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Diablo 4 and its expansion Vessel of Hatred will be PS5 Pro Enhanced, according to Rod Fergusson. Fergusson, who serves as the senior vice president and general manager of the Diablo franchise atActivision Blizzard, replied to a fan on X who asked if the game, and its newly released expansion, would supportSony‘s new premium console. “I’ve been getting this question quite a bit recently,” wrote Fergusson. “I’m happy to say that Diablo IV and Vessel of Hatred will indeed bePS5ProEnhanced....

Apost on the official Xbox blogin France seems to suggest that Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision will be exclusive to Xbox platforms until 2023. The blog post on the FrenchXboxWire site stated (via translation): “Xbox Series X|S have been Dolby Atmos compatible since their release and Dolby Vision will arrive on these consoles sometime in 2021, with both technologies remaining exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem for two years.” The post has since been removed, but not before it was spotted and screenshotted by business analystRoberto Serranoon Twitter....

Techland will introduce Dying Light 2’s New Game Plus mode on April 27. It will be added to the game as part of update 1.3.0, which will also introduce a new FOV slider feature forPS5andXboxSeries X consoles, plus a range of fixes for co-op bugs, including some forplayers getting stuck in infinite death loops. Techlandproducer Julia Szynkaruk shared further details about Wednesday’s update in the followingDying Light 2video: New Game Plus will let players who have completed the base game replay it while keeping the progression from their initial playthrough, although Nightrunner tools like the paraglider and grappling hook will need to unlocked again via the main story....

Nintendo’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake has been rated by the USA’s ESRB. The game, which currently only has a ‘2024’ release window,has been given an E for Everyone ratingby the software board, suggesting it could release sometime in the near future. The Thousand-Year Door remake waspreviously rated in Brazil and Korea late last year, so the ESRB rating adds further credence to the idea it could be released earlier in 2024 than expected....

A Konami developer has acknowledged the “excitement and enthusiasm of the fans online” for the Castlevania franchise, amidst reports of a reboot. In a new interview withIGN,Konamiassistant producer Tsutomu Taniguchi said that the buzz was “really motivating for Konami.” The interview was conducted to mark the release ofDead Cells: Return to Castlevania, a crossover expansion that combines the two franchises. “We tried to bring back the games that people loved and cherished with the Castlevania Anniversary Collection and the Castlevania Advance Collection,” Taniguchi said....

Update1st Mar 2025 / 12:25 pm Nintendo has now confirmed it’salso removing Super Soccer from Switch Online’s retro library in the US and Europe. The Japanese eShop confirmed this week that Super Formation Soccer (known in the West as Super Soccer) will be removed from the Super Famicom (SNES) library on March 28. Now,Nintendohas added a similar message to the US and European Nintendo eShops, confirming that the title will also be removed in these regions on March 28....

Former Battlefield creative director Lars Gustavsson has announced the formation of a new game development studio, TTK Games (Time To Kill Games). Co-founded by fourEA DICEveterans, the Stockholm, Sweden-based studio says it has “secured significant funding coupled with creative freedom” and is currently working on a next-gen online shooter. TTK Games CEO and creative director Gustavsson worked at DICE for 22 years, where he was known as ‘Mr Battlefield’, having helped shape the franchise from its beginning until hedeparted last year amid a major studio shake-up....

A promotional image for the first Forza Horizon 5 expansion was briefly shown on the game’s Steam page. As spotted by Reddit userAutumnal_Leaves, the image reveals that the first expansion pack will be based on Hot Wheels. For a brief period, the store page for theForza Horizon 5Premium Add-Ons Bundle included a header image that said “includes expansion 1”, accompanied by artwork showing a Hot Wheels car going over a loop....

Game Boy games on Nintendo Switch Online could connect to N64 when the service launches, it’s been claimed. Emily Rogers, who has a strong track record of accurateNintendoreporting, posted toFamiboardsto claim that Nintendo has experimented with the possibility of emulating connectivity between theN64and rumoured Game Boy games onNintendo SwitchOnline. “Nintendo tested multiple N64 games for Game Boy connectivity,” she wrote. “Back in September 2021, I talked aboutPokémonStadium being one of those potential games....

God of War Ragnarök has been rated in South Korea, where it’s been given an ’18’ certificate. As spotted by Twitter userThe_Marmolade, the country’s Game Rating and Administration Committee has given the game its highest possible rating, which it defines as “youths not allowed”. A South Korean rating doesn’t necessarily mean the game’s release is imminent, but it does give some hope that despite still not having a release date, it may still be on track for its promised 2022 release window....

A working build of GoldenEye 007’s cancelled Xbox 360 remaster has leaked online and it’s fully playable on PC via unofficial emulators. The 2008 project was originally planned to release digitally onXbox 360’sXboxLive Arcade platform, but it was ultimately cancelled due to rights issues, despite the game being virtually complete. Now VGC has verified that a near-final ROM of the remaster is being actively circulated on file sharing sites. The ROM includes the full remastered single-player campaign and multiplayer....

The person who claims to be behind Sunday’s GTA 6leakhas claimed they’re looking to “negotiate a deal” with Rockstar following the incident. In an update to their original post on the GTA Forums, user Teapotuberhacker wrote the following message as an edit to their first post. “Ok, so this has gone unexpectedly viral, woke up to 3000 Telegram DM’s. If you are an employee of Rockstar or Take 2 and you’re trying to contact me, send me a message containing 22559219889638875756 on Telegram or you can email me at teapotuberhacker@protonmail....

Halo Infinite is set to get a third-person mode next month. The news was announced during the 2024HaloWorld Championship in Seattle, during a discussion on the game’s development. It was revealed that the game will be receiving an update in November which adds the ability to play the game from an over-the-shoulder viewpoint, for the first time in the Halo series. Third-person controls will be “supported at a mode level”, senior community manager John ‘Unyshek’ Junyszek said....