The development team behind Watch Dogs: Legion plans to add Quality of Life improvements with the update. This includes 60 FPS, or “performance mode”, for consoles with title update 4.5. The studio is also adding the ability for you to play with friends on the same console family; Xbox One players with Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 4 players with PS5. Originally slated to arrive in late May, the update has been postponed until June 1 so that the studio can fix bugs found in TU 4....

The Nintendo Direct: E3 2021 livestream is set to kick off at 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm UK, 6pm CEST. You’ll be able to watch it via the company’s YouTube and Twitch channels. We’ve embedded YouTube version below. It will last around 40 minutes and will focus exclusively on games coming to Switch this year. In other words, don’t expect to hear about the Switch Pro rumored to be in the works....

State of Play is a live event that showcases the latest updates from a variety of upcoming games coming to PlayStation consoles. Via the official PlayStation blog page, today’s stream will be roughly 20 minutes long, and will provide some new information on previously announced games coming to PlayStation consoles, alongside a few unannounced games we’ll be seeing for the first time. The stream is set to begin at 2pm PT, 5pm ET, 10pm UK....

Then at the end of 2021, the 10th anniversary edition brings the best Skyrim mods to the current generation, as well as brand-new content to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. If you need a quick refresh on how to get skyrim mods, it’s fairly easy. Just hit up the official site and filter by your platform of choice. From there you can download to your console (provided you have a Bethesda....

But who elected me king of Halo, ranker of games and determiner of series quality? No one, which is why I wanted to reach out and talk to individuals with a passionate history with Halo in order to gauge their overall opinion, hear what stands out as overly good (or bad), and figure out whether it’s one of the best in the series. I first wanted to get the perspective of someone with a competitive history, who’d understand the games at a fundamental level....

Over the weekend, a (since deleted) Reddit post had a picture of a white Xbox Series X controller. As spotted by The Verge, the original Reddit user claimed to have taken this picture at a party they had attended in Washington (where Microsoft’s Seattle HQ is located). The account and the post are now gone, but this hasn’t stopped the picture from making the rounds online. Microsoft has only ever officially revealed a black Xbox Series X, and its accompanying black controller....

Microsoft has now announced the next batch of Game Pass titles after an image posted on reddit leaked the news a bit early.. Looking over the list, you already knew The Hitman Trilogy, Rainbow Six Extraction and Rainbow Six Siege are coming to Game Pass on January 20. But other titles coming to the service include Death’s Door, Nobody Saves the World, Windjammers 2, Pupparazi, Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master, and Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc....

Posting on the CD Projekt Red forums, modder Traderain announced that work has begun to upgrade modding project Wolvenkit to support for Cyberpunk 2077. “Now that we are so close to the release date of cp77, we are preparing to upgrade the community modding tools for The Witcher 3 - WolvenKit - to also support Cyberpunk,” writes Traderain. “WolvenKit is a community open source project that allows for almost complete modding support for TW3, including but massively surpassing the official modding tools of the game....

As you’d expect from the a game that performs that well right out of the gate, both the publisher and developer are keen to ride this momentum and extract what they can from the game’s popularity. In a press release published by From Software, we learn that the studio plans to expand on Elden Ring as an IP and produce more work related to the game “in hopes of expanding beyond the realm of games”....

As with many of Capcom’s in-development projects, the existence of Dragon’s Dogma 2 leaked a while ago alongside several other projects. The game has yet to be officially announced, of course, so every time the company invokes the name, everyone gets excited, and then nothing happens. This all started about a month ago, when Capcom launched the Dragon’s Dogma 10-year anniversary celebration website. Surely, everyone thought, it’s all building up towards some sort of reveal....

Alongside the release date news, Team Ninja also revealed new plans about post-launch support, as well as all the different editions players can pre-order now. First off, Wo Long is getting three DLC add-ons post launch. All three can be yours by purchasing the season pass, or individually when they arrive. The season pass is included in the game’s digital deluxe edition, too. Team Ninja says you should expect each DLC to deliver new areas, enemies, bosses, and new weapon types....

For those not in the know, Dragonriding mounts are a new addition that lets you soar through the sky in a far more exciting way than was previously possible. Dedicated movement abilities and a thrilling momentum system takes what was previously just a method of transportation in WoW, and transforms it to an invigorating experience in and of itself. “Blizzard, PLEASE allow dragonriding in older zones. It’s the best feature this game has seen in over a decade,” is the title of one of the most popular posts on the World of Warcraft subreddit right now....

Starting July 28, Xbox Cloud Gaming has been made available to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members with Windows 10 PCs and iOS phones and tablets, via browser, across 22 countries. Better yet, the platform holder has announced that Xbox Cloud Gaming is now powered by custom Xbox Series X hardware. “We’ve been upgrading Microsoft datacentres around the globe with the fastest, most powerful Xbox hardware to give you faster load times, improved frame rates, and an experience of a new generation of gaming,” Catherine Gluckstein, vice president and head of product for Xbox Cloud Gaming explained via press release....

But that’s not how Monster Hunter is best experienced. Much less, Monster Hunter Rise – the latest game in the long-running series from Capcom. Originally launching on the Nintendo Switch, then PC, and now all the other consoles, Monster Hunter Rise is a fascinating entry in the esteemed action-RPG series. It’s the first game to come after Monster Hunter World; the game that dragged the franchise into the mainstream. Rise isn’t like World: it’s easier, more readable, more ‘arcade-y’....

A new off-beat action game from Tango Gameworks, the Bethesda studio that up until this point has been all about survival horror. The studio was founded by Shinji Mikami, the man most often credited as the most influential person in the creation of the Resident Evil series – and thus far, the studio’s works have matched up to that. But this game, on which Mikami is the producer behind director John Johanas of The Evil Within 2 fame, demonstrates that he – and Tango – can do so much more....

While other retailers like Target and Walmart remain thoroughly out of stock, Best Buy has plenty of the smaller consoles to go round - at the time of writing, anyway. Not only that, but they’re also offering minor discounts to the tune of $10-25 on Series S bundles. Xbox Series S 512 GB Console for $299 Xbox Series S 512 GB Console + White Controller for $349.98 Xbox Series S 512 GB Console + 3 Month Game Pass Subscription for $329....

According to a hands-on preview over at IGN, the Xbox Series X reserves about 198GB of the hardware’s internal 1TB SSD for the operating system and essential system files. Xbox is giving consumers the option to buy expandable storage for the hardware, but a 1TB expansion for the Xbox Series X and S will set you back an eye-watering $220/£220/€270. It should be noted that about 80GB of any extra storage you buy will also be eaten up by system files and OS-related files....

The design of the Xbox Series X game box has been quietly updated. As noted by Xbox News, Microsoft appears to have streamlined the look of its boxart somewhat. The green band at the top, where the Xbox logo used to sit, has been reduced to a shorter stripe with the Xbox logo. Next to it, there’s a white rectangle that lists Xbox One, and Xbox Series X as compatible platforms....

Microsoft has revealed that it began building Xbox Series X/S consoles in late summer, a little bit later than originally planned. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, explained to The Verge in a wide-ranging interview why the platform holder risked going later than Sony. According to Spencer, Microsoft wanted specific AMD technology in the chip, which is what pushed the start of manufacturing back a little bit. “We started manufacturing late summer....

To explain what I mean, let me give you a little bit of website inside baseball. As you’ve probably noticed, game guides are a major part of the business model for outlets like VG247. What guides we produce are determined by two key factors. The first is intuition – we play the game and figure out what we feel people are going to get stuck on or worry about enough to pick up their phone and punch in a search....