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The Division: Heartland Ubisoft confirms Avatar, Mario Rabbids and Skull and Bones will launch this financial year Avast amount of time until next April, though. 26 The Division 2 and free-to-play spin-off Heartland will skip E3 Subtract your expectations. Leaked The Division Heartland gameplay warns closed test players not to leak the game Environmental spill. 29 Ubisoft won't abandon paid AAA games while making free-to-play versions of core franchises UPDATE: " [Read More]

Remember Adrian Shephard? The star of Half-Life 1 expansion Opposing Force hasn't been seen since, although that hasn't stopped gamers speculating on the future of the US Marine Corporal who found himself caught up in the original Black Mesa research incident that propelled Gordon Freeman to fame. One particular rumour focuses on Portal, Valve's upcoming first-person puzzler, which is known to tie in with the Half-Life universe, and tellingly outfits the player with a weapon called the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. [Read More]

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is the first big PC game to be released exclusively as a Universal Windows Platform application and its problematic release highlights some of the key challenges Microsoft faces in moving forward with its storefront. In getting the game up and running, we encountered more issues than just about any other PC game we've played over the past year - a disappointing state of affairs considering Microsoft's ambitions for UWP. [Read More]

The developer of open-world survival success Rust has excised all zombies from the game. Facepunch Studios made the change last night in a new update which saw all undead humans replaced by undead wildlife. "Yep. We did it. We decided we couldn't hold off any longer," developer Maurino Berry wrote (thanks, Polygon). "The longer we keep zombies in - the more complaints we'd get about removing them. We are forcing ourselves to deal with it. [Read More]

More than six months into the life of the new consoles and it's become clear that platform parity between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is rare. Sure, the odd platformer or sports title, such as Strider or FIFA 14, have managed to achieve this but those are exceptions. Utilisation of the last-gen Unreal Engine 3 hasn't made much difference either, with cross-platform titles suffering from frame-rate or resolution discrepancies. In the case of Outlast though, developer Red Barrels and UE3 have come up trumps. [Read More]

Developer Asobo's Flight Simulator is, as even the swiftest glance in its direction will confirm, a staggeringly beautiful game, but it's not always the best at capturing the finer details; that's where its semi-regular World Updates come in, and its latest, available now, gives the vast sprawl of the United States a much-need upgrade. Fly over Manhattan or Disney World and it might feel like Flight Simulator's rendition of the US is plenty detailed enough already; head out to admire the country's countless geological wonders, though, from the staggering depths of the Grand Canyon to the iconic majesty of Monument Valley, and the illusion can start to fall apart rather dramatically thanks to the somewhat woolly satellite and elevation data used to generate the Earth in the launch game. [Read More]

Wonderkids remain one of the best aspects in the Football Manager series, and it's no different in the 2022 entry. Tracking down the best talents before they're widely known in the real game makes you feel like a sneaky insider. In Football Manager, the only way you'll ever win any of your matches (let alone trophies and championship glory!) is through talented players and the scouting system. We've done the hard work of sifting through the huge database and collected 50 of the best young players in FM22. [Read More]

Sony has announced Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, a new online co-op multiplayer mode free for Ghost of Tsushima owners due out on PlayStation 4 in the autumn of 2020. "Legends is an entirely new experience," Darren Bridges, senior game producer at Sucker Punch wrote in a post on the PlayStation Blog. "It's a separate mode that doesn't follow Jin or the companions from his journey, but instead focuses on four warriors who have been built up as legends in stories told by the people of Tsushima. [Read More]

The people behind the James Pond Kickstarter have cancelled its crowd-funding campaign. With 12 days left, just £16,000 of the £100,000 had been raised, and UK company Gameware admitted the writing had been on the wall. "Although we have 12 days to go it's clear that we aren't going to make our £100,000 goal, so instead of pretending otherwise and continuing the updates we've decided to be honest with ourselves and with you and stop," [Read More]

To usher in Black Panther's arrival on 16th August, Marvel's Avengers is having a free trial weekend on Steam, PlayStation, and Stadia. It kicked off on 29th July and ends later today, 1st August, sending interest in the action game on PC soaring. Looking at SteamDB (thanks, TheGamer), the game usually averages around only a few hundred concurrent users at a time, but the freeplay event has set a 24-hour peak of 10,161 players - with 10,121 online right now at the time of writing. [Read More]