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We keep coming back to puppetry as a running theme, and that's because, much to my surprise, Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin is a trained puppeteer. When they ran out of time to apply to art college, they chose puppetry instead, which would eventually take them into a career in theatre design, where they learned lots of valuable lessons - one of them being dealing with un-moveable deadlines by planning only what can be done in time. That's how they made Citizen Sleeper in two years, and how they were able to plan a break before launch so they could return refreshed for it. So that's how I find Damian Martin today: refreshed, calm and smiling.

Artwork for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - yes, the new one - has popped up on Steam.

Hitman 3's ray tracing update is out, with the brilliant Io Interactive upgrading its hit title with ray traced reflections and shadows, along with Nvidia DLSS AI upscaling - but alas not AMD's freshly minted FSR 2.0. Intel XeSS support is due further on down the line, but for now, it's all about the RT upgrades, their astonishingly large hit to performance and the extent to which DLSS can mitigate that cost.

Remember that Marvel MMORPG that we discovered had been recently cancelled? Well, now we can see what we're missing courtesy of new screenshots uploaded to an artist's portfolio on ArtStation.

A dataminer has uncovered further references to Ruby and her Demon Spawn secreted within Evil Dead: The Game's files.

Surprise! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords is coming to Nintendo Switch on 8th June 2022.

The company formerly known as THQ Nordic, Embracer Group, has announced new plans to preserve video games to "archive and save as much of the video games industry as possible".

The Russian version of Gotham Knights has allegedly been cancelled.

Prolific PUGB dataminer, PlayerIGN, has allegedly had "PUBG show up at [their] front door".

One of the great pleasures of recent years has been the revival of the side-scrolling beat 'em up - a genre whose prime was in the 90s, and one that's since been entangled and obscured by the crushing vines of nostalgia. I've always loved the swagger and style of Streets of Rage, only to go back to the original trilogy and be somewhat disappointed by the simplicity of it all.

Players can now "start their personal PvP quest for rewards" in New World's newest mode, Arenas.

Change is afoot for Phasmophobia fans, and two new ghosts are on the way.

Sega is primed to announce a big "new project" next week.

SOC Investment Group has written an open letter to Activision Blizzard shareholders, urging voters not to re-elect six board members, including CEO, Bobby Kotick.

Activision Blizzard has released a "launch roadmap" for Diablo Immortal to help players "get ready for Hell", including confirmation that the "mobile version [will start] propagating the morning of 1st June".

What are your hands doing right now? They’re probably playing some part in how you’re able to read this text in the first place, but you likely weren’t paying a lot of attention to them. Our hands are our most frequent and reliable way of interacting with the world around us, and as a result, we tend not to give them much thought.

Following a flurry of recent leaks, EA has officially unveiled Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sequel. It's called Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and will be out on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC some time next year.

This week, Sony has started rolling out the new PlayStation Plus service with its various tiers including classic games such as PlayStation 1, 2 and PSP titles. Thus far, however, the service is only available in Asian territories. Thankfully, with help from backers of the DF Supporter Program, we have access and have spent time with Sony's official emulation for the original PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PSP. Consider this a preview of sorts as it may not reflect the experience of UK/EU/US gamers, but it is our first insight into the nuts and bolts of the emulation - and there are clearly major issues the platform holder has to address.

Over four months after publisher Bandai Namco pulled online PvP support for the Dark Souls series on PC following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability, FromSoftware has said it's "currently in the process of restoring" the games' online servers.

Dino park managers looking to wow their guests with a bit more variety might want to point their attention toward Jurassic World Evolution 2's newly announced Dominion Biosyn DLC when it launches for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on 14th June, bringing, as it does, a selection of new exhibits inspired by the latest Jurassic World movie.

PlayStation will host its next State of Play on 2nd June at 11pm BST.

Pokémon Go has detailed its next in-game season, which will take the compulsive creature-catching app through the summer months.

A demo has been released today for Mario Strikers: Battle League Football, Nintendo's Mario-themed sports game.

Welcome back to The Video Game City Week. Next stop: statues.

Square Enix is rolling back on recent balance changes to PvP in Final Fantasy 14.

Today brings the first two episodes of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show for Disney+, so of course the bearded Jedi has also turned up in Fortnite's item shop.

Nintendo Switch Online users will see three more classic games from the SNES and NES era joining the service.

Yesterday, Sony announced plans for a further swathe of PlayStation game adaptations, and noted it had greenlit both a Horizon Zero Dawn series for Netflix and a God of War show for Amazon.

Mobile game Plague Inc has celebrated its tenth anniversary via a Reddit Q&A with creator James Vaughan.

Microsoft will take longer to launch its planned Xbox cloud streaming box, and said it has decided to "pivot away" from the device's current iteration.