If all this sounds familiar, then yes - Steam Next Fest is the new name for Valve’s semi-regular Steam Game Festival, which will probably play out in much the same way. This time around, you’ll get a chance to hear from and play the work of game developers during the usual mid-June E3 week. That’s nice, of course, as it looks like there will again be no physical E3 event this year....

Valve has announced it has “beaten [its] own estimates yet again” thanks to “increased production”. As a result, it has now sent out all its emails to those in the Q3 bracket of reservations, and is now getting a headstart on those in Q4. “We’ve updated the store page to reflect this, with an updated bucket description: September-December,” Valve wrote in its post. This news follows on from Valve assuring its community that those Q4 emails “[were not] a mistake” earlier in the year....

Sludge Life emits this feeling of lazy rebellion, or maybe stoned anarchy (given some of the bizarre characters in the game, this might be a better description). The people who are on strike, against whatever authority runs the city, don’t seem to be so much angry as ground down. It’s like this was always the way and so a kind of malaise has settled in. A perpetual disgruntlement. And what has sprouted in that is a kind of ragtag resistance: a gradual picking at the authority’s seams, one spray-painted mural at a time....

Lifted straight from the original Die Hard, this is the most iconic - and easiest to find - of the three additions to the 80s-themed map, towering above the Downtown location. Once you have found the Nakatomi Plaza location, inside are a series of side missions which can emerge as you explore the tower - completing one of which is required as part of the 80s Action Heroes event’s challenges....

As with all Warzone content updates, expect new playlists, a new weapon to unlock and use, and new cosmetics - including a few familar faces from Terminator 2. This page can help explain the Season 4 Reloaded release time and what you can expect once it’s here. On this page: Warzone Season 4 Reloaded release time: When will Warzone Season 4 Reloaded launch? Warzone Season 4 Reloaded will launch on Wednesday, 27th June....

Great Wirebugs act as shortcuts for helping you explore each map without you having to use your own wirebugs. Their uses vary, as some can transport from one side of the map to the other, others take you up to much higher ground that would be more difficulty and time-consuming to do with just the normal wirebugs, and others are seemingly in tricky places in the first place just to compel you to explore....

It’s the first detailed description we’ve had of the remake, and suggests a more from-the-ground-up reworking of the original role-player than previously thought. Thanks to the success of The Witcher 3, the series is now thought of as a fully open-world franchise. But that was not the case back in the original Witcher game, which featured a number of separate large maps and various smaller areas. The above description comes from a newly-released report for CD Projekt investors....

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

The feature, which should be particularly useful to Game Pass subscribers reckoning with the service’s sizeable library of titles, is being referred to as the Game Performance Fit Indicator. Essentially, each time you look at a game via the Xbox App, you’ll see a short message offering a prediction of how well Microsoft expects it to run on your machine, generated by comparing a title’s performance on PCs with similar specs to yours....

“Sony is trying to protect its dominance on the console. The way they grow is by making Xbox smaller,” Spencer said on the Second Request podcast when discussing “the one major opposer to the deal”: Sony. “Sony is trying to protect its dominance on the console. The way they grow is by making Xbox smaller,” Spencer said (via VGC). “[Sony] has a very different view of the industry than we do....

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“This month’s update will bring you the activity feed on the Xbox app for iOS and Android in the form of stories. You will be able to create, share and view stories with your friends in the Xbox app and add priority tags for your console gaming experiences with Quality of Service (QoS) Tagging,” Xbox wrote in a blog post yesterday. “Stories lets you showcase your skills and keep up to date with your friends....

But the critically-acclaimed RPG missed out on becoming the franchise’s most lucrative launch to date - largely because it launched without its more-expensive Definitive Edition, GamesIndustry.biz reported. As you may recall, the extra contents of Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Definitive Edition are now slated for launch later this year, due to “unforeseen logistical challenges”. Fans looking to get their hands on the Definitive Edition extras, which will now be sold without the game itself, will be able to place a pre-order via the My Nintendo Store in September....

A clip of Cented using the N word has surfaced online, leading to the ban. “FaZe is constantly evolving and we expect our members to do the same,” reads a statement on Twitter from the group. “Cented is permanently removed from FaZe due to his use of hate speech. We, and the gaming community at large can’t tolerate discriminatory language any longer.” Cented shared an apology on Twitter. “I’m sorry guys....

The leak was shared on reddit and pertains to an early alpha test - meaning details may well not be representative of the final game. Here, a new map from the Skate 4 playtest called Fun City was shown. This was likely only a small section of the full map. As well as this map, the leaker went into more details about other areas of gameplay including character customisation and the in-game currency....

Use the code ‘POPULAR20’ at The Game Collection’s eBay outlet and it’ll take 20 per cent off the full price of the upcoming retro console. With the recommended price for the Capcom Home Arcade currently set at £199.99 that represents a chunky £40 saving! Capcom Home Arcade for £159.96 at The Game Collection on eBay It’s a swish-looking piece of kit, sporting a couple of arcade sticks and OBSF buttons set onto the iconic Capcom logo....

Paul was head of art at Godus developer 22cans, but before that worked at Fable maker Lionhead and Dungeon Keeper creator Bullfrog in a career that spanned more than 30 years across the Guildford development scene. Paul played a key role in the Fable series, Black & White, as well as Populous 2, Theme Park, Syndicate, Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper. Eurogamer collected a number of tributes from those who worked with Paul over the years, and has published them below....

A surprise hotfix update was issued on 9th February to Pandemic Studios’ much-loved multiplayer shooter that addressed a number of issues with graphic resolution and controller support in the game. While the update was initially met positively - an update for a 15 year old game is fantastic support, after all - it didn’t take long for players to notice it broke the game in several key areas. Players reported crash issues, field of view issues, resolution issues, user interface object and text size problems and, worst of all, mods popular within the community were no longer usable....

Rust’s planned launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for sometime in 2020 was initially announced back in November 2019, but last month we learned the developer responsible for the port admitted it had been silent simply because there had been no meaningful updates. While it remains unclear when the console port will be available, the summary on the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s website does confirm that the port will not be coming to next-gen systems PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but is slated to arrive on Xbox One and PS4....

The statement, which was shared on Twitter yesterday evening, reads: “Recently we have been bombarded with requests and questions regarding the development status for Abandoned. In regard to the latest rumours regarding Abandoned being cancelled, our response to this is that these rumours are false. “We are working on the reveal via the Realtime Experience app and online channels along with the Prologue of the game. These where initially planned for Q1 2022 but, unfortunately, we aren’t ready yet as we underestimated our development roadmap....