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There's been understandable concern recently about Sony's reported obsession with blockbusters that are too big to fail - the God of Wars, the Horizon: Zero Dawns and the god-forbid-it's-real The Last of Us remake - so it's quite remarkable how Returnal has arrived within mere weeks of the story like some kind of rebuttal. This is one of the most daring, dazzling and straight-up different big ticket games to come from Sony since Death Stranding.

I was really sad this week to read about Jeffrey Kaplan leaving Blizzard after 19 years. That's a heck of a long time. Think about all he's done there: directed World of Warcraft, directed Titan, which yes, never came out, but it was recycled into Overwatch and that turned out OK didn't it? Kaplan is a golden goose if you ask me. But it's not so much what he did but how he did it I admire.

Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion, which adds the likes of on-foot traversal and first-person shooty-bang to the long-running space sim series, is coming to PC in its final form on 19th May.

What's Last Stop about? After playing the first few chapters, I'm still not entirely sure - but that's probably the point. An adventure game in which the plot slowly unfolds through three interconnected stories, it's initially a slow burner, yet the characters and cliffhangers introduced with each chapter have me completely intrigued - and I'm itching to know how each of them gets resolved.

Ubisoft has announced a series of Mister Men and Little Miss books for its biggest Assassin's Creed stars.

DICE, Criterion, DICE Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Gothenberg are collaborating on this year's under-wraps Battlefield. It is the "biggest team ever on a Battlefield game", EA has said.

Because of the absolute state of game reiusses, I have to explain what Nier Replicant is before I can tell you how it is. Nier, developed by Cavia, released in 2010 in two versions - Nier Replicant for the Japanese market and Nier Gestalt for western territories. Both are almost identical, save for their protagonist. The west got "Dad Nier", an adult man with an Ikea wardrobe somewhere in his family tree, and Japan got a young man instead, out of the concern that the older lead wouldn't appeal to Japanese audiences.

It's been 18 months since Fortnite replaced its map, but some players have never stopped calling for it to return.

If you're longing for the days of the Game Boy printer, then there's good news for you - as it's getting a spiritual successor. Of a sort.

Trials of Fire is a powerfully seductive game. It pulls on a desire to sculpt a perfect RPG team, to have them gleam in the best equipment and have them wield the strongest powers, and to see them work together in beautiful synergy. I find few things more pleasing in an RPG, and I bet you do too, and Trials of Fire knows it.

With the launch of its third season, Call of Duty: Warzone has received perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet.

UPDATE 20/4/21: After hints and leaks, Lego has now officially confirmed the Lego Super Luigi Starter Course, and said it will arrive here on 1st August.

Last week, we learned the masterpiece that is Resident Evil 4 will get a new version for Oculus Quest 2. Now, we've seen a little more of how it will play in VR and some of the new additions developer Armature has added.

Call of Duty: Warzone players were briefly able to play the new 1980s-themed Verdansk map in the early hours of this morning before developer Raven shut it down.

Last weekend, Capcom unleashed the first in a series of time-limited demos for Resident Evil Village. First up, we got to see the Village demo for PS4, Pro and PlayStation 5, with the promise of a Castle demo next week on the same systems, followed by a multi-platform release for both segments the week after. We took a look at the initial demo to see how Capcom plans to scale the game across the generations, what the ray tracing looks like, and how performance stacks up. Going into this, the developer told us to expect 45fps on certain consoles and game modes - confused messaging we can clear up having gone hands-on.

Microsoft is making Quick Resume easier to manage with a new update for Xbox Series X/S.

There's still a few months to go until Life is Strange: True Colors releases all in one go on 10th September. But, for now, here's something from Aoife to set the scene.

Song of Horror, developer Protocol Games' entertaining slice of decidedly old-school third-person terror, will be making its way to Xbox and PlayStation on 28th May.

I can't think about Asura without thinking about Hades, and it's a bit unfair because Asura predates Hades, and everyone loves Hades. But they are undeniably similar. They're both action-RPG-styled Roguelites. They're both about being a kind of god and fighting other gods. But they're also different.

Lone Echo 2, the highly anticipated sequel to developer Ready at Dawn's acclaimed zero-gravity virtual reality adventure, will be coming to Oculus Rift and Quest 2 this "summer".

Nintendo might have consigned its beloved 1080° Snowboarding series to the perpetually locked cupboard of history judging by its conspicuous lack of recent sequels, but there's something like light at the end of the tunnel for long-starved fans. Oculus has unveiled Carve Snowboarding, a 1080° spiritual successor that's coming to its Quest platform "soon".

Cloudhead Games' acclaimed VR rhythm FPS, Pistol Whip, will soon be slinging on a Stetson and saddling up for adventure in its Wild-West-themed Smoke & Thunder expansion - which is coming to Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR devices this summer.

Throw another one onto the teetering pile of video game adaptations; while Netflix is busy animating the likes of Castlevania and DOTA, and Sony fires out movies based on Uncharted and Monster Hunter - not to mention Paramount's attempts with Sonic the Hedgehog or Warner Bros' live-action Mortal Kombat film - Ubisoft is bringing its social deduction game Werewolves Within to the big screen, an endeavour that's just received its first trailer.

Call of Duty: Warzone has finally nuked its map.

Diablo Immortal has moved into closed alpha, and added a raft of new features in the process.

Microsoft has announced its previous promise to ditch Xbox Live Gold subscription requirements for free-to-play multiplayer titles on its consoles will come into effect today.

Bandai Namco role-playing game Tales of Arise launches on 10th September (or the 9th in Japan) for PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Call of Duty: Warzone has a 25GB update available to download now on PlayStation 4 and 5 ahead of tonight's nuke event.

Capcom has finally confirmed The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is coming to the west.

Horizon Zero Dawn's story will continue this year in a new graphic novel series, Liberation, from Titan Comics.