Gears of War 4 has had crossplay support in its social playlists for a while, letting Windows 10 players play with Xbox One players. One of the problems with restricting crossplay to social is there aren’t many PC core and competitive players looking for matches. Whatever the case, developer Coalition has put together an upcoming update designed to make getting ranked matches on PC more likely, and it involves pitting core and competitive PC players against Xbox One players. Crossplay in ranked

Bethesda will release a demo of Prey that lets you play the first hour of the game. The demo comes out on Thursday 27th April on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (there’s no mention of PC) – a week before the game launches proper on 5th May. If you’re wondering about the first hour of Prey, Aoife and Johnny gave it a shot and made the video, below. Prey, made by Arkane’s Austin, Texas studio, is a new game that uses the Prey name but has nothing to do with the Prey 2 that was in the works at Human Hea

Microsoft will soon allow self-service refunds for digital purchases on Xbox and Windows 10. In other words, you won’t have to draft an email or communicate with another human being in order to request a refund. Here’s the full terms of the refund process, as transcribed by Redditor Chickern:To request a self-service refund:Navigate to account.microsoft.com and sign-in. Navigate to a purchased game or app, and select Request a refund. Please note the below conditions for requesting a self-servic

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has received its second post-launch patch with version 1.1.2. Like the previous patch, Nintendo’s notes are cryptic, merely stating that “Adjustments have been made to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.” Another commonly cited fix is that using the Wolf Link amiibo no longer automatically gives the character 20 hearts. The intended design was for Wolf Link to have however many hearts you had upon completing the Cave of Shadows in Twilight Princess

Nintendo now offers a bounty of up to $20k (£16k) for details of Switch security vulnerabilities. Specifically, Nintendo wants information on potential techniques that might enable piracy, cheating, or the dissemination of inappropriate content to children. The programme is operated through third-party website HackerOne, and is an extension of Nintendo’s existing policy of offering a bounty for information on similar security flaws for 3DS. Only the first person to tell Nintendo about a security

Microsoft at one point planned to launch a beefed up Xbox console in 2016, but ended up scrapping the project. Development resources were later folded into Project Scorpio, Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Gamasutra. The canned console project sounds like it would have increased the power of the standard Xbox One – something last year’s Xbox One S did not do in any meaningful way. “We designed a console for 2016, and a console for 2017. For Scorpio, Spencer wanted a key concept: 1080p30fps Xbox One g

There are bug fixes, and then there are bug fixes that seemingly reference real life. Here’s how they did it: pic.twitter.com/QfefM8X2cW — Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017Back to Elite Dangerous, and the wonderfully-timed patch note letting players know the development team has fixed “some instances of passengers refusing to leave their cabins”. Frontier tells me the patch note is not a United Airlines zing, which saddens me a bit, but a coincidence. This was an actual bug in the ga

The final design of Xbox One Scorpio has yet to be unveiled, but we’ve now got our first look at the console’s dev kit. For Xbox One and Xbox One S, each console’s dev kit was near-identical to the retail edition. Unusually, the Xbox One Scorpio dev kit is significantly more powerful than Scorpio’s already beefy technical specs. And while the official Xbox One Scorpio dev kit is a separate machine, retail Scorpio consoles are still convertible into dev kits – just as with the standard Xbox One.

A little earlier than planned, EA’s first teaser for Star Wars Battlefront 2 has popped up online. We get our first glimpse at the game’s expanded scope, which stretches across all three trilogies of Star Wars film canon. Other flashes tease the game’s single-player campaign, which tells “the untold soldier’s story”. It seems like the trailer is teasing some of those, too:This Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer was supposed to debut later this week at the Star Wars Celebration event in Orlando. We’

As a result, the speedrunning community will stop at nothing to find a way to glitch through a barrier, especially one that if overcome would allow you to skip half of a game. That’s been the situation with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker ever since its 2002 release on the Gamecube. With these details laid bare, others were able to deduce the requirements to pull off this most obscure of tricks. The barrier skip is so useful that even though Gymnast86 was going for an “all dungeons” run, the

The Dark Souls devoted are a strange and masochistic bunch with all sorts of passionate players creating bizarre challenges for themselves. But Twitch user TheSuperScrubs (YouTube handle ATwerkingYoshi) has unveiled the most bananas Dark Souls challenge yet by conquering From Software’s latest adventure using a controller that is quite literally comprised of bananas. Instead, he stands his ground, which is especially courageous given all the banana peels that must be on the floor. In addition to

To cut a long story short, Scorpio supports AMD’s FreeSync – and the upcoming variable refresh rate support baked into the next-gen HDMI 2.1 spec. The technology was pioneered by Nvidia’s G-Sync, but it’s the open standard variants – FreeSync and the upcoming HDMI 2.1 implementation – that Scorpio aims to support. To see the benefit, you’ll need to have a PC monitor – a 4K one preferably, though 1080p screens will work – and it needs to support FreeSync over HDMI. And on top of that, it works ac

Two years after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, Yooka-Laylee from Playtonic Games is ready for action. At the most basic level, Yooka-Laylee is built upon the Unity Engine – a technology that has had several controversies surrounding its performance level on console. The PC version was created in-house by Playtonic itself but Team 17 assisted the team in bringing Yooka-Laylee to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Perhaps not surprisingly, the PC version is the best way to experience the game,

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Super Stardust and Resogun developer Housemarque is hosting a closed beta for its upcoming twin-stick shooter Nex Machina. Running from 21st April through 1st May, this PC beta will be available to “a few hundred participants” chosen at random. Nex Machina is being developed with arcade legend Eugene Jarvis, the mastermind behind Robotron: 2084, Defender, and Smash TV. I played a round of it at GDC last month and have been craving a return trip ever since. Nex Machina is due to launch this summe

Back in 2014 our Chris Donlan raved about a strange first-person puzzle game called Bokida. At the time it was merely a student game prototype, but developer Rice Cooker Republic polled its audience to see if they’d be interested in buying a full game that expanded upon its premise. As it turns out, they were, and now that game is coming with the newly subtitled Bokida – Heartfelt Reunion receiving a Steam release on 17th May. The peculiar puzzler places players in a surreal ivory landscape loom

If you’re after help for parts of the game, consult our Zelda: Breath of the Wild walkthrough and guide . In Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rupees are one of the more useful commodities in the game, opening doors to some of the more valuable items and activities in the game. How to get Rupees in Zelda: Breath of the WildFirst, a couple of notes – unlike other Zelda games, there’s no need to get wallet upgrades to store thousands of Rupees. Clear out these and you’ll likely find some Rupees lying arou

This guide gives you a tour of all the key aspects of the King’s Fall raid. Destiny: King’s Fall – Golgoroth, cellar, secret chest, Eye Blast Bag a secret chest, then gang up on Golgoroth in the next part of our King’s Fall guide. Destiny: King’s Fall – Basilica, Annihilator Totems, Brand of the Unraveler, Deathsinger’s Power Our guide to completing the Basilica section of the King’s Fall raid. Destiny – Warpriest Challenge, Golgoroth Challenge, Oryx Challenges in the King’s Fall 390 Raid How to

Destiny’s Weekly Featured Raids is a new playlist introduced as part of the Age of Triumph event. It’ll see all previous Raids updated with higher difficulties, new drops up to the game’s maximum Light level and Challenges. How does the Weekly Featured Raids playlist work? All Raids won’t all be available as soon as Age of Triumph debuts, but will roll out once per week and be featured in the weekly playlist. What are the Weekly Featured Raid challenge modes and other changes?

Yooka-Layee’s Quiz Answers for the Dr Quack Quiz can be one of the more tricky parts of the game if you haven’t been exploring thoroughly (or simply not paying attention to your surroundings). There are several in the game, and see evil sidekick Dr Quack halt your progress unless you win his game show. Guess 10 questions correctly (or less if you have a chain of correct answers to help you jump ahead) and you can pass. However, get three wrong will see you start over, so having access to quiz an