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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.

Total War: Warhammer will be available for free next week from the Epic Games Store.

Paramount's Halo adaptation finally got its debut yesterday, having been stuck in production for what seems like forever. And, in the very first episode, the face of Master Chief was revealed.

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin sales have been disappointing in Japan.

It's the crossover I didn't know I needed, but now it is all I can think of. Yes, Bloodborne Kart is actually going to be a thing, so colour me excited.

A UK teen from Oxford has been accused of being one of the leaders of the hacking group Lapsus$, reportedly responsible for recent cyber attacks on Nvidia, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Samsung and Vodafone.

Famed thespian Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that, not only will she be the officiant during her daughter's nuptials, she will be attending while dressed as World of Warcraft's Jaina Proudmoore.

With the launch of the PlayStation PC label for Sony's PC ports, more players are able to enjoy titles such as Horizon: Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and God of War. With these being ports, accessibility improvements are usually only minor parts of the package - such as keyboard and mouse remapping. But with PC, the existence of third-party mods can open up areas of the games that could allow disabled players to better enjoy them.

Since it came out at the beginning of March, Gran Turismo 7 hasn't had the smoothest of rides - thanks, in no small part, to its implementation of some pretty grim microtransactions tied in with a protracted grind for in-game credits as well as server outages which rendered the game's single player campaign unplayable.

Elden Ring players have discovered what appears to be a glitch in order to kill enemies with invisible magic projectiles.

Relaxing strategy game Dorfromantik will finally receive a full release exactly one year after launching in early access.

Tomorrow sees the launch of Ghostwire: Tokyo on PC and PS5, marking the third consecutive horror game release from developer Tango Gameworks, but studio founder Shinji Mikami says he wants the company to be known for more than just horror games in the future.