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Call of Duty: Warzone will get a Vanguard-themed map set in the Pacific theatre of World War 2, according to a new report.

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted the world to think differently about remote work, with more companies allowing employees to pick between working from home or the office. With the vaccine rollout now in progress, it seems some companies are making plans for what their workplace structure will look like in the future - and that includes Ubisoft.

Sony has released an update for the PlayStation 5 and the DualSense controller.

Harry Kane will become available to buy in Fortnite this weekend, just as the Euros kick off.

Fortnite's laid back Team Rumble mode has been quietly revamped as part of the game's new extraterrestrial season - and fans aren't best pleased with the changes.

That Insomniac lot are a bit good at this, aren't they? This is a studio that has a thing, and is very good at it. That thing is crunchy action, springy movement, a kind of intangible elasticity of motion. It's playfulness. The team's boiled it down to a formula now - formulas can be good things too by the way - and so they can now inject it with precision into everything they make, from Sunset Overdrive to Spider-Man to of course Ratchet and Clank.

Just in time for the launch of Marvel's new Disney+ show Loki, the Disney+ 30-day trial has returned to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, giving members a free month of access to the streaming service.

Hello! Just a little announcement on behalf of our friends and colleagues on the EGX events team, who are putting together a digital edition of the reliably wonderful Rezzed, which runs from 15th to 18th July.

Ubisoft's The Division franchise will be absent from E3, the publisher has said.

We're still waiting for that big Heath and Home update, but in the meantime developer Iron Gate has rolled out another small patch to fix some of Valheim's bugs. This patch makes two previously-bugged raid events actually trigger in-game, and provides a number of other handy fixes to make your time in the 10th world slightly easier. Slightly.

As a native of the Emerald Isle, I'll be the first to admit that the phrase 'Irish science fiction' sounds like an oxymoron. As Netflix's noted begorrah-fest, Wild Mountain Thyme makes clear, in the popular imagination we are still a people more closely associated with Aran sweaters, turf fires, and animal excrement than we are with cyborgs, inter-dimensional travel, and quantum mechanics. Yet, in the mid-twentieth-century, an apparently unassuming Private Secretary in the Irish Department of Local Government and Public Health set about secretly bridging the gap between these two worlds in some of the most imaginative, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious writing ever to emerge from Ireland, and some of the strangest writing about bicycles ever committed to print.

Developer RageSquid's extreme downhill biking game Descenders is now available on Xbox Series X/S, bringing with it a free next-gen enhancements update for all Xbox One owners that introduces a 120fps mode, PC cross-play, and more.

In the wake of Sony announcing that key first-party titles are being developed to straddle the PS4 and PS5 console generations, the arrival of Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is timely. It demonstrates the power and the potential of PlayStation 5 in a way that a cross-gen title would not be able to - and it showcases what the next generation of hardware can deliver when a first party developer can focus exclusively on it. Insomniac's Spider-Man: Miles Morales was an exceptional PS4/PS5 effort - but Rift Apart highlights what's possible when a generational leap in storage, CPU and GPU are expertly deployed. Oh, and 60fps with ray tracing? No problem.

Is your Russian feeling a little rusty? Not to worry, as an English translation for Fallout 2 mod Olympus 2207 has finally been released - so you can put the Russian dictionary down for now.

Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which has been delayed twice since its unveiling last September, now won't arrive until some time next year.

Upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart includes a nod to PC and Xbox One cult hit Sunset Overdrive.

Royal Games, an online games portal owned by Candy Crush maker King, has come under fire from paying customers who have been unable to cash out their funds.

I only had a brief period of correspondence with John Wilson aka "The Rochdale Balrog", but when I found out about his passing at the age of 74 last week, I felt a sadness I wasn't quite expecting. John's contribution to the UK video game scene shouldn't be underestimated and losing him is akin to the loss of a national treasure. It's a true end of an era.

Fortnite has beamed down its extra-terrestrial-themed Chapter 2 Season 7, which lets your ride UFOs and play as Superman.

Bertie: Sludge Life is such a mood. I can't think of another way to describe it. I mean, I could robotically say it's an open-city game about spray-painting walls but that doesn't seem to get even half-way to really describing what it is. What makes Sludge Life different is the mood it pulls you into.

Itch.io is hosting a $5 bundle of games designed to raise money for Palestine aid.

Robin Hood is the quintessential English folk rebel. He's also a total chameleon. The man (if he was a man) has undergone endless reincarnations, merry and not-so-merry, stretching back over 600 years of fact and fiction. Go on, pick your poison - no-nonsense Yorkshire highwayman or pantomime aristo? Crusading commoner or blueblood cheated of his birthright? Proto-socialist agitator or just a nickname given to any bandit of a certain repute? Errol Flynn or Russell Crowe?

You could be forgiven for not caring about Daedalic's Gollum game. The early development materials I saw during a studio visit in 2019 certainly left me with mixed feelings - fascination and admiration but a degree of unease. To single out one of the more risible elements: a Gollum game in which Gollum can wall-run doesn't sound very Gollumy. Gollum is known for his agility, of course - picture him in The Two Towers, descending a cliff "like some large prowling thing of insect-kind" - but you can't just parkour over the line between "creeping menace" and "Prince of Persia", especially when your title character is the best part of 600 years old.

There's a new update for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition - and you'll want to have it downloaded smartish if you're looking to save your eardrums.

Ubisoft has renamed Rainbow Six Quarantine to Rainbow Six Extraction.

Google game streaming service Stadia will at last add support for Chromecast with Google TV, from 23rd June.

Packing up your bags and travelling across oceans to a new town, to embark on a new adventure with friends old and new; it's sorely tempting to draw parallels between the story of solo developer Robert Tatnell and the game series his project most frequently draws comparisons to. Listening to the Stockholm-based British designer tell his tale, it's almost as if he's elected to live a real-life Animal Crossing these past few years.

At the start of the weekend we heard that CD Projekt's stolen data was being shared online, and it seems the floodgates are now well and truly open. A bunch of dev-made bug compilation videos are now circulating on social media and file-sharing sites, showing some rarely-seen work-in-progress builds and rather spectacular bugs.

Guilty Gear Strive is nearly upon us. Developer Arc System Works has held a number of beta tests, each with its own set of issues pounced upon by the anime fighting game series' fans. But the bigger picture is this: with Strive, chief creator Daisuke Ishiwatari aims to do the seemingly impossible - make Guilty Gear accessible.

Skyward Sword is my favourite ever Zelda game and maybe just my favourite ever game. Clearly this is not a widespread notion, and I won't try to persuade you it's good if you don't already like it: Zelda fandom is a broad church, and I realise most people prefer the freedom to glide over to that mountain over there, or select mushrooms from a menu to drop in a pot. But Skyward Sword's whole vibe just works for me - as clear as a crush, as true as a laugh. Which is strange, because at first I thought it looked crap: too pale and twee, and there was this annoying shot in an early trailer of Zelda making a wet, adoring-anime-girl expression, beneath a fringe that looked like it'd been cut by a monk with a bowl.