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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide continues its long road to recovery - a significant new patch is now available to download.

Legendary commentator John Motson has died aged 77.

Modern Warfare 2 got the much-loved Gun Game mode this week - and players have discovered it uses the classic Call of Duty mini-map that's absent from the rest of the game.

Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady has amped up the violence for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a new 18 rating for the game has revealed.

Toaplan's ten years making games left a tremendous legacy. Following a run of defining 2D shooters, the team ushered in the bullet hell era with 1993's triumphant Batsugun. After Toaplan closed its doors for the last time, former staff would go on to found or take senior positions at many of the shooting game genre's most important studios, such as Takumi, Gazelle, Raizing/Eighting, and the mighty Cave.

Half-Life: Ray Traced, a new mod adding hardware accelerated ray tracing to Valve's seminal first-person shooter, is now available to download following its reveal last summer.

Tohru Okada, the musician and music producer responsible for creating PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died aged 73.

Amazon has announced its massively multiplayer online RPG New World will be switching to a new seasonal release model - complete with a battle-pass-style Season Pass - from 28th March.

Microsoft has added six more countries to its Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan roll-out, meaning the account sharing service is now available across eight countries.

Nintendo is doing a Direct just to show the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

In the wake of Microsoft's press conference yesterday after crucial talks about the Activision Blizzard merger, the platform holder announced new deals that it says will bring Xbox games to more players than ever before. Ten-year deals were confirmed with two key players in the industry: Nintendo and Nvidia. This is tremendously exciting news for users of GeForce Now - point blank the best cloud streaming service available - and for Nintendo players too, who can expect fully featured versions of Call of Duty should the acquisition close. So, how significant is the Nvidia collaboration and to what extent can COD successfully transition to the Nintendo platform?

NetEase and Behaviour Interactive are revamping Dead by Daylight on mobile to improve gameplay and visuals.

Here's the first gameplay trailer for Peppa Pig: World Adventures.

A VR mode for Resident Evil 4 Remake is in development for PSVR2 and will be released as free DLC.

To mark the launch of PSVR 2, Hello Games' exploratory space sim No Man's Sky is, as previously promised, getting a wealth of VR improvements - but that's not all! PSVR 2 support arrives alongside a selection of new additions for all platforms in today's Fractal update.

Pokémon Go appears ready to limit the number of remote raids each player can battle in a day.

Sony's PSVR2 is released today, but some pre-order purchasers are still unsure when their package will actually arrive.

The idea of a video game about mental illness can feel like an oxymoron; we think of video games as fun, bombastic and progressive, and mental illness as miserable, colourless and static. But games that convey the experience of depression and grief – particularly indie games – have flourished in the past few years, both through exploiting the aptness of games for immersive, intimate, environmental storytelling and pushing the limits of the form, subverting our basic assumptions about what gaming is supposed to be and how it’s supposed to make us feel.

The original Angry Birds is being pulled from Google Play due to its business "impact" on developer Rovio's other mobile games.

Valve has issued a stark warning to Dota 2 cheaters, while confirming it has permanently banned over 40,000 accounts using a "honeypot" tactic.

Microsoft will not consider a version of its proposed $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout where it cannot also get its hands on Call of Duty, company president Brad Smith has said.

Elden Ring has now shot past the 20m sales mark.

Five of the Best is a weekly series we've resurrected for supporters because we wanted to do something nice for them - for you. It's a series about highlighting incidental features in games that often get overlooked. And it's also a series about having your say, so don't be shy, use those comments below and join in!

I don't know if you've ever worked with oil paints, but the point of them is simple: you can move them around pretty much forever. Oils take an eternity to dry, which can be really annoying if you're delighted with what you've done and want to get it varnished. But the upside is absolutely filled with upness - it's front-loaded with upness. You place the paints on the canvas and you are absolutely not committing yourself to anything. For the next few hours and days you can take a brush and just move that stuff around, blending, reshaping, reworking, completely transforming whatever you touch.

There's some good news if your Forza Horizon 5 experience is starting to get a little grey around the edges; Microsoft and developer Playground Games will be announcing the open-world racer's next expansion this Thursday, 23rd February.

Sci-fi strategy game Stellaris' latest Story Pack DLC, First Contact, now has a release date and will rolling out the red carpet for new galactic guests on 14th March.

Today in Brussels, I watched Microsoft president Brad Smith produce a copy of the agreement he still hopes Sony will sign: a contract to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation and remove the concerns of Xbox's biggest rival from blocking its $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout.

EA and Omega Force have released a first, much-needed patch to improve the PC performance of their hugely enjoyable monster battler Wild Hearts - but early reports from players suggest it hasn't actually managed to fix performance very much.

As we teeter on the cusp of tomorrow's PSVR 2 launch, Sony has announced an additional 10 games coming to its new-fangled virtual reality hardware in the "near future" - a number that pushes its launch window line-up over the 40 mark.

Microsoft has announced a deal with Nvidia to put all Xbox PC games on cloud service GeForce Now.