Hundreds of staff at Bethesda parent company ZeniMax will go on strike today in protest at parent company Microsoft outsourcing work without bargaining with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.

Following the passing of Sylens' original actor Lance Reddick last year,Lego Horizon Adventureshas recast the role.

The PlayStation-publishedLego Horizon Adventuresdoesn't includePS5 Prosupport at launch.If you pop over to thePlayStation store, the game doesn't have the PS5 Pro Enhanced label attached to it, which other games do. Rather, the soon-to-be-released brick-based romp will instead offer players two different graphics modes on its debut: Performance and Fidelity.

When meeting someone for the first time, you don’t tend to start by eviscerating their personalities and pointing out all of their deepest flaws, but Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake doesn't shy away from insulting you and getting straight to the point. This is an old-school JRPG where how you approach your stats matters and it won't hold your hand to guide you through it. There are dragons. There are quests. And there are a whole lot of deaths.

UPDATE 13/11/2024:Since Steam published details on the PC requirements forStalker 2: Heart of Chornobylearlier in the month, developerGSC Game Worldhas shared an updated and "final" set of specs.

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Xbox bossPhil Spencerhas said there's nothing stopping any of the company's games coming to Nintendo or PlayStation platforms in the future.

Treyarch has shared more details onCall of Duty: Black Ops 6Season 1, including a look at its battle pass' rather unexpected new skins. These include a 'Raccoon Goon' skin for Niran, some kind of parasitic nightmare for Carver (see header image above) and a shark suit also for Carver, because why not.

Imagine you're standing in a hallway in a game - what does the scene need in order to make it scary? Should we turn the lights off? Should we have a door where you can't see what's behind it, but you canhearsomething behind it? Should there be a threat somewhere, lurking nearby? Is music important? And at what point is it okay to spring a noisy surprise on the player? In other words, what are the rules of fear?

When you think of Lego games, chances are your brain will go straight to one of the licensed Traveller's Tales games from the last 20 years or so. Whether it's Star Wars, Batman or Indiana Jones, there's no denying their joyful cycles of wild and wilful destruction, clackety building and reams upon reams of daft jokes over the years have come to define what we expect and want from any new licensed Lego adaptation. And I think it's important to state up front thatLego Horizon Adventures, which retells the story of Sony'sHorizon Zero Dawnfor a fresh and younger kind of audience, is not that kind of Lego game.