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The Pokémon Company broadcast its Pokémon Presents show this afternoon. Here's everything announced and revealed.

EA has vowed to consider "the player perspective" when delisting games in the future.

Pokémon Presents kicks off at 2pm UK time today - and you can watch it along with us right here.

Ideology's always been a part of grand, 4X strategy games. It's there in the specific, overt kind of way, as in: turning the "authoritarianism" dial up or down on your empire's ideology screen. And it's also in the layer behind that, ideology as in the ideology of the developer, the thought process, the reasoning, the thing that informs all that, which they may not even be aware of - why they went for an authoritarianism dial in the first place and why it works the way it does.

Some of the people behind indie hit Among Us have spoken out about Fortnite's new Impostors mode.

Epic has added a new game mode into Fortnite that has an uncanny resemblance to Among Us.

Hot on the heels of the news Outriders may not have broken even despite sales of up to 3m units, comes confirmation Biomutant broke even a week after launch with sales of 1m.

CD Projekt is readying to release Cyberpunk 2077's "biggest patch to date" - the third major update since the RPG's disastrous launch last December - and has now shared full details of what it will bring, including an improved minimap and the game's first selection of free DLC.

Making games, we are often reminded, is hard, with development frequently being derailed by the most preposterously unpredictable things. Behold, for instance, the newly revealed story of Skyrim's iconic cart ride, and how it was, for a time before release, routinely thwarted by a particularly stubborn bee.

Developer Cyan Worlds' previously Oculus Quest-exclusive remake of seminal CD-ROM puzzle adventure Myst is coming to PC, Mac, and Xbox on 26th August.

The PlayStation 4 generation is arguably over, now PS5 is out in the wild. But, arguably, the end of its life is the best time to play any console: you have a massive library of games to choose from and tens of millions of players worldwide to play with. PS4 is certainly no different. We've reworked our list here as new favourites have arrived, and we've kept ourselves to a tight limit of just 20 games to force ourselves to make some tough choices while making sure we keep all the bases covered. We hope you'll find something in here for you, or that you haven't heard of before: it's the breadth of the console's back catalogue as much as the big, shiny exclusives that gives it its personality.

Rocket League on PlayStation 5 gets a 120hz mode tomorrow, 18th August, developer Psyonix announced in a post on the PlayStation Blog.

Microsoft is testing a new higher resolution dashboard for Xbox Series X.

Set for release in the Autumn, Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 Remastered are heading for current-gen and last-gen PlayStation and Xbox consoles and Nintendo Switch and today we can show you the first footage of Crysis 2 running on PlayStation 5. It's part and parcel of a developer interview we put together on a recent visit to Crytek's Frankfurt HQ, where we spoke to project lead Steffan Halbig and lead artist, Marcel Schaika. The full interview is embedded below, where we talk about the successes and failures of the Crysis Remastered project and the approach going forward in completing the trilogy.

Microsoft has confirmed a raft of games coming soon to Xbox Game Pass.

The developer of Outriders has said Square Enix has yet to pay it a royalty fee, suggesting it has yet to break even.

Fracked has everything I've ever wanted from a VR game.

A writer on Rainbow Six Siege has expressed their pride at the game's first transgender operator, who arrives with the Crystal Guard season update.

Riot misled staff about their right to speak out about harassment and discrimination, according to the State of California.

Naughty Dog once worked on a Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mode, a datamine suggests.

A watchdog has launched an investigation into Ubisoft Singapore over alleged unfairness and sexual harassment.

Eastward, the upcoming 2D RPG from 10-person Shanghai team Pixpil, is a lot of things. The tale of a gruff middle-aged man guiding a gifted young girl through an exquisite pixel-art post apocalypse, it's the disarming collision of The Last of Us and Earthbound, and it plays out something like Capcom's muscular takes on The Legend of Zelda on the Game Boy Advance. What's got me hooked after 30 minutes with a section plucked from just under a dozen hours into this adventure is how brilliantly it captures the look of that most extravagant era of 2D games.

BloodRayne Betrayal is getting remastered and will be heading to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC - complete with full voice acting and other additions - on 9th September.

John Romero still isn't done with Doom; the legendary designer has confirmed he's currently working on a follow-up to his "unofficial" Doom episode, Sigil.

PlayStation 5 was recently updated to support NVMe-based PCI Express 4.0 storage upgrades - so what happens when an Xbox Series S SSD is ripped out of the console and inserted into PS5 instead? That's just one of the many topics covered in this week's DF Direct Weekly where I'm joined by my friends and colleagues John Linneman and Alex Battaglia to cover off a vast array of tech chat - including the Abandoned real-time trailer debacle, the arrival of the RX 6600 XT and the endangered existence of the valuerific 1080p gaming GPU.

Lenny Henry is in Netflix's live-action The Witcher prequel.

The Metal Gear Solid speedrunning community is currently in a frenzy after a streamer accidentally discovered a huge skip.

Monday morning I went surfing across a rounded hill of snow, threading a series of large stone hoops together. The hoops were set in the ground, so they resembled arches, and as I moved through each one a light on top of it shone the way towards the next in the sequence. Flap of cloth, rush of wind: the world knew I was there. The final arch lit up a magical panel on a piece of rock - a large piece of rock, I would discover, but it seemed a tiny thing in the distance. I squinted at the rock and saw movement. Getting closer I realised that a mechanism had been triggered, and a strange, invisible force was now picking and placing platforms of stone across the empty air of a nearby chasm, a pathway created for me with the lazy ease of a stranger dealing cards.

Baiken from Guilty Gear is confirmed as the next DLC character for Samurai Shodown.

Bloodborne has a first-person mod that goes beyond simply moving the camera.