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Telltale Games has released a patch for its Batman series. The update is designed to address low frame rates issues, resolution problems, and crashes found in the PC version.

In a post on the Telltale Games website, the studio said these issues were being caused by integrated graphics cards.

“Investigations indicate that many of these issues appear to have been due to running the game on integrated graphics cards rather than dedicated,” it explained. “Or [they] were the result of out of date drivers. Special thanks to those in the community who have already helped others resolve these issues before a patch could go live.”

The patch notes can be found below:

• Automatically defaults the game to run on dedicated graphics card
• Adds graphics settings to enable selection of Higher Performance Textures or Higher Quality Textures (please select Higher Performance if performance is an issue)

Telltale has advised players to update their drivers before running the game.

Reports of the problem flooded the game’s Steam page, where players also discussed workarounds and their own fixes. These include disabling display scaling to resolve blurry, low-resolution graphics and downloading a certain file to avoid a DirectX error on Windows 7.

In GameSpot’s Batman: The Telltale Series Episode One review, the season premiere earned a score of 8/10.

“While many fixate on breaking the Batman, Telltale wants to bring down Bruce Wayne, and it demonstrates an understanding that people and relationships are the key to this,” I said. “Episode one begins the process of unravelling him, and sets the stage to lay him bare. Impressively, by sticking to its strengths, Telltale also delivers on the experience of being Batman. Realm of Shadows establishes a compelling Bruce Wayne narrative and is an exciting start to the series.”

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EA has discussed sales expectations for Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2, two of its biggest games of 2016. In its latest earnings report, chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said it has projected Battlefield 1 sales to be “slightly under” what the franchise typically does in a year.

Despite this, EA is optimistic Battlefield 1 can exceed its projection: “Typically a Battlefield does 15 million in a year. Our guidance is slightly under that and we hope that excitement builds and it’ll go through that number, but for now it’s slightly under that number.”

The sales guidance EA has issues could be considered as conservative, considering the overwhelmingly positive reception Battlefield 1 has received since its debut. A week after the first trailer was released it became the most liked trailer of all time on YouTube. It currently has 43 million views. However, view counts for trailers aren’t necessarily indicators of future performance.

Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall 2, meanwhile, will perform better than its predecessor, according to Jorgensen. This is in part because there are more people with current-gen consoles, but also because the game will launch on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The first game in the series was exclusive to Microsoft consoles and PC.

“[The first] Titanfall did a little more than seven million units last time. It was early in the cycle, one of the few titles out there. We think [Titanfall 2 will] do more than that, but it’s probably closer to 10 [million] than it is to 15, as built into our guidance. So 9-10 on Titanfall and just under 15 on Battlefield 1.”

Battlefield 1 has a confirmed release date of October 21. Titanfall 2’s release date is October 28, just a few days later. EA believes having both games launch alongside each other will strengthen its position in the shooter genre, instead of cannibalising the sales of both games.

“[Shooters are] a giant category in our industry, $4.5 billion, there’s a very broad and diverse set of players who are looking to fulfill different gameplay motivations,” chief executive Andrew Wilson previously said. “Some people play very quick play, some people play more strategic, some people want both in different context.

“We feel we have a really strong position to deliver the broader set of gameplay mechanics as it relates to the first-person shooter genre across two titles. I feel very confident that we are well positioned to do very well in that category in the year.”

At E3 2016, EA confirmed Titanfall 2 will have a full story-driven campaign.

“Titanfall 2’s single-player is crafted to dive deeper into the Titanfall universe, exploring the unique bonds between Pilot and Titan, and taking full advantage of the movement and combat, to deliver a feeling a feeling of being unstoppable together,” EA’s Devin Bennett said.

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Atlus has released a new, very short, gameplay video for Persona 5. This one is all about Ryuji Sakamoto. Like Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, he’s the team’s troublemaker.

Also like Kanji, it looks like Ryuji packs a big punch. In the video we get to see him stun an entire party of enemies. This lets the team execute their All-Out Attack, during which they rush their opponents down. Check it out below.

Atlus also previously released a Persona 5 video focused on Morgana, the talking cat.

Persona 5 was shown at E3 in June and, during the event, it was revealed that in-game activities include school quizzes, so prepare to have your knowledge tested yet again. We also got another look at Persona 5’s stunning menus.

Persona 5 launches in Japan this September, but won’t be out in North America until February 14, 2017. As of yet, it does not have a release European release date, but Atlus has signed a publishing deal with Deep Silver to bring the game to Europe.

If you want to see more of the game, check out the first 18 minutes of Persona 5 here.

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Rare has released the first in what looks to be a series of Sea of Thieves videos called “Inn-side Story.” The inaugural episode features executive producer Joe Neate and design director Gregg Mayles talking about what the game is.

“To me Sea of Thieves is basically every pirate show or film that you’ve seen, but you can actually play and be immersed in,” says Neate. “You can be the pirate you want. That’s the promise of the game for me.

“Living the pirate life is how I’d describe what we’re trying to achieve,” adds Mayles. “We want players to really immerse themselves into what it’s like to be a pirate. The sailing, the fighting, the drinking, the camaraderie, we want to give players all of that.”

The duo continue to discuss how gameplay is used to make players feel like they’re on an adventure with their friends. They also dig into how Sea of Thieves is different from an MMO, despite always being online and a multiplayer experience. Check out the video below.

Sea of Thieves will be releases for Xbox One and PC game. The Xbox Australia Twitter account previously indicated the game will launch in February 2017, however, the tweet was later removed. A Microsoft representative also made a statement that didn’t confirm or deny the reported February 2017 release window for Sea of Thieves.

“Our next goal beyond E3 is a closed beta where we’ll get some of our keenest fans involved in playing the game and providing feedback to the studio. We have nothing further to share at the moment but will have more details in the future.”

Sea of Thieves is an Xbox Play Anywhere game. That means if you buy it (digitally) on Xbox One, you will get the PC version for free and vice versa. Microsoft has also stated that this game is the best game that developer Rare has ever made.

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A Season Pass for Final Fantasy 15 has been listed on the North American and Japanese PlayStation Stores, revealing details on the extra content that will be available for Square Enix’s RPG.

Although it hasn’t been revealed how much the DLCs cost individually, or even what they include, their names allow for some educating guesses. At least three of the DLCs seem to be story episodes based around Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto, three of the games main characters.

In addition to these there is a Booster Pack, a Holiday Pack, and an Expansion Pack. It is unclear what these are.

Take a look at the name of the Season Pass DLC below, as translated by Gematsu.

• Booster Pack (DLC #1)
• Episode Gladiolus (DLC #2)
• Holiday Pack (DLC #3)
• Episode Ignis (DLC #4)
• Episode Prompto (DLC #5)
• Expansion Pack (DLC #6)

The Season Pass is included in the Digital Premium Edition of Final Fantasy 15, which is available to preorder for $84.99 on the PlayStation Store. An upgrade option is also available as a “special deal” to those that have already preordered a digital version of the game. It is available initially listed for $24.99.

The Final Fantasy 15 release date has been confirmed as September 30, 2016. It will be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while Square Enix is “thinking about a PC version.” If the RPG does come to PC, fans should not expect this version to launch alongside the console editions in September, if it happens at all.

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UPDATE: Blizzard has announced that the attacks have ended. Players are now able to log into Battle.net

The original story follows below.

Blizzard has posted updates concerning latency issues and problems connecting to Battle.net following reports of login issues. This affects all games accessed through Battle.net, including Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone. Posting on the Battle.net forums, a Blizzard representative stated, “Our network engineers are working on addressing the issue and resolving the attack as quickly as possible… Thanks for hanging in there while we deal with this attack!”

Hacking group PoodleCorp has claimed responsibility. Earlier this week, the same group claimed to have launched an attack on Pokemon Go servers.

The attack comes just after Overwatch received a big update today to celebrate the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition to new cosmetic items (see all the new skins here), the update introduced a new limited-time mode called Lucioball. The update is live now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One and will remain available until August 22.

GameSpot is monitoring this story as it develops, so check back for updates!

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