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Interest in Viking video games has never been higher, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla may have just served up its most traditional slice yet. There are no ancient civilisations here in Valhalla's new river raids mode, no friendly Saxon alliances to settle. It's just you and a bunch of bastards bombing up English rivers on a boat.

Neon White is the next game from Donut County developer Ben Esposito, and it's a first-person shooter and platformer where you zap demons in heaven.

Christian: How can a game transport you somewhere truly alien? Mu Cartographer has an answer, and it's a goodie: the trick is to keep you at a bit of a distance. Mediation is a video game thing, of course - the screen, the pad, the fact that you're sitting on the sofa or leaning forward at a desk - but there can be a real skill to the shaping of it.

A new version of RPG classic Legend of Mana will launch for PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch on 24th June.

Finally, Diablo 4 is flesh and blood, and I've played the demo at BlizzCon 2019 - twice - watched the 'Unveiled' panel and talked to the team making it. Here's what I learned.

Join us tonight to watch Nintendo's latest Direct broadcast, live at 10pm UK time.

It barely seems like yesterday we waved goodbye to Splatoon 2's last ever Splatfest (it was in January, as it happens), but Nintendo is already raring to get back out onto the battlefield, this time in form of the newly announced Splatoon 3...but you'll have to wait until 2022.

The latest characters to join the bulging Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster have been announced during tonight's Nintendo Direct. They are... Pyra and Mythra, from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

An all-new SRPG cast in the mould of classics such as Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics is coming in the shape of Project Triangle Strategy, a Nintendo Switch exclusive that's slated for release in 2022.

Nintendo has announced a new Mario Golf game for Nintendo Switch. It's called Mario Golf: Super Rush and it launches on 25th June.

Mobius Digital's much loved 2019 adventure Outer Wilds is coming to Switch later this year.

A developer has been booted off Steam after brazenly attempting to trick users into buying its games by naming its company Very Positive.

Microsoft today lifts the lid on its brand new FPS Boost technology - a series of system level tweaks that allows legacy Xbox One titles to run with twice or even four times the frame-rate on Xbox Series consoles. Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs 2, UFC 4, Sniper Elite 4 and New Super Lucky's Tale are the first five titles to support the new feature - and we've had a chance to test them all. First impressions are impressive and the gaming experience is transformed on every game.

There's a new wireless headset from Microsoft that launches on 16th March priced £90/$100 (or £85 at Amazon).

This August marks five years since exploratory sci-fi sim No Man's Sky's release, and developer Hello Games says it has "a lot planned" for its fifth anniversary year - with celebrations starting today, 17th February, in the form of the new Companions update.

Netflix has announced an anime based on Valve's Dota 2.

When James Irving moved to a farm on the Isle of Man alongside his wife, Margaret, and youngest daughter, Viorrey, I doubt he expected his family would become haunted by a talking mongoose.

Activision released a new Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone trailer confirming Season Two kicks off on 25th February 2021.

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Marvel's Avengers will at last arrive next month, on 18th March.

Chicory: A Colourful Tale, publisher Finji's delightful game of magic paintbrushes and adorable dogs, is now heading to PS4 and PS5 alongside its previously announced PC release.

Nightdive Studios has confirmed its upcoming enhanced edition of seminal sci-fi adventure System Shock 2 will include a fully fledged VR mode, after the developer teased virtual reality support for the game earlier this year.

Flight Simulator's third World Update - which points its wand of finessing at the UK and Ireland - is finally here after a bit of a delay, and you'll be precisely the opposite of shocked to learn it looks absolutely breathtaking in its launch trailer.

Amazon Game Studios' massively multiplayer online title New World has received its third delay, with the game now anticipated to release on 31st August - somewhat later than its previously announced launch window of "spring" this year.

God of War - the 2018 sequel for PlayStation 4 - has finally received a patch for PlayStation 5, and in common with similar updates for Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima, it opens the door to a classic game running flat out at 60 frames per second - and in common with those other Sony first party juggernauts, the impact is indeed transformative. It's almost like the final piece of the puzzle: the original release was hugely impressive with its 4K graphics, extreme detail, phenomenal lighting and excellent performances. A nigh-on flawless 60 frames per second is the final flourish for a game that pushed PS4 and PS4 Pro to its limits.

In Civilization 6, barbarians are a pretty simple obstacle to understand: kill or be killed.

Predator: Hunting Grounds gets a significant update today, as well as the new Valkyrie Predator premium DLC.

After a morning with Evil Genius 2, I've discovered that if I have an evil genius for anything, it's not economics. I keep crashing my evil economy. I should be sitting in my desert island stronghold enjoying the sight of my minions bringing gold into my vault. Instead I'm deep in construction - tunnels in the wrong place, rooms with doors that won't fit, the lights going out because I haven't built enough generators. This is not a fiddly game - it's all me. It's like Grand Designs, but with armed guards primed to dispose of Kevin McCloud as soon as he arrives and starts talking about composting toilets.

Do you have to be good at games to enjoy them? I'd argue I'm living proof that's not the case: I'm abysmal at the things and I love them. Indeed, some of the games I love the most are from a genre with a reputation for being the most hardcore. Shmups, it would seem, are serious business.

Fortnite has a new event this weekend called Short Nite, and it's nothing to do with cut-off trousers.

Microsoft has announced new games coming to Xbox Game Pass during the remainder of February.