Activision has delayed Call of Duty Warzone: Mobile’s launch window to 2024. Previously expected to release this yearforiOSandAndroiddevices, the game is now planned to arrive next spring. Officially revealed last September,WarzoneMobileis being co-developed byActivision’s Shanghai,Beenox, Digital Legends and Solid State studios. A limited release for the game began in Australia last November, before rolling out to other countries including Chile, Norway and Sweden this year. 45 million players have pre-registered forCall of Duty: Warzone Mobile, according to Activision....

Activision has announced a new Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone anti-cheat measure that can make regular players undetectable to cheaters. Dubbed ‘Cloaking’, the cheating mitigation technique not only makes regular players invisible, but also makes bullets and sounds from legitimate players undetectable. “Legitimate players, however, can see cheaters impacted by cloaking (generally, they’ll be the players you see spinning in circles hollering, ‘Who is shooting me?!’) and can dole out in-game punishment,”Activisionsaid....

Call of Duty’s Steam page now discloses that the game uses generative AI. While it’s not clear to what extent generative AI is used in the development of the game, theSteampage now includes an AI Generated Content Disclosure section which simply states: “Our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets.” Some players have been accusingActivisionof using generative AI for a number of months now, most notable last December when the Season 1 Reloaded update came toBlack Ops 6....

CD Projekt claims it’s sold a further five million copies of Cyberpunk 2077 since its release on December 10. That brings the total sales to around 13 million copies, according to the developer’s digital and physical sales data. CDPR said the figures included sales across all platforms and factored in returns to retailers and refund requests sent directly to itself via email. It did not say how many refunds had been issued....

CD Projekt Red has expanded its game playtesting program from Poland to include North America. “Right now we’re holding playtests at our studio in Warsaw, and occasionally in Boston and Vancouver,” it said in anofficial FAQ. “It gives participants the unique opportunity to influence the development ofCD Projekt Red’s games by sharing their feedback on everything from gameplay mechanics and storytelling to character development and artistic direction, and they are able to do so from very early stages of the production process,”CD Projektsaid of the program....

The creative director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 says there’s still a prejudice against the turn-based RPG genre. Despite the commercial and critical success of Clair Obscur, Guillaume Broche toldAutomatonthat he believes his game and others like Persona are exceptions to the rule, and that there’s still some way to go until JRPGs become as popular as they used to be. “I could talk about the prejudice forever,” Broche laughed....

Dead Island 2 has received a surprise release on Xbox Game Pass. The title is nowavailablefor Game Pass on console, but not onPC. First announced in 2014, the zombie action RPG suffered a series of delays and changes of developer during a turbulent production cycle. Dambuster, an internalDeep Silverstudio, took over development in 2019 and the game was finally released last April forPS5,PS4,Xbox Series X/S,Xbox One, and PC via theEpic Games Store....

Dead Space Marker Fragments will help you unlock the secret ending that can only be accessed when you collect the Twelve hidden items. TheMarker Fragmentscan only be found in New Game+ mode of theDead SpaceRemake. While they don’t have to be collected in order, if you miss just one of them before Chapter 12 starts, you’ll have to beat the game and then start another New Game+ to get the rest....

Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield has thanked EA’s Motive Studio for its handling of the recently released remake. Schofield, who is currently CEO ofStriking Distance Studios, was the creator and executive producer ofEA‘s original 2008 version ofDead Space. He then left EA to co-foundSledgehammer Games, meaning he had no involvement in the rest of the series. Last year, however, he directedThe Callisto Protocol, which is considered a spiritual successor to Dead Space....

A feature film adaptation of Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil is in the works at Netflix, the pair have announced. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Rob Letterman, who directed Detective Pikachu and Goosebumps, will lead the hybrid live-action/animated movie. Netflix’s adaptation is in early development and a search for writers to adapt the game is underway, the publication said. Beyond Good and Evil takes place in the far future on a remote mining planet that is under attack from alien invaders....

A new render on the Nintendo website gives users a better look at Diddy Kong’s redesign. The render, which can be seen on the Characters page of the Store section of theUS Nintendo website, shows Donkey Kong running and Diddy holding onto his shoulder. It’s been known for some time that Donkey Kong has been given a redesign, but all we’ve seen of the new Diddy until now is a separate low-resolution render which was added to theNintendosite last week....

Latest update7th Jan 2025 / 1:00 pm We’re continuing to attempt to dig up new information about Dig It codes. Spawned from the success of Fisch, theseDig It codeswill help you shovel up a storm as this new collecting game hits its stride. Releasing ahead of the Fisch creator’s own digging take on the viral hit,Dig Itis more akin to Go Fishing thanDig. If that sounds confusing, just note the cluttered UI, constant in-game events, and overuse of sound effects, rewards, timers, and general sensory overload....

Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D designer John Romero has revealed that his next game will be a first-person shooter built with Unreal Engine 5. “It’s a new dawn for Romero Games,” the studiosaidon Tuesday. “We’re working with a major publisher to developJohn Romero’s next shooter: an all-new FPS with an original, new IP. “Our team is expanding, and we’re looking for talented people for all positions and at all experience levels, particularly those with Unreal Engine 5 experience....