
Trees Turn to Black Blobs After Silent Hill 2 Patch
A patch meant to improve image quality in Silent Hill 2 Remake has turned trees into featureless black blobs and rooms into voids on PS5 Performance Mode. Konami says it's investigating.
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A patch meant to improve image quality in Silent Hill 2 Remake has turned trees into featureless black blobs and rooms into voids on PS5 Performance Mode. Konami says it's investigating.

A new playtest for the Asobi: Remote Play app brings PS Plus Premium cloud streaming to Steam Deck and Steam Machine, cutting the PS5 out of the equation entirely.

Nexus Mods creator kamzik123 has added unarmed combat back into Black Flag Resynced, solving in weeks what Ubisoft inexplicably chose to cut from its remake.

The Hood enters the roster as Season 9.5 kicks off, but the real headline is a 30% reduction in PC storage footprint. NetEase has also patched several long-standing hero bugs affecting Peni Parker, Rocket Raccoon, and others.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed the team is building a Platinum Trophy equivalent for Xbox achievements, finally giving completionists the recognition they've been asking for since 2005.

The Grounds transforms EA SPORTS FC 27 into a persistent social space where up to 100 players meet, compete in Clubs, and play everything from 1v1 matches to Bocce Ball.

Hangar 13's $10 expansion finally gives Mafia: The Old Country's Sicilian map the open-world content it lacked at launch, with Salieri handing out jobs, races, and assassination contracts across the Valle Dorata.

ProbablyMonsters' gothic action RPG Crimson Moon launches September 1 at just $19.99, dropping into one of the most stacked release windows of the year with a price tag that dares you to take a chance on it.

Former Rockstar San Diego designer Kris Roberts says the team had prototype cities, including London, for Midnight Club 5 before the project was cancelled and the franchise was shelved for good.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey sent Assassin's Creed Odyssey's daily active users surging from 122,000 to 233,000 in just ten days, and the numbers may have just handed Ubisoft its next remake pitch.

Digital Foundry's testing reveals that Halo: Campaign Evolved runs better on PlayStation 5 than Xbox Series X, with cutscene stuttering absent on Sony's hardware and the PS5 Pro delivering the cleanest image of any platform.

GPTRACK50's debut action RPG has a date, a price, and a co-publishing deal with Sega. It's landing right in the middle of October's brutal release window.

Tom Holland and the Brand New Day stunt team pulled finishing moves straight from Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man 2, with action designers screengrabbing combat animations and recreating them on set.

Sandfall Interactive's Game of the Year winner was built to be beautiful on high-end hardware. Getting it running on Switch 2 with a team of 26 is a different problem entirely.

Sega is bringing back real-world storefronts for Crazy Taxi: World Tour, starting with IHOP and Amoeba Music on the West Coast map. It's a small detail that carries a lot of weight for fans of the original.

Sega is opening sign-ups for a Crazy Taxi: World Tour multiplayer closed network test running September 11-13 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Registration closes August 31.

House House's new co-op adventure Big Walk arrives on PS Plus as a day-one release in August, joined by Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition and the survival horror gem Signalis.

Xbox servers locked players out of their own libraries today, just days after PSN went down. Two major outages in one week are doing more for the pro-disc argument than any petition could.

Rockstar's decision to ship GTA 6 without a disc collides with PlayStation's limited regional support, leaving players in over 120 countries unable to redeem the game without workarounds that could get them banned.

Messhof, the studio behind competitive fencing classic Nidhogg, is launching its bullet heaven platformer Blood Dungeon on August 25 across all major platforms.

The final scheduled patch for Assassin's Creed Shadows arrives tomorrow with targeted fixes for Domains modifiers and a major correction to how conditional perks scale on enhanced gear.

Sony Santa Monica confirmed God of War Laufey's release date at San Diego Comic-Con. The PS5 exclusive launches February 16, 2027, and it's never coming to PC.

IO Interactive's first major patch for 007 First Light fixes over 200 issues and adds new content, but PS5 players are staring down a 23.84GB download while Xbox owners breeze through at 1.39GB.

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls launched its open beta on July 24th, and PSN promptly went down. PS5 players were locked out for hours while PC players got to enjoy the fighter uninterrupted.