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Today sees the launch of God of War on PC - arguably the biggest PlayStation franchise to make the leap from console so far - and in a new interview published to coincide with its release, Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog has revealed it was Sony’s own internal studios that pushed to get PlayStation games on PC. Asked if Sony’s decision to begin porting its games to the platform was something championed by the Santa Monica team early on, Barlog, in conversation with GameInformer, suggested it was actually the developers across Sony’s PlayStation Studios network that were ultimately instrumental in convincing the company to make the move to PC....

One thing is to lose to veteran players in CSGO and the other is to lose due to frame drops. With some experience, the latter stings more than the first one. For competetive matches, players can’t afford stutters or lag. You need to have a consistently high FPS for a smooth and seamless gameplay experience. Although having an FPS counter won’t resolve your frame drops, it can help you diagnose the problem within your PC....

Knowing how hacking works in Cyberpunk 2077 is essential as it is a vital aspect of the game, especially if you are looking for a stealthier approach. Although you cannot hack every object and NPC in the game, understanding the mechanics of hacking will help come in handy in crucial times such as while interfering with enemy cyberware. One of the most challenging parts here is the Cyberpunk 2077 Breach Protocol, which requires you to complete a minigame to enter enemy systems....

Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot of gigs and side missions to complete. One of them is ‘No Fixer Gig, tasking players to rescue Iris Tanner, who has been kidnapped by the Wraiths. For the unversed, Iris Tanner is one of the most popular and renowned tech specialists in Night City. Unfortunately, she started doing business with the Wraiths but instead of paying her, he kidnapped Iris Tanner. Considering her speciality, Dakota Smith has been making all possible efforts to work with Iris Tanner for years but she kept denying because of her no Fixer policy....

Over the weekend, Izanagi Games created a teaser website for its next title, Death Come True. A new project written and directed by Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka, a countdown timer was ticking down the hours until early in the morning on December 10, 2019. When it finished, Japanese Actor Kanata Hongou was revealed to be the lead character. Before that reveal, a poster on the website had some vague text that read, “Is this a movie?...

On any other pay-per-view, the Miz vs. Daniel Bryan could be the main event. On Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live, WWE presented a three-part vignette that was essentially a mini-documentary, detailing the background behind the Bryan-Miz feud dating back to 2009, when Miz was Bryan’s “pro” on the first season of NXT. WWE ripped a page out of UFC’s playbook. The video packages were split in three sections airing throughout the show, all with different chapters....

Call me, beep me, if you want to reach me! If you were a child of the early 2000s, then Kim Possible was probably your show. It was an amazing series that showed young girls everywhere that you could be both tough and feminine. This series proved to be incredibly popular, and I can see why. It was a TV series that was clever, intense, hilarious, and surprisingly heartwarming. Kim Possible has a fun premise, where a teenage girl is also a superhero without a secret identity....

The discourse around Days Gone continues. Last week, former Days Gone director John Garvin controversially stated the reason the game didn’t receive universal acclaim was because of “woke reviewers” and reviewers who “couldn’t be bothered to actually play the game”. In addition to these unusual remarks, Garvin also threw the game’s programmers under the bus, blaming Days Gone’s “tech issues” such as “bugs, streaming and frame rate” for its middling reception....

Acclaimed platformer de Blob is getting spruced up for a release on Nintendo Switch later this year, THQ Nordic has announced. Arriving on Ninty’s portable powerhouse in collaboration with Blitworks, de Blob is pretty much how you remember it back in 2008. As the titular hero, the game sees you battling against the dastardly I.N.K.T. Corporation, who under the rule of Comrade Black have declared war on all things colour in the once-vibrant Chroma City....

A hell of a lot has to go right for a television show to be successful in the Year of Too Much TV 2019. Standing out is half the battle, so networks are wisely picking up adapted series from beloved source material that come with built-in recognition. It’s only wise, though, if you’re winning the other half of the battle by producing quality TV. You have to like Syfy’s recent track record in this area; The Expanse, The Magicians, and Happy!...

Death Stranding is a difficult game to describe, to the point where Hideo Kojima apparently had to invent his own genre, “strand game,” to properly label his latest work. Even the games that are like it aren’t even close in terms of sheer weirdness. It’s an interesting approach to the genre, and even if it seems silly. It might gain its weight in retrospect, but Death Stranding’s impact on the gaming industry has been significant, if not bizarre....

After years of cryptic trailers and gameplay demos, Death Stranding will finally be hitting shelves in just over a week’s time. Hideo Kojima’s newest mind-bending project is no doubt already on the radar of thousands of the eccentric director’s biggest fans, however, if anyone needed any more incentive to grab themselves a copy on November 8, Kojima Productions has unveiled a lengthy final trailer showing off a ton more of the game’s main story....

The retailer currently has Destiny: The Collection listed for release on PS4 and Xbox One on August 18, one month ahead of the game’s next expansion Rise of Iron. There aren’t any details as to what the collection may include, however, nor has Activision officially announced that one is in the works. Destiny launched in September 2014 and has so far seen four major expansions – The Dark Below, House of Wolves, The Taken King and September’s Rise of Iron....

Destiny 2 bringing back Trials has created a renewed focus on PvP. With Crucible being the lone form of PvP in Destiny 2, the competitive factor in the game inarguably suffered. Trials will raise the bar again, and raise player expectations. With that in mind, Bungie has reportedly made a meaningful change to PC matchmaking that will improve the competitive integrity of Destiny 2 PvP. Redditor RoyAwesome provided an update regarding Destiny 2’s new networking changes on Tuesday, revealing a change that they’d discovered had been left out of Destiny 2’s recent patch notes....

It’s the second week in Destiny 2’s Season of Opulence, and you’re likely to find yourself in the Menagerie once more. This time around, the Menagerie activity has a brand new boss for you to take down. It’s Arunak, an ogre who’s “beloved” by Calus. Oh, dear me! Anyway, here’s a quick guide on how to take it out. Arunak, Beloved By Calus Head over to Destiny 2’s Menagerie activity and do the same encounters that you’ve done the previous week....

Destiny 2 had originally been scheduled to release later this month, according to documents posted online following the legal battle between Marty O’Donnell and Bungie. As reported yesterday, the documents reveal that the original Destiny (referred to in the lawsuit as Project Tiger) had been due to launch on September 24, 2013, before being delayed by a full year after significant changes were made to the game’s story. Sequels, however, were then due to launch every other year, with the second game scheduled for September 30, 2015, the third due on September 30, 2017, and the fourth due on September 30, 2019....

When the Special Edition of Devil May Cry 5 was announced, it wasn’t a huge surprise. After all, the third and fourth games got one. What was surprising was that PC players wouldn’t get it, just like with DmC. So, no, we don’t get turbo mode or the new difficulty. However, we do get Vergil, which is what I wanted the most to begin with, so it’s not all bad. The Vergil DLC costs $5 and adds everybody’s favorite samurai sword Dante into the game, no mods or broken movesets required....

Welcome the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly - Digital Foundry’s regular show on the latest gaming and technology news. Perhaps not surprisingly, the lion’s share of our news discussion this week concerns the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC. We’ve discussed the various trials we had in delivering our coverage - not least the arrival of a major (and welcome!) patch on embargo day. However, in this week’s show, we talk about our discussions with Nixxes, remaining performance hurdles and the title’s remarkable CPU burden, especially with ray tracing enabled....

Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival will now launch on June 24, a week later than the previously announced June 17 date. The extra week ensures the delivery of a “high quality, polished gaming experience to players”. Accompanying the new release date is the third and final dev diary featuring Dino Dani looking back at the project. Source: The Digital Lounge

After weeks of rumours and speculation, 2019’s Call of Duty game has finally broken cover and as suspected, it’s a return to Infinity Ward’s popular subseries but rather than MW4, it’s simply entitled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. During a worldwide reveal event, centered around a trailer which we’ve posted below, publisher Activsion confirmed that Modern Warfare will see the return of a full single player campaign to the Call of Duty series after its absence in Black Ops 4, and described it as seeing players take on the role of a ‘varied cast of international special forces and freedom fighters in gripping and heart-pounding missions through iconic European cities and volatile expanses of the Middle East....