Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has received a PlayStation 5 performance and visual update.

The upgrade for Fatshark's melee co-op game includes a boosted framerate of 60fps at 1440p resolution, improved shadow quality and casting, higher density scattering, and screen space reflections.

A similar update to the game was released on Xbox Series X and S earlier this year.

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Games Workshop kicked off its Warhammer Skulls event with a raft of video game announcements alongside new trailers and images. Strap yourself in, there's a lot of Warhammer stuff in here.

First up is the reveal of Total War: Warhammer 2's final DLC, which reworks the poor old Beastmen.

Creative Assembly didn't stop there. The UK developer announced Skarbrand as a Legendary Lord for Khorne in the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3.

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If you've been gripped with a sudden, feverish desire to wallop some magical, man-sized rodents this weekend, but are struggling to locate a suitable outlet for your needs, perhaps you'd like to head over to Steam, where developer Fatshark's enjoyable four-player co-operate rat-smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is having a free weekend.

Vermintide 2 - which is free to try right now until Sunday, 24th November - plays out a little something like a furrier version of Valve's classic Left 4 Dead series. Combat is brutal - full of sword-swinging, axe-smashing, spell-casting, arrow-finging, and even the occasional gun - and the swarming hordes are giant rodent horrors, rather than your usual undead.

The goal is simple enough; four players, each adopting one of five distinct character classes - Bright Wizard, Waywatcher, Witch Hunter, Dwarf Ranger, and Empire Soldier - must make it through to the end. Death is inevitable and co-ordination is key.

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Games Workshop has announced Warhammer The Old World, an upcoming return to the Fantasy Battle-era of the tabletop game.

We only occasionally dabble in tabletop gaming news here on Eurogamer (if you're after an expert view of the scene - and a lot of fun to boot - check out our friends over at Dicebreaker). But I can't help but view this piece of news through a video game lens.

For the uninitiated, back in 2015, Games Workshop destroyed Warhammer's much-loved Old World and replaced the Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles tabletop with the Age of Sigmar. This was a resounding success in tabletop land, and Warhammer hasn't looked back since.

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You're going to be able to play as the baddies! Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a player versus player Versus mode, where one team plays as four heroes, and the other as four Skaven or Chaos.

But isn't this - PvP - something developer Fatshark said it wouldn't do? Yes. "It's true," Fatshark wrote in a statement on the Vermintide 2 website. "We have felt in the past that as a studio we wanted to focus on our proven strengths - making a great co-op game. We like to think Vermintide 2 and it's predecessor deliver on that goal.

"We have always had PvP as a mode for Vermintide in the corner of our minds, though. In terms of focus, it's been in the 'cool to have' box for a very long time, but in terms of priority, the core co-op experience remained at the very top of our list. This hasn't really changed even with the development of Versus.

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After what feels like a very long wait, co-op rat smasher Vermintide 2 now has a PlayStation 4 release date: 18th December. That's just one month away!

Before that, you can try the game on PlayStation 4 via a closed beta if you pre-order Vermintide 2's Ultimate Edition from the PlayStation Store. Doing so will also grant you four days early access to the full game before it launches, alongside some other gubbins.

So far, it seems like the only way to access the closed beta is to put your money down for the game's 45 Ultimate Edition. This also contains extra skins, portrait frames and a keep statue, as well as its two DLCs.

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Co-op rat smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is returning to its roots for Back to Ubersreik, a nostalgia-filled pack of maps fans of the series will likely remember.

Coming in December priced 7/€8/$10, the DLC is meant as a homecoming for our heroes across a trio of Vermintide 1 maps, including fan-favourite Horn of Magnus. There's a "secret surprise" in there too.

Here's a trailer:

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Developer Fatshark's excellent four-player co-operative rat-smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently free to play on Steam, and will remain so until Monday, September 3rd.

Vermintide 2, for the uninitiated, plays out a little like Valve's classic Left 4 Dead series, albeit with particularly brutal combat, and a bunch of horrifyingly malevolent rat people to maim instead of zombies.

In Vermintide, teams of four players - choosing from one of five distinct heroes, each offering three possible "career" classes - battle it out in a relentless assault of sword swings, axe plunges, whistling arrows, magic, and bullets. However, careful coordination is required to fend off the Skaven hordes, scour stages for reward-boosting items, and live to see another day.

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The first additional downloadable content for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has been announced. It's called Shadows over Bogenhafen and will be released 28th August on PC and Xbox One. Vermintide 2 isn't yet available on PS4 but will be at some point later this year.

There's not much known about Shadows over Bogenhafen yet - and the trailer barely reveals anything - except it will apparently, according to a press release, test heroes like never before. The baddie behind the mayhem is Plague Lord Nurgle, also known as Grandfather Nurgle (and a string of other names).

Bogenhafen, in the world of Warhammer, is a market town. Presumably it's now in rather a bad situation you will have to clear up.

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Microsoft has announced some more games coming to Xbox Game Pass - and it's a tidy list of titles.

At E3, Microsoft announced Fallout 4, The Division and The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited would come to Microsoft's Netflix-style subscription service.

Also coming in July are Warhammer: Vermintide 2, DiRT 4 and Zombie Army Trilogy.

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