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We're on the cusp of 2022's not-E3 week, with the main event set to be this Thursday's Summer Game Fest livestream. Ahead of its airing, however, host Geoff Keighley has warned viewers expecting major reveals to "manage your expectations", saying the event will be "primarily focused" on already announced games.

The climbing mechanic in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End almost saw lithe hero Nathan Drake come with his own little stamina bar in a bid to give an extra layer of difficulty to the game.

The latest DF Direct Weekly has arrived, in which myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia spend a disproportionate amount of time discussing Sony's latest State of Play stream. While it may have been short on 'gigaton' news and reveals, the showing was strong overall, concentrating on 2022 and 2023 titles, going large on PlayStation VR2 and - in a welcome turn - taking transparency to a new level. It was made clear that everything we saw was running in real-time on console hardware and if it wasn't, captions popped up to explain what it was we were actually seeing.

Following the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase on 12th June, Xbox will present a Showcase Extended event two days later.

This is the week of not E3 but still sort of E3, so you can expect plenty of announcements and reveals to be coming your way very soon.

If you didn't delve into crafting enough in Elden Ring, there's a new mod on the way that'll have you regularly dipping in.

The hashtag #DelaySonicFrontiers has been trending following the game's first gameplay reveal.

Monster mobile hit Pokémon Go has now earned more than $6bn in revenue, according to reliable app store analytics firm Sensor Tower.

Nearly two years ago, we called the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 a Titan in all but name, a prosumer graphics card that makes sense as a cheaper alternative to professional Quadros while also delivering better gaming performance than any consumer alternative. Now the RTX 3090 Ti has arrived, placing it above the Titans and firmly into the realm of the Olympians - in terms of performance, power consumption and price tag.

EA has issued a statement of support, primarily for LGBTQ+ rights, ahead of this month's Pride celebrations.

The Nintendo 64 had some of the greatest games of our time on it. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for example, was the first game ever to receive a perfect score of 40/40 in Famitsu magazine and was recently added to the Video Game Hall of Fame.

The dust has settled on a fresh Fortnite season, following this weekend's explosive live event. After an awkwardly-timed season focused on all-out warfare, the next few months will bring relative calm to Epic's battle royale island.

Splitgate's beta season two is now live on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

Two things named Gotham Knights are currently set to release over the coming year. One is a video game (coming in the latter half of 2022), and one is a TV show (coming early 2023), and both see a group rallying together to fight the crime in Gotham following Batman's demise.

This year's Go Fest, Pokémon Go's annual summer weekend extravangaza, has shaken up the game with the introduction of a new Mythical creature, the arrival of the franchise's extra-dimensional Ultra Beasts, and the apparent (albeit likely temporary) loss of everyone's favourite hunky professor, Willow.

Sega producer Yosuke Okunari has confirmed that the reason the company didn't pursue creating a mini Dreamcast or Saturn because "both developing and manufacturing new chipsets during the pandemic is a difficult and expensive process".

Capcom has acknowledged that leaked details and video clips of Street Fighter 6 have shown us "things we weren't supposed to see".

It hasn't even been announced yet, let alone released, but Rare employees seem to be unlocking achievement for a Xbox port of GoldenEye 007 that has yet to be announced.

It costs £88,000 ($110,000) to fully upgrade a character in Diablo Immortal.

Amazon Games has entered into a new publishing agreement with Disruptive Games, a Californian indie studio, to publish its "upcoming online multiplayer action-adventure game".

More reports have surfaced suggesting upcoming PS5 game Abandoned is "not actively being worked on" and "there is no game" in development.

There is a distinct feeling to walking around in a city you used to live in. It is different from going to a new place for the first time and it’s different from walking around a place you live in now. There is a mix of nostalgia and surprise as you walk around the old places you used to know and the new places that have cropped up since. You may feel a tinge of sadness at the places that are no longer there and, with it, a sense of the passage of time.

It looks like pre-orders for Marvel's Midnight Suns are about to go live ahead of an October release date.

Fortnite's latest season has concluded with this year's first big live event, as the battle royale Island's heroes aimed to end the villainous Imagined Order faction for good.

If you've taken a shine to Leon Kennedy's bomber jacket from the new Resident Evil 4 remake, I have good news: it's available to buy online.

Ubisoft has announced it is "no longer targeting a FY23 release" for its troubled Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake.

Escape from Tarkov Arena is a new "standalone game project" from developer Battlestate Games.

Sega has unveiled Mega Drive Mini 2, its latest mini retro console.

Don't forget that if you downloaded the demo for Mario Strikers: Battle League Football last week - Nintendo's Mario-themed sports game - online multiplayer matches will be available this weekend.

Back in March, Gamescom - the world's busiest annual game show - confirmed that it will return as an in-person event this year, running from 24th to 28th August at Cologne's Koelnmesse convention centre. Nintendo, however, will not be there.