Fox-eared hero Kiriko confirmed by a leaked cinematic Overwatch 2won’t be locking new heroes behind a paid battle pass, it’s emerged. Blizzard VP Jon Spectorconfirmedthat heroes will be available through a free track for the battle pass. Spector’s comments were an attempt to put an end to speculation over what he described as “incomplete info” circulating online about Overwatch 2’s battle pass. Blizzard revealed that Overwatch 2 was going free-to-play at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase in June....

Where to find every Lavoisier Catalyst and Lavoisier Sublimator for upgrading your Oil Burette Want to upgrade your Oil Burette in Steelrising?The Burette is Aegis’s primary form of healing inSteelrising, developer Spiders' new clockwork SoulslikeRPG. As such, it’s a very important part of your toolkit, and well worth upgrading as soon as possible. Upgrading your Oil Burette involves finding two rare collectible materials called Lavoisier Catalysts and Lavoisier Sublimators, which are strewn about the various regions in Steelrising....

Real-life legendary nerd Wil Wheaton reprises his role Long-running sci-fi MMOStar Trek: Online’s Ascension update transports us to the Mirror Universe once again on September 13th, and it’s a doozy. Devs Cryptic Studios have only gone and revealed The Next Generation’s wunderkind Wesley “Shut up” Crusher as the storyline’s big bad. Cower from the arrival of Mirror Wesley while watching the trailer below. There’ll be new missions involving Captain Killy, the evil twin of Star Trek:Discovery’s Cadet Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and Admiral Leeta (Chase Masterson) too....

Hack the planet For my money, if you want a story about a society set inside a computer, look to ReBoot. But I suppose Tron might satisfy, too. A new visual novel set in the neon universe called Tron: Identity was announced during this evening’s Disney & Marvel games showcase, and it’s being developed by Bithell Games. There’s a very brief teaser trailer below. That trailer doesn’t really show anything, but there’s more to readon the Steam page....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle September 9 hints Strugglingto get the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you out: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… THEME. Between my literary academic background in and my lifelong committment to geeky analysis, I think about themes an awful lot....

A textbook bit of sequelcraft Alas, when I pick up their journey in chapter six of Asobo’s upcoming sequel,A Plague Tale: Requiem, Amicia is having a particularly terrible time of it. Not only is she suffering from an open head wound, leaving her unsteady on her feet, but rumours are flying in the nearby pilgrim camp about something bad having gone down in the last city they passed through. Exactly what is hard to say with five chapters' worth of context missing from my preview build, but the pack of guards who are hot on the siblings' trail quickly make it plain: several men died back in that city, and they’re pointing the finger squarely at Amicia’s knife, slingshot and crossbow....

DLSS rival promises better image quality and less ghosting FSR 2.0– AMD’s graphics card-powered upscaling tech for boosting games performance – already has a newer, prettier version. AMD have announced FSR 2.1, which is available to developers immediately, and has made its playable debut via aFarming Simulator 22update – just a couple of days after FSR 2.0got its latest big-name backing from Red Dead Redemption 2. According to AMD’sGPUOpensite, FSR 2....

Speedrunning again from January 8th to 15th Games Done Quick confirmed the change onTwitter, where they also explained a little more about their decision to go digital again. They said that, although they’d prefer a return to an in-person experience, they felt it was safer and more welcoming not to hold the event in Florida as planned. Florida’s state government recently threatened tofine the Special Olympics$27.5 million if that event didn’t drop its vaccine mandate, for example....

EA say they are “all-in” on the shooter series In an announcement today, general manager of the Battlefield series Byron Beede announced that Ridgeline Games, the new EA studio led by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, is developing the next singleplayer campaign in the series. Beede also wrote that they are “all-in on Battlefield”, with DICE continuing to work on Battlefield multiplayer and a third studio, Ripple Effect, “creating an entirely new Battlefield experience....

Vodeo Games had the first officially recognised game studio union in North America Vodeo Games, the first game development studio in North America to unionise, are shutting down. The team behind turn-based RPGBeast Breakerannounced their closure onTwitter, after being unable to find financial backers for another project. Beast Breaker wasn’t a game I was familiar with but its little mouse protagonist looks charming, as you can see in the trailer below....

Bodyguard, Soldier, Dancer, or Alchemist? Which starting class should you pick in Steelrising?The new soulslike actionRPGfromGreedFalldevelopers Spiders,Steelrisingquickly sets the stage of a late 1700s Paris overtaken by King Louis XVI’s army of cold metallic automatons, and introduces you to - well, yourself. In the form of a shiny new automat named Aegis, who unlike the other automata in the city obeys Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France, rather than the King....

Learn where to find the best weapons in Steelrising Where should you go to find the best weapons in Steelrising?In a manner very reminiscent of beloved SoulslikeBloodborne, Spiders' new actionRPGSteelrising gives its players an exciting medley of different weapons to play with, each with their own unique and delightful combos and special skills. The game isn’t stingy with the weapons, either - after only a couple hours of play you’ll already be swimming in different weapons to try out....

Help Lila the mouse and Lumion the spirit illuminate the quaint town of Sainte-et-Claire Indie team Alblune, which consists of developers Lucie Lessuyer and Alexandre Stroukoff, have a release date for their cute new gameThe Spirit And The Mouse, a narrative-focussed adventure game with some platforming thrown in. In order to save the cosy town of Sainte-et-Claire, a charming mouse called Lila and a soft spirit called Lumion join forces to restore the town and its people....