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Yesterday we got an extended look at Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, but news about Insomniac’s exciting action/platformer continues to trickle out.  In an interview with Famitsu, Insomniac revealed that its upcoming PS5 game features a performance mode that boosts the framerate from 30fps to 60fps. Naturally this performance mode comes with a hit to visual quality, which haven’t

As a nice little Gamescom surprise, Bloober Team today announced that Observer: System Redux will also be coming to PC. The original Observer from 2017 was a lovely little cyberpunk horror game starring Rutger “crying in the shower” Hauer, and the upcoming System Redux is an expanded and prettied-up version – but was only announced

Final Fantasy was a popular name even back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and it was sometimes applied to games that weren’t technically part of the Final Fantasy series in order to catch the attention of a wider audience in North America. One such example is Final Fantasy Legend on Game Boy, which

Does the Bergson house feel a little lonely in Children Of Morta? Don’t you wish there was a whimsical owl waiting for you each and every morning? Dream no more, friend. The latest piece of DLC for Dead Mage’s family-focussed Diablike lets you adopt a herd of furry and feathered friends – and by picking

Developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 Bit Studios have partnered with Humane Society International to raise funds for our animal friends. All proceeds from the new Paws and Claws DLC for Children of Morta goes to the Humane Society. The DLC adds a new animal shelter system to the Bergsons’ family home that a variety

Dell are holding another 72 hour flash sale in the UK today, shaving up to 14% off their range of G3, G5 and Alienware m15 R2 gaming laptops, as well as up to 40% off a wide variety of monitors, including the 240Hz and G-Sync Compatible Alienware AW2521HF. Read on for my pick of the

It was a big day for Suicide Squad at DC FanDome, a day-long livestream filled with reveals of upcoming games, comics, movies, and more. The Suicide Squad fun began with a behind-the-scenes look at James Gunn’s upcoming film. Later in the day we were shown the first trailer for Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the

I miss a lot of things about travel, but being trapped in a tiny metal tube for hours on end isn’t exactly one of them. Not so for Microsoft Flight Simulator streamer Bruce Greene and friends. Donning pilot uniforms and building an entire fake 747 cockpit, the trio set off on a 16-hour flight from

With Marvel’s Avengers rapidly approaching launch, Marvel and Crystal Dynamics have released a new video detailing the major threats players will face when the game launches. Unlike Hydra, which uses military might and covert operations to accomplish its goals, or Thanos, who uses sheer force of will and mystical means to achieve his missions, A.I.M.

Stuck for a good, old-school JRPG to plug a few dozen hours into? How about getting off your arse and making it yourself? RPG Maker MZ, the newest version of the long-running indie-favourite dev tool, is out today – letting you build an RPG worth of the 1990s in a toolkit fit for 2020, all

This year, Super Mario Bros. celebrates its 35th anniversary, and a pair of third-party controllers are helping the hero celebrate in style. Hori is releasing a kid-friendly Hori Mini Pad, while PowerA’s Enhanced controller is aimed at everyone else. The Hori Mini Pad is coming out September 1, and it features art of Mario and Bowser

Well then, Rogue Legacy 2. It’s time to pick up where your predecessor left off and start a new lineage of dungeon-diving kiddos – prettier than before, but still squarely focussed on tossing your descendants down the dungeons. After slightly missing its planned July launch, Cellar Door’s sword-swinging sequel hit Steam early access today, a

Hitman 3 is coming next January, and today IO Interactive decided to drop an information treasure trove on the game modes that players can explore. Players can engage in a classic campaign experience first and foremost, one that promises a “dramatic conclusion” to the World of Assassination trilogy. Elusive Target mode lets players track down

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! We’re having a particularly grey and dreary end to the week up here, but I reckon it’s nothing a splash of work-in-progress screenshots, videos and gifs can’t fix. This week: Alligators in the woods, bullet-propelled platforming, a neon-blasted death labyrinth and birds, birds, birds. We’re starting our Sunday showcase with a walk

There was a bit of mumblin’ and grumblin’ when long-awaited Spelunky 2 got a PS4 release date announced without mention of a PC date. The bad news is there’s still no date. The good news is that Mossmouth have given their goals for a timeframe and hey—it’s soon! Spelunky 2 may be emerging on PC

Remedy has offered new details about the upcoming AWE expansion in its latest livestream, but one of the coolest announcements to emerge from that video on the status of the game is what is coming in the free August update. Remedy revealed that it’s responding to complaints about long checkpoints and difficulty overall with a

Following today’s earlier chaotic news of two titans blasting back and forth at each other with Epic Games’ Fortnite on the Apple App Store, the popular game has also been removed from the Android Google Play Store. Check out everything going on with that situation right here. In a statement to The Verge, Google addresses

Everyone loves a good distillery tour, right? Gawk at the big barrels, sample the products and all. Not so much in the latest update to Dead Cells, which adds an area called the Derelict Distillery. In this house of horrors the barrels explode and the products are death—your death specifically. The new update is out

Risk of Rain 2 got its 1.0 patch today, which includes some significant additions to the game. With its launch, Risk of Rain 2 adds a new character, a new stage, and a final boss. Of course, there are a ton of new items and powerups and the like to go along with those major additions.

The usual annual Call Of Duty announcement, like everything, has been out of step this year. But there are signs that it’s about to happen. An alternate reality game aimed at publicising what we believe will be titled Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been solved, revealing that a reveal is to be

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s another scorcher, readers, so I hope you’re all sunscreen’d up and well-hydrated for another hike through the weekend’s best work-in-progress screenshots, videos, and gifs. This week: wake up for a road trip, perplexed alien bosses, puzzling mash-ups and a supernatural scrub. Coming-of-age RPG ShelfLife is starting us off this week with

Are you ready to stop a vampire invasion? How about take on some really big, really rowdy werewolves? The Dark Heart of Skyrim marches on with the upcoming Stonethorn. The DLC dungeon pack includes a wealth of content as you bring the heat to the ancient bastion of Castle Thorn and take on a vampire

Guerrilla’s Horizon Zero Dawn arrives on both the Epic Games Store and Steam today, giving PC players a shot to experience Aloy’s open-world adventure in the lands of robo-dinosaurs. PlayStation’s last exclusive to head to the PC scene, Death Stranding, came with a smattering of upgrades and enhancements. We’ll have to see how Horizon plays on

QuakeCon At Home is live this weekend on Twitch, though it really should be called BethFest when you look at the schedule. The event has moved wholly online thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rescheduled celebration of id’s and Bethesda’s games has an intriguing schedule. Here are a few of the highlights. A warning:

Bethesda has announced that Doom Eternal and The Elder Scrolls Online are coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Not just that, but those who purchase or own the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One versions can upgrade to the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X version at no additional cost.  While the next-gen versions

I threw a spear at the first person to harm an ant. They were warned. But the lag meant I kept missing and it just got a bit embarassing, so we retrieved the spears and went back to scouting for dewdrops. Grounded‘s multiplayer has captured something special. Even after several hours (which flew by for

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout released today, and thanks to a successful beta, lots of people were excited to play it. So many, in fact, that the game has been experiencing server issues, which makes it difficult to play and enjoy. The server issues made users understandably frustrated, but rather than wait for the issues to get sorted,

Mondays are for hoping your new graphics card arrives, seen as your old one got burgled last week. I’m fine! It’s fine! Burglar: caught. Videogames: written about. Here’s the best writing from the last week. For UpperCut, Grace Curtis spoiled Life Sim games forever. She’s managed to describe the listlessness that crept into my Stardew

Warframe‘s gone and infested an entire moon with creepy crawlies for its Heart Of Deimos expansion. Shown properly for the first time during today’s Waframe fan event livestream, the expansion also includes other cool stuff, like customisable Warframe powers and a huge new open world area. But I’m more interested in the pair of gigantic

Hot on the heels of a dormant, long-overdue-for-a-sequel Ubisoft video game franchise getting a Netflix series in Splinter Cell, another IP from the Ubisoft stable fans have been waiting a long time to continue playing in is making the leap to the digital-streaming service. Beyond Good & Evil, the cult classic 2003 title, is receiving