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Last week, Bethesda and id software released a brand new '4K resolution' patch for the brilliant Doom 2016 reboot, promising improved image quality for PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X. Resolutions are certainly increased, but there has been some talk that performance has suffered as a result. Our tests suggest that this is indeed the case, but work carried out on the id Tech 6-powered Wolfenstein: The New Colossus may suggest a possible solution.

Overwatch has a new time-limited PVE mission, Retribution, which goes live next week on 10th April and runs until the 30th.

Nostalgia and expectations are both saviours and dangers for the gaming industry, sometimes simultaneously. For example, Nintendo is bouncing back thanks to their trusted mascots and a new console, yet somehow every game in existence is being remastered except for Burnout 3. Mirror's Edge Catalyst has arguably been the greatest victim of bloated expectations in contemporary gaming.

Fortnite Battle Royale fans have been scrambling to make sense of mysterious new in-game phenomenon, all seemingly related to the strange meteor that's been hanging in the sky above the map for at least a week now.

Epic has launched Fortnite's new 3.4 content update, introducing Vending Machines, an Easter Egg Launcher, and a new limited-time event in the form of High Explosives v2.

Dan Smith, winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designer award in 2016, has announced his first game.

Spider-Man will launch as a PlayStation 4 exclusive on 7th September.

If you're an emotional wreck after two seasons of Life is Strange adventures - well, you shouldn't put away your handkerchiefs just yet.

Nintendo Switch exclusive Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes will be playable later this month at EGX Rezzed, the PC and indie games show run by Eurogamer's parent company Gamer Network.

Hitman's first season is getting a final, complete physical edition release next month, on 18th May.

Valve has published an update on its range of Steam Machine branded third-party PCs, prompted by recent reports the initiative was dead in the water.

Square Enix has announced that it will release the first of several updates for its widely lambasted Chrono Trigger PC port later this month, in a bid to address fan concerns.

Attic Door Productions has announced that The 13th Doll, its officially licensed follow-up to developer Trilobyte's classic CD-ROM adventure The 7th Guest, will release this October.

Of all the remasters coming out this generation, Dark Souls might be the most hotly anticipated. It's a chance to revisit one of the most beloved of games from the last console generation, using today's technology to improve visuals tremendously and to iron out the game's notorious performance issues. We've already had an early taster of the Switch port - based on trailer footage, at least - and initial impressions were of a conservative conversion for Nintendo's console hybrid. Now we've had the chance to play a preview build on PS4 Pro, and clearly there's a lot more to it visually.

Do you want to be like Neo from the Matrix? Maybe you just miss video game cheat codes from olden days? Either way, you'll be able to hack Assassin's Creed Origins on PC later this month via a new customisation interface.

Epic has added a message to Fortnite's loading screen reminding students not to play in class, following complaints by teachers that the newly-released mobile version was distracting students.

Developer Uppercut Games has announced that its Arabian Nights-themed first-person rogue-lite City of Brass will launch on PC, PS4, and Xbox One on May 4th, following six months of Steam early access development.

Florence, a short mobile game by the developer Mountains, covers more ground on the topic of romantic love in under an hour than most games have for decades. It does so by focusing on a few small watershed moments of being in love, from developing an interest in someone to the pleasures and hurdles of domestic co-existence to letting go of a relationship that no longer works.

Ubisoft has announced that Ghost Recon Wildlands' second season of free updates - collectively known as Year 2 - will begin next week, bringing with it new missions, items, rewards, and "community-requested features".

Earlier in March, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls Online's new upcoming expansion is set on the mysterious Summerset Isle.

You can play Pokémon Go all sorts of ways. Maybe it's a two-minute distraction for you during your morning commute or walk to class. Maybe it's a way to fill a lunch hour with a raid or two, fitted around a sandwich eaten one-handed.

Easter can be an expensive time so thank goodness for the new Vive Pro Starter Kit - to go on sale 5th April for Vive's second birthday - which is a steal at only £1048/$1100. And people thought PlayStation 3 was expensive...

Grainger Games' founder and managing director Stephen Bowyer sent a rushed and emotional note to stores over Easter weekend ahead of administrators taking control of the business, which I've been told by reliable sources will happen today.

One oppressively hot October day in New York City, the writer Olivia Laing went to the Whitney to see Nighthawks, the famous painting of a diner by Edward Hopper. In her recent book The Lonely City, Laing talks about what it is like to see a very famous painting in real life for the first time.

UPDATE 3/4/18: Fancy a bit of Fortnite from bed? A battle royale while on the bus? A last man standing while on the loo? Now you can - without needing an invite.

Loot boxes (War Chests) and nearly everything associated with them are being ripped from Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Far Cry 5 has topped the UK chart with monster sales, earning the series its biggest ever launch in the UK.

Far Cry 3's questionable writing has often been criticised after writer Jeffrey Yohalem stated the game would be about "subverting video game clichés," when in fact the game seemed to be filled with regular old video game clichés.

The Vita might not have been ones of PlayStation's biggest successes, but it's certainly one of its more cherished pieces of hardware; its intention to offer big console experiences on the go fell a little flat (even if Nintendo did prove the concept could work some short years later with the Switch), but its pivot to independent and mid-tier studios opened up the handheld to a new breed of fascinating games. In turn, Sony offered up a captive audience to smaller developers, resulting in a love-in that's made the Vita adored by its faithful.

While it may not have been the company which started the trend - some would argue that honour falls to Xiaomi with its stunning Mi Mix - Samsung is arguably the firm that popularised the concept of a 'big screen' smartphone. The promotional campaign for last year's Galaxy S8 asked consumers to 'unbox' their handsets, stripping away those cumbersome display bezels to embrace the wonder of the 18:9 aspect ratio screen. Samsung's superb Infinity Display was unquestionably the highlight of that model - and of the Galaxy Note 8, which followed shortly afterwards. However, you're only as good as your last product in the fast-paced and competitive smartphone market, and with practically all of its rivals hopping on board the big-screen bandwagon - most notably Apple with its iPhone X - Samsung needs something remarkable to steal back those valuable column inches in 2018. What we've been given is a device which isn't revolutionary, but is still arguably the best smartphone money can buy right now.