A Steam app for Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset is due for release on 6th August.
The free, official app will allow Steam users to play games on the virtual reality headset, as well as use the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers.
Use of the app will also require the PC adapter, which was unveiled in June and will release on 7th August.
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An open console beta is now available for Riot Games’ hero shooter, Valorant.
The free-to-play 5v5 shooter was initially released for PC in 2020, but support for current-gen console systems finally rolled out last month through closed playtests.
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Warframe developer Digital Extremes has given us another peek at its upcoming free-to-play fantasy action-MMORPG, Soulframe.
Back in July 2022, Digital Extremes unveiled its first new property since Warframe’s release back in 2013. Besides a 30-minute gameplay teaser this time last year, though, we’ve seen very little else, but today DE has given us a closer look during the TennoCon 2024 fan convention this weekend.
You can check it out towards the beginning of today’s mammoth livestream:
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Images showing Jack Black as Minecraft character Steve have leaked online, giving the internet an early look at how the upcoming Warner Bros-backed Minecraft movie plans to stylise Mojang’s blocky world.
The designs, which reportedly first surfaced via notorious webforum 4chan, are now being pulled from social media platform X by copyright claims, Eurogamer has noticed. The takedowns all but confirm the images’ legitimacy.
Photos show a bearded Jack Black wearing Steve’s trademark blue shirt and jeans, holding a blocky pickaxe. Other images show a mossy-looking Creeper, cuboid bee and a rather cross-eyed pink sheep.
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Robot Entertainment has announced Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, the next in the popular orc-slaying series.
Deathtrap brings four-player co-op, as well as a rogue-lite progression system and new heroes with unique abilities. Players will need to beat waves of enemies while coping with randomised buffs and debuffs, choosing from six War Mages.
It’s set for release in early 2025 across PC (Steam, Epic) and Xbox Series X/S.
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Genshin Impact has once again been accused of cultural appropriation from fans and voice actors in response to the reveal of its new cast of Natlan characters.
Every region in Genshin Impact draws heavy inspiration from real world countries and cultures, basing each region’s general design, mythology, and music on these various real-world areas. Inazuma is representative of Japan, Fontaine of France, Mondstadt of Germany and the Netherlands, and so on.
Based on its character and region names, established mythology, and glimpses of what the area looks like in trailers, the upcoming Natlan region looks set to take great inspiration from countries and cultures in both Africa and the Ring of Fire area surrounding the Pacific Ocean, which includes Latin America and Aboriginal Australian cultures. But fans say that this isn’t reflected in Natlan’s character designs, and now the game’s voice actors have joined in the criticism via social media.
“I really hope that a video game company listens to its fanbase when valid criticism is made multiple years in a row about the execution of its research and inclusion of elements/aspects of other cultures,” said Anne Yatco…
An unofficial Elden Ring lore book is on the way courtesy of a YouTuber expert.
Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring will be a 500+ page book from Geoff “SmoughTown” Truscott, and will include beautiful artwork from fans of the game.
While not an official product – the description notes it’s not endorsed by FromSoftware or Bandai Namco – it’s certainly a lavishly created book. But, at £215.00, you’d expect it to be.
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Twitch streamer MissMikkaa has completed Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree with a dance mat controller.
Fans of the streamer won’t be surprised by this news, after Mikkaa previously not only completed the base game on a customised dance mat, but played two games simultaneously on dance mat and controller.
Of course, the release of Shadow of the Erdtree means she’s back at it. And, after a week of dancing, she’s completed the DLC. There’s a video of the feat below so spoiler warning.
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Nintendo’s Switch 2 won’t be hit by the same component shortages that blighted the launch of other recent consoles and led to months of product scarcity and scalping.
Speaking to investors this week, Nintendo said it had now “resolved” the issue which had seen it unable to manufacture enough Switch 1 hardware to meet demand in previous years. Both Sony, with PlayStation, and Microsoft, with Xbox, faced similar shortages for their own parts.
“That situation has now been resolved,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said of Switch 1 stock. “As for the
successor to Nintendo Switch, at present we do not think shortages of components will significantly affect production.”
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Mubi, an art house streamer and distributor, has acquired the US cinema rights and the global streaming rights for a documentary made entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online, which has a Shakespearean twist.
This documentary is Grand Theft Hamlet, and tells the story of two unemployed actors who went about staging a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy within GTA Online. It was directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Hamlet says to Horatio in the play, and while he probably wasn’t chatting about video games, I feel this quote still fits here.
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