A week after Saber Interactive promised a whole bunch of player-requested features and fixes for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, the first of these are now here – with the sci-fi shooter’s latest patch introducing “more helpful and effective” bots, private lobbies, and more.

Saber Interactive spent a fair bit of time discussing bots last week, acknowledging player complaints that the general ineffectiveness of teammate bots mades solo games “significantly harder”. And thus Patch 3.0, which lifts various “inhibiting restrictions” during the campaign to make bots more “helpful and effective, while still not beating the game for the player”.

Previous restrictions preventing bots from finishing off enemies have now been “heavily eased”, for instance, and bots can …

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Activision has confirmed there will be no campaign early access available for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
In recent years, Activision has given those who pre-ordered a Call of Duty game, such as with 2023’s Modern Warfare 3, early access to its campaign. However, it is bucking the trend this year.

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Sony has officially unveiled its next iteration of the PS5, or to give it its full name, the PlayStation 5 Pro.
The digital-only PS5 Pro is set to arrive on 7th November. It will cost £699.99/$699.99. Preorders will begin later this month, on 26th September. It will include a 2TB SSD, a DualSense wireless controller and – as the PS5 did – a copy of Astro’s Playroom pre-installed. As a general point, you will need to buy the vertical stand separately (£24.99).

The separate disc drive is also compatible – as per the current Slim model – but costs an additional £99.99. If you want to purchase everything, you are looking at a total of £825.

PlayStation 5 Pro Console – Reveal Trailer

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We all already know Astro Bot has a lot of bots, but what bots has Astro Bot not got? There’s a lot to spot! (Actually, it’s not that many, I just got a little carried away.)
To answer that question, we now have a look at some concept art for PlayStation’s new platformer. Please be aware of some small Astro Bot spoilers below.

Astro Bot – Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

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Band member and co-songwriter of Heaven 17 Martyn Ware has told Rockstar to “go fuck yourself” after being offered $7500 – that’s around £5700 – to include their 1983 hit, Temptation, in Grand Theft Auto 6.
In a candid explanation posted to X/Twitter, Ware did not play down his dismay at the offer and stressed that predecessor GTA 5 grossed $8.6bn.

Heaven 17 – Temptation

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Amazon’s Fallout adaptation now has two Emmy awards to its name.
The show, which was released earlier this year on Amazon Prime, follows the story of Ella Purnell’s Lucy, Walton Goggins’ Ghoul and Aaron Moten’s Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus as they each make their way through the post-apocalyptic wasteland with varying degrees of success.
The series quickly became a hit for the streaming service, with scores of praise across the industry. Our own Fallout review called it “a lovely, if blood-spattered, surprise”, while Fallout’s original creator Tim Cain had nothing but praise for the adaptation.

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A new film chronicling the rise and fall of Clive Sinclair’s “now legendary” ZX Spectrum is set to premiere in London on 3rd October, 2024.
From Gracious Films, GEL, and MusicFilmNetwork, The Rubber Keyed Wonder “charts the development and creation of the ZX Spectrum from concept through to its first release, and the financial and reputational success it brought Clive Sinclair”.
It also examines the enduring impact of several Spectrum games, including Jet Set Willy, Knightlore, Chuckie Egg, Ant Attack, and Saboteur.

The Rubber-Keyed Wonder – Film Trailer 2024

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Supermassive Games’ narrative-focused single-player Dead by Daylight spin-off, The Casting of Frank Stone, launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 3rd September.

Announced last December, The Casting of Frank Stone’s story begins in Cedar Hills, Oregon, in the summer of 1980, when a group of young filmmakers travels to an abandoned steel mill in order to shoot their horror movie, Murder Mill. Unbeknown to the teenagers, however, a dormant evil lies waiting, and the group ends up capturing far more on camera than it bargained for, creating a “soon-to-be cult classic with an insidious influence.”

In gameplay terms, The Casting of Frank Stone follows the interactive horror movie template Supermassive has been steadily refining across the likes of U…