Even more controversial is the fact that extracting the weapon only unlocks it for the player who picked it up instead of the entire squad. This means your squad will have to make repeated trips back to unlock it for everyone. Fortunately, it appears you won’t have to after all. As you only need to extract with the gun at the end of a round, a squad mate can drop the weapon earned in a previous match for you to pick up....

THERE MAY BE SPOILERS AHEAD. ALSO, NSFW! Last week, modders discovered male V is able to romance Judy in the PC version of the game via a simple code change inserted via the console command. Doing so means the Judy romance scene occurs with the male V body type with male voice over. Unmodified, Judy can only be romanced as a female body type and female voice type V. Later scenes with Judy that are only possible after the romance scene is completed also include full male V voice work, which replicates the lines exactly as they’re spoken by female V....

The concept of districts can be best described as ‘cities unstacked’; where in previous Civilization games all buildings and world wonders were built within a city, which occupied a single hex tile on the map, districts instead offer the visual representation of cities growing in size and sprawling across your territory to occupy multiple tiles. Just as Civilization V unstacked units for clarity and fairness, Civilization 6 unstacks cities for flexibility and empowerment....

On the map front, players will be given the opportunity to sprawl their way across new Mediterranean and Huge True Start maps, and those will be accompanied by three new units for use by all civilisations: the Line Infantry, Man-At-Arms, and the Trebuchet. Firaxis says it’s re-examined and adjusted unit strength “across the board” in order to make its latest units feel like “appropriately weighty upgrades”, and AI has also been tweaked to ensure civilisations make better use of naval units....

DOTA 2, Rocket League and eFootball will all be featured at the event, which is being held in Birmingham this August. Each of these three titles will include an open category and women category. “Alongside the Global Esports Federation, we are delighted to unveil three major titles for the Commonwealth Esports Championships in Birmingham this summer,” said Katie Sadleir, CEO of the Commonwealth Games Federation. “There is no doubt this innovative and exciting event will create new learnings and opportunities for us to further explore esports....

Just over 2m consoles have been sold across Europe this year (excluding major markets of the UK and Germany), which represents a 21 percent drop year-on-year, reports GamesIndustry.biz. In particular, PS5 sales have dropped almost 44 percent for the first half of this year, although it remains the second most popular console across the region. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Newscast: Why are video game companies still trying to flog NFTs?...

Ahti’s not a hard task master, however, and once you complete these missions, he’ll let you take a break. What a Mess: Take a Break involves doing just that and will reward you with the Janitor’s Assistant Uniform. This is one of the outfits Jesse can wear in Control. Like the previous What a Mess missions, you’ll also be rewarded with Ability Points, Material and new Mods - both Personal and Weapon....

Logitech G502 Hero for £24.99 from Currys (with code FNDDGAMING, was £39.99) The G502 Hero has been a particular favourite mouse of mine for a long time, and a lot of that is down to its particularly sleek and comfortable shell. It’s an excellent mouse for palm grippers like myself, but should also be comfortable for others too, especially with that contoured shape that makes it an amazing choice for particularly long and intense sessions....

This update, which brings Cyberpunk 2077 up to version 1.1, focuses on stability improvements as opposed to quality-of-life, balance or AI reworks. It’s under 10GB on PC, and just under 17GB on console. The patch improves the game’s memory usage within its various systems (characters, interactions, navigation, in-game videos, foliage, laser effects, minimap, devices, AI, street traffic, environmental damage system, GPU-related, and more), and makes various crash fixes related to loading saves, game opening and closing and the Point of No Return, among other aspects....

This free update, which will be available on 21st July, will also bring a new stadium called Desert Ruin and additional Knight gear to tackle the game’s frantic football frays (say that three times quickly after a few drinks!). You can check out the new trailer, including a closer look at Daisy and Shy Guy’s various stats, celebrations and techniques, below. Tom was left underwhelmed by Battle League on its release, calling it a “stripped back entry” in Nintendo’s sports series....

Sébastien Bénard’s Nuclear Blaze is expected to release on consoles on 28th April, 2023 and will set you back €15/$15 (sorry, I don’t have UK specific pricing at the time of writing) for a digital copy, and €30/$30 if you fancy a physical copy on either Switch or PS4. You’ll have to jump over to Red Art Games to pre-order a physical copy, although by doing so, you’ll secure a set of three “Exclusive Nuclear Balze enamel pins”....

This will be EA Motive’s third developer livestream since the Dead Space remake’s official unveiling last July, with the developer’s first showing having focused on enhancements being made to the original’s moody environments, zero-g traversal, and dismemberment and damage systems. Its second showcase, meanwhile, was all about audio. EA’s calling this third livestream Crafting the Tension, and promises a “deep dive into various aspects of the upcoming game’s art design”....

It will ask you a variety of question - covering topics from the history of Black Reef to facts about the AEON program and its creation - and, to ensure you succeed, it’s a good idea to know the Yerhva’s answers. First, however, you need to know the location of the Yerhva in Deathloop or you won’t be able to complete the quiz. On this page: With these completed, you can visit the Yerhva in Karl’s Bay at any point during the loop....

Seeing a debut during Season of the Lost, and working in a similar way to Atlas Skews, they are part of a seasonal activity. This page explains where to find Ascendant Mysteries in the Shattered Realm to complete both seasonal challenges and secret triumphs for your collection. Explainers: Shattered Realms: Forest of Echoes locations: Shattered Realms: Debris of Dreams locations: Shattered Realms: Ruins of Wrath locations: Now we’re repeating the same steps as before....

Initially released one-by-one with each weekly reset, the full collection of penguins are now available to find in any order. Unlike Dead Exos or Entropic Shards, these are not associated with any quests at the time of writing. That said, collecting all nine penguin locations unlocks the Reuniting the Eventide Rookery challenge, and is one of the requirements for the Splintered Seal. On this page: As mentioned above, though penguins were time gated to release gradually week-by-week, they can be collected in any order....

In the game’s weekly update, at present the Recoil stat on several weapon types is reduced by 40 per cent when using mouse and keyboard compared to a controller, leading to players “able to largely ignore the stability weapon stat”, Bungie has said. This has created “unintended discrepancies in weapon performance between controllers and mouse and keyboard”, and so the difference in recoil will be halved - to around a 20 per cent reduction - across several weapon types, including auto, scout and pulse rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and hand cannons....

US District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has ruled against AimJunkies’ eyebrow-raising bid to countersue Bungie for allegedly accessing its computers - a retaliatory move which the cheating firm claimed amounted to the Destiny maker hacking it. Now, a new ruling (first reported by Torrentfreak), has dismissed AimJunkies’ defence and left Bungie looking likely to win its original complaint, which alleged that AimJunkie’s cheating software infringed on Destiny’s copyright and trademarks....

It’s part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. There’s no word on what to expect from the show, although I suspect it will follow the same unhinged theme of previous Devolver Digital E3 shows. Yesterday, upon speaking with Eurogamer reporter Matt Wales, I learned there is a “Devolver-verse”, with some sort of story and recurring characters and stuff. Last year’s show, which you can watch in the video below, even started with a recap....

Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan formally announced Discord integration for PlayStation Network last May, saying the companies were aiming to bring “the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year”. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear how far that integration might actually go, but now, in a new post on the Discord website, all has been revealed. From today, PlayStation owners in the US will have the option to link to their PSN account from within Discord - via the ‘User Settings > Connections’ menu on desktop, mobile, or the web - which will then display whichever PlayStation 4 or PS5 game they happen to be playing in their profile for other Discord users to see....

Once you place Stitch’s house and he’s officially a part of your valley, you’ll then have to fulfil a number of hidden requirements to progress with his storyline. To help you with Stitch’s antics, we’ve got a walkthrough for Stitch’s quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley below, including what the hidden requirement is for Stitch’s Level 10 quest. On this page: For more help in the holiday update, we’ve got pages on boba tea, fruitcake, yule log, and festive fish....