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Delta Force: Hawk Ops, the free-to-play tactical FPS and Call of Duty/Battlefield challenger from publisher Tencent, is launching for PC as a global open beta on 5th December this year.

Fallout: Vault 13 - the ambitious mod attempting to remake Fallout 1 in the Fallout 4 engine - has ceased active development in order to "prioritise the well-being of project members", but it'll have the chance to live on when a build is shared with the community soon.

It's been nearly two years since Dave the Diver first surfaced, immediately dazzling the world with his distinctive underwater exploration/sushi restaurant management charms, but developer Mintrocket isn't done yet; the studio has now confirmed a story expansion is on the way, and perhaps even spin-off games for each of Dave's pals.

Remedy has detailed just what the PS5 Pro Enhanced label will mean for Alan Wake 2.

The Castlevania collaborations keep on coming! Having already made appearances in the likes of Dead Cells, Dead by Daylight, and V Rising, it's now Vampire Survivors turn to meld minds with Konami's classic platform series; developer Poncle's acclaimed minimalist survival RPG is joining in on the Castlevania fun - while still somehow managing to remain doggedly vampire-free - with a massive new paid expansion launching on Halloween.

Bloober Team is a name that's synonymous with horror games, but with the recent release of its Silent Hill 2 Remake it's now seen huge success - it topped a million copies sold in under a week, to be precise.

"Series X 6nm! YESSSSSS! We found it!" Not my words, but the excited exclamations of Austin Evans, with a brand-new video that tears down the new disc-less edition of the Xbox Series X, revealing what's generally believed to be the first major console revision for Microsoft since 2020. It's an interesting contrast with Sony, who have revised the PlayStation 5 annually, moving to a 6nm processor way back in 2022 and delivering a further-revised 'Slim' edition a year later. 6nm silicon brings with it apparent cost-reductions and efficiency improvements - but this is no game-changing update in the way it was with the Xbox One S and the PS4 Slim. In concert with a $599 Xbox Series X 2TB, a $449 disc-less Series X and a $699 PlayStation 5 Pro, the days of console cost-reductions are clearly over and the whole nature of what next-gen will actually be is up for debate.

I knew that the Fallout showrunners were keen to get the ball rolling on a second season of Amazon's hit show, but will admit I am surprised by how soon filming is going to start.

I've always found the Lego games rather endearing, with their slapstick humour, often eclectic array of blocky setpieces and those wonderfully destructible environments. I challenge you to find me someone who doesn't delight in destroying a once perfectly arranged pile of bricks in the guise of a cannon, tree or anything else really, just for the sheer joy of watching those objects burst into a wave of collectable studs. I bet you can't.

After years of experimenting, Sega has now established two types of 3D Sonic level. The first are the open zones of Sonic Frontiers that give the hedgehog the space and freedom to unleash his speed, the sort of wide open design only possible (just!) on modern hardware. The second are the tightly-focused, mostly linear stages that evolve the side-scrolling original games into 3D rollercoasters with dizzyingly shifting perspectives, a design first popularised in the Sonic Adventure games.

Bloober Team has released a new patch for its Silent Hill 2 Remake, taking aim at a number of gameplay and technical issues across both PC and PlayStation 5.

There is no additional story content on the cards for Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

Atomfall, the forthcoming British Fallout-like game from Sniper Elite studio Rebellion, has received a new trailer detailing more of its setting and gameplay.

Elijah Wood is set to star as Dr Jonathan Crane (aka Scarecrow) in Camouflaj's upcoming VR game, Batman: Arkham Shadow.

Information on Nintendo's upcoming Switch Online Playtest Program has leaked online.

Valve won't be releasing a new Steam Deck console each year because "that's kind of not really fair to your customers".

Indie horror developer Bloober Team says its done making "shitty" games.

The team behind "Stardew Valley meets Skyrim" viral hit Hawthorn are "developing this game from [their] personal pockets".

UPDATE: DF Clips has now been updated with more PS5 Pro capture, this time with more from our Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart session. And do please enjoy the anecdote of completing an entire day of capture on site at Sony HQ, only to find that the Samsung 870 EVO SSD we were using corrupted on the very final shot we took, meaning we had to return the following week with an HDMI 2.1 splitter and two Atomos 4K ProRes recording devices. Both of which worked just fine throughout the day, naturally.

Physical editions of Black Myth Wukong are on the way.

It's been almost two weeks since fans were welcomed back to Silent Hill again, but as yet, there's still no remedy for a glitch that's soft-locking some players' progress towards the end of the Brookhaven Hospital level in Silent Hill 2 Remake.

Cloud Imperium has dropped an extended gameplay reveal of its upcoming Star Citizen spin-off, Squadron 42, which will release in 2026.

Upcoming horror darling Holstin has had a few demos since it was first announced at the tail end of 2022, which its Steam Next Fest demo handily collates into a single download for you, splitting them into puzzle and combat sequences. Admittedly, I got stuck halfway through the puzzle one, so I booted up its Steam forums to lose a bit of Guides Writer cred in search of the solution - but I was surprised to see so much negativity on show. Some harsh words were thrown at its combat demo in particular, and a little wave of disappointment hit me at the prospect of yet another survival horror game with lacklustre combat. Then, I played the combat demo for myself, and came to a major realisation. Namely, that Holstin's enjoyment will almost certainly depend on how much you still like classic survival horror design, as opposed to how much you think you still like classic survival horror design.

With PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), Sony has joined the machine-learning based image reconstruction race started by Nvidia almost six years ago. At Digital Foundry, we're excited to see this kind of technology reach into the console space and so as part of our recent exclusive PS5 Pro capture opportunity, we spent some time using PS5 Pro and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart to grab a series of reconstruction-based shots that we know from prior experience truly puts reconstruction technologies through their paces. To what extent can PSSR best the FSR-level technology typically used by consoles? And how close is PSSR to the acknowledged state-of-the-art: Nvidia DLSS?

I can't quite decide if Antonblast is destructive genius or just a little bit too chaotic for its own good. Following in Wario's preferred mode of 2D platforming - aka: slamming Anton's thick shoulders, gritted chin and whirling, Taz the Tasmanian Devil-style hurricane legs into every obstacle going rather than a polite bop on the head a la Mario, Antonblast is big on screenshake, exploding paraphernalia and pinballing through levels like a raging battering ram. It's wonderfully frenetic, as the two levels in its Steam Next Fest demo make plain.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. We've moved this to a regular Saturday slot to give it a little more time to breathe - appologies if you came looking for it on Friday. This week, we tackle some puzzles while holidaying in a cabin, we go back to a game that had been forgotten about, and try to find some grip during a sharp turn on snow. What have you been playing?

With the first anniversary of Spider-Man 2's PS5 release just days away, developer Insomniac has announced the acclaimed superhero sequel will launch for PC on 30th January next year.

Following yesterday's first proper Subnautica 2 reveal, developer Unknown Worlds has given some early hints at what players can expect when the underwater survival adventure launches into early access next year. Multiplayer support and "several biomes" will feature on day one, but there's plenty of time to evolve given early access is expected to last "about 2 to 3 years."

33 Immortals - the 33-player co-op action roguelike from Spiritfarer studio Thunder Lotus - has been delayed into next year, as it "needs a little bit more time in the oven before it's ready".

Update 18th October 2024: Congratulations, zombie slayers: combined, GTA Online players have hit the community goal by slaughtering a staggering 800 million zombies.