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The publisher of Auto Chess has announced an Auto Chess MOBA.

We've not heard much about Ninja Theory's "mental terror" experience Project: Mara since its unveiling early last year, but now the Hellblade and Enslaved studio has offered a fresh glimpse, focussing on Mara's meticulously rendered environments, as part of its latest developer video.

Skyrim fans with access to a PlayStation 5 can now join their Xbox Series X/S brethren and give Bethesda's ageing fantasy RPG a bit of a graphical boost up to 60fps courtesy of a newly released mod - and it'll work with Trophies enabled too.

Days Gone is one of two PlayStation 4 first-party titles we're aware of with some level of PS5 awareness, essentially unlocking frame-rate on Sony's next generation machine, capped only by the 60Hz refresh of your TV. On the face of it, the upgrade is limited in terms of features, but similar to Sucker Punch's PS5 work for Ghost of Tsushima, it is transformative in terms of fluidity and response - and it's a great way to revisit an impressive PS4 game.

Apex Legends' eighth season, titled Mayhem, is right around the corner, and ahead of its planned 2nd February kick-off, developer Respawn Entertainment has introduced the free-to-play shooter's newest hero, Fuse.

Developer Skookum Arts is bringing its acclaimed platform puzzler The Pedestrian to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 next week on 29th January.

The makers of popular Skyrim mod Enderal have moved on to work on their own commercial game.

While we wait (perhaps more in hope than expectation) for a Bloodborne PlayStation 5 update, let's imagine what From Software's masterpiece would look like if it went backwards in generations - to the PSone.

Remedy's excellent Control will join Xbox Game Pass for PC this week this Thursday, 21st January.

If you live in London, New York or another global metropolis, you're probably used to the idea of your local area being represented in big-budget media. But if you're from Gloucestershire, the closest things get is Hot Fuzz. Though the county is frequently used as a filming location, it's rarely the focus of the spotlight, and the list of video games set in Gloucestershire is... rather sparse. All of which meant I was shocked to discover that Gloucestershire is not only visitable in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, but that it boasts its own storyline.

Reckon Microsoft's naming system for its next-generation consoles is confusing? Josef Fares certainly does.

Sony has pulled a raft of PlayStation 5 game release dates from its CES 2021 trailer.

Developer Housemarque, known for the celebrated likes of Resogun and Nex Machina, has shared new details of its upcoming PS5-exclusive sci-fi shooter Returnal, this time focussing on the looping structure and combat driving the game's moody, rogue-like action.

The hotly-anticipated Fallout New Vegas mod The Frontier came out yesterday - and immediately brought popular mod website Nexus to a standstill.

Ever since Call of Duty: Warzone came out, players have posted clips of fast bounty completions, with some even claiming a world record.

UPDATE 18/1/21: Astonishingly, players are continuing to control a copy of Pokémon Red through someone's Twitter avatar and, one week on, Twitter has somehow beaten Water gym leader Misty.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe has finally become the series' best-selling game in Japan, in terms of physical copies sold.

Tomonobu Itagaki has established a new video game studio, he's said.

Magic. Have you ever really considered what it means? We're told what it means a lot, especially in games. We're told it means fireballs and lightning bolts and turning people into sheep. But is that really magic, or is it simply a term used to describe something we've become accustomed to? It's a thought that's been nagging at me.

UPDATE 18 JAN 2021: IO and Epic have said they're working together on a solution to Hitman 3's Hitman 2 problem on PC.

Derek Kolstad - writer for the John Wick franchise as well as Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - is reportedly developing a new series pitch based upon Dungeons & Dragons.

Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will reportedly be directing the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game has become Limited Run Games' "biggest release of all time", selling over 25,000 copies in less than three hours on Nintendo Switch alone.

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has confirmed we'll learn more about Bayonetta 3 "during the year".

This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of The Queen's Gambit.

There's a new Hitman game out and, naturally, a retro gamer's mind turns to thoughts of previous sneaky stealth experiences. Metal Gear Solid, perhaps, the game that made hiding in cardboard boxes an acceptable activity for tactical espionage agents? Thief, the immersive olden days creep-and-cram burglary sim in which environmental awareness was as important as speedy reactions? Maybe even Spy vs Spy, that old school multiplayer game in which you laid traps to ensnare your rival?

UPDATE: CD Projekt studio head Adam Badowski has responded to Bloomberg's report on the development of Cyberpunk 2077, taking issue with the description of its E3 2018 gameplay video as "almost entirely fake".

When Capcom announced a Resident Evil showcase event set for later in January, it did so with a short video that included snippets of gameplay for the upcoming Resident Evil 8, aka Resident Evil Village.

There's no question about it - Doom Eternal is a remarkably impressive technical achievement. The id Tech 7 engine delivers exceptionally high-quality visuals at a smooth 60 frames per second across the full range of PlayStation and Xbox consoles. We witnessed a boost in texture quality, geometry density and world scale. It's a game that really demonstrates the full potential of these machines, while laying the technological foundation for the next generation. In theory, this should make a potential Switch conversion of the game even more challenging than prior Panic Button ports of id Tech titles and yet, there's a good argument here in saying that this the talented developer's most impressive work yet.

While console players will now be waiting a little longer than expected for the arrival of Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion, its foot-based first-person antics aren't too far off for those on PC - and ahead of its "late spring" launch on the platform, developer Frontier has honed in on one of its new features, Settlements, and shared more details.