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Pokémon Go has launched a new kind of raid activity - Elite Raids - designed to test players' mettle in return for ultra-rare creatures.

Street Fighter 6 will include an array of sound options to improve accessibility.

Former adult film actress and Twitch streamer Sasha Grey has revealed she will be voicing the character of Ash in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, Phantom Liberty.

Twitch streamer Adriana Chechik, who broke her back in two places at TwichCon San Diego, is now out of hospital following a second round of surgery.

Polygon Treehouse has announced a "friend -em up" story adventure called Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island.

This weekend saw Minecraft developer Mojang make numerous announcements as part of its annual Minecraft Live celebration - including the first details of 2023's big vanilla Minecraft update.

Gotham Knights will be limited to 30FPS and not include a performance mode for consoles on its release later this month.

Konami horror project P.T. has been made playable on a PlayStation 5, via a hacked PS4 emulator.

It's finally happening. A decade on from the last full Silent Hill game, the survival horror franchise is making a long-awaited comback.

I've never actually seen the TV show before but from what little info I could gather, it seems like a bad idea to fuck with the Peaky Blinders. That's exactly what I did in this episode of VR Corner (above) though and, to be honest with you, the consequenses are nowhere near as bad as the Shelby's make them out to be. In fact, I had a pretty good time!

We often say that especially clever video games consist of "shades of grey", but there are just as many shades of blackness. The colour black has a strange, underground career in computer graphics and aesthetics, spread across different types of display and graphics hardware, different genres and art styles. The darkness of a Game Boy game is green-tinged and fertile, like a puddle of algae (and similarly reliant on sunlight). The darkness of a cathode-ray tube display is a dense fog sealed behind a bulging reflection - small wonder that Silent Hill's most atmospheric moments came before the advent of flatscreens.

Earlier this year, I shared my thoughts on five incredible mechanical keyboards that had passed over my desk as of early 2022. There was a surprisingly warm response to that piece, and I planned soon to revisit the topic when I'd tested enough great keyboards to really justify it - next year, perhaps. Scarcely a few months later, and I've been lucky enough to test out nearly a dozen more mechanical keyboards - five of which are well worth writing about.

Developer Media Molecule's impressively flexible PlayStation creation tool Dreams is celebrating Halloween this year with the return of its annual All Hallows' event, this time beckoning players to take a spooky trip to the Land of Lost Dreams.

Nintendo has taken its Switch Sports servers offline - and suspended save data backups - while it investigates an issue causing crashes in the game's latest update.

OlliOlli World is poised to receive its second and final expansion on 2nd November - and developer Roll7 has offered a closer look at its skybound skating hijinks ahead of its arrival.

"The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it's not named right. Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing. So, we're pressing the 'unlaunch' button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is amazing and on track to delight gamers everywhere on November 16th," says Nvidia, in a remarkable new blog post that effectively calls a halt to the upcoming launch of its most contentious of RTX 4000 releases, hinting that it'll be renamed when it does eventually re-emerge. RTX 4070 Ti anyone?

EA Motive has been uncommonly talkative throughout the development of its Dead Space remake, with the studio hosting various livestreams to show off the likes of its improved art, audio, and gameplay changes - but now, with the game's 27th January launch inching ever nearer, we've had our clearest look yet at how all those elements will come together, courtesy of a new eight-minute gameplay walkthrough.

Pokémon Go's annual Halloween event is often one of its best activities and, as expected, this year features a number of new bits and pieces in-game. The event's first half, running from October 20th to 27th, features the arrival of Mega Banette in Mega Raids for the first time, plus the Shiny versions of Noibat and Galarian Yamask. But it also offers some more surprising additions.

Overwatch 2 is a sequel if you take it on the face value of its title but it's more accurate to say it's a major update, replacing the original 2016 game on every platform. This isn't a sequel in the traditional sense clearly. Rather, it represents a change to how a familiar, well-loved game looks and plays. From a Digital Foundry perspective the headline is that with a new Overwatch 2 app rolling out, developer Blizzard actually uses this as an opportunity to release it as a proper, native PlayStation 5 app. For the first time, PS5 now benefits from several next-gen upgrades which til now Xbox Series X and S owners have been enjoying in Overwatch. So how does PS5 hold up with new features like 120Hz, and a native 4K resolution? And also, how much of an actual visual upgrade is Overwatch 2 compared to the original? And how does the game play across the board, bearing in mind that all consoles - even Switch - get the upgrade.

After eight years, the Destiny franchise is moving on from its various destination materials - the Spinmetal, Helium Filaments and Relic Iron you could zoom around on your Sparrow vehicle and harvest while patrolling the series' many planets and moons.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are set to receive their final update ahead of the launch of Scarlet and Violet.

Today brings another new Pokémon set to debut in the upcoming Scarlet and Violet games for Nintendo Switch: Bellibolt, an electric-type frog.

A major new Dungeons & Dragons game is in the works from Invoke Studios, the rebranded developer of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance formerly known as Tuque Games.

UPDATE 14/10/22: Atlus has said its Xbox Series X/S verions of Persona 3 Portable and Person 4 Golden will be native versions of the game - unlike on PlayStation 5. There, while the games will be playable, it will only be via their PS4 versions using backwards compatibility.

Blizzard has stated it won't be changing the balance of its heroes in Overwatch 2 until the game's second season.

It's a bit grim, but you read that headline correctly.

You've raced over the tops of oversized clock faces in Mario Kart 8, and now things are coming full circle. Yes, Nintendo has revealed a new collaboration with luxury watch brand TAG Heuer.

The latest Elden Ring patch, released yesterday, appears to have references to visual features and potential DLC.

New Call of Duty players on PC will still need to verify their identity via an SMS message - even though Activision's other half Blizzard rolled back the unpopular requirement for Overwatch 2 following its beleaguered launch.

Details about the story of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie are still being kept hush-hush, but we're learning more as we move closer to its release next year.