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Here's an exotic new gaming term: cross-reality. Sounds exciting doesn't it? It was used to refer to Eve: Valkyrie, the multiplayer spaceship dogfighting virtual reality game, which, as of 26th September, is inviting a non-VR audience in.

UPDATE 15/08/2017 5.12pm: Undertale is out now on PS4 and Vita. It costs £11.99 / $14.99 and includes Cross-Buy support.

Football Manager 2018 comes out on Friday, 10th November 2017, Sega has announced.

The Escapists 2 is hoping to earn its sequel status by implementing, among other things, mobile prisons. That is, places to escape from which aren't just the usual buildings with high walls and barbed wire fences.

Fantasy Flight Games has announced its latest Civilization board game: Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn.

Two months ago, a new story trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of War was released and I think it's fair to say it raised a few eyebrows. In the midst of a lot of sword swinging and story exposition was the reveal that the game's narrator, first glimpsed in the game's announcement trailer, was none other than Shelob. This came as a surprise, given Shelob is, in fact, an enormous spider.

Deadlight: Director's Cut is free from GOG.com for the next 24 hours. It usually costs £8.99.

Victorian DVD and Blu-ray rental service Lovefilm by Post is to be shut down forever on 31st October 2017.

If Housemarque has proven anything in its 22 years crafting modern-day arcade classics, it's that it has exceptional taste in games. Super Stardust cribbed gleefully from Asteroids, while Super Stardust HD folded a little Robotron into the mix, and Resogun - perhaps Housemarque's most widely played game to date - did a more than passable impersonation of Defender. Hot on the heels of Nex Machina, Housemarque's collaboration with Defender and Robotron creator Eugene Jarvis, comes PlayStation 4 exclusive Matterfall, which sees the developer looking beyond the chaos and charisma of the 80s arcade for inspiration

To have even the slightest chance of survival in this viciously competitive shooter world, your game needs to have that moment. That almost indefinable feeling that suddenly elevates it above all the mechanically sound, competent first-person shooters out there; the second where eyebrows raise, heads nod and expletives echo from open mouths.

Theme park sim Planet Coaster has now sold more than one million units, British studio Frontier announced today.

The people behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds first announced it would add vaulting animations to the game back at E3 in June. Now, developer Bluehole has offered an update on how it's progressing.

Johnny Depp and his film production company Infinitum Nihil are producing a television series based on Funcom's magic-world-within-a-real-world game The Secret World.

UPDATE 15th August 2017: Bungie has said Destiny 1 silver on Steam was an "error" and Valve will issue refunds.

The original Nidhogg was a great example of minimalist elegance. Messhof's two-player competitive fencing game shaved the one vs one fighting game to its core with only two buttons (jump and attack) and a single game mode wherein each player ran towards their goal on opposite ends of a seven-stage scrolling arena. Ludicrously simple on its surface, the depth came from a multitude of context-sensitive movesets. Based on timing, positioning and momentum, you could slide into foes, dive kick, stab, parry, disarm, deflect, and toss your sword. Barring that, there was always the option to viciously rip your opponent to pieces with your bare hands.

Eccentric mask-wearing Nier director Yoko Taro may have put the final nail in the coffin for developer Cavia as Nier sales were too poor to keep the company at bay, but that didn't stop Taro from somehow getting a bigger budget sequel greenlit through Square Enix with PlatinumGames (Bayonetta, Vanquish) on developing duties. Amazingly, this offbeat sequel to a game few played was so successful that it saved the acclaimed action game studio.

For nearly a year Blizzard has been threatening to change the name of its proprietary online multiplayer service Battle.net to the more on-brand Blizzard.net. That is the name of the company, after all, which would theoretically make things less confusing. However, after a scant few months under the new monicker Blizzard rethought this approach because the Battle.net name has been around for over 20 years (since the studio launched Diablo in 1996). Changing it now has led to bewilderment.

Turn-based Mechwarrior spin-off BattleTech has been delayed until 2018, publisher Paradox Interactive has announced.

Call of Duty: WW2's private multiplayer beta goes live on 25th August for those who pre-order the game on PS4 and now we know what it includes.

There were two Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games, one great (if you ask me - no one ever does) and the other a bit ropey - but there was never a third. There was never even close to being a third, but there were ideas.

Still playing The Division? If so, you should know its next big update drops tomorrow.

18 months on, publisher Take-Two is still trying to fight off a lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos in the NBA 2K series.

The legendary Mewtwo first arrived in Pokémon Go this morning at the game's special Yokohama, Japan event.

Mewtwo has been unleashed in Pokémon Go via a trio of legendary raids today at the game's Yokohama, Japan event.

Multiplayer barbarian survival game Conan Exiles launches on the Xbox One Game Preview programme this week, on Wednesday 16th August. But because of regional age-rating organisations, the game won't be quite the same in America as in Europe.

Sony has announced players can receive 15 months of PlayStation Plus when they purchase a 12 month membership from the PlayStation Store.

For Honor is a great fighting game marred by technical issues. That's a sentiment that has dogged the game since it came out - now thrust once again into the public eye by a recent Ubisoft-backed tournament that ended in farce.

The embargo has lifted on AMD's Radeon RX Vega line, and our core emphasis today is on the lower-priced entry-level RX Vega 56 - pared back in terms of processing power and memory bandwidth, but still faster than Nvidia's GTX 1070. But what about the top-end RX Vega 64? Unfortunately, AMD delivered both products mid-way through last week, giving us a very limited window in which to test. We concentrated on getting RX Vega 56 review completed, but we can present some initial findings for the top-end offering.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War has an endgame mission type called Shadow Wars.

What if mutant monster hunter Geralt, the eponymous witcher in The Witcher books and video games, were a samurai? What if The Witcher 4 went East?