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Surprise! Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy 13 just got a surprise patch five years after the game came out on PC.

Swiss luxury firm Tag Heuer has announced a limited edition Super Mario smartwatch, due to cost $2150 (UK price TBA).

Out of Line isn't offensively rubbish or broken, nor are its mechanics frustratingly opaque. It's not horrible to look at or listen to, and playing through it left me chilled, which is not necessarily how I finish all my platformer sessions, believe me. The puzzles and platforming are perfectly perfunctory, and though it takes a little while to get used to your spear - more on that in a sec - there's not a single maddening sequence or frustrating boss fight to scupper your journey, making it wonderfully accessible for those who are new to the genre (or even new to gaming completely).

Call of Duty: Warzone gets its first ever objective-based mode this week.

Echoing Void, the sixth and possibly-final DLC for Minecraft Dungeons, will launch on 28th July.

Pokémon Go will no longer release a special edition Pikachu for the Japanese tourism hotspot of Okinawa on 22nd July.

Downtown Los Angeles, 2005. A hot, bloated, extravagant E3, and everyone more excited than normal because it's new-console year. PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Revolution (Wii) are all at the show, and anything labelled "next-gen" is stampeded. Perhaps that's how a group of Swedish students, with no publisher and no track record, manage to entice people to see their game.

Basketball pro and Space Jam 2 star LeBron James is the next celebrity coming to Fortnite as themselves.

Respawn has been battling hackers in its online games for some time, but the situation escalated recently when hackers blocked players from accessing Apex Legends in order to complain about hacking in Titanfall. And unfortunately it seems the saga is having an impact on Respawn's development plans, with work on at least one highly-anticipated feature for Apex Legends, cross-progression, slowed by the recent spate of attacks.

Digital Foundry's weekly show is back - and this time there's a good 107 minutes of (mostly) tech chat! Leading the agenda this week are some further thoughts on the Switch OLED, but mostly attempting to answer the many, many questions sent by DF supporters about the new unit. Why aren't we getting a Switch Pro? Is the Switch Pro actually happening a bit further on down the road? Did Nintendo 'switch' up its plans for a more powerful model because of the pandemic? (Spoilers: no). There's a good 20 minutes of discussion about the new hardware we're actually getting - and when/if a successor will become available.

Brilliantly silly sports game What the Golf has received a massive free update on iPhone games subscription service Apple Arcade.

Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima has said he doesn't like the name of his expanded Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

EA is facing a backlash over its decision to make FIFA 22 on PC the last-gen version of the game.

Hunting isn't for everyone. With its myriad creatures the world of Monster Hunter is made for a Pokémon-type game, and so the Stories spin-offs feel like an attempt to offer a friendlier alternative, from cute anime-style character design right down to the core of the series. Monster Hunter Stories presents the idea that monsters can be friends instead of foes.

Wildermyth's heroes don't look like heroes. Not at the start, anyway. With their simple felt-pen facies, dots for eyes, kinked line for a mouth, they look like the chattering cast from a '90s newspaper comic strip, like Judge Reinhold captured by a funfair caricaturist, or like the cheery helpers that I might once have found inside an Usborne kids book that's trying to teach me about the nitrogen cycle. At first, this was a little odd, a little off, even. I'm going off on a searing adventure down into the flaming mines of lord whatever and I'm taking these rickety Dilberts with me?

PlayStation's Experience website currently lets you try and redeem access to an unannounced Gran Turismo 7 PS5 beta.

After a week of weird and wonderful speedruns, this year's Summer Games Done Quick event came to an end on Sunday - with a total of $2.8m (£2m) raised for charity.

EA has changed the way its dual entitlement program works for FIFA 22 so that the next-gen upgrade is only available to those who fork out £89.99 for the Ultimate Edition.

A pristine sealed copy of Super Mario 64 has sold for $1.56m (£1.12m), setting a record for the highest amount anyone has paid for a video game at auction.

A recipe book based upon the culinary experiences found in Final Fantasy 14 is expected to go on sale on 9th November 2021.

Psychonauts 2 will feature an invincibility mode to enable more people to beat the game.

Crystal Dynamics has shared some of the environmental art that helped conceptualise the environments for its next big expansion, Black Panther - War for Wakanda.

Bloober Team has responded to fan speculation that its new partnership with Konami could mean there's a new Silent Hill game on the way.

Someone has worked out how to parachute into ongoing Gulag fights and eliminate enemy players.

Unhappy Resident Evil Village players are blaming DRM for the game's poor performance on PC.

Washington D.C. and 36 states have filed a lawsuit against Google for alleged antitrust practices.

Japanese police have arrested a man allegedly selling modified The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild save files.

Modders are recreating a demo of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time shown a year before the game came out.

It doesn't sound like Square Enix will show Final Fantasy 16 at the Tokyo Game Show.

A group of modders are working to turn Fallout: New Vegas into a Star Wars game.