The Witcher 3's PS5 and Xbox Series X/S next-gen upgrade may be implementing fan-made mods like The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project when it launches later this year. As reported by Kotaku, The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project's creator Halk Hogan announced that he has been in talks with CD Projekt Red about including his mod in the upcoming release. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/the-future-of-cyberpunk-2077-the-witcher-on-ps5-xbox-series-x-next-gen-console-watch"] "Hello my dear friends! It’s been a long time since the last video," Hogan wrote. "I know I announced a new HDRP preview in early March but I was silent the whole time. Sorry for that. But in return, I have some good news, and the reasons why I was quiet and why I don’t have too much to show. "I think the most important news is that I got an official message from CDPR about cooperation. While it’s not certain yet, it’s very likely that HDRP will be included in the official next generation update. I will inform you what’s next. As always, I would like to thank you for all your support and kind words. The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, which you can download now on NexusMods, has over 4.1 million downloads and "aims to improve the graphics by reworking models and textures to better quality." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2016/01/08/the-witcher-3-is-igns-game-of-the-year-2015"] Kotaku reached out to CDPR about this matter, and it responded by saying, "In addition to our own development efforts on the upcoming next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC, we are also in talks with the creators of various mods for the 2015 release of the game." CDPR confirmed there are currently no "binding agreements with any such party," but the discussions are happening. This would be another example of a AAA developer using the community to improve their games, much like Rockstar Games did when they implemented a fan-made solution to reduce GTA Online's loading screen time by 70%. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/12/31/the-best-games-of-the-ps4xbox-one-generation"] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions are currently scheduled to be released in the second half of 2021. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Sebastian Stan and Lily James look uncanny as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson in the first images for the Hulu comedy, Pam and Tommy. The TV series is focused on the real-life story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape. According to Variety the comedy also includes Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier, the man who stole and sold the sex tape. Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay, and more round out the cast. Rogen posted the first images of the main trio on his personal Twitter account and they need to be seen to be believed. Stan, fresh off his stint as Bucky Barnes in Disney Plus' Falcon and The Winter Soldier has shed some muscles and put on tattoos to become the musician Tommy Lee. And Lily James is a spitting image of Pamela Anderson.

My co-stars, Sebastian and Lily, are a lot cooler than I am. #PamandTommy pic.twitter.com/r8YWh1eBuJ

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 7, 2021

Rogen, who is also dressed in character, joked "My co-stars, Sebastian and Lily, are a lot cooler than I am." Neither Anderson nor Lee is involved in Hulu's comedy series. In fact, Hulu is working on a few other projects about real people including boxer Mike Tyson, a project the real Tyson has called "tone-deaf." If you're keen on checking out the cast in other projects, Falcon and the Winter Soldier concluded its first season a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, James is best known for her roles in shows like Downton Abbey and films like The Darkest Hour. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

Sebastian Stan and Lily James look uncanny as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson in the first images for the Hulu comedy, Pam and Tommy. The TV series is focused on the real-life story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape. According to Variety the comedy also includes Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier, the man who stole and sold the sex tape. Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay, and more round out the cast. Rogen posted the first images of the main trio on his personal Twitter account and they need to be seen to be believed. Stan, fresh off his stint as Bucky Barnes in Disney Plus' Falcon and The Winter Soldier has shed some muscles and put on tattoos to become the musician Tommy Lee. And Lily James is a spitting image of Pamela Anderson.

My co-stars, Sebastian and Lily, are a lot cooler than I am. #PamandTommy pic.twitter.com/r8YWh1eBuJ

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 7, 2021

Rogen, who is also dressed in character, joked "My co-stars, Sebastian and Lily, are a lot cooler than I am." Neither Anderson nor Lee is involved in Hulu's comedy series. In fact, Hulu is working on a few other projects about real people including boxer Mike Tyson, a project the real Tyson has called "tone-deaf." If you're keen on checking out the cast in other projects, Falcon and the Winter Soldier concluded its first season a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, James is best known for her roles in shows like Downton Abbey and films like The Darkest Hour. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza are set to reteam for another indie comedy titled Spin Me Round, per Deadline. The film will be directed by Jeff Baena from a script co-written by Baena and Brie. Brie will play a manager of an Italian eatery in Bakersfield, California who wins a trip to Florence, Italy. Given the chance to meet the restaurant chain's owner, the expedition takes an unexpected direction when she winds up with a group of other American franchise managers. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/06/27/the-little-hours-trailer-1"] Alessandro Nivola will play the owner of the company, with Molly Shannon and Lil Rel Howery also attached for starring roles. The cast will also feature Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, Ayden Mayeri, Ego Nwodim, Jake Picking, Debby Ryan, Ben Sinclair, Lauren Weedman, and Zach Woods. Brie and Plaza last teamed on 2017's medieval comedy The Little Hours, which Baena also directed. More recently, Brie starred in the Netflix original Horse Girl, which she co-wrote and produced with Baena, and had a supporting role in the Best Picture nominee Promising Young Woman. Meanwhile, Plaza has starred in films like the romantic comedy Happiest Season, Black Bear, and the 2019 reboot of Child's Play. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=2021-movies-preview&captions=true"] Additionally, Plaza and Baena had much more than a new film announced to the world today. Plaza revealed that her and Baena are now married through a new Instagram post in which she referred to the director as her "darling husband." The actress' rep later confirmed the news to People. The two have been together since 2011. In our review of The Little Hours, IGN gave the film a 6, saying it "succeeds on the talents of its cast members" while being "a one-note film that plays out its joke over and over again." [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is the freelance entertainment writer.

Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza are set to reteam for another indie comedy titled Spin Me Round, per Deadline. The film will be directed by Jeff Baena from a script co-written by Baena and Brie. Brie will play a manager of an Italian eatery in Bakersfield, California who wins a trip to Florence, Italy. Given the chance to meet the restaurant chain's owner, the expedition takes an unexpected direction when she winds up with a group of other American franchise managers. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/06/27/the-little-hours-trailer-1"] Alessandro Nivola will play the owner of the company, with Molly Shannon and Lil Rel Howery also attached for starring roles. The cast will also feature Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, Ayden Mayeri, Ego Nwodim, Jake Picking, Debby Ryan, Ben Sinclair, Lauren Weedman, and Zach Woods. Brie and Plaza last teamed on 2017's medieval comedy The Little Hours, which Baena also directed. More recently, Brie starred in the Netflix original Horse Girl, which she co-wrote and produced with Baena, and had a supporting role in the Best Picture nominee Promising Young Woman. Meanwhile, Plaza has starred in films like the romantic comedy Happiest Season, Black Bear, and the 2019 reboot of Child's Play. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=2021-movies-preview&captions=true"] Additionally, Plaza and Baena had much more than a new film announced to the world today. Plaza revealed that her and Baena are now married through a new Instagram post in which she referred to the director as her "darling husband." The actress' rep later confirmed the news to People. The two have been together since 2011. In our review of The Little Hours, IGN gave the film a 6, saying it "succeeds on the talents of its cast members" while being "a one-note film that plays out its joke over and over again." [poilib element="accentDivider"] J. Kim Murphy is the freelance entertainment writer.

Days Gone is the latest PlayStation exclusive to head to the PC. Today, developer Bend Studio has shared some details about what settings players can expect to find on the PC version. Unfortunately, Days Gone on PC will not support DLSS or ray tracing. In an FAQ for Days Gone's PC version, Bend revealed that the upcoming PC release will not support Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology which uses deep learning to upscale lower-resolution images in real-time. It's a pretty cool bit of tech that increased frame rate substantially depending on the game. Likewise, ray-tracing won't be supported on PC either meaning the powerful light rendering techniques in new-gen systems will be absent on PC for Days Gone. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/25/days-gone-story-trailer"] However, Days Gone will boast a bunch of customizable options for PC. Everything from an increased level of detail, foliage draw distance, shadow quality, renders, textures, Field of View, and more will be scalable to varying degrees. Days Gone also supports 60 FPS or unlocked framerate as well as ultra-wide monitor support. PlayStation's last PC port, Horizon Zero Dawn, also lacked ray tracing and DLSS support, which was notable because Horizon ran on the Decima engine. The same engine Kojima Productions used for Death Stranding, which supported DLSS on PCs. Still, despite some framerate issues which were patched, Horizon Zero Dawn's visuals on PC were applauded and the added power will likely help Days Gone when it makes its way over to PC later this month. The Days Gone series has reportedly been put on something of a back-burner after reports came out saying a sequel was shelved. Days Gone's director has said if players want a sequel, they should purchase games at full price. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

Days Gone is the latest PlayStation exclusive to head to the PC. Today, developer Bend Studio has shared some details about what settings players can expect to find on the PC version. Unfortunately, Days Gone on PC will not support DLSS or ray tracing. In an FAQ for Days Gone's PC version, Bend revealed that the upcoming PC release will not support Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology which uses deep learning to upscale lower-resolution images in real-time. It's a pretty cool bit of tech that increased frame rate substantially depending on the game. Likewise, ray-tracing won't be supported on PC either meaning the powerful light rendering techniques in new-gen systems will be absent on PC for Days Gone. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/25/days-gone-story-trailer"] However, Days Gone will boast a bunch of customizable options for PC. Everything from an increased level of detail, foliage draw distance, shadow quality, renders, textures, Field of View, and more will be scalable to varying degrees. Days Gone also supports 60 FPS or unlocked framerate as well as ultra-wide monitor support. PlayStation's last PC port, Horizon Zero Dawn, also lacked ray tracing and DLSS support, which was notable because Horizon ran on the Decima engine. The same engine Kojima Productions used for Death Stranding, which supported DLSS on PCs. Still, despite some framerate issues which were patched, Horizon Zero Dawn's visuals on PC were applauded and the added power will likely help Days Gone when it makes its way over to PC later this month. The Days Gone series has reportedly been put on something of a back-burner after reports came out saying a sequel was shelved. Days Gone's director has said if players want a sequel, they should purchase games at full price. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

After Returnal’s previous major update resulted in players having their save files corrupted, developer Housemarque has announced that May 8’s patch will solve the issue.

Housemarque made the announcement Friday on Twitter. The Returnal 1.3.6 patch will go live on May 8 at 11 AM GMT/4 AM PDT, but warned players to still disable the auto-update feature on their PlayStation 5 in the meantime.

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Though Returnal received generally positive reviews for its blend of bullet-hell action and roguelike progression, including from IGN, a common criticism was that Returnal’s single-life runs could take upwards of two hours. That issue is compounded by the fact that you can’t save your game mid-run. The only way to theoretically “save” your progress is to put your PS5 in rest mode, but any auto-update applied to Returnal would result in your current run being wiped.

Housemarque released Returnal’s 1.3.3 patch on Wednesday, which contained a number of standard bug fixes, but unexpectedly resulted in players having their save files corrupted. At the time, the only way to fix the issue was to redownload Returnal. Housemarque quickly released a patch that reverted the game back to its 1.3.1 state.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/03/april-2021s-best-and-worst-reviewed-games-reviews-in-review"]

Now, Returnal’s 1.3.6 patch will also address a number of bugs and issues, including stability fixes, pre-order cosmetics blocking progress, incorrect healing behavior, custom controller mapping issues, and more.

In the age of excellent roguelikes such as Hades, Returnal has spurred plenty of discussion on what makes a great roguelike adventure. IGN’s own senior news editor Kat Bailey says that Returnal isn’t too difficult, it’s just too long for its own good. If you’re wondering how to have a better run in Returnal, check out our wiki guide where we answer what to do first in Returnal, 23 things Returnal doesn’t tell you, and how to unlock the secret ending. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/patch note for IGN.

After Returnal’s previous major update resulted in players having their save files corrupted, developer Housemarque has announced that May 8’s patch will solve the issue.

Housemarque made the announcement Friday on Twitter. The Returnal 1.3.6 patch will go live on May 8 at 11 AM GMT/4 AM PDT, but warned players to still disable the auto-update feature on their PlayStation 5 in the meantime.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/29/returnal-review"]

Though Returnal received generally positive reviews for its blend of bullet-hell action and roguelike progression, including from IGN, a common criticism was that Returnal’s single-life runs could take upwards of two hours. That issue is compounded by the fact that you can’t save your game mid-run. The only way to theoretically “save” your progress is to put your PS5 in rest mode, but any auto-update applied to Returnal would result in your current run being wiped.

Housemarque released Returnal’s 1.3.3 patch on Wednesday, which contained a number of standard bug fixes, but unexpectedly resulted in players having their save files corrupted. At the time, the only way to fix the issue was to redownload Returnal. Housemarque quickly released a patch that reverted the game back to its 1.3.1 state.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/03/april-2021s-best-and-worst-reviewed-games-reviews-in-review"]

Now, Returnal’s 1.3.6 patch will also address a number of bugs and issues, including stability fixes, pre-order cosmetics blocking progress, incorrect healing behavior, custom controller mapping issues, and more.

In the age of excellent roguelikes such as Hades, Returnal has spurred plenty of discussion on what makes a great roguelike adventure. IGN’s own senior news editor Kat Bailey says that Returnal isn’t too difficult, it’s just too long for its own good. If you’re wondering how to have a better run in Returnal, check out our wiki guide where we answer what to do first in Returnal, 23 things Returnal doesn’t tell you, and how to unlock the secret ending. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/patch note for IGN.

Resident Evil Village is setting new records for the series on PC. According to Steam Database, it's currently sitting at 101,376 concurrent players, which is a new high-water mark for Resident Evil on Steam. It's enough to beat the Resident Evil 2, the previous record, by about 25,000 concurrent users. Resident Evil 2 topped out at 74,227 concurrent players, while Resident Evil 3 was able to attract just over 60,000 players. It's a far cry from 2017, when Resident Evil was considered to be a struggling series in some quarters, along with the rest of Capcom. It was in 2017 that Capcom released Resident Evil 7, and while it ultimately peaked at only about 20,000 users, it nevertheless set the stage for its comeback after the troubled release of Resident Evil 6. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/05/resident-evil-village-review"] Fast-forward to 2021, and Resident Evil Village is a major next-gen release that is enjoying strong reviews. We gave it an 8/10, calling it a "disturbing and deadly Disneyland" that may nevertheless disappoint due to its relative lack of psychological horror. If you're one of the 100,000 or so people who happens to be playing Resident Evil Village right now, you may find our guide on how to avoid Lady Dimitrescu of use, as well as some of our essential tips. We also delved into how parity clauses relate to games like Resident Evil Village. Resident Evil Village released on PS5, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Google Stadia, and PC earlier today. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.