Digital Foundry Direct, our regular show covering the week's tech and gaming news, this week looked at the new Oblivion Remastered patch 1.2. The update is a big one, and promises fixes to performance woes, crashes and other bugs that have afflicted the game since launch. Unfortunately, testing by Tom Morgan has revealed a fairly poor state of affairs on consoles - with some of the most glaring issues still unresolved. 
Microsoft has announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong - easily one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the moment - will have a playable demo at Gamescom on PC or ROG Xbox Ally X.
Earlier this year, Digital Eclipse revealed Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, which includes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4, and more. At the time of this announcement, the studio merely said this collection of arcade classics would debut at some point this year, but a leak via the Xbox app may have given us a release date.
Glen Schofield - known for Dead Space and more recently as founder of Striking Distance Studios and its debut title,The Callisto Protocol - has suggested he could be done with game development after struggling to secure funding for his latest project.
Team Fortress 2's summer update is here, ushering in "major changes", including 10 new community-created maps, the summer 2025 Cosmetic Case - which contains 23 new community-contributed items - four new community-contributed taunts, and 14 new - say it with me - community-created Unusual effects.
Another day, another AI-generated "slop" accusation, this time against Blizzard and its upcoming Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone crossover event..png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=70&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has been submitted for a classification rating in South Korea, raising hopes we'll get a firm release date soon.
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Australian pressure group Collective Shout has claimed responsibility for the recent Itch.io and Steam developments that have seen the platforms change how they deal with - and in some cases remove - NSFW games and content from their respective platforms.
PlayStation 5 owners are reportedly getting two more Xbox-published titles added to their roster.
The showrunner behind Amazon's live-action God of War TV series has shared some new details about what we can expect from Kratos and co on the show's release.
Surprise! A new Friday the 13th-themed video game is on the way.
Battlefield 6's Battle Royale map - complete with all its points of interest (POIs), big and small - has leaked online.
Former DreadXP and Critical Reflex alum Ted Hentschke has teamed up with Jakub Bałuszek-Sobolewski to form Black Lantern Collective, a new publisher dedicated to horror games.
Amazon MGM Studios has selected yet another video game series for a TV show adaptation - and this time it's Wolfenstein.
Krafton has acquired 100 percent of Last Epoch developer, Eleventh Hour Games.
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