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It's often said that GoldenEye is the best film tie-in game out there. In truth, it's actually a very close second place to the Die Hard Trilogy. I guess it's an unfair fight. There's only one of GoldenEye but, as the name suggests, there are three Die Hard games all rolled up into one glorious package! In the days when games were frightfully expensive and discounts were basically non-existent, how could any PlayStation 1 or Sega Saturn owner resist this?!

Pok Pok is a playroom for kids, on your iPad or iPhone. The project has been incubated at the creative studio Snowman (who made games like Skate City), and it's now live on the App Store. Buy the app and you get six interactive toys for kids to play with. They're all open-ended with no right or wrong way to play, and they're intended to foster creative thinking. New toys will be added over time, I gather, but there are no ads, no in-app purchases, and not even any text in the app besides the name Pok Pok.

Developer Housemarque has released a new patch for its PlayStation-5-exclusive sci-fi roguelite Returnal, this one aiming to increase the number of Deceased Scouts appearing during player run-throughs, among other tweaks and bug fixes.

Starfield launches late 2022, according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.

Time for a look at some truly impressive gaming skills, as a speedrunner has managed to beat the whole of GTA 5 without taking any damage: and he did it all in nine hours.

UPDATE 20/5/21: Bandai Namco has now officially confirmed Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom for Nintendo Switch, and given it a release date of 17th September.

The recent resumption of hostilities between Israeli armed forces and Hamas is taking a terrible toll on the people of Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem; at time of writing, over 200 civilians have died and thousands more are injured. Longstanding destruction of infrastructure, including loss of power and water, makes treating the wounded a challenge and exacerbates this humanitarian crisis.

In my mind, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has loads of memorable planets, but I don't know whether it's because they were brilliant, or because this was simply the first time BioWare had done this: take me from one planet and land me on another. Mass Effect wasn't a thing then, remember. It was still a whole Jade Empire development away.

It's been a while since we checked in on Valheim's sales figures: the game exploded out of nowhere in February, managing to shift a staggering 4m copies in only three weeks and reaching the 5m milestone in March. Well, we now have an update, as publisher Embracer Group has released its full year financial report. And yep, it looks like Valheim really helped boost those numbers.

Konami has confirmed PES 2021 won't get updated national team squads until Euro 2020 hits the knockout stage.

DC has announced an Injustice animated movie.

Following its acquisition of British developer Codemasters, it looks like EA is once again expanding its portfolio of developers - as the company is launching a new studio led by former Monolith Productions VP Kevin Stephens.

Rambo and John McClane are now in Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War and, as expected, they cost 2400 COD Points - each.

TimeSplitters will return, courtesy of a fresh studio named Free Radical Design.

It's a delicious irony that one of PlayStation 5's most exciting exclusive prospects this year comes from some of the newest members of the extended Xbox Game Studios family, but let's not let that quirk of timing obscure the real story here: Arkane Studios, creators of some of the finest immersive sim experiences in its brace of Dishonored games and 2017's superlative if somewhat underappreciated Prey, is back with an all-new game that funnels some of that expertise into a tightly wound timeloop, and layers plenty more on top besides.

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness day, or GAAD for short (what a wonderful acronym). It was set up 10 years ago to get people thinking about, and talking about, digital inclusion and accessibility, because there are more than one billion people living with disabilities and impairments, and, simply, we can support each other better.

Raven has made a significant change to Call of Duty: Warzone with its mid-season three update: Stopping Power field upgrade spawn rates have been reduced substantially across all modes.

Developer People Can Fly's co-op-focussed looter-shooter Outriders received a bit of a mixed critical reception at launch, but publisher Square Enix seems pretty happy with the public response, saying the game is "poised to be the company's next big franchise" after 3.5m unique players flocked to the experience in its first month.

PlayStation, EA and Xbox will take part in Geoff Keighley's definitely-not-E3 Summer Game Fest event, which will broadcast an announcements show on Thursday 10th June at 6pm UK time.

We're two games into developer Supermassive's Dark Pictures Anthology horror series, with a third - titled House of Ashes - on the not-too-distant horizon. Supermassive says it'll be revealing more on this latest instalment next week, but first, there's a new teaser trailer.

The Last of Us Part 2 has finally received its long-awaited PlayStation 5 upgrade, 11 months to the day since Naughty Dog's epic sequel launched on PS4 and Pro. It's a free upgrade takes the form of a 299MB patch - version 1.08 - that automatically updates the PlayStation 4 version of the game, offering PS5 users the chance to play the game at 60 frames per second. We've had the patch for a week now, allowing us to extensively test and re-test the game from start to finish.

UPDATE 19/5/21: Rocket League has now detailed its Formula 1 Fan Pack, to launch on 20th May. It includes an F1 2021 car with unique decal, ten further F1 team decals plus Pirelli wheels - and you can see a glimpse of it in action below:

Fortnite has hosted football clubs, American football clubs and - most recently - Neymar Jr. Now, it's the turn of basketball, and the NBA.

The launch of Cyberpunk 2077 back in December 2020 was, by most accounts, a bit of a car crash. The game's poor performance on base consoles led to the game being pulled from the PlayStation Store, and was followed by a significant slump in CD Projekt's stock price.

It's been two-and-a-half years since Frontier Developments first announced it was working on the mysterious "next era" of Elite Dangerous - one which would, it promised, deliver a "defining moment" in the history of the game. That, we'd eventually learn, meant the advent of perhaps one of the most requested features in the seminal space sim series' near-four-decade-long existence - the ability for players to leave their ships and stomp across the galaxy in first-person - and today marks the day this once-enigmatic new expansion, now officially titled Odyssey, finally appears.

BAFTA-nominated bird combat game The Falconeer will take up roost on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PS5 on 5th August.

Die Hard's John McClane hits Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War tomorrow, but we can see his in-game model now.

As part of this week's Season Three Reloaded update, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is getting a raft of new content.

Activision has confirmed some new points of interest coming to Call of Duty: Warzone's map this week as part of the Season Three Reloaded update and the '80s action movie hero event.