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Last week a wonderful Star Wars animation captured the imaginations of gaming audiences and beyond. It told the story of a mother trying to rescue her young daughter from the Dark Side of the Force. Innocence versus corruption. It was emotional, cinematic and had an impressive fight scene. Such production values wouldn't have looked out of place in a cinema. But this animation wasn't building excitement for the big screen. It was building excitement for a game. But could a game ever live up to it?

After yesterday's triumphant Nintendo Switch announcement, there's a bit of confusion around one of its core features - that big ol' shiny screen.

Hello! Chris Donlan here. As a couple of Batman's Arkham adventures are getting the remaster treatment this week, we thought it might be interesting to ponder the fate of the one game that didn't make the cut. Oh, BTW, this piece contains some major spoilers for Origins and Arkham Knight.

Nintendo's next console, previously code-named NX, is now titled Nintendo Switch.

It's happening? More like it just happened - Nintendo has lifted the veil on its next generation of hardware, and as reported it's a hybrid of home console and handheld that can be summed up succinctly (unlike its predecessor). It's the games you play at home, on the go.

Earlier this month Grasshopper Manufacture released an HD remake of the studio's first game, The Silver Case, on PC. Now it's coming to PS4 as both a digital and physical release in "early 2017", via NIS America.

You can now play Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal on Xbox One, via Valve's excellent Orange Box collection. The Xbox 360 game is now playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility.

Nintendo has teased the reveal of its upcoming NX platform for today, at 3pm UK time.

Nintendo has yet to unveil its big NX announcement (less than one hour to go, folks) but it has kept us happy with some new Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild footage.

I'm sorry Nintendo, but you've just been trumped. Rockstar, too - you may as well pull that trailer you've got primed for later this afternoon. The big game news for today has just landed, and it's a peach. My Summer Car is to hit Steam Early Access next Monday.

Your PlayStation 4 dashboard will soon host a Tournaments feature, in collaboration with ESL.

Have you ever really played Rez? I thought I had, but now I'm not so sure. That very first time back in 2001 on the Dreamcast, through a soapy fog of weed in student halls and the hazy dawning realisation that games could offer so much more than they had done before, was just a rehearsal. Getting reacquainted a couple of years later with the PS2 version - a Trance Vibrator, borrowed from a friend, stuffed tastefully down the back of my shirt as I sat cross-legged on the floor on a brief respite from a summer's day trip - was merely a warm-up. Even playing it on a cinema projector after hours years later, using the up-rezzed HD version, fell some way short.

They say all publicity is good publicity, but it seems like Samsung doesn't want this.

Hi-Rez Studios has announced Smite Tactics, a turn-based strategy spin-off of its popular MOBA.

Listen carefully and you'll soon notice how existence is filled with rhythmic flourishes. There's the plip-plipping of raindrops on a tin roof, the wobble and throb of a lorry engine idling in traffic, and the wash of timpani whenever a wave hurls itself onto pebbles, fatally. There are the seasons - four beats of the bar that comprise each year. There's the ticking of the clock, holding down an unwavering 60bpm till the end of time, or, at least, of batteries. Rhythm Paradise is a series that seeks to capture these joyous rhythmic oddities in microgames. It's an approach that has served Nintendo's designers well. Rock Band, Guitar Hero and all the other rock-posturing others clutter under-stair cupboards and garages. This series, in which you play, not as Kurt Cobain or Paul McCartney but as a microscopic amoeba, swimming with friends in elegant unison, or as an English interpreter for a Martian octopus, marches on, fortissimo.

Dead Rising 4's DLC plan has been outlined by Capcom and it includes mini-golf.

Doom just received a new update that adds a whole new single-player score-attack mode to the game.

Dead Star, the multiplayer-only team-based space shooter from Armature Studios (Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, ReCore), is shutting down at the end of the month.

In a potentially huge shake-up for the Pokémon series, upcoming games Sun and Moon look like they'll ditch HMs in the traditional sense.

Three years ago, Pokémon received its biggest shake-up in generations with the introduction of Mega Evolutions.

When FIFA 17 came out, Liverpool fans moaned (shock horror, I know) about the lack of Anfield's new stand in-game.

Poo-yourself-it's-scary survival horror series Amnesia is headed to PlayStation 4 via a new console port.

With the release of Batman: Return to Arkham bringing Rocksteady's first two Batman games to PS4 and Xbox One, we felt it might be time to take a look back and get a sense of the studio's achievements with these wonderful superhero adventures.

Darksiders' rejigged Warmastered Edition will now launch on 22nd November instead of later this month.

Top Destiny clan Redeem were denied world first status for completing Rise of Iron's new Hard Mode raid due to a technical hiccup.

Nvidia has finally revealed its next-gen GPU play for the budget segment, with the upcoming October 25th release of two graphics cards - the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti. We're still waiting for UK pricing, but at $109 and $139 respectively, the green team is clearly taking aim at AMD's Radeon RX 460.

Destiny fans have unmasked Bungie's Halloween plans following the deployment of last night's game patch.

Blizzard's constant Sombra teasing is starting cheese the Overwatch community off.

Maybe it's something to do with Steven Spielberg. The director's Second World War drama Saving Private Ryan has become a dividing line in the history of action cinema. There is everything that came before Spielberg's Normandy beach landings, with their shellshock camerawork and stinging audio occlusion, and there is everything that came after.

Stardock has announced Star Control: Origins, a new game in the sci-fi series.