Control Ultimate Edition - the next-gen experience compared on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  934 words  |  Trudie Dory

Remedy's Control Ultimate Edition is out now for next (current?) generation console systems, delivering a substantial revamp of its 2019 classic. Bundling up the original release with its DLC, plus 60 frames per second performance and 30fps ray tracing modes, Control is a game made for the new machines. The technological limitations of the last-gen machines are effortlessly overcome and the new console editions offer more than a taste of the fully enabled PC rendition of the game - but are we looking at platform parity between the new Sony and Microsoft systems? [Read More]

Cyberpunk 2077 latest patch notes: What's new in 'next gen' update 1.5?

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  21 minutes  |  4407 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

The Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.5 is one many players have been waiting for - introducing PS5 and Xbox Series versions of CD Project Red's open-world role-playing game. If you are playing on Xbox One, PS4, Stadia or PC, then update 1.5 introduces a number of benefits as well - from new apartments to live in, changes to the driving model, and the ability to finally change your appearance. Below you can find what's been added or improved to Cyberpunk 2077 in the 1. [Read More]

Elden Ring may have initially had a bestiary

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  409 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

New files have been unearthed in Elden Ring which allude to the game once having a bestiary. The files in questions were found by Twitter user JesterPatches, who wrote: "Looking through [Elden Ring's] files I came across a few icons making me believe that a bestiary was planned at some point." The user continues: "There are 128 icons showing different NPCs. Each NPC shown has two icons, one greyed out and another one filled in, so it could be not found and found. [Read More]

Fortnite Bounties: How to find a bounty, complete bounties and bounty targets in Fortnite explained

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  641 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Bounties are a feature introduced in the bounty hunter themed Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 5 which encourage you to be more daring in combat. Rather than running about the map and shooting anyone you come into contact with, finding a bounty will name a specific player for you to hunt down and eliminate. If you can complete a bounty in time, you'll be rewarded with some gold bars. Be careful though - there's always a chance that you will become the next bounty target! [Read More]

Guitar Hero II full tracklist

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  454 words  |  Patria Henriques

With around a month to go until Guitar Hero II's release on PlayStation 2, RedOctane has announced the 40 tracks licensed to appear in the game - including ones we told you about recently like Monkey Wrench and Killing In The Name Of. Along with these, GH2 will also boast a range of unlockable songs, although it's not immediately clear whether these will be licensed tracks or more amateur songs (the original Guitar Hero focused on unsigned acts for its unlockables). [Read More]

Microsoft commits to releasing Call of Duty on PlayStation "beyond the existing agreement and into the future"

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  446 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Microsoft has addressed the issue of Call of Duty's future on PlayStation in the strongest terms yet, confirming it has made a commitment to Sony that the series will continue to release on the console "beyond the existing agreement [with Activision] and into the future". Many had pondered the fate of Activision Blizzard titles on non-Xbox platforms following Microsoft's $69bn USD acquisition of the publisher last month, and questions have remained after comments from both Microsoft and Xbox head Phil Spencer left plenty of room for interpretation. [Read More]

Papers, Please review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  6 minutes  |  1087 words  |  Fernande Dalal

"Fun" is a weird and troublesome thing. Almost impossible to define, it's a lightweight term that lacks any real heft, yet it's come to be one of the most commonly used criteria for deciding if a game is any good. Is it interesting? Thought-provoking? Never mind all that: is it fun? You couldn't really describe Papers, Please, a "dystopian document thriller" from indie developer Lucas Pope, as fun. It's compelling, challenging and genuinely unnerving. [Read More]

Pokémon Sword and Shield Ash Hat Pikachu code: Our Ash Hat Pikachu code list and how to download Ash Hat Pikachu explained

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  791 words  |  Trudie Dory

Ash Hat Pikachus are currently being distributed into Pokémon Sword and Shield via special Mystery Gift codes to celebrate the upcoming release of The Crown Tundra DLC. Each Pikachu is spotting a hat worn by Ash from the anime series and, if you download them, they can all be added to your Pokémon team! Below you'll find our Ash Hat Pikachu code list and instructions on how to download the hatted Pikachus themselves. [Read More]

RuneScape players say Twitter's bitcoin scam looks familiar

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  871 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

If you went anywhere near Twitter last night, chances are you saw the chaotic aftermath of a massive security breach in which several celebrity accounts and cryptocurrency companies were hacked to tweet a bitcoin scam. Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kanye West were among the compromised accounts, all of them tweeting a very similar message. "I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19," the compromised Elon Musk account tweeted. " [Read More]

Star Wars: Hunters reveals new maps, characters, and Old Republic's Huttball mode

 Posted on April 5, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  391 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

If you've been eyeing up Star Wars: Hunters - Zynga's upcoming free-to-play arena shooter, set in a galaxy far, far away - your curiosity may be passingly piqued by its latest reveals, covering a new game mode, two new maps, and two new Hunters eager to join the fray. Given that Hunters is sort of doing its own thing in a cartoon-y corner of the Star Wars universe, neither of its new characters are exactly familiar faces, but like the boulder-throwing Wookie hunter, droid Jedi, and Jawas duo revealed previously, they do at least fit comfortably within the Star Wars oeuvre. [Read More]