It seems that recently the PC release of the remastered Darksiders games has been suffering a few performance issues, mainly on cards made by AMD. Now THQ Nordic say that they’ve managed to fix the issue and released a patch.

Players were experiencing some frame spikes on AMD cards, with a few getting particularly severe ones. Now that the patch has been applied, people are beginning to report that the frame rate is keeping a lot more consistent around 60FPS. This bodes well for people who were previously having issues, and unless you hear reports of something going wrong because of an update, it’s always a good idea to keep your games and software up-to-date anyway.

The patch has also fixed an edge case where players couldn’t save their keybindings if they already had a pre-existing configuration set. However, there is still a memory leak issue that hasn’t been quite stamped on. Games seem to be able to run for around 2 hours before crashing to desktop, but given that custom-build PCs are always different to each other it varies wildly from machine to machine. THQ Nordic are still working on the leak issue.

Either way, if you have the game on PC, best log into Steam and let it do its updating work. It’ll save on patching time when the memory leaks do get sorted out after all.

Blizzard’s doing their part for charity this festive season by pledging the money you use to purchase a pet in World of Warcraft towards helping sick children live out their dreams if you buy one before the end of the year.

Mischief, the Fel kitty, is a release in line with WoW’s current expansion Legion which sees an awful lot of demons and the Fel-tainted popping up everywhere causing trouble. Mischief himself isn’t that bad, costing you only £9 or $10 to adopt and have ready to stand by the sides of all of your characters tied to your Battle.net account. And all of that money, 100% of it, will be given as part of the donation Blizzard will be making to the Make A Wish foundation.

If you’d rather have a softer, more physical version you can do that too. There’s a plushie of the Fel kitty available in the Gear store for $25. Not all of that goes to charity, but at $14 that’s still more than half of it going to good causes.

If you want to support Blizzard’s efforts, you have until December 31st to buy the pet in-game.

Overwatch gets special limited edition content released for big events or holidays, we know this now. First it was the Summer Games content for the Olympics, then we had Halloween’s Dr. Junkenstein’s Revenge. Christmas content is inevitable and some eager gamers have been sneaking a look through datamining.

What’s been found so far are references to new maps, something that could be the holiday’s potential special gamemode (ala Lucioball or Junkenstein’s Revenge), which characters are getting new festive skins and even the menu music.

On the subject of the maps and gamemode, the file references seem to suggest something like the Halloween gamemode with a specialised map for it. Some other maps might also get a little Christmas decoration too for the length of the seasonal event.

On the cosmetic side, every character will be getting a new spray, voice line and victory pose through the Christmas loot crates, but just as with Halloween only not all of them will be getting a skin, emote or highlight intro though the loot crates. Those characters getting at least ONE of the three will be Widowmaker, Reinhardt, Mercy, Symmetra, Reaper, Sombra, Roadhog, D.Va, Ana, Soldier: 76, and Lúcio. The ones getting TWO are Winston, McCree, Mei, Pharah, Zarya, Tracer, and Zenyatta; however Torbjorn will be getting all THREE from the loot. This hints that maybe his character will be put into an important role for the new gamemode possibly.

We should see when the event kicks off. December the 13th is the estimated date of release right now, which would take it through to January 3rd if it ran for the same three-week period of time as other events. However, keep your eyes on the official channels for more information as Blizzard release it.

It’s December at last, so finally Christmas is allowed to be absolutely everywhere. Including in video game launch trailers apparently.

As the tale “Twas the night before Christmas” is read, we get a load of footage of the sort of gameplay the Dead Rising series is famous for – slaughtering huge packs of zombies in the most creative and strange ways you can. And, as the trailer confirms, Dead Rising 4 will be out on December 6th, well in time to make it under many peoples’ Christmas trees. The Xbox team will be doing “something” in London on Monday to mark the game’s release as well, so keep your eyes and ears open for what that is.

DR4 is going to be revisiting the start of the series in this game, but will come with the new weapons to make and photos to take that you’d expect from a new entry into any game series.

Titanfall 2 has already had quite the price drop despite having only launched recently. Now, if you’re still not sure, it’s getting a limited trial so people can try out the multiplayer for a few days before Christmas.

The trial has been open to Origin Access members since the end of November, and now it’s being opened to all from the 2nd to the 4th. There’s no provision of any of the singleplayer elements to it, but the multiplayer is the part that Titanfall was originally built on. Even if the singleplayer is reviewing greatly to people playing it, there’s no value to EA letting players have the chance to potentially finish it for free unfortunately. At least you can get a feel for the game before you decide to buy it or not for that story.

The trial might only be open for a few days but the hours aren’t limited at all. You could play the full chunk of hours non-stop if you wanted to… and were able to handle it. The demo is available for download now at the Origin store.

What’s more, a new map is dropping for the game pretty soon during the trial period. Angel City is the first DLC drop from developers Respawn for the game and is a free piece of DLC to boot. People who pre-ordered have, again, had access since the end of November, but it’s nice to think that even people in the trial will be able to play it soon. Respawn have also said that all post-launch content (maps, weapons, gamemodes etc.) will be free too, so there’s even more to come if you do decide to stick around.

What’s more, any progress you make in the trial can then be transferred over to the full game should you buy it. So really, you might as well give it a go if you’re curious. It’s free, so what do you have to lose?