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Image: Supermassive Games/Sony Computer EntertainmentUnlike certain other io9 staffers, I’m not too much of a gamer—but I am a big horror fan, and that’s what made me interested in 2015's Until Dawn, an interactive tale about a bunch of kids stranded on a mountain haunted by past tragedies and crawling with menacing creatures. It’s like being inside a horror movie! Which is presumably why it’s now being adapted into one.Spoilers of the Week: July 29thYou can safely assume the just-announced movie version of Until Dawn…

Overwatch 2's eighth season went live on Tuesday and things aren't exactly going smoothly for everyone. Some are complaining about performance issues, particularly concerning frame rates on PlayStation 5. On Blizzard's own forums and Reddit, players are suggesting that even the menus are lagging on the console."I play on PS5 with 120 Hz monitor and settings for that output, but randomly either in or walking back from spawn, even on menus, I am dropping down to what seems like single digit to low double digit frames per…

Batman: Arkham Trilogy has launched on Nintendo Switch and is being lambasted on social media, with some branding it as “unplayable.” While the Nintendo Switch port of the popular Rocksteady-developed Batman: Arkham Trilogy was only released today (December 1), fans are already noticing some heavy downgrades in both graphical and performance departments, specifically on Batman: Arkham Knight, the third game in the trilogy. YouTuber GameRiot called the port of Arkham Knight “unplayable”, posting a video of the Batmobile…

A DDoS attack targeted Blizzard's Battle.net online service in the US. Due to this attack, players were restricted from accessing Diablo IV, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles. The game developer has now resolved the issue and the company’s customer support account took to Twitter to announce the same. How the issue affected usersDuring the issue, when users tried to launch Battle.net on their PC, the site showed a notification that said: “We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack, which may result in high…

Many Guilty Gear Strive streamers have said the game is currently “unplayable” due to hackers taking advantage of a recently discovered exploit. The bug currently allows hackers to remotely change the names of other players in the middle of a match, causing their games to crash (via Vice). The hack uses a player’s unique ID (or R-Code) that contains information about stats, activity and match history. As soon as a Guilty Gear Strive player appears online, they can be targeted by the hack. Despite many streamers trying to…

Onoma Studios, previously known as Square Enix Montreal, is shutting down this week and some of its mobile titles will be going with it. Ahead of the studio's last day on November 24, Onoma announced that Deus Ex Go, Hitman Sniper: The Shadows, Arena Battle Champions, and Space Invaders: Hidden Heroes will be shutting down for good on January 4.The games will be taken off the App Store and Google Play Store as of December 1, and players who already have them downloaded will be able to continue playing…

Classic Overwatch hero Mei hasn't been playable in Overwatch 2 for over two weeks now, and Blizzard has just announced that it'll need a couple more days to fix the bugs that affected the character. The patch that will bring Mei back into the game is now scheduled for Thursday November 17 at 11 AM PST.Mei was temporarily removed from the game at the end of October, due to a bug that affected the hero's Ice Wall ability. While the issue was scheuled to be fixed in a patch on November 15, Blizzard has now…

Gotham Knights players are reporting that the game is no longer playable on Steam following the latest software update. Fans took to social media outlets to complain about the problem that began last night, when they downloaded an update with a patch that would improve keyboard issues, co-op gameplay problems, and overall game stability — all complaints that cropped up since Gotham Knights launched last week. According to PC Gamer, the patch temporarily removed controversial anti-piracy software Denuvo on Wednesday,…

We don’t want it, 2K Fifteen years later, BioShock remains one of the most recognizable and beloved series in gaming, and publisher 2K is still releasing updates to support the series. Or, more specifically, to make the games run through their own launcher, as evidenced by the patch notes from both older updates and a new one (via PC Gamer). This time around they even labeled the patch as a “Quality of Life Update,” when all it did was enable linking to 2K accounts and added the new launcher “which includes a store to…

Players are calling on Activision and Raven Software to fix a ping glitch that is making Call Of Duty: Warzone “unplayable”. Sharing footage of a laggy game, Reddit user The_Ur3an_Myth wrote: “Now pinging anything will cause frameskips and ping spikes. This is borderline unplayable as you’re always pinging enemies. I am desperate to get this fixed, is there any way I/we can escalate this to get a mandatory fix?” Pinging is a way of alerting teammates to an enemy or point of interest on the map. Call of Duty: Warzone.…