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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed - THQ Nordic's promising remake of legendary designer Warren Spector's flawed but lovable 2010 platform adventure - launches for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 24th September this year.

Through the magic of emulation, it's now possible to play a selection of classic PS2 games in native PS5 apps as part of the PS Plus Premium offering. For context, the first crop of emulated PS2 classics appeared with the new PS Plus tiers back in 2022, but the games came with major issues that made them hard to recommend, including PAL/NTSC compatibility problems, flawed scaling options and delivery in a PS4 app container. Sony has a chance to offer a substantially updated experience along native PS5 apps, but the revised offering is disappointingly subpar - despite the selection of some great games, including Sly Cooper, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

As if she hasn't been through enough already, Tomb Raider's Lara Croft is now set to join Dead by Daylight as a Survivor.

Released alongside the GameCube in 2001, Luigi's Mansion was judged warily by Nintendo fans before launch, but has become a bona fide classic - one that saw two eventual sequels, on 3DS in 2013 and Switch in 2019. With Switch 2 on the horizon and relatively few games in the pipeline, Nintendo has decided to release an enhanced conversion of the second game, Dark Moon, with HD visuals and other quality of life changes. The package is certainly intriguing, but how does the game hold up and what's changed in terms of its presentation?

I'm currently obsessing over the changes Wizards of the Coast is making to Dungeons & Dragons. If you don't know, there's a new edition of the game coming this year, in September, which means the whole thing - all the rules and character classes - are being updated. Over the past couple of weeks, Wizards has been revealing how. In other words, patch notes - it's been sharing patch notes. The biggest set I've ever seen.

Amazon Prime Gaming is giving members the chance to scoop up 15 games at no additional cost, as it gears up for the company's deal event known as Prime Day.

It is that time of year again, folks.

While the setting and inspirations are Filipino through and through, the themes of friendship, love, loss, and acceptance in this visual novel are universal.

Ever since its reveal in 2020, fans have wondered if Black Myth: Wukong is truly a Soulslike. In part that's due to the Soulsborne games overshadowing any and all action games these days, but the precise combat, elaborate bosses, and seemingly high difficulty of Wukong certainly looked to be aping FromSoftware.

Square Enix has released the full patch notes for Patch 7.0, ahead of Dawntrail's early access launch later this week.

The Pokémon Company has booted a bunch of fans from a Pokémon card art contest, after claims several entrants used AI to aid their submissions.

A little show called Fallout released back in April - you may have heard of it - which received scores of praise on its release, including in our own Fallout review that called it "a lovely, if blood-spattered, surprise". Fallout's original creator Tim Cain also had nothing but praise for the adaptation.

Monster hit Palworld is yet to receive any formal legal threat from Nintendo or The Pokémon Company, the game's developer has confirmed, despite continuing close comparisons between its creature designs.

An Elden Ring dataminer has unmasked the NPCs of Shadow of the Erdtree, revealing what their faces look like beneath the armour.

High-profile streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has been ousted from Midnight Society, the game development studio he co-founded in 2021, after new allegations relating to his much-publicised Twitch ban surfaced late last week.

Three thoughts struck me after my first encounter with Shadow of the Erdtree's electrifying Divine Beast Dancing Lion boss: "WHAT?", "Ouch", and, dimly, "What is going on under there?". And one kindly modder has now helpfully answered that last question by derobing the thing and giving us all a peek at how the sausage is made (spoilers: no sausage is involved, but there are some Dancing Lion-related spoilers ahead so proceed with caution).

The Terra Nil team has released its first major update, known as Vita Nova, across PC and Netflix. A Switch version is also on its way.

EU regulators have opened a new investigation following claims Apple is not complying with EU rules.

In this week's DF Direct, I spend a bit of time looking into the Starfield modding scene - more specifically checking out mods that aim to bring a performance mode to the Xbox Series S version of the game. As we've already covered, Bethesda did a creditable job in bringing performance options to the Xbox Series X rendition of the game, but the junior Xbox didn't get the same treatment. We pointed out that this was a shame at the time, and the mods appear to suggest that Series S could have benefited likewise.

FIFA may not have released a licensed football game recently, but it's ready to team up with Rocket League to introduce an all-new category to its FIFA Esports World Cup.

UPDATE 3.15pm UK: In a further follow-up, a spokesperson for GAME parent company Frasers Group has assured Eurogamer there has been no change in store policy at all with regards to the sale of physical games and consoles.

The pre and post launch hype behind Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has been impossible to ignore, but has it managed to convince any of you 'never-Souls' players to finally give the game a try?

Diablo 4's Season 5 will introduce a new wave-based rogue-lite mode.

War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment has issued an apology after it accidentally included imagery from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in a piece of key art.

It had been a tough couple of rounds for my clan of doomed horse Vikings. The world-shattering war between the gods and chaos now blotted out the sun. The heroes questing for the royal regalia were missing, presumed eaten by druids. All of our goats had gone insane. At least I had sacrificed enough to send my God Talkers on a divine petition to maybe, just maybe, persuade them to prevent another famine. Then a random event informed me that the devil Wakboth World Ruin had just sucker punched our elder god of language out of the sky -- wiping out them along with my biggest ally (whom they landed on) and the literal concept of words.

Fortnite has launched a major new battle royale mode, Reload, which drew in more than a million players to the game over the weekend.

Undead Labs added a touching tribute into State of Decay 2, immortalising a player's father who passed away three years ago.

With the release of DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, Elden Ring players are back to their old tricks by playing the game in weird and wonderful ways.

Pirates of the Caribbean is coming to Fortnite next month.

Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco has "called out" Elden Ring fans struggling with the dfficulty by suggesting they "level up your Scadutree Blessing".