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Nintendo Switch Online will gain Game Boy Advance tactical role-player Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade next week, on Friday 23rd June.

Copies of Final Fantasy 16 are now out in the wild ahead of its release next week, so be aware of potential spoilers.

Moving Out, the knockabout co-op removals game from developer SMG Studio, is getting a sequel - complete with the likes of online cross-play multiplayer for the first time - and it'll be launching on 15th August for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.

Rockstar Games co-founder and creative director Dan Houser, who parted ways with the Grand Theft Auto developer in 2020, has formally unveiled Absurd Ventures, a media company established to create new IP across "all platforms and formats".

Two and a half years after the launch of its Xbox Series X/S consoles, Microsoft has officially said goodbye the previous generation, with Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty now confirming no internal development team is working on new titles for Xbox One.

Fans of flamboyant fisticuffs are in for a bit of a treat over on the Epic Games Store this week; developer Drinkbox Studios' acclaimed Metroidvania-style action-twosome Guacamelee 1 & 2 are currently free to download and keep.

A logo seemingly pointing to an unannounced remaster of Square Enix's sci-fi action-RPG sequel Star Ocean: The Second Story has been discovered on the publisher's website.

A demo for cosy puzzle game Wanderful has just been released on Steam and it's a relaxing little gem.

The Nintendo Switch versions of both Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and its sequel the Temple of Osiris be released as one package on 29th June.

Bethesda's 45-minute deep dive into Starfield was one of the most fascinating parts of the summer games conferences, offering a huge amount of insight into the technical underpinnings of one of the most ambitious upcoming games. After taking the time to investigate it more deeply, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia have reunited to discuss the Starfield Direct in detail - covering everything from the reasons behind the game's 30fps console target, what 4K on Series X actually means, the implications for Series S and the rendering tech on display.

While most of the bonanza of summer games events have felt a bit rushed, we were pleasantly surprised at the breathing room afforded to titles - and the classic E3 stage vibes - at Ubisoft Forward. This is a games conference we don't normally cover, but we felt compelled to, given the quality of the games on offer. Many of these also ran on Ubisoft's own adaptable Snowdrop engine, which was also nice to see on the heels of two major conferences without much of an alternative to the ubiquitous Unreal Engine.

Blizzard has nerfed dungeons in Diablo 4 to prevent players from XP farming.

Ever since Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released, players have been flexing their creative muscles by building a host of weird and wacky designs. This has included mechs, trucks, tanks and Korok torture devices. Someone even built a pilotable T-rex, because why not.

You thought the summer conference season was over? Nope, it's still going - and early this morning included a presentation from No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacturer.

The New York Times is beta testing a game called Connections which has gained attention for its similarities to a round featured in BBC2 quiz show Only Connect.

Steam has now officially added a host of handy new features to its client, following earlier beta testing.

Bandai Namco announced last week that its Closed Network Test for Tekken 8 is now open for registration.

In a shed behind his house, Tomas Sala is building an ocean. Oceans are his thing, of course, and he's built them before. But the shed is new. Last time I saw Sala on a Zoom screen he was working on his debut game, The Falconeer, and working from an attic whose floors were strewn with toys discarded by Sala's newborn baby. Today, he's working on a follow-up, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles. Bulwark is set in the same watery world as The Falconeer but instead of being an airborne action game it's something more city-builderish. Emphasis on the ish. Genre is a wonderful problem here. But anyway, that shed!

Five new cast members have been confirmed for Sega and Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog TV spinoff Knuckles.

Sony is confident in its current PlayStation Plus strategy, and has no plans to change it right now.

Yakuza developer RGG Studio has released a statement to clear up confusion over the title of the next mainline game in the series.

Having flung open the doors for sign-ups at the end of May, developer NetherRealm has now shared dates for Mortal Kombat 1's online stress test, confirming it'll be available to select registered players on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S starting Friday, 23rd June.

UPDATE 9.31pm: So it turns out Sony's PlayStation Blog update was only half the story (well, more like a quarter of the story if we're being mathematically inclined); an update on the official PlayStation Twitter account has now confirmed a total of 27 more games being added to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium's game catalogue in June.

Well, here's a surprise! Just when it looked like it would be all hands on deck until the arrival of Sea of Thieves' hugely anticipated (by me, I am the huge anticipant) Monkey Island crossover, developer Rare has announced it'll be reviving the multiplayer pirate game's limited-time Adventure series next week after a three-month absence.

People Can Fly, the studio behind Bulletstorm and Outriders, has formally signed a work-for-hire agreement with Microsoft to develop a new project based on one of the Xbox maker's IP.

Dead Cells - the superb rogue-like action-platformer from Motion Twin and subsidiary Evil Empire - is being turned into an 10-episode animated series for release next year.

It's been a year since Sony relaunched its PlayStation Plus subscription service with multiple tiers, and today there's word of an upcoming new feature: PS5 game streaming.

Foamstars is to Splatoon what Fortnite was to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - a rip-off, yes, but also an admirably brazen one. And one that might actually take a single game and turn it into a whole genre. If it's very lucky - and also very good.

I liked the look of Last Train Home when it got its unveiling this week during not-E3. It's a wintery period piece from Czech studio Ashborne Games, based on real events following World War 1.

Rogue Legacy 2 is set to make its PlayStation debut next week when it's added to PS Plus.