The news comes from a report published by DigiTimes. “The life cycle for household game consoles may be shortened to five years from 6-7 years, and PS5 shipments may challenge 120-170 million units when its 5-year cycle expires,” reads the report, which draws on sources from the PS5’s backend supply in Taiwan. “[This is] compared to 110 million units registered to date for PS4 launched in November 2013, the sources said, adding that Sony has recently boosted its PS5 shipment estimate for 2020 to near 10 million units,” the report continues....

August is nearly over and we still don’t have precise launch dates for either the Xbox Series X, or the PlayStation 5. Prices for either console have also yet to be revealed. Microsoft has already confirmed a November launch target for Series X, whereas Sony is sticking to the more nebulous holiday window for PS5. According to VGC, this may be because Microsoft intends to go first. VGC cites retail and development sources in saying that Xbox Series X will launch in the first week of November....

Update: Rainbow Six Parasite may not actually be the new name for Rainbow Six Quarantine. Ubisoft told PCGamesN that Parasite is simply an internal name for the upcoming co-op shooter, and not its final, official name. The publisher also explained that it recently hosted internal tests, which may explain why the Parasite name leaked in the first place. “We can confirm this is a glimpse of the upcoming game, and we will share more details, including the official name, soon,” Ubisoft added....

You start each game fumbling around its haunted houses - whether they’re extravagant mansions or museums that have been turned into police stations - and eventually you become so familiar with them that they feel like home. Resident Evil 3 Remake feels more like a single room in a Travelodge. Resident Evil 2 Remake’s Raccoon City Police Department was so well realised that it was always going to be difficult to top, but this sequel feels like a step backwards in almost every way....

Reader, it was the end of their seven game win streak. I overlooked Resident Evil Resistance as a kind of bolted-on multiplayer throwback, since it was included with Resident Evil 3. It reminded me of when Dead Space got a weird multiplayer mode nobody asked for. But I’ve been playing it over the Easter weekend and I dig it a lot. I’m not too enamoured with playing as the survivors who have to fight their way through a range of labyrinthine maps, though....

This all comes via an official post on the Call of Duty website, featuring some insight from the RICOCHET team and a Q&A on ongoing updates and issues facing the games they have dominion over. The first question covers one that is in the mind of a vast number of Call of Duty players - if RICOCHET is so great, why am I still running into cheaters? “As we take steps to ensure our systems can identify and react to the known bad behavior; we fully expect cheat makers to continue devising new bad behaviors – some we can anticipate and some that we need to develop new systems against....

In the video, the Volition team and Bryce Charles, the voice of the boss, take you on a tour of Santo Ileso, a brand new location in the game located in the American Southwest, which also includes a brand new cast of characters to discover. Revealed during gamescom Opening Night Live, the reboot stars a group of friends who embark on their own criminal venture in a bid to become Self Made....

The collection of three Super Mario games (Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy), which was announced earlier this week, will launch on September 18, and you’ll only be able to buy it until March 31, 2020. Oddly enough, there will be a limited number of physical games made, and that’s already driving more unscrupulous types to flood auction sites with listings of the game on sale for well over double the RRP....

If you’re trying to finish Totally Lost, though, then prepare yourself for some practice and grinding. Psychokinesis Finish is a tough skill to pull off, and you need to do it more than once. What is Scarlet Nexus Psychokinesis Finish Psychokinesis Finish is sort of a contradiction. It’s a PK skill that works only on opponents who are knocked down, but despite the name, it doesn’t fully finish them unless they’re close to defeat already....

Scorn, currently in development at Ebb Studios, was originally supposed to be designed as a pair of games for Xbox Series X (it has since been confirmed that these plans were scrapped, and Scorn will instead launch as a single story that is playable from start to finish). In a recent interview with MSPowerUser, Peklar explained the reasoning behind Ebb’s decision to gear up for next-gen. “We didn’t [want to bring Scorn to current-gen] because we want our game to be played at 60fps," Peklar said....

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that players are seemingly incredily excited about the upcoming expansion, noting that Shadowlands has out-performed every other expansion in the game’s long history when it comes to pre-sales. “We’ve seen unprecedented engagement trends since the [World of Warcraft] subscriber base doubled following the launch of Classic last year,” Kotick said (via PC Gamer). “Pre-sales of the upcoming Shadowlands expansion are the highest we’ve seen at this stage ahead of any release....

For our part, ceasing posts for 24 hours and donating to relevant charities was only the beginning; there’s more that we felt could be done on the video game side of things. This week, we’re dedicating our hidden indie gems feature to highlighting games primarily made by Black people. People of colour obviously contribute to many of the games we play, but we wanted to signal boost some of the smaller teams struggling to get noticed....

Via PCGamesN, a dataminer has uncovered the various platforms, as well as options that would allow a player to alter resolution, post-processing, shadow quality, and texture quality (certainly all things you’d expect to see from a PC release of a game, no?) This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the game arriving on PC, either; it was one of the many, many titles mentioned back in the GeForce Now leak that took place earlier this year....

During the second portion of the game, after you finally access the elevator shaft, you’ll soon come across a mysterious door that requires five keys before it’ll open. Some of the keys for Signalis’ 5 Lock Door are certainly easier to get than others, and the others will require your puzzle-solving skills. To save you roaming the corridors and becoming victim to various infected Replika and Protektor models, we’ve detailed how to open the 5 Lock Door in Signalis, and solve the Incinerator Room and Pump Room puzzles in the process....

There’s no shortage of swords, maces, and daggers to use, and there’s even more choices if you plan on enchanting your primary weapon. However, a handful of these tools of destruction rise above the rest and even offer their own unique enchantments with no work involved from you. Which weapon to choose Bows Daggers Swords War Axes Maces Greatswords Battleaxes Warhammers Skyrim weapons - Which weapon to choose in Skyrim A weapon’s two most important features are its weight and attack....

While it’s still a ways off, Netflix has announced a 3D animated series for Sonic the Hedgehog is in the works. It is being brought to you by the folks behind the Carmen Sandiego series on Netflix and Ben 10. The news was posted earlier on Twitter, but apparently, Netflix jumped the gun and pulled the tweet super fast. Yet, it wasn’t fast enough as Wario64 grabbed a screencap for posterity....

People with knowledge of Sony’s plans have told Bloomberg a PS5 event could be held as early as next week on June 3. The report states that plans could change and that other PS5 events could take place in the “coming weeks and months.” Sony is also not expected to reveal everything there is to know about the console during its first presentation. Earlier this month it was rumored that Sony would host a reveal of its PS5 games in June, and possibly also discuss details on the console....

The new DLC character, Haohmaru, was announced for Soulcalibur 6 in August and reconfirmed in November when Hilde was released for the game. This will be the second character to be released as part of Season Pass 2. Additional Samurai Shodown characters, Iroha and Sogetsu Kazama, will be released at a later date (thanks, Siliconera). A release date for Haohmaru was not provided. Thanks, Gematsu.

Spiritfarer developer Thunder Lotus has issued a statement apologising for how one story in the game represented a disabled character. Gustav, a once wheelchair-bound bird mentions in one conversation how death freed them from their wheelchair. Kayla Whaley argued how this perpetuates a view that death can be better than living with a disability, something that is insensitive to disabled people who excel in spite of their disabilities. Thunder Lotus conceded that some of the writing is ableist, and promised to change it, and reexamine the game for any other material that may have similar ableist undertones....

Square Enix Presents will air on June 13 at 12:15 PT / 3:15pm ET / 8:15pm UK / 9:15pm CEST as a Keynote during the all-digital E3 2021 event, as well as on Square Enix’s official Twitch and YouTube channels. The stream will be about 40 minutes and include the world premiere of a new game from Eidos-Montreal, and an update on Babylon’s Fall from Platinum Games. You can also expect details on the Black Panther expansion for Marvel’s Avengers and other in-game events, and a deep dive into Life is Strange: True Colors and a first look at the Life is Strange: Remastered Collection....