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Every mission always seems to end in the same way.

The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season One Reloaded update is out now.

Narita Boy, the stunning 80s-themed "radical action-adventure" from Studio Koba, has resurfaced once more, this time with a perfectly pitched new trailer and a "spring 2021" launch window - the closest thing we've had to a release date so far.

There's a confidence to Roguebook I really like, which I suppose I should expect from a new game by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield. It's not just in the presentation of the game, though that certainly helps - it's crisp and clear and colourful and characterful - but in the brand of strategy it offers underneath. This is a game made of familiar components and yet it feels satisfyingly new.

Asmodee Digital's video game adaptation of the hugely popular Lovecraft-inspired Arkham Horror board game series isn't too far away now - an Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC release is currently pencilled in for "Q1 2021" - and we've finally been given a first proper look at the narrative-driven tactical RPG in a newly release gameplay trailer.

Studio Fizbin, the developer behind acclaimed point-and-click adventure series The Inner World, has set an 18th March release date for its striking "narrative puzzle platformer" Minute of Islands, which is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mac, and PC.

Happy birthday to Apex Legends, which is somehow only a day away from celebrating its second anniversary. To mark the occasion, Respawn has released a number of images showing the game in its early stages, which reveal a little more about how the game evolved from its Titanfall roots.

UPDATE 1.30pm UK: 2K will continue to publish unannounced but inevitable future entries in Gearbox's Borderlands series, it has said, even though the developer is now part of Embracer.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition looks to be a lavish package that lovingly restores much of the spirit and content of BioWare's beloved trilogy - except for one single-player DLC that's missing.

Blink, one of Doctor Who's best ever episodes, is getting a mobile game sequel.

The cancelled GoldenEye 007 XBLA remaster has leaked online.

Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Warhammer 3.

A few weeks ago we heard that after a long, long period of Star Wars games being made exclusively by EA, Ubisoft studio Massive Entertainment is working on an open-world Star Wars title, signalling that EA's 10-year exclusivity deal with Disney will not be extended. Despite this, it seems EA still has a number of Star Wars projects in the pipeline - and has no intention of slowing down.

Remedy's Control Ultimate Edition is out now for next (current?) generation console systems, delivering a substantial revamp of its 2019 classic. Bundling up the original release with its DLC, plus 60 frames per second performance and 30fps ray tracing modes, Control is a game made for the new machines. The technological limitations of the last-gen machines are effortlessly overcome and the new console editions offer more than a taste of the fully enabled PC rendition of the game - but are we looking at platform parity between the new Sony and Microsoft systems?

The PlayStation 5 has sold 4.5m units, Sony has announced.

Sony has released a PlayStation 5 system update that sorts out a PlayStation 4 disc upgrade issue.

EA has said it will aim to release a new racing game every year following its expected acquisition of Codemasters.

Back in the 1990s, in that long-ago Pleistocene era when I was at secondary school, we were taken on a trip to the small Peak District village of Cromford. There, aside from pulling strange faces at bemused locals, we were regaled with stories of noted industrialist Richard Arkwright, who in 1771 snapped up a modest section of land in the village and built a cotton mill. People a lot smarter than me argue this was the birthplace of modern manufacturing - triggering a centuries-long chain that led to the creation of... well, pretty much everything we buy today.

Activision last night banned 60,000 accounts for cheating in Call of Duty Warzone amid an ongoing furore over hacking.

After weeks of rumours, leaks, and teases, developer Respawn has finally announced that Apex Legends will be getting its long-awaited Switch release on Tuesday, 9th March.

UPDATE 10pm UK: Klarna has shared its full response to the Woolard Review, agreeing that "regulation has not kept pace with new products and changes in consumer behaviour" and that it "fully support[s] modernising regulation and supervision" in the buy-now, pay-later sector. Klarna clarified that Xbox All Access includes an affordability check.

Later this month, Blizzard will be holding a special digital-only version of its long-running BlizzCon gaming convention (following the cancellation of last year's in-person event as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic), and the developer has now shared preliminary details of the activities planned to run over its two-day duration.

A new month means a fresh roster of additions to PlayStation Now, and February's a busy one for Sony's subscription service, ushering in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Detroit: Become Human, Darksiders Genesis, Little Nightmares, and more.

UPDATE 2/2/21: Fall Guys' third-and-a-half season of content is now live on PlayStation and PC, bringing with it an ever-welcome mid-point freshen-up.

Following the discovery of a save file exploit, CD Projekt Red has told players to "use caution" when downloading files of unknown origin for use in Cyberpunk 2077.

Fortnite's ongoing collaboration with Star Wars continues today with a new mode and location added as part of the game's 15.30 update.

Microsoft has announced a raft of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in February 2021.

Call of Duty: Warzone hacking has hit the headlines again after a glut of high-profile players quit over cheating.

Sega has announced Judgment is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Stadia, but there's no mention of a PC version.

The Champions League will be exclusive to EA's FIFA series for years to come.