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Hades 2 released in early access last night, and is already pulling in some impressive numbers on Steam for concurrent players.

A Poppy Playtime book, based on the cult-favourite horror game, is now available.

Arkane Lyon boss Dinga Bakaba and others from across the industry have reacted to today's news of devastating closures at Bethesda.

In the wake of devastating closures at Bethesda, Arkane Austin has confirmed the Hero Pass DLC for Redfall will no longer be released.

Xbox has today announced stunning cuts and studio closures affecting a slew of development houses under the Bethesda banner.

Freya Allen, who plays Ciri in Netflix's Witcher adaptation, has said she feels sorry for Liam Hemsworth ahead of his turn as Geralt, and hopes viewers will give him the "time of day" when the show's fourth season makes its debut.

CD Projekt Red's official mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt now has a release date.

Cal Kestis, the main character from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, will soon be available as a Lego minifigure for the first time.

Beat Saber will no longer be supported on Meta Quest 1 VR headsets later this year.

Medieval city-building strategy Manor Lords released in early access last month, and already its community has modded in DreamWorks Animation's great green ogre as a playable character. After all, what really is a new PC release without the swift implementation of a Shrek mod?

Nintendo expects Switch to sell another 13.5m units during the coming financial year - enough that it will overtake Nintendo DS to become the company's best-selling platform. In total, Switch is now on 141.32m units sold.

Remedy has cancelled its premium co-op multiplayer game, Codename Kestrel.

Final Fantasy 14 has suffered a DDoS attack, though issues appear to now be fixed.

Nintendo has officially discussed Switch 2 for the first time, and laid out a rough timetable for when we'll see the much-discussed but still under-wraps console publicly unveiled.

Sequels are always difficult, I imagine. How to capture the core brilliance of a thing and build on it? What to add, what to remove? I've always loved Sid Meier's rule of thirds for Civilisation games: one third remains the same, one third is improved, one third is totally new. But not every game is Civilisation.

A new week and a fresh Monday brings with it the hopefully welcome prospect of a new episode of DF Direct Weekly - and this week, the team sit down to discuss topics as diverse as Starfield's planned performance upgrade for Xbox Series X, the latest Switch 2 rumours, more path tracing in Capcom RE Engine titles and some new information on the PlayStation 5 Pro's GPU - such as a max clock speed of 2.35GHz.

Recently, because I hate myself, I was browsing Twitter (I’m not calling it X) and I stumbled across an incredible conceptual video from an artist named DEVINK that shows what they imagine a potential Fortnite X Fallout crossover could look like.

Following backlash from its community, Sony has overturned plans to enforce mandatory PSN linking for Helldivers 2 players on Steam.

Steam is refunding players with hundreds of in-game hours in Helldivers 2 after publisher Sony and developer Arrowhead told PC players that in order to keep playing after next month, they would have to link to a PSN account.

Vicarious Visions – the Activision studio now known as Blizzard Albany and perhaps best known for supporting the development of Destiny 2 and several Call of Duty titles, as well as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 – pitched a 3D Donkey Kong game to Nintendo.

TIGA, a trade association for the UK video games industry, is calling for an independent games tax credit to support game development.

I love a spot of virtual tourism, me. During the pandemic, I would scratch my travelling itches with some nice big sessions on Google Earth VR, where I would retrace my steps from holidays of old or explore new places I've always wanted to go.

A Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 art book has leaked online, confirming the delayed game by Saber Interactive will include a PvP mode.

As Helldivers 2 is pulled from sale in 177 countries following the disastrous rollout of mandatory PSN linking, Ghost of Tsushima developer Sucker Punch wants you to know that PSN is not required if you want to play the Director's Cut's singleplayer campaign on Steam.

Helldivers 2 has been pulled from sale in 177 countries as its PSN linking requirement rolls out in countries where PSN is not available.

"Role-playing games are only 50 years old. We're still inventing them every day. That's what's really exciting about it. We haven't found the boundaries of it yet, if there are any. We're still pushing out. That's what keeps me doing this stuff, years after most of my peers have retired or passed on."

Respawn has dropped a new teaser for the next season of its free-to-play battle royale, Apex Legends.

Moon Studios has outlined the changes coming to the first patch for its early access dark fantasy action RPG, No Rest for the Wicked.

Resident Evil 9 "should be revealed pretty soon and release next year".

Wales Interactive has confirmed two free content updates are on the way for Maid of Sker spin-off, Sker Ritual in its latest roadmap overview.