Capcom has been working to tidy up its much criticized PC port of Dead Rising 3, and a patch that fixes a few of the most common issues has just popped up on Steam.

It's not going to magically sway fans unhappy with the game's various bugs and general poor performance, but it's a start.

I've been playing the PC version for a while now and apart from a brief period where it refused to run at all, I've mostly avoided the save game bugs and crashes to desktop that have plagued other customers. Performance remains middling, but that's not likely to change now. It's a shame, because the game's a lot of fun.

Not Capcom's finest hour, but at least they're attempting to makes things a bit better. Here's the fairly brief patch notes:

Fixed an issue which caused game progress to not save or load correctly when Steam Cloud is enabled.
Fixed an issue which made it impossible to select native resolutions on some video card / monitor setups.
Fixed an issue which was causing the game to not shut down properly under certain configuration.

The Dead Rising digital film in production under Legendary Digital Media has an original storyline with new heroes and a new city, set between Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3, director Zach Lipovsky tells SlashFilm. There will be "familiar faces," too, Lipovsky says, before teasing original Dead Rising protagonist Frank West: "I can't reveal too much, but the character has covered wars, you know."

Lipovsky describes the tone of the film as "Indiana Jones with zombies." He wants to recreate the series' massive hordes, even with a smaller, straight-to-digital film budget. "Pretty much every person I know has already emailed me saying they want to be a zombie, so I think we'll be fine," Lipovsky says. "We are also planning a long one-take action shot with hundreds of zombies, which I'm very excited about .... Online there is no ratings board, there is no run time limit, there are no rules. This is an experiment for Legendary, and they have been incredibly willing to take creative risks."

The film, dubbed Dead Rising: Watchtower, will be one 90-minute movie on Sony's streaming service, Crackle, but it will be episodic on other platforms, Lipovsky says. See the cast list below.

Dead Rising: Watchtower cast:
Jesse Metcalfe (John Tucker Must Die, Desperate Housewives)
Meghan Ory (Once Upon A Time, Intelligence)
Virginia Madsen (Sideways, The Number 23)
Dennis Haysbert (24, The Unit)
Keagan Connor Tracy (Once Upon A Time, Battlestar Galactica)