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Tired of that giant white slab of a PlayStation 5 in your living room and looking to add a bit of pizzazz to your surroundings? Well then Sony might just, depending on your idea of tasteful, have what you're looking for: three new metallic console covers (and matching controllers) that are almost certainly not going to match your existing decor!

Frictional Games fans could be forgiven for thinking the horror-focused studio has been getting a little soft in recent years, having introduced death-free and monster-free modes in post-launch updates for its acclaimed SOMA and Amnesia: Rebirth. This year, though, it's going in completely the opposite direction, and its recently launched WW1 horror Amnesia: The Bunker will be getting even more nerve-frayingly horrifying, just in time for Halloween.

Ubisoft Montreal - the studio behind the likes of Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Far Cry 5 - has been accused of leaving staff in "turmoil" after it reportedly reneged on promises that "100% remote work would be possible", forcing all 4,000 of its workers back to the office for a "minimum" of two days a week, as of 11th September.

American Truck Simulator trundles ever-onward, and developer SCS Software has now confirmed its next stop (after the already announced but not-yet-released stops of Kansas and Nebraska, that is) will be the state of Arkansas.

Just a few weeks away from the launch of Spider-Man 2, we've gone hands-on with the Spider-Men - both of them - to find out how each character plays in Insomniac's highly-anticipated sequel. Both Peter Parker and Miles Morales now have more for players to master - with Peter enhanced by his newfound symbiotic powers, while Miles still finds his feet with explosive bio-electric venom powers of his own.

Final Fantasy 7 bad boy Sephiroth will be fully playable in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

Although the specifics change, it seems like there's always a period in games that feels especially distant. And I mean distant in a wonderful way. The hardware may only be up in the attic or photographed and prepped for eBay, but the games themselves feel remote, bizarre, unprecedented and alien. No game looks as briskly abstract as G-Police at the moment. MDK looks like a game about insects, but insects covered in early Stealth aircraft armour.

As revealed in PlayStation's recent State of Play, Honkai: Star Rail is coming to PS5 on 11th October, 2023.

Ascendant Studios, the developer behind the EA published Immortals of Aveum, has laid off almost half of its staff.

Are you a good listener? It's a skill, maybe an art, that I wish I could get better at. I nod along and ask appropriate questions as much as I can, but I'm often lost in my own head, listening to my own internal monologue - listening, kind of, but with an eye peering out the window.

UPDATE 15/9/23: EA has now told Eurogamer that Mason Greenwood will return to the newly-retitled FIFA series in this year's EA Sports FC 24 - although not in the game's Ultimate Team mode.

UPDATE 15/9/23: The "credible" death threat that prompted the closure of Unity offices yesterday was made by a Unity employee, police have now revealed.

Hades 2 will enter early access in Q2 2024.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: strawberry jam, horrible choices and a half-tuck comfort blanket.

The wait is almost over (sort of)! Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - the second instalment in Square Enix's three-part Final Fantasy 7 remake - will be coming to PlayStation 5 on 29th February next year.

During this evening's Sony State of Play, Insomniac Games revealed some more information about next month's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 ahead of its release on 20th October.

Resident Evil 4's Separate Ways campaign and a Mercenaries mode update are coming to this year's acclaimed Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC remake on 21st September - and the main game's long-awaited VR mode will hit PSVR2 this "winter".

UPDATE 14/9 10.20pm: Roblox will be available to play on PS4 on 10th October, Sony has just announced. A release date for the game on PS5 has not yet been specified.

Big times are coming for Cyberpunk 2077, with its paid expansion and a significant 2.0 base game overhaul both right around the corner; we already knew the expansion, Phantom Liberty, was coming on 26th September, but developer CD Projekt has now confirmed its free 2.0 update will arrive five days earlier, on 21st September.

Ready for more announcements? State of Play, Sony's own version of the Nintendo Direct, returns tonight at 10pm UK time. If you're over the pond that's 5pm Eastern, or 2pm Pacific.

A game developer has to be pretty brave to attempt a Soulslike, I feel. Just the fact that they’re still called Soulslikes, nearly a decade and a half on (and surely longer than it took for "Doom clones" to turn into first-person shooters), is probably a sign. FromSoftware just keeps banging out top notch examples of a genre they created, and follow-ups, in Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring, that all have their own distinct variances from the core template, so plucky pretenders to the throne really need a unique selling point. The Surge has its near-future sci-fi stylings, Nioh leans into character action game combat, and Jedis Fallen Order and Survivor combine Uncharted-esque traversal with a little movie licence from the seventies. New contender Lies of P has, umm, puppets.

A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation.

Today's Nintendo Direct was one for the Nintendo faithful, with remakes and remasters from classic franchises aplenty - and a star turn for Princess Peach.

Nintendo's previously announced Luigi's Mansion 2 spruce-up - which it's now officially calling Luigi's Mansion 2 HD - is set to launch for Switch next "summer".

The first three Tomb Raider games are heading to Switch with updated graphics in one collection.

I've been really excited to play Wargroove 2 because I liked the original game, but I wanted to love it. It was a blend of Advance Wars and early Fire Emblem games, a turn-based tactics affair that saw you spreading out across dinky grid-based maps, gathering resources, turning them into units and exploring the dense rock-paper-scissors potential of the various ensuing matchups. It was a loving and thoughtful thing, but it felt a little dry to me - a little too studious when it came to its inspirations.

A visually enhanced remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is heading to Switch next year.

Nintendo and developer Cing's wonderful (if upsettingly short-lived) Another Code series is making a return, arriving on Switch as two-game bundle in January next year.

The long-awaited return of F-Zero is finally upon us, but as a battle royale.

At today's Nintendo Direct, further details were revealed about the forthcoming Princess Peach game for Switch.