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The Pokémon Company has announced a new collaboration running at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 28th September.

Sega has announced the launch date for Total War Pharaoh, which will arrive as a digital download on 11th October.

All nine Picross e games released on the 3DS are being given a new lease of life on Nintendo Switch.

Since its release, Baldur's Gate 3 has gained praise for its execution of D&D systems and the freedom allowed to players in roleplaying. And, like a reluctant DM, the game will warn you if you're about to do something very silly, before watching you do the very silly thing and then say "I warned you".

Assassin's Creed Mirage marks the first time Ubisoft Bordeaux has led development on a full game release. It's a relatively small studio, as far as Ubisoft's teams go, and it seems fitting the team was chosen to build the leaner and more focused Mirage - after previously putting together Valhalla's Wrath of the Druids. Mirage was, of course, originally set to be DLC for Valhalla as well, before the project was expanded and became a standalone adventure for that game's mysterious Assassin character Basim Ibn Ishaq, set in the Assassin's Creed franchise's original stomping grounds.

Spider-Man fans have been comparing Insomniac's vision of New York from the previous game with forthcoming Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

It's no secret that Bethesda games have some wobbles here and there, and Starfield is no exception.

One of the many optional endings in Life is Strange: True Colors will be expanded upon in upcoming graphic novel Life is Strange: Forget-Me-Not.

High up the tower - but still nowhere near the top - I discovered the bell-ringer's shack. The shack was actually a sort of stone hut, if such a thing is possible, sat at the end of a curving wall. There was a door and a few slotted windows, and if I walked to the right, I found the bell-ringing equipment, which I needed to use but could not yet understand.

XDefiant, the Tom-Clancy-adjacent free-to-play shooter from Ubisoft, has been delayed out of its previously planned summer window, with the publisher blaming certification issues on Xbox and PlayStation for the game's slip into what's now "likely" to be an October release.

UPDATE 11/9/23: Following last week's announcement that Donald Mustard, chief creative officer at Epic Games, would be retiring from the company at the end of this month, it's been revealed that Charlie Wen will be taking over the role.

Last time you got up from playing Xbox in your Xbox-branded onesie to grab yourself some food made with your Xbox-branded cookbook from your Xbox-branded mini-fridge, did you by any chance say to yourself, "Gee, I really wish I'd been able to buy all this Xbox tat with an Xbox-branded credit card"? Well, guess what? Anything is possible in this darkest of timelines.

EA has published its Ultimate Team top ratings for the upcoming EA Sports FC 24, which mixes male and female players for the first time.

UPDATE 5.40pm: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that Gearbox has today emailed employees confirming Embracer Group is, at the very least, considering parting ways with the Borderlands studio - although a specific course of action is yet to be decided on.

"A car's journey, from the showroom floor to the winner's circle, is the culmination of a thousand little decisions," we are told, at the beginning of Forza Motorsport. "All carefully chosen by great builders who know what it takes to push a car past its perceived limitations." Fair enough. But it does make you wonder, as the camera whips through a montage of lime-green Porsches and rain-lashed tarmac, what exactly are the perceived limitations that the great builders at Turn 10 Studios are trying to push past?

With both Eurogamer and Video Games Chronicle discussing the behind-the-scenes demos of Switch at Gamescom last month, it's important to put what was revealed into context.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is getting a free upgrade for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.

Custom console skin company Dbrand has announced a set of limited edition PS5 plates which take some heavy inspiration from Sony's own official Spider-Man designs.

FromSoftware has released an update for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon that appears to be making its early game a little easier.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag - AKA the one where you get to be a pirate - is currently unavailable on Steam. But don't get excited - it's not because there's a new version on the cards.

Upcoming point-and-click adventure Foolish Mortals will now release in 2024.

Bethesda's space behemoth Starfield has now reached another new milestone in Steam concurrent players.

Smartphone racer Mario Kart Tour will receive its final content update next month on 4th October, Nintendo has announced.

So how was your lockdown? Three years on, as the 'new normal' rapidly recedes, life under COVID restrictions feels almost like a fever dream, any thought to the lingering trauma of enforced isolation ignored, dismissed, or forgotten. Mediterranea Inferno, though, remembers. This second outing from The Milky Way Prince's Lorenzo Redaelli – a creator working in the shadow of Italy's stringent, long-lasting coronavirus measures – has a lot on its mind, beginning with the impact those wilderness years have had on the collective conscious, particularly on young adults grappling with a sense of lost time at a critical juncture in their lives.

Mass Effect developer BioWare is pulling back from Andromeda's open-world approach and plans to streamline its world for Mass Effect 4.

The world of keyboards has been on an interesting trajectory recently, with a trend towards maximalist designs from mainstream and boutique brands alike that pack in a huge number of features and eye-catching flourishes - many of which don't really improve the overall typing experience.

Thinking about jumping into Starfield but worried about the levelling up grind? This player has a top tip for you.

Surprise! It looks like Gotham Knights is coming to Nintendo Switch.

I've been praying for a proper Far Cry VR game for ages, whether it be a new one or a port of the older games and now, all of a sudden, we're getting loads of Far Cry VR mods thanks to the continued work of the flat to VR modding community!

A fire has destroyed part of the offices of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World.