Who will watch the Watch Dogs now? Upcoming Ubisoft titleWatch Dogshas experienced a potential setback after the departure of lead designer Jamie Keen, who has defected toEA Gothenburg.VideoGamer.com is reportingthat Keen, who was also a lead designer onFar Cry 3apparently left Ubisoft Montreal to re-join EA in February this year. It doesn’t look like a big surpriselooking at his previous positions, especially having worked on previous EA games such asBattlefield Bad CompanyandSyndicate....

IP owner contemplates third installment Over the weekend, Monolith Productions founder Jace Hallput it out on Facebookthat he is “contemplating” setting up an independent development team with the rights toCondemned“so that they can take over the franchise and move it forward.” Focused on other projects as he is right now, it’s “just sitting there,” and he’s curious if he should “explore the idea further.” (Yes.) The first-person horror series arrived as an early Xbox 360 gameahead of an eventual PC port,which holds up well to this day....

Physical edition available from NIS America Store Earlier this year, during the New Game Plus Expo, NIS America announced that its 2016 releaseYs VIII: Lacrimosa of Danawould be winging its way to the PS5 platform — and yesterday, the publisher revealed a release date for the new port, with the fantasy JRPG hitting the PlayStation Store this November. Originally released on PS Vita,Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Danawas the then-latest chapter in the decades-longYsadventure series....

Horror shooter not ready to lie down just yet British developer Rebellion has announced that its undead Nazi shooterZombie Army 4: Dead Warwill receive a further two seasons of DLC content, extending the life, (or is that “afterlife), of the multiplayer team title into 2021. Rebellion announced the content in a new video – which you may check out below. Seasons two and three will bring with them a fresh slew of characters, enemies, weapons and maps, alongside expanded campaign chapters....

Listen, when the zombie apocalypse comes you’re not going to make it out alive.There’s a flowchartto prove it. Game Informer tossed this guy together to illustrate the many ways that a videogame zombie apocalypse will kill you. Survival really isn’t an option when it comes down to the dead rising. Even if you don’t die you’ll just be going to a sequel where you will. The only choice you really have is how it’s going to end....

Checks all the right boxes [Update:Prices below have been updated for Cyber Monday. The smaller Y700-14 is now only $559! Deal is 24-hours only.] Gamers looking for a gaming laptop this shopping season have another option, with Lenovo offering adecently pricedIdeapad Y700 on sale for only $766 as a Black Friday “doorbuster” item. The Y700 is a “mainline” laptop for Lenovo’s performance-oriented customers. The 15-inch one we’re focusing on comes with a Quad-Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, a combo 1TB HDD + 128GB SSD setup, and a decent GeForce GTX 960M....

DSFix for everyone! While he may not be a household name, Peter “Durante” Thoman has been fixing a lot of PC ports over the years.Starting with DSFixfor the decidedly averageDark Soulsport,Thoman’s workhas becomesomething of a holy grail for fans of Japanese games on PC. Whatever the reason for those ports original lackluster quality, Thoman has brought them up to snuff and has even managed to work with major studios on some releases (Trails of Cold Steelcomes to mind)....

As we speed toward the game’s ending, we see Scratch’s twisted vision beginning to affect reality. Though this is a Saga chapter, you’ll be controlling Alan the whole time. With this guide, you’ll learn how to put a stop to Scratch’s evil plot inAlan Wake 2‘s Return 8. There isn’t much combat involved, but there is some exploration to get done. Jump pack into the Dark Place A cutscene has Alan traveling back to Bright Falls....

So many things you’ll never touch after a year Another Ubisoft game, another limited edition with a bunch of stuff you won’t care about like a year after you’ve gotten it. In this case it’s the North AmericanLimited EditionforWatch Dogs, which includes the soundtrack, a 9″ figure of Aiden Pearce, his mask, a steelbook, and art book. All that can be yours for $130, and this will also be available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC....

PS4 firmware update adds better chat parties and an HDR tuner Fresh out ofbeta testing, the latest PlayStation 4 software update, 7.00, is now live. Along with the promise of PS4 Remote Play support across all Android devices (Android 5.0 and up), Sony is bringing 16-player chat parties to PlayStation Network with accompanying connectivity and audio quality improvements. In the United States, there’s also a new Chat Transcription feature, usable via the PS4 Second Screen smartphone app....

[Update: Now that the update is out today, we have a list of all the games that are going to be part of it: That’s quite the assortment. Two titles are homebrew, two are prototypes that have now been released elsewhere, a bunch of them are actually pretty awful, and one of them isWarbirdson Lynx. I hope there is some supplemental behind-the-scenes information onMiniature Golf. Our original story follows.] Atari has announced that 2022’sAtari 50: The Anniversary Celebrationwill be getting free updates, starting with one on December 5th....

A collection of usual suspects — including Atari, Ubisoft and Codemasters — have banded together to threaten pirates with legal action unless they stop their shenanigans and pay their dues. The deal is simple — give publishers money, or face getting sued. CD Projekt Redrecently stopped the practiceof threatening pirates in this manner, but the baton has been picked up by a coalition of other European companies with long-standing grudges. Koch Media is defending the security ofPrison Break: The Conspiracywith the eternal vigilance of Cerberus!...

While vacationing on the Greek island of Lemnos, two Bohemia Interactive employees — Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar — were arrested after taking photographs and video. There’s been a lot of speculation since this news first broke, so the studio has given an update in the hopes of clearing up any confusion. The pair came to the island as tourists, according to Bohemia. “Their holiday was a product of their interest in the island, triggered by their work onArma 3over the past two years of development....