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EA DICE has removed the 128-player Breakthrough offering from Battlefield 2042 in its latest patch.

Twitch and Discord will be investigated by the New York attorney general, for the part they played in the racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo.

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees isn't a long game - it's about an hour long with the option of playing on after - and it isn't a complicated game either. I like to think of it as an endless swinger, in 2D. In the game, you are a gibbon and you hold down a button to swing and then release it to move through the air and keep your flow of momentum going. That's it, really. There aren't any objectives beyond travelling to the end of a level, nor is there any reading to do, so everything the game says, it says within those modest confines.

This piece contains spoilers for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Amanita Design - the developer behind the acclaimed likes of Samorost, Machinarium, Creaks, and last year's surreal horror Happy Games - has unveiled its latest project: "hand-crafted" dystopian adventure Phonopolis.

Naughty Dog's much-rumoured, but as yet still unannounced, The Last of Us remake for PlayStation 5 will reportedly launch before the end of this year.

Thunderful Games, the studio formed after the merger of developers Zoink and Image & Form, has confirmed it currently has four SteamWorld titles in the works, including the previously announced SteamWorld Headhunter.

You're probably already familiar with the Reedpop stable of sites that includes GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247 and, of course, us, and I'm delighted to say the family's grown a little today with the introduction of Popverse - a pop culture news and features site that's just launched today.

Ubisoft's free-to-play team-based sports game Roller Champions finally has a release date and will, after a bit of a delay earlier this year, be launching next Wednesday, 25th May on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.

The launch of Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown has been pushed back to 2023, and its last-gen console versions have been cancelled.

Spelunky 2 will be available as a free trial on Nintendo Switch from next week - for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

Developer Spiders' scrappy but enjoyable RPG GreedFall is getting a sequel, and it'll be launching for PC and unspecified consoles in 2024. Or next year - publisher Nacon's press release and YouTube description currently disagree, which I'm trying to get to the bottom of.

Trek To Yomi is a fascinating, extremely stylish release. Its aim is to emulate classic Japanese samurai movies, with Kurosawa and Kobayashi the clear influences. Everything from the letterboxed, monochromatic presentation right down to the film grain and shot framing are clearly inspired by Japanese cinema, with Unreal Engine 4's post-processing pipeline used to render this stylised, cinematic experience. This isn't a massive blockbuster title but there's a deep fidelity to the source material here and a brilliant sense of aesthetics.

Sony has announced plans to accelerate the company's Road to Zero initiative, its plan to achieve carbon neutrality throughout its entire "value chain", by 10 years.

In Logjam, you play as a sexy lumberjack chopping, slicing, and stroking wood.

Following my hands off preview of the Saints Row reboot, I sat down and chatted more with Volition developers Kenzie Lindgren (associate UX designer) and Damien Allen (principal designer). We covered a broad range of topics, including plenty on what's new for this entry, but we started by discussing why Saints Row aficionados should come back to the series, despite its brand-new cast and setting.

Last week, I got to have a closer look at the Saints Row reboot from Volition. As you would expect, it looked bombastic and eclectic, with a myriad of unusual ideas that can only really be married together in a Saints Row game.

Final Fantasy 7 news will come next month, according to director Tetsuya Nomura.

Remember Angry Birds? Everyone's favourite mobile time-waster from 10 years ago is back today as a new expansion in Minecraft.

For those who had a PlayStation 3 in 2009, Shatter was a must play. Its block-busting gameplay was married with a slamming soundtrack that made it an ideal way to pass some time while waiting for the release of Fast and Furious and other classics of that year. However, if you didn't have the chance to bop along with this sci-fi puzzler then, now is your chance.

The Chant, a horror adventure set on a spooky spiritual retreat, has announced an October release window for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S - but the game's previously-announced PS4 and Xbox One versions won't be joining them.

Final Fantasy 11's director has spoken out and put a stop to the rumours that the MMORPG is shutting down sometime this year.

Square Enix has finally fixed a performance issue with Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, two months after its release.

Solo developer Stephen Ddungu believes Disney and Marvel likely copied his indie game for an eye-catching fight sequence in the recent Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

I've spent a morning or two with Evil Dead, and from the off it's looked the part. Sam Raimi's horror classics have a definite visual style, and it's all there on the screen: the cabin surrounded by grasping trees, the lights strobing through branches, a variety of Bruce Campbells to play as. My cup runneth over. Is that an Oldsmobile to pootle around in? Yes please.

Following Activision Blizzard's reveal of its Diversity Space Tool, a video of a GDC 2017 presentation has resurfaced online.

Five percent of Nintendo is now owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, a scheme set up by the country's highly-controversial Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

UPDATE 18/5/22: Capcom has updated its list of best-selling games, giving us an update on the performance of its top titles (thanks, Gematsu).

Bloober Team has refused to comment on rumours it's working on a Silent Hill 2 remake.

Sony's revised PlayStation Plus draws ever nearer, and this week we got our best look at some of the classic games will be on offer. While there's a sense of a missed opportunity and a surprising lack of fanfare with less than a week to go until the service rolls out in Japan, there's still a sizeable number of cult classics neslted within the new service - and here's our pick of the best of them.