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Egypt, Dunkirk, a secret Nazi rocket base and aerial dogfighting - these are the highlights of The War Machine, Call of Duty's upcoming second DLC pack.

If you're looking for an expert on immersive sims, speak to Randy Smith.

Sony is slashing the price of PlayStation VR Starter Pack in Europe, from £349 down to £259.

We already consider it a highly recommended purchase for PlayStation 4 and Pro users, but Sony's WipEout Omega Collection moves to the next level today with a free upgrade that introduces full PlayStation VR support. We've had access to the PS4 Pro version, we've played it extensively - and it's rather special.

UPDATE 28TH MARCH: Xbox VIP Mike Ybarra clarified overnight there will be no policy change for Xbox Live, so the rules already in place there will remain the rules come 1st May.

UPDATE 28/3/18: Rare and Microsoft have now fixed the issue which was blocking many Xbox Game Pass owners from playing Sea of Thieves last night.

Bravo Team, the PlayStation VR shooter from Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games, launched earlier this month to a critical mauling and disappointment from fans hoping for another game of Until Dawn quality. Early glimpses looked bland at best, but Supermassive's recent track record suggested Bravo Team could - should - still turn out okay. After all, the studio had turned things around before. But, this time, that didn't happen. Bravo Team launched in a state, and in Eurogamer's review, Ian branded the game "an astonishingly bad VR shooter from a team that should know better".

Netflix is developing a live-action film based on the classic edutainment video game series Carmen Sandiego, according to entertainment industry website Deadline.

Update, 27/3/18: Ark: Survival Evolved's intriguing Minecraft-like spin-off PixArk is now available in Steam Early Access and on Xbox Game Preview.

Capcom has finally released its long-awaited Xbox One X update for Resident Evil 7, bringing with it a range of fancy visual enhancements.

Update, 27/3/18: Planet Coaster's Studios Pack expansion is here, and its accompanying launch trailer offers a whistle stop tour of its new movie-themed features.

Sumo Digital just updated its serpentine physics platformer Snake Pass, adding a free new Arcade Mode, and remedying the game's controversial home screen icon on Switch.

Free-to-download multiplayer behemoth Fortnite Battle Royale now has a premium starter pack.

It looks like wonderful vertical shoot 'em up Ikaruga is set for PlayStation 4.

Battletech launches on 24th April 2018, publisher Paradox has announced.

It's really been far too long since we last saw a neo-Mexican space punk racing game, hasn't it? I've certainly been waiting a fair while for one, which makes the arrival of Yucatan's demo earlier this month such a pleasant surprise; this ticks all the right boxes.

Today, Bungie pushes out a big new update for Destiny 2 designed to make the game feel a lot faster to play.

Rare has ditched plans to implement a penalty upon dying in Sea of Thieves.

Put down the controller and close your eyes: there is no better game on earth to listen to. What do I hear? The creak of timbers, the flap of a sail, the thud and shudder and boom of the ocean.

Developer SeithCG has released a massive new update for its delightful mouse-based RPG Ghost of a Tale, aimed at quashing the "vast majority" of its remaining technical issues.

Two weeks ago, Fortnite earned Twitch its biggest ever audience - 635,000 people - when Canadian rapper Drake played alongside streamer Ninja.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has received its latest test server update, introducing new weapon skins and accompanying loot crates, as well as bringing the news that developer Bluehole is "considering" region-locked servers.

Update, 26/3/18: If last week's announcement screens weren't enough to convince you of PixelJunk Monsters 2's sheer gorgeousness, then you'd do well to feast your eyes on its debut trailer below. It looks splendid.

Update, 26/3/18: Rare has announced that its Sea of Thieves-inspired hunt for four golden bananas is now officially over, with the winning crew named as 'Herr Crew' from France. More than 10,000 players apparently signed up to take part, vying for the 18-carat, £80,000 prize.

Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro and Panzer Dragoon's Yukio Futatsugi have launched their second attempt at securing backer funding for The Good Life, an intriguing open-world murder mystery game set in an idyllic English village.

Xbox Game Pass will add Cities: Skylines to its line-up next month.

Pokémon Go will introduce Mew, its first Mythical Pokémon, via an all-new quests system.

If you're after some measure of whether Laser League - the all-new future sports game from OlliOlli developer roll7 - is any good, then consider this. Promotional banners are being furled up and packed away at a preview being event held in a windowless sticky-floored east London sports bar where the toilets have no lights, it's impossibly hot and I should have left for home two hours ago. I can't tear myself away, though, and neither can the other five strangers squeezed into two sweat-sodden sofas, because things are getting serious.

UPDATE 15/11/16 9:20am: While we've had some excellent PS4 Pro results recently from the likes of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Battlefield 1 and FIFA 17, our latest testing with Watch Dogs 2 reveals some concerning results.

So much of the magic in any magical world lies with how you get there, how the secret realm reveals itself: the spectral figures who vanish at second glance, the glisten of bells on the wind at dusk, that first, breathless step across the glowing threshold. These journeys between realities are often a question of cathartic redefinition: something about the everyday world is out of joint, and the other universe is an enchanted mirror in which the problem takes on a kinder guise, with familiar objects transported and transformed - cats into kings, sticks into wands, dolls into fairies.