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Twisted Metal, developer David Jaffe's brash vehicular combat series, is the latest video game property to get the TV adaptation treatment.

A new generation of Nvidia GeForce graphics cards has finally arrived. The new Ampere line includes three confirmed cards and should eventually swell to a lineup of at least a half-dozen, if past series are anything to go by, but in the here and now we have just one: the RTX 3080. Thankfully, it's a cracker - we already shared some preliminary data that revealed impressive boosts to 4K performance over the outgoing RTX 2080 - but that was with Nvidia choosing the games and resolution. Now, the gloves are off and we can share a more complete picture of RTX 3080 performance, all the way from 1080p and 1440p to 4K in a much wider range of titles.

Watch Dogs: Legion's long awaited (and much delayed) online multiplayer mode comes out 9th March, Ubisoft has announced.

Mario has been many things over the years, but this, I'm sure, is a first. Bowser's Fury, the generously sized standalone expansion included in the Switch re-release of Super Mario 3D World, is Mario as a very modern open world game; a sandbox with the edges slowly being pushed back to reveal the map in its entirety, where there are towers to climb, secrets to unearth and even what amounts to a day/night cycle with bad weather rolling in to herald the coming of dark. This is Nintendo taking Mario somewhere it's never really been before, and the results - while a little lumpy in places - are never anything less than fascinating.

UPDATE 22/2/21: Just weeks after the announcement of a Shao Jun manga, Assassin's Creed has revealed the fan favourite will also get her own novel trilogy.

Blizzard has vowed not to replace Diablo 2 with Diablo 2: Resurrected.

Rock N' Roll Racing, Blizzard's retro game where you race trucks while listening to rock music, should be streamed with the music turned off.

Give me the world and I'll always find an excuse to come straight back home. Microsoft Flight Simulator offered up the entire globe, to a level of fidelity that still manages to take my breath away. And yet in the months since its launch, despite its promise of delivering a world that for many of us has been closed off, I still find myself patrolling the same skies I've been stuck under over and over again, taking off from either London City Airport or Biggin Hill to patrol the north downs and my little corner of south London.

Half-Life 2 real-time-strategy game mod Lambda Wars has finally left beta and launched proper on Steam - 13 years after development began.

Pokémon Go has announced it will hold a bonus event for all paid Kanto Tour ticket holders, after many players without a ticket were accidentally given access for free.

If you hadn't yet noticed, Viking survival game Valheim is really hitting the big time - and after selling 3m copies in 16 days, it's now reached a concurrent player peak of over 500k. Not bad for a dev team of only five people.

Capcom has replaced a Hong Kong flag with the China flag in a new Nintendo Switch game.

It was leaked yesterday, but Blizzard has now made it official: World of Warcraft Classic, the retro version of the huge online game, will be extended to include first expansion The Burning Crusade this year.

Ubisoft has outlined the future of Rainbow Six Siege as the competitive multiplayer shooter enters its sixth year.

Nintendo's beloved adventure series The Legend of Zelda has turned 35 years old.

A narrative management space opera. That's almost as much of a mouthful as the game's title, but it's the way developer crispy creative describes its game A Long Journey To An Uncertain End, currently running a Kickstarter campaign until March 4.

"It's somewhere between a beaver and a rat."

Twitch replaced Metallica at the end of BlizzConline's opening ceremony with generic royalty-free music to avoid a DMCA takedown - with hilarious results.

Activision continues to tease some sort of change to Call of Duty: Warzone's main map, this time with the impending arrival of a boat.

Rare's unreleased Dinosaur Planet for Nintendo 64 is now in the wild, and gameplay of it running on the console is available.

A new PlayStation 5 DualSense teardown has revealed the potential causes of controller drift.

The Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City reverse-engineering fan project has been hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City are both now fully reverse-engineered - a passion project from a small group of fans years in the making.

Blizzard didn't include Overwatch 2 in its BlizzConline opening ceremony, instead choosing to focus on World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and Diablo, but it did publish a behind the scenes video with members of the Overwatch development scene that contains fresh gameplay and snippets of new information.

"I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon!" Ahh, Robin Hood, ahh, Alan Rickman. This is a legend we've seen reinterpreted time and time again for the small and big screens. And now, Robin Hood is the inspiration for Sumo Digital's new game.

Blizzard has announced Diablo 2: Resurrected, a remaster of the hugely-popular 20-year-old action-role-playing game.

Blizzard has finally announced Diablo 2 Resurrected, one of the worst-kept secrets in the video game industry. This rekindling of the 20-year-old action role-playing great has fans aflutter - here we have a remaster - not a remake - of the game that for many defined the genre. It is an understatement to say Diablo 2 is fondly remembered. It is beloved.

Samsung released its latest 2.5-inch SATA SSD today, the 870 Qvo, which comes in capacities up to 8TB - twice as big as the largest 860 Qvo model released in 2018 and substantially bigger than most desktop hard drives. It's an impressive milestone, even if UK pricing for the largest 8TB model is nearly £800. Still, with game install sizes ballooning out of control - I'm looking at you here, Warzone - a massive new SSD could be just what the doctor ordered.

Way back in 2013, the idea of upgrading a PlayStation 4 with solid-state storage was an option - but not a realistic one when the cost per gig was so prohibitively expensive. Today though, SATA-based SSDs are more affordable and as developers push the hard drive harder, loading times and streaming issues are more prevalent. We've been asked to revisit SSD performance for PS4 for some time - and to do so, we've deployed a nuclear option: Samsung's new 870 QVO SSD. To test PS4 SSD performance to its ultimate potential, we effectively have an eight terabyte console. Even factoring in reserved space, we should be getting an order of magnitude more storage than the 825GB PlayStation 5.

Ahead of BlizzCon 2021, we had the chance to sit down with Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga, and Diablo 4 art director John Mueller to talk about the just-announced Rogue character class, how PvP works in the new open world, and the darker, grittier look of the game compared to its divisive predecessor.