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Nvidia followed up Intel and AMD as the third big chip-maker to hold a CES 2021 press conference, announcing a new desktop graphics card and a trio of RTX 30-series GPUs for laptops. Let's start with the big news first: the new mainstream RTX 3060 graphics card.

Predator, star of some decent films and okay video games, is joining the Fortnite family.

Razer has unveiled the prototype for a smart face mask - and it's got RGB lighting and voice amplification.

Bethesda's new Indiana Jones and The Great Circle teaser trailer has been scoured for clues as to where and when the game will be set - with some promising results.

The Uncharted movie and The Last of Us TV show are "just the beginning" of Sony's PlayStation push beyond games, the company has said.

Frontier has delayed Elite Dangerous: Odyssey due to coronavirus.

The live-action Borderlands movie is set to start filming soon in Hungary.

Bethesda has just teased a new project from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames - and it's an Indiana Jones game.

Scott Pilgrim was a dick and I loathed him, but then he became significantly less of a dick and I loved him. Throughout the course of Bryan Lee O'Malley's 30-something issues, Scott stared down his past dickish actions and reckoned with the hurt he inflicted. What emerged was a better human being, and a graphic novel series that would rightly go down as one of the best in recent memory.

Super Mario Bros 35 might not have long left in this world, but players are in for a busy few months before it takes its final bow in March. Before then, Nintendo will be holding a number of special World Count Challenge events for the battle royale platformer, tasking players with communally achieving a range of objectives, starting with the defeat of 3.5 million Bowsers.

The Airborne Kingdom roams the skies, a vast, rattling amoeba of propellers and minarets, hissing forges and thundering gears. It has to keep moving because it has to keep eating. As it coasts between clouds, painted planes slide from curving hangar bays, falling like windblown embers toward patches of coal and timber. The landscape is swiftly exhausted, though many of the key resources regrow almost as fast. Lakes are drained in hours, hillsides sucked clean of ore, forests hacked to stubble before they've even cleared the Kingdom's shadow.

The first time I got an iPod, I couldn't figure out how to unlock it. I sat there, staring furiously at the screen for a good few minutes, trying to figure out what the damn thing meant by 'Slide to Unlock.' Then my mum came along and told me to slide the little block from left to right to unlock it (duh). I imagine this is how someone must've felt when confronted by an astrolabe for the first time.

Overwatch's new free-for-all deathmatch map Kanezaka, whose action unfurls on the streets of Tokyo beneath the mist-shrouded heft of Shimada Castle, is now live.

Hardened explorers of developer Motion Twin's majestic rogue-like action-platformer Dead Cells will have new avenues for adventure on 26th January, now confirmed as the release date for second paid expansion Fatal Falls.

There'll soon be something strange in the neighbourhood courtesy of The Sims 4's newly revealed Paranormal Stuff Pack, which is scheduled to rain its spectral antics down upon Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Mac, and PC on 26th January.

UPDATE 12/01/21: Ubisoft has reached out to clarify that players can still matchmake "as usual" with other players, but to join a "pre-made squad", you need to be a squad with a pal to accept an invite.

You may well remember him from his Warzone escapades with a drum kit, but Twitch streamer DeanoBeano is back with a new instrument - the humble recorder. And after several attempts, he's now managed to get a Gulag win with it.

If you felt a great disturbance in the force, you might be onto something, as an update for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has started rolling out - and it's all about optimising the game for next-gen consoles.

The first of the big three chip-makers to have their CES 2021 press conferences, Intel has had a packed day of announcements. The company teased their next flagship desktop chip, the Core i9-11900K, as well as 500-series motherboards and 11th-gen H-series CPUs for laptops. Here's what you need to know - starting with the 11900K.

No, you read that right, there's now a fan game combining Super Monkey Ball and Wolfenstein 3D. It wouldn't be the top of my list for potential crossovers, but somehow, it works.

Last night brought a new PlayStation 5 trailer broadcast during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and with it some changes to the release dates of various upcoming PS5 games.

Chris: Teardown is a game about knocking holes in stuff. Walls. Ceilings. Bits of pier. And while you can knock some holes in stuff with a hammer, often you're going to need something bigger: a forklift, or a JCB, or a yacht.

Police in Rochford, near Southend in Essex, have issued - then deleted - a statement criticising local Pokémon Go fans for playing the game during lockdown.

You'll be familiar - perhaps even a little weary - of the 'can you pet the dog' question often asked of games these days, but Monster Hunter Rise has now set my expectations a little higher. Can you drift the dog in your video game? Because in Capcom's latest beast-slaying epic, you very much can - and it feels bloody awesome.

Final circles in battle royales can be daunting for the best of us, but for some players it seems to be something they want to avoid entirely. Warzone's infinite stim glitch has returned, and players are once again using it to win games by hiding out in the gas. Not so great for those who want to end a game with an actual shoot-out.

More than 2 million people tuned into Twitch last night to watch Spanish Fortnite streamer David "TheGrefg" Martínez reveal his own skin in the game, utterly smashing the platform's concurrent viewer record.

Nightdive Studios' upcoming enhanced edition of seminal sci-fi adventure System Shock 2 might be a little more ambitious than initially expected, with the developer now teasing VR support for the game in a new tweet.

Riot Games and Bungie have teamed up to tackle cheating in Valorant and Destiny 2, with their lawyers filing a joint complaint aimed at cheat software creator GatorCheats, which it accuses of selling and distributing "malicious software products designed to enable members of the public to gain unfair competitive advantage."

Lucasfilm is resurrecting the Lucasfilm Games brand as the new home for all its video game properties, including future Star Wars titles "and beyond".

A couple of online retailers have now listed the upcoming Mass Effect: Legendary Edition for release on 12th March 2021.