Helldivers 2 gets gassy with Chemical Agents Warbond, pull my finger emote included

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed its next Premium Warbond, known as Chemical Agents.
Chemical Agents comes complete with some “seriously deadly toys”, including stratagems, utilities, emotes and more.
On the Warbond’s release, players will be able to get their hands on the likes of the TX-41 Sterilizer, the G-4 Gas grenade (which will “cover the whole area in a cloud of noxious fumes”) and the new utility P-11 Stim Pistol. You can check out the gas-filled trailer for Chemical Agents below.

Helldivers 2 – Chemical Agents Premium Warbond | PS5 & PC Games

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Cyberpunk 2077 fans pledge $2m to make official board game happen

Cyberpunk 2077 fans have pledged more than $2m to ensure a new, official board game version of CD Projekt Red’s role-playing game is made.

The crowdfunding campaign for Cyberpunk 2077 – The Board Game on GameFound obliterated its initial $100k goal in just 10 minutes and four seconds. As of writing, almost £2.1m has been pledged, and counting. 16 days of the campaign remain.

This tabletop version of Cyberpunk 2077 sees you taking on missions and follow branching, replayable stories as V, Panam, Jackie or Judy across Night City. It’s been created by Game On Board, the company that previously made a couple of official The Witcher board games, with support from CD Projekt Red itself.

Image credit: Go On Board

A standard edition of the Cyberpunk 2077…

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PS5 Pro upgrade patches for "about 40 or 50 games" at launch this November

Fresh off its PlayStation 5 Pro reveal, Sony has reportedly confirmed “about 40 or 50 or games” will get PS5 Pro upgrade patches when the console launches on 7th November.

That nugget of information comes via a report from CNET, which chatted with PlayStation’s lead system architect Mark Cerny ahead of today’s PS5 Pro reveal. So far, Sony has only officially named 13 games set to recieve PS5 Pro upgrades on launch day, meaning there’s still plenty more to be shared. Those game, incidentally, are as follows:

PlayStation 5 Pro Console – Reveal Trailer

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Concord unceremoniously goes offline with an anticlimactic "error" message

Concord, Sony’s floundering 5v5 hero shooter, has now officially gone offline just two weeks after its PS5 and PC launch – its short life abruptly ending with an undignified “error” message.

Concord was unveiled last May as part of former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan’s optimistically expansive push into live-service gaming. Unfortunately for Sony and developer Firewalk Studios, Concord’s launch this August failed to make much of an impact – player numbers were less-than-stellar, and subsequent reports claimed only around 25,000 copies had been sold.

Still, it was a bit of a shock when Sony announced it was pulling the plug on Concord earlier this week so soon after release, Firewalk admitting “our initial launch didn’t land” and confirming Concord would be taken…

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