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Kirby and the Forgotten Land is the biggest launch for the Kirby series in UK history.

Developer Endnight Games has announced its upcoming game Sons of the Forest has been delayed.

A new EU law could be passed that would force Apple to allow users to install third-party apps on their devices, a process known as sideloading.

Mohammad Fahmi, the creator and writer of indie game Coffee Talk, has passed away. He was 32.

Despite first releasing all the way back in 2013, Bioshock Infinite players have noticed the PC version of the game has been receiving numerous updates over the last several months.

According to one famous linguist, what makes humans special is our ability to deal in recursion. To take different clauses or concepts and nest them within each other like Russian dolls. And from these beautiful, simple, recursive mergings spring near-infinite forms of expression. Anyway, whether or not recursion is the essence of the human mind, it is fun to mess about with.

No, it's not just you - Among Us is indeed currently offline and has been for almost the entire weekend.

Ghostwire: Tokyo is a game with many surprises in terms of its technical make-up. Developer Tango Gameworks has delivered a gameplay concept I wasn't expecting, wrapped up in a very different engine from prior titles, offering up an exceptional level of graphical finesse. The move away from its own idTech-based Unreal Engine 4 has clearly been a great enabler for the team, but I approached the PC version with some trepidation. Many recent PC releases have arrived with intrusive levels of stutter that impact the experience - no matter how powerful your hardware. It's especially common in Unreal Engine 4 titles - and unfortunately, it impacts Ghostwire: Tokyo too.

Sony has dropped a new teaser trailer for the upcoming "cosmic horror", Quantum Error.

Forza Horizon 5 is introducing a new PvP progression system.

Valve is seeking your feedback about your experiences with "verified" Steam games thus far on Steam Deck.

My childhood home is up for sale, so I spent the weekend excavating boyhood treasures and yeeting them into a skip. Most of them, I'm sorry to say, were junk. There were some pogs, a few faded soft toys, stacks of dog-eared Sonic the Comic back-issues, more than one funfax, but little held much beyond sentimental value. It was a sombre bit of personal archaeology, all told, but there was a silver lining. At the bottom of a box, glittering like diamonds, I found a stack of near-pristine Bit Generations games for Gameboy Advance. Four of the beauties! Dialhex, Boundish, Coloris and Soundvoyager.

PUGB - the original, and now free-to-play, battle royale - has unveiled its 2022 roadmap.

The ID@Xbox program has earned indie developers more than £1.8 billion ($2.5bn) in royalties.

The eagerly-anticipated Halo TV show has reportedly set a new premiere viewership record for Paramount+.

It was a pair of nail clippers that got me. In a game about seeing a person's life through unpacked items, there's so much that can strike you. Those clippers came out of a box in the bathroom, and I chucked them in a junk drawer alongside some perfume, a shaving razor, and a couple of hairbrushes.

Few things satisfy me as much as the sound of Master Chief's boots pounding into the ground, and it seems I'm not the only one who thinks so, as developer 343 Industries has partnered with American footwear manufacturer Wolverine to create a pair of real-life Spartan boots.

The head of Amazon Game Studios, Mike Frazzini, has stepped down.

Humble Bundle has raised over £15 million ($20m) for humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.

Ghostwire: Tokyo sees acclaimed Japanese developer Tango Gameworks striking out in new directions. For one, it's an actual next-gen/current-gen exclusive - it's only available on PlayStation 5 and PC, tapping into cutting-edge features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Secondly, the developer has shifted away from its internal STEM engine, based on idTech, instead favouring Unreal Engine 4. On balance, it's an excellent move - Epic's technology merged with this developer's unique vision delivers a beautiful game. In today's coverage, we'll be looking exclusively at PlayStation 5 before moving onto PC in a separate piece - and there's certainly much to cover. While there are six 'official' graphics modes to choose from, there are actually an unofficial ten in total.

EA is reportedly rebranding its FIFA series as EA Sports Football Club.

Netflix has acquired its third game development studio, Boss Fight Entertainment.

Valve's springtime Next Fest is barely over, but already it's turning to the summer edition of Next Fest, which will take place from 13th-20th June 2022.

Konami's new PvP multiplayer mystery game, Crimesight, will release on 14th April 2022.

There are ambitious mods, and then there are ambitious mods like Skyblivion, which, since the project's inception in 2012, has been steadily working toward remaking the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion using Skyrim's engine - and mod team TESRenewal has now shared a fresh look at its progress as part of a new video development diary.

Rockstar has revealed GTA+, an optional new $6-a-month GTA Online subscription service for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S that will provide members with a regular selection of monthly rewards, including GTA$, special vehicle upgrades, and more.

Following months of rumours and reports, it's now claimed Sony will unveil its new Game-Pass-style PlayStation Plus subscription overhaul - codenamed Spartacus - "as early as next week".

Microsoft's Phil Spencer wants to assure developers that game sales still remain an important factor, even with its Xbox Game Pass subscription continuing to dominate.

UPDATE 25/3/2022: We've now spent some time looking at the Xbox Series S version of Grand Theft Auto 5 and it's the least impressive rendition of the new 'remaster'. It's absolutely fine to put out a Series S rendition that runs at a lower resolution than the Series X version - that's exactly how titles were meant to scale down to the junior Xbox, after all - but the cutbacks and drawbacks are more pronounced to the point where it's that much harder to justify this as a paid upgrade.

The speedrun record for completing Elden Ring has once again been beaten.