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It's the second day of Amazon Prime Day and there have been lots of great deals on PC accessories so far, including the most popular gaming mouse dropping to under £30.

If I remember this correctly, the movie American Graffiti starts with a close-up of a car radio frequency display. American Graffiti is about a group of young people wandering around on a special night. George Lucas' next film would be the one to take us out to a galaxy far, far away, but, even back in the day, on a crackly fourteen-inch TV screen, that radio shot in American Graffiti looked absolutely gigantic. It's just numbers and lines, and yet here was a panorama, lightyears wide, filled with deep mystery, somehow grown-up and somehow incomprehensible. Turn the dial. The needle scrolls, static twists into high notes and descends into a low fuzzy grumble before suddenly - implausibly - erupting into song.

Digital Eclipse, the studio behind last year's acclaimed Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, has announced it's giving a similar "interactive documentary" treatment to Prince of Persia designer Jordan Mechner's 1984 classic Karateka later this year on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC - as part of a new series of releases, each one focusing on a different seminal game.

Two years (well, one year and 11 months to be more precise) after its debut on Switch, PlayStation and PC, Axiom Verge 2 - the sequel to developer Thomas Happ's acclaimed retro-styled Metroid-a-like - is finally available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

West of Dead studio Upstream Arcade and publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment have given a first proper taste of Hellboy Web of Wyrd's gameplay in a brisk new trailer as the "roguelite action brawler" continues its journey toward a release on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.

If you're a try-before-you-buy sort with access to an Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S, then today's your day, as Microsoft's latest ID@Xbox Demo Fest event officially begins.

Microsoft has won its crucial court case against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), clearing its way to acquire Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn.

Bulkhead, the Derby-based developer of old-school WW2 shooter Battalion 1944 (also known as Battalion: Legacy), is providing refunds to its Kickstarter backers, with no questions asked.

LGBT+ Twitch streamers who took part in the platform's Pride Month celebration are disappointed by the lack of support, but the company is looking to improve in future.

Splash Damage, the developer behind Brink, Gears Tactics and the upcoming Transformers: Reactivate, has announced it is moving to a four-day work week for in-office staff.

Nearly three years after Unreal Engine 5 was first revealed, we're on the cusp of the first major UE5 game releases, including Immortals of Aveum, The Lords of the Fallen and Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl. With the release of Unreal Engine 5.2, the time seems right to take another look at what new features have been added in the latest revision and how these additions will colour the games of the future - including titles from developers that previously built their own engines like CD Projekt Red and Crystal Dynamics.

Football governing body FIFA has announced a new officially-licensed video game for the upcoming Women's World Cup. It's called Matchday Challenge, and is a free-to-play trivia title.

Dave the Diver has been making waves since its full release on Steam last month, and the indie game has sold over 1m copies in its first 10 days.

A new study conducted by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network has revealed that 87 percent of classic games released in the US are out of print.

We're just days away from the arrival of Capcom's Exoprimal - the publisher's new online squad-based live service game with lots of dinosaurs.

Sega and Nihon Falcom were at one point working on a Sonic RPG for the Mega-CD console, featuring a "flirtatious and sexy" female hedgehog.

Tears of the Kingdom did not copy from Elden Ring because no one on the Zelda team had time to play it, despite hearing about FromSoftware's epic adventure.

Baldur's Gate 3 made headlines recently with the eye-catching claim that it has more than 170 hours of cinematics in the game.

Blizzard has suggested Diablo 3's Rebirth feature could come to Diablo 4.

Final Fantasy 16, Square Enix's latest game in the renowned series, is being adapted into a musical in Japan.

Amazon Prime Day started today, and we've already seen some great discounts on our favourite pieces of tech including one of the fastest SSDs for gaming hitting a new lowest-historical price.

Sega of America workers have formally voted to unionise, under the name the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS-CWA), after announcing plans to do so earlier this year.

Amazon Prime Video's superhero series The Boys is infiltrating Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 as part of this week's Season 4 Reloaded update, which launches on 12th July.

We're just a couple of weeks away from the launch of Peacock's Twisted Metal television show, and, with the publicity machine now in full swing, we've been given our best look yet at the vehicular combat series' live-action adaptation, courtesy of a new two-minute trailer.

Last week, the press reported that Microsoft expects Sony to release a revised Slim model of the PlayStation 5 along with the already announced Project Q handheld, with the documents even mentioning a Pro model. While confirming nothing, Microsoft's expectations are in line with rumours that continue to persist, suggesting that Sony is looking to reshape its hardware line-up this year and moving into 2024. So what should we expect?

EA Sports has announced a livestream for this coming Thursday, 13th July, to unveil the first proper information on EA Sports FC24, its maiden game under the new branding since leaving the official FIFA license behind.

UPDATE 10/7/23: Bugsnax will release on the App Store later this week - 12th July, to be precise.

EA has officially revealed its Black Panther game, which is being developed by new Seattle studio Cliffhanger Games in collaboration with Marvel Games.

Sonic the Hedgehog maker Sega plans to bring one of its biggest franchises to blockchain platform Game Dosi.

Clockwork Revolution may look like BioShock Infinite, but game director Chad Moore has said the project is better described as the "love child" of role-playing games such as Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.