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I am a lonely little probe, sent deep into space, for there's a menacing anomaly on the space-time horizon and I must investigate it. I have journeyed for hundreds of years. Are my creators still alive, is their civilization still alive? For I exist outside of their cycles of life and their experiences of time. I last. It's why I was sent here. I drift, listening and scanning planets to hear what they have to say. And sometimes they speak back.

An update for Resident Evil 4 VR on Oculus Quest 2 adds more accessibility options.

Supermassive Games, developer of Until Dawn and the ongoing The Dark Pictures anthology series, has trademarked logos and titles for five future projects.

Polygon character skins are coming to Final Fantasy 7 The First Soldier.

Last year, the previously PlayStation-exclusive baseball series MLB The Show arrived on Xbox for the first time - and even launched as part of Xbox Game Pass.

The director of Scarlet Nexus has discussed his desire for an "even more mature" sequel.

An internal statement from Activision Blizzard on unionisation has been released online, seemingly persuading employees against the practice.

I don't know if you've seen Hudson Hawk. Not many people have. And those that have are probably drawn to it because they've heard that it's terrible. Not so. Or at least, that's not the whole story. The truth is that Hudson Hawk belongs to the most cursed of cinematic genres, albeit one you never saw getting its own aisle in Blockbusters and one you never see as a heading on Netflix. It's a genre I have come to call: high spirits.

EA really wants you to know that a new Apex Legends season is coming, and its ceaseless drip-feed of Season 12 details continues with a new gameplay trailer showcasing the free-to-play battle royale game's incoming map changes and new Control mode.

Since Microsoft Flight Simulator's stunning debut toward the end of 2020, developer Asobo has been steadily finessing its already breathtaking map with the introduction of numerous free World Updates, each focused on giving a new part of the globe a glorious makeover - and now it's Australia's turn to receive all the attention.

And the video game adaptations keep a-coming, this time with the news that Hazelight Studios' acclaimed co-operative platformer It Takes Two is the latest in an increasingly long line of games to be making the journey to the big and small screen.

Sony's previously announced partnership with Discord has finally reached fruition, and PlayStation users can start linking their PSN accounts with the chat platform from today.

Bandai Namco is resurrecting its Dark Pictures Anthology Friend's Pass promotion once more, enabling owners of the three-strong horror series to invite a friend to play through any Shared Story mode for free until the end of February.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City leads new additions to PlayStation Now in February.

Welcome to the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly, where finally - finally! - I get the opportunity to share my thoughts on the Microsoft/Activision deal. Readers of this column will know that the biggest industry news unerringly occurs the moment I dare to leave my station and go on holiday - and so it was with this one. Since the deal was revealed, there has been plenty of speculation on the fate of the Call of Duty franchise and whether PlayStation support will continue. On the face of it, Phil Spencer's tweet looks encouraging, but reporting from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier suggests that after the next two CODs and the next Warzone, Microsoft is free of its obligations. So what happens then?

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is aiming to release a new standalone Gwent title at some point in 2022.

According to a new report, Dwayne Johnson's new video game film will be Call of Duty.

Prolific video game voice actor Troy Baker, star of The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite and Fortnite, has abandoned his plans to partner with a controversial voice NFT company.

UPDATE 3pm UK: A reveal of Final Fantasy 7 Remake part two is due this year.

I've been sucked into Vampire Survivors like a stream of blood pouring into a fanged mouth. I've done well in the game and I've done badly, and what I've come to realise is that every time, I'm playing for one moment. One moment which entirely changes the course of the game: power evolution.

UPDATE 1.45pm UK: Eurogamer understands that several teams within Team17 had no knowledge of its controversial plans to launch a range of collectible Worms NFTs prior to the project's public announcement this morning.

A tweet from last week asked developers: "What's in your game graveyard? Games that were cancelled or no one can play anymore?" What followed was a wonderful, melancholic list of delights we will never get to play again, or never had the chance to play at all. Battleborn came up, and a Disney Infinity sequel. But also beloved XNA games and YA interactive fictions. The deeper you go, the more thrilling these games start to sound, the richness and imagination that is forever out of reach. I read and read and it was like descending through coral - all this brightness and life swimming past untouchable.

Over on the Eurogamer YouTube channel we've carved out quite the niche for ourselves when it comes to yelping our way through co-operative horror games.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus has become another big sales success story for the franchise - just two months after last November's Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

I know exactly which game Vampire Survivors reminds me of and it's Geometry Wars, which is a wonderful thing. And yes, I know it doesn't look like it, and yes there's a crucial difference in that, here, you're not in control of your own attacks - and I'll come onto that in a moment. But it's absolutely Geometry Wars in the way that really matters to me. In that screen-filling spectacle of being utterly overrun by an endless wave of enemies while you scrabble to find any gap to escape through. That thrilling, never-ending headlong pelt while fireworks go off around you. Vampire Survivors packs that thrill.

Hidetaka Miyazaki loves poison swamps, even if you don't.

Sony has announced its first State of Play broadcast of 2022 - for this Wednesday, 2nd February at 10pm UK time.

Paramount+ is getting ready to share a fresh look at its upcoming TV show based upon Microsoft's fan-favourite shooter, Halo.

Nintendo has once again taken aim at YouTube channels streaming soundtracks from its games.

Microids has been engaged to create two new video games based upon the words - and worlds - of Agatha Christie.