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Monument Valley 2 is not only happening, it's already out!

22 years on from the PlayStation original and over five years since the last instalment, WipEout still feels like a taste of the future. Carbon-scorched ships skimming across impeccable brushed concrete tracks that loop beneath futurist skyscrapers, 100-foot maneki-nekos and pulsing Tokyo neon; style like this never really goes out of fashion.

The PS4 has sold three times what the Xbox One has in Europe, according to Sony global sales chief Jim Ryan.

Lord of the Rings and King Kong director Peter Jackson started up an augmented-reality production company called Wingnut AR and it's now unveiled its first game demo.

The App Store will be getting a huge overhaul later this year.

AMC's acclaimed neo-noir series Breaking Bad is coming to VR.

Capcom is releasing its second anthology of Mega Man games with Mega Man Legacy Collection 2.

Big news in the world of FIFA: EA Sports has ditched Legends - aka retired footballers for FIFA Ultimate Team - in favour of multiplatform Icons.

Let's get straight into it: Tekken 7 does a lot right. The core fighting system is as rewarding to master as ever and new mechanics benefit the game in useful ways. But it's what Tekken 7 doesn't do that drags the overall package down.

Fighting series Tekken has tekken the UK chart top spot for the first time in almost two decades.

A collision between Motörhead and video games makes a lot of sense. It feels like games have been cribbing from the band's album art for years. When you read the synopsis of Through the Ages, the new Motörhead-themed expansion for the lovely action RPG Victor Vran, it can be hard to tell where the band ends and the game begins. This: "Take the fight to the Führer and the forces of evil as you unleash the bomber against your foes." And this: "Lay siege to their fortress, unleash the iron fist and stand against the Queen of the Damned."

Footballing car game Rocket League will celebrate its second birthday next month with some new freebies.

There aren't many studios like Remedy, which relishes being a bit weird. How many studios slow jam their history to music? How many creative directors do a mini-striptease on stage and then dress as characters from their games? Remedy, the Finnish developer of Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break does.

PlayStation has announced it will sponsor this year's London Pride, with the hashtag #forALLthegamers.

Tekken 7 launched yesterday, though it's worth stressing its original debut was in 2015, on Namco's PC-based System ES3 arcade board in Japan. It demonstrated very quickly the successes of moving away from the Tekken series' proprietary engine, this time daring to make the shift to the increasingly popular Unreal Engine 4. In the years between, tweaks to visuals and gameplay have stacked up, and what we have now with the PS4, PC and Xbox One is the most up-to-date iteration of the game yet - albeit with sizeable graphical differences between them.

Walking the BitSummit floor with James Mielke, founder of the annual indie game showcase held in Kyoto, is a fit of stops and starts. Amongst the scramble of games being packed up and booths and stages taken down, Mielke gets stopped every few seconds by developers who want to express their thanks for being included in the event, which held its fifth edition late this May.

Like one of those giant flying saucers that blocks out the sun, games industry mega expo E3 is almost upon us. Fortunately, this saucer is full of exciting upcoming videogames rather than invading alien force with a massive chip on its shoulder.

The video game landscape in the UK at the turn of the 90s was perhaps more confused and fractured than your fading memory can recall, assuming you're old enough to have lived through it. Home computers like the ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga and Atari ST were still the main conduits of interactive entertainment in the majority of homes up and down the country (despite the fact they were often purchased by naive parents with the intention of helping their children with their homework), and the invasion of Japanese consoles from the likes of Nintendo, Sega, NEC and SNK was yet to begun in earnest.

One of the things that fills me with joy is the way that games have settled down and become places and preoccupations. They have sent roots into the ground and become a regular, beloved part of their players' lives. I often view these sorts of games from the outside, which is a personal failing, but I still see the evidence of their pleasures regardless. I work with people who know Dota 2 and League of Legends intimately. It is like they have learned an instrument or a new language, and I feel that envy that I sometimes feel for people who have put in real effort and gained real rewards. Lately, I've been starting to take Clash Royale rather seriously, and in my own way I now know what it is like to stop and stay a while with a single game - to commit, to grow to understand, to read patch notes, to have my own thoughts on a balance change or a new addition.

Minimalist platformer N++ is getting ported to Xbox One this summer.

UPDATE 02/06/2017 7.08pm: The $100 Steam Direct fee will be given back to developers once a title reaches $1k in sales, a Steam representative told Ars Technica.

Between the flurry that is E3, the brawl to top the Christmas sales chart and the steady trickle of releases all through the year, the games industry has a pretty unshakeable fixation on the new. While I try to make time to play older releases I may have missed, there's always that pressure to play something current - something of the now.

Buy a 12-month subscription to PlayStation Plus and Sony will give you a free copy of Star Wars Battlefront's Ultimate Edition.

Need for Speed Payback is the next title in EA's long-running racing series.

Last week I played a couple of battles in Total War: Warhammer 2, leading an army of Lizardmen to victory against a pair of High Elf mages that'd been meddling (surprise, surprise) with magical ruins beyond their comprehension. I had a great time with it and we'll be able to share that gameplay footage in a couple of weeks.

The next Tropico game - presumably Tropico 6 - launches in 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

You may well remember Mad Catz fondly from your childhood.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War now launches on 10th October, instead of in August.

UPDATE 8.10am: Nintendo's previous offer of a free Virtual Console game with added multiplayer - to be kept just for a month - has been replaced with access to a catalogue of the titles.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar, the turn-based RPG made by several former Darksiders developers - including comic book artist Joe Madureira - at their new studio Airship Syndicate, is now slated for a 3rd October release on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.