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Nintendo has added The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker soundtrack to the Nintendo Music app. The app, which was released in October 2024, letsNintendo SwitchOnline members listen to a selection of soundtracks fromNintendogames. The Wind Waker soundtrack is the 34th to be added to the service, and contains 133 tracks with a total running time of 3 hours and 40 minutes. VGC has a continually updatedfull list of soundtracks available on Nintendo Music....

A video playthrough of the first-person PS3 prototype of Until Dawn has been shared online. Until Dawn was released onPlayStation 4in August 2015, but when it was originally announced in August 2012 it was supposed to be a PS3 game played from a first-person perspective. Now YouTube channel Digital Preservation has uploaded a four-hour video showing the entirety of a prototype version of Until Dawn from January 2013, running on PS3....

A fully functioning PC port of Super Mario 64 has been released online. The fan-made port, which was first shared on social media sites this weekend, was made possible by a 2019 recompilation project which saw fans reverse engineer the game’s source code. UnlikePCemulators which imitate the conditions of the original N64 hardware, the DirectX 12-powered port allows players to run Mario 64 at far higher resolutions without compromise, such as native 4K or in ultra-widescreen mode....

Activision Blizzard has been sued by the US Justice Department for alleged antitrust violations related to its esports business. In a civillawsuitfiled on Monday, the Justice Department claimed rules imposed byActivision Blizzardhave limited competition for players in itsOverwatchand Call of Duty professional esports leagues and suppressed player wages. The complaint, which was filed in the US district court for the district of Columbia, accusesActivisionand the independently-owned teams in its esports leagues of implementing a “competitive balance tax” designed to penalise teams if player compensation exceeded a threshold set by the game maker....

Remedy has released an Alan Wake 2 update which lets players disable one of PS5 Pro’s key features, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). PSSR is an AI-driven upscaling technology designed to “provide super sharp image clarity by adding an extraordinary amount of detail”, according toSony. However, not all developers have been able to harness it as planned since the console’s launch last month, and recently some have started letting players switch it off entirely....

Respawn is offering free Apex Packs to all Apex Legends players to compensate for recent issues with the game. Last week, the studio apologised toApex Legendsplayers who haveexperienced account resets and lost progressafter the studio “messed up” a recent update. While it continues to work on restoring progress and content to affected accounts, the studio is now providing players with free Apex Packs, which contain cosmetic items or crafting currency....

Astro Bot’s soundtrack is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming platforms. The soundtrack is 87 tracks long, the majority of which were composed by Kenny CM Young. The album features all of the new music included inAstro Bot, as well as the tracks fromAstro’s Playroomand Astro Bot Rescue Mission, which also appear in the game. Additional tracks are contributed by Hirofumi Sasaki, Tadashi Yatabe, Kemmei Adachi, and Sachiko Miyano....

A new update released for Back 4 Blood adds a single-player campaign mode. Until now, the only option available for solo players was a Training mode, which had all the game’s booster cards unlocked so players could experiment with them. However, this mode didn’t include any sort of progression – players wouldn’t earn supply points, couldn’t make any progress towards accomplishments, and wouldn’t have their stats tracked. Today’s update adds a proper solo campaign with actual progression, meaning players can play through the story with the same benefits and upgrades they’d receive as if they were playing online....

Following Baldur’s Gate 3’scritically acclaimed PC release last month, Larian Studios appears to have repeated the trick on PS5. The console version launched today asPS5‘s highest-rated game to date, according to aggregation sitesMetacriticandOpenCritic, with the caveat that only a relatively small number of reviews have been published so far. The PS5 release has a Metascore of 97 based on nine reviews, putting it ahead ofElden Ring(96 based on 85 reviews) andThe Witcher 3: Wil Hunt Complete Edition (94 based on 32 reviews)....

Battlefield 6 will utilize bots to fill empty slots in multiplayer lobbies, DICE has said. Members of the game’s development team confirmed the use of bots during aBattlefield 6multiplayer reveal event in Hong Kong, which was attended by Taiwanese outletBahamut GNN. Development director Anna Narrevi said the core principle ofDICE’s game design is to enable as many players as possible to play together at the same time. However, bots will be used to fill servers in the absence of enough real life competitors, she added....

Blizzard has said that it considers bringing its seminal MMO World of Warcraft to consoles “all the time.” Speaking toGamesRadarat BlizzCon2023, Holly Longdale, the vice president and executive producer ofWorld of Warcraft, said that it talks about the prospect “all the time.” “It’s a complicated question,” Lonngdale said. “For a console audience, the approachability is likely going to be different.” While in the past, MMO’s of World of Warcraft’s size were more at home onPCdue to computing power, some of the largest MMO’s today are extremely popular on console, such as Final Fantasy 14....

Latest update19th Jan 2025 / 9:11 pm We’ve added two more Blox Fruits codes that have been added in January 2025. Blox Fruits codesoften award 2x XP boosts over the weekend. Use them at the peak of your mastery training to get a massive boost during the Mythical Yeti Holiday event. Blox Fruits, still the most popular One Piece-inspiredRobloxgame on the platform, offers free stat reset codes, 2x EXP codes, and more on the odd occasion....

Borderlands 3’s long-awaited cross-play update is now live, but it doesn’t support PlayStation consoles. The new update, as revealed on a new blog post on the officialBorderlands 3 website, adds cross-play support acrossXbox Series X/S,Xbox One,Mac,StadiaandPCviaSteamand theEpic Games Store. Cross-play will be opt-in, and will require players to create a cross-play display name, which will allow them to compete against those on other systems through Gearbox’sShift matchmakingfunctionality. However, those playing the game onPS5orPS4won’t be able to take part in cross-play....