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With just months to go until the long-awaited Mortal Kombat movie finally bursts onto screens big and small (in a shower of body parts, naturally), Warner Bros has shed the veil of secrecy and shared first images and story details to placate those eagerly awaiting its April release.

This week's CES trade show saw the announcement of dozens of new gaming laptops, many with brand-new AMD Ryzen 5000 processors, RTX 30-series graphics cards or both. This makes it a perfect time to pick up a gaming laptop, as you'll know that you're getting the latest specs that will make PC games look and play their best.

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is just a month away but, until now, we've heard very little about the project - Nintendo's first big 2021 release.

The literature of neurology is rich and varied, yet it is almost always concerned with understanding. It's concerned with the quest for understanding, hard-earned and often incomplete, and with the value of understanding, and the fundamental differences it can make. This is not surprising. Right near the top of the list of needs, I would argue, a neurology patient needs to be understood - by doctors and nurses, and by the bureaucracy of social care and welfare. Also, a neurology patient often needs to be understood by strangers, the people encountered in shops and when boarding buses. And by family. All patients want to be understood - we all want to be understood in sickness and in health. But neurology is often a buried landscape, strange things fizzing and flickering in the shadows. It is filled with private symptoms and internal events that require interpretation. Too many aspects cannot be easily shared.

Nintendo fan Mike Choi has spent the past six months crafting an array of Nintendo peripherals and video games into something pretty spectacular. He calls it Labo Fit Adventure Kart.

Battle.net is getting its first makeover in years, Blizzard has announced.

Moving Out, Team 17's couch removal couch co-op game, will soon get a free new mode where you shift items into houses instead.

While this year's CES has transformed from an exhausting Las Vegas trade show to a never-ending series of livestreams to be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home, we've certainly had no shortage of weird and wonderful tech announcements - alongside more sober presentations from the likes of Intel, AMD and Nvidia who only announced boring stuff like graphics cards and processors.

Bungie's Halo website goes dark permanently in February, scattering its many player stats to the wind.

Little Orpheus, the latest game from Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio The Chinese Room, concludes its story today with a new chapter update.

Fortnite maker Epic Games has pledged to improve the game's £10 a month subscription offer, ahead of revealing its third exclusive free skin.

2020 was a big year for Microsoft Flight Simulator. After a decade and a half away, Microsoft's partnership with French studio Asobo delivered a sterling return to the world of hardcore simulation, and a little more besides - centred around a feat I still haven't tired of as I explore new corners of the world. It harnessed the breadth and depth of Microsoft's technical expertise, from Bing to Azure, to create a truly breathtaking 1:1 replica of the entire globe. Small wonder it ended up being one of my - and many others - games of the year.

Erica, the PS4 FMV thriller I really liked, is now available on the App Store. It's £3, but you can try a portion of the game for free.

Axiom Verge is getting a free randomiser mode - nearly six years after the Metroidvania came out.

Ever wondered what Peach's Castle from Mario 64 would look like as a GoldenEye level? Of course there's a mod for that.

The man Lyra meets on the train is elderly and immaculate. He has a moustache and heavily lidded eyes. He wears a fez. Over the course of the journey Lyra learns that he speaks perfect French and that he has a mysterious pack of cards that he uses at one point to entertain a child travelling in the same compartment.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gets a new 6v6 map early February, Treyarch has announced.

Creative Assembly's Aegean Total War spin-off, Troy: A Total War Saga, is set to receive another helping of paid DLC later this month, this time in the form of the Ajax & Diomedes Faction Pack, which comes to the Epic Games Store on 28th January.

Capcom has announced a Resident Evil showcase set for 10pm UK time on 21st January 2021.

Wow, that came out of nowhere! A couple of days ago, Respawn Entertainment surprised us by releasing a next-gen patch for its impressive Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, bringing with it specific upgrades that tap into more of the horsepower provided by the trio of new consoles. It's not a full next-gen patch as such - similar to Cyberpunk 2077, it's simply tweaking last-gen code in order to get higher frame-rates from the new machines, leveraging the CPU in particular to give us a much closer lock to 60 frames per second.

Riders Republic - Ubisoft's "mass multiplayer outdoor extreme sports game" for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC - will no longer release on 25th February as previously announced, and has been delayed to some currently unspecified point later this year.

Curious Expedition 2, developer Maschinen-Mensch's 19th-century rogue-like exploration sequel, is leaving Steam Early Access and launching in its version 1.0 guise on 28th January.

It's been 18 months since Splatoon 2's post-launch content support came to an end with what was supposed to be one final celebratory Splatfest, but still Nintendo keeps finding excuses to resurrect the much-loved communal challenges for one more turn - and the latest example occurs this weekend, when Pearl and Marina preside over a special Mario-themed jamboree.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night's long-awaited Classic Mode, which introduces five retro-inspired levels, is out today on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch, as part of a free new update that also brings a Kingdom: Two Crowns crossover.

Treyarch has announced the new map for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Zombies mode after teasing it earlier this week.

Prison Architect's next expansion, dubbed Going Green, adds farming to the prison management simulator.

Getting good at Mario Kart involves learning all the shortcuts: the ones Nintendo hides just out of view behind trees or waterfalls, and which might give you a small edge on your rivals as the finish line nears. But there's another class of shortcut altogether - ones dubbed "ultra shortcuts" by fans keen to break Mario Kart as much as possible by performing crazy stunts Nintendo had never intended.

Ubisoft will release a big bug-squashing update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla today.

Smarty-pants fans over at Access the Animus have cracked the Isu language found throughout Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Sega is bringing Sonic the Hedgehog to Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, its excellent second crack at everyone's favourite puzzle game.