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Wednesday3rd Jul 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch Clearly Improves PS5 Performance, But It's Still Far from Perfect
Getting warmer
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 update dropped last week, promising performance improvements on PS5. The action RPG has suffered from an unruly frame rate since launch, and although Capcom did start cleaning things up with patch 1.050 just a week after the game's launch, this latest update arrives over three months later — and it still...
Friday28th Jun 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Gets a Free Trial for a Limited Time on PS5
Come forth, Arisen
If you've been tempted to try Dragon's Dogma 2 but you're yet to pull the trigger on a full purchase, you may want to give this new trial a shot. Available to download now on PS5, this is a two-hour preview where you can transfer your progress over to the game proper. There is a catch, though, in that the trial is only accessible...
Thursday27th Jun 2024
News Huge Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Update Adds Frame Rate Settings, 120FPS Is an Option
Plus an item storage overhaul
Capcom has finally got around to improving the performance of Dragon's Dogma 2 with a significant PS5 patch that can be downloaded now. From a performance standpoint, the most important addition the update brings is the ability to set "graphics settings" to either high or low. On top of that, if you own a 4K TV that...
Monday3rd Jun 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC Speculation Intensifies Thanks to Summer Game Fest Promo
Rock the dragon
Some Dragon's Dogma 2 fans are starting to get their hopes up for a DLC announcement at this week's Summer Game Fest. As always, we'd be somewhat wary of such speculation, but there is decent enough reasoning behind this line of thinking. The event's promotional trailer — put together by host Geoff Keighley himself — heavily...
Friday31st May 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 1.150 Drops as Players Still Wait for Better PS5 Performance
Not this time
Yet another update has arrived for Dragon's Dogma 2, bringing more positive adjustments to the open world RPG. However, there's still no sign of further improvements to the game's technical performance on PS5, which is already rubbing some players the wrong way. To be fair, patch 1.150 does include a nice boost to storage space, and a...
Tuesday28th May 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Tops an Impressive 3 Million Sales
The Arisen has arisen
Two and a bit months after its release, Dragon's Dogma 2 has now sold 3 million copies. Last we heard, the open world RPG had topped 2.5 million in one week or so, which means it's managed an additional 500,000 sales since. Given that the original Dragon's Dogma took years to really take off in a commercial sense, the...
Friday10th May 2024
News Capcom Now Considers Dragon's Dogma a 'Key Brand' Following Substantial Sales
Alongside Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Resi
The year is 2024, and we now live in a world where Capcom considers Dragon's Dogma to be one of its "key brands". According to the publisher's latest financial report, the action RPG series currently sits alongside the likes of Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter as a pillar property...
Friday26th Apr 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Success Means Capcom Shareholders Get a Bump
That particular bet paid off
Capcom has revealed that, mainly due to Dragon's Dogma 2's success, the company will pay out more money to shareholders than previously anticipated. The combination developer/publisher has revised its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts for the financial year ending 31st March 2024. Across all platforms, Dragon's...
Thursday25th Apr 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 1.10 Out Now on PS5, Adjusts Dragonsplague, Pawns, and More
No performance updates, though
As promised by Capcom earlier in the month, Dragon's Dogma 2 has a new update on PS5. Patch 1.10, which weighs in at a very manageable 563MB, features adjustments to various aspects of the game, like making dragonsplague easier to spot, and improving pawn behaviour. Those who caught the initial patch announcement...
Friday19th Apr 2024
News Future Dragon's Dogma 2 Update Will Nerf Its Coolest Mechanic
Dragonsplague infection reduced
Capcom has shared a list of patch notes for a Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 update that'll drop at some point later this month, and chief among them is news the game's dragonsplague mechanic will be reduced in frequency and made much more easily noticeable. The patch notes confirm the infection will be spread at a slower rate...
Tuesday9th Apr 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Patch 1.060 Isn't the Update You're Waiting For
Frame imperfect
A fresh Dragon's Dogma 2 patch has been pushed on PS5, but don't get your hopes up for any technical enhancements. Although Capcom previously said that it was planning to improve the game's frame rate via additional updates, it's apparently too soon. Instead, this new patch focuses on busting some bugs. You can download it now,...
Monday8th Apr 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Expansion? Some Players Are Convinced It's Coming
Darker Arisen
Based on Capcom's history alone, it's highly likely that Dragon's Dogma 2 will get some kind of expansion — just like the original Dragon's Dogma and Dark Arisen. But if you still need convincing, the game's community is on hand to sway your opinion. As outlined on Reddit, many players are convinced that the game itself points...
Thursday4th Apr 2024
Keep ronin, ronin, ronin
Despite Dragon's Dogma 2 boasting marginally better launch sales than Rise of the Ronin (with both titles releasing on the same day), it's Team Ninja's PS5 exclusive that's managed to stand stronger in the latest Japanese charts. Indeed, Ronin has actually done quite well for itself, shifting an additional 20,000 retail...
Friday29th Mar 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 1.050 Adds Graphics Options, Gameplay Improvements on PS5
Optional 30fps cap included
The first big update for Dragon's Dogma 2 has landed, with Capcom having promised a slew of improvements earlier in the week. Patch 1.050 is available to download now on PS5, weighing in at 515MB. This one's all about graphics options, really. The game launched with no way to adjust visuals and performance on consoles,...
Thursday28th Mar 2024
News Japan Sales Charts: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin Can't Beat Princess Peach
Feeling pink
Three relatively big games all released on the same day last week: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. But as we all know, Japan absolutely adores its Nintendo Switch exclusives — and so perhaps it's no huge surprise to see the latter title top the latest charts. To be fair, there wasn't a big gap...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC? Tell Capcom You Want Another Dark Arisen in New Survey
Arise again
Capcom has published a player survey for Dragon's Dogma 2. It asks for opinions on various aspects of the game, including what you like and dislike about it. But the most interesting question comes right at the end, which reads: "Would you be interested in purchasing DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2, if additional contents were to be released?"...
Wednesday27th Mar 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Players Discover Working Trebuchets, Secret Areas
A marvel of engineering
Dragon's Dogma 2 continues to be the gift that keeps giving, with players reporting overnight the discovery of how to use the many catapults trebuchets (and ballista) left scattered around Capcom's reactive game world (though some are clearly destroyed). Even more exciting, the power and torque of these beautiful machines of...
Tuesday26th Mar 2024
News UK Sales Charts: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin Off to a Weak Start at Retail
Not quite, Arisen
It sounds like Dragon's Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin — both released on Friday of last week — have struggled to make an immediate impact in the UK. While we don't have the full sales charts just yet, GamesIndustry.biz's ever-knowledgeable Christopher Dring has outlined the relative success of the new releases, and it's fair to...
News Mysterious, Viral Dragon's Dogma 2 Mechanic Infecting Player's Pawns
Confirmed cases of Dragonsplague detected
Reports of a mysterious affliction infecting the Pawns of Dragon's Dogma 2 players, the AI-assisted NPC companion each player creates, have begun to trickle in. This sinister disease is known as Dragonsplague and affected Pawns will exhibit red glowing eyes, incoherent speech, disobedience, and increased...
Monday25th Mar 2024
News Big Dragon's Dogma 2 Updates Incoming as Capcom Confirms List of PS5 Improvements
Graphics options, performance boosts, more
Just one weekend removed from the release of Dragon's Dogma 2, Capcom has confirmed that it's working on a slew of improvements, which will be coming to the game via free updates. A lot of this stuff seems to be in direct response to player feedback, and includes overall adjustments, additional options, and...
News Capcom Responds to Dragon's Dogma 2 Microtransaction, Performance Backlash
"We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience"
Dragon's Dogma 2 is currently the game everyone online seems to be playing. Clips of open world insanity proliferate on social media platforms as players get to grips with Capcom's latest genre-defining romp, which was partly to be expected. What took players by surprise, however, was the swathe of...
Saturday23rd Mar 2024
News Capcom Simply Must Improve Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Performance, Concludes Digital Foundry
Through fire and flames
Dragon's Dogma 2 is an amazing open world RPG — we've said as much numerous times in our Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 review. But there's also no getting around just how unoptimized the title is on a technical level. As stressed in our aforementioned review, the game's frame rate can be a problem. Most of the time, it's found...
Friday22nd Mar 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Slated for Adding Sinister PS5 Microtransactions at Launch
Flogging fast travel and more
Dragon’s Dogma 2, by all accounts a sensational RPG, is getting obliterated for adding microtransactions on launch day. These, we must stress, were unavailable to purchase during the review period but were mentioned in a media guide; they’ve since been made available for sale on the release’s launch day. Already...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Players Plot Mass NPC Murder to Boost the Frame Rate
More frames, but at what cost?
When Capcom told IGN that performance issues with the PC version of Dragon's Dogma 2 were likely due to how much CPU the game's more than 1000 unique NPCs demand, NPCs which can be killed off permanently, they probably should have anticipated what was always going to happen next. The community, wasting no time, has...
Tuesday19th Mar 2024
News Beware, Arisen, Dragons Dogma 2 Spoilers Are in the Wild
So close, yet so far away
Capcom's eagerly-anticipated action RPG, Dragon's Dogma 2, is so close you can almost taste it, releasing on PS5 on 22nd March. Sadly, as is so often the case, it seems like a couple of copies have broken containment, and story spoilers are out in the wild, with both video and live-streamed spoilers out there for the unwary...
Friday15th Mar 2024
News Let Acting Legend Ian McShane Introduce You to Dragon's Dogma 2
Eight minutes of sweet talking
TV and film actor Ian McShane has lent his voice to a comprehensive overview trailer for Dragon's Dogma 2 ahead of its PS5 launch next week. Clocking in at just shy of eight minutes, the Deadwood star introduces you to the sequel's story, world, the pawns you can recruit, and the monsters you'll face throughout your...
Friday8th Mar 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Has Over 1,000 Unique NPCs, and If They Die, They're Dead
Just so you know
During the recent Capcom Highlights showcase, one particular quote from Dragon's Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno caught everyone's attention. He stated: "Over 1,000 characters inhabit the world [of Dragon's Dogma 2], each with their own unique stories and motivations." That's a lot of NPCs. And apparently, you can forge...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creator Out Now on PS5, Transfers to the Full Game
Arise
Update: Just so you know, the character creator is out now on PS5. You can find it through the Dragon's Dogma 2 page on the PS Store. It's 4.4GB in size. Original Story: Capcom is releasing the character creator from Dragon's Dogma 2 as a free download on PS5 — and it's out today. You'll be able to sculpt up to five Arisen (your main...
Wednesday6th Mar 2024
News Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Frame Rate Controversy Rumbles on as Previews Give Conflicting Reports
60fps? 30? Who knows
Update: We're glad Dragon's Dogma 2 is out soon, because this ongoing debate over the game's PS5 frame rate is already out of control. Yesterday, a bunch of fresh previews for the action RPG dropped — and just about every single one of them gushed over how good the game is shaping up to be. Some even went as far to call it a...
News Enjoy 18 Minutes of Dragon's Dogma 2 Magick Archer PS5 Gameplay
Alongside director Hideaki Itsuno
With the preview embargo lifting ahead of Dragon's Dogma 2's 22nd March release, the internet is awash with answers to our burning questions about Capcom's imminent action RPG. If that wasn't enough, courtesy of PS Un