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Now this is more like it. Last May, still uncertain about the prospects of Nintendo's Switch, Capcom tentatively tested the waters with Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers. The end result, though, felt more like a kick in the face; a bastardised version of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Capcom filled out the package with a suite of unwelcome extras in a clumsy attempt to justify the full-fat pricetag. People were upset at the unconvincing results, and you can understand perfectly well why. Street Fighter is more than just a game. It's a cult at times, a worldwide cultural phenomenon at others; a cornerstone of communities that bring people from around the globe together, or just the best place to play with a friend for an evening of bawdy brawling. Street Fighter matters.

Hot on the heels of the surprise announcement that Konami's agreement with top Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund for PES 2019 was "prematurely terminated", the Japanese company has hit back with the announcement that it's done a deal with rival German team FC Schalke 04 for PES 2019.

Someone called Chris Bratt (any ideas?) has released a video revealing the bizarre story behind the first non-Valve game on Steam.

Guitar Hero Live's GHTV mode - the mode that let you buy premium shows to play along to - shuts down on 1st December 2018, Activision has announced.

Polish company CI Games has found a new team to partner with on Lords of the Fallen 2, a sequel previously in limbo.

Remember when Iceland knocked England out of Euro 2016, and the players did that awesome Viking thunderclap celebration in front of their fans? EA's put that in FIFA.

It looks like Xbox One is getting voice control support from third-party devices, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

There's surely not long to wait now. After two years with Nvidia's 10-series GPUs based on the Pascal architecture, we're finally due an upgrade. With several sources strongly suggesting a July launch date, Nvidia's next 'GPU King' may well be just around the corner, but what specs will it have? How powerful it be? In a market notorious for its often-accurate leaks, it's actually surprising how little we know, but there's enough information out there to at least give a broad overview of what we can expect.

The deluge of Wii U ports for Switch continues and the recent arrival of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition offers up a great opportunity to improve a game that was somewhat disappointing - in performance, at least - on the older system. The good news then: developer Omega Force's efforts on Switch satisfy on several key fronts, and it's easily the most feature-complete version of the game. However we're still one patch away from perfection, since this new release is marred by some highly questionable tech decisions - most curious of all being that Switch's mobile mode downsamples from 1080p, with a disastrous impact to performance.

On a cold, gloomy Saturday 14 years ago, my brother and I went to trade in some old games at our local indie store. I can only guess what I got rid off - I'm betting on a PS2 copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! or something similarly tedious. Once done, though, we walked away with something brand new. Well, kind of new, at least: Midway Arcade Treasures, a new collection of old arcade and console classics from a company that would eventually die a slow death just a few years later.

There are Fallout mods, and then there's Fallout: New California.

Here's an odd one: Aston Villa, the once great English football club now struggling to get out of the Championship, has launched an esports league.

The Warhammer games continue to flow out from the Games Workshop licensing machine like a never-ending swarm of scaven or a tide of orks charging across the battlefield. The latest to hit the production line: Warhammer: Chaosbane.

Remember Evolve? Turtle Rock's ambitious 4v1 monster shooter is coming to the end of its life, with Evolve publisher and intellectual property owner 2K signalling a raft of key features will soon no longer be available.

"If we had environments [in esports] where women could be mentored, where their feminine traits were embraced and encouraged, and they were given a competitive environment to play and learn at the highest levels, they would thrive in a way we've never seen before."

There's panic in the world of flight simulators, with a controversial developer threatening legal action against reddit of all places.

State of Decay 2 launched in, well, a bit of a state. Our reviewer Edwin called the Microsoft Studios game "technically shambolic" in our State of Decay 2 review.

Xbox Game Pass just got four Star Wars games: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2.

Pro Evolution Soccer has already lost the Champions League - to rival football video game FIFA, it looks like - and now there's more bad news for Konami when it comes to official licences.

Bungie has received over $100m as part of an investment from a Chinese publisher to build a new game.

EA's Play to Give charity event is now on, and you can win a variety of special in-game rewards by completing challenges in participating games, including Battlefield 1, FIFA 18, and Star Wars Battlefront 2.

Nintendo's ever-expanding Splatoon 2 is embiggened once more, thanks to another influx of goodies - this time in the form of a delightful new amusement-park-themed map and four new weapons variants.

We can all agree there are reasonable criticisms to be levied at Sea of Thieves; its launch state was slender, even for a "service" game (and its long-promised, much-needed programme of regular weekly events is well overdue), its regular patches are desperately in want of better quality control, and its misuse of the term 'sloop' is deeply suspicious. Yet I still love it, all the same.

World Rally Championship, MotorStorm, DriveClub - Sony may have jettisoned developer Evolution Studios from its first-party line-up, but the studio lives on in the form of Codemasters Evo, and after two years of work, it's on the cusp of releasing its new game: Onrush. What we're looking at here is effectively the same team with the same focus on technologically advanced racing games, still operating from the same studio space in Runcorn, Cheshire. The key difference is that the studio has moved onto multi-platform development, a fundamental shift after years of supporting PlayStation systems only.

Some game franchises die. When a game isn't popular enough to warrant a sequel, or a studio doesn't love the core concept enough to bother with a reboot, that's when a franchise dies. Sometimes it'll come back, in twenty years maybe, but oftentimes it's just done. Finished. And we get new consoles and throw out our old ones, and we forget about those games we loved at the time.

Monster Hunter World is now home to a new Elder Dragon, in the form of Lunastra, the Empress of Flame.

I loved Frostpunk (read my review if you like) but it was a bit thin, so 11 bit Studios revealing the downloadable content coming this year is very welcome news. Better yet, it will all be free.

Bungie has lowered the difficulty of Escalation Protocol, Destiny 2's rock-hard new multiplayer activity, in response to fewer fireteams attempting it than expected.

With release code in hand, we finally have a complete picture of how Dark Souls Remastered runs on consoles and PC - and while the notorious Blighttown was our first port of call for performance testing, it turns out that there are much better ways to push developer QLOC's refined version of the Dark Souls engine. The title's CPU issues are by and large resolved in the final product, but it turns out that it's the GPU that is now our primary bottleneck. All versions of the game target 60fps, though only one console gives us an absolute lock, while the PC release rights many wrongs - but is a remarkably unambitious effort overall.

Rockstar has announced a trio of classic Xbox 360 games getting backward compatibility next week; as of June 7th, GTA San Andreas, Midnight Club LA, and Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis will be playable on Xbox One.