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Link's Ascend ability in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a particularly useful addition, but have you ever wondered exactly how it works?

The Witcher 3 has now sold 50m copies, cementing the title's position as one of the best-selling games of all time.

CD Projekt, developer of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, has dismissed speculation it will be bought by Sony.

Street Fighter 6 feels like a response, the counter-punch from a developer bruised and battered after a heavy defeat. You can't call it a comeback - for the fighting game core Street Fighter 5 served its purpose well enough. But you can call it a triumphant return to the ring; better, wiser and with a new plan of attack.

As a newcomer to System Shock, I'd like to take a moment and declare my undying love for SHODAN, aka Sentient Hyper-Optimised Data Access Network, aka the murderous AI villain who engulfs the entire remake. Literally. As a captured hacker onboard the Citadel space station, you've been asked to remove the "ethical constraints" from the station's artificial intelligence (that's SHODAN) in an obviously shady exchange. You get back your freedom plus a cool cybernetic implant, and the megacorp executive who's in charge of the operation gets to do evil things with the new ethically unconstrained station.

This time around, I'm looking at a gaming mouse that swaps the usual buttons for mechanical keyboard style keycaps, a Bluetooth speaker that has more RGB than my gaming PC, and a see-through keyboard. All three peripherals do something a bit different - but which of them are actually worth buying? That's what I'm here to find out, so after weeks of testing let's see the results.

Lena Raine's latest project is composing the score for Don't Nod's forthcoming narrative adventure Harmony: The Fall of Reverie.

Optimus Prime looks to be making his way to Fortnite.

Team17 has unveiled a mysterious new project, Redacted.

THQ Nordic has reached out to Remedy and offered to partner up to make Alan Wake 2 available as a physical release.

Saber Interactive is inviting you to "celebrate the anticipated release of Space Marine 2" in World War Z: Aftermath courtesy of two new Warhammer 40,000 trinkets to equip in-game.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother is seemingly on the way to Disney Dreamlight Valley in Update 5.

Blizzard has revealed a new "race event" to commemorate the first 1000 players to hit Diablo 4's Level 100 cap.

Rising Storm developer Antimatter Games is set to close after its parent company, Enad Global 7 (EG7), announced plans to "close down" the UK studio later this summer (Q3).

An investigation into women's experiences of gaming online has revealed that one in 10 has felt suicidal as a result of online abuse.

The Callisto Protocol's all-new Riot Mode is now available.

Neopets is serving up a steaming slice of nostalgia courtesy of a new gaming-flavoured cookbook.

Nintendo has forced Valve to delist a Wii and GameCube emulator from Steam, citing it violates the megacorp's intellectual property rights.

Another day, another Silent Hill rumour, and this one reckons we'll get new trailers from the numerous Silent Hill projects "really soon, before June".

Wales Interactive has unveiled the fourth and final episode coming to its co-op horror FPS, Sker Ritual, Deadly Lover's Fortress.

What I find fascinating about Darkest Dungeon, and what I've always found fascinating about it, is how the series rethinks the experience of what being a fantasy adventurer would actually be like.

Media Molecule has appointed former lead designer John Beech as its new creative director.

The major antagonists of From Software games usually have a lot of shared history. Some are blood relatives, some are lovers, some are enemies with grudges stretching back centuries. A few are all these things simultaneously. But they seldom meet, reconcile or thrash out their differences in-game. By the time we encounter them as players they've become monstrous hermits, isolated and corrupted by their vast ambitions and desires.

UPDATE 27/5/23: In a report released in the aftermath of Naughty Dog's statement, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has shed additional light on the behind-the-scenes decision-making currently impacting The Last of Us multiplayer game.

Stone Age farming and village life sim Roots of Pacha has returned to Steam following the end of a rights dispute between its developer and publisher, who have now announced the decision to "amicably part ways under terms that are mutually beneficial".

Just as it said it would, Microsoft has appealed the CMA's decision to block its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and its summary of arguments is now available for scrutiny.

Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind the recently released and critically lambasted The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, has reportedly received funding from the German government to develop a second Lord of the Rings title.

UPDATE 5pm UK: Daedalic Entertainment has apologised for the poor state of release of its Lord of the Rings: Gollum game.

Minecraft's long-awaited Trails and Tales Update will launch for all platforms on Wednesday, 7th June.

With the season of announcements almost upon us, we're starting to get a much clearer idea of the whats, whos, and, equally importantly, whens, of when the whos will be showing their whats. And in that spirit, developer Turn 10 has now revealed its latest Forza Motorsport game, bound for Xbox Series X/S and PC, will be getting two showings in June.