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A new patch is coming to the PlayStation 4 version of No Man’s Sky this week, Hello Games has announced. When it’s released, it will mean that around 90 percent of the space game’s crash issues have been resolved, the developer behind the ambitious space-adventure game said on Twitter.

The new patch, 1.06, is currently in testing and is scheduled to come out this week, Hello Games said, though a specific release date was not announced.

You can expect further patches, too, as part of Hello Games’ effort to fix all crash scenarios on PS4.

“We obviously won’t stop until these issues are 100% resolved,” the developer said (via VideoGamer.com). “Also these patches contain other fixes and improvements too. Thanks all.”

Hello Games also shared some details on how crash-reporting works for No Man’s Sky. Every time the game crashes, a report is sent to Hello Games. Since the game’s launch on August 9, the studio has been collecting these and categorizing them in order of priority.

“This has been incredibly useful, and allows us to know exactly how many people are affected,” it said.

Hello Games has updated the PS4 version of No Man’s Sky at least two other times since launch to fix the crashing problems.

The PC version of No Man’s Sky has not been without its issues, either, including things like performance and frame rate problems in addition to crashes. Hello Games has patched that version a number of times since its release on August 12–and more updates are on the way.

For more on No Man’s Sky, check out GameSpot’s review and what other critics are saying.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox Play Anywhere feature, which lets you buy a digital game once on Xbox One and get the Windows 10 PC version free or vice versa, represents a “tremendous value.”

That’s according to Xbox boss Aaron Greenberg, who told DualShockers that the goal for the program is to open up games to a new audience to grow the profile of each franchise.

“So that is absolutely exciting,” Greenberg said. “To be able to do that and to say: You’ll be able to play both versions on both platforms without having to pay twice… I think is a tremendous value.”

The first Xbox Play Anywhere game is ReCore, the new title from Mega Man designer Keiji Inafune. Other upcoming ones include Forza Horizon 3, Gears of War 4, and Halo Wars 2. Regarding sales, Greenberg said he anticipates Xbox Play Anywhere titles to sell “pretty well on PC.”

“I think we will see that a lot of gamers, despite us putting them in already pre-defined buckets, most gamers play on multiple devices. They play on the console and on the PC,” he said.

“For me as a gamer, the benefit of, ‘Hey, if I’m at home and I wanna start playing Gears, but then I’m at work, at school, on the road, wherever it might be, and I can continue where I left off in my PC,’ is a tremendous benefit,” Greenberg added. “It gives a lot more value to the games for fans. So we’re excited and we’ll see. It’s something that we’d like to hear people’s feedback about, and hopefully they’re excited about it and they’ll support it, so that we can continue to do it, and other partners will see the opportunity there as well.”

Not everyone has been so happy about Microsoft’s efforts to bring console games to PC, something that Greenberg has already responded to.

The executive went on to say that part of the reason why Microsoft is launching Xbox Play Anywhere is to catch up with what has been the norm in other forms of entertainment for many years now.

“If I buy digital entertainment content today, movies, music, etcetera, it streams across your devices. So we wanted to enable that for gaming, and that’s a consumer benefit,” he explained.

Read the full DualShockers interview here.

Microsoft may be going all-in on its console/PC unification strategy, but it appears Sony won’t follow suit. PlayStation president Andrew House recently said he’s unsure if people would be interested in that.

“Yes, there was a big emphasis from the folks at Microsoft on Xbox and PC cross-play. It remains to be seen whether there is latent large consumer demand for that,” the executive explained.

In other news about Xbox and PC, Microsoft has said it might release more games on Steam.

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Is Star Wars: Rogue One and Casino Royale actor Mads Mikkelsen in Hideo Kojima’s next game? That’s the question people are asking today after evidence has come to light that suggest he will have some role in Kojima’s first post-Konami game, the mysterious and intriguing Death Stranding for PS4 and PC.

Here’s how it all started. First, Kojima himself tweeted a picture of a man in a motion-capture studio wearing an orange-and-grey hoodie. Then, somehow, this Instagram user published a picture of himself with the actor, who appears to be wearing the same sweatshirt.

More interestingly, the Instagram user, jmerskine1, says he chatted with Mikkelsen, who reportedly told him that he was acting in a video game from a Japanese developer. He also remarked that “[Mikkelsen] was very intentionally vague…” about what he could say.

Possibly lending even more credence to the thought that Mikkelsen is in Death Stranding is that Kojima himself is a big fan of the actor. In a January 2015 tweet dug up by Eurogamer, Kojima called Mikkelsen his “favorite actor.”

As of yet, Mikkelsen’s involvement in Death Stranding is only a rumor.

He wouldn’t be the first celebrity to have a part in the game, however, as The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus is also in it. Kojima’s last game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, featured Kiefer Sutherland as the main character, Snake.

Death Stranding was announced at E3 2016 during Sony’s briefing. The game is a console exclusive for PS4, but will also come to PC. The game remains very mysterious and we have lots of questions. Don’t expect the game to come out soon, however, as Kojima says it’s still early days.

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Just recently, Microsoft announced that Quantum Break is coming to Steam, following its release on Xbox One and the Windows Store for PC. Could more Microsoft-published games come to Valve’s digital storefront in the future? Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg said in a new interview Microsoft will put games on Steam “where it makes sense” instead of declaring that all of its games will come to the store.

“Well, from a fist-party standpoint, over the years, we’ve always had titles in the Steam store, from Age of Empires, to Alan Wake, to even more recently we had titles like Ori and State of Decay,” Greenberg told DualShockers. “We have and we’ll continue to look where it makes sense to bring out titles to Steam.”

“We’re excited to have brought Quantum Break there, we know there are fans of the Steam store, and costumers there that we can reach, that will enable the title to have even more success.”

Overall, Greenberg said Microsoft will continue to think about Steam when it’s deciding where to launch its PC games. However, he mentioned again that this will only be “where it’ll make sense.”

Greenberg did not offer any insight into what factors Microsoft takes into consideration when it’s deciding where to release its PC games.

You can read the full DualShockers interview here.

Quantum Break comes to Steam on September 14 alongside a version of the game for physical retailers called Quantum Break: Timeless Collector’s Edition.

The version of Quantum Break coming to Steam will include “all of the latest updates.” Quantum Break’s Steam version and the Timeless Collector’s Edition will sell for $40. In other news about Quantum Break for Steam, developer Remedy Entertainment has confirmed you won’t need Windows 10 to play it.

Greenberg’s comments about possibly releasing more Microsoft-published games on Steam is no real surprise. At E3 this year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said more Steam releases of Microsoft-published games were on the way. Steam has more than 125 million users.

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Fallout 4‘s Nuka-World expansion doesn’t launch until August 30, but you don’t have to wait that long to see the content in action. As announced previously, Bethesda will broadcast new footage today, August 23, during a livestream event. The developer has done the same with some of the game’s past expansions.

The video event kicks off at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET today. You can watch the event live on Bethesda’s Twitch channel, which we’ll embed here as the show draws nearer.

Nuka-World, which is set in a post-apocalyptic amusement park, is Fallout 4’s sixth and final expansion. Some new gameplay was released last week and can be seen in the video above.

The expansion adds new quests, weapons, and enemies, though Bethesda has not fully detailed what players can expect in terms of story and content. We may learn more today during the livestream.

Fallout 4’s other expansions included Automatron (March 2016), Wasteland Workshop (April 2016), Far Harbor (May 2016), Contraptions Workshop (June 2016), and Vault-Tec Workshop (July 2016). All of that, as well as Nuka-World, is included with the $50 Fallout 4 DLC Pass.

Alternatively, you can buy Nuka-World on its own for $20. You can see some images of the DLC in the gallery immediately below.

In other news about Nuka-World, a recent report claimed that its file size is bigger than Far Harbor’s, while beta codes are going out now. Additionally, PS4 users are still waiting for the promised mods support.

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