Dune: Awakening on Xbox Series S will be a "challenge", developer says

Funcom – the developer behind Dune: Awakening – has admitted that getting the game ready for Microsoft’s lower-powered Xbox Series S will be a “challenge”.
Speaking with Connor Makar from VG247, Dune: Awakening’s chief product officer Scott Junior said “there’s a lot of optimisations we need to do before we release on the Xbox”. He noted this is “one of the reasons we’re coming out on PC first”.
As revealed last month, Dune: Awakening will debut on PC early next year, however console versions for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S are yet to secure a release date. But, if you are keen to give Dune: Awakening a go on your Series S, don’t worry just yet. Later in the conversation, Junior said the Dune: Awakening team would “be able to do it”, and work was progressing.

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Baldur's Gate 3's seventh patch amends split-screen, adds mod support, won't be final update

Larian has detailed what Baldur’s Gate 3 players can expect from the seventh patch, due out in September.

As previously reported, the patch will include mod support and, in a new post on Steam, the studio has given a brief look at what some creators have achieved in the Closed Alpha.

But there are other additions coming too, including a much-needed tweak to split-screen play – dynamic split-screen mode – which allows players in multiplayer to split the screen and automatically merge it back into one when near each other.

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