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Blizzard has announced Diablo 4's fourth character class: the Rogue.

If you've been the recipient of a seemingly official email inviting you to join the Far Cry 6 beta, then Ubisoft would like you to know that - STOP! - it's a phishing scam.

Hearthstone's big Blizzconline announcements include the game's next expansion, in-game year, and a strategy RPG mode named Hearthstone Mercenaries coming later in 2021.

UPDATE 10pm: Following the discovery of Street-Fighter-themed portal assets buried within Fortnite earlier today, Epic has made its latest video game crossover official.

UPDATE 10.16pm: Blizzard has now officially confirmed its Arcade Collection, which will launch tonight for PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and Xbox. (On PC, it's a part of Blizzard's Celebration Collection, which will also arrive today as a bundle on consoles.)

As foretold by yesterday's leak, Blizzard has revealed details of the first major content update for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands in its Blizzconline streaming event. The patch is called Chains of Domination and will focus on a drive deeper into the Maw, the terrible domain of the Jailer, the mysterious bad guy disrupting the balance of the Shadowlands - Warcraft's afterlife - and threatening an invasion of all reality with the help of disgraced Horde warchief Sylvanas.

Inkle, the developer behind the acclaimed likes of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault, is bringing its superb adaptation of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! books to Switch later this year.

UPDATE 19/2/20: Popular Viking survival game Valheim has shifted another million copies in just four more days - making for an overall total of 3m units sold in just over two weeks.

I missed 20XX when it came out, which was clearly a mistake because it looks brilliant. But it was also a pleasant accident, because now 30XX is here the whole thing is so fresh and wonderful. Just loading into it this morning made me happy.

Developer Batterystaple Games has announced that 30XX, the sequel to its enjoyable Mega-Man-X-inspired procedural rogue-like 20XX, will enter Steam early access on 17th February.

Hades is already difficult to beat with a regular controller or keyboard yet it seems someone decided that wasn't challenging enough, as the game has now been completed with a pomegranate. Yes, you heard that right.

A month into Sea of Thieves' first battle pass season, Rare's multiplayer pirate adventure will receive its first mid-season update, introducing a new limited-time event and associated rewards, various new Pirate Emporium goodies, plus another charity sail sale, this time with proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Hello! Welcome back to a new regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few weeks. This time: visual brilliance, chess, and the pleasures of rocks.

Hello! Welcome back to a new regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few weeks. This time: cards, Final Fantasy, and art galleries.

We've known for many months now that Mario items are headed to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Now, we've seen them in action.

After 40 days and more than 90k comments, Twitter has beaten Pokémon Red while playing it through someone's tiny display picture.

I've been pretty interested in manhole covers for the last week or so. I read about them in the brilliant The 99% Invisible City and since then, well, I've gone down the manhole, as it were.

Crusader Kings 2, Paradox's mammoth grand strategy game, is a beast, totalling more than 13 major expansions and other assorted DLC after six years in development. The complete experience is also prohibitively expensive too, weighing in at over £200, and that's an issue Paradox is attempting to address with the launch of its new monthly subscription service.

Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Jukio Kallio, and Dominik Johann - the team behind 2018's wonderful time loop adventure Minit - has unveiled bite-sized racing spin-off Minit Fun Racer, with all developer and publisher proceeds from sales going to charity.

Developer People Can Fly's co-operative sci-fi looter-shooter Outriders is set to launch on 1st April this year, and those eager to learn more ahead of its full release will have the opportunity to put the early game through its paces next week, courtesy of a new demo.

Developer IO interactive has issued its long-awaited solution for Hitman 3 on PC, finally enabling players to import their Hitman 1 and 2 locations into the game at no additional cost.

Activision has revealed all the new content coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone Season Two.

UPDATE: Activision has confirmed Outbreak for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Get all the details on Season Two here. The trailer is below:

Talking about Saturnalia is hard. Every time the town reshuffles itself I think of another way I should begin.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has officially released the debut Mortal Kombat movie trailer. This time you can watch it without that Russian dub!

Video game subscriptions are all the rage. Or, maybe that's not quite right. It looks like video game subscriptions will be all the rage, in the not too distant future, if things carry on in the direction they're going right now.

BlizzConline announcement details for World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic have leaked online, more than 24 hours before the digital event is due to hold its opening ceremony.

With new graphics cards unavailable for purchase at their list price months after launch, gamers are unsurprisingly a bit touchy about just where all of AMD and Nvidia's new GPUs are ending up. Nvidia partner Zotac suffered backlash yesterday after posting an image of their graphics cards with the caption "an army of GPUs hungry for coin", implying they were destined for cryptocurrency miners rather than gamers. It's perhaps with this kind of attitude in mind that Nvidia has made a big announcement regarding their upcoming RTX 3060 graphics cards.

UPDATE 18/2/21: Fall Guys will also arrive for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S this summer - the same time as on Switch.

The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), the country's investment group chaired by controversial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, has scooped up shares in big-name game publishers Activision Blizzard, EA and Take-Two worth more than $3.3bn.