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On 29th April 1913, Christopher Clayton Hutton, who earned his pay manufacturing boxes, wrote a letter to Harry Houdini, who earned his own by getting out of them.

Another huge PlayStation exclusive has found its way over to PC - and the results are spectacular. Sony Santa Monica has collaborated with partner studio Jetpack to produce a superb port for God of War that genuinely elevates the original experience across the board, improving graphical quality, boosting image quality and leaning into worthwhile PC-exclusive technologies such as Nvidia DLSS. Performance is generally excellent too and there's support for both ultrawide monitors and high refresh rate displays.

Insomniac has teased an Easter egg in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart that's yet to be discovered.

Crytek has requested the removal of a Crysis Remastered photo mode mod that was hosted by its developer behind a Patreon paywall.

Disney and Tencent have announced Avatar: Reckoning, a new MMORPG set on Pandora for iOS and Android devices due for launch this year.

Ken Levine, creator of BioShock, has discussed his view of ditching writing he deems not to have worked - and described it as a "luxury".

YouTuber Logan Paul has wasted $3.5m on fake Pokémon cards.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: retro-tinged glory, space horror, and cards!

The UK game industry has paid tribute to Paul McLaughlin, who died in December aged 57 after a long battle with cancer.

PlatinumGames' Kenichi Sato has announced he will no longer serve as the company's president and CEO, positions he's held at the Bayonetta and Nier: Automata studio since 2016, with Atsushi Inaba set to take on the roles.

Krafton, the company behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and PUBG: Mobile, has filed a lawsuit against developer Garena, alongside Apple and Google, seeking damages for what it calls "rampant, wilful copyright infringement" by a number of games available on the iOS and Android app stores it considers to be PUBG clones.

Following a delay at the end of 2021, Valve has confirmed its highly anticipated portable gaming PC Steam Deck is still on track to meet its revised February 2022 launch date.

It's been a long and bumpy ride for Dying Light 2, but, a little under four years after its initial announcement, Techland's parkour-infused open-world zombie sequel is now just weeks away from release - and to celebrate the occasion, the developer has shown off co-op gameplay and a brief console comparisons video as part of its final Dying Light 2 pre-launch livestream series.

I watched Die Hard this Christmas - as ever, on Christmas Eve, wearing my Nakatomi Plaza T-shirt. It's a fantastic movie and, in this house at least, it's a Christmas movie - the best Christmas movie. It's also one of the most interesting architectural movies ever made - I am sure I have bored people with this before, but in Die Hard architecture is destiny. As the film unfolds you learn your way around the upper floors of Nakatomi Plaza. By the end of the film you know where everything is located - the final act kind of depends upon it. (That bit with the fire hose now reminds me of Dark Souls - you sort of know which room he's going to end up in.) When I went to a talk by BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh a few years back - I am sure I have bored people with this before - so many of the questions in the post-talk Q&A were about Die Hard. Manaugh was in town to discuss his brilliant book A Burglar's Guide to the City - a book that truly contains multitudes. Please buy it.

EGX returns to Birmingham - and tickets are now on sale!

A new fight trailer gives a further look at the gameplay of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

Yesterday's announcement that Sony has extended the PlayStation 4's lifespan thanks to the ongoing supply issues facing the PlayStation 5 means we will remain in console transition limbo for a while longer.

Ubisoft has announced details and a release date for its upcoming reboot of The Settlers, which will arrive for PC on 17th March.

Popular manga My Hero Academia is being turned into a free-to-play battle royale game, because there aren't enough of those already.

Almost a year and a half since its removal from the App Store, Fortnite is returning to iOS, albeit not in the same form.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has pulled back the curtain on the trilogy's second year of content, which will include a brand new map and an intriguing new roguelike mode, Freelancer.

What is Pokémon Legends Arceus? Good question. With just a little over two weeks until its full release, this is by far the most secretive the Pokémon Company has been about one of its core series games, at least in our memory.

UPDATE 13/01/22: Following last week's backlash, DICE announced 2042 Rush will return later today as a featured experience in Battlefield Portal.

Twitch removed over 15m bot accounts last year - and the numbers are growing.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has laid out some ambitious plans for its next five years, following its recent announcement it would drastically increase its UK studio capacity over the same timeframe.

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has spoken out about verbal abuse against the developers of the game.

Love them or hate them, lockpicking is perhaps the greatest staple minigame developers turn to when needing to mix up gameplay or just extend the length of a game.

Production of new Xbox One consoles was quietly discontinued at the end of 2020, Microsoft said today.

With only a couple of months to go until the launch of Gran Turismo 7 - be still my heart that beats like a piston - Polyphony Digital is revealing some more of what to expect, including a return of an iconic circuit last seen in 2013's Gran Turismo 6. Which is to say that Daytona International Speedway is back.

Falling block puzzlers are the colourful, sugary, family-friendly games that often model what it's like to be buried alive. Tetris panic, the screen filled up and the music racing: isn't that fear you feel at this moment a little too primal to be the result of a simple game you're about to lose? Isn't there some kind of deeper sinking feeling as you mess up a round of Lumines and there's simply no space for anything else to fit on the grid?