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If you’re looking forward to NBA 2K23, a new trailer dubbed the “First Look” delivers all the gameplay you could possibly want. We’re only currently a little over a month away from release, and this is probably not the last trailer we will see. There has been plenty of NBA 2K23 coverage leading up to this point, including the special edition that honors Michael Jordan. NBA 2K23 will also be honoring the WNBA and have a cover featuring legends Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird....

UPDATE: The 10-hour trial is now live on EA Access, one day earlier than planned. To download it, head through to the Xbox Store. ORIGINAL STORY: Need For Speed’s EA Access trial will offer 10 hours of unrestricted access to the full game, EA has confirmed. The trial will include access to every mode and feature “no progression locks” when it goes live on the service tomorrow, allowing players to experience every area of the game ahead of release next week....

Netflix’s The Witcher could resume production before the end of the month (via games radar). Bob Terry, managing director at Arborfield Studios, disclosed to Deadline that the studio is currently working on measures to ensure the safety of the cast and crew. Once these have been given the green light within the next two weeks, employees may return to the sets and filming may begin again, and this could happen before the end of June....

Just two weeks ago, Gearbox Software launched two temporary events in Borderlands 3 – one of which makes it more common for players to encounter Rare Spawns and receive Legendary loot, while the other adds scaling to Takedown at Maliwan’s Blacksite. In general, these offerings have been received relatively well by the community, and Gearbox has now announced that yet another temporary event is coming to BL3 imminently. This new Borderlands 3 event, dubbed the Rare Chest Riches Event, is set to launch today, January 30, by 3pm PST, and it is all about improving the game’s Rare Chests....

Reportedly unhappy with its performance in the mobile gaming market, Nintendo is said to be moving away from that space to focus on game development for the Switch. The report comes from Bloomberg, which says that Nintendo hasn’t seen a return on investment from the mobile games released thus far. In a year when the mobile gaming market is projected to make up to $77.2 billion — half of the total of the gaming industry’s sales, Nintendo hasn’t announced any plans to release anything new onto mobile devices....

The Nintendo Switch will launch in the UK priced from £199.9, two sources familiar with GAME pricing information have revealed to Let’s Play Video Games. The £199.99 SKU will be the base model Switch, though it’s not clear exactly what you get in the box. In addition, a £249.99 SKU is to be offered, bumping up the Switch’s internal storage and throwing a game into the package. The sources also revealed that GAME is to sell the Switch Pro Controllers for £39....

The beloved, long-running Nickelodeon show PAW Patrol has not been shut down as part of a wave of recent cancellations of TV series featuring police officers. White House press mouthpiece and professional prevaricator Kayleigh McEnany — who never met a lie she didn’t want to escape her lips — claimed that PAW Patrol was canceled along with shows like Cops and Live PD in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the months of protests that followed....

Hello Games shows no sign of slowing down updates to space exploration game No Man’s Sky, dropping the new Outlaws update just two months after the last one. This new update once again brings a whole suite of new additions for players, this time centred around those who skirt around the law. The big marquee feature is that of Outlaw Systems, with planets & stations away from the prying eyes of the Sentinels....

It seems that the recent ransomware attack targeted at Nvidia has led to the company’s DLSS source code being leaked, with this latest information on the incident coming via TechPowerUp. As initially reported by Bloomberg, the attack that took place last week was thought to be a minor incident. So much so, that the publication’s inside source said that “Our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted.” However, the leak now seems to be far more serious than initially believed....

Many knew that stock for the RTX 30 Series graphics cards from Nvidia was going to be pretty limited ahead of its fall launch. What people didn’t anticipate, however, was just how limited stock would be nearly two months after the launch of the RTX 3080. A simple visit to websites for stores like Best Buy and Newegg will show “Sold Out” notices on any search for the RTX 3080, RTX 3090, and even the recently launched RTX 3070....

Microsoft has announced the line-up of free games heading to Xbox Games with Gold next month. From October 1, Xbox Live Gold members will be able to download WWI platformer Valiant Hearts on Xbox One and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on Xbox 360. Then from October 16, The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season will be available as a free download on both Xbox One and Xbox 360....

Boss characters in fighting games tend to cause untold degrees of frustration for players due to their often unfair advantages and AI. SNK’s fighting game bosses have gained a particular level of infamy in this regard, but few have become quite as iconic as The King of Fighters’ Rugal. Introduced in the very first King of Fighters installment, the charismatic yet merciless Rugal has decimated players over the course of several games, and SNK even created a few variants of him that crank up the absurdity even further....

Overwatch 2 is a first-person 5v5 showdown of Heroes with an iconic roster of 35 unlockable characters. This game has brought significant new changes and additions to its predecessors. OW2 offers its players a plethora of game modes that is more than enough to keep you entertained for hours. In most online games, players are given Ranks based on their individual performances. The same tradition has been followed by Blizzard as Overwatch 2 has 7 Ranks to distribute that are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, and Grandmaster....

The release of Overmatch 2, marks an end to all the working servers of its predecessor. There’s a wide range of heroes that you can play and unlock as you progress. While players that have logged in to their OW 1 account unlock all the characters right away, newbies need to complete different challenges to unlock them. However, players are facing an issue when they head to the Hero challenges section....

The Wii U has not been a successful console, and legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto has said that Nintendo is already focusing on making the next console, codenamed NX, a “very big hit”. In an interview with NPR, Miyamoto shared his thoughts on why the Wii U didn’t prove a hit, claiming that the rapid evolution of tablet devices nullified the uniqueness of the platform. “I think unfortunately what ended up happening was that tablets themselves appeared in the marketplace and evolved very, very rapidly, and unfortunately the Wii system launched at a time where the uniqueness of those features were perhaps not as strong as they were when we had first begun developing them....

Despite releasing year after year the Call of Duty franchise still manages to come in as the best-selling game annually almost every year. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare looks to be taking the series back to the roots that made the franchise so popular. They’re not only taking multiplayer mechanics down a familiar path, but they’re remixing the original story and telling a new version in a high-quality single-player campaign....

High-ranking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players are finding it impossible to use the game’s multiplayer modes in the wake of a recent update. Infinity Ward is trying its best to address all of the concerns which have arisen since the title’s launch last month and they’ve done a pretty decent job so far. Even so, it’s been a bit of a task getting everything right. There are still plenty of chinks to be ironed out, with balancing on the 725 shotgun still needed after the range was decreased....

Capcom has released free DLC for Monster Hunter Rise, in order to celebrate the success of the Sunbreak expansion. The game released on June 30th, and it sold two million copies within a week. That’s quite bonkers, and fair enough. Now, though, Capcom has said that sales have surpassed three million. More bonkers still. The new free DLC is called the Eldgado Pack 3 (via VGC). And it is available at the Courier in-game, in the add-on content menu....

We covered Monster Hunter Rise‘s demo back when it went live and, honestly, I was more than pleased by the game’s performance. On a mid-range setup, I got over 100 fps with ease at max settings. Now we know why. Monster Hunter Rise‘s PC requirements have been revealed, making it even more clear just how easy it’ll be to run the game even for people without monstrous rigs. At the very least, it’s a less demanding game than Monster Hunter World by a fairly wide margin, but that game does have more complex visuals....

Thanks to the efforts of the Halo community, more than 6.6 million custom-made maps are heading to Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The maps were by Halo players, who used the Forge custom map creator tool. All of them hail from legacy Halo games, including Halo 3, Halo 4, and Halo: Reach. The announcement came earlier today via Twitter. According to the Halo account, “over 6.6 million user-generated maps in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4 have been successfully copied for future access in MCC....