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Diablo II: Resurrected open beta.The open beta begins simultaneously in all regions at 5 PM GMT August 20, which works out as 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, 6 PM BST and 7 PM CEST.

EA has warned that players who leak details from the Battlefield 2042 technical preview risk being banned permanently from the game, even after the game is officially released later this year.In a Twitter thread over the weekend, Adam Freeman, lead community manager at EA Studios Europe reminded players that the Technical Playtest is under NDA and via invitation only. Noting that “you also don’t want to share your account information with folks either, that’s going to end badly for you.

Splitgate developer 1047 Games has said that a Nintendo Switch port of the game is “part of the vision” although they haven’t yet started development.During a developer Q&A session on Twitch, 1047 Games’ CEO Ian Proulx said that they hadn’t yet started development on a Switch port but that it is “absolutely part of the vision” and that part of that vision is to get Splitgate “available on everything”.“We want to be available on mobile, Switch, I mean – everything,” he continued, although when

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be receiving a weapon rebalancing update, according to Treyarch.The company confirmed that several weapons will be altered in the patch, including SMGs, assault rifles, and dual wield pistols. The EM2 rifle and TEC-9 SMG will both be available as new weapons during Season Five.In the full release notes, each weapon change is detailed, providing a rationale for the selection and technical adjustments to be made to each one.

EA has announced updated Manager and Player Career modes for FIFA 2022, which will include the ability to create your own club.As detailed by EA’s Pitch Notes blog, picking a name and a nickname for the custom-built club will be players’ first job in FIFA 2022.

Respawn Entertainment has released full patch notes for the upcoming Apex Legends update, which heralds the start of the new season titled Apex Legends: Emergence.Ahead of the Apex Legends: Emergence update, which arrives tomorrow (August 3), Respawn Entertainment has shared patch notes detailing all the changes that players can expect.The most notable addition is Seer, a new Legend who is able to locate and track enemies by using advanced microdrones.

Madden 22’s player ratings, one pro NFL player isn’t happy with the current player ratings. Justin Jefferson is the wide receiver of the Minnesota Vikings, and he didn’t end up in the Top 10 players on Madden 22. In conversation with Gabe Henderson of Vikings.com (thanks, NBC Sports) Jefferson said “I don’t even want to talk about that.”“I play Madden, I’m a big gamer.

Bungie has warned that plans to create a crossplay-friendly naming system in Destiny 2 could result in some players losing their usernames.Ahead of Season 15 bringing crossplay to Destiny 2, Bungie has outlined plans for a “one-time naming reshuffle” that will allow all players to have an “identity that will remain consistent across all platforms you play from.”This system – which will be called Bungie Names – will follow the template “PlayerName#1234” however, as displayed in an image attached

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has sold over 1.1 million units worldwide already.The news comes only a month after the game was released, with the figure equating to roughly 10% of PlayStation 5 owners now possessing a copy of the game.While it’s a far cry from the sales figures of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which has surpassed 6.5 million copies since its launch, it is notable that this is only a month into release.

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 is its fastest-selling games console ever, hitting the 10 million sales milestone already.The console reached the figure on July 18th, which meant it achieved the goal just under a month faster than the PlayStation 4 managed.That comes while sales have been potentially hampered by Sony struggling to keep up with demand.

Bungie has announced in its weekly blog that it is making changes to Destiny 2‘s transmog system.From season 15, one of the currencies used to purchase transmog bounties from Ada-1, Synthstrand, will be deprecated.

Jurassic World Evolution 2, developers have shared what players can expect from the upcoming dinosaur management game.The five minute Dev Diary from Frontier Developments showcases some of the new features the studio is bringing with the sequel.This includes the option for players to build their park in completely different environments to the usual tropical islands, though these locations will bring a “bespoke weather system” that mean sand or snow storms must be considered.Fans can also expect

Electronic Arts (EA) is exhibiting its yearly EA Play Live event tonight, and it’s expected to feature Battlefield 2042 – the latest in the long-running Battlefield franchise.READ MORE: The best games of 2021 (so far!)The event will begin at 10 AM PT/6 PM BST and be viewable on Twitch and YouTube.

Final Fantasy XIV cookbook might be on its way with a listing for The Ultimate Final Fantasy 14 Cookbook featuring briefly on the Simon & Schuster website.Originally spotted by well-known tipster Wario64 on Twitter, the Final Fantasy XIV-themed cookbook is expected to offer “stunning photography and step-by-step instructions” as readers are taken through a “culinary adventure through one of gaming’s most beloved franchises”.Wario64 snapped some screenshots of the full listing before the book

PlayStation 5 for his charity work.As reported by the BBC, Merseyside resident Jacob said he was inspired by the striker’s charity work and wanted to do his bit to help out those in poverty too.

Bandai Namco site has shared new details on Elden Ring, including information on narrative aspects and gameplay features.Spotted by ever-vigilant Twitter user Mordecai, Bandai Namco has added more Elden Ring information to the relevant website page.

Final Fantasy XIV has broken its concurrent player count again and there’s not even a new expansion pack to lure players in yet.READ MORE: We catch up with Naoki Yoshida as he reflects on the development of ‘Final Fantasy XIV”s latest expansionThe news comes from SteamDB which always keeps an eye on how games are performing. This time around, Final Fantasy XIV hit a player count of 47,542, a huge increase on its previous record of 41,200 which was set back in June 2020.

BioWare has announced that Dragon Age 4 won’t be at EA Play but a new piece of concept art has emerged from the game’s Executive Producer, Christian Daley.The artwork features members of the Antivan Crows, the group of assassins that Dragon Age: Origins‘ Zevran was a member of.

Sucker Punch and Sony Interactive Entertainment game Ghost Of Tsushima.A page for a Director’s Cut of the game has appeared on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), rated as Mature 17+ for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.There is no information about the Director’s Cut at the time of writing, though a rumoured “expandalone type game” called Ghost Of Ikishima has been rumoured by the co-founder of XboxEra.Ghosts of Ikishima. An Expandalone type game.

EA has released the roadmap for Knockout City’s first year which details what fans can expect from the online dodgeball brawler.In the latest Knockout City Chronicle update, EA are promising a new map, a new special ball and three special events for Season 2. New Season Contracts and five new Playlists will also be added.

Rainbow Six: Extraction’s director, Patrik Méthé, said that one of the pillars during production was the belief that ‘guns are not enough’.Talking to The Loadout, Méthé discussed how Rainbow Six: Extraction will stand out among the many upcoming co-op PvE titles. “Our main focus from the inception of the game was to create a different kind of co-op shooter,” he said.“There are a bunch of games in the genre that are very fun, as they allow the player to mindlessly mow down hundreds of enemies per

Marvel’s Avengers will now permanently allow multiple players to play the same hero at once.Revealed as part of Square Enix’s July Roadmap update, the ability for multiple people to play as the same hero will now be a permanent feature, after a brief trial in the Tachyon Anomaly event.Square Enix put the decision down to the fans, saying “finally, due to your feedback, we’re permanently turning on the ability to play multiple of the same Hero during matchmaking and when forming Strike

Rockstar Games‘ upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 is rumoured to have a modern setting, in order to build off the success of Grand Theft Auto Online.A new video from known Battlefield content creator and leaker Tom Henderson collates all the information he has been given on Grand Theft Auto 6.Henderson reports that the upcoming title will have multiple playable characters, including a woman who is  “the bright one in the group, responsible for things such as technology and hacking”.This ties into the

YouTube by Ubisoft shows improvements made to their Snowdrop engine for their upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.The Snowdrop engine is Ubisoft’s proprietary game engine and was first used for Tom Clancy’s The Division in 2016.

Call Of Duty: Warzone are upset with a new weapon that has an absurdly low time to kill.The nail gun, which can be unlocked in Call Of Duty: Black Ops and Warzone in a variety of ways, has an extremely low time to kill.Professional Call Of Duty player Curtis “FaZe Dirty” Henke demonstrates the power of the weapon in a new clip where he downs three players in under 18 seconds, before exclaiming “they had to have been weak, there’s no way ‘cos, that was gross”.THE NAIL GUN, WHAT.

Sony has now sold 9 million PlayStation 5 consoles – that’s several million more than Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S.According to a report from VGChartz, the PS5 has sold an estimated 9 million units since its official launch on November 12, 2020.That’s almost as much as the entire lifetime sales of the Sega Dreamcast (9.13 million units) in just 8 months.Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S isn’t doing quite so well, shifting just 5.33 million units since its launch on November 10, 2020.Despite these

Bungie has advised fans not to pay for a new Destiny 2 player emblem.An in-game emblem known as the Spicy Ramen Coupon was discovered by dataminers looking through Destiny 2′s AP (Application Programming Interface).

Sony Interactive Entertainment, has said that Sony wants more cross-platform multiplayer in games.Speaking to Axios, Jim Ryan said: “We support and encourage cross-play,” and when talking about the current library of cross-play enabled games, he said that the “number will continue to grow”.Cross-play currently works on a number of big titles such as Fortnite, Rocket League, Call Of Duty, and is planned for Destiny 2.In the past, Sony has been resistant to cross-play.

Sony is planning a post-E3 conference in a few week’s time.This comes from a poster on ResetEra, an industry and fan-focused gaming forum, where developers, journalists and industry insiders often share upcoming informationAs reported by Comicbook an insider, who goes by the name Navtra, claimed that Sony is set to reveal their plans for an upcoming presentation, which will see the publisher reveal more titles coming to PS4 and PS5 in the future.According to Navtra, fans who have been

Sony‘s PlayStation 5 has been beset with stock shortages due to scalpers buying up and reselling stock as soon as it becomes available.In an interview with Axios, Jim Ryan acknowledged the problems consumers have in purchasing a PlayStation 5.

Insomniac Games Sci-Fi action platformer Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart looks like it is getting its own PlayStation 5 bundle.The upcoming PS5 exclusive Rift Apart is set for release on June 11, and French news site Station of Play has discovered a listing on a French retailer’s website that shows a PS5 bundle that includes the game.Station of Play also shared a tweet that seemingly confirms the stock information, and a price of £515 (€599) though this may well be a placeholder price.INFO

The Division: Battlecat, a competitive PvP game that mashes up Tom Clancy’s The Division with Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, could be on the way according to a leak on Twitter.Twitter user Zer0bytes_ posted 8 images along with a brief description reading “The Division “BattleCat” is a Splinter Cell x Breakpoint x Divison mashup pvp game.

Concrete Genie developer PixelOpus is working on a new PlayStation 5 game.READ MORE: Hermen Hulst confirms more PlayStation ports to PC, but not at launchThis news has come to light after the studio put out a job specification recruiting for a principal graphics programmer to help create the “exciting new PlayStation 5 title”.

a recent Q&A head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst announced that more PlayStation exclusives will come to PC, but that PlayStation will still be the best place to experience them.“We’re still early on in our planning for PC.

Team Asobi, the developers behind PlayStation 5 exclusive Astro’s Playroom are now officially a PlayStation Studio.Team Asobi has worked with Sony since it was formed around 2012, just prior to the launch of the PlayStation 4.

Capcom and Behaviour Interactive have teamed-up to bring Resident Evil‘s Nemesis to Dead by Daylight.The new killer will be armed with abilities focused around his appearance in 2020’s Resident Evil 3 Remake.