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Distant Worlds 2 comes out 10th March 2022 on PC, publisher Slitherine has announced.

Ian Hetherington, a pioneer of the British video games industry, has died.

It's December, which means it's time for live-service games to add festive events into their playlists, Battlefield 2042 included.

UPDATE 16/12/21: Following yesterday's announcement that Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl would introduce its own blockchain-driven "metaverse" awash with NFTs, developer GSC Game World has reversed course in response to a significant backlash, confirming it'll be cancelling all its previously outlined NFT-related plans.

If you've been eagerly awaiting news of the next instalment in the nearly three-decade-old Settlers series, your patience will soon be awarded: publisher Ubisoft has announced it'll be revealing more information on the long-delayed game in January next year.

The Queen and the Sea, the third paid expansion for developer Motion Twin's majestic rogue-like action-platformer Dead Cells, will be coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 6th January next year, and there's a first trailer to celebrate the news.

Red Candle Games, the developer behind critically acclaimed horror outings Detention and Devotion, has - following a bit of an animated tease earlier this year - formally announced its latest title, an action-platformer loosely inspired by From Software's superb Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that's currently going by the name of Nine Sols.

Tis the season of festive sales in video game land, and the Epic Games Store has now thrown open its shutters and bellowed news of its own discount offerings into the cold winter night, which includes the return of its daily "mystery gift" free games, starting with Shenmue 3.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has named a short list of locations where it will hold in-person events next February, as part of the game's Pokémon Go Tour: Johto celebration.

Fortnite's annual Winterfest holiday event begins again today, with another relatively generous offering of free items, Christmas-themed quests for XP and yet more new things to spend money on.

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is available now on Nintendo Switch with revised control methods.

Workers at Vodeo Games have unionised, creating North America's first ever official video game studio union.

At the very centre of The Gunk is a neat ecological fable, so it has a sort of moral and ethical sweetness to it from the off. Crucially, though, The Gunk is also a game about tidying up, and so that moral and ethical sweetness is knotted to something else that borders on a compulsion.

343 has promised significant changes to the structure of time-limited events in time for the return of Fracture: Tenrai in January.

Life is Strange developer Dontnod has announced its first game as a third-party publisher.

A French trade union representing Ubisoft Paris staff members has heavily criticised the company's move into blockchain technology.

CD Projekt, developer of Cyberpunk 2077, has reached a settlement with investors who were unhappy with the game's disasturous launch last year.

A glitch that turned villagers into nudists in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has reportedly been fixed in a new update.

Bungie's head of HR, Gayle d'Hondt, has stepped down from the company following the release of a report last week which alleged multiple instances of sexism and workplace toxicity at the studio.

Due to ongoing congestion issues, Final Fantasy 14 has been temporarily suspended from sale.

343 Industries has released a new Halo Infinite hotfix, aiming to tackle Quick Resume issues reported by Xbox Series X/S players.

Horizon Forbidden West is one of Sony's biggest upcoming blockbusters headed to PlayStation 5 - so it's easy to forget the Zero Dawn follow-up is also coming to PS4.

Inscryption, the acclaimed deck-building horror game from Pony Island and The Hex developer Daniel Mullins, is getting a free new mini-expansion that will turn its devilishly enjoyable opening act into an endless, rogue-like experience.

If you're a fan of Switch and indie games (which I assume you are, unless you got lost browsing the site) but found yourself otherwise indisposed during Nintendo's latest Indie World showcase, you missed a typically packed event. This time around, we got a look at The Messenger developer's gorgeous retro-inspired RPG Sea of Stars, a first glimpse of WayForward's beat-'em-up sequel River City Girls 2, tearjerking fox adventure in Endling: Extinction is Forever, a release date for the striking, skateboarding OlliOlli World, and plenty more. Those wanting a convenient catch-up will find everything shown below.

OlliOlli World, the ambitious new entry in developer Roll7's acclaimed skateboarding series, finally has a release date and will be coming to Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC on 8th February next year.

Loco Motive, which looks like a cross between Monkey Island and Murder on the Orient Express, has been announced for Nintendo Switch as part of this evening's Indie World presentation.

Ubisoft has announced it's working on a Splinter Cell remake.

Square Enix has come under fire for describing Forspoken protagonist Frey Holland, who is Black, as having a "hip-hoppy kind of walk".

PlayStation has launched a new accessibility website to showcase the features of its PS4 and PS5 consoles.

Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.