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Hitman 3's an odd one, though if you've been along for the ride thus far you'll know to expect as much. Just as Hitman 2 wasn't really a sequel in the traditional video game sense, so too Hitman 3 isn't so much an excuse to fold in big new features and bold new ideas as it is simply a third season of new murderous playpens to participate in, and what amounts to a conclusion to the World of Assassination story which IO Interactive began with 2016's reboot. It feels like something of a victory lap, though there aren't many contemporary series more worthy of their moment of glory than Hitman.

Last night's release of a Monster Hunter Rise demo appears to have crashed the Nintendo Switch eShop.

All signs indicate that PlayStation 5 came roaring out of the traps when it went on sale at the end of last year. It was to be expected: the new Sony console had a number of advantages over its Xbox rivals, including momentum from the previous generation, brand loyalty in many markets and a stronger line-up of launch software (which is to say any new exclusive games at all).

Yes! Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to Android this month. No! My Pixel 1 won't run it.

The Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas expansion comes out on PC on 15th January, developer Grinding Gear Games has announced. Echoes of the Atlas then hits the console versions of the action role-playing game on 20th January.

SNK has revealed the debut trailer for King of Fighters 15.

There's a kind of vague density to Xbox's year ahead: The Medium is out on January 28th, and then nothing else, out of the whopping 21 console or timed exclusives that I can count, has an actual solid release date. This, of course, is largely the result of the pandemic. Microsoft's original plans for the Series X and S's launch, like everyone's, have been dramatically impacted, and so what we get is lots of games crammed into the broad window of "2021", and lots of uncertainty about when exactly they'll actually arrive, or whether they'll even make it out this year at all.

Developer IO Interactive has offered an extended look at upcoming stealth sequel Hitman 3's PlayStation-exclusive VR support in a new trailer, ahead of the game's release later this month.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gets a mid-season update on 14th January, Treyarch has announced.

Cyberpunk 2077 - one of the very biggest games of 2020 and also one of the most contentious, most notably because on last-gen consoles, the experience is sub-par to the say the least. The next-gen machines fare better, but there's another contender to consider too: Google's Stadia streaming platform. The closer we looked at the Stadia port, the more interesting it became, and in actual fact, there are scenarios that see it deliver improved visuals over the Xbox Series X rendition of the game.

Epic Store's weekly video game freebies keep on coming, and next up is DICE's space shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2, which will be free to download starting Thursday, 14th January.

You may have read reports which suggested Microsoft is forced to use AA batteries in Xbox controllers because of a long-standing agreement with Duracell.

A playable build of the cancelled Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary Edition has been made available online.

Activision's grand plan for Call of Duty involves integrating traditional games in the series with the phenomenally successful battle royale Warzone. It's an idea that in principle benefits players, with cross-game progression for soldiers, weapons and even the battle pass. But in practice it has been a messy business.

UPDATE 7/1/21: Fall Guys has fully now revealed its long-teased Doom crossover, in a new trailer showing off Doom Guy and a couple of other familiar faces. The skins will become available next week, on Tuesday 12th January.

Monster Hunter Rise's 26th March release date on Switch is still some way off but those understandably impatient to go hands-on with Capcom's latest creature slayer can get an early taste of the game from today, 7th January, courtesy of a new limited-time demo.

If you were eagerly awaiting the next chapter in the Psychonauts series, it looks like you'll be waiting a little longer, as Psychonauts 2's release date has been moved back to 2020.

BioWare has announced Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

The boss of Paradox does not expect the troubled Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 to come out during the first half of 2021.

It's awful when you have a clown on your team, isn't it? I spent most of this morning fighting alongside two of the worst players I have ever encountered. We were at the bottom of a hill and the horde was descending. Again and again my team-mates proved unable to thin the ranks. The simplest things were beyond them. Again and again we were overwhelmed. And the worst thing? Those other two players were both me.

It's the night of the Game Awards and we've just had one of those special trailers that makes you sit up and feel rather good about things. The trailer's for a game called Season, and it was described by the awards host Geoff Keighley as a game about "exploring and recording disappearing cultures."

R-Type Final 2 comes out spring 2021 for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

Fullbright, the developer behind acclaimed narrative adventures Gone Home and Tacoma, has unveiled its latest offering, Open Roads.

Cult Square Enix role-playing game The World Ends With You will get a follow-up, nearly 14 years later.

Following its somewhat truncated appearance at last night's Game Awards show, Capcom has dropped the full version of its wonderful new - and surprisingly revealing - gameplay trailer for Monster Hunter Rise, which launches on Switch in March next year.

A Zelda fan has created an impressive The Legend of Zelda demake video - and it takes the upcoming Breath of the Wild 2 right back to 1999.

Info-starved Hollow Knight fans eager for fresh details on developer Team Cherry's highly anticipated sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, now have a tiny new morsel to cling onto, with a recent community challenge having relinquished its reward in the form of an NPC reveal.

Halo Infinite has a new release date of autumn 2021, Microsoft has announced.

Polyphony Digital has unveiled the latest entry in its long-running racing sim, Gran Turismo 7, as part of today's PlayStation 5 games reveal livestream.

Many games sell themselves with their gameplay, especially if they're not part of established franchises. For video games, more like any other media, including board games, neat categorisation is intensely important - likely to allow for easier marketing. But I discover more and more games that are either very different from whatever genre corset they've been wrangled into, or on the other hand of the spectrum, games with a pitch so good I'm immediately interested even though I've got no idea what the actual experience will turn out to be. Games in both of these categories have one thing in common - they treat play as something experimental, giving us a set of actions we as players may still be unfamiliar with.