Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6’s lead, will also require secure boot on PC

I’m sure Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 won’t be exactly the same game, despite their obvious bullet casing-littered common ground. However, they are opting to mirror each other in one manner – both will require you to enable secure booting on your PC.

As if summoned to do so by EA letting everyone know that this week’s BF6 open beta would necessitate a delve in your BIOS to click yes on a thing in the name of eliminating cheating, Activision have revealed Blops is doing the same thing.

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With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a “substantial increase in server capacity” should just have helped

If you’ve tried to hop into the Battlefield 6‘s open beta’s early access period this morning and have ended up sitting a queue behind thousands of other folks in camo gear, then don’t panic. Or at least that’s what EA say, as their wrenches slam against the game’s servers in an attempt to let more people in.

With players stuck twiddling their thumbs in lines that can stick you as far away as 240-something thousandth from the front, the developers have been jolted into action. After all, you don’t want to anger the sorts of folks who’re up for shooting some blokes on an otherwise chill Thursday morning.

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Elden Ring Nightreign is getting an “endless mode” with special relics and “magmafied” bosses, claim dataminers

Some dataminers digging into Elden Ring Nightreign‘s files following the arrival of its Duos update claim to have uncovered some details about an endless mode.

As reported by PC Gamer, said new mode is allegedly called ‘Deep of Night’, and will see you grouped with similarly skiller nighfarers to fight your way up through the ranks of a new rating system that players reckon could work similarly to Armored Core 6’s rankings.

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You can still get into this weekend’s Battlefield 6 beta but you’ll have to watch 30 minutes of those awful Twitch people

If you failed to swipe a key for this week’s Battlefield 6 beta, because you neither signed up via the Battlefield Labs programme before 31st July nor watched Your Favourite Creators play the game during the recent multiplayer reveal, then Don’t Sweat It, Soldier, because Drill Sergeant EA Have Your Back in the shape of a last-gasp code giveaway.

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League of Legends: Wild Rift exec producer says AI slop-looking anniversary video “did not hit the mark”

League of Legends: Wild Rift executive producer David Xu has said Riot “can and will do better,” after sharing an anniversary video to the game’s account on Chinese social media site Weibo that very much looks to be AI slop.

However, Xu hasn’t confirmed that the video did use AI in this sort-of-apology, instead claiming this was a “creator-made” video that’d found its way onto the League of Legends‘ spin-off’s official channels.

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Please make the USA the villain in the next Call of Duty or Battlefield game

I’m not the first journalist to accuse Battlefield 6 of failing to read the room. The new Battlefield’s single player story explores a near-future in which NATO has collapsed, a dastardly private military corporation has filled the power vacuum, and the USA’s somehow-outgunned military must fight to reunite old allies under the Stars and Stripes. The campaign includes an invasion of New York, with street battles waged against the balaclava-huffing scoundrels of “Pax Armata” in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge. Many valiant helicopters lay down their lives in the process, and the soul of Bob Dylan is flown from every flagpole.

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After being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content rules, horror game Vile: Exhumed launches for free

Horror game Vile: Exhumed, which sees you delving into a 90s computer to uncover a man’s obsession with an adult film actress, has launched as a free download after being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content, according to developer Cara Cadaver of Final Girl Games.

Initially released via Itch.io (where that version remains live), the game was set to to debut on Steam on July 22, but had its page on Valve’s platform pulled down. Cadaver and publisher DreadXP say “sexual content with depictions of real people” was the reasoning given for this by Valve, despit the game featuring “no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography”.

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