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This weekend, London's Excel Center will again play host to MCM Expo's Comic Con event.

Have you noticed the way the sound works in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has changed? If the answer to that question is yes, you're not alone.

Overwatch professional players train hard - that's how they get to the top of their game. But at what point does training become brutal and potentially unhealthy?

A few years ago, as Facebook forked out $2bn for Oculus and Valve and Sony entered the fray with fancy tech of their own, virtual reality looked like it might have become the next big thing not just in video game land, but in entertainment.

There's a new Leisure Suit Larry game for some reason.

When Konami announced it had lost the Champions League licence for PES 2019, it moved to reassure fans that it had more officially-licensed leagues to compensate. Now, it's announced the game will have nine new fully-licensed leagues, one of which is the Scottish top flight.

Developer Jago Studios has teamed up with The Topps Company to produce a new title based on the notorious 80s Garbage Pail Kids trading card and sticker series - and, yes, it's a free-to-play mobile game.

One of the most frustrating endings I've ever witnessed belongs to the excellent film A Separation, by Asghar Farhadi. The film's about a couple's pending divorce, their struggles navigating through adjusted lives and multiple court appointments, and it ends with their young daughter choosing which parent she wants to stay with. I can't say any more, but I can say that the frustration I felt was topped two years ago when The Witness was released, which took hours and hours (and hours) from many of us, giving us the job of deciphering mundane-looking line puzzles.

UPDATED STORY 22/5/18: Fortnite's jetpacks are finally here and players are already having oodles of high altitude fun with the new limited-time additions.

Epic Games is currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of its seminal first-person shooter Unreal - and you can get it for free on Steam and GOG while the party lasts.

Developer Psyonix has revealed that Rocket League's sun-bleached, summer-themed Salty Shores update will launch on all platforms next Tuesday, May 29th.

Developer IllFonic has announced that asymmetrical multiplayer slash-'em-up Friday the 13th: The Game will receive its long-awaited single-player challenge mode this Thursday, May 24th.

Ubisoft has announced that its long-awaited Donkey Kong story DLC for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will launch on Switch this June, and there are new details on its presumably potassium-rich contents too.

Thomas was Alone developer Mike Bithell has announced - and released - his next game: a follow-up to Subsurface Circular called Quarantine Circular.

By all accounts H1Z1 is very much like a zombie itself - it straight up refuses to die. After a slow start as a post-apocalyptic survival sim in 2015, the game adopted a battle royale mode that rocketed the game to the top of the Steam charts.

Online shop Tesco Direct shuts down in July, Tesco has announced.

We're getting a new Death Stranding video at E3 in June and creator Hideo Kojima is already teasing the fetus-fuelled game's inevitable star turn at the show.

When Treyarch announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's upcoming battle royale mode, it refused to say exactly how big the map would be, nor how many players would take part in a match.

A new update heading to Halo: The Master Chief Collection lets you download and install the bits of the game you want.

Epic will put up an incredible $100m for Fortnite esports tournament prize pools in the game's first year of competitive play.

Call of Duty has it. Battlefield is rumoured to have it. Now virtual reality is finally getting battle royale.

Hi-Rez Studios, developer of free-to-play hero shooter Paladins, has once again found itself in the shadow of Blizzard, this time after actual Overwatch art made its way into an advertisement for mobile game Paladins Strike.

UPDATE 21/5/18: Asymmetric Publications has finally shared the news that Switch-owning fans of daft stick-figure cowboy comedies have been waiting for: West of Loathing comes to Nintendo's console on Thursday, May 31st.

After its unforgettable (and more than a little unsettling) E3 showcase last year, indie publisher Devolver Digital has confirmed that it will be holding its second ever E3 press conference on Sunday, June 10th.

We all have our vices. I once dated a girl who read The Daily Mail on her phone on her commute to work. When I pressed her about why on earth she'd do that to herself, all she could reply with was "it's so bad!". Just like that. Like that awful kid from cult terrible-movie The Wizard, marvelling over the equally-awful Nintendo Power Glove.

Alolan Forms of Kanto-region Pokémon are coming to Pokémon Go "in the coming weeks", according to developer Niantic.

When the huge Earth Dragon roars in God of War there are an incredible number of sounds hitting your ear. After all, we don't have a living dragon to simply capture the sound from, so developer Sony Santa Monica had to create it itself.

After two hours of hands-on time with the new Call of Duty - the inevitable Black Ops 4 from developer Treyarch - I think there's a lot to love about the game, even if it's all overshadowed by the promise of Blackout, the battle royale mode.

Ubisoft has revealed Rainbow Six Siege's next big update: Operation Para Bellum.

CD Projekt Red is expanding. The main Warsaw office has ballooned and the company has opened two other studios in Poland, one in Wrocław and one in Kraków - which is where I am now.