Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems Will hopefully ensure “a more seamless experience” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/2K Gearbox have released another Borderlands 4 update for technical problems on PC, with a particular focus on game stability and crashes, though they’ve also fixed a progression blocker or two in the process. Unlike that other Borderlands 4 patch from earlier this week, this one has an actual changelog....

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been announced - can someone please explain the plot of these games to me? Lots more Blops Image credit:Activision Blizzard A gruff man appears and gruffly tells you to gruff ’em up. You grimace, gruffawingly. It can only mean one thing: Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been announced, showing off a flashy sci-fi trailer at the Xbox showcase. A co-op campaign mode is planned, alongside the usual multiplayer and a zombies mode....

Capcom show off precise aiming, wound highlights, and focus mode in new Monster Hunter Wilds reveals New ways to hunt the monst Image credit:Capcom The monst! The monst are back! Whoo-hoo! We’re still a while off from the TBC 2025 release date of haute-couture-asaurus RPG Monster Hunter Wilds , and Capcom have finally graced us with some delicious Actual Details, following the previous cinematic trailers . These come in the form of three short videos uploaded today on the official Monster Hunter channel, detailing the basics, focus mode, and the great sword’s moveset....

Certified PS1 banger Fear Effect is getting a digital Steam release Good news for people with good taste Image credit:Square Enix Fear Effect , a horror action PS1 game from the year 2000 that I have incredibly fond memories of, is getting a Steam release next year, by Limited Run Games in collaboration with Square Enix. The news comes as part of the controversial (more on this in a bit) company’s digital LRG3 event....

Civilization 7’s post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace Carthage, Britain, Nepal and Bulgaria coming down the pipe after release Image credit:2K Games The post-launch update and DLC schedule for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII slightly discombobulates me, because the image above is weirdly reminiscent of Civ 7’s own historical Age progression screens. But that uncanny similarity also pleases me, because I can now do the intro joke “all roadmaps lead to Rome”....

Connections hints and answers for Thu, September 12th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #458. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 12th September? Connections can turn from light entertainment to pure frustration sooner than you think....

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.3 lets you ditch ridealong Keanu Reeves, but I raise you responding to his driving critiques via this mod It also lets you be very rude to random pedestrians Image credit:CD Projekt Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.3 dropped last week, delivering a bunch of new ways to spice up your dystopian drives and more additions to possibly the most in-depth photo mode a game’s ever had. CD Projekt also added in the ability for you to dismiss the freeroam ridealong Johnny Silverhand they added in previously ....

D&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3 Video games will apparently be a big part of Hasbro for the next century Image credit:Larian Studios While they ponder which developers should face the difficult task of following up one of the most acclaimed games in a long time by making a sequel by Baldur’s Gate 3 , the makers of Dungeons & Dragons are also putting their own money into making video games themselves....

Dapperwing locations in Monster Hunter Wilds Here’s where to find a Dapperwing for Samin’s Research Report Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Want to know where to find a Dapperwing in Monster Hunter Wilds? Dapperwings are a type of Endemic Life species, a returning type of life which significantly bulks out the ecosystems of Monster Hunter’s various regions. Endemic Life can’t be directly hunted or killed, but in Monster Hunter Wilds you can capture them using a Capture Net - and one side quest in particular requires you to seek out and capture a Dapperwing....

Dark fantasy sword-heisting sim Dungeonborne gets early access launch date Mithrilling Image credit:Mithril Interactive Mithril Interactive have announced that their (deep, rasping breath) first-person player-versus-player-versus-enemy dungeon crawler extraction sim (FPPvPvEDCES) Dungeonborne will launch into early access on Thursday July 18th. Here are some more intuitive, albeit no more elegant, ways of summarising what you do in Dungeonborne than “FPPvPvEDCES”: sword go clang, goblin go eek, treasure chest go jingle-jangle, other player go stab-in-the-back....

Deus Ex voice actor Elias Toufexis bids goodbye to Adam Jensen and calls the games industry “a disaster zone” Feels like there’s a Deus Ex quote I should use here Elias Toufexis, voice actor for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided ’s cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen, has bid a formal “goodbye, but hopefully not farewell” to the character, expressing hopes that somebody with a lot of money will buy the license and restore poor moody Adam to our screens....

Diablo 4 Kehjistan Altar of Lilith map locations Find all Altars of Lilith in the Kehjistan region of Diablo 4 Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Looking for all of the Diablo 4 Altar of Lilith map locations in Kehjistan? Diablo 4 has a huge open world, and it hides many collectibles. The most important of these are the Altars of Lilith , as they offer permanent stat boosts that apply to all of your characters and will make any builds far stronger....

Diablo 4 Season 3 revealed, introducing WASD controls and a customisable robot pal Trailer drops ahead of release on 23rd Jan Image credit:Activision Blizzard What the hell is going on in Diablo 4 these days? “Devilish machinations”, would you believe. Blizzard have formally unveiled the brooding action- RPG ’s Season 3, aka Season of the Construct, which launches at 6pm GMT and 10am PST on January 23rd, and features a new quest line in which you investigate an ancient technology, the Loom , created by the mage Zoltun Kulle, which has now been purloined by the demon Malphas....

Dorfromantik devs tease new space game Project Mango It’s being made in collaboration with animation YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell Image credit:Toukana Interactive The developers behind the wonderful tile puzzler Dorfromantik have revealed the first teaser trailer for their next game. Currently known as Project Mango, the game will be made in collaboration with the German animation and edutainment YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell , releasing in 2025....

Dune Awakening developers Funcom are laying off an unspecified number of staff Fresh off the MMO being, in the studio’s words, “the biggest release we’ve had in our 32-year long history” Image credit:Funcom Dune: Awakening developers Funcom have announced plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers, citing the same need to “restructure” that’s essentially become a byword for games industry job cuts at this point. In a statement given to GamesIndustry....

EA deny that Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being shelved due to poor sales of first game Developers Motive recently shifted to work on the Battlefield series alongside their Iron Man game Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Update: EA have now denied Grubb’s claims that the Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being effectively cancelled, telling IGN : “We don’t normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story....

EA will expand Apex Legends “beyond the traditional battle royale universe” with new ways to play Also aiming to make life easier for first-time players Image credit:EA Even as they cancel games and carry out mass layoffs , EA see sunny skies ahead for Respawn’s free-to-play battle royale shooter Apex Legends , with CEO Andrew Wilson outlining plans to “expand beyond the traditional battle royale universe”. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday (ta, VGC ), Wilson hailed the shooter’s “hundreds of millions of players” to date and prophesied “incredible growth” while gingerly acknowledging that Apex Legends isn’t quite the barn-storming concurrent-player success story it once was....

Embracer sell Borderlands devs Gearbox to Rockstar parent Take-Two for $460 million in shares Remnant series, Hyper Light Breaker and unannounced games staying with Embracer Image credit:Take-Two Interactive Embracer have announced that they’re selling Borderlands developers Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive, owners of 2K Games and GTA 6 developers Rockstar, for $460 million in Take-Two shares. Three Gearbox Software studios - the flagship studio in Texas, together with Gearbox Montréal and Gearbox Quebec - will change hands as part of the deal....

Enshrouded updates will expand the building tools, tweak resource respawning and fix progress loss Keen Games outline plans for bug fixes ahead of full early access roadmap Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Keen Games Now see here Ollie Toms, supposed guides editor of this supposed videogames website - if Enshrouded really does have “the best building system in the survival genre” then why does the floor of my hovel look like a petrified sneeze?...

Everywhere’s no-code game creation tools get a closed beta next week Kicking off June 18th Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy Everywhere is a creative suite that aims to let players build their own 3D games - such as shooters, racing games, and platformers - without code. Instead, players can use a developer- and user-created asset library to build and “remix” game worlds, then publish them for other folks to play....