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Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo's gacha-filled mobile racer which lets you tug on a warp pipe to earn a lederhosen-wearing Luigi, is doing pretty well. It has earned $200m in 18 months, and racked up 200m downloads worldwide.

It's Wednesday afternoon, and someone's decided to blame video games. It's easy to get frustrated but, actually, these days are often some of the most fun. Usually what follows is a circus: wagon-circling on Twitter, misinformed headlines in the mainstream press, maybe someone from a trade body going on This Morning to explain how much money video games make, and how many studies there are about them being unanimously good for your kids, your mental health, and your chances of winning the lottery, probably. It is silly, and inconsequential enough for us to quietly enjoy, but it regularly happens, and it usually comes from ignorance.

Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently filming in British Columbia, and fans have been snapping photos of the movie's sets.

We've seen Call of Duty: Warzone played with a drum kit, we've seen it played with a recorder, and now another instrument has joined the fray - as someone is using a piano to rack up kills. At this rate we'll soon have a full orchestra.

Discord has decided to remain independent, despite a round of high-profile acquisition talks.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies will get weapon unlock challenges in season three, developer Treyarch has announced.

The unannounced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake will be developed by renowned port studio Aspyr.

Call of Duty: Warzone now has 100 million players, Activision has announced.

People Can Fly and Square Enix have promised to restore lost Outriders items with their "god roll" values attached.

Every now and then a writer comes along and makes you realise - oh jeepers, this is how it should be done. I'm reading Albert and the Whale, by Philip Hoare, at the moment, and it's slow going because every other page - oh jeepers.

Jeff Kaplan - Overwatch director, Blizzard Entertainment vice president, and one of the studio's most recognisable faces - has announced his departure from the company after 19 years.

Sony's feeling generous again and is giving away another batch of free games - including Horizon Zero Dawn, Subnautica, and The Witness - as part of its latest Play at Home event.

Microsoft has announced new games coming to Xbox Game Pass during what's left of April.

For a console that pushes technology to the next level in so many respects, there is one defining limitation to the PlayStation 5 hardware - its restrictive 667GB of useable storage. This week's system software update finally allows users to archive PS5 titles to external hard drives and SSDs, and of course, PS4 titles can be run from plug-in storage too - but what's the best PS5 hard drive option? We decided to put things to the test, stacking up the internal solid-state solution against three alternatives: a passport-style external hard drive, a SATA SSD and an NVMe alternative, housed within an appropriate enclosure.

The wonderful Spiritfarer gets its first dollop of extra content today, in the form of its Lily update.

Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale Enhanced Editions all just got a significant update.

The Resident Evil Re:Verse beta returns this week, Capcom has announced.

Portal 2 turned 10 years old yesterday - can you believe it - and instead of simply celebrating with cake, it seems one modder has taken things a step further by creating a massive expansion mod. With time travel and four dimensions, of course.

Rockstar has issued surprise updates to LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on PC, throwing in all the DLC for free.

Shaun Escayg, creative director for Marvel's Avengers, has left developer Crystal Dynamics and rejoined Naughty Dog.

One of the worst feelings in Valheim is wanting to create a big old hill, then almost immediately running out of stone. Huh? Who got my rocks off me?

I don't think anyone at Square Enix saw Nier Automata as a multi-million-selling, genre-defying hit. The action-RPG sort of stumbled into the spotlight in 2017, tasked with amassing attention in the months following the Nintendo Switch's incredible debut with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. A tough act to follow, no doubt, but one that Automata somehow managed, going on to land multiple game of the year accolades, draw millions upon millions of fans to a previously-unknown franchise, and selling upwards of five million copies over four years later.

Valve has finally fixed a security vulnerability in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that could be used by hackers to gain remote control of a player's PC - an issue the company had reportedly known about for two years by the time its existence was publicised last week.

There's no big new Assassin's Creed game this year - instead, Valhalla instead lives on through expansions set in Ireland and France - but that doesn't mean Ubisoft's biggest franchise is taking a breather. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Raven Software has nerfed the controversial Sykov pistol three days after it launched into Call of Duty: Warzone.

Extremely OK Games, the studio behind acclaimed platformer Celeste, has unveiled its next project, Earthblade - what it calls a "2D explor-action game in a seamless pixel art world" - via some mood-setting teaser art and a musical snippet.

Double Fine has confirmed Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited sequel to its 2005 cult-classic platform adventure, will finally, after a multitude of delays, be launching this year.

Activision has announced the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone season three roadmap.

PlayStation has dramatically U-turned on its decision to shut down the PlayStation 3 and Vita digital stores, following fan criticism.

Respawn has announced Apex Legends Mobile.