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UPDATE: CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Phantom Liberty is the only planned expansion for Cyberpunk 2077.

When it comes to Nintendo's most significant releases of the past 10 years, most would - quite rightly - point towards the towering achievement of The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild, though for me there's a game that came out a few years before that's every bit as important. The Wii U era was a commercial nadir for Nintendo, enlightened by the spark of something new; the lurid splash of colour that was Splatoon, a long-awaited all-new IP from the house that built Mario, and an impeccably enjoyable subversion of the modern-day shooter. For a company that can be too quick to fall back on the familiar, it offered the shock of the genuinely new.

The insides of Sony's newest PS5 model have been redesigned to use less power.

A new trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet details more of what we can expect to find in its open world.

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has said he once pitched a Hitman movie, but it never saw the light of day.

Humble Bundle has announced the games included in its September Choice.

Corecell has hit back at publisher PQube, disputing its defence over withheld funds.

Gloomwood came alive for me when I got outside. This is immersive-sim-ish territory, everything tilted towards horror and stealth. Navigating the lovingly rendered PS1 era visuals, which do help a great deal to make ordinary objects singular and creepy, I awake at the bottom of a pit with nothing but a mysterious ally, taunting me through a nearby grate before offering me a magic ring. The ring allows me to tell when I'm hidden in shadow, and once it's on my hand and the grate has been opened, I start to realise how useful it's going to be.

Following a small delay, Gremlins hero Gizmo will soon be making his debut in Warner Bros.' Smash-like brawler, MultiVersus.

A new noise suppression feature is available now on Xbox Series X/S to remove unwanted noises in voice chat.

Following on from the Cha-Cha bundle introduced at the end of last month, a new bundle for Call of Duty Vanguard and Warzone now brings even more from Netflix's The Umbrella Academy to the fray.

A system update for the PlayStation 5 is now live, adding in a number of new features previously available in beta.

I wasn't entirely convinced by MultiVersus when it leaked. We've seen countless platform fighters challenge Super Smash Bros across the decades, usually falling flat. Even Sony's own attempt with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was middling, so I didn't particularly rate a Warner Bros crossover's chances. I'll gladly admit those initial impressions were wrong. Even as a free-to-play game, that carries the usual monetisation pitfalls, MultiVersus sets itself apart where it matters.

Stray Fawn's The Wandering Village - a city building sim set on the back of a giant, roaming creature - will be launching into Steam early access next Wednesday, 14th September.

PowerWash Simulator - developer FuturLab's wildly compelling dirt-busting squirt 'em up - is currently celebrating 3m million players having hoisted nozzles since the game's launch on Xbox and PC back in May. And that milestone coincides with the opening of nominations for the next filth-encrusted edifice to be added to the game.

Masayasu Ito - Sony Interactive Entertainment's executive vice president of hardware engineering and operation, as well as lead engineer on both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 - is retiring on 1st October after 36 years with the company.

Ahead of this weekend's Ubisoft Forward digital showcase, a new report has claimed the event will offer a look at three previously unannounced Assassin's Creed titles - one set in Japan, another in 16th century Europe, and a third in China.

With God of War Ragnarök inching ever closer to its 9th November release on PlayStation, the pre-launch pre-amble keeps on coming, this time with a closer look at the dwarven realm of Svartalfheim in a new video.

Tencent is heavily investing in Ubisoft with a €300m investment in Guillemot Bros, the company run by Ubisoft's co-founders.

Keanu Reeves is set to reprise the role of Johnny Silverhand in the forthcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty.

The Callisto Protocol showed some gameplay to the public for the first time at Gamescom this year, with about three minutes of footage highlighting a bit of combat, a bit of stealth, and a slip-n-slide finish that ends with a bit of a crunch. Behind closed doors at the show, however, we saw a much longer version - albeit with the same stomach-churning finale - and had time to speak with the game's director and studio head Glen Schofield.

Gundam Evolution, a free-to-play hero shooter set in the world of the popular anime, is set for release on Steam this month.

A new trailer for the forthcoming duo Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is set to drop tomorrow.

Microsoft has announced the next wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass this September.

More evidence has emerged that a PC release of Returnal could be on the way.

Tactical bullet hell RPG Grid Force - Mask of the Goddess is set for release on 15th September.

Storyboards for Alicia Vikander's scrapped Tomb Raider sequel have shown up online.

A group of Steam Deck fans have figured out how to support gyro controls in Wii U emulation, effectively turning Valve's portable PC into Nintendo's infamous Wii U GamePad.

Mario Kart Tour has made Nintendo an estimated $293m globally to become the company's second highest grossing mobile game.

Mike Fahey's bio on Kotaku read, "Lover of video games, keyboards, toys, snacks and other unsavory things." All of this is true, as any of his legion of commited readers could tell you. But in one of the all time great Fahey pieces, he offered an even better description: "I am a 6'6" man with a vivid imagination and strange thought processes."