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This week's release of the next-gen version of Marvel's Avengers is welcome news for the game - but it shines a light on the fiddly process of transferring saves from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5.

An NHS executive's Twitter accounts were hacked to promote a PlayStation 5 sales scam.

Valve won't sell Super Seducer 3 on Steam.

Devotion developer Red Candle Games has teased its next title - and it doesn't look anything like its previous games.

Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne HD Remaster launches on 25th May, Atlus has announced.

Activision Blizzard has warned staff of impending layoffs across its offices in Europe.

Developer Crystal Dynamics has confirmed a delay for Marvel's Avengers' PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man content, which now won't arrive until this summer at the earliest.

Viking-themed co-op survival phenomenon Valheim has now thundered through the six millions copies sold barrier on Steam, and developer Iron Gate Studios is celebrating with a tiny tease of the game's first major update.

Apex Legends' new Switch conversion may be one of the system's most ambitious to date - but the severity of the cutbacks is clearly an issue. Much has been said about the game's low resolution and the impact this has on visibility when targeting opponents at long range, but as our video head-to-head below reveals, the gulf in terms of visual features is tremendous, to the point where so many missing graphical elements may well have implications for the balance of the game when viewed through the lens of the CrossPlay feature.

CD Projekt has announced details of Cyberpunk 2077's next big patch.

Warner Bros. has announced a delay for Gotham Knights, confirming its latest bat-adventure is now scheduled to launch some time in 2022.

The Xbox Wireless Headset is here, Microsoft's first official audio accessory for the Series X and Series S, and it's fantastic. The £90/$100 headset packs in an astonishing amount of features and quality for its relatively affordable price tag, and it may be one of the only first-party headsets for any system that I'd actually recommend.

Everyone knows Xbox Series X looks like a fridge. It's a fact Microsoft has previously acknowledged, and made into reality with a series of enormous promotional chillers shaped like Xbox Series X it shipped to people like Snoop Dogg.

Fortnite fans think they've uncovered who plays the game's important new character The Foundation: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

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: antique chairs, lighthouses and properly great pixelart.

Timeless, immediately compelling and utterly without mercy, Tetris has always been a game about what isn't there - or rather a game about what isn't there yet. It's a game about the puzzle pieces you don't currently have, and all the stupid stuff you get up to before they arrive. Tetris - the way I play it anyway, forever awaiting that long block - is the story of how you got so hopelessly drunk to fight off pre-party nerves that, once the actual party had started, you had to go home early - and on the way home you fell down an open manhole and broke your ankle.

How quickly when you're thinking about Halo does the music come into your head? I'm imagining it's probably there before the first images. Mournful, ancient, righteous, heroic, the music in Halo is doing an awful lot. It's been described in interviews as the thing that makes everything else twice as good, and it's hard not to suspect that's true. Get in a Warthog and the camera moves back and that music starts up: let's get on with it.

Starbreeze has signed a €50m publishing deal with Koch Media for Payday 3.

Sony has co-bought the long-running Evo fighting game tournament.

Developer InnerSloth has announced Among Us' eagerly awaited fourth map, known as The Airship, will finally launch on 31st March.

Following the introduction of a monthly subscription service for Crusader Kings 2 last month, Paradox Interactive has launched a similar model for its dizzyingly rich flagship grand strategy game Europa Universalis 4, providing an easier entry point for its mountain of DLC.

Square Enix Montreal - the team behind the excellent Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go, and Deus Ex Go - has announced its first new title in five years, Hitman: Sniper Assassins for mobile.

There's a fascinating moment in Disney's Fantasia where Deems Taylor invites the soundtrack onto the centre stage. This is the flickering line that carries the movie's audio, and with Disney's animators in charge it starts to ripple and splatter as music rushes through it. Spirograph curls and lily pads drifting across the surfaces of ponds, writing their own wakes. And then it's over and back to the main event.

Announced several months ago, the next generation upgrade for Marvel's Avengers lands today and Digital Foundry had the opportunity to check out the campaign element on PlayStation 5 in a near-final build - and the results are impressive. Developer Nixxes delivers a 60fps performance mode with improved graphics compared to PlayStation 4 Pro, upping the ante for the next-gen quality mode, and utilising the new console's advanced storage capabilities to provide a revelatory improvement in loading times.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive has just announced yet another Warhammer 40,000 game - and it looks a lot like Doom.

Square's enigmatic fantasy title Project Athia has finally been given a proper name, and will now be known as Forspoken as it continues its journey toward a PC and PS5 release next year.

Square Enix Presents has wrapped up with the reveal of the next Life is Strange game, a look ahead at the future of Marvel's Avengers, and a few bits and pieces for Tomb Raider's 25th anniversary year.

Marvel's Avengers gets its Black Panther expansion later this year, Square Enix has announced.

Square Enix has announced Life is Strange: True Colors, the next chapter in the narrative adventure anthology series. Ditching the series' previous episodic model, the entire story will release in one go for PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Stadia on 10th September.

Remember that game about sentient flower bouquets with horse legs? Well, you'll soon be able to find out more about these monstrosities for yourself, as Scarlet Nexus has a release date - and there's also news of an accompanying anime.