Sony's Play at Home initiative has given out a bunch of free games to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 owners during the pandemic, but later today, perhaps the biggest Play at Home promo is going to kick off. Beginning today, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition will be up for grabs through Play at Home, and it'll be available to anyone who wants to claim it.
Genshin Impact players who have managed to get their hands on a PS5 got some good news today, as developer miHoYo announced that the PlayStation 5 version of the game will going live alongside the game's version 1.5 update later this month. Most of today's announcement was spent discussing the update itself and not the PS5 version, but there were a few morsels regarding what PS5 owners can expect out of the game.
Yesterday, Capcom revealed new details about the Resident Evil series, announcing that Resident Evil Village will be getting a demo and Resident Evil 4 will be coming to Oculus Quest 2. Today, we're learning even more about Resident Evil Village, as Capcom has revealed the expected resolution and frame rate of the game on consoles and PC.
Apex Legends launched at a time when there was some very stiff competition in the battle royale space, and back then, there were plenty of people wondering if it had the legs to compete with giants like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (myself included). These days, it seems safe to say that it did indeed have those legs, as it's celebrating a massive milestone this week: 100 million players.
Of all the different types of bugs you're likely to encounter in sprawling open world games, perhaps the most frustrating are quest bugs that stop you from progressing in some way. Many open world games have been home to these bugs, and Cyberpunk 2077 is no different. A ton of those quest bugs were fixed in Cyberpunk 2077's big version 1.2 update that launched late last month, and even more of them are being fixed today in hotfix 1.21.
Last week, BioWare talked about the gameplay changes it's implementing in the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, with the promise that it would be back sometime this week with a look at how the graphics are changing. The big day is apparently today, with BioWare publishing a new trailer that shows off the differences between the original games and the remasters included in the Legendary Edition.
Considering the title of Fortnite's current season - Primal - it probably shouldn't be a surprise to hear that the next addition to the Gaming Legends series is Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. Indeed, it seems that the leaks we've been seeing over the past day or so were accurate. Not only will Aloy be joining with her own bundle that'll be available in the item shop, but there will be a special PlayStation-only tournament and a new limited-time mode featuring Aloy and Lara Croft as well.
On the heels of the Expeditions update for No Man's Sky - which launched a couple of weeks ago - Hello Games has released a new update for The Last Campfire. As Hello Games worked to build on the content in No Man's Sky, a small team within the studio started working on The Last Campfire as something of a passion project and released it in September of last year. It seems Hello Games is going to continue the trend of releasing big content updates for free, as The Last Campfire received just that today.
It's been a long time since we last heard from Path of Exile 2. The long-awaited follow up was first revealed at ExileCon - Path of Exile's yearly fan convention - in 2019, but since then we haven't really seen anything new from the game. That all changed today as Grinding Gear Games not only gave us a new Path of Exile 2 trailer, but also published a new gameplay walkthrough for the game.
It's safe to say that Outriders has suffered something of a rocky launch. While there seems to be a lot of interest in Outriders, there was a bit too much for the game's opening weekend and its first week of availability, with players reporting connection issues that were only recently resolved. No one likes to experience connection issues in games they were looking forward to playing, so as something of an olive branch to a frustrated community, Square Enix has announced that it will be giving all Outriders players a "Community Appreciation Package."
Apex Legends is closing in on the end of Season 8: Mayhem, but before things wrap up, Respawn Entertainment is introducing a new event called War Games. With this event, we'll see the introduction of five new game modes that will replace the standard Play Apex playlists. These new modes will make small-yet-significant tweaks to the way Apex Legends matches play, and of course, there will be some new cosmetics and items to unlock in this event as well.
BioWare and Electronic Arts are gearing up to re-release the Mass Effect trilogy as the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition next month, and that's shipping with a bunch of different enhancements. Today, BioWare is detailing many of those enhancements, particularly the ones that are being applied to the first game in the trilogy.