Dying Light: The Following

Techland's open-world zombie game Dying Light: The Beast is apparently too beefy for previous-generation hardware.

Dying Light: The Beast was released last year for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with developer Techland promising a last-gen version of the game as well. That's no longer the case, as the studio says it has made the "difficult decision" to cancel the PS4 and Xbox One versions, due to the game's visuals being too advanced for those systems to handle. "Dying Light: The Beast was built from the ground up to take full advantage of current-generation hardware," Techland said in a statement. "Its open world, advanced visuals, and fluid combat and traversal all depend on processing power and memory t

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Marie pootles around Japan in whatever season it happens to be; Victoria suspects her husband of breaking their TV; Chris walks the one-way street of Warhammer 40K miniature addiction; and Bertie enjoys being a secret agent. Read more

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

It sounds like the upcoming Marvel Blade game from Deathloop developer Arkane Lyon could be no more. Marvel's Blade was unveiled during The Game Awards 2023, and when it was said this would be an original story for the half-human, half-vampire, as he takes on "a supernatural emergency" in the streets of Paris. That emergency is, of course, vampires. Read more