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EA’s flagship first-person shooter Battlefield 2042 won’t include ranked play at launch, but it could be added later if there’s enough interest for it.Despite several game modes and a new Battlefield Portal it looks as though Battlefield 2042 won’t be adding a ranked mode. At least, for now.Ripple Effect Studios senior design director Justin Wiebe confirmed that there are currently no plans for any ranked or esports play in Battlefield 2042.“Yeah, so there’s no plan to have any kind of ranked or esport mode at launch,” he said in an interview with Battlefield Nation, while adding that a ranked mode in future isn’t completely off the table.“This is something that obviously we want to hear more about from the community,” he continued.

interview with NME, Midwinter Entertainment CEO Josh Holmes revealed he wants to see the pet bear Jellybean make a return to Scavengers in the future.“One of the earliest prototype abilities that I worked on was the ability for a character to summon a pet bear named Jellybean,who would then follow and fight alongside you on your behalf,” said Holmes, saying Jellybean was one of his favourite bits of Scavengers that didn’t make it to the early access launch.“It proved to be very challenging to balance and maintain across the entirety of our playspace,” adds Holmes, explaining why the bear didn’t make it until launch.However, Jellybean became somewhat emblematic of the game and appeared in some of the game’s early marketing.

Summer Of Sims’ event, The Sims 4 has introduced a load of new features in one big free update.Some of the fixes are simple quality-of-life upgrades, such as the camera tool now being able to snap onto any Sim in the current neighbourhood.The Notebook has also been given its own space on the Sims 4 user interface, making it easier to find than its previous place nested in the phone controls.One of the main updates piquing the interest of Sims 4 fans is the inclusion of water-shaping terrain tools.Previously, only pools were available, built in square blocks.

Electronic Arts (EA) is exhibiting its yearly EA Play Live event tonight, and it’s expected to feature Battlefield 2042 – the latest in the long-running Battlefield franchise.READ MORE: The best games of 2021 (so far!)The event will begin at 10 AM PT/6 PM BST and be viewable on Twitch and YouTube.

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has shared a feature on Twitter that most players won’t have noticed.Barone’s tip focuses on the community centre, which requires items to be donated to it. These donations lead to upgrades across the entire map.

PUBG Corp has introduced a new limited-time mode where players will compete to score goals instead of kills.A new mode has been added to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as part of the experimental LABS events. The new mode, Futsal, focuses on trying to score goals.

Call of Duty: Warzone, developer Raven Software has had to hire a lot more staff.READ MORE: I’ll take Steam Deck over upgrading my gaming PC any dayAccording to a report by Video Games Chronicle, Raven Software has hired over 100 new members of staff in the past 12 months.Using publicly available Linkedin data, it seems the company has hired at least 12 producers, over 30 artists and animators, almost 40 programmers and testers and 10 designers.It looks like 350 people now work at Raven Software, compared to the 250 people mentioned in the credits for 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.Far Cry 6’s game director Ted Timmins has joined as Warzone‘s new creative director while William Fine (senior producer on Epic Games‘ Fortnite) and

Capcom has confirmed that a new PC patch is in the works for Resident Evil Village after it was discovered that its own DRM software was the cause.In a statement to Digital Foundry today (July 15), Capcom confirmed that Village will be receiving a PC update in the future to address issues regarding stuttering and frame rate drops.Resident Evil Village PC players have been struggling with performance issues since the game launched in May and last week (July 10) fans in the cracking community decided to see what was causing these issues.It was found that Capcom’s own DRM software was causing the PC issues and the game without the software was out-performing the retail launch version.Digital Foundry put the cracked version of the game to the

Call of Duty: Warzone are now spawning booby-trapped loot chests that could wipe out you and your squad.A new addition to the popular battle royale, the red doors teleport anyone who passes through them to a number of mysterious ‘stations’, but now a new addition to these stations could prove deadly.As well as the usual orange loot chests, there are two new chests that seem to spawn inside the stations.The first is a unique-looking red chest, covered in matrix-style numbers similar to what you see when the red doors teleport you to their stations. Opening one of these gives you your usual batch of loot – but with a number of red cubes spilling out of the box as well.The second is a much more nefarious addition.

NBA 2K22 will be released on September 10, 2021, and the game will feature its first-ever female cover star.READ MORE: The best PS5 games: the best PlayStation 5 titles to play in 2021Chicago Sky player Candace Parker, a six-time WNBA All-Star and WNBA Champion will be the first female cover athlete in the franchise’s history.

Respawn developer John Larson has appeared on the Apex Uncut podcast and spoke about some potential changes coming to recon legend Crypto.The tech-savvy legend was added in Apex Legends season 3 and uses his trusty drone to scout ahead, cover flanks, and disrupt enemy shields.

Bethesda’s 2011 RPG classic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has sold at auction for £433.26 ($600 USD).The game sold on high-end auction site Heritage Auctions, and was rated 9.2 by Wata Games, an archival and grading company that evaluates games and ‘slabs’ them in plastic cases for preservation.The copy was also rated “A+” for its condition as a sealed game, which Wata defines as being in “Exceptional condition” – a seal that is in near mint condition but has a few small flaws that are not very distracting.

Mojang Studios has announced a new DLC coming to Minecraft Dungeons called Echoing Void arriving alongside an ultimate edition.Minecraft Dungeons has received five DLC expansions so far, and now the sixth has been announced. Echoing Void will release on all platforms on July 28.The new DLC will take players to The End, a biome familiar to players of Minecraft.

Sega and the talent agency behind Lost Judgment‘s celebrity role could see the series come to an end.As reported by Japanese outlet Nikkan Taishu (translated by Kotaku), an entertainment insider was reportedly quoted saying that the upcoming action game could be the last in the series.This is because: “Those on the side of the game developer and those on the side of [Kimura’s talent agency] Johnny’s are said to have been unable to reach an agreement regarding the platforms to sell the game.”Takuya Kimura is one of Japan’s biggest celebrity actors who also plays Lost Judgement‘s protagonist, Takayuki Yagami.According to the report from Nikkan Taishu, the actor’s talent agency would not be okay with the release of the game on PC with the

EA has confirmed that Battlefield 2042’s wingsuit can be used with the tornado to fling yourself across the map.During today’s EA Play Live 2021 Spotlight event, EA DICE manager Oskar Gabrielson revealed that the tornados aren’t just devastating – they can be used to your advantage.“We added a lot of really cool gear to the game – things like grappling hooks and wingsuits,” he explained.“And then for some really cool reason, we said: ‘What about a real-time tornado?’ Real-time tornados are cool, right? What about adding one of those to Battlefield?’ And then what happens if you take that and combine it with a wingsuit, so you can kind of propel yourself to the other side of the map?”Using a tornado to reposition an entire squad certainly

Electronic Arts‘ next EA Play Live: The Future of FPS airs tonight and will provide new information about Battlefield 2042 and Apex Legends.The EA Play Live: The Future of FPS showcase is set to begin tonight – Thursday, July 8 – at 6 PM BST, 10 AM PDT, and 1 PM EDT.

Netflix and CD Projekt Red has announced WitcherCon 2021 will launch on July 9, 2021 – the first-ever convention for The Witcher fans.If you’re a fan of the long-standing video game series, or even if you prefer Henry Cavill as everyone’s favourite Witcher, you’ll want to tune in to this brand-new fan event.

Lemnis Gate is getting a beta test, beginning on July 22.Ratloop Games Canada’s complex sounding turn-based competitive FPS Lemnis Gate is getting an open beta, running through Thursday July 22 6pm BST to Monday 26 July 6pm BST.Beta access is free, but will require a code, which should be turning up in various places, including the game’s official Twitter, Discord, and through Twitch Drops when the Beta is live.A blog post confirming the beta also lists the various modes that Lemnis Gate players will be able to sharpen their time manipulating skills over ahead of release. Players will be able to play Retrieve XM, which tasks you with retrieving a substance called XM and bringing it back to your spawn point on maps Quarry and Tectonic

FromSoftware’s grimdark RPG Dark Souls 3 can now run at 60fps on Xbox Series X|S consoles thanks to an upgrade.As tested by Eurogamer, an FPS Boost upgrade for Dark Souls 3 will let players enjoy a 60fps rendition of the game on Xbox Series X or S consoles, similar to the performance improvement enjoyed by PlayStation 5 owners.Eurogamer’s Digital foundry tested the upgrade, finding that it performed at a consistent 60fps, with a few hiccups taking the game lower in intensive areas.The testing also explained that FromSoftware patched the PlayStation 4 version of the game for the Pro version of that console, allowing Dark Souls 3 to run at 1080p 60fps.The Xbox One X version did not receive the same upgrade, meaning that the game can only run

Rainbow Six Siege operator Tachanka is getting a host of changes in the next update for Year 6 Season 2, alongside a handful of other operators.The Year 6 Season 2.2 update to Rainbow Six Siege is making balance changes to a few operators, and Ubisoft has detailed the changes in a designer’s notes post, with Tachanka, Alibi, Frost, and Zofia all getting updates and nerfs.Accompanying the update are a range of graphs and matrices that show the difference between win rate and how often the heroes are picked, which figures into the changes as Tachanka “has a very low presence in the Balancing Matrix” according to the post.The changes being made to Tachanka see him get a deployable shield added to his kit, as well as increasing the ammo that he

Bungie is getting ready to share details on Destiny 2‘s next expansion, The Witch Queen.The studio announced via Twitter that a showcase is set to take place on August 24.However, aside from an ominous logo and the tagline, “Survive the truth”, there is little else about what this showcase will entail.Currently, there are no times or channels confirmed for the showcase, how long it will be for, and exactly what kind of content fans can expect Bungie to show.pic.twitter.com/MJatd9B1Vk— Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheGame) July 7, 2021The showcase does however take place on the same day Destiny 2‘s current live Season of the Splicer ends and when the next season begins, although it’s likely details of next season’s content would also be revealed a few