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The objective of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is to kill everyone else, so you are the last man (or woman) standing. However, when streamer DooM49 gathered an enormous team of 50 players together for an "epic 50 man madness" stream they showed that friendship can exist in the wasteland of battle royales.

Blizzard has announced major investment in its Overwatch League, the official home of Overwatch esports, first announced at last year's Blizzcon.

Forget Freebird, move over DragonForce. Rock Band 4 just added the 17-minute classic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Ubisoft is adding loot boxes to Rainbow Six Siege in an update rolling out from today.

Switch is getting its first media app - but only in Japan.

Arms version 2.0, the biggest update to Nintendo's Switch exclusive, is now live, bringing with it a suite of big changes and addition.

Mafia's third DLC expansion, Sign of the Times, is slated for release on 25th July.

BroForce and Genital Jousting developer Free Lives released a brand new VR game on Steam Early Access. It's a cartoonish first-person gladiator sim called Gorn and it looks every bit as deliriously demented as the developer's previous output.

Earlier this year porting company and publisher Nicalis announced that it would be bringing the definitive version of Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's cult classic platformer Cave Story to Nintendo Switch. This recent edition launched last month in North America with some new features like extra stages, new items, and a planned local co-op mode to be added later this summer. However, some diehard Cave Story fans, like our friends over at USgamer, considered this Switch release to be a step back from the PC version of Cave Story+ that allowed players to switch between the game's updated graphics and its original "classic" aesthetic.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's recent Master Trials DLC adds a three-part series of combat arenas called the Trial of the Sword. This 51-level obstacle course provides a stiff challenge that took roughly four hours for anyone to conquer upon its launch a week and a half ago. Now that it's been out for a bit, people have taken to speedrunning it with impressive results.

Sub-Zero is out today for fighting game Injustice 2.

A word of warning for anyone trying Pokémon GO today - beware how much battery it gobbles up.

It is, if you want to look at it one way, simply more of the same. Splatoon 2's single-player doesn't offer up any big twists or surprises on the original's formula (okay, there is one delicious plot twist that I'll let you discover on your own), but that's not to say it doesn't have the ability to delight you over the course of its adventure.

The Escapists 2 launches on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 22nd August.

Arms' first significant update - which will be introducing Max Brass as a playable character - will also introduce an all-new versus mode that allows players to control Hedlok, the fighter who has served as the game's ultimate challenge.

Want to get into esports but don't have the skills to be a pro? The University of Leicester has a course designed to teach students about the business of esports.

Destiny's popular player-versus-player Control mode returns in Destiny 2 - but with some big changes.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD will be removed from Steam next week.

I love fighting games, but I understand they're too complex for many people to bother with. This is a problem the genre has run up against for years, and the likes of Capcom and Namco and NetherRealm have struggled to come up with a solution.

The ultra rare Mega Drive game we reported on last month ended up selling on eBay for £3380.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds could be getting a whole new range of items and skins.

Sony has the most appealing bargain this morning in Amazon's Prime Day sale - a PlayStation 4, spare controller, plus copies of megahits Overwatch and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy all for £180.

What if BioShock and Prince of Persia made a baby? It might look something like City of Brass.

Punch! Bosh! Blart! Wrestling is coming to Nintendo Switch in the six-packed shape of WWE 2K18.

A caveat up front: while I think I have experienced much of what De Mambo has to offer, it is entirely possible that I am like a child, as Newton once put it, playing with shells on a stretch of beach while behind me an entire ocean roars and tugs at the shore, unseen. De Mambo feels like quite a focused game when you're jabbing away at the single button it is largely built around, lost in the red-blooded moment. But it also feels like a vast game, menus filled with jokes and throwaway animations, "bits of business" as the Laurel and Hardy people used to call it. I can imagine offshoots and flourishes and entire side-modes hidden in there somewhere waiting to be unlocked. And yes, Newton to Laurel and Hardy in a single paragraph? This too feels entirely apt.

Valve's seminal first-person shooter Half-Life has received a new patch, nearly 19 years after its November 1998 launch.

Back in 2014 the small studio Ragequit released a multiplayer-only aerial combat game called Strike Vector. It later had a PS4 release called Strike Vector EX that added a host of new content, like a campaign mode. Now PC players are getting this enhanced edition and its beta is free for everyone on Steam.

Valve banned over 40K Steam accounts for cheating on 6th July, making it the single largest banhammer the company has ever deployed.

We didn't quite know what to expect from Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age on PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro. On the one hand, developer Virtuos Games did a good job with its existing Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2 remasters, with decent artwork upgrades that sat well on a full HD display. On the other hand, the same developer handled Batman: Return to Arkham - a reasonable port, but with scant upgrades for PS4 Pro users. The good news is that The Zodiac Age is the best way to experience Final Fantasy 12, but the bad news is that PS4 Pro users are still poorly served with only minimal upgrades over base hardware.

Fable's card-combat spin-off and Hearthstone competitor Fable Fortune has had a last minute delay. Instead of premiering on Early Access tomorrow, as was the original plan, it's been pushed back to 25th July on both PC and Xbox One.