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Ubisoft has shown 10 minutes of Star Wars Outlaws gameplay footage. The gameplay demo, shown during its latestUbisoftForward presentation, was narrated by game director Mathias Karlson. It shows protagonist Kay Vess as she boards her ship and engages in a space battle before flying to Tatooine and visiting the Mos Eisley cantina. With development led by Ubisoft Massive,Star Wars Outlawstells an original story set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi....

Players can choose to carry over progress from the PS4 versions of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy to the upcoming PS5 remasters. Hitting PS5 on Friday,Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection includes remastered editions ofNaughty Dog’s last-gen games, which originally released between 2016 and 2017. In anFAQ,Sonyexplained how players can transfer save data and trophies toPS5usingPlayStationPlus cloud storage. The PS5 collection will be available physically and digitally for $49....

Poncle has provided an update on the status of Vampire Survivors’ release for PlayStation consoles. It was announced in April that the studio wasplanning to bring the game to PS4 and PS5 this summer. Two and a half months later, with the summer having now begun, Poncle offered the following update onX. “As it’s now summer we’ve had a lot of people asking when thePlayStationrelease will be happening,” it said....

The Warzone 2.0 release time is almost upon us, and the Call of Duty battle royale will finally be reborn after over two years of the original game. Warzone 2.0will introduce a whole new map, the city of Al Mazrah in the United Republic of Adal, which features 18 major points of interest. The maps Al Bagra Fortress, Embassy, Zarqwa Hydroelectric, Taraq, Sariff Bay and Sa’id are all subsections of Al Mazrah....

Warner Bros. Games will be broken up as owner AT&T unloads its media business in a sale/merger with Discovery. On Monday, telecommunications giant AT&T said it had agreed a deal to offload WB Games parent WarnerMedia, which will merge with Discovery to form a new standalone company billed as “one of the largest global streaming players”. The transaction, which is anticipated to close in mid-2022, will see AT&T receive $43 billion and its shareholders receive stock representing 71% of the new company....

Wipeout co-creator Nick Burcombe is making a futuristic sports title at a new development studio called Starlight Games. The Liverpool, UK-based studio was founded by Gary Nichols, who began his career at Psygnosis and has for the last 20 years run work for hire studio Atomicom, whose title include 2019Switchrelease House of Golf. Its management team also includes producer Andy Santos, who co-createdEA‘s Skate series, directedResident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and more recently worked atSony’s Firesprite on Horizon: Call of the Mountain....

Xbox has announced plans to release Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition for PlayStation 5. The real-time strategy games will hitSony’s console this year alongside the launch of new expansions for both titles, which are currently available onXboxandPC. PS5 players will be able to play Age of Mythology: Retold when the game’s released on March 4, followed by Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition this spring....

Images reportedly showing Xbox Series X/S consoles received by a Target store in the United States have been published online. Redditorgjamesaustinsaid the pictures below were taken moments after the Target where they work received a shipment of 10Xbox Series Xconsoles and eightXboxSeries S units. They said their branch has yet to inform employees when it will be able to let customers start ordering consoles for in-store pick-up. The store has also received somePlayStation 5DualSense controllers and headsets, they said....

Former Sonic Team head and Sonic the Hedgehog programmer Yuji Naka has been arrested again due to alleged insider trading. This time the arrest relates to potential insider trading relating to confidential knowledge of mobile title Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier. According to a newreport by Asahithe developer, as well as formerSquare Enixemployee Taisuke Sazaki, was arrested for allegedly investing in ATeam Entertainment based on non-public knowledge of Square Enix’s future plans to work with the studio on the Final Fantasy mobile game....

Nightdive Studios is ready and willing to start remastering Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games, its bosses say. Nightdive specialises in taking retro polygonal games that are no longer easily playable on modern hardware, and releasing HD remasters onPCand console – recent releases have included The Thing, the Turok trilogy, System Shock, Forsaken, Doom 64, Quake, Quake 2, Shadow Man, Blade Runner, PO’ed, Rise of the Triad and Star Wars: Dark Forces....

Thursday’s Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase concluded with an extended look at Death Stranding Director’s Cut ahead of its release next month. Announced during Summer Games Fest Kickoff Livein June, thePS5remaster boasts enhanced visuals and several new features not available in thePS4original. These include new combat mechanics designed to make battling enemies more enjoyable. Melee attacks have been upgraded, a new Maser gun can be acquired, and players can also find mounted machine guns....

Activision has announced plans to offer a Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 free multiplayer trial this week. Starting on March 16 at 10am PT / 5pm GMT and running for five days, it will follow this Wednesday’s launch of the game’s Season 2 Reloaded update. The trial will offer access to a limited selection of multiplayer and Special Ops content, including a new map called Himmelmatt Expo. The other core 6v6 maps available will be Farm 18, Mercado Las Almas, Shipment and Dome....

The latest patch for Spider-Man: Miles Morales improves the game’s ray-tracing effects. According to the patch notes onthe Insomniac site, the Version 1.10 update makes the following tweaks: Performance RT mode was added in an update to the game in December and is described as “an alternate version of the 60 frames per second Performance mode, adding ray-tracing by adjusting the scene resolution, reflection quality, and pedestrian density”. Mile Morales’ other PS5 graphics modes prioritise either 60fps or ray-tracing at a lower framerate....