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This piece contains spoilers for Nier Automata and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Yu Suzuki - the legendary designer behind the likes of Sega classics Shenmue, Virtua Fighter, OutRun, and Space Harrier - has unveiled new 3D shooter Air Twister, which is making its way to Apple Arcade on 24th June.

Ofcom has published its annual report into the UK's online habits - including plenty of stats for how many of us are now playing online games, paying for subscriptions, and trying to beat Wordle.

Adeline Software's much-loved Little Big Adventure series can now be enjoyed with a welcome selection of modern day niceties - including cloud saves, controller support, and Steam achievements - thanks to a brand-new update on Steam.

This year's big, Geoff-Keighley-hosted Summer Game Fest livestream is a little over a week away, and, as the build-up to its 9th June airing continues, all developers and publishers taking part in the show have been revealed.

UPDATE 31/5/22: Ubisoft has now confirmed its impending 60fps patch for Assassin's Creed Origins, which will arrive for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S this week, on 2nd June.

Almost exactly one year after Sonic Frontiers' initial tease, Sega has returned with a new brand-new trailer offering our first, brief look at some gameplay for the hedgehog's latest adventure.

Xbox has announced the next slate of games headed to Xbox Game Pass in June, including Assassin's Creed Origins.

New content is coming to Konami's eFootball, but Master League won't arrive until 2023.

Get ready earthlings, Crypto is back (no, not that planet burning kind). THQ Nordic has revealed that Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed is heading our way on 30th August, with alien invader Crypto - or to be more precise, the next Crypto: Cryptosporidium 138 - leading the charge (ok, so maybe "that planet burning kind" is actually still accurate...).

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be shown off in new detail tomorrow, 1st June, at 2pm UK time.

The Monument Valley series, the much-loved mobile puzzle games, are coming to PC via Steam as the Panoramic Collection.

SCS, the developer behind Euro Truck Simulator 2, has made the decision to cancel its upcoming "Heart of Russia" expansion in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, a smartphone MMO version of the beloved Studio Ghibli/Level-5 RPG series, is now available globally.

Get ready to brawl in a brawl to end all brawls, as Tekken 7 has now made its way over to Sega's Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown.

Nintendo's mysterious cancelled Kirby GameCube platformer has been spotted in a (very brief) snippet of new gameplay footage.

French government officials are banning a number of anglicised gamer words to preserve the purity of the language.

A new Enhanced Edition of Raji: An Ancient Epic is out now on PC, with ray-tracing and multiple improvements.

UPDATE 31/5/22: Nintendo has now released a new patch for Nintendo Switch Online that removes this Kirby bug.

UPDATE 31/5/22: Activision Blizzard has now officially confirmed reports it has called off the release of Diablo Immortal in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Old school shooters have always been where you'll find video games at their most direct, and the genre's side-scrolling subset is where you go to see them at their most stately and spectacular. Konami's Scramble kickstarted the form in 1982 before it evolved into the atmospheric masterpiece Gradius, while Taito brought to the genre a cinematic scope with the three-screen spectacle of Darius. With complex scoring mechanics not so much of a concern there's a joyful simplicity to the action, matched by pure-hearted sci-fi panoramas that make these games spaced out thrill rides. It's why I love them so dearly, anyway.

If you're watching the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series and want yet more backstory, it sounds like you could do a lot worse than read this month's latest Star Wars novel, Brotherhood.

The weeks in the run-up to E3 - or what remains of it - are always something of a dry spell, which perhaps may explain some of the more outlandish nature of the topics for discussion this week. After a presentation from TV manufacturer, TCL, rumours are starting to gather pace that Pro/enhanced consoles will come from Microsoft and Sony in 2024. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning an xCloud streaming stick - something that does actually seem to be happening - and news emerges from Sony about its long term strategy, covering PC, mobile and a 'longest ever tail' for PlayStation 4. All this and more is discussed in the new DF Direct Weekly, embedded below for your viewing pleasure.

Since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released all those years ago, the modding community has been hard at work expanding this already expansive version of Hyrule. Now, one modder has gone further still, and added another handy little rune to Link's Sheikah Slate.

Fighting game fans are puzzled as to why SoulCalibur 2 HD - still available to play via Xbox 360 backwards compatibility - has become unavailable to buy on Xbox via the Microsoft Store.

A new fan made trailer imagines what Rare's unreleased Banjo-Threeie could have been on the Nintendo 64 (but with vastly-improved graphics).

Nintendo is shutting down the Pokémon DP sound library, mere months after it became available.

Microsoft has said it is unlikely to restore the Xbox's "Snap" ability in a future update.

The Pokémon Company has seen a record financial year, according to industry analyst Dr. Serkan Toto.

Among the various announcements revealed this weekend as part of Star Wars Celebration, we got news of a Lego BD-1 from Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (arguably the best thing about the game) headed our way.