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Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival comes out on Steam on 12th September.

Destiny 2's raid goes live a week after the game comes out on 6th September.

Has there ever been a console more exotic than the Neo Geo? A rarefied beast in the 90s that boasted near mythical power, its games exuded a certain class; a selection of muscular, meaty 2D action titles, they're often as beautiful to behold today as they've ever been. And they're much easier to behold now than ever before, too, seeing how ubiquitous ports of Neo Geo classics have become. I don't think there's an appliance in my house that a Metal Slug 3 port isn't available for - not that that's a bad thing, of course.

It's only a tiny slice of the final product of course - a taster of three years' hard graft from one of the most respected developers in the business - but the arrival of the Call of Duty: World War 2 beta gives us our first look at how Sledgehammer Games has evolved one of the most significant console engines of this generation, and how its work scales between PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro.

Despite radio silence for a short while, the Metal Gear movie is still being worked on - and not only that, it seems it's in very good hands.

Puzzle Fighter is back, this time on mobile and developed by the team behind Dead Rising.

Sega has announced Sonic Forces comes out on 7th November in Europe.

Earlier this week, H1Z1's Battle Royale style spin-off, King of the Kill, released its first big update in what seems like an age.

17 years ago, Human Head released Rune, an action adventure PC game based on Norse mythology. It was pretty good and quite a lot of people liked it. The PC game box looked like this:

Capcom released Street Fighter 5's latest DLC character on Tuesday and already players are doing crazy things with her.

Niantic has revealed how you'll catch Legendary beasts Raikou, Entei, and Suicune in Pokémon Go.

Developer Team 17 has announced turn-based strategy game Worms W.M.D will invade Nintendo Switch later this year.

Battlefield 1's next expansion, In the Name of the Tsar, comes out 19th September on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, EA has announced.

Human Head and Digital Extremes have announced Survived By, a free-to-play PC game that looks like a load of other popular games rolled into one.

Charity speedrunners Games Done Quick has announced it will hold an event to raise money for those affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Annual charity gaming marathon Summer Games Done Quick kicked off yesterday in Minneapolis.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Capcom is re-releasing Street Fighter 2 on an actual SNES cart.

Friday the 13th: The Game's latest patch went live earlier this week and brought with it some much needed changes to the game.

Sony's announced the PlayStation Plus games for September.

Few sports labour under as much socio-political baggage as golf. It is a game popularised by royalty, spread by Empire, and moderated by prejudice (exhibit 1/59,674: Lord Moncrieff who, in 1902 decreed that women should only be allowed to play providing they not hit the ball further than 70 yards in order to remain graceful to onlookers).

It's a strange thing to think about now, but there was a time when Myst was the best-selling computer game of all time. Shifting more copies than even the almighty Doom, Cyan's enigmatic puzzle game about a series of peculiarly crafted islands stirred up feelings of awe, reverence and curiosity. Much of this was due to Myst's extremely abstruse premise. It contained no immediate backstory about you being a hero on a quest to save such and such. It didn't offer an exposition dump grounding you in its pristine world. And it didn't offer much in the way of character interaction. It simply dropped players on a surreal island of monuments - a rocket, a Greek palace, a contemporary lodge - and asked them to have at it until a more recognisable story came into focus.

Absolver isn't a Dark Souls game. It seems wise to state that up front, because for its first few hours Absolver manages a very good impression of a Dark Souls game, albeit one that has traded its Covenants for martial art schools, its "jolly cooperation" for Jeet Kune Do. There's the world, to begin with - the crumpled remains of a splendid civilisation, flickering eerily between timeframes and dimensions, where masked Prospects do pilgrimage in the hope of attaining the mantle of an Absolver. There are the altars that, like Dark Souls' legendary bonfires, peg down exploration of that world - geysers of glowing stone where you can meditate to access equipment and ability inventories together with arena PvP.

Sony will give PlayStation VR title Rigs to all PlayStation Plus members as a bonus game.

UPDATE 31st August 2017: Sega has said the offline play bug that affected the PC version of Sonic Mania has been patched.

Nintendo unveiled its "Nindies" (a terrible word that means independent games coming to Nintendo platforms) showcase in a livestream earlier today and the reveals came quick and fast.

UPDATE: It turns out it's not exclusive to Switch after all, but also coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One, iOS and Android.

Developer Fatshark has teased a sequel to its first person Skaven slaying game Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide.

With the penultimate season of Game of Thrones finished on TV and a colossal amount of people talking about it, it's hard to imagine any video game maker ever passing up the opportunity to get a piece of that franchise pie. But as I found out recently, Obsidian Entertainment did - it turned down Game of Thrones.

Blizzard is toughening its stance on toxic behaviour in Overwatch.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 will soon get modding tools.