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First gameplay trailer due later this week Here’s the trailer, which is rendered in the Frostbite Engine, but not actually representative in-game footage: FIFA23 was the first in the series to feature women’s club football, which the trailer above suggests will return. There’s also obviously the return of various footballers from previous eras. I wouldn’t bet on much to change with the name, beyond what you can normally expect from a new yearly iteration....

In addition to this year’s Street Fighter crossover Dino shoot ‘em upExoprimalcomes out this week, July 14th, so publisher Capcom have pulled the curtain on the game’s post-launch plans. The roadmap seems standard for a live-service shooter as it details plans for future modes, maps, and exo-suits variants used to murder formerly-extinct animals in increasingly creative ways. Thankfully, the post-launch plans do get slightly weirder with two crossovers:one with Street Fighterand another withMonster Hunter....

For those in the London office “Splash Damage is changing the way we work,” the studioannounced on Twitter. “We’re moving to a four-day work week, on-site in our London office.” Splash Damage currently employs over 400 people, some of which are “hybrid” workers, to whom this change doesn’t apply. Several other game studios have switched to a four-day week in recent years, includingHomeworld 3 developers Blackbird Interactiveand Guardians Of The Galaxy makersEidos Montreal....

Never a good sign As first reported byWorld Of Reel, Mazin has seemingly decided to distance himself from the project. You can see the currently credited writers, including nine in total, on theWriter’s Guild Of America website. Using a psuedonym is a way of removing your name from a film project without giving up the rights, such as residuals, that such a credit may entail. The most famous examples are directors who have chosen to be credited asAlan Smithee....

Switching the Trailblazer’s element and path in HSR How do I unlock different paths and elements for the Trailblazer in Honkai: Star Rail?InHonkai: Star Rail, your main protagonist has the unique ability to switch out their elemental alignment and the path that they follow. However, for quite a long period at the start of the game, your Trailblazer will be locked into a Physical/Destruction path, which might leave you wondering how you get access to the other types....

Good deals, served fast A liveblog? ForAmazon Prime Day’s PC gaming deals? I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t an unfamiliar use of the tech – normally I just use liveblogs to relay game announcements or make fun of Geoff Keighley’s clothes. There is, however, a lick of sense behind it. Sifting through the hundreds, if not thousands of discounted gaming wares is a time-hungry process – just ask Ed and Liam, who I’ve shandhaied into helping this year – and the mainPrime Day PC gaming deals hub, thePrime Day graphics card deals hub, and thePrime Day Steam Deck accessories deals huball tend to get larger but less frequent updates....

It’s like one my Japanese animes, but spookier In the wake of publishers adopting NFTs and predictive language programs so flimsy that even 1998 Kojima would have laughed you out of the room for daring to call them actual AI, you fools, you complete donkeys, Konami’s infamous pivot-to-pachinko seems almost quaint now. Perhaps embarrassed by the relatively small amount of egg on their face compared to some of their more ridiculous contemporaries, Konami have decided to come crawling back to try and buy our collective forgiveness by way of theirsecond-only-to-SqueenixPS1 back catalogue....

“The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED” The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have lost their fight to block Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition in court. The legal proceedings led to juicy behind-the-scenes details aboutrevenue shares,blockbuster budgets, and otherpotential acquisitions. But after listening to five days worth of testimonies, Judge Corley has decided to rule in Microsoft’s favour, allowing the company to close its $70 billion acquisition. The FTC continually brought up the subject of Call Of Duty exclusivity and parity in its arguments, but Judge Corley was unconvinced by their arguments....

The Roccat Vulcan 120 and 121 are still stellar mechanical keyboards Every time there’s anAmazon Prime Day, I go rummaging around looking for deals on the PC gear that I use everyday.For the reccs, of course, not because I’m building a collection of identical headsets. I can’t find any formal Prime-specific savings on my current choice ofgaming keyboard, the Roccat Vulcan II Max, but two different previous versions are going cheap: the Vulcan 120 in the UK, and the Vulcan 121 in the US....

Its lowest price since Black Friday If you’ve put up with a clunky clicker for too long, now’s the time to pull the trigger, or in this case, press down with enough force to add the HyperX Pulsefire Haste to your basket. It’s got a hefty 50% discount forAmazon Prime Day, the biggest discount since last year’sBlack Friday. Can I vouch for it? Yes, I have one! It’s light and accurate and does a very good job of skating across my mat like a perfectly tuned puck....

Take a stand This year’sAmazon Prime Dayis turning into quite to opportunity to kit out aSteam Deck. Besides thatSamsung Pro Plus microSD deal, I’ve also found one of my favourite combo stands/USB hubs, theUgreen Docking Station, on sale. Both UK and US denizens can grab one for 21% and 30% off respectively, saving that make it less than half the price of Valve’s official Steam Deck Docking Station. Despite this, the Ugreen functions more or less identically, with a healthy mix of full-size USB and USB-C ports alongside an HDMI 2....

Another lovely mail ‘em up “Tanuki” and “postman” are the two magic words to get me excited about any video game. Tanukis are cute and mischievous. Posties get to participate in adrenaline-inducing activities like meeting new people. Combine the two and that’s your pitch forProject Tanuki, the codenamed next game from the creator of the greatCursed To Golf. Check out the brief teaser below. Project Tanuki is in development at an all-new Kyoto-based indie studio called Denkiworks....

You get the idea SometimesAmazon Prime Dayis good for snipping off the last few pounds off something before it crosses the “Aww g’wan then” threshold, and sometimes it’s good for cleaving great, meaty chunks of cost off an ordinarily expensive bit of kit. For theseRTX 4080andRTX 4070 Tideals, it’s very much the latter. I’ve gone on record plenty as saying Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards are neat, but often overpriced, the appeal ofDLSS 3not always outweighing the need to drop a grand or more on the damned things....