Month: September 2024

Valve has released a patch for its-still-in-works hero-shooter Deadlock, which includes a rather brilliant anti-cheat measure.
The new patch notes cover a pretty extensive list of tweaks and adjustments, as well as the introduction of a new hero called Mirage. But, the highlight by far is that aforementioned anti-cheat measure.

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

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Atlus says it is “aware there is an optimisation issue” with ReFantazio – Prologue’s demo on Steam.
In a brief statement posted to X/Twitter, the developer thanked everyone who had downloaded and played the demo thus far, and assured them it was “working to address this problem”.

Metaphor: ReFantazio — The King’s Trial | Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC

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With just a day to go until the launch of Atari 50’s paid The Wider World of Atari DLC, developer Digital Eclipse has revealed all 19 titles it’ll be adding to its acclaimed interactive museum.

Digital Eclipse announced more Atari 50 was coming back in June, explaining an additional 39 games would be joining the original selection as part of a new Expanded Edition before 2024 was through. More specifically, the Expanded Edition includes two new timelines exploring different facets of Atari’s history – The Wider World of Atari and The First Console War – and both are being released as separate bits of DLC for existing Atari 50 owners.

The Wider World of Atari is the first of Atari’s two DLC releases and launches for all platforms tomorrow, 26th September. Topi…

Bethesda has removed the freshly-returned Thatcher’s Techbase Doom mod once again – despite its creator having cheekily scrubbed it of all political references.

The publisher of Doom previously pulled the mod, which satirises the late and highly-controversial British prime minister, for the inclusion of “real-world politics”.

But this week the mod returned in a blaze of malicious compliance, retitled ███████’█ Techbase and now with images of Thatcher covered over. The game’s soundtrack was even changed from minor to major key. Alas, its return did not last long.

“Bad news everyone,” Thatcher’s Techbase mod creator Jim wrote on X last night, posting an image of Bethesda’s latest…

French staff at Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft have been urged to strike for three days next month, after being told they should return to the office three days a week.

The call to walk out, first reported by GamesIndustry.biz, comes a week after Ubisoft announced that all of its 19,000 employees worldwide would be required to work from the office three days out of every five – albeit with some flexibility for certain individuals, and without a firm start date for the change.

Members of the French video game workers union STJV (Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo) have now called on Ubisoft staff to strike on 15th to 17th October.

The move back to the office three days a week is one “without any tangible justification or any c…

California will soon require storefronts to make clear that purchasing digital content, including games, movies and music, does not mean you actually own it.

As of next year, Californian customers will be informed that buying a game on Steam, for example, means they are simply acquiring a license for the content. Terms such as “buy” and “purchase” will be banned from the sale process unless sufficient caveats are added.

The new legislation, AB 2426 – signed into law by Californian governer Gavin Newsom and first reported by The Verge – is designed to make consumers more aware of the sometimes-temporary nature of digital ownership.

Over the past few months, Ubisoft sparked headlines after it switched off its racer The Crew and subsequently removed it from …

The second and third chapters of cult horror game Poppy Playtime will arrive on Xbox later this month, ahead of other consoles.
The first chapter was released on Xbox back in July and now the story will continue on 20th September. The new chapters will be available to pre-order just beforehand from 13th September.
Chapter Two: Fly in a Web will cost £8.39 and Chapter Three: Deep Sleep will cost £12.49. Both will be available in nine different languages.

Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 – Official Game Trailer #2

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Just days after pledging a fix for Star Wars Outlaws’ “unfair” and “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sequences, Ubisoft has released a brand-new patch doing just that – and it introduces a bunch of other features, including cross-progression support, too.

It’s unclear how extensive these initial changes to stealth are in Outlaws’ new Title Update 1.1.2, with today’s patch notes failing to go into much detail. They do, however, promise “tweaks and improvement on some challenging stealth moments”, with an additional note confirming the “level of detection [has been] adjusted depending on location”, and that players are now “less likely to be detected while rolling.”

1.1.2’s next big addition is support for cross-progression and cross-saving via Ubisoft …

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest and much-anticipated patch 7 is here, and it seems we’re making the most of it, with over 1m mods installed since the patch went live on 5th September.
As announced by Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke, “modding is pretty big – we had more than a million mods installed in less than 24 hours”.

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Two-thirds of female players still report being harassed when playing online.
In a report entitled “Why gaming still has a women problem”, Sky News reflected on the propensity of misogyny and hatred against women in gaming spaces, particularly on Discord and in multiplayer games.

‘It’s scary to be a woman in gaming’: Two thirds of female players report being ‘harassed online’

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