Guilty Gear Strive’s latest update makes it harder for players to view its characters from inappropriate angles. As reported byAutomaton, the game’s latest version 1.41 update includes a change to its Digital Figure mode, which is a photo mode where the player can choose a fighter from the game and rotate and zoom the camera around them. The game’s patch note reportedly reads: “We have adjusted the display restriction area that makes the figure invisible when certain parts of the figure are captured by the camera....

Disintegration, the new shooter from Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, will release digitally on June 16 for consoles and PC, publisher Private Division has announced. The release date news was accompanied by a new story trailer for the game, which offers the first glimpse atDisintegration’s cinematics. Gameplay footage ofDisintegration’s single-player campaignwas first released in April. Disintegration takes place around 150 years in the futurewhen in order to escape the threat of extinction many humans have had their brains ‘integrated’ into a robot frame....

The second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is targeting a 2025 release. During an event on Thursday, HBO CEO Casey Bloys announced that the second season will enter production in early 2024 before airing the following year,Deadlinereports. Production of the second season was held up by the Writers Guild of America strike, which ran from May until September. “We’ve outlined all of season 2 and we’re ready to go as soon as the strike ends,” show co-creatorNeil DruckmanntoldEntertainment Weeklyin a recent interview....

Activision has revealed Call of Duty Warzone 2’s new Resurgence map, Ashika Island. Set to launch in mid-February as part ofWarzone 2Season 2, it’s described as a small new map built for the returning Resurgence mode, a streamlined spin-off of the game’s regular battle royale with respawns enabled. On Wednesday, the official Call of Duty Twitter account began publishing a series of images of Ashika Island, which are viewable below....

Hideki Kamiya has argued that companies need to do more to ensure that their classic games are readily available to players, in order to preserve “game culture”. Speaking to VGC ina newly-published interview, the Devil May Cry andBayonettacreator said that the recent explosion inretro game prices(alleged by some to bedue to market manipulation) was creating problems for genuine players who want to buy these games. But he also argued that if the IP owners of classic games made more efforts to keep them available on modern systems, this would be less of an issue....

What romance options are in Hogwarts Legacy is the subject of this guide. Hogwarts Legacyis finally onNintendo Switch, meaning players on Switch can finally explore the Wizarding World of Hogwarts, and the surrounding hills of Hogsmeade. One of the main elements of Hogwarts Legacy is the friends you meet along the way. This has led many to ask whether or not any of the characters in Hogwarts Legacy are romanceable....

A year after 2022’s Horizon Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games took us back to the west coast. A brand new expansion set on an unexplored chunk of sunny Los Angeles,Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores appeared at first to be an expansion not unlike The Frozen Wilds, the add-on to Aloy’s first adventure. But Burning Shores is much more. As well as introducing a fantastic new member of the Horizon cast in Seyka, the DLC serves more as a prologue to Horizon 3 than we expected....

An upcoming original IP from Hitman studio IO Interactive could be an Xbox console exclusive. That’s according to internalMicrosoftdocuments shared as part of the ongoing FTC vs. Microsoft trial over the acquisition ofActivision Blizzard. The documents (spotted byIGN), which assess IO as a potential acquisition target, list it as working on “Project Dragon,” an RPG shooter forPCandXbox Series X|S.XboxGame Studios is listed as publisher for the title. In April 2021,Windows Centralfirst claimed thatIO had teamed up with Microsoft to work on a new “dragon-themed IP”which the platform holder was expected to publish as a first-party Xbox exclusive....

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the creator of the famous ‘Konami Code’, has died at the age of 61, according toa former colleague. Hashimoto was a programmer, designer and producer atKonamiduring the 80s and 90s and worked on classic titles such as Snatcher, ISS and Gradius. But his greatest legacy is the Konami Code, a string of button inputs first used in the NES version of Gradius. Finding the game too difficult to play through during testing, Hashimoto created a cheat code to give the player a full set of power-ups....

Larian Studios has teased plans to announce an Xbox Series X/S release date for Baldur’s Gate 3 and a physical edition of the game. Earlier on Monday, the game was nominated for eight prizes at December’sThe Game Awards–the joint most alongside Alan Wake 2. As part of a largermessageresponding to the news,Lariansigned off: “Xboxfans, and fans of physical media, watch this space for a formal announcement. It’s going to be a busy week 👀”...

March 2022’s Xbox Live Games with Gold titles have seemingly been revealed ahead of Microsoft’s official announcement. The games were confirmed early once again by Dealabs userbillbil-kun, who has previouslyleaked the PlayStation Plus line-upon multiple occasions, as well as multipleXbox Live Games with Gold titlesand theEpic Games Store’s 15 Days of Free Games promotion. According to the user, March’sXboxLive Games with Gold titles will be The Flame in the Flood, Street Power Soccer, Sacred 2 Fallen Angel and SpongeBob’s Truth or Square....

May 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential games have been revealed ahead of their official announcement. As has become a regular occurrence, the games were leaked by Dealabs userbillbil-kun, who has been accurately revealing thePlayStationPlus line-ups almost every month since September 2021. According to the user, May’s PlayStation Plus games will beGRIDLegends (PS5,PS4), Chivalry 2 (PS5, PS4) and Descenders (PS5, PS4). The games will be available from Tuesday, May 2 for around one month....

A modder has recreated Super Mario Odyssey within its 24-year-old predecessor Super Mario 64. Super Mario Odyssey64 is a rom hack created by popular community modder Kaz Emanuar. A version of the mod released on Saturday and includes over 80 Moons to collect, scattered across 64-bit recreations of Odyssey’s worlds. The mod requires an emulator to run, but since it’s a rom hack it’s likely to eventually be removed via a legal claim fromNintendo....