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Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Check-out their full round-up of the best horror board games to play this Halloween.

Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Check-out their full round-up of the best party games to play this Christmas.

Android 21 (Lab Coat) will soon join the fight in Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Resident Evil Village is reportedly our most-completed game of 2021.

Even Microsoft is struggling to get ahold of its own Xbox Series X consoles as the global shortages continue to affect the industry.

A pamphlet given away at a Japanese retail store has revealed more details about the upcoming racer, Gran Turismo 7, including news it will include 420 different car models and over 90 racing tracks "with realistic weather and scenery".

If you were hoping that Little Devil Inside's delay to 2022 would see a release early next year, you may need to adjust your expectations.

Seasons greetings one and all and welcome to this year's exciting instalment of the Ian's VR Corner Top Ten PSVR list where I will be going over my top ten favourite PSVR games of 2021. As per usual, the following list is completely my opinion and it only features games that I myself have played, but please do share the love for your favourite PSVR games of 2021 in the comments below!

Hades is the very first video game to ever win a Hugo award, an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the year.

Halo Infinite players have discovered a way to glitch into couch co-op.

The second season of Netflix's The Witcher adaptation may have only just premiered yesterday, but the team behind the show has seemingly already completed the scripts for season 3.

Knockout City's 4.0.2 patch is now live.

Guardians of the Galaxy surprised many this year - myself included - for capturing the essence of its characters - for taking the humour, the eclectic worlds and creatures of the comics, the films, and projecting it back out in video game form. Just ahead of Christmas, I'm glad to say developer Eidos Montreal has fine-tuned its work. Patch 1.05 adds new features alongside bug fixes, with ray tracing as the principal enhancement, substantially improving reflections over the standard quality mode. But what do these RT reflections actually deliver and is there any knock-on impact to the rest of the game? After all, hardware accelerated ray tracing is still a computationally expensive effect. Does something else have to give?

We knew it was coming, but now we know when - the new mini-console A500 Mini will release on 25th March, 2022.

Amazon has confirmed which worlds will be merging within New World servers in US-East, US-West, Australia, and Central Europe.

Square Enix is releasing £80 bottles of wine inspired by Final Fantasy 14.

As part of our ongoing series looking at accessibility in games, we got in touch with some people working in the field for two of Sony's big first-party teams and asked them to tell us a bit about their work. From Insomniac Games, whose teams have done brilliant work with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, we heard from director of experience, Brian Allgeier, and advanced senior user experience researcher, Michele Zorrilla. From Naughty Dog, who picked up the award for innovation in accessibility at the Game Awards in 2020, lead systems designer Matthew Gallant was kind enough to answer a few questions.

If you've been enjoying your time sleuthing around the sunny, Mediterranean-inspired climes of Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, you might be interested to know that developer Frogwares has just released a brand-new case to crack in the form of its Beyond a Joke DLC.

Actor Ernie Hudson, perhaps better known as Ghostbusters' Winston Zeddemore, has claimed a new video game based on the legendary movie series is "definitely happening".

There's a lot going on in the world of Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock today; not only has the studio announced it's been acquired by Chinese conglomerate Tencent, it's also just released the first big post-launch content update for its well-received co-op zombie shooter. The latter brings with it a range of tweaks and additions, the most notable of which is a much-requested solo offline mode with campaign progression.

Minecraft, you probably don't need telling, is popular; it's sold over 238M copies since its launch in 2009 making it the best-selling game of all time, it claims over 140M monthly active users, and was enticing enough for Microsoft to spend an eye-watering $2.5 billion USD acquiring its developer Mojang back in 2014. And now here's another massive figure for the record books: it's officially the first game to surpass one trillion views on YouTube.

The Matrix Awakens has been with us for a week now and slowly we're gaining much more of an understanding on the scale of the technological achievement in Epic Games' work - such as the fact that several segments in the demo's opening are actual real-time 3D recreations of scenes from the movie. Armed with a UHD Blu-ray copy of the film (a widely acclaimed 4K transfer, by the way), we're in a good position to see how next-gen consoles can replicate the look of the source material. The results are remarkable, highlighting the advances in fidelity provided by more GPU horsepower working in combination with hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

You might expect the nastiest thing about SWOTS - ugh, what an acronym! Like the slap of a thrown liver - to be the organs themselves. They are indeed pretty grim. See how they spin in your cargo hold, all glisten and pixel; blanched neon veins and ventricles pulsing under your cursor. They look both freshly peeled and woefully antique, like they've been plucked from gibbed sprites in the Black Isle Fallout games. The tab-based interface is pretty ghastly too: a relic from an age of MS-DOS command lines, stippled Macintosh textures and CyberTM wireframes that has somehow been cast forward into the distant, nightmare future, a future you learn about exclusively via terse messages from your clients, some of whom are in the process of bleeding out. But by far the most horrible thing about Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator is the music.

Far Cry 6 has now officially released its Danny Trejo crossover missions, after mistakenly making them available in an unfinished state.

This week's arrival of the fantastic - and completely free - Assassin's Creed Stories crossover was much heralded for bringing immortal Odyssey star Kassandra into the world of Valhalla. With very few exceptions, Assassin's Creed protagonists do not meet and share screen time - and they certainly do not team up in the fashion we see in Valhalla's new Island of Skye location, where the long-lived, wise-cracking Kassandra acts as a neat foil for the no-nonsense Valhalla hero Eivor.

Peter Molyneux's 22Cans studio has shared first details on its latest game, a sort of creativity-focussed, workshop-tinkering industrialist sim called Legacy.

Peter Molyneux's 22Cans studio has suffered a round of layoffs.

Peter Molyneux's next project is "an innovative new game that pushes the boundaries of blockchain gaming."

Legacy, the upcoming NFT-funded game from Fable creator Peter Molyneux, has already raked in around $53m (£40m).

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers who have upgraded themselves with the additional Expansion Pack tier can enjoy five more Sega Mega Drive games from today.