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Bertie: Oh I'll just give it a quick go... An hour-and-a-half flies by. I am in love.

Capcom is battling a raft of fresh Resident Evil Village leaks, this time revolving around its tall vampire lady.

More pink, pixel-art clouds in video games, please - that's my main thought after playing Disjunction. The stealth is great, the action's fine, the story does it's thing, but goodness me the clouds. Great billowing waves, roaming by your sky-high window, smog coloured autumn gold and candied, bubblegum pink. Love.

Nobody was particularly surprised when modders managed to put Keanu Reeves' character into Cyberpunk 2077 sex scenes, so perhaps it comes as even less of a shock that CD Projekt Red has now intervened - and the model swap mod in question has been taken offline.

Sony has announced February 2021's PlayStation Plus titles.

Microsoft has announced a new total of 18 million monthly subscribers to Xbox Game Pass.

Haven, the romantic, optionally co-operative space adventure from Furi developer The Game Bakers, will - following its launch on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox late last year - be making its way to Switch and PS4 next Thursday, 4th February.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 arrived just in time to see out 2020 on consoles, but PC players sadly didn't get an invite to that particular party. Thankfully, they won't be left out too much longer, as Sega has finally announced a 23rd March release date for the puzzle-adventure sequel on Steam.

Pistol Whip, the critically acclaimed rhythm FPS from Cloudhead Games, has just added its first-ever cinematic story campaign - an eye-searing sci-fi nightmare known as 2089 - on PSVR.

Developer Rusty Lake has unveiled the latest entry in its deliciously off-kilter series of point-and-click puzzlers and it's the studio's most ambitious endeavour yet, taking the form of time-travelling, two-player co-op adventure The Past Within.

This week, Assassin's Creed fans glitched their way to a mythical bow that had been hiding in Valhalla ever since the game's release.

Sunshine looms large over Bowser's Fury, the expansion that's being bundled into next month's re-release of Super Mario 3D World. It's there from the second you boot it up - which you can do at any point, as this is a standalone experience - though I can't go into specifics just yet. Rather, I can give you a small taste of this most curious of offshoots.

EA has announced Full Circle, the new studio behind the next Skate game.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla has a tough achievement the game's community is now working together to help everyone unlock.

A quick browse through Nexus Mods will tell you that modders have already been getting pretty busy with Cyberpunk 2077, but CD Projekt Red yesterday released the first batch of official modding resources - and it should help modders create the tools they need to mod the game more efficiently. In theory.

Death is everywhere here. You can feel it. You can smell it. I know that makes no sense - how can you tell that from a video game? - and yet you know that's what it smells like, a muddy, earthy, cloying scent that sticks in your throat as you tiptoe across the razor-thin edge between Here and There. Light and shadow. Life and death.

Late last year, Canadian indie Capybara Games released its inscrutable dungeon-crawler Below, more than five years after its announcement and after several agonising public delays. So it's not surprising that the studio chose to wait to announce its next game, a smartphone puzzler called Grindstone, until the day before it was made available on Apple's new game subscription service, Arcade. No hype, no mystery, no wait: instant gratification.

The Medium is a game of two halves - a game where you, playing as Marianne, dart between the world of the living and the dead. This distinct split is a defining factor of the story telling, the production of its soundtrack, and the rendering technology powering the game. It's also a fascinating release in that it walks the line between delivering a next generation experience for the latest Xbox Series consoles - it's not playable on prior gen hardware - while at the same time coming across as a homage to the early 2000s style of horror adventure game.

I'm pretty sure there's a line somewhere in Melville where he suddenly announces he's not that keen on penguins. In my head I really think it's Melville - maybe Moby-Dick or The Encantadas. The line, as I half-remember it, suggests there is something uniquely unlovable about penguins, something slightly uncanny and nasty.

EA has patched a popular glitch in FIFA 21's Squad Battles mode that let people put their pad down to win matches.

Jumanji star Kevin Hart has signed on to play Roland in the Borderlands movie.

If I'm on a lengthy train journey, or a bus ride, or a flight with friends - I'm ever so dull. Sometimes I wonder if I've got a bit of an issue, especially when friends suggest a game of cards and I swear I can feel the puddles of dopamine evaporate in my brain. I am content to sit and stare out the window, just totally shutter off interaction and ponder. In a metal capsule travelling at speed, it's as if I shrink into myself, vanish into my own thoughts.

Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka is back! Not that he's ever really been away, of course - after leaving Sega back in 2006, he founded Prope and produced entertaining curios such as Let's Tap while also contributing to the always fascinating Street Plaza games - but with Balan Wonderworld the Naka of old is back, as is a brand of action that's become increasingly rare. This is 3D platforming as you know and quite possibly love it from the turn of the century.

Bethesda has unveiled The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood, 2021's story chapter for the MMO set 800 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

Developer Daedalic Entertainment's Lord of the Rings: Gollum will no longer release this year, as originally announced, and is now due to arrive on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC in 2022.

Some four years after its initial unveiling, developer Experiment 101's much-delayed open-world action-RPG Biomutant - also described as a "post-apocalyptic kung-fu fable" - finally has a release date, and will launch for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on 25th May.

Apex Legends' eighth season of content - officially titled Mayhem - is almost here, and developer Respawn is readying for its 2nd February release with a brand-new gameplay trailer, showing off, among other things, the newly obliterated Kings Canyon map.

Civilization 6's New Frontier Pass expansion will receive its fifth major content update this Thursday, 28th January, and one of its most notable additions - alternate China and Mongolia leader Kublai Khan - has now been detailed more thoroughly in a new First Look video.

Sea of Thieves is launching its new seasonal content schedule and battle-pass-style progression system this Thursday, 28th January, and, in preparation, Rare has served up a handily informative breakdown of everything in store, hopefully answering any lingering questions pirates may have before raising anchor and setting sail later this week.

Well, I suppose it was inevitable, but less than two months after the release of Cyberpunk 2077 PC modders have found a way to swap character models - and naturally, people are using it for naughty purposes. Yes, that includes creating a way for the player to have sex with Keanu Reeves' in-game character.