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Dreadnought goes into open beta on PlayStation 4 today.

Controversial sex game House Party has returned to Steam after it was pulled from sale last week for sexual content. But the sex game has had a big change - censorship.

Bizarro, the backwards-speaking supervillain (hero?) reflection of Superman is now in Injustice 2.

Minecraft's game-changing cross-network update is now available to beta test if you are on a Windows 10 PC or Android PC.

BioWare Montreal, the studio behind this year's much-maligned Mass Effect Andromeda, will be fully merged with EA Motive.

"Let's face it, no one likes losing. Even sat at traffic lights in your car, you never want the car who pulls up next to you to beat you off the line."

The release of Star Citizen alpha 3.0 - the big, exciting, 'fly down onto a planet and explore it' release - has been pushed back again. What was once expected at the end of 2016 - then June 2017, then August 2017 - is now expected at the beginning of September.

There's a new system update waiting to download to your Switch this morning.

Tacoma doesn't require your input, only your patience. Set a few thousand miles above the Moon's surface in the late 21st century, it casts you as Amy Ferrier, a network technician contracted to recover an advanced AI, ODIN, from an abandoned space station. The setup recalls any number of sci-fi horror yarns, from Alien to Arkane's recent Prey, but there are no failing ship systems or abyssal monsters to wrestle with in Tacoma - indeed, no animate entities at all, save for the trash disposal drone that buzzes around the facility's zero-gravity core. Rather, Amy's task boils down to reaching a handful of access points found at junctions throughout the station, plugging in her pleasingly scruffy fold-out terminal and waiting for portions of ODIN's enormous brain to download. I haven't gone back to check, but I suspect you can complete the whole game - an evening's play, at most - without doing anything other than watching percentage points accrue.

NetherRealm has released new shaders for all characters in DC-themed fighting game Injustice 2 - but they're expensive to unlock.

PlayerUnknown has defended Battlegrounds' controversial new crate and key system.

One of BioWare's lead designers, Corey Gaspur, has passed away.

A live-action film adaptation of wintry survival mystery The Long Dark is in the works with the Resident Evil film series' producer Jeremy Bolt heading up development.

Nioh has received a new update that makes some significant changes to the way loot acquisition works.

Sega's excellent first-person horror game Alien: Isolation was demoed by developer The Creative Assembly in VR, though the game never actually received any VR support at, or after, launch. The developer later explained that this was simply a proof of concept, and the game sadly didn't sell well enough to receive post-launch VR support or a sequel.

Titanfall 2 has been added to the vault of both EA and Origin Access, offering subscribers unlimited access to Respawn's acclaimed mech shooter.

Monster Hunter Stories, the turn-based RPG spin-off of Capcom's beloved creature killing series, is getting a demo on 10th August.

The release date for Ark: Survival Evolved has been pushed back by three weeks.

Australia is bracing itself for a League of Legends reality show.

One thing I know is that you're meant to have thoughts about the films of Stanley Kubrick. Big thoughts. And of all the films of Stanley Kubrick you're meant to have big thoughts about, 2001: A Space Odyssey is the one you're meant to reserve your absolute biggest ever thoughts for. You're meant to say: look how Kubrick took a movie about aliens and turned it into a movie about God. Or: look how Kubrick is commenting on humanity's decline by making the murderous computer the only character with any emotion. Or: look how Kubrick edited plot out of the picture almost entirely, turning a Clarkian potboiler into a puzzle without a solution, a puzzle that you can then turn over in your mind forever without ever getting bored.

For the most part EA's reputation has grown massively over the past couple of years, kicking new life into just about every one of its franchises (Tiger Woods, SSX, FIFA), and while providing the platform for new ones to flourish (Freedom Fighters, Battlefield - we wonder how successful these would have been had they been published, by - with respect - Eidos, for example). It's a far cry from the dark days when it was tainted with the image of a bloated corporate behemoth with a 'never mind the quality, feel the volume' kind of mentality. No wonder people with long memories have such a problem getting over their grudge - for years it really was the Stock Aitken and Waterman of the games world.

Just over 25 years after the publication of what's widely held as its final ever issue, Crash is back, with a new crowdfunded edition bringing back together some of the old team.

Final Fantasy 15 players can finally clad themselves in the game's long-awaited invincibility armour - after a redesign to make it look less like the Power Rangers.

Stationeers, the new space base game by Dean Hall's studio RocketWerkz, is due out September.

Valve has introduced features to Dota 2 to make the game more welcoming to new players.

Last Friday saw Nintendo release a triple salvo of 3DS titles in the UK: Miitopia, Hey! Pikmin and Dr. Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training. The trio of games fared fair to poorly.

I'm sure, like me, while causing mayhem and seducing ladies of the night in GTA5 you've thought, "you know what would make this better? Being in space." Well wish no more, because a mod is coming which promises to move Rockstar's open world beyond its earthly dimensions.

Niantic has postponed several Pokémon Go events planned to take place in Europe next month.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds now holds the record for the highest peak player count of any non-Valve game on Steam.

Why do we care? Why do we care when Japanese megastar Kazuchika Okada and Canadian savant Kenny Omega pretend to fight each other for 60 electrifying minutes in the Tokyo Dome? Why do we care about AJ Styles, with his luscious hair and shiny blue gloves, making his surprise WWE debut at last year's Royal Rumble as his opponent Roman Reigns looks on shocked - despite the reality of the two probably sitting down to lunch together earlier that day?