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Things are about to get lively on the Sea of Thieves! After spending far too long as giant, trash-talking disembodied head, the nefarious Captain Flameheart finally makes a proper return to Rare's multiplayer pirate adventure next Thursday, 25th July - and he'll be terrorising players with his formidable fire-belching warship as Season 13 gets underway.

Following a bit of a tease at least year's BlizzCon, Blizzard has given Overwatch 2's 41st hero the full reveal treatment. And that's not all! Juno, as the shooter's new Martian space ranger is known, is available to play today for a limited-time.

Arcade-style aerial combat games have been thin on the ground in recent years, with the notable exception of Bandai Namco's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. This 2019 high-altitude genre revival gave us a high-quality jet combat game, built for modern visual expectations with the help of Unreal Engine 4.

Atlus has released an official Persona 5 coffee line, so you can set up your own iconic Café Leblanc.

The Mortuary Assistant is finally coming to all consoles on 2nd August, 2024 – two years to the day the influential indie horror hit PC.

Nintendo has announced a new Pikmin game, but no - it's not Pikmin 5.

PowerWash Simulator's all-new free update, Muckingham Files 3, is now available.

Is productivity secretly the great issue of our times? That feels quite hard to argue at the moment, what with everything else, and yet it does keep coming up. The UK in particular seems to be struggling. "Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse", worried The Economist, in 2022. In 2023, The Financial Times went in search of answers, claiming productivity was "so weak at UK companies" because of "longstanding problems of low investment and skills gaps exacerbated by overconfidence and lack of management time." The New Statesman meanwhile turned in desperation to the general public, opening a competition at the start of the year with a £5,000 prize for the best answers to the question: "Britain is stuck. How can we get the country moving again?"

Devolver has announced Forestrike, a "tactical kung-fu fighter" from the developer of Olija.

Nintendo has announced plans for a big September in-game event for Splatoon 3, accompanied by the launch of new amiibo figurines.

Fresh from its nominations for 16 Emmy Awards, the second season of Amazon's Fallout TV show is "ahead of schedule".

Images showing Jack Black as Minecraft character Steve have leaked online, giving the internet an early look at how the upcoming Warner Bros-backed Minecraft movie plans to stylise Mojang's blocky world.

Ubisoft's massive open-world adventure, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is free to play until 28th July.

Sega has unveiled a first look at two new Shadow x Sonic Generations levels, delving into the Sonic nemesis' past.

The creators of the cult classic Chibi-Robo! series have announced a spiritual successor, koROBO.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we've taken a strip to space to touch some appealing machinery; we've been revelling in FromSoftware's much kinder gaming series; and Bertie has been being horrible to everyone in Baldur's Gate 3.

Of all the places I expected to learn some fundamental lessons about therapy, playing a game about vampire therapists was not one of them. Yet I have, and now I wonder why I excluded such a possibility in the first place. Games do have a unique power in their interactivity that's perfect for education (though I've sat through enough awful corporate training videos attempting to do the same thing). That Vampire Therapist can teach me concepts usually associated with stuffier education shouldn't really be surprising, then. What's surprising is no one has tried this approach for this topic before.

Paramount+ has officially cancelled its divisive live-action Halo television series, with the recently broadcast second season set to be its last on the service.

Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios has been hit by layoffs according to affected members of staff, with the majority of job losses said to be from its mobile team.

As Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred expansion inches ever-closer, Blizzard has shared first gameplay and details for its new Spiritborn class during a lengthy deep-dive livestream.

Ubisoft has announced delays for Rainbow Six Mobile and The Division Resurgence, its two upcoming free-to-play mobile shooters, as part of its latest first-quarter earnings report, which is says marks a "solid start" to the current financial year.

Ahead of the launch of Suicide Squad's second season, Rocksteady has detailed the playstyle of Mrs. Freeze.

Splitgate developer 1047 Games has today said it will launch the sequel to its surprise hit indie shooter in 2025.

Capcom and real-time strategy aren't words you'd normally put together, but if my first five hours with Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess are anything to go by, this is a match that's shaping up to be truly quite divine. This is a strategy game whose core is pure Capcom action, with energetic katana arcs and dazzling button combos laced with some of the most spectacular, kaleidoscopic visual effects this side of Okami (a connection that's not lost on Capcom either, thanks to their free Ammy and Waka costume crossover items coming at launch).

UPDATE 18/7/24: The First Descendant developer Nexon says it has removed icons from the game which players said were copies of those found in Destiny 2.

Court documents have revealed detailed employment statistics for Valve, the company behind ubiquitous PC storefront Steam, the Steam Deck handheld, and - still - a team dedicated to game development.

Tickets are now on sale for The Genshin Concert Tour, coming to the UK for one night only at Wembley Arena.

To celebrate today's launch of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Capcom has released a video performance of a traditional Japanese theatre show detailing its story.

Alongside the many changes coming to FC 25, a big new addition is Rush, a format - EA Sports was keen to specify this is not technically a mode - playable across every actual mode within the game.

OLED technology has continued to gain momentum in recent years with its superior black levels, contrast, motion resolution and vibrancy. Yet, in the PC space, it's only recently that actual OLED monitors have started to become mainstream. There's just one issue: OLED monitors tend to cost significantly more than competing LCD monitors and primarily target larger sizes.