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I keep finding myself describing games in terms of "texture" at the moment, and I keep worrying that nobody knows what that means - I'm not sure I know what it means, so I wouldn't blame them. But I know it's there, and I know a game's texture matters, but how to spell it out?

As a Mauritian who loved Super Mario Sunshine back in its day, I could already see the many similarities Super Mario Sunshine has to Mauritius.

Capcom is ramping up the Resident Evil Village hype train by sending out life-size standees of its chief antagonist, Lady Dimitrescu.

New amateur photos taken on the set of The Witcher TV show suggests season two of the highly anticipated Netflix series will feature the Wild Hunt.

Sega has topped the chart of review aggregate website Metacritic's game publisher of the year rankings.

Anthem director, Jonathan Warner, is leaving BioWare and "moving on to do new things" after ten years at the studio.

The PC version of Crash Bandicoot 4 launched exclusively on Battle.net yesterday - and players weren't exactly thrilled to discover it's always-online.

THQ Nordic is taking on the long-running Football Manager series with a football management sim of its own it describes as "a throwback to classic traditional management games".

Microsoft held an ID@Xbox showcase last night, and as part of it listed 22 games coming to Xbox Game Pass.

Rust Console Edition launches 21st May on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Developer Mimimi Games' superb stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun is getting a standalone expansion. It's called Aiko's Choice and is coming to PC later this year.

Monster Hunter Rise has only just arrived on Switch, but already Capcom is talking up the game's first major post-launch update. Version 2.0, as it's known, will release toward the end of April, bringing new monsters, an unlocked HR cap, and more.

The results are in for this year's BAFTA Games Awards, and acclaimed dungeon-crawler Hades has proven to be the big winner of the night, picking up gongs in a total of five categories.

Variable State, the developer behind 2016's small town mystery adventure Virginia, has offered a closer look at its upcoming supernatural anthology drama Last Stop in a new gameplay trailer.

In amongst today's ID@Xbox fiesta you'll have likely clocked Death's Door, a game where a small, sword-wielding crow has it out with a rocket-fuelled cathedral, amongst other things. This is the new game from Acid Nerve, the two-man studio behind the tense, one-hit boss-hunter Titan Souls. It's coming to Xbox and PC soon-ish - "We're getting to the last stages now, just polishing and bug fixing, so we're expecting it to be out this summer," designer David Fenn tells me - and it looks extremely good.

There's a kind of innocence to some humour, an innocence it needs in order to work. You realise this when you think about Guacamelee, Drinkbox's breakout PS Vita hit - a game with these strange things called "memes" in it, a game named with a pun. I feel like we probably wouldn't enjoy a game with memes in it in 2021 - they're familiar now and sort of oddly important, and so you lose the innocence. But Drinkbox has kept the innocence elsewhere with Nobody Saves the World. It's another silly, but also seemingly very good, game that's built on humour first and clever evolution of genre just behind it, and another game named with a pun.

Playtonic Friends, the new publishing label from Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic, has confirmed its first game. It's Demon Turf from Fabraz, the developer of the excellent twitch platformer Slime-san.

Veteran Assassin's Creed writer Darby McDevitt is departing Ubisoft, he has announced.

Crash Bandicoot mobile spin-off On The Run is off to a speedy start on the iOS App Store and Google Play.

Tonight's long-awaited Nintendo Direct included several big game announcements, including Splatoon 3 and Mario Golf: Super Rush, as well as confirmation of an HD release for Zelda: Skyward Sword.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is headed to Nintendo Switch on 16th July. This time, the motion controls are optional.

This year's Call of Duty returns to World War 2, according to fresh reports in part verified by Eurogamer.

Uh oh, it looks like some ranked Apex Legends players are being naughty again, as Respawn has banned two Apex Predators on Xbox who were caught DDoS-ing a server to win a game. Like a real-life drone EMP.

UPDATE 26/3/21: As promised, Ubisoft has issued a further hotfix to address issues introduced with the start of Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Ostara festival. This will re-enable decorations, and allow you to complete the Easter-like event's quests.

Blizzard has made a significant change to the options available to those who play World of Warcraft via game time.

Platform game Balan Wonderworld released earlier today, but the launch day has been troubled by reports that the final boss fight contains a potential epilepsy risk. Publisher Square Enix has now confirmed that this is a bug in the unpatched version of the game, and warned players to make sure they have the day one patch installed.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Puzzling curios, a SNES classic, and a loveable punchy robot.

The Stalker 2 developers are using a custom teeth tool to make each character's smile unique.

Recently, I played a game called Pocket Watch. It's a game about being a duck on a tropical island and being trapped in a Groundhog Day-like, time-looping situation. It's super-cute, super-colourful, and actually, when you get into it, surprisingly deep and complex. And, hang on, it can't be - it was made in two weeks?!

Finding new interests is an exciting thing. We get a taste, decide to further investigate, and before realising it, we're down a rabbit hole. In a literal sense, mine was larger than most. Being gifted Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee one Christmas day, it became my first experience with the King of the Monsters. Placing this iconic character into a 3D fighting game, Pipeworks Studio had a hit, and this soon became a trilogy. Godzilla Unleashed was a disappointing end but, Godzilla: Save The Earth? That was the real sweet spot.