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It's the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded, and the Phillies need just two runs to clinch a spot in the World Series. But something's holding up play. Jim Skaalen, the pitching coach, and Jonny Estrada, the ninth batter, are arguing furiously as they approach the mound. Estrada, it seems, has lost faith in the abilities of his general manager. "I don't care if he's new to this, skip," Estrada objurgates, "he shouldn't have to Google what a 'bunt' is."

[Note: This article contains major spoilers for Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 4: Escape Plan Bravo. Only read if you're caught up on the series or simply don't mind knowing what happens. You've been warned.]

Metal Gear Solid 2 ended with an explosion of questions. In creating a game that questioned its own status as a game, Kojima had opened countless essentially insoluble plot threads. The most pressing one was: what next? Hideo Kojima initially tried to avoid directing Metal Gear Solid 3, or so the talk goes. He did not.

Most people go their whole lives without having to fight an evil version of themselves. Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame has done it twice. This week on Outside Xbox we harked back to the pre-reboot years, when the Croftster was always fighting bizarre flesh monsters and actual dinosaurs.

The Black Ops 3 beta handed in a solid presentation on PlayStation 4, with the game delivering a similar, if more refined gameplay experience compared to last year's Advanced Warfare, demonstrating native 1080p visuals along with smooth frame-rates that adhered closely to the desired 60fps target. It was largely business as usual on Sony's console, but how well does the Xbox One beta stack up in comparison?

Does the arrival of Metal Gear Solid 5 finally close out the cross-gen era of console gaming? While the pre-launch focus on the game has centred almost exclusively on PlayStation 4, Hideo Kojima's swan-song launches this week on four console platforms, including the stalwart PS3 and Xbox 360 - a development and publishing choice made years ago, based on genuine fears that gamers would not upgrade to the latest generation of hardware. Cross-gen production was commonplace as we transitioned across to PS4 and Xbox One, and for good reason - game-makers needed to hedge their bets financially when tens of millions of dollars were sunk into individual titles.

UPDATE 30/08/2015 1.50am BioWare has confirmed the Dragon Age Inquisition: Trespasser DLC at a PAX Prime panel attended by Eurogamer.

There's big news in the Guild Wars 2 camp today as ArenaNet announces the original game will be available for free, right now and for evermore.

At Gearbox's PAX Prime panel attended by Eurogamer, studio head Randy Pitchford honoured a very unusual fan request: a couple of Borderlands players wanted to get married at the conclusion of the developer's presentation.

The week preceding the August bank holiday always feels like a long one but, with Metal Gear Solid 5 so tantalisingly close, it's never dragged on quite as arduously as this week has. For some of us, that is - Aoife happens to have been playing MGS5 for a couple of days now, meaning she's poised to tell you all about it in this week's Eurogamer show.

It's not often that a game will make me angry. I mean, righteous in my guts angry.

All Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter backers will receive a code for a three-stage demo on 15th September, developer and Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune announced today at a PAX Prime panel attended by Eurogamer.

PC strategy game XCOM 2 has been delayed to 5th February 2016. It had been due out in November 2015.

It's official: there's a Borderlands movie in the works.

The next title from Dying Light and Dead Island developer Techland is not another zombie game. Instead, it is FIM Speedway Grand Prix 15. Who saw that coming?

Who needs a new F-Zero game with Fast Racing Neo about?

UPDATE 28/8/15 2.05pm: CliffyB shooter LawBreakers has been shown off in a new gameplay trailer.

There's a scene in Generation Kill, the HBO miniseries that follows an embedded reporter as he travels with the Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which Sergeant Brad 'Iceman' Colbert can be seen running around a field with his arms outstretched, pretending to be an aeroplane. After watching this display of benign madness, or freedom for a few moments, one of Colbert's comrades turns to the reporter (based on real life journalist Evan Wright) and asks: "What, did you like, give him some Rolling Stone drugs or something?"

Destiny's weekly activities are getting a complete revamp in upcoming expansion The Taken King.

Broken Age and Massive Chalice developer Double Fine has announced Headlander, a retro-futuristic 2D Metroidvania.

11bit Studios has announced This War of Mine: The Little Ones, due out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 29th January 2016.

If you're still on the fence, it's fair to say Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is a worthwhile purchase on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In particular, the Xbox One version is much improved over last year's Ground Zeroes - this time offering a native 1600x900 resolution that gives the console a huge leap over the last game's disappointing 720p setup. But how well does this measure up to PS4's full 1080p - and indeed, does the resolution boost take its toll in terms of raw performance?

Street Fighter 5's big global beta is going live tonight and - if all goes well, unlike last time out - it'll be playable throughout the bank holiday weekend. Two of team Eurogamer got on the regional beta test last week, and met up earlier this week to talk through what they played. So, without further ado and thanks to a slick copy and paste from our chat logs, here's Street Fighter pro Wesley Yin-Poole and Street Fighter idiot Martin Robinson to guide you through their thoughts.

Four cool games are free to play on Steam this weekend.

The people behind Grip, the Rollcage spiritual successor, have canned its Kickstarter.

Clint Hocking, key designer on Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, has returned to Ubisoft after leaving the company in 2010.

Nintendo has revealed a Shovel Knight Amiibo - the first figurine to be based on an indie game.

If you pre-order any of the Steam hardware devices (Steam controller, Steam Link or Steam Machine) you get free copies of Rocket League and Portal 2.

It looks like most of us will have to wait until early 2016 before we can buy Valve's virtual reality headset the Vive.

Turn 10 has unveiled the full list of cars that will feature in Forza Motorsport 6 - and it's a mighty impressive, mighty long list of some 460 cars. All of which are listed below, should you fancy a peruse. There's obviously some real gems in there, and it's highly likely you'll find something to your tastes in a roster that now includes a serious number of real-life, thoroughbred racing cars.