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Many have hoped Rockstar will one day release a Bully remake or sequel, but currently these hopes seem unlikely to bear fruit.

Steam now supports Nintendo's classic controllers released for the Switch.

After three years, the Pokémon Centre pop-up store will be returning to London in August.

My wife plays GTA Online a couple of times a week. It's not hard to see why she's stuck with it. Rockstar's endlessly unspooling criminal playground is weird and sometimes creaky, but it's still beautiful - no other company has captured the rosy opioid bloom of LA light like this - and it's still fun. More than anything, it's unpredictable: whenever you go into GTA Online, you always come out with some kind of story.

The death of a sim can be an emotional time. The Grim Reaper shows up with his scythe in hand, the family gathers around to send their loved one off, and a period of mourning descends upon the house. But, if a Sim has lived a good, long life, this can also be a chance for celebration in recognition of time well spent.

I've been a bit too busy to do my usual VR Corner posts these past couple of weeks so I thought I'd take this moment of mid-week quiet to let you know about two recent flatscreen to VR updates that have been rocking my world.

Blizzard and NetEase's Diablo Immortal has notched up $100m in player spending after two months, almost entirely without the game's Chinese market.

New videos of the Nier secret church have been released that appear to reference Nier Replicant. The plot thickens!

Sony is finally adding support for 1440p displays to the PlayStation 5, to the cheers of many players, particularly those on PC, with high refresh-rate QHD monitors.

There I am, admiring a particularly luminescent blue tuber in my hydroponic garden, when an alarm begins to blare. Pirates, raiding from the skies! A minor inconvenience, sure, but one worth dealing with swiftly, so I hop on Blort - my trusty translucent pet sphere - and roll purposefully, if not exactly speedily, toward the throbbing heft of my organic ship, the whir of a friendly robot drone jabbering somewhere behind me.

Gran Turismo 7's July patch has squeaked in just before the month is up, bringing three new cars to the ever-expanding roster in the free update - and this update brings a little bit more besides.

Point-and-click specialist Wadjet Eye Games - the studio behind the acclaimed likes of Unavowed and the celebrated Blackwell series - is teaming up with indie studio Cloak and Dagger Games to publish its forthcoming folk horror adventure The Excavation of Hob's Barrow on PC, Mac, and Linux later this year.

UPDATE 5pm UK: PlayStation has now officially confirmed today's Plus leak, and the strong line-up of Yakuza: Like A Dragon, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 and Little Nightmares, all of which will become available from 2nd August. More below...

Sony has announced its plans to bring eight Yakuza titles to its new look PlayStation Plus service this year.

Successful Steam social platform VRChat is in a state of disarray following a disruptive update that banned all mods, leaving the game unplayable for many who rely on modded accessibility features.

If you can pry your eyes away from England's stunning 4-0 semi-final victory against Sweden in the Euros last night (I've had that Alessia Russo backheel nutmeg goal on repeat all afternoon), have a gander at FIFA 23's gameplay reveal.

EA has confirmed FIFA 23's current-gen exclusive gameplay features, and in doing so outlined the differences between the various versions of the game.

The Nintendo Switch Online app has a new update, which lets you send friend requests from your phone.

Rockstar's long-awaited GTA 6 is still at least two years away but being made under improved conditions, an extensive new Bloomberg report has detailed.

The peer-to-peer servers for Evolve: Stage 2 have been resurrected.

A bug is plaguing Diablo Immortal which has seen players losing out on XP rewards for gaining levels. This is even though Blizzard has supposedly released a fix.

Microsoft is testing a new set of logos that will appear as "badges" over titles in your game library.

The famous "oof" sound from Roblox, which was comically played whenever you met your maker, is no more.

Stephane D'Astous, founder and former boss of Deus Ex developer Eidos Montreal, has described Square Enix's handling of its Western studios as a "train wreck in slow motion" in an explosive new interview.

The mystery of the church and secret door in Nier: Automata continues.

Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced a major set of pricing changes to its Meta Quest 2 VR headsets, starting in August.

Elden Ring players are disappointed with the game's PvP multiplayer and its lack of balance.

Warner Bros brawler MultiVersus has seen a strong start on Steam, following the arrival of its open beta yesterday.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic remake is "in serious trouble" and "delayed indefinitely", according to a new report.

I still can't get over hearing that Grand Theft Auto was nearly canned - the Grand Theft Auto, the original, the game that started it all. What would have happened if it never came out? And it very nearly didn't, to hear Gary Penn talk about it, senior producer and then creative director on it. "That game was pretty much nearly canned every bloody week," he tells me in episode 20 of One-to-one, now available to all premium Eurogamer supporters.