That’s a question we asked Arkane Lyon when we got a chance to speak with the studio for its 20th anniversary. “Visual fidelity is always nice, but, you know, well. If you ask me, I think Dishonored 2 and Outsider look splendid, so if I can have that running at 60fps in 4K on my console, I would be already pretty happy,” game director Dinga Bakaba said. “I think everything that has been mentioned about fast loading is of course exciting....

This will be our first look at the film featuring the famous plumber who “travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother to save a captured princess.” The Super Mario Bros. movie was first announced back in 2018, but it wasn’t until last year that we had official casting confirmation. Chris Pratt (Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy) will lend his voice to Mario with Charlie Day (Always Sunny in Philadelphia) voicing Luigi....

Some of the top Fortnite creators are coming to the game, building on previous collaborations with Marshmello and Major Lazer. The first content creator skin and other items to be released this year will be Ninja, starting tomorrow January 16. Visit the item shop and you can grab a Ninja Outfit, Ninja’s Edge Back Bling, a Ninja Style Emote, and Dual Katanas Pickaxe. Epic Games said future Icon Series collaborations will include Loserfruit, TheGrefg and more creators from “games, music, and entertainment....

Putting it into Google translate, the tweet reads as follows: “This weekend, access will be concentrated on the server of #Nintendo Account, and it is expected that Nintendo Account will not be created immediately. If you are planning to use the Nintendo Switch family for the first time, we recommend that you create it in advance.” Interestingly the tweet fails to mention the eShop at all, suggesting that the company expects its digital storefront to be steadfast during this unusually busy period....

You can check out the debut trailer for the game embedded below. “It’s darkest before dawn,” reads a blurb for the game. “In Rise of the Ronin you will explore an evolving world as you fight to forge a new era for Japan. “You are a Ronin, a warrior free from all masters and bonds and as your destiny intertwines with story characters, take part in an immersive combat focused action experience....

The next-gen update to No Man’s Sky will bring a graphically enhanced and smoother experience and all enhancements are also available to PC players. You can expect lusher, denser alien environments with planetary terrain are populated with thicker grasses, flowers, fungi, and rocks. These will be rendered with higher resolution textures and more detailed geometry. You can look over the differences in the slider images posted on the official website....

Last week, in a wide-ranging update on the reception to the Outriders demo, developer People Can Fly touched on legendary loot farming methods players had devised in just a few days. In particular, People Can Fly was worried that players find it too easy/consistent to farm for legendary loot, front-loading that part of progression and potentially hampering their own enjoyment of the first few hours of the full game come launch....

From today through Sunday, you can play three different games on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S for nada, if you are a Game Pass Ultimate or Gold subscriber. One of the free games is Saints Row 4: Re-Elected, which if you haven’t played it yet, finds the boss of the Saints becoming president of the US. He is also trying to save the world from an alien invasion. It’s pretty fun and is as zany as you’d expect from a Saints Row title, so give it a try if you haven’t before....

Despite all that, though, Paradox remains confident in the project. During the Q&A section of Paradox Interactive’s Q3 interim report (thanks, PC Gamer), one investor asked: “Any news on Bloodlines 2 or its developer?” It’s a fair question, really; earlier this year, Paradox announced that lead developer Hardsuit Labs had been pulled from the project, and the publisher was bringing in a different team to finish the game. We just don’t know who....

Platinum Games has provided information on the upcoming closed beta for its action-RPG, Babylon’s Fall. The tester will focus on various operational tests such as stress tests involving large numbers of players, game system checks, and further tests meant to address any issues that are discovered and to improve the quality of the game. This means you may experience issues like freezes and crashes while playing the game due to it being an under development build....

During Spencer’s appearance in the latest episode of the Dropped Frames podcast, the Xbox exec noted that he’d like to see his team look into ways to bring the series back to Xbox platforms (thanks, VGC). Apparently, Spencer and Xbox Game Studios head, Matt Booty, regularly chat about the series and there’s a desire from both parties to find a way to bring the fighting game back. “There are so many good games in our catalogue that we’d love to visit,” Spencer explained during the podcast....

The latest freebie on the Epic Games Store is an indie adventure game from Sectordub, published by Devolver Digital. In Pikuniku, you will help characters “overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun little revolution” in this dystopian adventure game. It is free to download until October 8. Next week, the game will be replaced by ABZU and Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. ABZU is an exploration game where you are swimming underwater as a diver....

That said, I didn’t play The Elder Scrolls Online when it first came out. I think I would’ve hated it. A compulsory monthly subscription just to play, and piles of content locked behind an achingly slow grind? No thank you. Today, however, it’s a very different game. The subscription is gone, replaced by a one-off payment as God intended. Buy the ‘Collection’ version of the latest instalment, in fact, and you’ll find that this includes all previously released chapters....

Days of Play returns this year with not only game deals but savings on PS Plus and PS Now memberships. In North America, the event will run June 3-17 and over in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, it will run May 25 - June 8. At retailers across North America and on the online PlayStation store, you will find the following discounts: Select Gold Wireless Headsets – $69....

As part of today’s Pokemon Presents broadcast, the Pokemon Company announced that Mega Evolution is coming to Pokemon Go. It will arrive sometime in 2020. Though today’s announcement was slim on the details, the developer pointed out that this will be a new take on Mega Evolution unique to Pokemon Go. Traditionally, only certain Pokemon can Mega Evolve, which boosts their power for a limited time in battles. In the more immediate term, Pokemon Go players will now be able to catch Galarian Farfetch’d, which arrives in Go from Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor expansion....

According to the data, 2020 has been the best year so far for Pokemon Go with player spending up 11% compared to last year, and up 30% more than in the first 10 months of 2019. During the first 10 months of this year, the game has ranked as the third most-played mobile game by global player spending. It only ranks behind PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings, respectively....

The details of the new Season of Legends was revealed in an official Pokemon Go blog post from Niantic - but we’ve decided to pull together everything we know about the next season on this page in a handy, easy-to-digest summary of sorts. As we get closer to and then into the season on March 1st, we’ll update this page with more information as a bit of a guide. As an aside, we should note that again: The Pokemon Go Season of Legends starts Monday March 1st, 2021....

Pokemon Unite will be released later this month on July 21 for Nintendo Switch systems. To celebrate the release, players who log in to the Nintendo Switch version by August 31 will receive a Unite license for Mythical Zeraora, which will allow Trainers to use the Pokemon in battle. Zeraora can close the distance between itself and its opponents very quickly, and deal massive amounts of damage all at once....

Judging by the patch notes for PS4 firmware update 7.50, which went live yesterday following a few weeks of beta testing, it seems to be a minor update like the many others we’re used to. These usually come and go with little fanfare, but it seems 7.50 made changes behind the scenes that are now causing issues for some players. Multiple reports on the PS4 subreddit describe a couple of problems that occurred after installing it....

I’m a big fan of new things. Discovering a new author, trying a new restaurant, finding a great TV series that’s got six seasons, working out how my son’s new toys work, tasting a new Pepsi Max flavor. The PS5, as honkingly huge as it is, can’t be labelled “safe” or “more of the same”. From the moment you see the console in the flesh for the first time, it’s obvious that Sony wanted to produce something different....