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For yet another time this year, Steam has set a new record for the highest number of users online at the same time.If you though Valve’s storefront and PC platform was impressive when it soared past the 25 million concurrent users landmark earlier this year, you’ll be floored to know it’s broken that record again. Twice.Steam yet again broke its own record an all-time high and managed to attract over an eye-watering 27,100,000 concurrent players on Saturday, November 27. The next day (Sunday, November 28) that record was broken once again as more than 27,300,000 flocked to play games over the holiday weekend. Read more

It looks like Sony has patented a new PlayStation-style controller for use with your mobile device.Per VGC, a patent was recently filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Japanese branch, and the document details hardware that would fit onto either side of your device, using its screen as the display in the middle. It sort of looks a bit like a Nintendo Switch, or the Backbone One that’s been so popular with iPhone users.The patent suggests Sony is looking at a DualShock-inspired design, rather than something based on the PS5’s DualSense. The design is made up of “a left side grip portion and a right side grip portion gripped by the left and right hands of the user”. In the middle, and not shown in the technical drawings, the two grips will be connected by “a shaft portion that can be tilted by the user, and detect the tilting direction and tilting amount of the shaft portion” – likely enabling gyroscopic features in mobile apps. Read more

Are you one of the millions of people who picked up Halo Infinite multiplayer since it launched out of the blue a few weeks back? If yes, then you’ve probably also noticed the frankly glacial pace at which you earn rewards and progress through the game’s (now controversial) battle pass.Well, rest assured: developer 343 Industries is working on it. The head of design on Halo Infinite, Jerry Hook, has said he understands the complaints of the community and fixing progression will be at the forefront of development efforts in the weeks ahead.“Yes, I am still playing Halo and feeling everyone’s pain on progression,” he said on Twitter. “We are back at it next week and this will be top of my list with the team.” Read more

We’ve seen a fair share of Battlefield 2042 glitches and technical problems, some that even lead to awkward bugs. But this is just, well, dumb.Just recently, we got introduced to a bug that allows Specialist Dozer to phase through walls by turning down the game’s graphics settings. As we pointed out at the time, this isn’t something you’ll likely to get much use out of.It turns out, there’s another glitch you can replicate that also involves going into the game’s menus. Reddit user Jagsfootball51 came upon a major problem that instantly negates the effects of smoke grenades. Read more

We’ve nearly reached the end of 2021. A rough year for sure, and not one with too many high points. But, we’ve at least got the future to look forward to, including all the great games we can see coming on the horizon. There are the massive blockbusters, of course, but there may also be some absolute bangers around the corner you’re still not aware of just yet. Who knows, maybe your favourite game of of the generation is something you don’t see coming. We may just be able to help with that. Dorrani has cooked up a video showcasing 11 awesome looking games coming soon, and we’re pretty sure you’ll be seeing a good portion of them for the first time. If you’re interested in learning more, you can check out this video embedded above for your viewing pleasure. Read more

The arrival of cross-play gave rise to another great, often neglected feature of new consoles: their ability to support mouse and keyboard. Battlefield 2042 supports cross-play between PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S – but only PC players get the choice of input device.If you’re playing on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S, you can only use the consoles’ default controllers. On PC, however, you can easily plug in a controller and enjoy the best of both worlds. Battlefield 2042 even supports on-the-fly input swapping, which allows players to fly/drive vehicles using a controller and keep mouse and keyboard for infantry combat. This is in stark contrast to Battlefield 2042’s competitors, chiefly Call of Duty – which has been allowing both input methods on every platform for years now. Indeed, this is also the case for Halo Infinite. Read more

Battlefield 2042’s launch has been off to a rough start in a lot of ways, and it looks like all the game’s woes have been reflected in its critical score, setting a new record low for the series.Battlefield games have always had rough launches, and some even suffered from a lack of focus, but nowhere are those problems more prevalent than in Battlefield 2042. DICE’s latest shooter is now sitting at a 64-71 Metacritic score.The overall score varies per platform, as it tends to do. The lowest is the Xbox Series X/S version at 64, followed by PS5 at a slightly higher 68. PC leads with a 71. Read more

Perhaps you’ve heard some of the complaints about Battlefield 2042: the game’s excessive bullet spread/bloom, myriad hit detection woes, XP farming spots, and missing features.It seems the long list of issues with the game has affected the title’s popularity somewhat – there’d have been a time a new Battlefield game, when it comes to the Thanksgiving weekend, would have dominated the charts. But now, as per SteamDB (via PCGamesN), Giants Software’s Farming Simulator 22 is apparently a more popular game than EA latest FPS jaunt.Farming Simulator 2022 has had a peak concurrent player count of 105,636, last registered six days ago. Battlefield 2042’s peak count, however, is slightly lower at 105,397 players (nine days ago). Read more

Following on from Halo Infinite’s first event, the samurai-inspired Fractures: Tenrai, we may be getting some less out-there armour in the next event.A dataminer called @_FireMonkey has unveiled what could be up for grabs for players eager to move their way through a new event battle pass in February 2022. It should be noted that, from what we’ve seen so far, this may not be a complete list – Fractures: Tenrai has 30 tiers of rewards whereas there are only 10 listed here. Could we even get another armour core higher up the list, similar to the Yoroi armour core in the current, on-going event? Or could this mean we’re going to get shorter events in-between larger seasons? We’ll have to wait and see.Halo Infinite Ritual Leak | Tactical OpsTest your aim in a high stakes battleFebruary 8th, 2022 – February 21st, 2022The only currently known info is the rewards, capstones and special playlist is currently unknown.Rewards: pic.twitter.com/hp7lEDZjtE Read more