Speaking this week in Paris, Assassin’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Coté revealed a presentation slide for Invictus full of artwork showing past Assassin’s Creed protagonists, as well as enemies such as Odyssey’s minotaur. “Codename Invictus is being designed to be a standalone game on the Infinity hub, alongside Codename Red and Codename Hexe,” Coté announced. “This effort is led by former senior members of successful Ubisoft multiplayer games, like For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege that will be joining with AC talents to leverage their know-how to design a new kind of multiplayer experience....

Patch 9.0, nicknamed “The Flashy One” by developer Poncle, adds one character, a bonus challenge stage called Boss Rash, four achievements, two Arcanas, and a new hidden game mechanic as well as minor tweaks and bug fixes. Boss Rash, as the name suggests, is a boss rush stage, and new Arcanas Gemini and Twilight Requiem allow players to further experiment with their playstyle. A new game mechanic as well as more secrets to uncover will give players plenty of content to satisfy their thirst for Vampire Survivors....

“As The Void exposes ancient scars and long-forgotten secrets,” developer Digital Extremes says of its latest update, “something sinister rumbles on Lua as the Grineer descend upon these newly exposed halls seeking possible treasure, corrupted by its long-dormant Orokin Neural Sentry. Under the guidance of The Lotus, the Tenno embark on a mission to investigate this destroyed piece of Lua formerly used to monitor Void Conjunctions.” Lua’s Prey serves as a “light prequel” to The Duviri Paradox, adding two new story-based Conjunction Survival missions featuring thematic teasers for next year’s expansion....

This will, of course, be the second delay for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, which was announced at the tail-end of 2020 for release the following year. Unfortunately, its development - as with many recent games - was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and Fatshark ultimately made the decision to push its launch into 2022 in order to “focus on the level of quality on release, as well as invest in more systems to support Darktide for years to come....

Martin Robinson: So, multiverses are quite the thing now I guess? I just went to see Everything Everywhere All at Once at the weekend, which was great! And then I just played Warner Bros’ MultiVersus, which is also a thing… Chris Tapsell: Loony Toons Metaweb 3.0 you mean Martin: That’s the badger! It’s a fairly simple concept to grasp, really, though I hope you don’t mind me being reductive - it’s Warner Bros....

The M16 in Warzone 2.0 is a three-round burst rifle that features a high Time to Kill (TTK), most effective when gunning for the chest and above. With its effectiveness and mid-long range combat scenarios, it’s a versatile weapon, one that’ll be suited for many kinds of engagements during your time on Al Mazrah. This page explains how to unlock the M16 in Warzone 2.0, as well as our recommendations for the best M16 build to take on your enemies....

You’ll get 20K XP for completing each Skywalker Week quest, which will help you towards unlocking skins in the current Battle Pass. We’ve detailed where to find Lightsabers in Fortnite below, how to block with one when you do find the melee weapon, and a list of all Lightsabers currently available. For more help with Skywalker Week quests, check out our page on where find Star Wars weapons and Darth Vader....

We’re excited for Village, but we’re not so pumped for multiplayer spin-off Re:Verse. Capcom’s multiplayer Resident Evil offerings have been mixed at best, and we’re not sure why Re:Verse, with its off-putting art style, even exists. Elsewhere in next-gen news, PlayStation 5 scalpers are at it again - although GAME has played down the claims from some on social media who posted screenshots of scores of secured orders alongside a boast about making loads of money from them....

You may have caught a glimpse of Wolfstride and thought: cool! A game about turn-based mech battles. Half right. Wolfstride is half that game. The other half of the time it’s a game about what it’s like to be in the business of turn-based mech battles. You patch up your crappy mech as best you can. You earn money for bigger repairs. You train your pilot to learn new skills....

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak. The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer?...

Here’s a fresh trailer: ORIGINAL STORY 4pm UK: Microsoft’s Gamescom booth has demo stations for several upcoming titles apparently coming to Game Pass, as detailed in photos posted to Twitter by Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg. These include Lies of P, a bizarre Pinocchio game that looks a bit like Bloodborne which we’ve had our eyes on for some time. You can see its logo towards the right of the photo above....

Launching as part of The National Trust’s Festival of Archeology, it’s hoped the recreation will excite young people and get them more interested in historical landmarks, such as castles. “A thousand years of history and we’ve re-imagined it all in Minecraft’s The Wild Update,” Xbox explained on Twitter. “With the help of [historian Alice Loxton] and [content creator GrianMC] we restored the ruins of National Trust’s Corfe Castle back to its former glory....

With its fresh cast of characters, enhanced technology and outstanding soundtrack, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 builds on the experience the team has acquired since its inception and comprehensively addresses a key weakness of the last series entry: image quality. In targeting higher end visuals, something that to give, with resolution taking a big hit. Dynamic pixel counts that could hit 540p docked and 360p in mobile mode were mitigated via a relatively simple spatial upscaler, paired with intrusive sharpening....

You’ll be able to purchase her for $5 on day one of the game’s release, 5th October, alongside other DLC. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, an updated compilation of the series’ first two legendary games, has a bulging roster of characters to play as. Some of these characters are free. Some of these are not. Persona 5’s Morgana will be paid DLC, we found out last week. This is also expected to cost $5....

Microsoft initially embraced the Xbox fridge meme (with considerably gusto) last October, when it sent real-life Xbox Series X fridges - described as 6-foot, 400 pound replicas of the console - out to influencers and rapper Snoop Dogg. The gag was resurrected once again this March when Microsoft produced some mini fridge variants of the full-sized design to use as prizes in a promotion for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s new energy drink....

Previously, Sony revealed those looking to upgrade from the PlayStation 4 original to the PlayStation 5 Digital Deluxe Edition would be able to do so at a cost of €10/$10 USD, leaving many to assume a UK equivalent of around £10. However, the official PlayStation UK Twitter feed has now confirmed an upgrade cost of just £5. That £5 - or £44.99 if you opt for full version of Death Stranding’s PS5 Director’s Cut (or somewhere in-between if you upgrade from a discounted PS4 physical copy) - will get you the compellingly mystifying original experience, complete with enhanced visuals, new story missions, new combat mechanics, a firing range, and even a racing mode....

According to NHK and spotted by VGC, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s Special Investigation Department have indicted Naka and Taisuke Sasaki for investing millions of yen in a company based on insider information that had yet to be made public. The prosecutors allege that neither Naka nor Saskai would have invested the ¥144.7m if they hadn’t known Square Enix was about to announce a partnership with a mobile developer....