Suda 51 has revealed that he was approached to make a Deadpool game over a decade ago. Speaking to VGCin a recent interview,the No More Heroes creator said thatActivisionasked him to make a game based on the loud-mouthed superhero but that the plans ultimately never worked out. “Here’s something a lot of people probably don’t know,” Suda told VGC contributor Tom Regan. “Over a decade ago, I was actually approached by Activision at one point to make a Deadpool game....

Ubisoft has announced plans to introduce level scaling in an upcoming Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update. The feature will enable players to select the level of scaling for territory and enemies to provide a more balanced or challenging experience. Level scaling will arrive on July 27 and let players choose from five options, from ‘off’ to ‘Nightmarish’. Level Scaling is coming to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Tuesday, July 27! 📈 You may choose from 5 options, from ‘off’ to Nightmarish....

Ubisoft is working on two new modes for Assassin’s Creed Mirage. “We hear you: New Game + mode forAssassin’s Creed Miragewill be available in a free update this December,” the companysaid. “And for the expert Assassins, along with NG+ will come an optional permadeath mode also available across all difficulties!” Assassin’s Creed Mirage was released on October 5 forPS4,PS5,Xbox One,Xbox Series X/SandPC, and aniPhone 15 Pro version is set to follow in early 2024....

Atomic Heart 2 has been announced at Summer Game Fest. The game is coming toPCand consoles, and is being developed by Mundfish. No release date was provided for the sequel. You can watch the first trailer for Atomic Heart 2 below. A description of the game reads, “Atomic Heart 2 is an action-adventure role-playing game that brings you back to a retrofuturistic universe, full of new dangers. The sequel features a living world rich with possibilities and places a heavy emphasis on story, role-playing elements, and player freedom....

Battlefield 2042 has launched without support for in-game voice chat and it’s currently unclear when the feature will be added. The game, which is now available in early access ahead of its general release next week, has arrived without what has become an industry-standard feature for multiplayer FPS titles. According toThe Washington Post’s scathingBattlefield 2042review, developerDICEsaid during a Q&A this week that it found lots of players use standalone chat applications like Discord to communicate but that it was looking to add in-game voice chat “shortly after launch”....

The first season of content for Battlefield 2042 will seemingly begin in March 2022, according to a data mine. Trusted Battlefield data minerTemporyaltweeted that the game’s client “includes weekly missions for 12 preseason weeks.” This points to a March 2022 release for the game’s first season. The tweet also contains text referring to the new map included in season 1, which is likely to be named “exposure”. Two sets of text, one for players playing on the US side and one for the Russian, features references to a landslide damaging the surrounding area, providing some insight into what the map may look like....

Battlefield V’s long-awaited custom games feature will be released on Monday, DICE has confirmed. Thedelayed Community Games feature(previously known as Private Games) will enable players to create and play on customised servers with specific settings. At launch, users will be able to create several game configurations, create and join private games, choose modes and maps, select game size (16, 32, 64), choose a password, and kick or ban players....

The new game from BioShock creator Ken Levine is scheduled to be released within the next couple of years. In its earnings results this week, publisherTake-Twosaid it plans to release the game between now and the end of its 2025 fiscal year, which runs until June 11, 2025. Judas is one of 87 games Take-Two is planning to release during this window (38 are mobile titles), although delays are always possible....

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s campaign opens with footage of Ronald Reagan while Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky plays over a jukebox. This is the level of subtlety the game deals in. Beginning in 1981 in the shadow of the Vietnam war, Cold War focuses on an elite group of soldiers operating outside the lines of the law in order to take down an existential Russian threat. So far, so Call Of Duty, but, by breaking up the bombastic set pieces the franchise trades in with slower, stealth-based sequences and some player choice, Cold War’s campaign had us engaged enough to finish it in one sitting....

This article was updated at 20:50 GMT with additional context. The Medium developer Bloober Team has said it’s working on an existing horror IP from “a very famous gaming publisher”, fuelling speculation it could be reviving Konami’s Silent Hill. While the studio has not revealed the identity of the franchise it’s working on,Bloober TeamCEO Piotr Babieno toldGI.bizhe believed it would cause quite a stir once it’s revealed. “We’ve been working for more than a year on another gaming project, another horror IP, and we’re doing this with a very famous gaming publisher,” he said....

Borderlands 4 has been announced for release in 2025. The game was revealed atGamescomOpening Night Live with a teaser trailer, which is viewable below. “In this next installment of the definitive looter shooter, players will assume the role of a legendary Vault Hunter as they blast their way through hordes of enemies in search of new treasures to loot on an all-new planet,” reads the description accompanying the reveal trailer....

Activision has kicked off an alternate reality game as part of its marketing campaign for the next premium Call of Duty title. The publisher sent several influencers and fan sites a locked crate last week, with a message instructing them how to open it on August 10 at 9am/12pm ET/5pm BST. It appears that influencers received different projector models accompanied by various slides. Some of the slides show maps of locations including Russia and New York....

Sledgehammer Games has confirmed it will hold a Call of Duty: Vanguard alpha test for PlayStation users next weekend. From Friday, August 27 at 10am PT / 6pm BST to Sunday, August 29 at 10am PT / 6pm BST, everyPS5andPS4owner will be able to participate in the alpha test, which will debut Vanguard’s Champion Hill, the modepreviously describedas “Gunfight Battle Royale”. Champion Hill is a progression of the small squad multiplayer mode introduced with 2019’sModern Warfare, now extended to a large map split into sections, with multiple teams battling to be the last squad standing....