, began this morning at 10am - but some players report they cannot see its two new Pokémon additions.

UPDATE 2pm UK: PlayStation has now confirmed its Fortnite and Horizon Zero Dawn collaboration, and revealed our first look at Aloy hanging out with Fishstick:

Maybe it's simply a case of being careful of what you wish for. Balan Wonderworld is a curious time capsule, a 3D platformer that's full of the exuberance, colour and straight-up weirdness of a beloved and bygone period frequently yearned for, and all from the very people that helped define that same era. Imagine the team behind Sonic Adventure had a crack at their own Mario Odyssey, that late 90s exuberance finding itself into a maximalist journey that throws a hundred different ideas at the player, and you've pretty much got Balan Wonderworld down pat. If you've an honest recollection of how Sonic Adventure played, you'll also have a pretty good idea of how horrifying, fascinating, frustrating and occasionally brilliant this can be.

The Borderlands movie cast appears to well and truly be taking shape, as along with Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett, we have another name to add to the list - and it's Janina Gavankar.

Ubisoft is pulling the plug on several older Tom Clancy games this year, meaning you'll no longer be able to play them online.

Remember the good old days of Bowsette? The cross between Bowser and Princess Peach fuelled a wave of extremely NSFW artwork on the internet, and naturally, the internet wasn't quite done with Bowser yet. We now have another entry in the "things that upset Nintendo" catalogue, as a 3D model of Bowser's penis has been removed from Patreon - seemingly as a result of a Nintendo copyright claim.

Fortnite has been threatening to release a princess-themed Fishstick for close to a year - and now we have a look at her final design.

Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song recently (something pop-punk, a la Head Automatica), I came across Fran Lebowitz talking about the power of music in her Pretend It's a City series on Netflix. "No one is loved like musicians, because they give people the ability to express their emotions and their memories," she says. "There's no other form that does that. I really think that musicians, probably musicians and cooks, are responsible for the most pleasure in human life."

Mythic Quest, the game development comedy from It's Always Sunny in Philideliphia's Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, returns to Apple TV+ this Friday, 16th April, with a standalone special, ahead of a full second season in May.

Firaxis has detailed Civilization 6's final free game update "of the season" ahead of its launch next Thursday, 22nd April, with new additions set to include three new units, two new True Start maps, plus a whole heap of balancing tweaks for older civilisations.

Welcome the latest DF Direct weekly, where the Digital Foundry team sit down to discuss some of the latest news stories and to cover off some analysis work that doesn't quite warrant a full article or video. On the latter point, we take a look at the latest Mortal Shell patch for PlayStation 5, which boosts resolution from 1440p to 1800p but sees performance drop dramatically, leading us to once again consider the relative merits of resolution vs frame-rate. The team also discuss the AMD GPU chiplet patent - can Team Red scale up graphics performance as successfully as it has in the CPU space?

It's been nearly a year since the bot situation in Team Fortress 2 escalated to a point where Valve had to get involved, but despite those efforts to curb the infestation, the problem has not gone away. Along with bots using game-ruining hacks, bots in casual servers are continuing to use racist usernames and spam voice chat with loud noises. There are now reports that bots are increasingly being used to advertise bots and bot immunity - and disturbingly, that some claim to offer links to child sexual abuse images.

Last week, we heard there was a secret unlock code to make the full TimeSplitters 2 campaign playable in Homefront: The Revolution, opening up the game's well-known Easter egg which was previously thought to feature just a couple of classic TimeSplitters 2 levels.