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If nothing else, I've had a wonderful time playing Sabacc. The new variant, Kessel Sabacc, invented for Star Wars Outlaws is infinitely moreish, a simple card game that takes elements of Blackjack and Poker and a few others, and blends them into an eminently snackable bit of video game gambling. In the simplest terms, four players are each dealt a hand of two cards and take turns, through three rounds, to attempt to make a pair of the two lowest numbers possible. Drawing a new card costs a token, as does coming anywhere but first at the end of each set of rounds. When you're out of tokens you're out of the game; last player standing wins. I could play it all day.

Amazon has dropped a free 18-minute behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the first season of Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show.

Here at Digital Foundry, we've already gone into depth on Black Myth: Wukong's high-end PC experience, with 'full RT' (ie path-traced) lighting - but the fact is that the vast majority of the audience will be using mainstream-level PC hardware. Thankfully, the game can scale and we've put together some optimised settings for you that allow you to enjoy a beautiful experience without being short-changed from the maxed out experience... well, the maxed out non-RT experience.

More Call of Duty Black Ops 6 footage has leaked online, this time purporting to be from its multiplayer mode.

Good news, shooter fans - Deadlock finally officially exists.

Heroes of Might & Magic, Ubisoft's long-running turn-based strategy series, is returning for an eighth mainline instalment in 2025, just in time to celebrate the series' 30th anniversary.

Those lucky enough to secure a ticket to visit Nintendo's museum are in for a bonus treat: all eligible tickets will include a portrait of their Mii character.

Diablo 4's March of the Goblins event is making a return next week.

It was looking a bit touch-and-go for real-time stealth-tactics fans after developer Mimimi Games shut up shop following last year's superb Shadow Gambit. But thankfully it seems there's more than a little life left in the genre, what with the imminent arrival of the promising Sumerian Six and now this: a new Goya-inspired stealth-tactics adventure from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind the wonderfully moody Blasphemous series.

Obsidian is targeting 30fps on Xbox consoles for its fantasy RPG, Avowed.

Black Myth: Wukong has sold 10,000,000 copies across all platforms since it released on PC and PS5 just three days ago (20th August).

World of Warcraft boss Holly Longdale says Blizzard has learned from its controversial Shadowlands launch, acknowledging the expansion "wasn't enough" and "wasn't the right stuff", admitting the team should have "listened more" to its community.

There is a new update on Steam which informs other players if a review left on a game's page was primarily played on Valve's handheld Steam Deck.

Good news, Nintendo fans - Super Mario and Pokémon products will be popping up in the middle aisles of Aldis everywhere this weekend.

It looks like people are quite keen to get their hands on the next instalment in the Nikki series.

Development on the upcoming Tomb Raider game from Crystal Dynamics and Amazon is "going well".

Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford has admitted his long-term hopes for Epic were "misplaced or overly optimistic", having previously predicted Steam could become a "dying store".

Brace yourself, Star Wars fans – early copies of Star Wars Outlaws are already out there, and some players have elected to livestream the game.

Suspicious Developments' latest builds a witty, wonderfully generous adventure around a smart, rewarding, and endlessly imaginative turn-based tactics core.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we enjoy Delta Force coming back in a big way; we try out the new character creator for pretty Sims-like Inzoi; and we wince a bit as Skyrim shows its age.

Amazon's latest crack at a Lord of the Rings MMO still needs to find its "hook".

Has there been a more competitive time to release a video game? Possibly. Without resorting to blunt totting-ups of metascores and sales figures and some kind of dividing-by-gap-between-release-dates, it's not really something you can measure. One particularly rectangular section of my brain was tempted, mind, in the same kind of doomed endeavour as Civilization 7 designer Ed Beach trying to mathematically quantify whether his team was sticking to Sid Meier's rule of thirds. After a physicist who helped launch the Hubble telescope told me he couldn't make that work, I thought better of it.

When Supermassive Games' Directive 8020 arrives in 2025, it will have been three years since the studio's horror anthology series The Dark Pictures saw its last full release. This new sci-fi story, the studio's first foray into the future, is the fifth main game in the franchise (or sixth, if you count 2023's PlayStation VR spin-off). But that extra wait seems to have been put to good use, and ensured that there's plenty now about Directive 8020 to make the series almost feel like it's starting afresh.

Starship Troopers: Extermination developer Offworld Industries has shared more on the new features coming to its bug-stomping 16-player co-operative FPS when it leaves early access and launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 11th October this year.

Following the launch of Classic Marathon 1 & 2 earlier this summer, Classic Marathon Infinity is now available on Steam, meaning all three games in Bungie's acclaimed first-person sci-fi shooter trilogy have now made it to Valve's platform.

[Redacted] - that roguelike set in the Callisto Protocol universe announced under the codename Project Birdseye, which we reported on earlier this year - has landed itself a release date.

If you are partial to a freebie (or two), you can currently get your hands on both The Callisto Protocol and Gigantic: Rampage Edition over on the Epic Games Store.

Bloober Team creative director and lead designer for Silent Hill 2 Remake has confirmed the psychological horror game will take 16-18 hours to complete on average, but teased that it will take "more than 20 hours" for players to find "everything that [the team] put into the game and things we've hidden for you".

Supermassive Games and Behaviour have given us all another look at The Casting of Frank Stone, the upcoming interactive horror game set in the world of Dead by Daylight.

Black Myth: Wukong continues to attract record-breaking numbers of players, establishing itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese livestreaming platforms on its first day of release.