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Fortnite has announced March Through Time, a new interactive experience built within the game's Creative Mode in collaboration with Time Magazine.

This isn't the first time I've said this, but it's a pet peeve of mine when games don't treat space with the kind of respect it deserves. I get it: we go there so often now - in games - that maybe it's safe to assume it's no longer a big deal, that it's fine to use as a backdrop, a setting, a plot device, without giving it much more thought than that. But as much as I get that assumption, it's still wrong. Space is a big deal. The biggest deal. Space is a unifying, almighty dream and total existential nightmare all in one, an end goal and a gateway to an even bigger one. It's important! The appropriate attitudes to assume when considering space are awe, majesty, reverence, maybe a bit of fear, a touch of dread, even a righteous fury at the thought of the most egalitarian concept may be colonised before we plebs even get a whiff of the collective blank slate. It is infinite and you are not only finite but, like, very, very finite. "You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space". And so space is anything - literally anything - but a prop.

There's an interesting note that's been attached to the access we've been allowed to Deathloop - some five hours with the latest game from Dishonored and Prey developers Arkane Studios - that politely implies we look beyond the easy comparisons with the likes of Hitman and Dark Souls with its intricate clockwork maps, or of Majora's Mask, The Outer Wilds and Returnal with the ingenious time loop at its core (it even goes as far as to categorically state, should there be any lingering confusion, that no Deathloop is most certainly not a roguelike).

Missed Geoff Keighley's Gamescom Opening Night Live? Not to worry - here's a rundown of all the highlights.

A new Gamescom trailer released last night has given us our best look yet at House of Ashes, the third game in Supermassive's The Dark Pictures Anthology.

Lance Barr, designer of the North American NES and SNES consoles, has announced his departure from Nintendo after an almost 39 year stint.

Some of eFootball's new gameplay mechanics, animations and even kicks won't be in at launch, Konami has confirmed.

You can nab a free copy of Saints Row: The Third Remastered on PC via the Epic Games Store right now, until 2nd September.

Celebrated Saints Row modder Mike "IdolNinja" Watson has died.

Pokémon Go will no longer restore the game's pre-pandemic radius for interacting with PokéStops and Gyms, developer Niantic has said - marking a significant U-turn on its previous plans.

UPDATE 26/8/21: DokeV has shifted genres during development and is no longer an MMO, Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss has now said.

Persona 5's Morgana is the latest playable character coming to Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, Sega has announced, as paid-for post-launch DLC.

Sifu, the martial arts adventure from Absolver developer Sloclap, finally has a release date and will release for PlayStation and PC on 22nd February next year.

Sci-fi exploration adventure Jett: The Far Shore - a collaboration between Pine Scented Software and Superbrothers (the creators of acclaimed 2011 indie hit Sword & Sworcery) - now has a release date and will be making its way to PC and PlayStation on 5th October.

Microsoft has released a new Age of Empires 4 trailer.

Following a succession over-the-top adventures that folded in alien invasions and superpowers with Saints Row 4 and its subsequent follow-ups, Volition is bringing its open world crime series back to its roots with the next year's Saints Row - a reboot that reintroduces a more grounded contemporary fictional setting while still looking to hold onto the humour and possibilities that Saints Row has become beloved for.

Hot on the heels of Halo Infinite's release date announcement, Microsoft has released a new video for the game, and revealed a Halo Infinite-themed Xbox Series X and a new Halo-themed controller.

Frontier Developments' dino-park management sim sequel Jurassic World Evolution 2 will be stomping onto Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on 9th November.

Valheim's first major update comes out 16th September.

New World's open beta runs from 9th to 12th September, Amazon Games has announced.

Someone is making a video game version of the original Jumanji board game featured in the classic 1995 film.

April O'Neil is a playable character in the promising Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.

It's been over a year since its last public showing, but Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has finally resurfaced at tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase with a new gameplay trailer and a spring 2022 release window.

Horizon Forbidden West will now launch for PlayStation 4 and PS5 on 18th February 2022, developer Guerilla Games has confirmed.

Splitgate Season 0 stars now, developer 1047 Games has announced.

You might've heard the rumours of a "Marvel XCOM", coming from tactics specialist Firaxis, and turns out: they're mostly true. During Gamescom's Opening Night Live stream, the studio revealed Marvel's Midnight Suns, described as a "tactical RPG" - although from talking to creative director Jake Solomon, it's quite a bit less XCOM-y than some of those tweets and reddit threads may have led you to believe.

Lara Croft creator Toby Gard has resurfaced with a new game called Dream Cycle.

King of Fighters 15 comes out 17th February 2022.

We've been wanting to take a look at Codemasters' F1 2021 for some time now. It's the first series entry to specifically target the new wave of consoles - and it's also been subject to some curious changes on PlayStation 5. Ray tracing and 3D audio were part of the mix... until they weren't. Various patches added and removed the feature, but with the arrival of the recent 1.07 title update, it looks like all of these elements of the game are fully present and correct. But can it deliver all of this while still pushing out 4K resolution at 60 frames per second? Well, the answer is yes... and no.

There's a duo of arcade games that are often - and quite rightly - pined over by lovers of the genre, and all these years later the legends of Blur and Split/Second seem almost inseparable (indeed, the two were released around the same time, one of the many reasons behind their lack of success and the subsequent demise of the talented studios behind both games).